What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.
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It is. I read an article about it yesterday where Tarentino was interviewed & he stated that this is the epic movie he wanted released all along were it not for the studio (Harvey Weinstein in particular) insisting that the movie Tarantino be cut into two movies & scenes deleted in order to be able to sell it commercially. They felt only having one big & long epic movie would have scared away audiences. Now with this new theatrical release it’s now only 1 movie (both movies into one) with added deleted scenes including added animated scenes. From what i read there is an intermission at the halfway point of the movie for moviegoers to be able to take a well-needed bathroom & refreshments break.
I enjoyed it, though I think I've become accustomed to the Crazy 88's fight scene being in black in white. Oddly, I thought I would prefer it in color when the movie originally came out, always felt there was a tonal change with switching between color and black and white. The animated sequence is ok. Also, I could do without the intermission.
Tarantino made it in b&w in order to trick the censors from ordering him to cut & remove that scene from the movie. He mentioned that had he kept the scene in color it would have made it appear way too bloody & never would have stood a chance to survive the movie.
Wake Up Dead Man- Knives Out III
Although the critics loved this movie and there are some redeeming attributes to it, including Daniel Craig"s and Josh O'Connor's performances, I had a huge fundamental problem with the movie: the plot is so gimmicky and far fetched there is no reasonable chance at solving this mystery on your own- even Benoit Blanc, Craig"s character, calls it the "impossible crime" and admits it cannot be solved, although in the end he does solve it. That being said, I like watching mysteries when I have a reasonable or fair chance of solving the mystery along with all the other viewers. There is no reasonable or fair chance of solving this one because the plot is so far fetched and gimmicky and twisty that you could be using the world's greatest AI program, feed the clues you are given and still be totally stumped. And it's not really clear to me in the end how Blanc is able to solve the mystery with the clues he is given.
In real life, no murder would ever be staged in the fashion in which this murder was staged. It made no sense, and it was just gimmicks for the sake of gimmicks and without any reason or logic. When you take the fun out of trying to solve a mystery, as Rian Johnson has now done, you take the joy out of watching the film.
I loved the original Knives Out. I didn't solve that one but I at least thought I was in the game to do so. This time I felt like I was going up to the plate to face Tarik Skubal. I felt I had no chance. And I felt like Blanc had no chance and he stated as much in the film. If someone can figure out how he solved that murder please post and let me know.
Although the critics loved this movie and there are some redeeming attributes to it, including Daniel Craig"s and Josh O'Connor's performances, I had a huge fundamental problem with the movie: the plot is so gimmicky and far fetched there is no reasonable chance at solving this mystery on your own- even Benoit Blanc, Craig"s character, calls it the "impossible crime" and admits it cannot be solved, although in the end he does solve it. That being said, I like watching mysteries when I have a reasonable or fair chance of solving the mystery along with all the other viewers. There is no reasonable or fair chance of solving this one because the plot is so far fetched and gimmicky and twisty that you could be using the world's greatest AI program, feed the clues you are given and still be totally stumped. And it's not really clear to me in the end how Blanc is able to solve the mystery with the clues he is given.
In real life, no murder would ever be staged in the fashion in which this murder was staged. It made no sense, and it was just gimmicks for the sake of gimmicks and without any reason or logic. When you take the fun out of trying to solve a mystery, as Rian Johnson has now done, you take the joy out of watching the film.
I loved the original Knives Out. I didn't solve that one but I at least thought I was in the game to do so. This time I felt like I was going up to the plate to face Tarik Skubal. I felt I had no chance. And I felt like Blanc had no chance and he stated as much in the film. If someone can figure out how he solved that murder please post and let me know.
Agree. Thought O'Connor was really good in it, but it wasn't just that the mystery was far fetched, but just not that interesting and the supporting casts performances (which would draw me into the whodunit of the movie) didn't grasp me (despite the talented cast).
I watched the movie over the past two days & agree with all your comments about it. I agree that O’Connor put on a very good performance as he always does. But for me he was topped by Josh Brolin in the role of the cult-like eccentric Monsignor. It was a somewhat long but enjoyable movie but in my opinion not as good as the previous two. Maybe we’ve seen the last of Benoit Blanc.
Pretty good list @Skym!
