MUWT 2: The Quickening

notbov · February 1, 2020, 8:08pm

it’s good to read opinions from people who liked Your name be like “no this is a carbon copy and the climate stuff missed the mark” instead of being the idiot who is me who thought Your name was fun for the first half and then turns into cloying magical-realism bullshit and then fucking no one says they actually love each other and OH MY GOD WEATHERING WITH YOU FUCKING ENDS THE SAME FUCKING WAY IT JUST SMASH CUTS TO THE TITLE AND THE END CREDITS BEFORE ANYONE SAYS ANYTHING AND YES I GET THAT THEY LOVE EACH OTHER BUT HOLY SHIT JUST HAVE THEM FUCKING SAY SOMETHING

TOMINO WAS RIGHT, SHINKAI IS AFRAID OF INTIMACY

I’m ready for his next movie in three years to lull me into the same sense of false security in the first half and I’m enjoying myself and then I think the second half is fucking awful bullshit and jesus christ what was the cop/gun b-plot

formulasofsexuation · February 1, 2020, 8:30pm

shinkai is the j cole of anime

OneSecondBefore · February 1, 2020, 8:43pm

When the determined power pop kicks in as the kid’s clumsily pointing a gun at a cop, I just do not know what they were going for.

Reading what I just wrote, that sounds kind of rad on paper, but trust me, it did not work.

GherkinForce · February 2, 2020, 3:56am

Makoto Shinkai is a bit overrated imo. I liked Your Name and to a lesser extent Children Who Chase Lost Voices, but his films mostly feel a bit like Diet Ghibli with forced attempts at emotional resonance.

Voices of a Distant Star was one of the worst anime I had seen when it was on TV over a decade ago

parker · February 3, 2020, 4:26am

Rudie · February 3, 2020, 2:53pm

After a couple of y’all said you were glad you saw Ford V. Ferrari in theaters I braved the corona virus and went to Ginza and saw it.

Wow what a Dad Movie. What an incredible movie for Dads. This snapshot of early 60s California was great. I love the cars and the clothes and the licensed and made soundtrack. The early shot of 40 period accurate cars! The simultaneous no-explanation and almost too much explanation. The Armadillo in the office proving he was a Texas-expat.

A new Dad Movie Classic for a generation. Dad maybe has seen the film twice but owns it on bluray and says it’s his favorite.

jellicle · February 4, 2020, 9:32pm

watched ronin a couple days ago holy fuckign shit thats a cool movie

also watched dressed to kill rlly into the 90s adventure game dream logic vibes there, becoming a brian de palma person

also bad boys ii lmao what a sickkkkk movie, looks amazing, hilarious, kinda long but w/e

jellicle · February 4, 2020, 9:35pm

mission impossible: i liked it

mission impossible ii: thought long stretches of this were deeply boring but then it has the fucking awesomest motorcycle stunts, cant hate

do i have to watch missino impossible iii. will i like it. will i be missing crucial context for mission impossibles 4 - 8 or w/e

shrug · February 4, 2020, 9:49pm

mi3 looks like a (very expensive) tv show but hoffman’s really good in it?

ethan has Wife

Wife comes up in later movies but all that’s really essential is “Ethan had wife, wife learned of Ethan’s Real Job via Peril but From Peril Was Delivered”

notbov · February 5, 2020, 2:27am

you can just say that JJ directed it, it’s faster

shrug · February 5, 2020, 2:33am

he’s developed a little since then

you can see more of The Money in his shots I don’t think Tom Cruise would slide down some 45-degree windows on an actual building one-million stories up but mostly be shot face-on so the camera gets the Thrilling Window Landscape May As Well Be In A Studio in a modern JJoint

boojiboy7 · February 5, 2020, 1:27pm

BB2 almost feels like it is both the first time Bay really got his full Bay style on (camera never sits still, tone never settles into one thing) but then he was afraid it wouldn’t work, so he wouldn’t get to do it again, and thus he made three bad boys movies into one long movie. It’s weird as hell.

jellicle · February 5, 2020, 5:27pm

yeah this is the earliest michael bay movie i’ve seen that feels like full speed michael bay

Tulpa · February 5, 2020, 5:40pm

mi3 sucks so much just skip it at least mi2 is gloriously stupid

jellicle · February 6, 2020, 10:23am

watched silence of the lambs. not sure i care. serial killers are extremely boring shit

Father.Torque · February 7, 2020, 3:21pm

Skip all the MIs and watch Jack Reacher imo

jellicle · February 7, 2020, 8:25pm

rewatched spartan last night. i rlly think this is the coolest black ops elite operator guy movie ive ever seen. also probably the best looking thing david mamet has ever directed!!

thats right… multiple shots of diffracted lighting breaking through venetian blinds onto actors faces.

i enjoy house of games and whatever but redbelt and spartan are the only things hes directed that actually resonate with me. redbelt made me cry last time i watched it. honestly i have a personal disliking of extremely clever shit that is just clever and spartan and redbelt feel like the only movies of hes directed based on actual emotion and sentiment… actually i havent seen alot of them tho

Father.Torque · February 7, 2020, 9:20pm

WHERE’S THE GIRL.

MintyJuffowup · February 9, 2020, 12:10pm

I watched Magnolia for the first time last night. It had been in the back of my mind for at least a decade. I feel really attached to every P.T. Anderson film and this one loomed so large. For awhile it felt right not to watch it. Anderson’s pace can only go so fast and there are only so many of his films. I wanted there always to be a movie of his that I hadn’t seen, but now here we are. “This happens. This is something that happens,” is going to be inside my head for the rest of my life, I think.

8128 · February 9, 2020, 4:49pm

i feel generally pretty cool on magnolia nowadays but i end up watching the tom cruise bits a couple times a year

when he tells the crowd to take out their blue booklets i am just owned every time