Martha Marcy May Marlene is an indie film starring Elizabeth Olsen, John Hawkes, and Sarah Paulson. I stumbled upon this movie while watching an interview on Wind River with Elizabeth Olsen and she mentioned this was her first film.
The movie is very atmospheric and unsettling and reminded me a lot of Perfect Blue (1997) so if you enjoyed that I'm sure you'll enjoy this as well. It also has themes similar to Midsommar (2019) such as family, individualism vs collectivism and obviously cults.
I'm also hoping this will spark a new discussion around the film as most others are almost a decade old and I'd like to hear people's thoughts on the film.
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Watch The Nest official trailer:
The Nest is a 2020 thriller film directed by Sean Durkin.
Starring Jude Law, Carrie Coon, Charlie Shotwell, Oona Roche, Adeel Akhtar, Anne Reid, Michael Culkin, Tattiawna Jones, James Nelson-Joyce, Kaisa Hammarlund and others.
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Edit: Some of you complained for good reasons:
Don't leave the fur flying around in public areas where it might disturb others. Do it in your own garden. Genious idea I learned today: Stuff the fur into a fence or bird feeder. The hairs won't fly to your neighbour and the birds can pull them out if they want to.
Also: Thank you for all the awards! I never thought this would blow up like this...
I just watched this recently and thought it was a decent, short, and visually pleasing survival horror movie. For the most part it was conventional and borrowed a lot from Alien. Not much to set it apart until the final act SPOILERS AHEAD:
Plot twist, after the big bad monster was defeated, motherfucking Cthulhu rises from the depths and is the real big bad. None of this was revealed in the trailers and was pretty unexpected.
However, Cthulhu, or rather the Cthulhu inspired design (tentacles and all), was added after the fact and was never name dropped. Originally named "Behemoth" in the script, it is clear this film had some sort of an identity crisis. There are hints of a larger story involving the Cthulhu mythos but none of those plot threads are explored beyond a brief moment and no follow-ups, leading to its inclusion feeling tacked on. Examples:
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A scene in which the Captain was implied to have been a part of the original drill team and knew about the existence of the monsters in the trench from a map in his locker. Had this been weaved into the story early on, it would make for a great twist that added depth to his character. Instead it was glossed over.
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A mural in the facility depicting mermaid-like sea creatures pulling men into the water. We see this mural after witnessing the creatures attacking the team, so it's significance to the plot is lost. Jessica Henwick looks at the mural, looks confused, but moves on without a thought.
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Characters going slightly mad in the final act, particularly Jessica Henwick. This is explained with oxygen deprivation but could easily have been switched to Cthulhu's nearby presence affecting their sanity.
The film never really delved into the psychological aspects of finding an eldritch monster at the bottom of the ocean where you are always inches from a crushing death. Norah's quote is the closest we get:
> There are things will happen and make you feel powerless, and make you feel insignificant, but that's it. There are just feelings.
But the last bit turns it around:
>and sometimes you have to stop feeling, and start doing.
At which point Nora blows Cthulhu to smithereens, far from the incomprehensible, cosmic god of the mythos.
Once the credits roll, we learn through newspaper clippings that the mining company began drilling again after covering up most of the events. If you frame the company as Cthulhu worshippers looking to wake him or find his hidden city, the events make more sense,
... keep reading on reddit β‘This is my scouting report on Zach Wilson, although before the links, need to address a few things.
- Yes, I know the website sucks, I set it up while taking a break from work, picked the cheapest options possible. It's not set up well, I know that, and I suck at website creation. I'm not even sure I set up the front page correctly because the posts don't show up there, but rather in archives. So please just use the links here to click on articles. Normally, I would just post this at JetNation, but we were worried about it being possibly controversial since Jets picking Wilson seems all but locked, and running a long series when there isn't much other content seemed risky for a Jets site. There wasn't much to balance it out by looking at Fields or any other prospect because I didn't have the time. Hence, I just created a blog as cheap as possible.
- It's a long read, there's a ton of film review in it. I do have a final summary, but I'd hope you get the chance to read through all of them, because I tried to provide as much proof to my thoughts as possible with film.
