Random Movie Talk, Louis the XIVth Edition

[U2girl]

I think (hope) this will be as good as I am expecting


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vxOhd4qlnA

It is, did you see it yet ? So much better than that average ending to Batman trilogy, and that remake of Superman (note to Nolan : stop making comic book movies and get back to your own ideas). If only more Hollywood blockbusters were this interesting and full of ideas.

Nolan back on form, good acting (sure McCounaghey is good, as is Caine but I thought Murphy steals the movie. Hathaway is overrated. Nice twist midway), a gripping story with elements of multidimensional universe, black holes and time/space travel. Only minuses were

Spoiler

the humour yapping robots and in the ending in I missed his son : do we assume he's dead since women tend to live longer ? Also, with all the years of his work on getting back to her, only to get "parents should not bury their children" and "go away, I have my kids here" ? I assumed both Cooper and TARS would get anihilated in the black hole while Brand would find a future home for humans but unable to contact anyone.

 

[U2loverforever]

This movie was awesome


Sent from my iPad using U2 Interference Joanne

 

[deep]

It is, did you see it yet ?

Yes I saw it. I liked it ok, though not as much as most.
I think I was expecting something different. I will go and see it again in a theater. I am sure I will appreciate more with a second viewing.

 

[U2girl]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcCxX8HH4hc

Blofeld's back.

And the oldest Bond girl with Belucci at 50.

 

[cobl04]

fucking fantastic:

See the First Trailer for Pixar’s Inside Out -- Vulture

 

[LMP]

Semi-Arbitrary Pre-Inherent Vice P.T.A. Power Rankings:
1. There Will Be Blood
2. Magnolia
3. Boogie Nights
4. The Master
5. Punch-Drunk Love
6. Hard Eight

What say you, gang?

 

[LemonMelon]

I haven't seen Hard Eight, but:

1. There Will Be Blood (A)
2. The Master (A-)
3. Boogie Nights (A-)
4. Magnolia (B+)
5. Punch-Drunk Love (B)

PTA is fucking consistent.

 

[monkeyskin]

Push Punch-Drunk Love up to 2nd and we're in sync.

 

[LMP]

Hard Eight is the only picture of his I don't outright love.

 

[lazarus]

Hard Eight doesn't have the highs of Boogie Nights, but at least it's not a straight-up ripoff of another film, namely GoodFellas.

I think it's a well-acted and written film.

Anyway:

Masterpieces
1. Magnolia
2. There Will Be Blood

Great
3. The Master
4. Punch Drunk Love

V. Good
5. Hard Eight
6. Boogie Nights

 

[djerdap]

Boogie Nights is definitely ripping off Goodfellas as far as its camera work is concerned, but I wouldn't reduce it simply to that. There's simply too much greatness in there (particularly the Long Way Down sequence which is as good as PTA got). Besides, Scorsese would be the first to admit he's also very much derivative.

My ranking:

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Boogie Nights
3. Magnolia
4. The Master
5. Punch-Drunk Love
6. Hard Eight

Great stuff, and having read Pynchon's novel (a delightful breeze compared to his mammoths) I only expect the best from PTA.

 

[Lancemc]

PDL
Blood
Master
Magnolia
Hard Eight
Boogie

 

[djerdap]

So, The Travelling Players (or O Thiasos).

Amazing. For the first hour I was pretty much in a WTF mode, but then everything seemed to click. Angelopoulos' manipulation of time with his long takes is really impressive and the choreography of those scenes is stunning. I'm looking forward to seeing more of his work. Another master in the vein of Tarkovsky and Tarr indeed.

 

[LMP]

Hard Eight doesn't have the highs of Boogie Nights, but at least it's not a straight-up ripoff of another film, namely GoodFellas.

I think it's a well-acted and written film.

Anyway:

Masterpieces
1. Magnolia
2. There Will Be Blood

Great
3. The Master
4. Punch Drunk Love

V. Good
5. Hard Eight
6. Boogie Nights

I dig reading Boogie Nights as the "in the Valley" porn offshoot of other Hollywood movies, so the derivation doesn't take away from how fun the whole venture is.

"Are those lizard?"
"No, they're Italian."

 

[Imperor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC-3rnv_b3o

 

[Lancemc]

Honestly kind of over Lubezki-era Malick camerawork at this point, but hot damn, this surprised me in a good way.

 

[lazarus]

I'm over Lubezki's gimmicky camerawork and winning awards for logistical solutions instead of photography aesthetics.

 

[Lancemc]

Yeahhhhh, pretty much.

 

[bono_212]

I'm solely basing this on the trailer, of course, but watching that, besides the night club bits, I feel like I've seen this movie several times at this point. I'm sure I'll feel differently when I actually see the film, but another jaded in L.A. movie, on top of another Malick joint about finding who you are in life? It just sounds, on paper, like something a bit tedious.

However, I'm more than ready to be proven wrong and to see something wonderfully new.

 

[LMP]

I'm over Lubezki's gimmicky camerawork and winning awards for logistical solutions instead of photography aesthetics.

I can't remember a single shot from Gravity or Birdman and he'll win the award for both of 'em. Children of Men though... shit.

 

[lazarus]

He does great work with natural night on Malick's films. An award for The New World would have been richly deserved.

But I appreciate guys who manipulate light more.

 

[LMP]

He does great work with natural night on Malick's films. An award for The New World would have been richly deserved.

But I appreciate guys who manipulate light more.

Absolutely agreed. There's at least a symbiosis he has with Cuaron & Malick that make aesthetic sense surrounding their respective approaches.

I don't understand Innaritu's decision to stage Birdman as a single take besides it being an "achievement." For a movie about artistic integrity, it's a brazenly tone deaf move.

 

[Lancemc]

Innaritu's an art house hack

 

[Lancemc]

Most anticipated 2015 film(s)?

GO.

 

[lazarus]

ZOMG THE FORCE AWAKENS DUHHHH


If Scorsese has Silence ready for awards season (he's supposed to be shooting in Taiwan this spring), then that.

Otherwise, Charlie Kaufman's animated film, Xavier Dolan's next, and I'm assuming Yorgos Lanthimos' English language debut will be coming out this year as well.

 

[LemonMelon]

If Scorsese has Silence ready for awards season (he's supposed to be shooting in Taiwan this spring), then that.

This has the potential to be a masterpiece. The material is fantastic, the setting is very fresh for Marty and after killing off Neeson in minutes the last time they worked together, I'm looking forward to his work as Father Ferreira.

 

[lazarus]

I'll always wonder about the original Daniel Day-Lewis/Benicio del Toro casting, though. Neeson and Garfield don't quite stack up to that pair.

 

[Lancemc]

Didn't realize he was still trying to get Silence off the ground.

Fury Road is my whole world in 2015.

Otherwise, I know Kiarostami is filming something in China. Not sure if that'll see daylight next year though. Likewise with Hou's The Assassin which is approaching Wong Kar-Wai levels of production delay at this point.

I'm naturally completely in the bag for Mann's Blackhat and Johnnie To's Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 which a number of my friends already got to see this year and it sounds amazing. Jaume Collet-Serra's Run All Night should pretty much fulfill my VA craving for the year.

 

[bono_212]

Can I just be a small child for a moment and talk about how excited I am that BFG is getting a movie?

 

[bono_212]

Oh, I hope all of this ends up being fake, because if that's what they came up with as their response to the criticisms of the end of the first film, this movie's going to be worse than I thought:

How Batman v Superman Addresses Man of Steel Destruction Complaints