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wease wrote:I saw Deep Throat when Gene Hackman was around 59. I remember it being ok.

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I want to see The Curse of La Llorona but I think it’s really fucking weird that they cast a white woman as the lead

The more I think about Free Solo the more frustrated I get. I feel like structurally/poetically that movie is all wrong. The actual climb is like less than 10 minutes.

Werner Herzog should have made it.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:The more I think about Free Solo the more frustrated I get. I feel like structurally/poetically that movie is all wrong. The actual climb is like less than 10 minutes.

Werner Herzog should have made it.

yeah, that would have been cool. I feel they nailed the first part and then the relationship got too much of the movie. Overall its a fine experience.

VinylGuy wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:The more I think about Free Solo the more frustrated I get. I feel like structurally/poetically that movie is all wrong. The actual climb is like less than 10 minutes.

Werner Herzog should have made it.

yeah, that would have been cool. I feel they nailed the first part and then the relationship got too much of the movie. Overall its a fine experience.

I think the structure is straightforward and boring. Would have been much more interesting if a lot of that background and psychological probing about who Honnold is were cross-cut with the titular free solo. And like I said, there just isn’t any/enough poetry in how that climb is presented. No silence, no patience.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:The more I think about Free Solo the more frustrated I get. I feel like structurally/poetically that movie is all wrong. The actual climb is like less than 10 minutes.

Werner Herzog should have made it.

yeah, that would have been cool. I feel they nailed the first part and then the relationship got too much of the movie. Overall its a fine experience.

I think the structure is straightforward and boring. Would have been much more interesting if a lot of that background and psychological probing about who Honnold is were cross-cut with the titular free solo. And like I said, there just isn’t any/enough poetry in how that climb is presented. No silence, no patience.

Hmm. I think you would lose much of the tension if you stretched the climb out over the entirety of the film. I really enjoyed how they built up to it and everything he went though with training, his relationship, and also diving into a bit of how his personality had developed to a point in which he basically has a detached view on life itself.

If you cut in and out of the climb, the tension would subside. Just watching him do it at the end is mind blowing and terrifying. Just let the film roll.

Not even saying you should cut “out” of the climb, really. I think there are creative ways to do it.

That said, lyricism is more important than tension to me. But that’s just me.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Not even saying you should cut “out” of the climb, really. I think there are creative ways to do it.

That said, lyricism is more important than tension to me. But that’s just me.

Thats fine but I think considering the human achievement of this climb and the complete insanity of it all requires the tension. The climb was the poetry itself.

Mind blowing. Going there next week.

You guys should also check out the dawn wall on netflix.

Strat wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Not even saying you should cut “out” of the climb, really. I think there are creative ways to do it.

That said, lyricism is more important than tension to me. But that’s just me.

Thats fine but I think considering the human achievement of this climb and the complete insanity of it all requires the tension. The climb was the poetry itself.

Mind blowing. Going there next week.

You guys should also check out the dawn wall on netflix.

That’s what I’m saying though: I don’t think the movie effectively captured the intrinsic poetry of the climb. It opted for ten minutes of ultimately disposable tension instead, which makes the film far more forgettable and shallow than it could have been with a more expressive artist at the helm.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Strat wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Not even saying you should cut “out” of the climb, really. I think there are creative ways to do it.

That said, lyricism is more important than tension to me. But that’s just me.

Thats fine but I think considering the human achievement of this climb and the complete insanity of it all requires the tension. The climb was the poetry itself.

Mind blowing. Going there next week.

You guys should also check out the dawn wall on netflix.

That’s what I’m saying though: I don’t think the movie effectively captured the intrinsic poetry of the climb. It opted for ten minutes of ultimately disposable tension instead, which makes the film far more forgettable and shallow than it could have been with a more expressive artist at the helm.

WIth the story also focusing on his relationship, his parents, and the multiple previous failed attempts at the climb.....for him to wake up one day and just feel it and crank it out made it all that more beautiful and tense.

Strat wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Strat wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Not even saying you should cut “out” of the climb, really. I think there are creative ways to do it.

That said, lyricism is more important than tension to me. But that’s just me.

Thats fine but I think considering the human achievement of this climb and the complete insanity of it all requires the tension. The climb was the poetry itself.

Mind blowing. Going there next week.

You guys should also check out the dawn wall on netflix.

That’s what I’m saying though: I don’t think the movie effectively captured the intrinsic poetry of the climb. It opted for ten minutes of ultimately disposable tension instead, which makes the film far more forgettable and shallow than it could have been with a more expressive artist at the helm.

WIth the story also focusing on his relationship, his parents, and the multiple previous failed attempts at the climb.....for him to wake up one day and just feel it and crank it out made it all that more beautiful and tense.

I don’t disagree.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Strat wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Strat wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Not even saying you should cut “out” of the climb, really. I think there are creative ways to do it.

That said, lyricism is more important than tension to me. But that’s just me.

Thats fine but I think considering the human achievement of this climb and the complete insanity of it all requires the tension. The climb was the poetry itself.

Mind blowing. Going there next week.

You guys should also check out the dawn wall on netflix.

That’s what I’m saying though: I don’t think the movie effectively captured the intrinsic poetry of the climb. It opted for ten minutes of ultimately disposable tension instead, which makes the film far more forgettable and shallow than it could have been with a more expressive artist at the helm.

WIth the story also focusing on his relationship, his parents, and the multiple previous failed attempts at the climb.....for him to wake up one day and just feel it and crank it out made it all that more beautiful and tense.

I don’t disagree.

We'll call this a win and move on!

Try the Dawn Wall.....its about Tommy Caldwell (who is features in free solo) and his attempt to climb El capitain. He has an incredible story as well.

I'm thinking of taking my neice and nephew to the movies today. I'm leaning towards Shazam, but was wondering if it would be OK for them.

They've seen all the marvel movies, but the DC ones tend to be a bit darker. What do you guys think?

Shazam doesn’t look very dark

That's what I thought, but some of the reviews said it was scarier than the trailers let on.

They're 9 and 10, by the way.

They’ll be fine

Watched MI Fallout this weekend. Man, that is probably the best "bad guy" in a movie in a long time. He is just menacing in a way that's unusual for a film.

Not Superman, FYI.

i'm flipping channels and came across Something about Mary on HBO...that was my first date movie with my wife 20 years ago

doug rr wrote:i'm flipping channels and came across Something about Mary on HBO...that was my first date movie with my wife 20 years ago

Did you use hair gel?