I watched Moana (yesterday; sorry, thread!) and it’s spectacular in every way. That’s definitely the best Disney movie I’ve ever seen, by miles! If there was any justice in the world Moana would have been the world wide sensation and not Frozen…
Now I really want a sequel and I think I might actually get one if the rumors are true??
I told you guys, it’s science
Battleship Potemkin is only 75 minutes.
At some point, I realized a lot of my problems with even the most cleanly/clearly presented + cut Modern Action Filmmaking might be caused by an over-valuing/respect of real, linear time/causality that washes out as “we want this shot, and this shot, and also be sure you see this… dang! each of the angles on this motion/beat we wanted you to see are now shortened to the point of sublimity! Oh well! We on the cast and crew of Terminator No. the 6 strive to apply the editorial principles of Direct Cinema to every sequence of robots punching each other, whether in a factory or on a freeway.”
As a viewer, I wind up thinking I know what happened, because continuity is maintained, and I basically know the geometric possibilities of the bodies/vehicles/objects in a space? But my adhd brain is humming with “25 shots just happened that didn’t have time to sit, just motion and noise, please send help.”
This is a distinct and separate branch off the 90s-2000s faux-verite “Spielberg made his camera shake in Saving Private Ryan, which must be why those sequences worked? run three handhelds with telephoto lenses for every single setup and cut without rhyme, rhythm or reason for true immersive blast cinema.” (Reaching its nadir in that Bourne movie where Matt Damon pulls out a newspaper on a metro and there are one-dozen quick cuts to slightly different shaky dv zooms of Intense News Reading… just like you’re really there! and teleporting randomly over a designated orbit field every time you blink!) The unmotivated vibration is gone, the shots are clear, but they still last 5 frames before dissipating.
hi it’s shrug I haven’t been keeping up with this thread
hi Shrug
i played quite a few Dynasty Warriors, but i don’t know that DW flavor variant, nor that boss specifically!
doubling up:
Millenial Battleship Potemkin hot take - “I like the Hollywood-variant Titanic better”
(actually, what was the battleship/submarine flick with Gerard Butler called again?)
i watched the ring (2002) and it’s OK. it does a whole lot more than ring (1998), but manages to be a lot less for it? well, except it’s a hell of a lot more goofy, which is really fun sometimes. kinda laughed first time i got to see the tape and all the overwrought imagery they had added. and i feel like all the rest of it is that too? ok, let’s include the elements of the original but pump MORE into it! MORE! just total excess. does the original have our ghost poltergeist a tv on our protag to push her down the well? definitely not. did i laugh? absolutely.
but with all this it doesn’t have the haunting qualities of the first film. it’s too loud and too much to stick something like that. also, the killing is really, REALLY lame and samara’s kill face has nothing on sadako’s death stare.
Sorry, there are so many ring movies. Which two are you talking about in this post?
i watched the 2002 american one and am comparing to the 1998 japanese one
edited first post for clarity. i know there’s a whole bunch of ring movies after these but i’m sure the only important one is sadako vs kayako, which i’m absolutely seeing at some point
That one seems like a movie that was born to be a theme park ride, but the theme park it was made for got shut down for tax fraud so they just put it out in theaters instead.
Randomly decided to watch E.T. after many many years and I’m halfway through and reminded that I kind of hate this movie, idk if I want to finish it.
Edit: That scene with ET and the raccoon in the river. This movie has its moments.
That would be 3 SBers have watched Total Recall this month.
I on the other hand watched In The Army Now which I definitely saw at least 5 times on premium cable. It is horrible. It is unworthy. But it is on youtube and you can mute it and watch the first 5 minutes and see a Service Merchandise in the 90s and a bunch of laser discs and CRTs and have feelings. Then after another 5 minutes see a collection of 90s Jeans.
I went to hell so I went deeper. I found A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) a while back. Charlie Chaplin Directed. Staring Brando and Sophia Loren. With that title it can’t not be racist. Well the title is a misdirect since it is a slamming doors farce on a cruise ship. I laughed six times. Charlie’s son plays Brando’s friend. Brando actually moves. Sophia Loren is Sophia Loren and filled with that tragic wish for a moment of happiness. A 107 minute movie and a speaking Asian role happens at 93 minutes and it’s a two line cab driver.
For a farce the writing is only half as good as it needs to be. I saw Bringing Up Baby this year which is like the best farce so my standards are unreasonably high (no not Rudie’s.)
It has some very rough editting where they stitched together very different takes and redubbed Brando with someone that was sober.
What I learned is I need to watch a 3rd and 4th movie where Sophia Loren plays a tragic woman. Everyone watch The Key!!!
what is going on
this is the 4K restorations/Criterion Wong Kar Wai collection? That thing I really, really want?
hell yeah. let WKW do whatever the fuck he wants with his movies.
wong karwai is defiitely the george lucas of the hong kong new wave
not going to explain this
I’ve watched Ashes of Time Redux, I know exactly what you mean
nostalgia is a dangerous syrup
