/int/ - certified time wasters

>The 5th Element
A true cinéaste might shun it because it's silly, loud, quippy and things are constantly zooming and whoosing and exploding.
I like it simply because it's fun. In fact, Luc Besson himself said he wanted a future that is "fun".
Sure, a horrible, cosmic evil of unspeakable shapes is threatening the very fabric of life, but we get a great villain (fun fact: Gary Oldman only took the role because he felt indebted to Besson), Milla Jovovich is
>as, I said, perfect
and even the supporting cast is great. And it's extremely quotable.

>>20554
coomer movie review.

>>20554
One 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.

>>20554
>>20728
Bruce Willis was so good at the time.
I was roughly 17yo.
Nice nostalgia.

>>20729
Still a big role model, sad to see what happened to him lately.

>>20730
Why yes, it does so, since millenia.

Also Zorg, god what a villian, one just has to love to hate him.

>>20730
It does

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

>>20765
Have you watched the original? I reviewed them both in the last thread.

>>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.

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

>>20773
Recently 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

>>20773
So, did any nigs here watch it? I didn't, but colleague of mine said it was entertaining and not as bad as everyone says.

>>20912
Where is your ball? Get yourself a ball.
I can see your IP and know what ball you should have so go and get it.

>>20912
Yeah. 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

>>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 before
lol 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.

The last four movies I watched in cinema.

"Riefenstahl" is okay, a bit confusing structurally, but if you want to get to know her personality more intimately through never released footage and make up your own mind, it's an interesting watch.

"Conclave" is kinda bad in my opinion, very boring as a thriller and cliché in its depiction of the church and its struggles. The ending is also ridiculous.

"No Other Land" is exquisite: a very raw and intense documentary made by people who are actually affected by the occupation. It's frustrating and brutal at times, but a must watch in my opinion.

"Shambhala" is good as a slow movie depicting a spiritual journey through the Nepalese mountains, which make for some gorgeous images as you might have guessed. This really is a little gem of Tibetan buddhism.

>>20938
Liberal do-gooder out of 10.

"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.

Some movies i liked.