Hey all! I've just released a Joker fan, "The Last Laugh," that we shot last April. It got stuck in a long post-production process, but we managed to wrap it up -- just in time to coincide with Joaquin Phoenix's "Joker." We're thinking of it kind of as an appetizer to seeing the new movie.
We put a lot of work into this, so please check it out and let me know what you think! https://youtu.be/W3bbKe5jQ7U
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Stealing this from /r/movies again cuz it's fun. Try to go into a little detail about the film(s) you choose.
I've got lots of Disney 4K not currently on Disney+. Tons of other titles below, too.
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SPECIALS
- X-MEN ORIGINAL TRILOGY 4K (MA, VUDU) $20 (X-MEN, X2, X3)
- JACK RYAN 5-FILM COLLECTION 4K (iTunes, VUDU) $25
- FAST & FURIOUS 1-6 HD (MA, VUDU, iTunes) $25
- MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 1-6 HD (iTunes [Should Port to 4K], Vudu) $30
MOVIES
PRIORITY TITLES/4K TITLES
ALIEN (1979) 4K (MA, VUDU, iTunes) $7
ANT-MAN AND THE WASP 4K (MA, VUDU) HD (iTunes, GP) $7 SOLD
AVENGERS: ENDGAME 4K (MA, VUDU) HD (iTunes, GP) $7
AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR 4K (MA, VUDU) HD (iTunes, GP) $7
BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE 4K (MA, VUDU) $7
BLADE RUNNER 2049 HD (MA, VUDU) $5
THE BOURNE IDENTITY 4K (iTunes) $7
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 4K (MA, VUDU, iTunes) $7
CAPTAIN MARVEL 4K (MA, VUDU) HD (iTunes, GP) $7
COCO 4K (MA, VUDU) HD (iTunes, GP) $7
DEADPOOL 2 4K (MA, VUDU, GP [GooglePlay does not redeem 4K]) $7
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS 4K (MA, VUDU) $7
THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS (THEATRICAL) 4K (MA, VUDU, iTunes) $7
THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS (EXTENDED DIRECTOR’S CUT) 4K (MA, VUDU) $7
FIELD OF DREAMS 4K (MA, VUDU) $7
FIRST MAN 4K (MA, VUDU) $7
THE GRINCH (2018) HD (MA, VUDU) $5
JUSTICE LEAGUE 4K (MA, VUDU) $7
JUSTICE LEAGUE HD (MA, VUDU) $5
MARY POPPINS RETURNS 4K (MA, VUDU) HD (iTunes, GP) $7
MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE HD (MA, VUDU) $5
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION 4K (iTunes, VUDU) $7
THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS 4K (MA, VUDU) HD (iTunes, GP) $7
PACIFIC RIM UPRISING 4K (MA, VUDU) $7
PET SEMATARY (2019) 4K (iTunes, VUDU) $7
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES 4K (MA, VUDU) HD (iTunes, GP) $7
RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET 4K (MA, VUDU) HD (iTunes, GP) $7
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY 4K (MA, VUDU) HD (iTunes, GP) $7 SOLD
SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING HD (MA, VUDU) $5
STAR TREK (2009) HD (VUDU) $5
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Just wanted to throw this out there. It's on Amazon for $5. Watch it to see Jewish The Room. That's not hyperbole like calling The Fanatic the new Room or anything. I mean it.
ADR sounding like it was recorded on a phone, badly. A grandmas 40 minute monologue on a beach that changes backgrounds 3 times because they couldn't remember where they shot a scene on a beach so they moved to a gazebo without a pause then go back to the beach for no reason. While it auto edits between her talking about her sex life, being a nazi, then cancer. Meanwhile her granddaughter and grandson in law making faces at random while you can time the cuts.
Grandma then quotes Good Will Hunting.
Granddaughter goes to her mother's grave and talks about pooing her pants at a Jewish retreat. For 10 minutes. Bawling.
Then the best clothed sex scene. Ever.
It's incredible. I got lucky enough to see it in a theater where the staff said they had 15 walk outs all week. I survived.
What's the last film that you watch that you thought -- this director rocked this - and you find something in that film that will inspire you on your next project, You can name more than one.
I recently rewatched: Treasure of Sierra Madre with a friend and was glad she dug it -- it also inspired a script I'm banging out now.
I recently rewatched Brutti, sporchi e cattivi which is an italian film. I love directing scenes with complete pandemonium with a lot of moving parts and really gritty shit about the world the world doesnt want you to see. I like how it balances a dark ending with an unlikable hero that you love to hate but have to root for by the end. Its a balancing act of character that I learned a lot on.
how about you
Hey all.
I've been asked to do the weekly thread this week.
