I thought it had too many standard tropes. "When in doubt, add an AR15":rolleyes:

I thought it was an intelligent hard sci-do film with enough cerebral elements to give it a genre-bending appeal. It’s in a class with Blade Runner 2049, Arrival and Interstellar. (Not as good as BR or Arrival though.)

It was unsettling, but NOWHERE NEAR AS UNSETTLING AS THE BOOK. Oh my wowza.

All in all, a great movie that is indeed too smart for most audiences. I mean, what kind of Michael Bay-loving stooge is going to even know what a Hox gene is, let alone how prisms work? Seriously.

Thor: Ragnorok.I liked most of it, hated parts of it.

Weird thing to like most of and hate some of. May I ask what inspired what?

im doing my last bunch of good movie watching before the world cup starts in earnest

just watched juzo itami’s SUPERMARKET WOMAN (1996)



part hilarious farce, part business school, part serious drama, add some improbable shenanigans, and you have an afternoon of fun.

kind of like tampopo in a supermarket! less episodic and more of a straighforward story than its predecessor. some reviewers have been saying that it’s also about “food”. bullshit i say. like that zen and the motorcycle maintenance book, both this and tampopo are about QUALITY. also, appearances by awesome trucks.

eta: apparently DEKOTORA is a thing!



and there’s a whole genre of movie about them. who knew! i must find some.


anyway SUPERMARKET WOMAN is kind of a ridiculous movie but very conscious of it and highly entertaining.

I thought so too. I hated the valkyrie. I hate some of the humour, it's so lame. Like how many times do they make jokes of "ooo he fell on his bottom!"? Too many times, I tell you.

I really enjoyed Ragnarok. But I love Guardians of the Galaxy and this felt like set up for Thor meeting them in Infinity War.

This is truth.


It was hollywood-ized a bit, and frankly, 99% of what happened in Area X was left out of the film. It is more like a shadow of the book, with the typical hollywood "surprise" ending

I hated most of it and liked parts

a couple more ragnarok types, the 2013 Scandi version, it's pretty good,

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2363213/

and the 2009 Vahalla Rising

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0862467/?ref_=nm_knf_t3

as for the recent comic one, I had hopes for it being that it was Taika Waititi, but I turned it off after 15 minutes. Couldn't get traction into it. Bored, moved along.

Ai Wei Wei's Human Flow. Ai has a great method and a wonderful sense of humor and humanity. This is an excellent documentary, essential for anyone concerned about refugees and migrants.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVZGyTdk_BY

super-exhausted to wake up before 4am to catch the france game, im now watching van damme’s KICKBOXER



good-stupid and hilarious. just what my tired brain needs: a highly predictable action movie

[eta: it was great stupid fun. please send more.]

OH. yesterday watched this beautiful fucking greek short film, konstantina kotzamani’s WASHINGTONIA (2014)



it’s listed in various places as a “documentary”. wtf? NO! they might toss some data into the proceedings but this shit is pure poetry. the best fucking film poetry you’ll see in a long time. and no it’s not pretentious or boring or any of this shit, not if you’re paying attention, because there’s like 3-4 stories told at the same time in there. it’s VERY FUCKING GOOD. this lady is a beautiful genius.

here’s the trailer:

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/washingtoniashortfilm

it’s so gorgeously photographed it at times hurts

—

ps grow up from comic book movies you lot lmao

First ever viewing of Boogie Nights.


Something to aspire to, if i ever get into the situations.

... Weird response to Boogie Nights. Haha.

Not my favorite PTA film, and (at least at the time) it seemed quite GoodFellas-esque, like it was impossible to make an ensemble piece about a seedy subculture withot evoking that film. But maybe I need to watch it again.

For me, it’s like: There Will Be Blood > The Master > Magnolia > Boogie Nights > Inherent Vice. (Haven’t seen Phantom Thread)

Said the dude watching Van Damme both ironically and non-ironically?

Also, there are simply too many “comic book” movies to avoid watching them. Fuck’s sake, I haven’t even seen Infinity War or Deadpool 2 yet and I still feel bludgeoned to death by comic book movies after catching up with the ones from late 2017/early 2018. Fuck.

If you ended up doing porn somehow, wouldn't you want to rise to the top, puns intended?

yeah i only devoted a couple of sentences to the thing i watched for lols

im not really trying to say dont watch comic book movies, there’s a place in life for them, and maybe i failed at making that clear.

the part where for me it gets ridiculous is where grown ass men and women seriously debate that shit like serious business with no end in sight. i guess it’s more directed to websites like kotaku &tc, but i see a bit of it here too. “thor! serious business!” page upon page. i.e., theyre suddenly the most important films by the volume of words written about them. read the other day a thing where people discussed wonderwomans TIARA to no end. fucksakes. and no these werent costume makers.

but there’s not really that much in them is there? at best they’re entertaining, at worst they’re dull exercises in cgi effects probably best examined by software engineers. no?

i guess the most interesting thing about them is how they’re the only kind of movie sufficiently financed these days and there is no middle ground anymore. it’s either a $100+ million budget or less than $5 million. and it must have eye-candy megastars in childrens costumes or else it doesnt make its bloated budget back. the middle-budget movie made for adults no longer exists. we’re doomed as a civilization i suppose.

oh, avatar 2 & 3 are being shot currently btw. important! :D

Oh I wasn’t pissed. I was just being salty :D

And yeah, comic book movies (CBMs) are mostly for lols and good times for me. They’re not serious business.

