No.20553
Old one rotted away
>>821Threda for discussing or just sharing your impressions of movies, TV shows, cartoons and the like.
No.20555 KONTRA
>>20554coomer movie review.
No.20728
>>20554One of my most favorite movies.
The settis alone makes it beloved, such great world building.
Comedy, sex, adventure, guns, this movie has everything that entertainment needs.
Perfect kino IMO.
Valerian gave me big hopes and started similarly strong, but sadly both main characters are literally cunts and hardly have some chemistry with each other.
No.20729
>>20554>>20728Bruce Willis was so good at the time.
I was roughly 17yo.
Nice nostalgia.
No.20731
>>20729Still a big role model, sad to see what happened to him lately.
>>20730Why yes, it does so, since millenia.
No.20732 KONTRA
Also Zorg, god what a villian, one just has to love to hate him.
No.20765
The Blob (1988)
A fun Science Fiction-Horror-Comedy movie about a slimy thing from outer space that eats humans. The comedy is mainly showing in a few well placed jokes. The practical effects are very good but sadly the CGI didn't age well at all.
Shawnee Smith is hot.
breddy good/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq0our4mceQ No.20770
>>20765Have you watched the original? I reviewed them both in the last thread.
No.20771
>>20770>Have you watched the original? Not yet but i have it here.
>I reviewed them both in the last thread.I did miss that. I'm going to have a look.
No.20773
An interesting Gladiator 2 review by a Youtube person i do appreciate. Someone who is specialised on the topic of the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7TDtrvV_yg No.20774
>>20773Recently watched a good review about Napoleon and James "Jesus Christ" Camerons creative liberty with history, so I was zero surprised to see how he handled Gladiator 2.
Here's a rather nice channel I discovered this weekend sharing his takes about the lack of a huge Avatar fanbase, with them just being a really tiny community of "blue-hued eco-Trekkies"
not at all in a bad sense.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9h4wLJrVXA No.20912
>>20773So, did any nigs here watch it? I didn't, but colleague of mine said it was entertaining and not as bad as everyone says.
No.20913
>>20912Where is your ball? Get yourself a ball.
I can see your IP and know what ball you should have so go and get it.
No.20924
>>20912Yeah. It's not thaat bad, just very mid. Paul Mescal was kind of miscast and his character not very interesting, the story was generic and it the visuals weren't that great either.
I ended up watching Ridley Scott's
Kingdom of Heaven after and it was much better, the epic scale of the sieges was very impressive. Though Orlando Bloom doesn't play the most interesting protagonist either.
As for new releases, Anora was lots of fun. Other film that stood out for me this month was
In a Violent Nature, it's a slasher horror but it's shot in a formally methodical slow cinema style. I'm suprised this hasn't been done before cause it works really well. One of the kill scenes especially is some top tier stuff. It's definitely not for everyone, but if you have the patience for slow cinema and are into slashers, it's an absolute treat.
Got to rewatch
The Blair Witch Project at the cinema - still a masterpiece, one of the few horror movies that really get to you.
Another highlight was
Deep Blue Sea, it's a 1999 action blockbuster about mutated sharks that I hadn't even heard about before but it turned out to be much more entertaining than it had any right to be. They just don't make movies starring rappers who perform a song for the end credits anymore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cYcdBVQ8NM No.20927
>>20924>I'm suprised this hasn't been done before cause it works really well.Maybe I am misinterpreting your description, but wouldn't the father of slasher films - Halloween of course - fit that description too?
>that I hadn't even heard about beforelol wut? It was a big thing when it came out, right in the wake of those teenie slashers like I know what you did last summer, with LL Cool J (when it became en vogue to put random rappers in films) and Sam Jackson in the cast, especially because it has a scene that subverts your (i.e. early 00s film watcher of such films) expectations, which later became the trademark of a certain shitty fire and ice show.
No.20939
>>20938Liberal do-gooder out of 10.
No.21053
"Misericordia" is a solid film, it's a mix of dry French comedy and neo-noir. It has some nice shots of the French countryside and forests, but in the end I found it a bit lacking. The queer element also felt a bit forced. If you like French comedies, you might enjoy this one, but I wouldn't recommend watching it just for the thriller part.
