Red Mosquito

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LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Heathen wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Heathen wrote:Can someone tell me which are the movies mentioned in this thread that are not part of the following categories: action movies / wizards and shit / something epic / character overcomes something

Only God Forgives, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, and Upstream Color.

I meant good ones only.

Then Only God Forgives.

Isn't that one a movie Harry Lime likes? I wouldn't feel comfortable watching it then.

How about Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love? That was great. There's a sort of solemn beauty that current Iranian filmmakers seem to veer towards.

theplatypus wrote:How about Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love? That was great. There's a sort of solemn beauty that current Iranian filmmakers seem to veer towards.

Was that quality absent from past Iranian filmmakers?

Heathen wrote:

theplatypus wrote:How about Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love? That was great. There's a sort of solemn beauty that current Iranian filmmakers seem to veer towards.

Was that quality absent from past Iranian filmmakers?

Ahhhh, I'd almost forgotten how much smartass-ism goes on at RM.

I feel like anything Iranian cinema currently veers towards should be credited to Kiarostami in the first place.

Heathen wrote:

theplatypus wrote:How about Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love? That was great. There's a sort of solemn beauty that current Iranian filmmakers seem to veer towards.

Was that quality absent from past Iranian filmmakers?

Actually, yeah! For the most part. I'm referring to the work of Kiarostami, Asghar Farhadi and especially Mitra Farahani, who directed that documentary I mentioned earlier. There's a kind of quiet, contemplative and mesmerizing quality to their recent work that's different from the more down-to-earth realistic old school of Iranian film. Kiarostami is definitely the Godfather of this new school. I love Iranian cinema.

The Argonaut wrote:I feel like anything Iranian cinema currently veers towards should be credited to Kiarostami in the first place.

I agree completely

BurtReynolds wrote:

ABNorman wrote:I don't get the hate for Gravity, and apparently the love for Pacific Rim.

I dont expect anyone but E.H. Ruddock to understand my love for Pacific Rim.

Damn right

Did you ever watch Godzilla, Ruddo

theplatypus wrote:Did you ever watch Godzilla, Ruddo

No. I have a date to go tomorrow night to see it. Will report to you in the appropriate thread afterwards.

Mud was straight up camp, and Only God Forgives was just not that good.

Dev wrote:Mud was straight up camp, and Only God Forgives was just not that good.

What was your favorite from 2013? Was it Spring Breakers?

I mean I still rank Only God forgives fairly highly for 2013 but god it was a disappointment.

theplatypus wrote:

Dev wrote:Mud was straight up camp, and Only God Forgives was just not that good.

What was your favorite from 2013? Was it Spring Breakers?

Let's say it was. What would you say in response?

I would say that's cool, a lot of folks really loved that movie.

Yeah, I thought it was pretty much perfect. Spring Breakers was my favourite but I also really liked Computer Chess, OZ The Great and Powerful, The Warmest Colour is Blue, As I Lay Dying, and Leviathan.

Spring Breakers is my third-favorite movie of 2013. It's one of the three true masterpieces of that year.

and we know you thought Only God Forgives is up there so what's the other?

Dev wrote:and we know you thought Only God Forgives is up there so what's the other?

The Lords of Salem