(Except Dark Knight which is super serious fucking business and frankly not a comic book movie like the rest of the jokers, which are fun for shimmery silliness... TDK = SERIOUS ASS B, fuck y’all u know how I feel)

yeah probs

Trading Places

Nah, personally I've done pretty well. I see trailers and discussion after discussion blah, blah, blah and there's not an iota of interest in them. Honestly, and this may make me sound like a snob but so what, they've done more harm to the film industry than any other genre.

You could look at it and say "well the 80s had it's good awful action films" (even though they were great) and you'd be right, but as symbols said, there's no middle ground anymore and fucking manchild comic book movies are one of the main reasons for that. Whenever I see a grown ass man walking around with a marvel bag or tshirt or whatever I tell myself they need to get a grip. Suckered into cheap ass merc like children.

Worst thing is, I can't see it changing. You had the reaction of the young uostart directors in the late 60s/70s, then the same again in the early 90s and I just don't see that happening now.

As long as you understand that Nolan’s Dark Knight movies are not truly of this genre and are therefore not part of the problem, I totally agree.

Still love watching shit like Ragnarok. Fun stuff. Dumb fun stuff.

I miss R Rated adult action and comedy films.

In the 6+ hours of running time in all the Nolan movies the Batman did not one single bit of detective work. Instead, he engaged in self-justified mass-surveilance of the citizenry. fascist. Fuck Nolan. He ruined Batman and made him a mopey lisper

another good bio docu seen recently

What Happened, Miss Simone?

another somewhat tragic life, a great talent, pianist as well as vocalist. Marred by a marriage to a guy who helped her achieve, yet was a manipulative abuser. Some nice concert footage and interviews.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4284010/

Posed as a criminal to learn about criminal operations
Literally did ballistics analysis on bullet holes
Found Selina Kyle
Predicted Joker’s targets

Just y’know for instance



Also detective shit doth not a good movie make. Only one facet of Batman’s mythology

Humphrey Bogart disagrees

detective shit is like one of the PILLARS of film

Bitch it’s barely one of the pillars of Batman, bitch

I enjoy my manchild comicbook films personally.

and here goes yet another page of comic movies serious business and while the hilarity exists it’s just such a waste of breath in the end.

this is exactly what i was talking about ha ha.

anyway i’m off to another post to talk about gloomy, overwrought arthouse “films” so that i can feel oh so adult in my choices :D :D :D

but no, seriously, i like adult responses to adult problems and complications. not just that they help me live... i also can relate.

ssssoooo.... i’ve paused filmstruck for the duration of the world cup (though i might restart it before the end) and the last thing i was able to catch was a merchant/ivory gig, THE WHITE COUNTESS (2005)



i was of the impression that merchant/ivory films had gone the way of the 90s but no, they seem to still have endured into our century though i haven’t checked how far.

ANYWAY. james ivory directed. ralph fiennes and natasha richardson star. fiennes everybody knows about. natasha richardson i didn’t fucking know and i’m sorry i didn’t and i’m even sorrier she’s dead. i knew of her reported death but i didn’t know who she was at the time except for “the wife of... has died” etc etc

so. the white countess. it’s a kazuo ishiguro script, apparently an original one and not derived from a book.

while this should be all about the writing, in itself the movie is a bit thin on plot— there’s a lot of brooding, and subtext, and looks into space, and overwrought arthouse shit and sometimes just cheesy shit for the tourists. this is bothersome.

but there is a plot after all, and it’s a very good one— it’s about war war 2, and failure, and fear of living, and epicurean gardens, and... the shanghai russians! whom i knew nothing about until the weekend. the shanghai russians were white russians (lookit up, it’s not a racial thing) taking refuge in china post-bolshevik revolution. that was a bit of history i had never heard about. and it was great to find out.

anyway it was a good movie and i liked it. made me thinkof what would i do in case of war, since it seems to be one around the corner for some reason. made me think of the fragility of epicurean gardens. made me think of what would i have to realistically do to survive if i had to flee. etc etc. but anyway, yeah, good little story, a bit of cheesy moments, but o well, it’s merchant fucking ivory, what do you want? a chunk of cheese is the price of admission. still, worth it.

oh, the other good thing about the movie, besides the actors and the bit of history thrown into it and the plot after all, is the cinematography by christopher doyle, who does all the wong kar-wai movies, or has done most of them anyway, not sure. is this his best film? sure as shit not. is it fucking good? yes yes it is. does it at time serve cheesy moments? yes, okay, yes, it does add to the lard at times. but the man is a real fucking pro. admirable work. as always.

okay children, you can get back to discussing CAPES for fucs sakes.

i had a batman scooter when i was 3, i recall.



not a rosebud though. don’t miss it.

Let's all return to the discussion of serious cinema...Howard The Duck.

Ha!

In all seriousness sev you need to see Infinity War before spoilers get to you .

i’ve never seen that

wazzit abowt?

A duck named Howard


almost beastiality


80s camp


Jeffrey Jones being creepy


Technically a comic book movie by Marvel...32 years ago.


Howard the character has appeared in both Guardians of the Galaxy movies, from my understanding

oh! hmmm....

let’s just... not go there xD xD xD

ok. real movies. Let's discuss the two best Dutch movies ever made!:
New Kids Turbo (2010)

New Kids Nitro (2011)



go watch them. Right now!

It’s not in the theater near me anymore. Already gone. I’m pretty familiar with the comics so I can guess at some of the big shit that happens.

oh shit wrong thread bha ha ha