"Explanation for Everything" is at its core a film about desinformation. Besides that it's a coming of age story as well as a critique of contemporary political society (in Hungary). I quite enjoyed it and found the concept very interesting. Especially the acting of the protagonist as that timid, scared and confused student as a backdrop for the happenings on a larger scale (public scandal) really made that pop out, the contrasts were well chosen to illustrate the point.
Recently I watched "Fish Tank" by Andrea Arnold as preparation for my screening of "Bird", her newest films. It touches similar themes: coming of age story in lower class Britain. Only that "Bird" has a mystical quality to it that separates it from "Fish Tank". I really enjoyed that element, the image/symbol of the bird with all its connotations in contrast to the dull and exploitative everyday life. How this film portrays the perception of beauty in our surroundings as something inherently human was also very well done.
"Caught by the Tides", a mix of documentary and fiction made up of footage of the last 20 years is riveting. Jia Zhang-ke basically dissects the development of modern China of the last twenty years by means of longing and the sense of getting lost. The speed and intensity of the developments shown in this movie are enormous, the slow wandering of the protagonists contrasts that, the feeling of people becoming alienated from their time is omnipresent. This film has some extraordinarily beautiful scenes, Zhang-ke really has an eye for that. I just wish the mix of documentary and fictitious story (although there isn't much of that) would have been better at times.
No.21771
The Apprentice (2024)
Movie about Trump's youth, starting from when he got to know Roy Cohn, his lawyer and mentor, and finishing when he ordered a journalist to write "Art of the deal". About his family and career.
Very enjoyable and insightful watching. Yes, it's a propaganda, but a very good one, and I don't think that it's far from truth, on the opposite, when you read more information on the covered characters and events, you understand that in reality it's much worse, they just couldn't fit it all in one movie. So perhaps the main dishonesty was omitting that other politicians including Trump's opponents are not any better.
Since Trump is very American, like McDonalds, anti-Trump movie is as well anti-American movie. For instance, I heard a lot that America is a cool country because it was populated by immigrants, hard-working and ambitious people. In movie we see an illustration that it means that America was populated by arrogant hustlers, who abandoned their country, their identity and people around them for a chance to get rich.
BaZed.
No.21792 KONTRA
>>21788It's not a documentary, you smug retard.
No.21797 KONTRA
>>21792The exchange the word for biopic it's stupid either way.
No.21827 KONTRA
>>21797Wonder if you would say the same if it was about Biden, or someone you like. inb4 "yes of course :^)"
No.21879
>>21876Eraserhead, obviously. But his Dune is also superior.
No.21880
>>21876I really liked Twin Peaks.
Most of his movies are a bit too weird for my taste. I liked Dune and The Elephant Man a lot.
Now i'm sad. RIP.
No.21882
>>21876I've never seen any of his films or shows, though I had people tell me that Twin Peaks is "you coded".
RIP regardless, he seems to leave behind an enormous legacy in film making.
No.21884
>>21876His health seemed to have going downhill for a while so it's not a suprise but still makes me sad. Made me remember how I first caught a Twin Peaks rerun on TV as a teen and enjoyed it so much it ended up being one of the few things I would try and watch on schedule. And then watching Mulholland Drive in a shitty quality for the first time and being completely confused yet also intrigued to try and decipher it. I'm sure his films have been an important introduction to film as art for many. Truly a one of a kind filmmaker, artist and human being.
Took this sad occasion as an opportunity to watch The Elephant Man, last feature of his I hadn't seen yet. What a fitting ending, here's the full excerpt of the Tennyson poem quoted:
Never, oh never, nothing will die.
The stream flows,
The wind blows,
The cloud fleets,
The heart beats.
Nothing will die.
No.21896
I always had the theory that David Lynch gave himself a role in Twin Peaks so he could kiss the most beautiful girl in the show :3
https://youtu.be/qPXC9c2HfA0?si=yjvEu01H-F7Z48kS No.21907
>>21876>What's your favorite of his works? Mine is probably Lost Highway100 % agree.
>>21879>But his Dune is also superior.Disagree. When I watched it years ago I felt it was not fully coming together as a movie. Perhaps the worms are cooler, especially for 1984, but then again maybe if I hadn't known what I was getting into for the new Dune adaptation I would have been more impressed by them.