So what movies have you all been watching lately?
My viewings:
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Rambo: Last Blood (2019). I questionned why Stallone felt the need to do yet another Rambo film after how perfectly the last one ended. It felt like a good closing-off for the Rambo character. However Stallone has surprised me with his fifth entry of the franchise. It's a midly good Action movie with some brilliant overthetop gorey violence. I laughed a lot during this, but in a good way. The violence was just wonderfully fun and mean. Now this feels like a proper end to the Rambo character, yet again. First Blood will always be the best one but Last Blood ain't too bad which I did not expect to be honest. 7/10.
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Ad Astra (2019). I really enjoyed this. It's a drama about a son wanting to reconnect with his father but disguised as a space movie. There is good realization of a near-futuristic vision of space travel though, and the actual space vistas are lovely. The process of progressively moving further away from Earth and the Sun into the colder outer regions of our Solar System is well conveyed and added strength to the sense of disconnect that is present between child and parent. 8/10.
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Marriage Story (2019). So it's 'Scenes from a Marriage' + Woody Allen. It's great though and one of the best films from 2019 in my opinion. Adam Driver proved a while ago that he is one of the best actors working, and who has great range, but his performance in this film is his best to date without a doubt. It's just absolutely brilliant and impressive. This is one of those films that provides a cocktail of emotions; it's both sad and funny kind-of-thing, and it frequently fluctuates between both. I loved every single second of this. A suprisingly excellent drama. Don't miss this one...it is on Netflix. 9/10.
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Only one for me the previous fortnight, a fairly well-known title:
Ravenous (1999, Antonia Bird)
I had planned for a long time to watch this. A film loosely inspired by The Donner Party, gorgeously shot, with two very strong leads - it looked heaven sent.
After viewing it, well... I liked it alright. The performances were good, the scenery was outstanding, the bloodshed and the fighting was well staged. However, I was somewhat disappointed because I had expected to like it even more. The soundtrack is the major culprit as the whimsy of banjo-fiddle music during tense scenes ruins the mood. The editing is also quite faulty during many scenes.
7/10
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Last fortnight was not too bad. One unforeseen good surprise.
After being very impressed with Kes (with some small reservations), I thought to give Loach's feature debut a try. While I liked it overall and will recommend it to those who are interested in slice-of-life dramas and also the British New Wave of the kitchen-sink variety, it's not without its problems. Loach seems to have a tendency at times to point a camera at his subjects and simply let it run. I suppose that his intention is to capture reality, but it also tends to bring the narrative to a standstill. Some scenes go on for too long while others could be entirely omitted. Still, Carol White's central performance is very raw and realistic and it is always good to hear Donovan's songs on the soundtrack. I am interested in watching Cathy Come Home also with White and an even more brutal look at post-war English society.
7/10
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961, Terence Fisher)
Hammer Productions made a lot of vampire films. The long-running Dracula series with Christopher Lee is known by many but they also made a number of non-Dracula vampire films like the lesbian vampire trilogy in the early 70s. Their other major franchises were Frankenstein with Peter Cushing, Quatermass, and The Mummy. However, they only ever made one werewolf film and then they were done. This one.
Structurally, the film is rather uneven - a point many others have noted before me. Its first act, regarding the origin of the werewolf, is entertaining on its own but goes on far too long. Its second act is short and to the point. By the time the third act arrives, it has been 50 minutes and over half the film is over. In fact this entire act should have been the main film.
The delay in starting the main story also means delay in getting to see Oliver Reed in his first leading role. To be fair to Hammer, they couldn't have had an idea as to how big Reed was going to become in the future, but this decision still can't help but rankle.
Yet, once Reed is onscreen, everything is s
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Nothing for me last fortnight. I might update this post later so watch it.
EDIT: Steven Spielberg's Duel - 9/10.
A lean, mean machine of a film. One wild ride from start to finish, not a minute wasted.
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I did not have too bad a fortnight.
Cat Chaser (1989, Abel Ferrara)
I generally enjoy the film adaptations of Elmore Leonard's novels more than their source because he is not a good writer, just a prolific one. He can never make me feel any emotions for or from the chracters. They are too nonchalant. On screen, the screenwriters, directors and actors have to work harder to make these characters alive and most of the times, it pays off better than on printed page.
This film is not bad in the available version and I suspect it would make even more narrative sense if Ferrara's original cut became available. Then the connections between the multiple characters and their actions would flow smoothly instead of just springing upon us.
