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« on: March 24, 2023, 04:14:04 AM »
La Vie au Ranch (Sophie Letourneur, 2009) - 8/10
Les Coquillettes (Sophie Letourneur, 2013) - 7.5/10
Those two are exactly as funny as they are exhausting.
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« on: March 15, 2023, 10:29:17 AM »
Yeah. Well. As usual we'll see. He never does what you expect him to do anyway.
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« on: March 15, 2023, 04:03:54 AM »
I don't mean to speak for him, but what I took from it was that he doesn't want to spend four hours watching elitist hypocrite dipshits giving cringey, tone deaf speeches. And to top it off, you have one one of the biggest sell-outs to the establishment as the host. It's a perfect description of my hell if you just added uncomfortably hot weather to the scenario with no booze to make it suck a little less.
You are right on your point though. It resembles a really shitty movie year much more than some corporate HR circle jerk.
Oh yes I thought he was talking about the movies! Yeah sure why watch the ceremony instead of an actual movie?
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« on: March 14, 2023, 02:15:51 PM »
But only a provincial scandal.
As you know those are the most intense ones. Just like local news.
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« on: March 14, 2023, 02:33:05 AM »
I watched zero. I'm tired of non-entertainment and woke politics.
What best picture nominee does fit that definition (apart from Women talking which I haven't seen)? (And thanks Drink for writing down the whole thing!)
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« on: March 13, 2023, 12:56:16 AM »
Terrific photography, too. https://www.indiewire.com/2023/02/bardo-cinematography-interview-1234812221/
Should have won best cinematography. And All Quiet shouldn't have been even considered. La Nuit du 12 (Dominik Moll, 2022) - 5,5/10 95% TV movie, 5% good. But everything that is good in it is ruined by heavy handed overexplaination. Goutte d'Or (Cl?ment Cogitore, 2023) - 4/10 This one had a good premise and a very good synopisis. The very uneven acting hurt the movie, the wannabe arty camerawork fully destroys it. Luther (who cares, it's the netflix thing, 2023) - 2/10 Didn't finish this turd. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977) - 9/10 I like it better with the years. Does it mean that I'm aging like a good wine or that I'm already rotten deep inside?
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« on: March 13, 2023, 12:55:25 AM »
You're getting lazier with the years!
Everything, Everywhere... probably wasn't the best film and didn't have the best actors this year but this is a winner that I'm very sympathetic for. Which isn't a sentence I can write every year, so I'm ok.
On the contrary, the Cesars (french oscars) awarded La Nuit du 12 with everything (best movie, best director...) last week and that is where the true scandal is.
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« on: March 12, 2023, 09:53:14 AM »
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« on: March 07, 2023, 11:25:11 AM »
Yeah, for his last few films Kurosawa was into his ?I?m an artist who likes static imagery? phase. It?s a shame, because he was so good with the cinematic medium for most of his career. Don?t even get me started on ?Dreams?.
The opening chase isn't static though. And the battles are incredible.
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« on: March 03, 2023, 10:44:51 AM »
I think there's a big difference between the time capsule appeal to film and a dated, CGI, made for IMAX movie that is stuck in 2013.
And how much better are those experiences when the story is great: ie Kiss Me Deadly and Cry Danger for Bunker Hill.
There is a big difference but of course Gravity was also trying to capture something with visuals and sound, they weren't just trying to be immersive. They used CGI and stuff, but they did capture something about space (independantly of the movie feeling dated or not). And yes some movies require a great story, some don't. Gravity could have had a better story and it would have made the movie better, but I'd better watch the simple, streamlined story they have than a much better story that would add complexity. What Gravity needed storywise was simplicity. If they couldn't manage to improve the story without adding complexity, I'm glad they kept it the way it is.
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« on: March 03, 2023, 08:33:55 AM »
Agree I can watch some of the cheesiest sexploitation films for the Visual "high" you get from location images captured on film, some are like archival footage of places that are long gone. The Sex Killer (Times Square and subways) and The The Girls on F Street (South Main old downtown LA, Angels Flight, Bunker Hill). lol 
Exactly. If a movie is only about "and then? and then? and then?" like story centric movies (or 99% of the tv shows), actually watching the movie brings no value, I'd better have a good friend telling me the same story. Once again, you can create a masterpiece of a movie with a great story. But as a general rule, the consensus nowadays being "STORY! STORY! STORY!" and the result being forgetable content for 99% of the production, I'd strongly advise: let's calm down on this story thing. If a movie actually captures something on screen and on its soundtrack, it's already a better start.
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« on: March 03, 2023, 05:39:49 AM »
Stories isn?t a standard. There are good and bad ones. More importantly, stories have also greatly damaged cinema in the last 3 decades.
That doesn?t mean that there aren?t great masterpieces mostly based on story. But ? story ? has become the dominant element of modern filmmaking and this is partly why many talk about the death of movies.
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« on: March 02, 2023, 11:04:13 AM »
It's the best theme park experience you can have at the cinema, certainly. But I go to the movies for stories.
I go to the movies for movies.
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« on: March 02, 2023, 12:09:35 AM »
"The Highwaymen" - story of the two former Texas Rangers who ended the reign of Bonnie and Clyde in 1934. I rate it 6/10.
I believe it was made for NetFlix; Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson. Film did a great job of showing effects of the Depression on regular folks too without shoving it down your throat.
I remember trying it when it was first released and couldn't watch more than 30min as it's the typicial Netflix "content". There wasn't much to criticize in what I saw though.
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« on: March 01, 2023, 11:18:34 PM »
I fully agree.
(except for the comment about DTL since I still have to see that one, but i've seen it was available on one of the streaming services I have access to)
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