It's a really great script. Powerful performances, deft and effective filmmaking, stylish production, themes that resonate. It's not the greatest Argentine movie ever but it's really good, IMO
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Fri March 10, 2023 6:41 pm
by VinylGuy
yeah, but the theme is what got the movie to the oscars and what might make it win.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sat March 11, 2023 11:20 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
John Cazale appeared in five films over seven years, all of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Impressive.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun March 12, 2023 2:08 am
by The Argonaut
random movie thought: I think one major problem with All Quiet on the Western Front is that it has less to say than the original movie. 90 years later, and the best they can do is a simpler movie. tree nailed it in his early review: pretty much the only message of the movie is that WWI was gruesome and war is bad. That's all I got out of it. The 1930s version says all that but also has a lot more to say about the foolishness of patriotism and of old men who send young boys to war. There's not a lot of that in the new movie, really. Or of anything, really
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun March 12, 2023 2:09 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: Sun March 12, 2023 2:15 am
by Ello Sailor
I enjoyed reading your thoughts, Argo. Don't listen to Trag.
(Unless he's talking about organic produce or something idk.)
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun March 12, 2023 2:33 am
by Jorge
The Argonaut wrote:random movie thought: I think one major problem with All Quiet on the Western Front is that it has less to say than the original movie. 90 years later, and the best they can do is a simpler movie. tree nailed it in his early review: pretty much the only message of the movie is that WWI was gruesome and war is bad. That's all I got out of it. The 1930s version says all that but also has a lot more to say about the foolishness of patriotism and of old men who send young boys to war. There's not a lot of that in the new movie, really. Or of anything, really
The score is better. That's the only thing
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun March 12, 2023 2:48 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: Sun March 12, 2023 2:50 am
by The Argonaut
thank you all for likeing my thoughts. at least we can all agree it was better than that john cazale bologna lenny was going on about
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun March 12, 2023 2:54 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
The Argonaut wrote:thank you all for likeing my thoughts. at least we can all agree it was better than that john cazale bologna lenny was going on about
It's not bologna.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun March 19, 2023 2:21 am
by BurtReynolds
Did I make this and forget I made it?
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun March 19, 2023 3:23 am
by The Argonaut
three minutes of mad musical mayhem. Phantom Lady (1944) and oh boy what a scene this was
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon March 20, 2023 8:23 pm
by Jorge
Wanna elaborate on this
Jorge wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:"The Marvels" take note.
I’m convinced that The Marvels will be an honest to god bomb, even if it's the sequel to a movie that made over a billion dollars. To the point that they may do something like pivot to a simultaneous Disney+ release to bury the headlines.
- It's a movie where two of its three main characters were introduced in Disney+ shows, one of them as a tertiary character. Barrier to entry: high.
- It won't be buoyed by the anticipation generated by the films released before and after it, like Captain Marvel was by coming out in between Infinity War and Endgame.
- It's a sequel to a movie that, despite being very commercially successful, was fairly divisive in terms of audience reaction.
- It's being released in the pre-Christmas death slot.
- Bad press and negative word of mouth from people hating Ant-Man 3.
- Unlike Guardians 3 (which is increasingly feeling like the last chopper out of Saigon) this isn't being hyped as the last chapter to a saga.
I also believe that because it stars three women (two of which are women of color) and since it will likely espouse some ham-handed liberal politics, it will be victim of review bombing by the absolute biggest losers on Earth, but that will be canceled out by the "it sounds like we're upsetting the RIGHT PEOPLE!" #Resist crowd who will buy multiple tickets because they believe stanning a superhero movie will advance us towards a fairer world.
It used to be insane to bet against Marvel but I honestly believe this will underperform significantly.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon March 20, 2023 8:28 pm
by BurtReynolds
- I heard there was some trouble behind the scenes. Larsen getting that "difficult to work with" tag.
- the effects might be better since it sounds like they are actually going to take time on them for once.
Hard to bet against Marvel until they have a legit bomb on their hands, though.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon March 20, 2023 8:55 pm
by Jorge
BurtReynolds wrote:- the effects might be better since it sounds like they are actually going to take time on them for once.
Potentially related
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon March 20, 2023 9:49 pm
by bart
I hope she wasn't Doug's new tenant
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Tue March 21, 2023 3:25 pm
by BurtReynolds
Read this and it was pretty good:
- Honestly pretty inspiring. Crazy that this movie got made.
- being a difficult asshole really pays off.
- Miller's fallback plan if his directing career failed was to go back to being a doctor. Not a bad consolation prize.
- Can you believe Spotlight won over this and Revenant? What a joke.
- Now I want to see the 4 hour cut.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Tue March 21, 2023 3:38 pm
by spike
bart wrote:I hope she wasn't Doug's new tenant
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Tue March 21, 2023 4:03 pm
by The Argonaut
BurtReynolds wrote:Read this and it was pretty good:
- Honestly pretty inspiring. Crazy that this movie got made.
- being a difficult asshole really pays off.
- Miller's fallback plan if his directing career failed was to go back to being a doctor. Not a bad consolation prize.
- Can you believe Spotlight won over this and Revenant? What a joke.
- Now I want to see the 4 hour cut.
I've been wanting to read more movie books. Too often they are either along the lines of "the flower is a metaphor for his aunt's vagina" or "I am one specific mildly successful filmmaker and here is my very specific opinion about what movies are and I am right about this" or "Warren Beatty had sex with seven hundred women in the year 1978, and here are their names".
It's hard to find worthwhile ones. I'll look for this one. Thanks, Burt
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Tue March 21, 2023 4:13 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.
