debaserr

if lynch directed it you would be hailing it as the best movie ever.

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Oh right, considering I'm not a Lynch fan boy, I seriously doubt that. Inland Empire and Lost Highway were both alright, but nothing spectacularly brilliant.

Vanilla Sky was good, not terrible. I don't understand the stick it gets, but it definitely wasn't a masterpiece.

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debaserr

i feel the same way about it. above average.

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TheCunningStunt

Vanilla Sky - ***1/2

I find it unfathomable why it was so heavily criticised by critics, if the critics think that's a bad film then Jesus Christ on a bike..

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James

I found it ****ty and boring.

debaserr

i haven't seen it for at least 5 years though. so i dunno. there have been many i used to like that i see for what they are now.

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dankrsta

I finally saw Last Year at Marienbad. And it was about time cause I would be missing a truly brilliant film. If any movie can be described as dream-like, this is the one. A man tries to convince a woman that they've met (and possibly fell in love) at the same place last year at Marienbad, but she can't remember or is denying. This is in short a synopsis, a frame. What rises above it is a stunning visual exploration of love, memory and perception.

From the opening scene we hear man's voice reciting words like in a trance: ...as if the floor were still sand and gravel, or stone slabs...over which I advanced once again...through the corridors, salons, galleries... , as the camera hypnotically moves through the corridors, salons, galleries.... The words disappear and appear repeating, like in a loop, on tape, but not quite in the same manner, as the camera moves us through this never ending, unintelligible labyrinth of the corridors, salons, galleries...that confine those in it.

This sets the formal and thematic tone of the film. When the characters, or better, mannequins speak, we only hear fragments of conversations, some words are accented, some fade into background. A scenery and clothes of a woman can change (symbolically between a black and a white dress) in the middle of a conversation. We often hear words and descriptions, but we're shown something else. This repetition, fragmentation, unreliability creates a feeling of a dream, or better yet, a memory and a subjectively, emotionally colored perception.

A lot can be written about different metaphors and meanings, but what is important is that this film challenges the way we see reality and film art itself.

But enough of my babbling. I should just post this great summary I found in IMDb user reviews (credit to riffraf)

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Los Olvidados (Mexico, 1950)

Social realism at its best, but not played straight by any means (the dream sequence is incredible and the creepiest use of slow-motion this side of 'Throne of Blood'). It scooped Best Director at Cannes. Also my emotional involvement in this film was significant - let's leave it at that.


The Devils (UK, 1971)

One of those films which is infamous for the censorship scandal surrounding it more than anything else, whilst being actually quite good. Wikipedia describes it as a 'historical horror', - this is horror grounded in appalling human evil and religious persecution more than the actual demonic possession of contemporaneous films. Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave turn in great performances. Had to torrent this one as it's near-unavailable, which lumped me with a virus for a week. It was ALMOST worth it though.

edit: Also watched the first two Mad Max films in a day. The original felt awfully familiar and considering its reputation as a post-apocalyptic sci-fi landmark it didn't have that feel... until the second which has an vastly inflated budget, great cinematography and exhibited all the cliches we have come to associate with Mad Max: REALLY desolate landscapes, cabaret leather punk hitmen riding modified dune buggies and swinging chains around, a prologue about some devastating nuclear war...
The first was pure revenge titillation on a micro-budget but all the more resourceful and fun for that reason; the second fleshes out everything you expect from the popular Mad Max image. You just can't argue with that final car chase. From what I have read the series went to shit when they took Max off the road, which I can well imagine because there is not an awful lot else going for it.

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NumberNineDream

^ Wow you're posting again!
Are you back?

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i don't know, just bored i.e. torturing myself with sleep deprivation! should probably post something about musick next right?

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