Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu September 29, 2022 6:48 pm
Odd start to this movie.Anders wrote:Mr. Nobody
Odd start to this movie.Anders wrote:Mr. Nobody
Me either.Jorge wrote:I don't knowepilogue wrote:The book is pretty well regarded though isn't it?Jorge wrote:I haven't read it, but a lot of the most eyeroll-worthy lines sound like shitty dialogue from a bad bookepilogue wrote:Gotcha.The Argonaut wrote:I have a copy, actually, but it is huge and I don't know if I'll ever actually look at it, tbhepilogue wrote:Jorge, Argo, did either of you read the book Blonde is based on?
I haven't read it either. Just curious how faithful the movie is and if the book is also as brutal.
it doesn't even seem that way -- it is overwhelmingly being described as misogynistic. anyway, i'd be lying if i said i wasn't disappointed to hear people whose opinions i value don't like it. but i'm still eager to see itVinylGuy wrote:it seems a lot of people are going with that mindset before watching the movie, because it seems the movie is being pointed out as misogynistic.Malloy wrote:it's bracing how much viewers hate Blonde. watching tomorrow night.
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.
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.
i'm not saying the movie is or isn't misogynistic. just claiming that's not where the intention began. from the interviews i read, dominik was obsessed with recreating images of her with intense fidelity to the originals. for better and worse, that obsession can crowd out many other considerations.tragabigzanda wrote:you think? I'd like to think there's a way to portray her with humanity and empathy. I, Tonya is an example of a movie that did a decent (not excellent) job of humanizing a public trainwreck.Malloy wrote:any movie about monroe is necessarily going to be exploitive. the question in how and to what end does a movie exploit her persona, image, history. i doubt dominik's "angle" was misogyny
Even if it was, that doesn't matter. There are ways to make any "angle" good, and the movie isn't bad because it is exploitative.tragabigzanda wrote:gonna say "I told you so," but honestly, how could that trailer suggest anything other than exploitive to you? Seemed obvious that was the angle they were taking.
I turned off Bullet Train after ten minutes.Rangi Guy wrote:If one had the choice between say Blonde and Bullet Train - which would be the better choice?
This and Jorge's take on Bullet Train make me sad - I was super pumped for this thing coming out, and saw some reviews likening it to Snatch, so thought it'd be right in my wheelhousespike wrote:I turned off Bullet Train after ten minutes.Rangi Guy wrote:If one had the choice between say Blonde and Bullet Train - which would be the better choice?
Geez, it didn’t seem that bad.The Argonaut wrote:I walked out of the theatre