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The Pit's Film Discussion Thread

"The Place Beyond The Pines" is one of my favorite films this year, it should have received all the hype that "Only God Forgives" got instead. It's by far the better of the 2 films.
 
I watched A Separation last night. That was a great movie.
 
Finally watching "The Iceman" right now, it's about a sociopath contract killer for the mob who hid it from his family for 15+ years. Michael Shannon is an amazing actor, one of the best of this generation. He's a gd-nightmare in this movie, that's for sure.
 
Classic or cult horror movies to watch next week? I'm going with Night of the Living Dead, Suspiria, Phantasm, and The Evil Dead.
 
In the movie Gravity, the character Kowalski (or whatever) was either written with unrealistic macho cowboyness or George Clooney couldn't disguise/mask his alpha male awesomeness enough or option b he was perfect. Dicsuss.
 
KickballDeac said:
Classic or cult horror movies to watch next week? I'm going with Night of the Living Dead, Suspiria, Phantasm, and The Evil Dead.
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Re-Animator, Opera (Argento), Videodrome, The Brood, Scanners, The Vanishing (original), The New York Ripper, Wolf Creek, The House of the Devil, The Driller Killer, The Changeling, The Hitcher (original), Repulsion.

That's 13 suggestions, seems like a good number for this. These are the first ones that came to me, not necessarily the best. Oh yeah, have to include Maniac, the remake with Elijah Wood that just came out on DVD/Blu-Ray. Excellent. The original is very good, and very fucked up as well.




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Speaking of horror films, I just watched "Kill List" for the first time and holy shit what a movie. I don't know why I waited so long to see that, but damn. It definitely belongs on a list of best horror films, especially in the last 10 years. For anyone interested it's free on Amazon Prime right now.

 
Giving "classic" horror recommendations can be tough since there are so many different sub-genres of horror.
For me, the old black and white standards are too boring, schlocky gore porn movies like Re-Animator are too dumb and silly for my tastes, 60's slow burn thrillers like Rosemary's Baby aren't fast paced enough, and masked murderer films like Friday the 13th are way too predictable. Ghost stories, witchcraft/devil worship/exorcism/cult stories, haunted house flicks, alien invasion/monster movies and mystery thrillers are my wheelhouse.
 
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Melancholia was exactly what I thought it would be: a superbly acted, beautifully shot character study of the two most insufferable female characters of at least the last 5 years. I don't regret seeing it, but there wasn't really enough to make me recommend it (Kirsten Dunst's breasts notwithstanding).
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I felt similarly about it. During the wedding, Dunst's character made me want to reach through the screen and slap her, but her role was clearly reversed with Gainesbourg's halfway through to where Dunst became almost likeable, while Gainesbourg's Claire became insufferable. It was very interesting to see how a severely depressed person could lose their shit at a cliche wedding, but could calmly handle the end of the world. I think the 10 minutes of the slow-mo arthouse crap could be cut from the beginning of the film and it would have been a much tighter, gripping narrative.
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just watched this tonight, and i kinda disagree with yours and kickball's analyses of these, at least insofar as the characters being insufferable. no idea why he picked jack bauer, but otherwise, i thought the whole thing was pretty great. and i think you get the 7 minute intro that spoils the end so it's not about the suspense of the plot, it's about how severely depressed people react well in crises, where normal people go berserk. the kid was kind of the foil to the two females, and the film on the whole was balanced really well. i really liked the use of wagner, and the cinematography was tremendous. only storyline i didn't care about was dunst as art director, but i liked when she was rearranging the books in the library to show some of the scenes from the intro, which also fit well into the apocalypse narrative and the rest of the pantheistic imagery (like her as diana on the riverbank or ophelia in the tub).

it was self-important and slow, but i enjoyed it.
 
Just watched Carrie (the original) for the first time.

I'm not entirely sure how to feel. I wasn't particularly scared, more extremely uncomfortable and put off. I feel like the two false endings and the heavy-handedness of the delivery in the final act with all the imagery really took away from it. I was definitely more interested in the dynamic of Carrie and her mom, the awful home life, the mania and mayhem there than I was with any of the violence. It seemed like de Palma was trying to take on too much. I haven't read the source material, but I'm no big fan of Stephen King either. I guess it has left me thinking. Certainly jarring.
 
Has anyone seen the recent adaption of On the Road? Huge Kerouac fan and I expected to be extremely disappointed, but it was actually pretty good. Garrett Hedlund (Tron sequel) does a pretty damn good Dean Moriarty, and Sam Riley (was not familiar with him), while not on the same level, pulls off a decent Sal. Supporting performances and cameos by Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Viggio Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Terrance Howard and Steve Buschemi really help round out the movie and give it depth. Its not a total success but a commendable effort given the preciousness of the source material.

 
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