No.22049
Happened to watch
Unser Dorf soll häßlich werden (1975) a month ago. It was mentioned in Switzerland's randomized commune expedition IWO thread
>>14407 which I only noticed today. The film is probably also on
https://www.ardmediathek.de/tv-programm/6741224bb895d170a7259c6a if you prefer that; it should work with yt-dlp.
Thirty years after Dachau, it was not yet possible to spend everybody's broadcasting fees on pointless annoying computer graphics, but apparently it was possible to sink them into some assburger's film-length rant about his suffering from contemporary rural architecture's alarming loss of aesthetic values and – taking up less time I think – about the destruction of organic social townscapes, for example by routing a busy road through a town instead of around it.
If you were to choose background music for this, what genre(s) would you go with for examples of good and bad architecture?
Which was the last generation that didn't have to live with the maddening knowledge of an impending downfall of civilization because kids these days?
No.22050 KONTRA
>>22049Correction: This is probably not the one mentioned in the IWO thread, because this one (UDSHW) is not primarily concerned with fences.
No.22054
>>21788You can create a biased image of things without straight-up lies, but just by omitting certain things and highlighting others.
Let's take Indian-Pakistani wars as a neutral example. You can show Indian soldiers killing civilians, and then brave Pakistani soldiers defeating them. Or you can show Pakistani soldiers killing civilians, and then brave Indian soldiers defeating them.
I'm sure there are enough wartime episodes to stage both movies formally historically correct, yet it's hard not to perceive them as propaganda.
Same with rivalry between Republicans and Democrats.
Well, directing movies requires a lot of money and collaboration with many people, so it's all understandable. We can't demand from director balanced view on hot political topic, and otherwise as I said, Ali Abbasi did a fantastic job. I recommend "Apprentice" to everyone. Because of that I watched one more his movie:
Holy Spider (2022)
Movie about serial killer, murdering prostitutes. He motivates it as cleaning streets (of holy city Mashhad) from prostitutes, but actually he suffers from PTSD.
Yes, it's agitprop too: western-funded movie about Iran, teaching us on topics of women rights, "slutshaming" and so on. Sometimes this goal interferes with artistic value: main character is a stereotypical annoying strong womyn acting like teenager.
But otherwise it's cool, some scenes are brilliant. Also it was interesting to look at Iran, even in a caricature depiction.
7/10
No.22065 KONTRA
>>22059Oh, sorry. I hadn't checked if the film is available.
If you've seen the fence film linked from the IWO thread, it's probably the same but ranting about balconies etc. instead of fences. Top notch entertainment.
No.22448
Any Ernsts attending the Berlinale?
No.22454
>>22448I got accredited for some screenings, the only movie I've seen so far was called Eden by Ron Howard. It's about some Germans who try to drop out of society and live self-sufficiently on an island in the Galapagos during the 1920s/30s. Was intrigued by the setting and the stacked cast with Jude Law, Sydney Sweeney, Ana de Armas etc. I was hoping for something along the lines of an adaptation of Kracht's Imperium but it turned out to be midwit true crime crap.
Got a few more movies marked this week, with a start like this it can't get any worse.
No.22457 KONTRA
>>22454> Germans during 30-s> Jude Law:D
No.22458
>>22454>watching Hollywood films made in 202X>watching Hollywood films made in 202X made by and with anglos about any non-anglo topic>not expecting shitAch Ernst....
No.22459 KONTRA
>>22454>Sidney Sweeney, Ana de ArmasThe boob actresses. Were there any boobs in the movie?
No.22460
>>22458The Batman with Robert Pattinson was great.
I would have never thought that one day I'll be acknowledging Pattinson as the penultimate Batman, but here I am.
No.22461
>>22460>I would have never thought that one day I'll be acknowledging Pattinson as the penultimate Batman, but here I am.Same with diCaprio after Titanic, most of his other movies are pretty good. Also Brad Pitt to some degree.
No.22462
>>22461Darn those charismatic actors that actually have talent on top of their looks!
If one would just be able to hate them...
In other news, watched through LotR this weekend again and it's still great.
