movies

[go birds]

^5@robbotis

Hell yea brother

[TimeForGuinness]

Liked Skyfall a lot
Liked Moonrise Kingdom a lot

[AdmiralKird]

Looper was good.
The Beaver was good.
Mr. Nobody was good.

[MrSaigon]

I felt like Moonrise Kingdom was unnecessary. It starts at Wes Anderson and goes nowhere, IMO. I've enjoyed most of Anderson's films, but I feel like he needs to dial up the story element because the delivery just isn't enough... or something.

[JL21]

Jess Franco, director of "Vampyros Lesbos", "She Killed in Ecstasy", "Women Behind Bars", and "A Virgin Among the Living Dead" has passed away at age 82.

[thrill]

Really looking forward to Upstream Color. Watched Primer on Netflix a week or so ago and really liked it even though I'm not a big over-analyzer of films and that movie was like porn for that type of fan. A couple of good columns, one about UC and one about Shane Carruth, came out today on grantland and deadspin.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/910 ... ne-carruth

http://deadspin.com/i-have-no-idea-what ... socialflow

[ghostrunner]

I felt like Moonrise Kingdom was unnecessary. It starts at Wes Anderson and goes nowhere, IMO. I've enjoyed most of Anderson's films, but I feel like he needs to dial up the story element because the delivery just isn't enough... or something.

I think you just summed up Wes Anderson movies for me. Though I can't say I enjoy them. Tenenbaums was the only one I really enjoyed from start to finish. Rushmore was okay but I didn't get the hype. I had to stop Life Aquatic in the middle and decided I didn't care enough to finish it. Only watched Fantastic Mr Fox since I had recently read it with my son, and again it was just okay. I don't have this hangup with someone like Kubrick, who you could argue is just as dependent on style. Even Tarantino, while the pervasiveness of his "voice" annoys me at times, still manages to entertain me.

[The Third Man]

Really looking forward to Upstream Color. Watched Primer on Netflix a week or so ago and really liked it even though I'm not a big over-analyzer of films and that movie was like porn for that type of fan. A couple of good columns, one about UC and one about Shane Carruth, came out today on grantland and deadspin.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/910 ... ne-carruth

http://deadspin.com/i-have-no-idea-what ... socialflow

Yeah, I'm excited as hell for this, despite the fact that I also just saw Primer a week or so ago and was rather lukewarm on it. I appreciate it conceptually, but it's a bit cerebral for my tastes and the lack of a budget really shows. This new one basically sounds like if Terrence Malick went full-blown sci-fi, though, which is an unbelievably tantalizing prospect for me.

[thrill]

I felt like Moonrise Kingdom was unnecessary. It starts at Wes Anderson and goes nowhere, IMO. I've enjoyed most of Anderson's films, but I feel like he needs to dial up the story element because the delivery just isn't enough... or something.

I think you just summed up Wes Anderson movies for me. Though I can't say I enjoy them. Tenenbaums was the only one I really enjoyed from start to finish. Rushmore was okay but I didn't get the hype. I had to stop Life Aquatic in the middle and decided I didn't care enough to finish it. Only watched Fantastic Mr Fox since I had recently read it with my son, and again it was just okay. I don't have this hangup with someone like Kubrick, who you could argue is just as dependent on style. Even Tarantino, while the pervasiveness of his "voice" annoys me at times, still manages to entertain me.

This is going to sound pretentious as hell, but I don't think Wes Anderson can really miss with me because I don't approach any of his movies looking for story. I watch for his aesthetic point of view. He might have the most well-defined aesthetic point of view as any filmmaker, ever. His movies might not succeed on every level necessary to qualify as truly great films, but I just really like being taken to this completely unique and completely communicated world that he succeeds at creating every time. That's remarkable to me on an artistic level and it is truly unique, so I will always find his movies worthwhile, especially when most movies are the formulaic garbage that usually comes from big studios.

I'd never argue that any of Wes Anderson's movies are great and I'd never argue that everyone should like them, those are just the reasons I'm in the bag for him and always will be. He's the directorial equivalent of Steve Kerr or Aroldis Chapman. He can't do it all, but he can do one thing really well and to me that's worth appreciating.

[thrill]

Really looking forward to Upstream Color. Watched Primer on Netflix a week or so ago and really liked it even though I'm not a big over-analyzer of films and that movie was like porn for that type of fan. A couple of good columns, one about UC and one about Shane Carruth, came out today on grantland and deadspin.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/910 ... ne-carruth

http://deadspin.com/i-have-no-idea-what ... socialflow

Yeah, I'm excited as hell for this, despite the fact that I also just saw Primer a week or so ago and was rather lukewarm on it. I appreciate it conceptually, but it's a bit cerebral for my tastes and the lack of a budget really shows. This new one basically sounds like if Terrence Malick went full-blown sci-fi, though, which is an unbelievably tantalizing prospect for me.

I watched Primer because Rian Johnson talked about studying it and consulting Shane Carruth re: time travel continuity in movies and I liked Looper. I watched it and when it unraveled way too quickly and densely for me to totally follow, I immediately went online and read reactions/breakdowns. I felt dumb for having to do it, but it made me like the movie a lot more.

Johnson actually nails it when he said, “From a first viewing of Primer, you’re inevitably confused, but you know that it makes sense. It’s that kind of dangerous fishing hook that can draw in a conspiracy theorist—the tantalizing notion that if you can put all the pieces together, this will add up to something.”
It's catnip for obsessives.