5/10
Clean Slate (1994, Mick Jackson)
With just this one film, my opinion has solidified that Dana Carvey deserved to make it far bigger than Mike Myers after Wayne's World. This film has an interesting plot but a bit muddled due to too many things going on simultaneously and a number of plot strands remaining unresolved in the end. But Carvey single-handedly rescues the film every time it flags. I found myself laughing out loud multiple times, which is a good sign as I am not much of a laugher. Those who know of him only from his stupid antics in WW or Master of Disguise ought to watch this and revise their opinion of him.
8/10
Easy Rider (1969, Dennis Hopper)
SECOND VIEWING
On my first viewing, I thought of it as a film which I respected more than I liked. I found it problematic that a lot of its scenes were slow-moving. But this time around, it was a revelation. All the campfire scenes said more about each of the characters. Luke Askew and Jack Nicholson were both great in different ways. The only problem I have now is that the villains are too randomly one-dimensional. The film needs them to be so in order to mak
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I drew a blank last fortnight. I didn't have much time and when I did, I just wasn't feeling up to it. I did listen to a lot of music on Youtube, though. It has lately come to my attention that music companies have officially begun uploading music there.
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I only managed to watch one last fortnight and it was a drag.
Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)
What a drag. First 45 mins. at least something was happening. It was sort of thrilling and people did show genuine emotion once in a while.
Then it all went to shit.
Slow motion pans across swamps and grass and shit. I guess in Tarkovsky's brain it meant something. It actually means nothing but since we refuse to believe that a filmmaker would be so wasteful of precious film in Soviet Union, we try to console our bored minds that it means something. What something? we don't know and couldn't care less to find out.
All three men started behaving like schizophrenics. There was no consistency between what they said or did in once scene and the next. Tarkovsky, the clever bastard, made sure that each and every scene was dragged way beyond breaking point so that by the time the next scene rolled in, we had forgotten everything about what went on in the previous scene, so it did not matter that characters were behaving so randomly.
We never get to see what is so special about this Zone. All the scenes where characters are behaving oh so afraid fell totally flat as nothing was shown and there weren't even any audio effects to unnerve us a bit, make us feel what the characters are going through.
What a shame. If not everyone was blinded by Tarkovsky's so-called genius, someone would have had the guts to shake him a bit and told him to take a good look at the fermenting mess he had created. Maybe his first cinematographer did exactly that. All it got him was a pink slip.
So, after the bland opacity of Solyaris and the even more egregious waste of time here, I think I am almost done with Tarkovsky. One thing I am sure of: science fiction cinema and he were never made for each other.
4/10
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I saw a few Hitchcock silents last fortnight.
The Farmer's Wife (1928, Alfred Hitchcock)
An enjoyable farce with solid acting all around. Works well despite a super predictable outcome.
7/10
Champagne (1928, Alfred Hitchcock)
Finally found a Hitchcock film that I would label as 'bad'. The man himself had nothing but contempt for this. Simply put, this is if It Happened One Night was conceived and produced by utter morons.
2/10
The Manxman (1929, Alfred Hitchcock)
Another good silent. Some beautiful camerawork and good expressive acting. The ending is particularly heartbreaking.
6/10
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Il Conformista (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
It's gorgeous throughout. The protagonists's mental struggle wasn't all that deep, though. The acting was mostly good. The ending was stupid.
7/10
Vanishing Point (1971, Richard C. Sarafian)
SECOND VIEWING
Still awesome. Some of the best western scenery as well as car chases ever put on celluloid. Kowalski did not set out to become an anti-establishment hero, it was the DJ and the others who made him so. Even the law was just doing its job.
9/10
Vanishing Point (1997, Charles Robert Carner)
They turn Kowalski from a slightly unbalanced anti-hero into a poor misjudged hero and the lawmen into cartoonish villains. Steve Railsback starts out looking like the main obsessed villain with a Captain Ahab complex going but gets short shrift in the end due to Keith David butting in and taking over as the bad CIA.
4/10
Man in the Wilderness (1971, Richard C. Sarafian)
Plus points: Richard Harris is incredible as the rough and tough but socially awkward misfit who changes during his journey and makes peace with himself and the world.
Minus points: I did not care much for the scenes with John Huston and his party. The native Americans were hardly a threat. That point, at least, was taken care of in The Revenant.
6/10
The Revenant (2015, Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
Phew! Started it on Sunday evening but took me till Friday evening to finish this. Yes, I am a working man but still it does not take me this long to finish even a long film.
It is extremely gorgeous throughout but at
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Super 30 (2019, Vikas Bahl)
7/10
Bat*21 (1988, Peter Markle)
6/10
Blackmail (1929, Alfred Hitchcock)
4/10
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Groundhog Day: 8/10
Murder, My Sweet: 7/10
The Big Sleep (1946): 7/10
Farewell, My Lovely (1975): 7/10
The Big Sleep (1978): 3/10
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