- The 2019 film is at the end, and I formatted them differently. For 2019, I just went through the game as it happened, rather than focusing on traits.
2020 Games: Boise State, Navy, Northern Alabama, Houston, Louisiana Tech, Troy, UTSA, and Western Kentucky.
2019 Games: Utah, Tennessee, and USC.
I did go about 1/4 into SD State, but I just don't have time, because this is eating too much into my work time.
I know the articles start off negative, but that's mostly a function of how I set up my viewing. I watched all the 2020 tapes at once, and timestamped different categories that I thought were interesting. For example, Bad Read, Good Throw at X time. When I went to write, I just went through the categories that I wrote down in order, rather than mixing good and bad. The initial idea was to have all these individual articles independent to each other. However, as I kept writing, I noticed similar things, so I kept referencing other articles because it didn't make sense for me to always explain it in each article. There are good and bad in there, although be warned, I certainly have my doubts about Wilson.
I'm not an expert, I'm just posting this as a fan of football, so there is no guarantee that I'm correct. I would love to hear back from people on the content. I provided the film to back up my thoughts, but if you look at a certain play and think I'm wrong
... keep reading on reddit β‘
Voting closed two months ago and the voting period was shorter than in normal years. The Oscars are in 13 days and the unofficially "ends" the 2020 film season. I always use the True Film Best Of list to see if I missed anything great.
I think 2020 ended up being the weakest year for movies since probably World War II with most blockbusters being delayed and a majority of arthouse getting pushed back too. Maybe it doesn't matter.
With COVID, are we just not getting a list this year?
There is nothing in the about section that says you canβt. Genuinely confused here.
I'm an amateur film lover, as I'm sure many of the folks in /r/movies are. I will be the first to also admit that I was also one of the lucky ones last year to have 'boredom' as one of my biggest problems, and so to everyone reading this I hope you have a far better 2021.
Watching lots of movies isn't necessarily something new to me, especially in such a vast quantity, I watched a lot in 2019 as well and it's something that works for me. I know some people say they don't like watching so many in quick succession for various reasons, and that's cool, just know that this works for me and I like to think I have a fairly good memory of almost everything I've watched (certainly all of the ones that I've enjoyed). And I can safely say I don't feel burnout coming on either...at least not yet, fingers crossed.
I also feel we're incredibly lucky to live in the era that we live in, watching films has never been easier than it has now, there's so many ways, both legal and illegal. Just this year alone, we've had four major classics receive Blu-rays for the first time ever, Satantango, Los Olvidados, Roman Holiday and Beau Travail. I can't even begin to imagine how frustrating it must have been to be an amateur movie lover in previous decades without the conveniences we have today and without access to the benefits of being in film industry circles.
As a result, it becomes a case of, the more you watch, the more great movies you realise are out there and the 'never-ending watchlist syndrome' becomes a real thing. But I take that as a positive knowing that this isn't some tick-box exercise and that watching movies is a life-long journey. After all, we all watch movies for different reasons, sometimes to laugh, to kill time, to make us better people, for catharsis and various other purposes.
To keep this relatively short for the main post (I can detail further in the comments if anyone's interested) I'll post my top 5 (in no particular order) for each calendar month of 2020, varying from popular favourites to ones I feel like deserve way more attention in the general conversation.
Jan 2020
- Le Cercle Rouge (1970) - The first film of the year I saw and only fitting because I adore Melville's work. Anyone who loves a good heist movie should absolutely do themselves a favour and watch this. What I love about Melville is how he uses action and silence to drive the story and bu
Watch The Nest new teaser trailer:
The Nest is a 2020 thriller film directed by Sean Durkin.
Starring Jude Law, Carrie Coon, Charlie Shotwell, Oona Roche, Anne Reid, Michael Culkin, Adeel Akhtar, Tattiawna Jones, James Nelson-Joyce, Abby Stretch and others.
#TheNest, #TheNestMovie, #SeanDurkin, #JudeLaw, #CarrieCoon, #CharlieShotwell, #OonaRoche, #AnneReid, #MichaelCulkin, #AdeelAkhtar, #AbbyStretch, #TattiawnaJones, #JamesNelsonJoyce, #AndreiAlen, #PollyAllen
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