Last Movie You Saw, Name & Review Movie • Page 59

Agreed.

 

Gotta love how esteemed film thread user Morrissey's Shamalyan apologetics, when discussing hollywood directors, came a healthy several months before the rollout of Split and it's subsequent success. Lmao

 

I don't think I was aware of this convo but I've always enjoyed Shamalyan except for The Sixth Sense

 

It seems like after all of the crticism heaped at him over the years he's emerged and made 2 pretty self aware movies. It seemingly would better suit his scripts.

 

It was always really lame piling on. People were way too enthusiastic when he became a success and then turned around and tried to tear him down. It has happened before and will happen again.

 

I wish he could go back in time to The Happening or The Village now that he's realized life is a joke.

We couldve got Happening trimmed of 45 minutes of drek and more of Wahlbro arguing with a mature oak tree.

 

O.J.: Made in America is pretty damn good. The last episode of it loses the thread a little, but the first 4 and 1/2 really tie a lot of threads together with a lot of nuance and context.

 

He is probably in a good place artistically now. People acted like he was the next Orson Welles and then turned around and acted like he was Ed Wood because they did not understand what he was trying to do in his films.

 

I honestly think his approach has changed now and before he was serious.

The Happening is head scratching though I admit. It might throw a wrench in the theory. Maybe it was just cut and edited disconnected from his intent of vision.

 

Where did you watch it?

 

Drive was pretty good. its greatest strength was its style, certainly, because the further the plot got along, frankly... the less sense it and its characters made. that's, sadly, a fairly big flaw in noir for me - i want these things to be razor sharp smart. i'm curious to watch Winding Refn's other films, as they're more polarizing for the stylistic over substantial quality, and i don't know where i'd fall on them.

i'm also of the opinion that the violence was stylized strangely. it felt a little cartoonish, particularly the motel fight scene. it's hard to quite nail down how i like gore in films. i think naturalistic.

 

ESPN has it on demand in its entirety.

 

I'm still not sure how I feel about Neon Demon but I think I'd recommend it

 

Thank you sir

 

Watched the whole Lone Wolf and Cub series. Loved it all.

 

Finally bought Inherent Vice on bluray. I've been putting it off for so long. Also got Anomalisa. P excited for both

 

i love this so much. also because it validates my love of Fat Girl

 

20th Century Women was a pleasant surprise. Better than I thought Mills had in him. He's definitely better with the camera than he was in Beginners. He doesn't really know how to end the movie, but it's well-written, insightful and well-acted.

Passengers had all the pieces to be good...except a point.

 

not again

 

No validation needed. Fat Girl is a modern masterpiece.

 

I Am Not Your Negro hits hard.

 

Watched Inherent Vice last night. I can't say that I fully understood what I watched(although I'm fairly certain I'm not really supposed to), but I definitely enjoyed it, and all the scenes with Martin Short were fucking hilarious. I usually have to watch a PTA film twice before I really like it.

 

Finding Dory

It was alright. For me it was too similar to the original for it to really mean much to me at this point. It was still enjoyable enough though

 

yeah, there's no way you could catch everything going on in IV on the first viewing. I've seen it two or three times now and I still feel like there is more for me to unpack there

 

Inherent Vice is about free love.

The main character's psychology when he is in the presence of Shasta is extremely interesting and is meant to be a vehicle for the audience to grapple with the idea. It has things to show us broadly about sexual competition and juxtapositions to make about ownership in sexual relationships, monogamous or otherwise, or in prostitution. The scene at the end on Docs couch is everything to the film.