If I had to make one, it'd be the following (slightly different format):
Best Comedy: Good Fortune (sorry Naked Gun)
Best Horror: Sinners
Best Action: F1: The Movie
Best Sci-Fi: Avatar: Fire and Ash
Best Comic-based: Superman
Best Drama: One Battle After Another
Overall Best: One Battle After Another
Honorable Mentions:
- Marty Supreme
- Weapons
- Predator: Badlands
- Mickey 17
- Frankenstein
- Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning
- Companion
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Worst movie for me was Snow White.
Terrible CGI look of the Elves. Terrible acting from Gal Gadot & Rachel Zeglet
I enjoyed the film and thought it well done, but was a bit confused by the MO of the vampires in the movie. Initially, the vampires all seem to think they need "permission", in the form of an invitation, to enter the Juke Joint. Later, they storm the Juke Joint and break down a door, completely uninvited. What happened? Did I miss something?
It's been awhile since I've seen the film, but from what I remember, one of the female characters (Grace) ends up inviting all of the vampires into the Juke Joint. According to Wikipedia, it's because they threaten to "attack the Chows' daughter Lisa at their home".
Typically a vampire can only enter a building if they're invited. So the majority of the vampires were held at bay because of it. But once Grace invited all of them in, it was all over.
Just watched David Lynch's Lost Highway.
Wow, such a surreal film. Loved it.
Lynch is really a master behind the camera! I'm a fan of his.
Wow, such a surreal film. Loved it.
Lynch is really a master behind the camera! I'm a fan of his.
Loved this movie. I remember taking a film class and wanted to do a paper on this instead of Blue Velvet (another fantastic movie) and he said it was Lynch's worst movie up to that point which I "respectfully" disagreed with. The whole scene where Robert Loggia expresses his disdain for drivers who tailgate still cracks me up to this day. Or that magic moment when Patricia Arquette walks out of her driver's car and Lou Reed plays in the background, love at first sight. Bought the 4k version when it came out last year, great film.
For me, this was my favorite scene from Lost Highway.
The mystery man's introduction.
Yea, Robert Blake seemed creepy in this (until I realized he was creepy in real life to).
Just watched Luc Besson's Dracula and I enjoyed it a lot.
Besson's take on the classic Dracula is super sexed up! And all the actresses in this film are eye candy! Including the main love of Dracula, who happens to look like one of my favorite SPs! Omg, they look similar!
Besson's take on the classic Dracula is super sexed up! And all the actresses in this film are eye candy! Including the main love of Dracula, who happens to look like one of my favorite SPs! Omg, they look similar!
Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia [1977]
A must-see for the frequently hilarious, OTT seventies' grindhouse sex & gore factor. Something so cynically transgressive and not a little bit cheap & tacky, that Tarantino probably had wet dreams in his youth about making it.
I remember the 'Ilsa-verse' vaguely from my own youth, though I was too young to see them, and they didn't play reputable cinemas anyway. This one follows earlier entries: Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS ; and Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks. But I only recently learned these were all Montréal-made films, financed by the local soft-core porn producer Cinepix.
Cinepix is the company that helped launch the career of David Cronenberg (with Shivers, Rabid) and featured Ivan Reitman as a producer (under a pseudonym for this film).
This was a period where the federal government offered a 100% tax write-off for film investment, leading to a surge of "exploitation" films, especially slasher and other horror films.
The first half of Tigress, filmed in the Laurentians, is set in a Soviet Gulag in 1953, with Ilsa [Dyanne Thorne] as the always horny camp commander. The film then transitions abruptly to Montreal in 1977. And it's very much Montreal as Montreal, not disguised as some other place, which offers a unique, albeit grimy, time capsule of the city.
The plot, such as it matters, involves a visting Soviet hockey team, including footage of crowds at the old Forum in '77. Meanwhile, an apparently unaged Ilsa and her underlings are now, inexplicably, running a full-service massage parlor called Aphrodite. Located in what appears to be a seedy area of NDG, a couple of the Soviet hockey players decide to visit it. Events get especially weird when one of them is kidnapped by Ilsa, which prompts Soviet officials back in "Moscow" to send commandos to rescue the guy from Ilsa' in her Westmount (?) mansion.
The "Soviet" characters were probably all local Montreal actors and extras, as their heavy if inconsistent "Russian" appears to be Montrealers doing their best to sound Slavic.
It all sounds pretty campy, nonsensical, and of course it is. Still, it's obvious, there was a high-degree of professionalism involved behind the camera. Cinepix knew what they were doing. And beyond the time-capsule curiosity factor, and unintentional (?) humour, the film remains "enjoyable," and well-paced rather than the sluggish mess you might expect.
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