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Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Tue September 05, 2023 10:53 pm
by Farmer John
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Farmer John wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Bone Tomahawk > Midsommar
1. Bone Tomahawk
2. Babylon
3. Alien: Covenant
4. Zootopia
5. Midsommar
6. Hereditary
7. The Last Jedi
Will address this later.
Take your time.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Tue September 05, 2023 11:32 pm
by Jorge
Beau is Afraid
Hereditary
Midsommar
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Tue September 05, 2023 11:33 pm
by Jorge
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Bone Tomahawk > Midsommar
Very easily. Zahler is a better director than Aster
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 06, 2023 12:36 am
by BurtReynolds
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Bone Tomahawk > Midsommar
See I don't get how anyone can like that guys movies. Talk about miserable garbage.
People will say how Aster or Beau is Afraid is too negative, then rave about Dragged Across Concrete. Talk about a truly loathsome view of life! I don't get it.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 06, 2023 12:54 am
by bart
Yes I agree with Burr. Aster is legitimately off kilter and unique, bone tomahawk is just trying really hard.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 06, 2023 1:14 am
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 06, 2023 1:15 am
by VinylGuy
wtf
Dragged is so fucking good
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 06, 2023 1:24 am
by Jorge
It's funny that Bart says Bone Tomahawk "tries too hard," I see it as very unpretentious. For me the problem with Ari Aster's first two movies isn't that they're "too negative", it's that they're both overreaching and very boring (Midsommar especially, about which the only positive thing I can say is that it features a pretty realistic cinematic depiction of tripping on shrooms). Zahler is just a great visual stylist that makes very simple but very visceral, gripping stories that are completely unapologetic about how they're presented. And it's a pretty grim worldview, but I don't go to the movies to have my worldview reflected back at me.
But yeah, Beau is Afraid is really good. I see it as Ari Aster finally making a movie that matches his cinematic ambitions, one that doesn't feel like a little kid wearing grown-up clothes. More of this, please.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 06, 2023 1:38 am
by BurtReynolds
Hereditary was like a well made student film or something. Like he was still figuring it out, but the pieces are there.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 06, 2023 1:40 am
by Jorge
I like the part where Gabriel Byrne says "what language is even that"
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 06, 2023 1:44 am
by BurtReynolds
The Pope's Exorcist. Wow, Crowe is really slumming it, huh? I was expecting something a little more than a B-movie, but this was crap! He's having fun though. That's all that really matters.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 06, 2023 1:47 am
by Jorge
It was made by a Jesuit production company, lol
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 06, 2023 1:49 am
by tree_
BurtReynolds wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Bone Tomahawk > Midsommar
See I don't get how anyone can like that guys movies. Talk about miserable garbage.
People will say how Aster or Beau is Afraid is too negative, then rave about Dragged Across Concrete. Talk about a truly loathsome view of life! I don't get it.
They are spectacularly well made movies. That in of itself is an achievement worth celebrating and enjoying.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 06, 2023 1:53 am
by BurtReynolds
Jorge wrote:It was made by a Jesuit production company, lol
That makes a lot of sense.
I love the sequel bait at the end. Can't wait for more.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 06, 2023 2:33 am
by The Argonaut
I was planning to go see Bottoms tomorrow (mainly because The Bear's Ayo Edibiri is in it), so I looked at Shiva Baby (same director) this evening. But it is....insufferable?....so I'm not sure about Bottoms anymore. Maybe I'll see the newest iteration of the Old Man Liam Neeson Action movie instead
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 06, 2023 2:35 am
by Jorge
Hah, I really liked Shiva Baby. Felt it did a very good job of playing with tension and gradually letting us into the characters. What did you hate about it?
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 06, 2023 2:42 am
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 06, 2023 2:48 am
by The Argonaut
Jorge wrote:Hah, I really liked Shiva Baby. Felt it did a very good job of playing with tension and gradually letting us into the characters. What did you hate about it?
The humor is all around being annoying. Like, haha, isn't it funny how annoying everyone in this movie is? And immature, haha.
No. Annoying isn't funny. It's kind of just annoying
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 06, 2023 2:50 am
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 06, 2023 2:56 am
by The Argonaut
heh