What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

Mondo Bungle · 07-12-2017, 03:54 PM

splatter addiction gettin out of hand

djchameleon · 07-12-2017, 04:09 PM

You spent all day watching those back to back?

Mondo Bungle · 07-12-2017, 04:13 PM

no, but they're the latest films I've seen

**Frownland** · 07-12-2017, 11:26 PM

I Stand Alone

Well, it doesn't have the dizziness of Enter the Void, the sickening violence of Irreversible, or the hardcore sex scenes of Love (which I've yet to finish). Or maybe a better way to put that is that it has those things to a far lesser extent than Noe's other movies. I think it's my favourite film that I've seen from him so far, mostly because of the introspective element, how it dives deep into the main character's mind. Irreversible pretty much traumatized me the first time I watched it and I was worried that this would do the same, but after the shock of the wife incident wore off the rest didn't seem as bad.

Spoiler for So, about that ending:

Gaspar Noe sure does prompt a lot of thinking with his movies. That alone makes me think that he's a great artist, because even though the act of watching his movies are experiences I don't want to repeat, the amount that they leave me reflecting on the movies and the themes counts for a lot. This is probably his best film.

Chula Vista · 07-12-2017, 11:30 PM

Full Metal Jacket

Kubrick movies just keep getting better and better with each repeated viewing.

The Paris Island bathroom scene gets creepier ever time. D'Onofrio had only been a bit player in a couple of low budget flicks before FMJ. He gained 70 pounds to play the role (which is more than DeNiro gained in Raging Bull). Both he, and Lee Emery were nominated for multiple awards.

Emery was originally cast as the crazy dude in the helicopter shooting VC civilians. Kubrick was so impressed with him he gave him the lead role as drill instructer and most of his dialogue was improvised.

Kubrick hated to fly so he filmed the movie in England. He flew in 200 palm trees and a few thousand fake tropical plants to help make things authentic.

The only downside to the movie is that a number of scenes use the same location sets over and over again.

~~MicShazam~~ · 07-13-2017, 12:59 AM

I totally agree on the bathroom scene. Really intense acting!

Full Metal Jacket is one of my three favorites of Kubrick. The other two would be the The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut. I never understood why even Kubrick fans seem to mostly ignore the latter.

Justthefacts · 07-13-2017, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

I totally agree on the bathroom scene. Really intense acting!

Full Metal Jacket is one of my three favorites of Kubrick. The other two would be the The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut. I never understood why even Kubrick fans seem to mostly ignore the latter.

Who ignores Eyes Wide Shut? I'm pretty sure the general consensus around here is that maybe it's not top 3 material sure. But it's still as solid as they come. Eyes Wide Shuts a fucking masterpiece.

**Frownland** · 07-13-2017, 01:36 AM

Ermey was initially hired as a consultant because of his military experience before he was cast as the drill sergeant.

~~MicShazam~~ · 07-13-2017, 02:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Justthefacts

Who ignores Eyes Wide Shut? I'm pretty sure the general consensus around here is that maybe it's not top 3 material sure. But it's still as solid as they come. Eyes Wide Shuts a fucking masterpiece.

Maybe it's just personal experience then, because my impression was that it's not particularly appreciated by a lot of Kubrick fans. The only person I know who appreciates it as much as I do is my brother.

If you're right, then all is as it should be.

**Yac** · 07-13-2017, 05:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Ermey was initially hired as a consultant because of his military experience before he was cast as the drill sergeant.

I think I saw FMJ at least 20 times, it is one of my favorite movies ever. Ermey played the best abusive drill sargent ever.
However, I have to ask.. have you seen any of his other performances ? He's not a good actor by any means, but that's not the point.
He's producing a series called "GunnyTime with R. Lee Ermey" and as a fan of things military, this is probably the closest to getting cancer from tv as you can get.
Don't be fooled by it's surprisingly high score - it's based on 18 votes, probably his assistants

Anyway it's the most shallow, stereotypical and often very wrong show full of old men shooting guns and yelling "yeehaw" while doing so. Full of "experts" being baffled by obvious things.
Sorry, had to rant. Don't watch it. It's not "so bad, it's good". It's so bad, you'll get cancer.

07-12-2017, 11:26 PM	#19744 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I Stand Alone Well, it doesn't have the dizziness of Enter the Void, the sickening violence of Irreversible, or the hardcore sex scenes of Love (which I've yet to finish). Or maybe a better way to put that is that it has those things to a far lesser extent than Noe's other movies. I think it's my favourite film that I've seen from him so far, mostly because of the introspective element, how it dives deep into the main character's mind. Irreversible pretty much traumatized me the first time I watched it and I was worried that this would do the same, but after the shock of the wife incident wore off the rest didn't seem as bad. Spoiler for So, about that ending: I initially had a pretty strong negative reaction to the very very end where the main character subverts and wonders about the ethics of incest. Him wondering what's wrong about his actions upset me more than him actually committing the incest or the forced abortion because it felt like Gaspar Noe was communicating that as the philosophy of the movie. The big, gaudy letters saying (in French) that you have just watched a Gaspar Noe film seemed to punch that notion in deeper. Then I thought about it a little bit more since I liked a lot of what was leading up to those closing lines. I realized that the movie isn't a manifesto, it's a portrait into the mind of the main character as he's giving into his urges with his (admittedly hot) daughter. His character is driven by animalistic instincts the entire film and his moral foundation is shaky if it even exists, as evidenced by the abortion and unabashed racism. Of course he's going to have flaws in his thinking. Noe didn't make this film to show why incest is okay. He did it to show how and why it can happens so that we can understand it better and how to stop it. Had the protagonist had help or lived in circumstances that didn't leave him disillusioned, he wouldn't have taken two steps down the path that led him to incest in the first place. Gaspar Noe sure does prompt a lot of thinking with his movies. That alone makes me think that he's a great artist, because even though the act of watching his movies are experiences I don't want to repeat, the amount that they leave me reflecting on the movies and the themes counts for a lot. This is probably his best film. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

07-12-2017, 11:30 PM	#19745 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Full Metal Jacket Kubrick movies just keep getting better and better with each repeated viewing. The Paris Island bathroom scene gets creepier ever time. D'Onofrio had only been a bit player in a couple of low budget flicks before FMJ. He gained 70 pounds to play the role (which is more than DeNiro gained in Raging Bull). Both he, and Lee Emery were nominated for multiple awards. Emery was originally cast as the crazy dude in the helicopter shooting VC civilians. Kubrick was so impressed with him he gave him the lead role as drill instructer and most of his dialogue was improvised. Kubrick hated to fly so he filmed the movie in England. He flew in 200 palm trees and a few thousand fake tropical plants to help make things authentic. The only downside to the movie is that a number of scenes use the same location sets over and over again. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

07-13-2017, 01:36 AM	#19748 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Ermey was initially hired as a consultant because of his military experience before he was cast as the drill sergeant. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

07-13-2017, 12:59 AM	#19746 (permalink)
~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	I totally agree on the bathroom scene. Really intense acting! Full Metal Jacket is one of my three favorites of Kubrick. The other two would be the The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut. I never understood why even Kubrick fans seem to mostly ignore the latter.