movies

[33anda3rd]

I just saw the opening diner scene - and assumed there was a cuss word or two I was missing when they were discussing the meaning of Madonna's "like a virgin". There should have been cuss words there, right? (I was tired then, just checking.... thanks).

If you didn't get cuss words in that scene either it was edited for TV or your cable feed is bad.

[The Third Man]

A Tilda Swinton double feature.

We Need to Talk About Kevin - An expressionist nightmare of a mother's worst fear: that her child will grow into a monster and destroy her. Setting aside the obvious - that Tilda Swinton is the best, most fearless actor on the planet - what's striking about We Need to Talk... is how complex and ambivalent it is. Is Kevin simply fated from day one to be a cruel sociopath? Did Eva nurture this behavior, or snuff out his compassion? Was there ever any compassion to snuff out? Unfortunately for her, she'll have a lifetime to ponder those same questions.

Orlando - A film about the unstoppable tide of progress over four centuries, with Tilda Swinton as the gender-bent lead whose navigation of British high society leaves them torn between love and privilege, freedom and equality. The painstaking production design lampoons the pomp theatricality of aristocracy without making too fine a point of it, and its attitudes towards gender are still ahead of their time over two decades later. A delightful combination of radical content and formalist design.

I've seen Swinton in sixteen films now. My two least favorites are a Bela Tarr film and Michael Clayton - you know, the one she won an Academy Award for. What a [expletive] track record.

[go birds]

FINALLY the Martian is available to rent

[Michael]

I just watched Mad Max Road Fury again and there's no doubt in my mind it's one of the greatest action movies ever made. I say that with no hyperbole whatsoever.

[The Third Man]

I just watched Mad Max Road Fury again and there's no doubt in my mind it's one of the greatest action movies ever made. I say that with no hyperbole whatsoever.

What's this "action" qualifier?

I just got out of The Revenant, which might be the best film Leo has ever starred in, the best shot-film Emmanuel Lubezki has ever worked on, and probably the second-best Tom Hardy film of 2015.

[Jocephus]

oscar noms - http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/14/entertain ... index.html

even though its a sham award

[ghostrunner]

A Tilda Swinton double feature.

We Need to Talk About Kevin - An expressionist nightmare of a mother's worst fear: that her child will grow into a monster and destroy her. Setting aside the obvious - that Tilda Swinton is the best, most fearless actor on the planet - what's striking about We Need to Talk... is how complex and ambivalent it is. Is Kevin simply fated from day one to be a cruel sociopath? Did Eva nurture this behavior, or snuff out his compassion? Was there ever any compassion to snuff out? Unfortunately for her, she'll have a lifetime to ponder those same questions.

Orlando - A film about the unstoppable tide of progress over four centuries, with Tilda Swinton as the gender-bent lead whose navigation of British high society leaves them torn between love and privilege, freedom and equality. The painstaking production design lampoons the pomp theatricality of aristocracy without making too fine a point of it, and its attitudes towards gender are still ahead of their time over two decades later. A delightful combination of radical content and formalist design.

I've seen Swinton in sixteen films now. My two least favorites are a Bela Tarr film and Michael Clayton - you know, the one she won an Academy Award for. What a [expletive] track record.

I can't believe Orlando is that old, though I remember renting it on VHS. Also remember liking it a lot.

This reminds me that I saw Only Lovers Left Alive. I don't know if I was sleepy or what, but it's the first Jarmusch movie I've seen that bored me. It also just hit me that he hadn't used that small of a cast in a while, which might have been part of it. Character interaction is usually his strong suit, and Swinton and Hiddleston just weren't clicking for me.

[MrSaigon]

I can't be the first person to have or comment on this experience, but I finally watched Interstellar on Amazon Prime. And the first half-hour I had to tell my son to get out of my damn way or to be quiet 100 times.

Then Matt Mac goes to spend three minutes on a giant wave planet and loses the entire childhood of his kids. The irony definitely reached me.

Thought the movie was just so-so. Powerful, interesting considerations about family. But it just didn't feel very tight to me story, storytelling and time wise. Time with my kids is precious, you made that clear, so tell a story that can be told in two hours in two hours.

[cardsfantx]

interstellar sucked...and i now own it unfortunately. never seen it after the first time. (and [expletive] looooooong)

never saw it in the theaters, but based nolan's other work that i've seen?

batman films? awesome
memento? awesome
inception and insomnia? not quite awesome, but enjoyed them a lot and own both
the prestige? ehh, not awesome or great...but enjoyed it, but not enough to own it
interstellar? big pile of dog [expletive]...bought it solely based on the other films that i either loved or really enjoyed. this was terrible though...

[JoeMcKim]

I didn't really mind the story of Interstellar when they're still on earth but the quality of the movie goes down a bunch when it gets really dragged out in space.