What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

**Frownland** · 03-20-2022, 04:54 PM

You should watch Red Rocket.

robhr · 04-01-2022, 10:25 PM

Last one I saw was There Will be Blood. It was my third or fourth time viewing.

**Exo** · 04-09-2022, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

Licorice pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson (2021)

Another Oscar contender that I don't get. Headed by two ok actors who were cast mostly because they're famous people (Haim because she's a part of Haim and Hoffman because he's the son of Phillip Seymour) and featuring a host of pointless and graceless famous cameos, it also features some offensive stereotypes (as kinda explained by Anderson, because that's how people were in those days!). Also, it's a love story between a grown woman and an underage boy, which is not only weird but illegal. But aside from that, nice costumes and music. 6/10.

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Headed by two ok actors who were cast mostly because they're famous people

Most actors are cast because they're famous people.

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featuring a host of pointless and graceless famous cameos

Actors. You're thinking of actors acting in a movie.

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it also features some offensive stereotypes (as kinda explained by Anderson, because that's how people were in those days!)

You mean the ignorant white guy talking to his Japanese wife who was viewed by the characters of the film as a racist moron? Here's some other movies with racist characters...

American History X
Django Unchained
Roots
12 Years a Slave
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
In the Heat of the Night
Gran Torino
White Men Can't Jump
Do the Right Thing

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Also, it's a love story between a grown woman and an underage boy, which is not only weird but illegal.

I'll agree it was definitely a bit weird at the end. I didn't like the ending, actually. To be fair, she spent the entire movie repelling his advances.

adidasss · 04-09-2022, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

Most actors are cast because they're famous people.

Nope, most actors are cast because they're good at what they do. Which is acting.

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Actors. You're thinking of actors acting in a movie.

I dunno, what was the point in casting Maya Rudolph in a 1 minute scene, that couldn't have been done by someone not famous? Same for all the other famous cameos. Except for maybe demonstrating what a cool guy Anderson is, so much so that super famous people are willing to act in two bit roles in his movies.

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You mean the ignorant white guy talking to his Japanese wife who was viewed by the characters of the film as a racist moron?

Actually the characters didn't find him a racist moron, the most they did was express confusion. Another problem scene is the inclusion of the only gay character as a walking stereotype. I suppose there are ways to interpret their inclusion as realistic to the portrayals of the era. It doesn't help them be any less jarring or uncomfortable for those who are the supposed target of the joke/non-joke.

Although I'm totally not surprised that once again you don't get it...

P.s. Just read that Maya Rudolph is his partner, lol. The comment stands for the rest though.

**Frownland** · 04-10-2022, 02:15 AM

If that's your takeaway from the film then you probably shouldn't be pointing fingers about not getting it.

The Batlord · 04-10-2022, 01:04 PM

Addidasss supports nepotism but not celebrity cameos apparently.

**Frownland** · 04-10-2022, 02:19 PM

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - There were a few scenes where the long tracking shots really worked, but they're too infrequent to justify that as anything other than a gimmick. I enjoyed it but it felt very tryhard in ways that didn't seem like they were trying to make a statement about the industries it's satirizing (particularly the humour). It definitely has the makings of a masterpiece but is held back by these things, leaving us with just a pretty good movie. I don't think Inarritu has it in him tbh (haven't seen Babel yet though, could be an exception). On the upside, it helped me recognize how excellent Symbiopsychotaxiplasm is.

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome - A Thelemic parable of man, gods, and all that **** all drenched in gorgeous surreal lighting and colours. Prettier than Lucifer Rising.

River of Fundament - This is:
An epic
An opera
A satire
A book adaptation
A concert film
A procedural
Extreme
Surreal
Pornographic
A documentary

Three acts with a cast of around 1000 characters wherein writer Norman Mailer reincarnates three times into realities heavily inspired by his writings...and shit. There's a lot of shit. A man wraps a turd in gold, a transam gives birth to an engine, Milford Graves jams on a cow corpse in a sewer, someone gives birth to a bird, with each of the three acts being based on free improvisation performances that make heavy use of realistic space. One of the best films I've ever seen, highly recommended to anyone with an interest in experimental music or film who can stomach depravity (you will never be ready, might as well just jump right into the shit river).

Memoria - While visiting her sick sister in Colombia, Tilda Swinton is haunted by a recurring boom that only she appears to hear in this beautiful meditation on memory, colonialism, stolen trauma, perception, and isolation. Apichatpong's films always has intense sound design, but this movie seemed especially interested in directing your focus to the sound. Very lucky to have seen this in theatres, the whole scene at the farm is up there with Uncle Boonmee's cave scene and the Tropical Malady tiger confrontation as one of Apichatpong's best scenes. Going to try to catch it again while it's still on a theatre run.

And while I'm here, I'm pretty hyped for the Janus restoration of Inland Empire. They'll be showing that in theatres and you know I'm catching that bitch.

Guybrush · 04-11-2022, 01:59 AM

I love Birdman. It's a definite masterpiece to my mind. Perhaps my favorite movie of the 2010s.

**Exo** · 04-11-2022, 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

Nope, most actors are cast because they're good at what they do. Which is acting.

