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Post by stampidhd280pro on Mar 6, 2023 22:00:23 GMT
I love how we have a lil Qatsi Qlan going on here. ❤️ I definitely want a black T-shirt with a big red KOYAANISQATSI logo on the chest.
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Post by stampidhd280pro on Mar 7, 2023 4:01:13 GMT
The original Planet of the Apes movies are free on youtube in the US. Hell yeah!
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Post by Seeker of the Whills on Mar 7, 2023 13:35:43 GMT
I have so many movies I should watch. I've seen the Tim Burton Planet of the Apes, the new trilogy and the original, but not its sequels. I really liked the first two films in the new trilogy, but the third one fell off a cliff for me. Matt Reeves, who directed the latter two instalments but only wrote and directed the last, is a fine director, but a terrible, horrible, no-good writer. Rise was excellent, Dawn was a good sequel, but War was just a mess full of plot holes. I was very disappointed in his The Batman as well.
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Post by stampidhd280pro on Mar 7, 2023 14:26:55 GMT
Beneath the Planet of the Apes is amazing. Just watch it the whole way through. Trust me on that one. Escape from Planet of the Apes is pretty cool. I don't really remember Conquest. Battle, the last one, is worth watching too, but you can tell the budget had dropped off at that point.
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Post by Subtext Mining on Mar 13, 2023 16:24:09 GMT
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Post by stampidhd280pro on Mar 13, 2023 20:39:10 GMT
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Post by Subtext Mining on Mar 18, 2023 21:19:52 GMT
I thought The Fall was great. Highly imaginitive, my kind of movie. And the little Romanian girl really made it all work. She's not a trained actress of any kind, her naïveté is just what the film needed. A lot of her lines were ad-libbed, natural responses. I liked the narrator telling a story approach, a la The Neverending Story, The Priincess Bride, but even more interactive, by both the story teller and the listener, and a little Wizard Of Oz thrown in. I'd also put this film in the "children teach you compassion" category. Next film, Hitchcock's Notorious. m.youtube.com/watch?v=7LwPhO2qPcQ |
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Post by jppiper on Mar 19, 2023 6:17:22 GMT
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Post by Subtext Mining on Mar 26, 2023 20:23:38 GMT
Notorious was great. Hitchcock's first post-war film full of his masterful tension and suspense. And that camera work! It's been a long time since I've sat down and watched a classic emotionally-charged spy film like this and it's just what I needed. Next film will be some really quality filmmaking I've been meaning to see for years, Freaked. youtu.be/JbFfhcDmFJY |
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Post by smittysgelato on Mar 26, 2023 22:52:41 GMT
Notorious was great. Hitchcock's first post-war film full of his masterful tension and suspense. And that camera work! It's been a long time since I've sat down and watched a classic spy film like this and it's just what I needed. Next film will be some really quality filmmaking I've been meaning to see for years, Freaked. youtu.be/JbFfhcDmFJYNotorious brilliant. I especially like how the cinematography bookends the whole thing. It begins with Ingrid Bergman walking out of the door to the court room, leaving her father behind. The film ends with her exiting the front door of her husband's house, a veritable second father. She goes through quite the maturation arc. |
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Post by Subtext Mining on Mar 27, 2023 16:28:00 GMT
Yeah, and I forgot to mention the processed plates he uses for the backgrounds for the "outdoor" shots. Those with the indoor stage lighting reminded me a lot of the PT and its CG backgrounds, giving a certain feel of artifice that works to accentuate the story. The only actual outdoor shot with natural lighting is the one where Alicia starts to become sick.
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Post by smittysgelato on Mar 27, 2023 18:31:35 GMT
Old Hollywood movies definitely get some of their charm from artificial backgrounds and sets, that's for sure. I always loved the sets for The Searchers, in that regard.
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Post by Subtext Mining on Mar 28, 2023 15:41:23 GMT
Here's a doozy I recently discovered. Persona by Ingmar Bergman. I really enjoyed it, but that doesn't mean I completely understood it, but I don't mind, it's still full of lots of significant, thought-provoking meaning. Will definitely be watching it a few more times over the years. m.youtube.com/watch?v=USEHp2QRqG0 |
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Post by stampidhd280pro on Mar 28, 2023 15:56:15 GMT
Here's a doozy I recently discovered. Persona by Ingmar Bergman. I really enjoyed it, but that doesn't mean I completely understood it, but I don't mind, it's still full of lots of significant, thought-provoking meaning. Will definitely be watching it a few more times over the years. m.youtube.com/watch?v=USEHp2QRqG0thank u! |
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Post by Subtext Mining on Apr 1, 2023 15:17:17 GMT
I finally saw Casablanca for my first time. This is the kind of movie I think Lucas modeled a great deal of the PT after. The wartime romance, noir sensibilities, philosophical undercurrents, understandable dilemmas, and a dash of melodrama, all in a very economic narrative.
