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Re: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Thu April 14, 2016 7:58 pm
by LoathedVermin72
I never watch Refn trailers, but I'm tempted.
Re: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Thu April 14, 2016 8:05 pm
by epilogue
Yeah, that trailer is unbelievable. That looks out. standing. Sexy. Haunting. Creepy. Gorgeous.
Great cast. Looks, on the surface, though I'm sure it's not really true, like an alien hybrid of Mulholland Drive and Black Swan. But, you know, bloodier.
Re: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Thu April 14, 2016 8:13 pm
by VinylGuy
durdencommatyler wrote:Yeah, that trailer is unbelievable. That looks out. standing. Sexy. Haunting. Creepy. Gorgeous.
Great cast. Looks, on the surface, though I'm sure it's not really true, like an alien hybrid of Mulholland Drive and Black Swan. But, you know, bloodier.
It actually scared me.
Re: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Thu April 14, 2016 8:18 pm
by epilogue
VinylGuy wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:Yeah, that trailer is unbelievable. That looks out. standing. Sexy. Haunting. Creepy. Gorgeous.
Great cast. Looks, on the surface, though I'm sure it's not really true, like an alien hybrid of Mulholland Drive and Black Swan. But, you know, bloodier.
It actually scared me.
It didn't scare me but it gave me the same exact tension in my chest that I get when I watch David Lynch at his best. Black Swan had a similar, though less intense, effect on me when that trailer first came out. But yeah, I want to see this the worst possible way. I'm officially excited for this thing. This looks unbelievable.
Re: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Mon April 18, 2016 12:49 am
by Dev
Didnt look that great.
Re: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Tue April 19, 2016 7:57 pm
by jwfocker
LoathedVermin72 wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:I didn't see Bronson. Drive was okay but similar to There Will Be Blood in that, if you take away the performance of the lead, I don't think you have much of a movie.
That's crazy talk
Re: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Tue May 17, 2016 10:24 pm
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: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 1:34 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Oh man, I'm so fucking excited by the reception this is getting. Refn can do no wrong.
Re: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 1:43 pm
by epilogue
That trailer is unreal.
Re: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 1:53 pm
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: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 1:55 pm
by LoathedVermin72
It got booed, like Only God Forgives. One article said "The jaw-dropping depravity of The Neon Demon leaves Cannes reeling." It's all stuff like that, mostly negative. Which makes me so happy.
Re: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 1:56 pm
by epilogue
uh-oh...
Re: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 1:57 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Refn was born to be divisive.
Re: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 5:02 pm
by VinylGuy
LoathedVermin72 wrote:It got booed, like Only God Forgives. One article said "The jaw-dropping depravity of The Neon Demon leaves Cannes reeling." It's all stuff like that, mostly negative. Which makes me so happy.
I get this, and i like it too. It means the movie has some fucking edge. Its pushing people from their confort zone....i love him.
Re: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 5:03 pm
by LoathedVermin72
VinylGuy wrote:LoathedVermin72 wrote:It got booed, like Only God Forgives. One article said "The jaw-dropping depravity of The Neon Demon leaves Cannes reeling." It's all stuff like that, mostly negative. Which makes me so happy.
I get this, and i like it too. It means the movie has some fucking edge. Its pushing people from their confort zone....i love him.
Me too. I think he's pretty untouchable when it comes to contemporary directors.
Re: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 5:10 pm
by epilogue
I love divisive directors. And I'm still really excited to see this one. Even if I haven't necessarily loved his stuff in the past. This one looks like it's really going to speak to me.
Re: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 5:17 pm
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: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 5:22 pm
by LoathedVermin72
tragabigzanda wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:I love divisive directors. And I'm still really excited to see this one. Even if I haven't necessarily loved his stuff in the past. This one looks like it's really going to speak to me.
I still think it looks amazing, but the one review I mentioned made it sound
very stylized without any heart. I hope it's not like The Canyons of The Bling Ring or something. Hoping for more "Drive + American Psycho + Devil Wears Prada," but that's an oversimplification of what I know this guy can do.
People say this about every movie he's ever made. I wouldn't worry about it if you've liked any of his other stuff.
Re: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 5:24 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
This line has me intrigued enough to see it:
When the film reaches its logical end point, Refn just keeps pushing, and eventually lands on a sequence so jaw-dropping – almost certainly a sly, glossy-magazine refashioning of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s groundbreaking surrealist short Un Chien Andalou – that all you can do is howl or cheer.
Re: Movie: The Neon Demon (2016)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 5:34 pm
by epilogue
LoathedVermin72 wrote:tragabigzanda wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:I love divisive directors. And I'm still really excited to see this one. Even if I haven't necessarily loved his stuff in the past. This one looks like it's really going to speak to me.
I still think it looks amazing, but the one review I mentioned made it sound
very stylized without any heart. I hope it's not like The Canyons of The Bling Ring or something. Hoping for more "Drive + American Psycho + Devil Wears Prada," but that's an oversimplification of what I know this guy can do.
People say this about every movie he's ever made. I wouldn't worry about it if you've liked any of his other stuff.
I can understand that criticism for Only God Forgives, maybe. But certainly not Drive. It's stylized but it has a ton of heart. Mostly thanks to the geniuses Gosling and Mulligan.