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Official thread about the movie you just saw

Nothing will top 'death wish' on terribleness this year, but 'nostalgia' could not have been more pointless.

Spoiler alert: some things we own mean things to the people we'd pass them on to.

That's literally all there is to the film. Seemed like the talent was probably on set for ~36 hours.
 
I tried to watch "Cook Off," and turned it off 10 minutes in. Its a Christopher Guest-style mockumentary ripoff that has no jokes or clever satire. It's not dry, its awkward.
 
El Chupacabra said:
Good point. I had spaced on the language aspect, but one of my favorite parts of the book was the really haunting words the organism, or whatever, was relaying/writing/... in the tower when they first engage with it. I had been worried how they were going to represent that visually, but they ended up cutting that part out -- so one of my disappointments was that this director is SO capable of getting those visual right, I was hoping to see that, and he went another way. It's cool though. Anyway, good post.
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I do not understand why he cut the concept of literal descension to match their figurative decline. That whole space was filled with tension and would have played well on screen. Additionally, not sure why he cut the real conflict between the psychologist and biologist in relation to the lighthouse.
 
HailToTheDeacons said:
Casablanca is a good-ass movie.
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It has also has one of the funniest/cynical Hollywood stories. It shows how little chance most have at being "discovered". About thirty years ago, a guy sent a hundred copies of the script of Casablanca with the original title of the play (Dinner At Rick's) to agents trying to see what happens.

He got about 80-85 of them back unopened. He got about half a dozen form letters saying "no thanks". I think he got two or three nasty notes from those who recognized what it was and being upset for wasting their time. One got the joke and sent back casting ideas.
 
RJKarl said:
It has also has one of the funniest/cynical Hollywood stories. It shows how little chance most have at being "discovered". About thirty years ago, a guy sent a hundred copies of the script of Casablanca with the original title of the play (Dinner At Rick's) to agents trying to see what happens.

He got about 80-85 of them back unopened. He got about half a dozen form letters saying "no thanks". I think he got two or three nasty notes from those who recognized what it was and being upset for wasting their time. One got the joke and sent back casting ideas.
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Theo Epstein’s relative (uncle?) wrote it, so a cool baseball connection.
 
Finally got around to seeing the infamous Boondock Saints

Fucking loved Willem Dafoe’s performance

Awesome
 
Finally got around to watching "Bug" again, with Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon. It's one of the only 2 films William Friedkin has made in the last 15 years. It was originally an award winning stage play starring Michael Shannon, and the adaptation was Shannon's first ever film - he and Ashley Judd are electric in it - fucking bonkers. It's absolutely one of the best psychological horror movies of the last 20 years.

https://youtu.be/POeCsA4Vb2M
 
In any given year, I've probably never seen more than 1 oscar nominated film before the academy awards.

Through MoviePass, I pretty much saw the whole line-up (outside of 'Call Me') this time around.

I thought it was kinda ridiculous that the deputy from Three Billboards was nominated for supporting actor. I couldn't point to a 'more fake' performance in any real film I saw this year.

He just won. Safe to say, I'm not a real critic.
 
Didn't see it myself, but I heard a critic say the only reason it got nominated was essentially that it was #metoo in Trumpland, thus perfectly aligned with the sociopolitical zeitgeist.
 
Saw Three Billboards a couple nights ago and enjoyed it, but it doesn't strike me as Best Picture material. Rockwell was a caricature (in the first half anyway), which was fine for what the movie was, but is not something I'd call good acting. I didn't like how every conflict just resolved itself, and it was distracting as hell that this movie supposedly set in Missouri had characters drinking Duck Rabbit and Wicked Weed.
 
To be fair, I've seen Duck Rabbit at a few restaurants in FL.
 
PhDeac said:
Didn't see it myself, but I heard a critic say the only reason it got nominated was essentially that it was #metoo in Trumpland, thus perfectly aligned with the sociopolitical zeitgeist.
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Please list every non Pixar, superhero, Star Wars or animated film you saw in 2017.
 
vtwhat etc said:
In any given year, I've probably never seen more than 1 oscar nominated film before the academy awards.

Through MoviePass, I pretty much saw the whole line-up (outside of 'Call Me') this time around.

I thought it was kinda ridiculous that the deputy from Three Billboards was nominated for supporting actor. I couldn't point to a 'more fake' performance in any real film I saw this year.

He just won. Safe to say, I'm not a real critic.
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But you did tap that chick who blew Gary Clark. That’s something bro.
 
Probably none. I don't watch a lot of movies. I didn't even see most of the "Pixar, superhero, Star Wars or animated" films last year.

Feel free to judge.
 
The Florida Project was the best movie of the year. Absolutely snubbed.
 
I don't know many married people with small kids who get to see a lot of movies. Props to those who do.
 
Coco kicking ass at the Oscars - it was a damn good movie.
 
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