You might also like to know then that Climax also has a pregnant woman being punched in the stomach repeatedly and then driven to self-harm by a jeering crowd. Because, of course it does.
itâs just so puerile. additionally, i think NoĂ© just wanted an excuse to hang out with a bunch of cool, hot young people. someone i briefly dated had his # and i got the impression he just sort of surrounds himself with model-y types.
according to an interview someone sent me after, he apparently wrote Climax in a month, andâŠi could definitely tell that lol
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A True Artiste will have indentifiable recurrent motifs that run through their careers like golden threads~
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Come on, without NoĂ© how else are we going to know that there is a darker side to human natureâŠ
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I would never ever ever have guessed this about him.
much like Noé, my posts exist for shock value
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the oscar isaac ben affleck netflix military dude movie is so formulaic as to be a little scary
itâs like âiraq war veterans do fast five on the cheapâ
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bought the mutafukaz Blu-ray today and will be asking a few friends whether they want to join me for a three-or-four evening back-to-back screening of FLCL, directly followed by that mfâing wild ride.
in French w/ subs, yes.
this is going to be great.
the action choreography in The Night Comes For Us is pretty bonkers
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RUDIE WAS ON A PLANE AND THAT MEANS PLANE MOVIESSSSS
Ralf Breaks the internet was slightly less orgasmicly capitalism than I was expecting and really made no logical sense but the message of friendship got me in the end so I guess best movie ever.
Venom was fine. Not as weird as I was expecting that it split audiences.
Jupiter Ascending also made zero sense and was like the 2 hour recut of 12 episodes of an anime. Just a steady stream of things happen with zero regard for character or motivation or development. The 15 seconds of our heroine being smart is a look of what could have been. Also space boots.
I saw Shoplifters @OneSecondBefore . It was better than expected. Much more about small moments and lifeâs ennui in a good way. I had to skip about 30 minutes throughout to finish it before I landed. it got way messier than i expect from a film and I appreciated that life like realness.
Final film was Bad Times At The El Royale which I had never heard o-140 Minutes?!? God some studio needed to rip the editor and director of this. It was doing itâs own thing but also the specter of Tarantino loomed large. I liked it though! I was curious what was going to happen throughout and not really having answers was good.
I screamed FUCK YOU on the plane when Jon Hammâs shit southern accent said he was from Biloxi. I mean at least he said Biloxi right. The ladiesâ Alabaman was good.
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Yeah, thereâs something about El Royale thatâs just⊠idk, it keeps you interested in it, even though it seems to take forever, at least thatâs what 99% of the audience worldwide seems to say.
I tend to get a bit irritated when a movie drags on for too long, a temper that has made me ignore games i would have loved to play a decade ago, and i am still getting more sensitive about this. So, if a movie manages to make me feel like it lasted 1.5h instead of 2+ish, it did a good job.
talking about movies that surprised me, re Inside Out:
watched the pixar animation flick a few days ago, and really loved it. idk, a lot more people seem to have seen this movie than i ever thought? - but nobody has talked about it when i was around, if someone had just mentioned a single aspect of it, i would have jumped at it.
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So, i guess i have always been somewhere else when it came up, and finally got around to watching it, and loved it.
In the highly unlikely case that you, dear reader, havenât heard of this movie before, like yours truly: This is a movie about five emotions controlling the life of a girl.
If thatâs up your alley, go watch it. now.
Inside Out never sat right with me. While this might sound stupid, its internal fiction doesnât make sense, and because the movie is constantly asking you to interact with the ârulesâ of the brainworld, I was very distracted and the emotional catharsis was deadened. This is a problem with Pixar movies in general, they are too clever by half and canât match up their high-concept fantasyworlds with the simple morality theyâre pushing. The Lego Movie honestly does a much better job at the âfantasy nestled within the real worldâ issue, by making it briefer, vaguer and more mysterious.
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why Wall-E is best
yech no the Jeff whatâs his name characterâs scenes constantly ruin Wall-E
I do not miss the time in the mid aughts when everyone had to collectively agree that Pixar movies were amazing
(Iâd probably take Up first followed by the Brad Bird ones)
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I miss when Stephanie Zacharek wrote for Salon because she consistently hated most of them
the whole premise of Inside Out expects you to sympathize with a family who has moved from the midwest to the absolute heart of gentrifying San Francisco and I just canât do it
it kind of seems like Pixarâs most honest attempt to represent themselves on screen though
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Especially with Inside out you have to consider that this movie is aiming squarely at an audience that doesnât know or read Freud (sorry Felix!), but is confronted with a very complex concept they pretty likely have never thought about.
Likely theyâll be coming away with a very simplified, but nevertheless pretty much (beforehand) non-existent mental image of how a thing works in the world, and it just happens to be a thing that isnât an abstract concept like loneliness or friendship, but how you, as a person, are functioning. Central to this image is that everyone is different (in how they are ârunâ, i.e. how they are feeling, and why), and i feel that the real strenght of this movie lies in how effortlessly it manages to convey this very abstract and complicated concepts - a few days later, i still struggle to come up with any other movie that manages to hit home so closely, nonwithstanding any issues i may have with the way how simplified the model is that is portrayed.
Clearly, and i agree, this doesnât hold up well if you have dived deeper into psychology, i agree - personally would have loved it if it didnât just narrow the bandwith of emotions down to five, or how some of the emotions are falling a bit short on what they mean for the whole personality⊠but then i feel thatâs key to make this mental model work:
it doesnât need to be super complex or as close to the real thing as it may dare without overloading its audience aged <18, it âjustâ needs to make clear how all of the cogs work with/against each other, what the results are, and as the person influenced by them reacts (e.g. how they are not knowing why they behave that way).
This attempt at establishing a mental model is the very bold thing to try to convey to such an audience, and i would love to see more of that kind of effort instead of rehashing movies that already exist, as justified as some âimprovementsâ to their setup or storylines may be (yeah, i knowwwww, sounds like grumpy old person that doesnât get happy by seeing these new dumbo, lion king or aladin trailers, but i am getting older, after all, and why waste so mich effort, talent and money on window dressing).
And before you ask, yeah, i really enjoyed watching it. Didnât expect so!
also the Richard Kind character is so good
I agree the rest of the movie doesnât really work but he is one of my favourite things theyâve done