What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.

[ChloeCoeur]

I saw Mickey 17 the other night and honestly loved it. Would recommend as a good date night flick!

 

[DetectiveDavidMills]

I watched Philomena.


Very touching story

 

[DetectiveDavidMills]

Paying for It (2024)

Just exactly what the title suggests.

A comedy/drama set in 1999 'bohemian-bourgeois' Toronto about an incredibly nerdish comic book artist who starts seeing SWs after the girlfriend he lives with suggests they "open up their relationship" so that she can begin seeing other men.

Probably the most positive representation of a "john" in the history of movies, at least insofar as he's bookish, intelligent & inoffensive (if socially awkward) but totally respectful of the women he meets.

The plot twist is that what begins as sexual liberation for her turns disastrously wrong through her increasingly bad choice of sexual partners.

Meanhile, for him, after an inauspicious start, seeing SWs becomes an invigorating, truly worthwhile experience, even pursuing it longterm especially after meeting soon-to-be regular "Denise."

It's all pretty frank, accurate for the most part, with plenty that everyone here will recognize as familar even if the film is set 25 years ago.

My only issue is that the sexual experience iself, as represented in the film for him, seemed much less wild, cathartic, empathic and aesthetically & physically pleasurable as the character himself makes it out to be. [Or at least as it was for me ... lol.]

Probably not for everyone but I enjoyed it a lot. It's based on a graphic novel and directed by Sook-Yin Lee, whom some will remember from a sexually-explicit film called Shortbus, which got her fired from the CBC, as well as MuchMuch (ruthlessly satirized in the film).

Here she talks about the film, as well as the problems will Bill C-36

They finally adapt it, ohhh I gotta see it.

I read the comic book ages ago.

 

[DetectiveDavidMills]

'Anora' Writer/Director Sean Baker thanks the SW community in his Oscar acceptance speech for Best Original Screenplay.

"They have shared their stories, they have shared their life experiences with me over the years. My deepest respect, thank you. I share this with you," he said.

I just watched Anora too, today. I liked it.

 

[DetectiveDavidMills]

Last saturday, I went to see A working Man, a typical one-man army action movie

On sunday, i rewatched Pulp Fiction, i always enjoy watching it as if it was the first time.

 

[EagerBeaver]

OMG, I never thought I would read this! Anora is a movie I found unbearable to watch. People were screaming for a whole hour (okay, with some funny scenes but they were not enough to pique my interest again), and then there was a long, boring search for a stupid young guy, a character that no one in the audience feels compassionate for. Then an end that never ends. It could have lasted 1h30 and we wouldn't cut anything important. It started well, but every scene was too long starting when the tough Russian guys came to the house. A movie I will never watch again.

I watched Anora last night and while I cannot disagree with any of your points, I liked the movie, mainly because I found the dialogue and the characters authentic. As far as your point on the character of Vanya being "a character no one in the audience feels compassion for", that is exactly how he was intended to be portrayed: a video game-loving, spoiled, rich, bratty, party boy living off Daddy's money, who manipulates Anora into thinking he is in love with her, when he is just a serial user who plays nice. The young Russian actor who played Vanya was excellent.

My interpretation of the overly long scene with too much screaming, involving the comical Armenian thugs and the hysterical Anora, was that it set up the final couple of scenes in the movie between Anora and Igor, the Armenian thug played by Russian actor Yura Borisov, who received an Academy Award nomination for his performance. They have a debate about whether or not his actions constituted assault, battery and/or kidnapping, on the one hand, or attempting to keep Anora safe on the other, and whether he wanted to rape Anora if left alone. That sets up the final scene of the film in Igor's Grandmother's car. It is the next to the last scene of the movie, in which the overly long scene is discussed and debated by Igor and Anora so that the viewer's mind is now blurred as to whether Igor's actions constituted an assault, a battery or kidnapping. And whether Igor, if left alone in that scene, would have wanted to rape Anora. You are forced to think about it, think back on that very long scene. The length of the scene makes it hard to figure out which character is correct in their interpretation of what occurred in that scene.

To me, the end of the movie was the final two scenes of the film between Anora and Igor.

For a little known actor like Borisov, an Academy Award nomination for playing a "sensitive and thoughtful" thug is a career changer. He is now all over the radar of the film industry, and he will certainly be a go-to guy for any parts playing sensitive and thoughtful thugs and gangsters:

Yura Borisov - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Meta not Meta]

If you loved Borisov in Anora, you will love him in this movie, it's pretty much the same role: the apparent thug, who turns out to be a little (or a lot) more interesting than that ...

 

[Halloween Mike]

Watched Novocaine a few days ago, it was a lot of fun. Absurd concept but thats the fun of it. Dude can't feel pain. So that makes for some very fun situations.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Watched Novocaine a few days ago, it was a lot of fun. Absurd concept but thats the fun of it. Dude can't feel pain. So that makes for some very fun situations.

This is the film starring Jack Quaid the son of Meg Ryan and Denni Quaid? He has a good acting lineage.

 

[Halloween Mike]

This is the film starring Jack Quaid the son of Meg Ryan and Denni Quaid? He has a good acting lineage.

Yup thats him from the Boys

 

[EagerBeaver]

HM, you are probably too young to remember but his mother was considered quite a hottie back in the day, the day being the 1980s, up til and including Sleepless in Seattle in 1993. Now she falls into the GILF category, LOL.

 

[charmer_]

Watched Novocaine a few days ago, it was a lot of fun. Absurd concept but thats the fun of it. Dude can't feel pain. So that makes for some very fun situations.

I just saw it tonight. Kind of reminded me of "Nobody", but better. Jack Quaid is always great in these comedic roles. Action's pretty decent too.

If you want another great Jack Quaid movie with a good gimmick, I'd recommend "Companion". It's even better than Novacaine, imho.

 

[Halloween Mike]

I just saw it tonight. Kind of reminded me of "Nobody", but better. Jack Quaid is always great in these comedic roles. Action's pretty decent too.

If you want another great Jack Quaid movie with a good gimmick, I'd recommend "Companion". It's even better than Novacaine, imho.

The Sex bot movie? I have it in my backlog but it does not seem much of an action movie no? More like a horror thriller?

 

[charmer_]

The Sex bot movie? I have it in my backlog but it does not seem much of an action movie no? More like a horror thriller?

There's some action, but it's definitely not a horror (imho). More like a thriller/comedy maybe.

 

[DetectiveDavidMills]

Last night, I watched "Flow".

It was so beautiful and emotional, I loved it.

 

[Lunaseraphim]

Last night, I watched "Flow".

It was so beautiful and emotional, I loved it.

I saw this movie with 2 of my friends a couple weeks ago (we followed it with Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette.. completely different vibe! I hadn't seen it in a while)
It was adorable All 3 of us shed a few tears.

Recently a movie that really caught my attention was ''Babygirl'' with Nicole Kidman. I've watched a lot of movies in the past few weeks (in between episodes of The White Lotus) and I will say that one was a masterpiece in my opinion. I love erotic thrillers.

 

[Lunaseraphim]