I dunno, what was the point in casting Maya Rudolph in a 1 minute scene, that couldn't have been done by someone not famous? Same for all the other famous cameos. Except for maybe demonstrating what a cool guy Anderson is, so much so that super famous people are willing to act in two bit roles in his movies.

Actually the characters didn't find him a racist moron, the most they did was express confusion. Another problem scene is the inclusion of the only gay character as a walking stereotype. I suppose there are ways to interpret their inclusion as realistic to the portrayals of the era. It doesn't help them be any less jarring or uncomfortable for those who are the supposed target of the joke/non-joke.

Although I'm totally not surprised that once again you don't get it...

P.s. Just read that Maya Rudolph is his partner, lol. The comment stands for the rest though.

You're so f*cking rule based, it hurts my brain. Rules. Rules. Rules. Can't use cameos. Can't use famous actors sons for lead roles. Can't use a clearly racist character in a funny way because that means you're racist. Can't have a gay character be stereotypical. Can't pay for Tom Waits to be on set for a day. That character exists in the story for one scene...but your rules say the actor can't be TOO famous. Famous people need as much screentime as possible, right?

How can you watch so many movies yet are so confused and offended by the most basic of casting concepts?

adidasss · 04-11-2022, 06:36 AM

I'm not rules based at all dude, I'm just telling you how I react to these kinds of things. For me the overuse of familiar faces in films can sometimes have an adverse effect. Casting famous screen grabbers in roles which aren't written very well and therefore rely almost entirely on the magnetism of the actors may not work. It certainly didn't for me this time. I think it would've been a (slightly) better film if better actors were employed in lead roles and random acting superstars weren't cast in underwritten side-roles. I prefer unfamiliar faces and better written roles. That's all.

And I also won't get further into the discussion about the use of racist/stereotypical characters here, there has been plenty of things written about that online, but given how the discussion went on the trans issue with Chapelle, I just think it's a bit of a waste of time.

03-20-2022, 04:54 PM	#23951 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	You should watch Red Rocket. __________________ 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

04-10-2022, 02:15 AM	#23955 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	If that's your takeaway from the film then you probably shouldn't be pointing fingers about not getting it. __________________ 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

04-10-2022, 02:19 PM	#23957 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - There were a few scenes where the long tracking shots really worked, but they're too infrequent to justify that as anything other than a gimmick. I enjoyed it but it felt very tryhard in ways that didn't seem like they were trying to make a statement about the industries it's satirizing (particularly the humour). It definitely has the makings of a masterpiece but is held back by these things, leaving us with just a pretty good movie. I don't think Inarritu has it in him tbh (haven't seen Babel yet though, could be an exception). On the upside, it helped me recognize how excellent Symbiopsychotaxiplasm is. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome - A Thelemic parable of man, gods, and all that ** all drenched in gorgeous surreal lighting and colours. Prettier than Lucifer Rising. River of Fundament - This is: An epic An opera A satire A book adaptation A concert film A procedural Extreme Surreal Pornographic A documentary Three acts with a cast of around 1000 characters wherein writer Norman Mailer reincarnates three times into realities heavily inspired by his writings...and shit. There's a lot of shit. A man wraps a turd in gold, a transam gives birth to an engine, Milford Graves jams on a cow corpse in a sewer, someone gives birth to a bird, with each of the three acts being based on free improvisation performances that make heavy use of realistic space. One of the best films I've ever seen, highly recommended to anyone with an interest in experimental music or film who can stomach depravity (you will never be ready, might as well just jump right into the shit river). Memoria** - While visiting her sick sister in Colombia, Tilda Swinton is haunted by a recurring boom that only she appears to hear in this beautiful meditation on memory, colonialism, stolen trauma, perception, and isolation. Apichatpong's films always has intense sound design, but this movie seemed especially interested in directing your focus to the sound. Very lucky to have seen this in theatres, the whole scene at the farm is up there with Uncle Boonmee's cave scene and the Tropical Malady tiger confrontation as one of Apichatpong's best scenes. Going to try to catch it again while it's still on a theatre run. And while I'm here, I'm pretty hyped for the Janus restoration of Inland Empire. They'll be showing that in theatres and you know I'm catching that bitch. __________________ 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

04-11-2022, 01:59 AM	#23958 (permalink)
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04-11-2022, 06:36 AM	#23960 (permalink)
adidasss Slavic gay sauce Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 7,993	I'm not rules based at all dude, I'm just telling you how I react to these kinds of things. For me the overuse of familiar faces in films can sometimes have an adverse effect. Casting famous screen grabbers in roles which aren't written very well and therefore rely almost entirely on the magnetism of the actors may not work. It certainly didn't for me this time. I think it would've been a (slightly) better film if better actors were employed in lead roles and random acting superstars weren't cast in underwritten side-roles. I prefer unfamiliar faces and better written roles. That's all. And I also won't get further into the discussion about the use of racist/stereotypical characters here, there has been plenty of things written about that online, but given how the discussion went on the trans issue with Chapelle, I just think it's a bit of a waste of time. __________________ “Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle. Last.fm

04-01-2022, 10:25 PM	#23952 (permalink)
robhr Groupie Join Date: Apr 2022 Location: Winnipeg, Canada Posts: 28	Last one I saw was There Will be Blood. It was my third or fourth time viewing.