What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

~~MicShazam~~ · 09-03-2016, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Over the past 2 nights: Eastern Promises and A History of Violence. A Vitto Mortensen, David Cronenberg double header. If you haven't seen both of these do yourself a favor.

Both are really good movies. I love Cronenberg in general. My faves are probably Eastern Promises, Cosmopolis and Existenz.

Just watched American History X yesterday. Still good, but maybe a little bit too melodramatic and simplistic. I didn't notice that when I was younger, but now it seems like less of a genius movie. Still solid though.

This evening I watched My Kid Could Paint That.

It's a documentary about a couple whose 4 year old daughter becomes an overnight art success and sells paintings for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Pretty interesting if you're interested in modern art and how it is or isn't all it's made to be.

grindy · 09-04-2016, 03:36 AM

Am I the only one who thought Eastern Promises kinda sucked? It felt really corny at times.
History Of Violence is pretty good though.

~~MicShazam~~ · 09-04-2016, 05:16 AM

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Originally Posted by grindy

Am I the only one who thought Eastern Promises kinda sucked? It felt really corny at times.
History Of Violence is pretty good though.

Easter Promises is certainly more accessible and simple than other Cronenberg films, but I still thought it was a good story and a very well made movie.

I can imagine it having a low status with other Cronenberg fans.

JGuy Grungeman · 09-04-2016, 09:00 AM

All this Cronenberg talk, and no one mentions The Fly?

~~MicShazam~~ · 09-04-2016, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by JGuy Grungeman

All this Cronenberg talk, and no one mentions The Fly?

I just assume everyone agrees it's a masterpiece (or at least a very good movie).
Not a fan of some of the more gross images, but the movie is fantastic all the same.

debaserr · 09-04-2016, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

Both are really good movies. I love Cronenberg in general. My faves are probably Eastern Promises, Cosmopolis and Existenz.

Just watched American History X yesterday. Still good, but maybe a little bit too melodramatic and simplistic. I didn't notice that when I was younger, but now it seems like less of a genius movie. Still solid though.

This evening I watched My Kid Could Paint That.

It's a documentary about a couple whose 4 year old daughter becomes an overnight art success and sells paintings for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Pretty interesting if you're interested in modern art and how it is or isn't all it's made to be.

There's a phenom artist in La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty).

The kid wants to play but the father needs to make tons of money off of a live art performance.

~~MicShazam~~ · 09-04-2016, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by eric generic

There's a phenom artist in La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty).

The kid wants to play but the father needs to make tons of money off of a live art performance.

I love that movie! It manages to come off as sort of pretentious while also being very beautiful and very humorous.

Chula Vista · 09-04-2016, 10:24 AM

Re-watched the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Dated and hasn't aged very well and there's quite a bit of terrible acting but it's still a very creepy flick. The way they handled the opening - showing how the invasion started was very effective and the special FX are pretty damn good considering they were done 38 years ago.

JGuy Grungeman · 09-04-2016, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

I just assume everyone agrees it's a masterpiece (or at least a very good movie).
Not a fan of some of the more gross images, but the movie is fantastic all the same.

Although I think the original was better, both are fantastic movies.

~~MicShazam~~ · 09-04-2016, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by JGuy Grungeman

Although I think the original was better, both are fantastic movies.

It seemed a bit silly, so I never watched it. Maybe that's a mistake.

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Re-watched the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Dated and hasn't aged very well and there's quite a bit of terrible acting but it's still a very creepy flick. The way they handled the opening - showing how the invasion started was very effective and the special FX are pretty damn good considering they were done 38 years ago. __________________ “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.”