how many people walked out of the theater during the cg wiener scene when you saw enter the void? for me it was: 3
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the number of people that walked out of my living room where i was watching it alone: 1
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iām seeing Climax on Saturday because i heard from @dongle that itās actually good.
Enter the Void was the first one i saw by him, and the best part was at the end, when it goes all white and says āENTER THE VOIDā and some lady in the audience said āare you fucking serious?ā and the entire audience lost it
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I donāt like Enter the Void but I wish I did
but I have a decade-long obsession with that credits sequence
I keep looking for bigger screens and darker rooms to watch it on
Iām hoping that time I watched it in VR is not the end of my journey
I may even like it more than Hype Williams does
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I must see this lore once more
also i agree the credits sequence is absolutely amazing and worth seeing in a theater alone and then walking out on the rest of the movie because iāve completely forgotten everything else and prolly for a reason
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YESSS
i havenāt seen it! i just have some Trusted Friends who have similar sensibilities (and reservations about aspects of his past films) who endorsed it.
well, Climax was dumb as hell lol
will elaborate more later
The other day I went and saw Nobuhiko Obayashiās latest film Hanagatami. It is bizarre and beautiful. If youāve seen his famous campy horror movie Hausu, imagine a far more advanced version of that visual style, applied to a 3 hour long devastating art film about the experience of growing up in Japan during the run-up to World War II.
The editing and visual effects are outrageous. Scenes will switch between black and white and color, shots will be constantly mirrored back and forth, significant moments will be accentuated by Noh drums. The film takes green screen effects beyond all responsible limits, painting backgrounds in completely unrealistic, expressionist ways. Out the window of a kitchen youāll see an impossible view of a stormy ocean island, and when the camera moves through the scene, that image will unnaturally move too, in the way that a real window view never could. In a schoolhouse in springtime, whenever a student opens the door to the classroom the entire screen will suddenly be overlaid with falling cherry blossoms. A terminally ill girl confined to her room falls off of her bed and the room around her dissolves into an ocean she swims out through. The artificiality of these effects really adds something to the film.
A few examples:
Itās just so generous with its imagery, non-stop visual inventiveness.
Like Jodorowskyās recent work, this is a film directed by a very old man who knows heāll be passing away soon and wants to take the moment to examine his childhood and send a very strong message to try and keep his generationās traumas from repeating in the future. It ends with one of the most intense and direct provocations Iāve seen in a film.
I really, really recommend this movie! Iāve never seen anything like it, at all.
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In a way, the film actually kind of reminds me a lot of Twin Peaks: The Return, but it goes way harder.
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Damn Iām definitely gonna see this
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Damn wish i had seen this here! Had I known!
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ok, so Climax
the main verdict is that i thought the movie was boring. even as an āexperience,ā i found myself mostly wishing i was doing something else for most of it, because what was happening on screen wasnāt interesting.
things it does ok: the dancing is good, the music is good, even though some of it is anachronistic for 1996. it captures the feeling of āhaving a bad time on drugs while you hear the bass of the music in another roomā well.
but mostly, itās likeā¦ok, and?
the movie also veers into what felt uncomfortable and kind of racist, having the characters who are the most violent, and who say the most misogynistic and rapey things, be black. were i younger, iād maybe think that was unintentional, but in 2019, i take that shit at face value.
but as soon as the opening credits revealed that Vice had produced this movie, i more or less knew what to expect.
mostly, iām glad i saw it, because iāll never have to wonder again if i should go see another Gaspar NoĆ© film.
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i kind of feel like the current gaspar noĆ© filmās main purpose is always to convince people that they donāt need to see the next one
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haha perhaps. i mean, i skipped Love (mostly bc i was afraid it would be triggering), and checked this one out because iād heard positive things and wasnāt entirely in the camp of disliking his movies.
watched Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets last night and wow, what a weird movie. i feel like itās kind of great, but itās written like the most predictable and bland Saturday-morning cartoon. whichā¦yeah, itās kind of great? but so dumb? i feel like if i had kids, iād show them this movie.
capped off the night with John Wick: Chapter 2 and love how those movies donāt get worse with repeated viewings.
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Yeah it is gorgeous and visually ambitious, with some genuinely stunning locations. Reminded me of all the things I loved about Fifth Element.
But the leads are the two most bland human behinds in history and the actual story is just, yeah, a saturday morning cartoon. The entire thing with the weird cannibalistic obese space tribe they slaughtered seemed like it was going for laughs maybe? And yet they shoved this character death and an action scene in there? Itās like spending a 1/5th of your movie battling paper towel mascot characters.
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Meanwhilie, I was sort of sick of John Wick 2 halfway through the first time I watched it because it somehow managed to play out its own fight choreography. Idk. Iām still gonna watch the third one when it comes out.