What movies are you watching?

[Monkey_Driven]

I am genuinely curious how much longer the superhero genre can dominate. Every year since around 2013 I've been thinking "ok, we've got to be reaching a tipping point now", but every year proves me wrong.

I give it at least a few more years.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i'm swearing them off

[BurtReynolds]

I'm done after Avengers 4. I swear.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I'm done after Avengers 4. I swear.

are your fingers crossed?

[BurtReynolds]

I'm done after Avengers 4. I swear.

are your fingers crossed?

no I really dont have any interest left I think. Seems like a good place to jump off.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I'm done after Avengers 4. I swear.

are your fingers crossed?

no I really dont have any interest left I think. Seems like a good place to jump off.

who's your favorite marvel character?

[BurtReynolds]

I'm done after Avengers 4. I swear.

are your fingers crossed?

no I really dont have any interest left I think. Seems like a good place to jump off.

who's your favorite marvel character?

Captain America. because he's white.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I'm done after Avengers 4. I swear.

are your fingers crossed?

no I really dont have any interest left I think. Seems like a good place to jump off.

who's your favorite marvel character?

Captain America. because he's white.

totally with you on that one

[LoathedVermin72]

Crazy Rich Asians

Not really my thing, but glad it exists and got tons of buzz, hopefully it'll help Hollywood move past the superhero gangbang era...

Awkwafina is an undeniable star though. Between this, Oceans 8, and SNL, she's owned every frame i've seen her in.

Ehh, I think I’d probably deny that

[lennytheweedwhacker]

hot tub time machine

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[bada]

I am genuinely curious how much longer the superhero genre can dominate. Every year since around 2013 I've been thinking "ok, we've got to be reaching a tipping point now", but every year proves me wrong.

I give it at least a few more years.

Westerns dominated for like 40 years.

[bune]

Crazy Rich Asians

Not really my thing, but glad it exists and got tons of buzz, hopefully it'll help Hollywood move past the superhero gangbang era...

Awkwafina is an undeniable star though. Between this, Oceans 8, and SNL, she's owned every frame i've seen her in.

Ehh, I think I’d probably deny that

*Pikachu shocked face*

[lennytheweedwhacker]

ooooh the proposition is on amazon prime

[lennytheweedwhacker]

margin call

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[LoathedVermin72]

My ranking of the Ingmar Bergman's Cinema box set so far:

Masterpiece:
-Wild Strawberries (Rewatch; I used to HATE this movie. How wrong I was. Truly a work of art I was not prepared to understand when I saw it in high school.)

Great:
-Summer with Monika (Rewatch; I've heard Godard called this "The Birth of a Nation for modern cinema," and I think there's something to that. It feels incredibly vital and contemporary in terms of style, and it's hard to reconcile that it came out in 1953 considering what American cinema looked like at the time.)
-To Joy

Good:
-The Seventh Seal (Rewatch; I'm not crazy about Criterion's new 4K restoration for this one. Kinda wish I hadn't preemptively sold my old Blu-ray.)
-Port of Call

Okay:
-Smiles of a Summer Night (Rewatch; I used to LOVE this movie. Didn't hold up super well this time.)
-Summer Interlude
-A Ship to India
-Dreams

Mediocre:
-Crisis
-A Lesson in Love
-Waiting Women
-Thirst

Bad:
-Sawdust and Tinsel (Good lord this was unpleasant.)

I've been ignoring Criterion's "festival order" and watching them chronologically. Very interesting to watch his progression as an artist. So many of his early works are bogged down in the trappings of melodrama and his preoccupation with relationships and infidelity; the existential themes he became known for are undercurrents at best. Summer with Monika and To Joy stand out as young masterworks, but it's not until he began to confront E X I S T E N C E and P H I L O S O P H Y head on with the 1-2 punch of The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries in 1957 that he truly became B E R G M A N as we know him.

[VinylGuy]

Masterpiece:
Rewatch; I used to HATE this movie. How wrong I was. Truly a work of art I was not prepared to understand when I saw it in high school

We can finally use this for so many movies. Im glad you are growing up.

[LoathedVermin72]

oh shut up

[VinylGuy]

Guys guess who wrote this

Blade Runner 2049

Masterpiece:
Rewatch; I used to HATE this movie. How wrong I was. Truly a work of art I was not prepared to understand when I saw it LAST YEAR