Also, agitated by the other Germans claims, I'm just going through a list of films from 2020 to now and to my surprise there's quite a few good ones on there.
Dunc 1 and 2 I enjoyed, again with the pretty twink that can actually act.
Some John Wicks, guess I saw a few of those and was entertained despite hardly remembering anything except a dead dog.
Saw Furiosa in cinema in Thailand, no actual Mad Max but so so.
Watched Evil Dead Rise 2 times due to being wholeheartedly entertained by a sexy redhead as well as females and zoomies getting brutalized.
Sonic was a great adaptation and I still have to watch 2 and 3.
I think it's the same as with videogames, there just so much coming out altogether, if somebody has an overall negative mindset, it's easy to just see the big pile of steaming shit and feign ignorance to all the gold around it.
No.22464
>>22462You shouldn't let things get to you that much.
Hyperbole is a common stylistic device on imageboards, so any such statement is only taken at face value by autists and actual 89IQ retards. You aren't one of those, are you?
That said, I haven't seen DUNC 2, but 1 was indeed ok, Furiosa IS shit, John Wick after 2 is shit, any of the newer Evil Deads is shit, and holy shit, SONIC? I mean come on, I know you're an actual degenerate, but... really? REEEEEELY?
However, what I noticed while writing this is that everything really is only -quels and remakes and reboots anymore. So I will now state, without hyperbole, that 2020s Hollywood as a whole needs to be destroyed. The few decent things that might come out of that moloch don't justify all that other trash.
No.22770
Watched "The Lobster" yesterday.
It was good, overall. Probably wouldn't watch it again, but I would not tell people to not watch it.
What I liked was how it took its utterly silly and absurd premise and just played it 100% straight without trying to explain anything. It's just there, it works like that, deal with it.
What is is about is that people in another dimension or something need to always be with someone. The moment you become a single you have 45 days to find someone, or you'll be turned into an animal. There's also a group of "rebels", the Loners, living in strictly platonic communities in the forest.
It was, or is, advertised as a comedy, although I wouldn't necessarily call it one. The general tone and atmosphere is way too somber, and the humor is too laconic and dark. But it's also not a drama.
I actually can't really tell what it is. A satire, take that however you will. Something about boomer culture and hating your wife vs. forever alone millenians could be a possible interpretations. However, what I enjoyed was that it kind of refuses to have a clear "message". The entire premise of the forced relationship society is portrayed in a clearly negative fashion, but the Loner society is shown to be constantly miserable and subject to the whims of a clearly underfucked woman who seems to out for vengeance on society.
No.22787
>>22770>I actually can't really tell what it isProbably why they called these directors and films "greek weird wave"
No.22789
Watched The Raid 1 and 2 as well as Platoon over the weekend.
It's funny how those films changed for me over the time, as a wee young lad Platoon didn't give me much, a well made, highly rated movie about war... rather watch FMJ instead.
Now as I'm older, wiser, calmer and more cynical, I think I prefer Platoon over FMJ.
Vietnam movies go even harder due to a light understanding of Southeast Asian societal structure and hierarchies.
The Raid gets surprisingly more entertaining the more often I see it.
Clearly a very thought out action flick with great set pieces to demolish and suffer through with organic camera work done on top.
A worthy precursor for Dredd, of which we might never see Urbans pouty mouth in a second part.
Raid 2 got a little downgrade into a gangster action movie with not a lot of actual raiding going on, still nice to watch but it gives kinda Kill Bill vibes with gimmicky boss battles in between the henchmen holocaust.
Interesting to see that smol, fierce fighter getting a second role in this one after being the top honcho of da boss in the first movie. Surely not a great actor, but a reminder to tread carefully with all those Muay Thai versed sheboys I fornicated recently...
No.22794
>>22789Fun fact: Dredd started production even before The Raid, but took longer to film.
No.22797
>>22794Interesting, Raid got quoted as inspiration for some Dredd shots quickly after I saw the latter in cinema from what I recall.
Clicking through the articles it seems that 3 years where spent with
hookers and coke development and pre-production from '08 onwards.
Also that smol, fierce fighter seemingly had a role in... ugh... Disney's Star Wars, so, good for him I guess. Little fella seemed happy smeared with fake blood jumping and rolling and breaking necks tho.
