Red Mosquito

The Argonaut wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:Going to a screening of Blow-Up later tonight. The only other Antonioni I've seen is L'aaventura, and it didn't send me running to go see more Antonioni. fingers crossed

It's a masterpiece. Of course, so is L'Avventura. But Blowup is better.

Well, I'm still not about to go run to see more Antonioni. There is definitely something to it, but I wouldn't call it a masterpiece. There are similarities to Godard, but Godard is better looking, cooler, and just overall more compelling. There are similarities to Bunuel, but Bunuel is more hilarious and subversive. I don't quite see the appeal here.

I don’t think any other filmmaker captures the sense of transience and isolation that Antonioni does. Blowup knocks me out, man. I think it’s a gorgeous, haunting movie that I like more than anything by Godard or Bunuel (both of whom are also great) – they both make very focused, pointed films that tend to have a biting edge. Antonioni is calmer, more lyrical. His perspective is much more philosophical and grandiose than Godard or Bunuel, who I think are more overtly political. He has this beautiful way of tying human longing and dislocation to the imagery of his settings, putting people into perspective against the backdrop of the environment they inhabit. This is perhaps best exemplified by the bravura final sequence of L’eclisse, when the unresolved narrative fades into a dialogue-free montage in which expressionistic shots of human beings and environmental beauty merge into a visual poem, with only the sound of wind audible. Antonioni speaks to mankind’s innate search for meaning and keenly illuminates the personal ways that search manifests itself – romance, natural beauty, death, ennui, detachment, etc. He elevates his characters’ personal searches for meaning to an existential level. His body of work is about the meaning of everything.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier -- liked it.

turned2black wrote:Heaven is for Real. Probably one of the best comedies I have ever seen.

I read the book of this a while back and enjoyed it - got the movie sitting there to watch, but haven't gotten around to it

Minority report


god i hate colin fucking farrell with a pain that will ever burn..

dimejinky99 wrote:Minority report


god i hate colin fucking farrell with a pain that will ever burn..

He makes Tom Cruise seem enjoyable.

Strat wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Minority report


god i hate colin fucking farrell with a pain that will ever burn..

He makes Tom Cruise seem enjoyable.

Christian Bale does that too.

but i love his batman movies

Strat wrote:but i love his batman movies

yeah, i don't.

Strat wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Minority report


god i hate colin fucking farrell with a pain that will ever burn..

He makes Tom Cruise seem enjoyable.

Vermin's gonna be so pissed.

LetMeSleep wrote:

Strat wrote:but i love his batman movies

yeah, i don't.

OhmanILOVEChristianBale!

Hey who played Rhythm guitar on Crazy Mary studio cut?

Also, now, my new favorite batman is lego batman. Fantastic.

So To bring it full circle....I am/was watching the Lego Movie

lego movie was the best film of the last ten years...except for one thing..


awesome, everything is...


no Yoda...it needed yoda

durdencommatyler wrote:

Strat wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Minority report


god i hate colin fucking farrell with a pain that will ever burn..

He makes Tom Cruise seem enjoyable.

Vermin's gonna be so pissed.

Ha, I love both Farrell and Cruise.

Watching JFK tonight.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Strat wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Minority report


god i hate colin fucking farrell with a pain that will ever burn..

He makes Tom Cruise seem enjoyable.

Vermin's gonna be so pissed.

Ha, I love both Farrell and Cruise.

the final, glittering, painful nail in your coffin

Rangi Guy wrote:

turned2black wrote:Heaven is for Real. Probably one of the best comedies I have ever seen.

I read the book of this a while back and enjoyed it - got the movie sitting there to watch, but haven't gotten around to it

Yeah, my mom enjoyed the book despite being a militant atheist. She said the movie doesn't hold the same weight and things were obviously changed to draw the Fox News/evangelical crowd.

dimejinky99 wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Strat wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Minority report


god i hate colin fucking farrell with a pain that will ever burn..

He makes Tom Cruise seem enjoyable.

Vermin's gonna be so pissed.

Ha, I love both Farrell and Cruise.

the final, glittering, painful nail in your coffin

I think it's pretty safe to say we're at very different places in our levels of cinephilia, dude.

Farrell is excellent in The Way Back.