What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

**Exo** · 01-11-2023, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

At least I'm not an absolute cringelord that puts Aftersun in first place. What in the ****? And I'm even someone with daddy issues so you'd think it would have worked for me. Snooze

Good final ~10 minutes though

I mean, Aftersun was a beautiful film and also the directors first. I don't think a film so subtle could possible draw in hate but that's just me.

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Originally Posted by Mucha na Dziko

wait, what? Jeremy Renner died?

Nah, just maimed.

YorkeDaddy · 01-11-2023, 12:44 PM

Easier to imagine how a pretentious arthouse film would draw hate than a straightforward mystery comedy

**Exo** · 01-11-2023, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

Easier to imagine how a pretentious arthouse film would draw hate than a straightforward mystery comedy

Well that's my point there. It's fine if the movie didn't resonate with you but to find such a subtle film pretentious is confusing to me. The praise being heaped onto it, praise I agree with overall, is because it's so stripped down and quiet which is kind of the antithesis of pretentious behavior. The praise is literally about how much the film said without really just coming out and saying it.

YorkeDaddy · 01-11-2023, 01:08 PM

Nothing happens in my movie and that’s why it’s ~so deep~

The movie is only receiving praise because it’s very hard to see right now so only giga movie nerds are seeking it out. As soon as normal people see it there will be plenty of hate. I’d rather watch Glass Onion fifty more times

**Exo** · 01-11-2023, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

Nothing happens in my movie and that’s why it’s ~so deep~

So what's your opinion on Seinfeld?

**Exo** · 01-11-2023, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

Good final ~10 minutes though

Dude, that was the most arthouse part of the move! lol.

So lemme get this straight...you felt the movie was super pretentious because "nothing happened" for the entire length of the movie but the last ten minutes which was filled with symbolism and ambiguity...that wasn't pretentious and you liked it?

Chula Vista · 01-11-2023, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

I mean, Aftersun was a beautiful film and also the directors first. I don't think a film so subtle could possible draw in hate but that's just me.

HA! Yorke's an outlier.

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I remember the moment I realized—not just intellectually, but viscerally—how young my parents were when they had me.
I was looking at a photograph of my father holding two-year-old me in his arms. He was about 26 years old at the time.
I stared at his face, its youthful curves, the light in his eyes, the gentle way he held onto my hand (mainly so I wouldn't yank his glasses off his face).
I had a strange sense of time telescoping out on both ends. I thought of myself at 26 years old, how young and wild I was.
It still seems unbelievable to me that he was that young. He was such a good dad. I would love to ask him about his life. I would love to ask him what it all was like for him.

"Aftersun" is Wells' beautiful attempt to do the same.

YorkeDaddy · 01-11-2023, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

Dude, that was the most arthouse part of the move! lol.

So lemme get this straight...you felt the movie was super pretentious because "nothing happened" for the entire length of the movie but the last ten minutes which was filled with symbolism and ambiguity...that wasn't pretentious and you liked it?

The pretentious part was the 90 consecutive minutes of literal nothing I had to sit through to get to the one interesting scene. And the interesting scene was cheating because one of the big factors that made it effective was they took a great song that wasn’t even written for the movie

At least it was better than Tar

**Exo** · 01-11-2023, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

The pretentious part was the 90 consecutive minutes of literal nothing I had to sit through to get to the one interesting scene.

I am convinced you don't know what pretentious means.

Mojo · 02-02-2023, 04:46 AM

For some reason the stop-motion holds up pretty well today despite a lot of the representation, of non-white characters and of women, seeming to be predictably pre-historic.

The funniest exchange in all of the film has to be:

JACK. Say, I guess I love you.
ANN. Why, Jack! You hate women!
JACK. Yeah, I know. But you aren’t women.

02-02-2023, 04:46 AM	#24330 (permalink)
Mojo Melancholia Eternally Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: England Posts: 5,018	For some reason the stop-motion holds up pretty well today despite a lot of the representation, of non-white characters and of women, seeming to be predictably pre-historic. The funniest exchange in all of the film has to be: JACK. Say, I guess I love you. ANN. Why, Jack! You hate women! JACK. Yeah, I know. But you aren’t women. __________________ Last.FM \| Echoes and Dust

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