No.22798
>>22797Consider this: Neither Dredd nor Raid were the first, or are the only, films about a guy in a skyscraper fighting criminals.
No.22800
>>22798Eh, dunno, the skyscraper shootups seem eerily familiar and otherwise far apart.
The only other one I could guess would be Die Hard into which Raid tapped generously into.
Raid released before Dredds shooting began or early within it.
Some scene do seem like tuned up versions of Raid, like the minigun massacre being a scene at which a faint light gives away the sneaking operators in Raid with them being shot up between floors.
God I wish I would inhabit the timeline that got Dredd 2.
No.22801
>>22800>God I wish I would inhabit the timeline that got Dredd 2.Me too. It's the only 3d film I actually enjoyed and which I would watch in the cinema again if I had the chance.
No.22809
>>22058"Nosferatu"(2024) is an epic film. Beautiful, interesting, somewhere creepy. Somewhere it's laughable:
"This is the language of my ancestors",
"People in these lands are prejudiced against me, I need to move to Wisburg, where people are more open-minded ".
Basically, it's about romantic dreams materializing as an abomination.
Also watched "Nosferatu"(1912). Can imagine how impressive it was for its time.
While 2024's film made want to watch "The VVitch" by the same director, 1922 movie broke my prejudice against old cinema. I think, I'll start with Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" and "Alexander Nevsky".
No.22810
>>22809Define "old" cinema. The Nevsky film is from 1938, so it's already one step beyond silent films. 50s/60s films are also "old", but already a very different style from the even older ones.
>I think, I'll start with Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" Nice, tell us what you thought about it; I posted a review in
>>13772.
Also, watch Metropolis (the Murnau Stiftung restored cut), it's amazing. And Lubitsch's "Die Puppe", very funny.
No.22811
>>22810By "old" I meant black and white movies or even movies without sound. That means until 1960-s.
Thanks for the recommendations, will check them out.
No.22812 KONTRA
>>22810I watched metropolis at 5 years old on the big screen at some child-friendly screening. It haunted me all my life, incredible movie
No.22813
>>22811>By "old" I meant black and white movies or even movies without sound.Ok, so silent films I don't have THAT much experience. I have the bluray box from the FW Murnau Stiftung with all those german classics, from Caligari to Münchhausen (Münchhausen is a color talkie though). I personally didn't find Caligari all that great; it has a very cool set design, but it's not one of my favorites.
Nosferatu is great, Der Golem is pretty fun, Metropolis is a masterpiece, but I still haven't watched Frau im Mond. Fun fact: That film invented the rocket countdown.
The Wizard of Oz does not satisfy your stipulations, despite being from that time.
Hitchcock made films in black and white, including the "original" Man who knew too much from the 30s.
Early Audrey Hepburn films are in black and white, like Roman Holidays.
>>22812I can only imagine. I watched it at over 30 or something and it really made an impression.
No.22814
>>22813Thanks again. I'm also planning to watch Kubrick's earlier movies like Spartacus or Lolita.
No.22858
>>22812Who in their right mind thinks metropolis is adequate for 5 year olds to watch?
No.22862
>>22858>Who in their right mind?State supported culture programs.
On the other hand, it’s one of the only non animated films I remember from that time period with one Buster Keaton. I’m quite grateful of having watched it at that age…
No.22866
>>22862Now I'm wondering what else was shown at that "child-friendly" screening
No.22867
>>22866Not only was it child friendly, it was a
child only screening, on the biggest movie theater in town. About 3-4 volunteers were staying near the gates armed with a flashlight to help kids who had to piss or those who started crying. I sadly don’t remember how much kids cried during metropolis, but it’s not impossible I took a break myself in the middle of it.
Metropolis was the most radical selection. One film that stuck with me was a stop motion movie about 1001 nights type Arabic stories, but I couldn’t remember the name.
No.22872
>>22867Funny you posted the picture you posted, that was exactly the shot that stayed with me the most upon watching it for the first time.
No.22873
>>22872For me that’s the two scenes before and after this shot
the factory and the sacrifice No.22874
>>22873Yes, that's what I meant