We even have a secret marriage to a guy with the same scar as Anakin. And though starting off somewhat similarly, I'd say Rick's arc basically takes the opposite trajectory of Anakin's (in the PT). And it even ends on a landing platform, but with Rick saying, "Where I'm going, you can't follow."
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Post by Subtext Mining on Apr 4, 2023 9:55:27 GMT
Have we decided on a movie? As I'm living in Prague, Tony brought to my attention this film from 2016, Anthropoid. It about an assassination attempt on the leader of the Nazi occupation in Prague, 1942. Starring Cillian Murphy. And it's on YouTube. m.youtube.com/watch?v=D8bc98zDHegA suggestion for some point. Here's a trailer. I watched this last night. Very gripping, worth a watch. And a few nights ago I finally saw Spielberg's first movie Duel. Man, that is a really well-made film. The editing, pacing and the suspense are phenomenal. |
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Post by smittysgelato on Apr 4, 2023 21:47:30 GMT
Casablanca is one of the classiest movies ever made. It is one of the movies I credit with influencing Roman Holiday. The other is "It Happened One Night." Roman Holiday is the perfect blend of the two.
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Post by Subtext Mining on Apr 5, 2023 17:54:56 GMT
I would very much like to see this Roman Holiday someday. I've heard a lot about it.
And back to Anthropoid for a minute. There's a poignant scene when one of the main guys (C. Murphy) receives news that his gf has been killed by German soldiers, and he charges for the door of their hiding spot (in an apartment), wanting to run out into the streets and take out the whole German army himself with his one pistol. His mission partner stops him, eventually calms him down and talks sense into him. This of course reminded me of Anakin's reaction to his mother dying. I've seen some people say Anakin's reaction was not natural, or at least, not relatable or understandable. But I argue that it is those things in a lot of ways. Not right or excusable, of course, but something that can be sympathized with on some levels. And scenes like this back that up.
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Post by smittysgelato on Apr 9, 2023 23:49:39 GMT
Today I watched Robert Eggers' The Northman. A Viking revenge tale. I was pretty sure it wouldn't be my cup of tea and I was right. I find revenge to be nihilistic so I prefer anti-revenge movies. Ben-Hur, Munich, and the Star Wars Sextet are the best examples.
The Northman is well crafted in many ways. Great cinematography, especially in the moments when things get weird during all of the freaky rituals. Despite all of the craftsmanship and my obvious distaste for revenge, there is still something about this movie that irks me. I can't put my finger on it after only one viewing, but there is something about it that feels obnoxiously dumb to me. My best guess is that there is an excessiveness to it. Maybe there is something about the current obsession with Vikings that cause filmmakers to revel in the brutal aspects of Viking culture? It is like the filmmaker is writing a book, but when it comes to these more brutal qualities they underline the sentences describing those moments, pressing the pen into the paper as hard as they can! It is like they are screaming at the audience, KEEP LOOKING AT THIS! KEEP LOOKING AT THIS! KEEEEEP LOOKING! IT IS SUPER IMPORTANT! I SWEAR!!!!" It is kind of like being led through a story and having the storyteller label these moments by yelling them into your ear.
That's the best I can do right now to describe it. I have no idea if that will make sense, but there ya go.
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Post by Somny on Apr 10, 2023 0:14:37 GMT
Today I watched Robert Eggers' The Northman. A Viking revenge tale. I was pretty sure it wouldn't be my cup of tea and I was right. I find revenge to be nihilistic so I prefer anti-revenge movies. Ben-Hur, Munich, and the Star Wars Sextet are the best examples. The Northman is well crafted in many ways. Great cinematography, especially in the moments when things get weird during all of the freaky rituals. Despite all of the craftsmanship and my obvious distaste for revenge, there is still something about this movie that irks me. I can't put my finger on it after only one viewing, but there is something about it that feels obnoxiously dumb to me. My best guess is that there is an excessiveness to it. Maybe there is something about the current obsession with Vikings that cause filmmakers to revel in the brutal aspects of Viking culture? It is like the filmmaker is writing a book, but when it comes to these more brutal qualities they underline the sentences describing those moments, pressing the pen into the paper as hard as they can! It is like they are screaming at the audience, KEEP LOOKING AT THIS! KEEP LOOKING AT THIS! KEEEEEP LOOKING! IT IS SUPER IMPORTANT! I SWEAR!!!!" It is kind of like being led through a story and having the storyteller label these moments by yelling them into your ear. That's the best I can do right now to describe it. I have no idea if that will make sense, but there ya go. Restraint in narrative filmmaking is a virtue. GL always understood this. Suggestion, inference, implication. Powerful are they. |
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