I watched Britney Runs a Marathon (Amazon Prime). It was good. It kinda dips on focus here or there, because it kinda tries to be everything about the subject matter. But It doesn’t get too crazy.
Someone I know said it was " A lame movie. But, good." And I said that I think a lot of it feels lame because its actually a solid representation of life/social life right now.
part of the problem is that it tries to be about the titular subject (she runs a marathon) while also being a slice of life kind of thing and gets kind of mired in trying to have its cake and eat it too
I liked it but also I’m biased towards any movie I paid money to see
I forgot to talk about Gemini Man. it’s a bit of an standard action movie but hey, the fight choreography is elevated by the fact that shooting at whatever ridiculous framerate they picked (I believe the canonical version is 120 fps, with the standard HFR show being 60 and the normal movie for old, boring projectors being the standard 24) means that stuff like faking the impact of a punch is a lot harder so the fights feel a lot more visceral. also I had a good laugh when the Paramount logo shows up at the start and it’s at 24 fps and then the rest of logos start popping at 60. it’s kind of a shame it will most likely not be seen by a lot of people in the comfort of their homes above 24 fps for a good 2-5 years. action-wise at least. the rest of it is whatever. also fake explosions enter the super uncanny valley at 60 fps but I’m willing to forgive this for Ang Lee going for the full masturbatory pleasure of having a minigun tear up a convenience store for the sake of a 10-second series of shots
I watched Judy and Punch for our anniversary date. It sure is an Australian film, what with the extremely literal symbolism and callbacks.
On the recommendation of the surreal and dreamlike movies thread I watched Picnic at Hanging Rock and Under the Skin and thoroughly enjoyed both of them (the latter especially for its technical/formal decisions which align with ideas about film that I have had for quite some time but never seen followed through to such an extent (barely any dialogue, long stretches of characters silently doing their job, and no interest in exposition. Oh and also half the scenes are set in chiaroscuran voidscapes with only key/important objects being lit which is extremely my shit)) and then I watched A Thought of Ecstacy which is really extremely bland, horny, and wants so badly to be deep and artistic, and I watched all 83 minutes of it out of masochistic fascination I guess. I don’t wanna drag it too much cos I don’t think it’s worth it but I wanted to show these two shots from right at the end of the film (literally the last scene) because they are the only things I found interesting or compelling.
Only 3 days until the Irishman
Has anyone here seen Jojo Rabbit? I’m really curious how it is.
fun and sweet but easy to be cynical if you were expecting more than that
Joker: it’s not even over yet and ffffffuuucccckkk this movie
An incredible performance in service of a godawful script. I checked out 10 minutes in when they drop the fantasy exposition scene and realized it was going to be that kind of movie
i wonder if the dead eyed lion king or the jokester making one billion dollars will result in worse movies over the next five years
Someone’s gonna try to combine them
Scar: Origins starring Daniel Day Lewis in his most twisted role yet
Or just a realistic CG version of Joker sold as the “live action version of Joker”.
I can’t think of many actors I wouldn’t want to see Daniel Day Lewis dramatically toss off a cliff
okay
guy ritchie: already directed aladdin > has also directed a sherlock holmes and king arthur movie to complete the british trifecta he needs robin hood > guy ritchie directs a gritty reboot of disney’s robin hood with the most taxidermied ass computer furries you’ve ever seen
jan svankmajer’s fantastic mr. fox
that antifa robin hood reboot would of been a lot better with animal puppets and guy ritchie
One possible good thing about The Joker, is that it cost like 1/5 the cost of the movies which usually do 700million or better, in worldwide box office.
The good thing being that it might start a trend of studios willing to invest in smaller stuff and/or putting financial limitations on movies, which can sometimes lead to more creativity?
Venom was also similarly cheap. However, I suspect the sequel will get a huge budget from Sony.
i don’t see anything really happening except more smaller budget comic book movies and other kinds of remakes and just making them gritter and R-rated which…eh
i mean jared leto in morbius the living vampire is a movie concept that i cannot imagine anyone actually wanting to see and basically it only has the benefit of existing in the vague sony-disney spider-man intellectual property blob
if that is a wild success then maybe out of the dozen try hard post joker/venom movies we might be lucky if one of them is fun like mystery men or something
don’t really see it affecting people with actual original non reboot/remake/adaptation ideas who want 50 million dollars
i mean i guess todd phillips probably has a blank check lol
Sony is not a rational actor and their actions cannot be used to predict what sane studios and executives do
the net result of Joker is they’re making a Joker 2
the mid-budget original drama is already dead
Joker$
d*ng. does this mean he can make powerful gut-destroying gay jokes on the Silver Screen again? maybe comedy isn’t dead after all…
JOKE(rs) on you SJW hoards…
