What movies are you watching?

[Anders]

Last night I watched Raiders of the lost Ark for the first time. What a movie. Just one inventive action sequence after another.

There's something so much better about real people, in real places, doing real stunts.

That’s a stone cold classic. Five stars.

[The Argonaut]

The Lobster

«In a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.»

Starting this now. 5th last 2015 movie.

One of my very favorites. Truly in that highest calibre of art that is just magical to me, vibrates at my exact frequency

[Anders]

I enjoyed it. It was certainly different from your typical movie, very original. At the beginning I think it was quite brilliant, if incredibly weird. But I did feel that it lost some steam as the movie progressed.

[epilogue]

The Lobster

«In a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.»

Starting this now. 5th last 2015 movie.

One of my very favorites. Truly in that highest calibre of art that is just magical to me, vibrates at my exact frequency

[Anders]

Spotlight

«The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.»

Second time seeing this.

[Anders]

Last three 2015 movies will be Room, Carol and Brooklyn. Room for the second time, the other two for the first time.

Room

«A little boy is held captive in a room with his mother since his birth, so he has never known the world outside.»

Carol

«An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.»

Brooklyn

«An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.»

Will comment on each after seeing them in the coming two days.

[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.

[Anders]

Room was my top movie of the year the first time I saw it, which is why I have saved it until the end.

[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.

[Anders]

Forty minutes in and Spotlight is even better than I remember. Really a topic that can’t get enough focus.

[Anders]

Room was my top movie of the year

Why

I saw it on the 2nd of January 2017, and will rewatch it soon, probably tomorrow.

At the time it really moved me, felt it was an incredibly moving performance by Brie Larson. Thought the story was really tense, emotional and well told.

Let’s see how it does a second time.

[Jorge]

Room is trash, but Larsen is great

Carol and Brooklyn are both wonderful and quite a bit similar in cinematography, setting, and themes. I think I prefer the rose-colored sweetness of Brooklyn over the more textured darkness of Carol, but just slightly.

Agree with most of this but I'd stop short of calling Room "trash." It's bad but I think it would be much better with a more subdued, less shmaltzy score

[VinylGuy]

Yeah I remember feeling like the score was screaming to me “cry motherfucker cry!!!” “ oh you are feeling tough tonight? Here are more fucking STRINGS”

[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.

[Anders]

Will be interesting hearing the score again.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Never seen Room, but man I love Brooklyn.

[BurtReynolds]

Let's all listen to the score right now.

[JuanHamm]

Watching Temple of Doom. Somebody please tell me Willie is going to get less annoying as the movie progresses.

[bada]

It's just cause Indy has no time for love.

[VinylGuy]

Watching Temple of Doom. Somebody please tell me Willie is going to get less annoying as the movie progresses.

she dies