The cinema thread

[swami]

This was a pretty well shot / executed film but lost its flow at the climax ( the big secret reveal)

Though his final decision if I understood it correctly does not make sense if he is so inclined to protect her????

[Faust]

/\ I lost interest half an hour in.

[swami]

I had to try a few times to watch the whole film, Did you eventually sit through it though?
Thoughts on the end?

[Diego]

This was a pretty well shot / executed film but lost its flow at the climax ( the big secret reveal)

Agree, oldboy is definitely not the best of the trilogy, my choice would be lady vengeance. JSA is my favorite from him, still have to watch I'm a cyborg.

[sam_tem]

i thought it was a great action movie. yes, there's a big complex twist at the end, but despite it's complexity it's still logical and not nearly as insurmountable as most other flicks of this nature. to me it's just par for the course with the genre. the first half hour is usually the most boring of any movie, but i appreciate him starting at the beginning rather than starting at the middle and doing hoky flashbacks which seems to be more of the norm these days. i like to be pulled into a movie rather than dropped in the middle of it and a slow start usually makes the ending that much better.


saw Until the Light Takes Us last night:

first off, what a bunch of ignorant cosplay nerds. i expected it to be more about the music than the spectacle and was dissapointed. a lot could be written about the guys they focused on in this movie, but it wouldn't be worth the time.

[MoFiya]

Honestly, I found oldboy pretty disturbing. Watched the whole movie, found it really good but will not watch again. Same for Requiem For A Dream... Just checked the plot of Enter The Void, sounds real good but idk... nothing for me I guess

Recently watched Ingmar Bergmans "The Seventh Seal" and liked it... Now looking forward to see some of Klang's tips (I mean those I found on that goddamn amazon video rental service), just ordered Akermans "The Captive"...

[Nostromo]

Oldboy is indeed disturbing. The final shot is a pretty ingenious one though. I watched it when I was 16 and was totally blown away at the time. I was used to the usual Hollywood flicks and this movie really changed my perception of cinema.
But I agree with Diego, it's not the best movie of the trilogy. My vote also goes to Lady Vengeance.

[Faust]

I had to try a few times to watch the whole film, Did you eventually sit through it though?
Thoughts on the end?

Nope, not unless Diego comes to New York and makes me watch it.

[Diego]

^ Sounds like a plan



I miss NY.

[Faust]

I was gonna say, with a gun to my head, but this will work!

[galia]

Just saw The Killer Inside Me, and it was OK

[Atom]

Just saw The Killer Inside Me, and it was OK

Is this based on the same titled novel by Jim Thompson? If it is I'm interested.


EDIT: Looks like it is. And it's actually the second film based on that Thompson novel.

[Farkhanyassin]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

and every Wes Anderson movie.

[klangspiel]

just ordered Akermans "The Captive"...

you obviously didn't read the bottom half of the film's imdb reviews.

la captive is one of my favourites of hers, outside of her work from the 70s and 80s. it's also possibly one of the best proust-inspired (loosely based on his book, the prisoner) films going around, short of raoul ruiz's masterful time regained (le temps retrouvé).

Has anyone checked out Enter the Void?
The trailer really resonates with me.

the credits / trailer is quite a treat indeed. not as ingenious as the trailer for jlg's film socialisme though, which is essentially the entire film fast-forwarded from beginning to end :)

as for the enter the void, saw it twice. not because i wanted to but out of obligation to be at the screenings. noé has some awesome technique but everything else about his films do very little for me. even the technique, while admittedly awesome, comes across as fairly predictable to me - in that contrivance of moving images explicitly informed by, and with the appeal to, the hyper-audio-visual mtv / video game generation. and boy, i don't remember being at a screening packed with wall-to-wall "hipsters" since never. oh wait, there was that screening of harmony korine's trash humpers (which was a bundle of fun, btw) :)

Klangspiel, I understand what you are saying. But, I think one must try, no? By that rational it seems that art should leave some subjects alone.

yes, of course, undoubtedly we must try. i was merely stating my preference for poetic and oblique approaches in dealing with the holocaust.

[galia]

Is this based on the same titled novel by Jim Thompson? If it is I'm interested.


EDIT: Looks like it is. And it's actually the second film based on that Thompson novel.

It is indeed
although I have to confess I think I particularly enjoyed myself because I ate sweet popcorn in a cinema for the first time in my life. my friend and I shared a huge bucket of it, and it made me feel very american, and I found it funny. the end