So long as you weren't laughing at it in Japanese so the characters wouldn't understand you. You're fucked if they subtitled you though.

i had subtitles on so i guess that’s the last thing they heard

Saw Gimme Danger, the documentary on The Stooges. Really enjoyed that.

Rope felt more like an experiment. Almost avant-garde. DMFM felt more like he was just trying to keep the integrity of the original play without really drawing attention to the fact that it was a play.

Anyway, just rewatched Grand Hotel



I love this era of Hollywood, when, as art, it could easily go toe-to-toe with anything Europe was producing at the time while as pure entertainment it could teach a thing or two to the big blockbuster directors we have now.

A genuine 10/10 film for me.

How the hell did they make films like the above look so damn good? A well-shot scene that is nothing more than conversation can be more eye-popping than The Avengers' million-dollar(s) effects.

That was a rhetorical question.

There's probably some technical explanation (film stock?) but I don't want to know. Preserve the mystery.

They were making visual art instead of kinetic brain pap

UAU

never seen it in my life but now i want to

Was interested in watching The Disaster Artist, but had not seen the source material yet. So, I watched The Room, followed by The Disaster Artist.

I was actually surprised with what an enjoyable watching experience The Room was. I really did find myself going "WTF?" in an enjoyable way quite often.

OK, got a question:

Must one see The Room in order to “get” The Disaster Artist?

I’ve seen several video essays about The Room and I get a lot of the references. I know the plot. But I can’t omagine slogging through it from start to finish.

I want to watch Disaster Artist, but friends tell me I won’t get the full experience.

Thoughts?

I've seen The Disaster Artist and I haven't seen The Room. You do not need to see The Room to enjoy TDA. I really enjoyed The Disaster Artist. Its a really funny movie, regardless of whether you know the people or the movie its about. Does one need to have seen Plan Nine From Outer Space to see and enjoy Tim Burton's "Ed Wood"? I don't believe so. Same thing for The Disaster Artist.

I think you DO need to watch Plan 9, and Glen or Glenda, before truly enjoying Ed Wood.

Coincidentally I rewatched.it with a couple of friends last Friday.

It's actually not a slog as there's so many ridiculous bits to keep you going. Maybe the first 20 minutes you're thinking ""this is gonna be tough going" mainly cos the ridiculous sex scenes he shoves in the beginning. I'd actually say plan 9 is more of a slog than the room.

Just get it watched. It's worth it.in my eyes.

No, seeing The Room beforehand is not mandatory by any means, but I do think I enjoyed watching Disaster Artist more having seen it. I literally watched them back to back in an afternoon, and enjoyed it that way.

There are a few low-key references and easter eggs in the Disaster Artist that might not be fully appreciated w/o viewing The Room, like a light-hearted "let's play football" when they first start hanging out.

And like he said above me, The Room was really not a slog at all. There is enough absurdity in it all to really make it entertaining. And you seem to like to analyze the creative aspects of how certain things come to be. The Room is analytical viewing at it's finest, ha.

Absolutely! Probably helps to read Rudolph Grey's biography of him too.

Not necessarily, as I loved Ed Wood before I’d seen and EDWJR films, but it certainly added to the experience on later viewings.

To this day, Ed Wood is easily the best thing Tim Burton ever made or will ever make. His closest to being an actual, like... filmmaker. Rather than weird but fun curio (‘80s), camp action movie dude (early ‘90s) a brand unto himself, making he same goddamn thing a million times (late ‘90s to now).

That’s a damn fine film.

The Florida Project

This grew on me. I'm still not sure I got what it was really trying to say, if it was really trying to say anything, but I ended up liking it ... I think.

I watched The 40 Year Old Virgin again. It was OK. I think it's starting to lose its replay value. And what's with the girlfriend flipping out over the porn he has? Yikes.

watched this with wife yesterday. I liked it a lot. Very entertaining and visually awesome.


Watched this weird movie too
weird film. was it a play before? artsy, but Ed Hardy really does it well.

Tom Hardy, oh wait you’re kidding huh?

“Isle of Dogs”

Fucking delightful and glorious.
I kinda get the issues some Japanese Americans had with its portrayal of a cartoonified Japanese culture — some unintentionally stereotypical stuff was in there to be sure — but I can’t say I found it offensive. I think had it been about Americans, it would have been just as over the top (it is a cartoon after all), but with a less interesting culture to work with.

I found it reverent, honestly. The fact that Japanese actors (like Yoko Ono!) participated and had no issue with it made it easier on the old conscience.

Beautiful film, though. Honestly.