qolelis on 14/1/2019 at 15:00
Thanks for the tips.
Aah, yeah, Upstream Color was pretty great. I watched it some time ago and loved it. My brother hated it, so I knew I had to watch it... Enter the Void was pretty good too, although all I remember of it now, 5 years later, is something about drugs and blinking lights (one could say my memory of it is kind of... foggy). Might have to rewatch it.
Right now I'm going through Bergman movies; some are crap and some are... pretty damn good. One thing that surprised me is how much of a comedian he could be -- when he chose to (for example in Vargtimmen (Hour of the Wolf)). Another thing that was interesting to see was the use of the "manic pixie dream girl" trope (for example in Sommarlek (Summer Interlude)), although Bergman gives her a bit more depth and darkness. Then there are films like Persona or Höstsonaten (Autumn Sonata) that hits me or haunts me in a whole other way. I hadn't watched a whole lot of Bergman before this (except his most famous works), so it's great taking the time to do so.
Hour of the Wolf made me think of Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (more specifically the dinner party scenes at the castle), which apparently came later, so now I want to rewatch it to see if that's just me trying too hard or if there actually is a connection (the common theme of the upper classes treating outsiders as either servants or sources of light amusement isn't exactly unheard of, so the association my mind is making is probably just a shallow one).
Damn, lately I haven't been able to write anything without it feeling hollow when read back, so every damn post takes a while to write now.
froghawk on 14/1/2019 at 15:04
Discreet Charm and Persona are fantastic.
henke on 14/1/2019 at 15:56
Hey if we're talking slow-paced artsy-fartsy violence-feasts I wanna mention (since no one in their right mind is going to) UNIVERSAL SOLIDER 4: DAY OF RECKONING.
Yes I'm serious, look!
[video=youtube;aJ0sIny4NTQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ0sIny4NTQ[/video]
I mean,
I'm not saying it's great or anything. But if has a cool visual style and great fisticuffs. It was certainly better than that snoozefest Only God Forgives ok? Llisten to me on this qolelis, don't listen to froghawk! HE AIMS TO STEER YOU WRONG
qolelis on 14/1/2019 at 17:59
:laff: Having watched the first one was quite enough, although I have to agree that the trailer makes it look kind of cool, visually.
froghawk on 14/1/2019 at 20:06
um
qolelis on 14/1/2019 at 20:40
FIGHT!
SubJeff on 14/1/2019 at 23:06
Loving the post-Dolph Dolph. He was great casting in Aquaman and who can forget his "Insect!" like in The Expendables.
Bring back more oldskool actors!
Eddie Murphy for next Bond villain!
Also, must watch more Bergman.
Harvester on 19/1/2019 at 22:15
Watched Apostle and the new Suspiria. Apostle is okay and has some quite disturbing scenes. Worth a watch since it's free on Netflix.
The new Suspiria is fairly fucked up. Don't expect a remake, it's completely different from the original. For starters, it's an hour longer and far more sombre and serious. Gone are the garish, bright primary colors, this is depressingly gloomy 70s Berlin architecture and an old, poorly lit decrepit building as the main stage. It even touches on some serious issues like WW2 and German society's feelings of guilt after it, and the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion aka the Baader Meinhof complex) reign of terror in the 70s. Of course, the witchcraft plot is horror movie stuff, but it's treated completely seriously, in that way it reminded me of Rosemary's Baby. However that doesn't stop the final act from being one of the craziest displays of mayhem I've ever watched. Music is well done by Radiohead's Thom Yorke and the acting is good - see if you can spot Tilda Swinton's second character besides ms. Blanc. By the way, this is a very female driven movie that hardly has any male characters in it. It does have a lot of nudity but none of it is the least bit sexy/sexual. If you like the more artsy horror movies, I can recommend this.
henke on 4/2/2019 at 06:45
Velvet Buzzsaw
Yeah, it's kinda fun. Not especially scary though.
Polar
I'm kinda surprised by the huge divide between critics and user-scores on this one. It has a 19% on metacritic, but 6.8 from users, and a 6.3 on imdb. It's a film where Mads Mikkelsen plays a retired hitman who gets pulled back in for oooone laaaast jooooob. Based on a comic book. Directed by Jonas Åkerlund who is best known as a musicvideo director(Madonna's "Ray Of Light", Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up").
I watched it on the day it came out, and... it's kinda all over the place. It has all these weird characters, like it's trying to be funny, but without actually having any jokes. Kinda feels like it's trying to be a bizarro-John Wick. The actionscenes aren't Wick-level or anything, but they were still pretty entertaining. The tone is all over the place, from goofy to grim, but Åkerlund is no Tarantino, so it just feels weird. Mads was good, and had some nice little character-moments here and there. Overall, I didn't hate it.
Ready Player One
This is just like Nostalgia: The Movie. It's like "Hey, remember THIS THING? Oh and hey, what about THIS? HUH? HUH?". Eh, it had its moments.
Børning
Norwegian Cannonball Run, basically. It really wears its inspirations on its sleeve and even has a opening-title commemoration to Hal Needham. The story is paper-thin, and while there are some nice character moments here and there it's mostly just 90 minutes of car-porn. I liked it.
[video=youtube;AlY1Q-wA-Ms]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlY1Q-wA-Ms[/video]
Renzatic on 4/2/2019 at 20:21
Quote Posted by Harvester
It does have a lot of nudity but none of it is the least bit sexy/sexual.
Dakota Johnson's prominent display of barely concealed undershirt nipples begs to differ. But then again, it was the 70's. That was kind of a thing back then.