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Anders wrote:Booksmart

Anders wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:1917.

Really looking forward to this one. How was it?

durdencommatyler wrote:

Anders wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:1917.

Really looking forward to this one. How was it?

Much better than I thought it would be. On a purely technical level it's a brilliant achievement in filmmaking. I won't be mad if it wins Best Picture tonight but I don't know that I would have nominated it, personally. Not in that category.

Certainly Director, Cinematography, Sound Mixing, and Editing, though.

Steve Albini wrote: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.

Anders wrote:Uncut Gems

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Anders wrote:

Anders wrote:Booksmart

Was excited for this, and felt really positive about it for about five minutes. However, it’s a sort of comedy, that is not funny at all. If they went the comedy drama route, or the hilarious comedy route, that could have worked. The actors are solid, the movie looks good. But it’s just sort of silly and loud, with nothing to laugh at. The music is all over the place, in nearly every scene.

Agreed!

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Anders wrote:

Anders wrote:Booksmart

Was excited for this, and felt really positive about it for about five minutes. However, it’s a sort of comedy, that is not funny at all. If they went the comedy drama route, or the hilarious comedy route, that could have worked. The actors are solid, the movie looks good. But it’s just sort of silly and loud, with nothing to laugh at. The music is all over the place, in nearly every scene.

Agreed!

I found the movie really funny but I also don't remember laughing out loud a ton. I don't think it's that kind of comedy. Whatever it is, it really worked for me. I found it much more moving and emotional than silly.

But I think it makes sense that we don't see eye to eye on this one. Based on conversations we've had in the past, all three of us could have predicted the others' reactions, I think.

Anders wrote:Disappointed with Uncut Gems. Was expecting something great, but instead it was generic, and way too busy. Even the ending was poor.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Anders wrote:Disappointed with Uncut Gems. Was expecting something great, but instead it was generic, and way too busy. Even the ending was poor.

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Anders wrote:

Anders wrote:Booksmart

Was excited for this, and felt really positive about it for about five minutes. However, it’s a sort of comedy, that is not funny at all. If they went the comedy drama route, or the hilarious comedy route, that could have worked. The actors are solid, the movie looks good. But it’s just sort of silly and loud, with nothing to laugh at. The music is all over the place, in nearly every scene.

Rangi Guy wrote:

Anders wrote:

Anders wrote:Booksmart

Was excited for this, and felt really positive about it for about five minutes. However, it’s a sort of comedy, that is not funny at all. If they went the comedy drama route, or the hilarious comedy route, that could have worked. The actors are solid, the movie looks good. But it’s just sort of silly and loud, with nothing to laugh at. The music is all over the place, in nearly every scene.

I think that the problem with this movie was the the completely unlikable characters

VinylGuy wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:

Anders wrote:

Anders wrote:Booksmart

Was excited for this, and felt really positive about it for about five minutes. However, it’s a sort of comedy, that is not funny at all. If they went the comedy drama route, or the hilarious comedy route, that could have worked. The actors are solid, the movie looks good. But it’s just sort of silly and loud, with nothing to laugh at. The music is all over the place, in nearly every scene.

I think that the problem with this movie was the the completely unlikable characters

They were a bit unrealistic yeah. The main problem for me was that its a retreat of pretty much every movie from the past 10 years. Nothing new, nothing to add, just a couple of cool scenes shot well.

Im sure Wilde has the chops to make something better than that turd.

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