What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.
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Doesn't have anything to do with my fanhood of those actors, as opposed to me as a viewer taking Clift seriously in the scene Meta posted with Donna Reed, acting as a horned up heterosexual man.
While i do agree that the poster referring it as one of the greatest movies of the century was ridiculous I’m surprised you didn’t enjoy it. But of course you’re entitled to your opinion. Maybe it’s simply not your favorite genre of movie? One thing about it is that although i enjoyed it a lot when i first saw it & was happy as hell to see it win the Oscar my guess is that years from now people will say that it was ridiculous that it won the Oscar over such and such movie. Just like when ‘How Green was my Valley’ won the Oscar over the fantastic ‘Citizen Kane’ in 1942 which today is highly regarded as an absolute travesty. Other travesties include ‘Saving Private Ryan’ losing to ‘Shakespeare in Love’ in 1999, ‘Pulp Fiction’ losing to ‘Forrest Gump’ & ‘ET’ losing to the extremely boring ‘Ghandi’, among other upsets.
What about "Ordinary People" beating the Scorcese-DeNiro masterpiece "Raging Bull", and "The English Patient" winning over the Coen Brothers epic classic, "Fargo"? Weren't those films unjustly deprived of an Academy Award?
Didn't see all the nominees but had I vote it would have gone to The Brutalist for Best Pic.
Personally love How Green Was My Valley, but I understand the injustice. Hearst newspapers organized a huge camp against Citizen Kane [it's basically a Hearst biopic], mostly because of the way it depicted the character based on his real-life mistress, Marion Davies.
There's a really great doc about it all ...
Some other (obvious to me) Oscar injustices:
• Apocalypse Now losing to Kramer vs. Kramer
• Hitchcock never winning an Oscar
• Ditto Kubrick
• Snubs to personal faves Blade Runner & Heat
Personally love How Green Was My Valley, but I understand the injustice. Hearst newspapers organized a huge camp against Citizen Kane [it's basically a Hearst biopic], mostly because of the way it depicted the character based on his real-life mistress, Marion Davies.
There's a really great doc about it all ...
Some other (obvious to me) Oscar injustices:
• Apocalypse Now losing to Kramer vs. Kramer
• Hitchcock never winning an Oscar
• Ditto Kubrick
• Snubs to personal faves Blade Runner & Heat
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You are absolutely correct. Another one is that movie about the human fish some girl falls in love with. The movie’s name was ‘The Shape of Water’. I’ll be honest i never bothered to see it. Other questonable winners over the past few years were ‘Moonlight’, ‘Parasite’, ‘Nomadland’, ‘Coda’ & ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’. I mean JFC were all the other movies who were nominated all this bad?
As Meta mentionned ‘Apocalypse Now!’ losing to ‘Kramer vs Kramee’ is another example of a questionable Oscar winner. Whatbwere the voters thinking? Sure K vs K was a nice little movie with Dustin Hoffman & Meryl Street but JFC Coppola’s movie is one of the greatest movies of all time! Did the voters actually see the movie or were they high on mushrooms?
The Shape of Water was decent (I'm a huge fan of Guillermo Del Toro).
Moonlight was excellent, and absolutely deserved the Oscar. Ditto with Parasite.
I tried watching Nomadland, but got bored. EEAaO was okay...was original, but not my cup of tea. Haven't seen Coda.
There's two halves to this movie: the supposed "Cinderella" story, and then the aftermath, lol. Anora being the best movie of the year is questionable, but I did find the 2nd half very funny. It's probably one of the funniest movies from last year for me.
The screaming (from Mikey Madison in the film) was a bit annoying. But at the same time, there's a certain charm to her character.
They really should have given the Oscar for Best Actress to Demi Moore instead for The Substance, imho.
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
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
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I saw Mickey 17 the other night and honestly loved it. Would recommend as a good date night flick!
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
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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 ...
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This is the film starring Jack Quaid the son of Meg Ryan and Denni Quaid? He has a good acting lineage.
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?
There's some action, but it's definitely not a horror (imho). More like a thriller/comedy maybe.
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