The Argonaut wrote:more minimalist cinema than Skinamarink:
Arnulf Rainer (Peter Kubelka, 1960)
The Flicker (Tony Conrad, 1966)
if that's too minimalist, then:
Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr, 1970)
but if you really do need something to chew on, then I guess:
Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)
I've written those down, I'll check em out
You're going to feel like I pranked you, but all four of those movies are actually important to me, ha ha. You can probably find at least excerpts on YouTube
OK nice
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Tue February 14, 2023 10:42 pm
by Jorge
That new Warren Beatty / Dick Tracy special that just came out is one of the weirdest fucking things I've ever seen.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed February 15, 2023 1:40 am
by VinylGuy
whats that?
i was obsessed with that movie as a kid
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed February 15, 2023 1:48 am
by Malloy
Jorge wrote:That new Warren Beatty / Dick Tracy special that just came out is one of the weirdest fucking things I've ever seen.
still doing gods work
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed February 15, 2023 1:51 am
by BurtReynolds
People I assumed were dead.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed February 15, 2023 1:56 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Jorge wrote:That new Warren Beatty / Dick Tracy special that just came out is one of the weirdest fucking things I've ever seen.
So is it, and apparently prior similar specials, just to retain the rights?
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed February 15, 2023 1:57 am
by Jorge
Just... absolutely fucking bizarre, and transparently made to retain the rights to the character. But I couldn't stop watching.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed February 15, 2023 2:17 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: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed February 15, 2023 2:22 am
by Malloy
tragabigzanda wrote:Hollywood’s continued reverence for Beatty just makes no sense at all to me
why?
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed February 15, 2023 2:25 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: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed February 15, 2023 2:49 am
by Malloy
tragabigzanda wrote:
Malloy wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Hollywood’s continued reverence for Beatty just makes no sense at all to me
why?
Because he hasn’t done anything of relevance for almost 30 years, and his womanizing ways have fallen completely out of fashion.
my guess is most feel that the significant work he did as an actor, writer, director and producer have cemented his place in film history. i'd forgotten about the charge that he'd groomed and had sex with a fourteen year old girl. don't know how he wasn't more severely criticized. then again, how do you cancel a guy who wasn't done a movie in seven years or a television show in six?
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed February 15, 2023 3:56 am
by BurtReynolds
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed February 15, 2023 4:10 am
by Jorge
Is that Black Panther 2? It's so bad
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed February 15, 2023 3:51 pm
by VinylGuy
haha, that movie is embarrassing
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun February 19, 2023 3:21 pm
by BurtReynolds
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun February 19, 2023 4:07 pm
by The Argonaut
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Tue February 21, 2023 6:31 pm
by BurtReynolds
more specific to vidya games, but yeah.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Tue February 21, 2023 6:33 pm
by Jorge
What are some examples of that in movies?
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Tue February 21, 2023 6:35 pm
by tree_
jaws and forrest gump, just to name two
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Tue February 21, 2023 6:44 pm
by tree_
i don't know why i said that
i guess i can't think of anything actually clever or interesting to say so i just choose to be completely random sometimes.. but i really should just choose not to post at all if i'm not going to contribute something of value
