movies

[Freed Roger]

Is that a Terrence Malick flick on the horizon?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478304/

[clevername]

Is that a Terrence Malick flick on the horizon?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478304/

it is and it looks great.

and, even better, he apparently is already at work on his next one, which is unheard of for him.

[The Third Man]

not really any spoilers here, but I'll spoiler it anyway since its in response to something that does have a few spoilers.

[SHOW]

all that subtext is there, but I think it comes across a little clumsily in the film. It's also a bit heavy handed, IMO, and I think that post bears it out a little. The people who are going to come out of this movie feeling superior because they "got it" when other people didn't are going to be almost as irritating because it wasn't hard to "get it". I don't think Snyder was trying to trick anyone, and I think what this movie is was even evident in the trailers if you paid any real attention to them beyond "those are some crazy visuals!". The commercials were less reliable, but they're trying to sell a movie in 30 seconds so all you're going to see are the action shots.

I think the themes are interesting and the discussion it could spurn are interesting, but I don't think the movie quite hits its mark there. I think it does better job of portraying fantasy (yes, the dreaded nerd fantasy) as a coping mechanism for any traumatic series of events in general as opposed to specifically the plight of women in nerd/film misogyny. It hits a home run there with the first fantasy sequence, where Snyder tells you point blank that our main character is an invincible person who can almost literally do anything she wants with no real world restrictions tying her down, which is of course entirely the point of escapism fantasy. That sort of thing is applicable to any number of horrible things people go through but would like to escape from.

Unfortunately, so much of what we see in nerd fantasy does have exploited women in skimpy outfits (of course, that's not unique to nerd fantasy...), so the movie can't be just about that without addressing it. This film, in particular, chooses to not just address it but make it the central theme, which is fine, but I don't think the characters or the dialog stand up to that level of discussion, so I just didn't get that much out of it.

Yeah, I've heard that it's rather broad and even somewhat problematic at times, but it's really funny reading posts by people who vehemently deny that it's even present. Ah, internet.

[IMADreamer]

Watched "Black Dynamite" on Netflix the other day with some friends based on one of their recommendation and it did not disappoint. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.

[Jocephus]

watched a few movies recently.

north by northwest: im a terrible movie watcher so im trying to see some of the classics. i enjoyed the movie. grant's got a great voice and he always gets himself into more trouble. 4/5

prince of persia: for a disney action movie, it wasn't too bad. i probably only enjoyed it 'cause im familiar with the game series. 3/5

american movie: watched it last night and loved it. so funny. plus there are some tender moments and "real" moments which make you feel for the guy. uncle bill was awesome. 5/5

[TimeForGuinness]

Watched "Black Dynamite" on Netflix the other day with some friends based on one of their recommendation and it did not disappoint. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.

I liked that movie too.

[The Third Man]

american movie: watched it last night and loved it. so funny. plus there are some tender moments and "real" moments which make you feel for the guy. uncle bill was awesome. 5/5

I don't think I've ever seen anything less than a glowing opinion of this movie. I should get around to watching it.

[Jocephus]

you should, i bet you'd like it

[haltz]

I know I was the best CIA agent that the CIA ever had, but I thought I told you honkeys from the CIA that black dynamite was out of the game

[TimeForGuinness]

american movie: watched it last night and loved it. so funny. plus there are some tender moments and "real" moments which make you feel for the guy. uncle bill was awesome. 5/5

I don't think I've ever seen anything less than a glowing opinion of this movie. I should get around to watching it.

I'm honestly surprised you haven't seen it.