Watched Suicide Squad yesterday. I thought it was pretty great, especially the scenes with music integrated into the action. If they went all out with an 18 rating I think it would have been incredible.

I thought the music was cheesy as ****. Like the director was too lazy to properly pace the scenes (especially at the beginning of the movie) so he just stitched them together with random Top 40 hits from whenever.

Coraline

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Finally watched Coraline for the first time last night. OMG. So good. I have a slight phobia of Muppets, claymation, and stop motion. They look too close to real life yet not real enough, and it just kinda gives me the heeby jeebies.

Aside from the fact that the visuals were so jaw-dropping that I was drawn in despite that slight revulsion, that feeling made a movie that was supposed to be tense and creepy all that much more freaky. There were several entire scenes that actually made me involuntarily lean back for minutes on end.

Not just the Other World scenes either. That guy with the bad Russian accent and evil mustache was scary as **** doing pullups on a stair railing. And some **** would've just straight haunted my dreams if I were a young enough child. I love that this wasn't just a children's movie with a horror fantasy aesthetic, this was an honest-to-god horror fantasy children's movie.

Coraline is pretty good, but tell me you've seen The Nightmare Before Christmas? That's an essential.

Well yeah, but I've always been lukewarm to that movie. Like I said, I've got a thing about that kind of animation and The Nightmare Before Christmas doesn't grab me enough for that to go away. It's okay but had nowhere near the effect that Coraline did.

Really? Damn. It's one of my all-time fav's.

I also have this weird prejudice from when I was like five or six, cause it was the movie that finally kicked Jurassic Park from its #1 box office spot. I was so all about Jurassic Park, so I took sides for no good reason.

I mean, Jurassic Park is also pretty wicked so I can understand.

**** Jurassic World though, not even Chris Pratt could save that burning mess.

Trash. I was bored throughout. If they're gonna do that **** then cut back on the CG and build some animatronics. That's what made the first one so awesome. And a non-cringey story.

Now I know what to dress up as for Halloween. Ooh! Ever see The Dark Crystal?

Cheese is my favourite kind of meat.

Just watched Interstellar for the third time. I'm convinced that every Nolan movie requires at least 3 viewings before you can fully take it all in. Hell, The Dark Knight is the only film I saw 3 times in a movie theater, and all within a couple of weeks of each other. And I've watched it numerous times since.

I now rank Interstellar #2 behind Kubrick's masterpiece as the best space Sci-Fi of all time.

I thought Interstellar was amazing visually, the story, not so much.

I would rate these films higher:

2001

Minority Report

Children of Men

The Matrix

Moon

Sunshine

Looper

Her

Signs

Am I the only person who thinks that 2001 is a pretentious piece of ****? Like it's really boring and dull. The only good part is the scenes with Hal.

You sir have great taste! Melancholia is another one I rank way up high.

Read the book. It'll give you a whole new appreciation for the movie.

It was my #1 even before I read the book though.

He wasn't, they didn't even show his face.

I wouldn't say three viewings at least but definitely two. The first time I saw Interstellar, the credits were rolling and I was just like what!? I also happened to be doing other **** on the side and multi-tasking but yeah. I needed to watch it at least two times.

I love Kubrick but that movie is not very good. I mean, there's some amazing technical achievements, but the story doesn't make much sense when separated from the book. It should make sense on its own, otherwise, how can you call it a good movie? Basically, everything from when the crazy light show starts is empty symbolism which can mean whatever you want it to mean. Every analysis I've read indicates as much. If symbolism means whatever you, yourself bring to the table, then it doesn't mean anything. The movie is hollow in my totally-not-unpopular opinion.

Don't talk about the book. The movie either stands on its own, or it falls.

EDIT: I liked the second movie quite a bit though and I'm a fan of Kubrick, so don't call me a philistine ;)

The book kind of has nothing to do with the film. Kubrick started the project with Clarke initially, but they eventually wrote their film and book pieces separately adding in their own meanings to the story. So.... It's still a pretentious piece of ****.

Yeah well, that just makes the best defences I've read of the movie considerable less persuasive, since they all lean heavily on the book to justify meaningful interpretations.

Exactly! That's why people hated the movie when it first came out. They didn't have a book lying to them about the films meaning.

The movie tries to hard to tell have deep [insert big pretentious word] meaning, but ends up looking like a film that takes symbolism to its most horrible extreme.

So like, is hot wax up the butt a good thing or no?

I watch plenty of movies that some people would call pretentious, but I do have a problem with movies that seem downright postmodern in their refusal to speak to the rational mind. 2001 is the Jackson Pollock of sci-fi movies.

There's nothing wrong with watching pretentious films. Usually I love Kubrick. But i just can't stand 2001. Let's say I did read the book, and found a new appreciation for the film. It doesn't change the fact that it's boring and in a nearly three hour movie it's people just standing around talking. And even that would be fine, except almost all the talking is about incredibly boring ****! My rant is over. I'm not posting about the film.

What other pretentious films do you like?

Yeah but, what about that one scene in that one movie? Also where the **** did my quote of my post come from.

It's in my sig. Quote from qwertyy.

No I know that. It showed up in my post unannounced like a little bitch.

Oh.... it wants you to try it?

Well...Got nothing better to do with my night.

Tell me how it goes. I said I'd rather do that instead of listening to a Kanye West album. I might listen to life of pablo... or do the hot wax thing.

When I say pretentious, I'm really just referring to how it seems a lot of my peers sneer at what I'd simply call movies for grown ups :/
I feel like all my 25-35 something fellow humans care about is sci-fi, comedy, fantasy and superhero movies.
Everything else is pretentious movie snob territory, apparently. At least that's how people's attitude comes across to me.

So here's a few "pretentious" movies that I love:

Polisse
Kriegerin
La Grande Belezza
Much Ado About Nothing
A Late Quartet
Towelhead
Barney's Version
Shame
Eine Frau in Berlin
Citizenfour

I like simple movies too. Big fan of Woody Allen, Ridley Scott and Michael Mann movies.

I love the movie and think it's stupid for people to say that you have to read the book as well for it to be understandable. It's not that cryptic imo.

The ending gives me nothing.
So... he travels through time and space, sees himself as an old geezer in a fancy room, then there's a floating space baby.
The end.

??????

I mean, am I just that stupid?

The monkey scene showed that the monolith spurred evolutionary advantages. That's him going up to the next level of human evolution.

I've seen 137 art films, I know what I'm talking about.

Ya, and then they buried the other one on the moon because they knew that once man had the technology to find it they'd be ready to move on to the next step of advancement.

Note that I didn't read the book until about 5 years ago. I'd loved the movie since the 70s.

Interesting note. The aspect ratio of the monolith is exactly the same as the movie screens it was first shown on. During the film the monolith sings to the apes and then the astronauts. When they first showed the movie in theaters, at the beginning the screen would be black and they'd play music for a few minutes before the movie started, and then they did it again during the intermission.

Kubrick was replicating the monolith on it's side singing to the audience. :D

By becoming a fetus in space? He'll be dead in microseconds! How do we know it's the next level? Does the fetus look unlike a homo sapien fetus? I'm either over- or under-thinking it. Seems like a lot of running time to go through for what feels like just about enough material to make a short film. The monolith brings or represents evolution - or the knowledge of man. But... Well... I have a problem with this sort of symbolism. Seems awfully hollow to me. I like literally every single other Kubrick movie, so I feel like I can bitch freely about this one.

The fetus was in a protective bubble. Note how large it's head is compared to its body. Very alien like.

That IS kind of cool though.

I last watched Grease (1978) on VHS :)