not necessarily a recommendation but I’m watching old wicker man with the mrs tonight. something about the constant unease makes it so good
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watched caught stealing yesterday. such a weird film for Aronofsky. like he was doing a guy ritchie or edgar wright.
also kind of done with 90s nostalgia. feels like we’ve been looking back at it forever. wonder if our parents think that about the 70s or 80s
Love the wicker man but watched it recently. The second time you watch it you get more… the way he’s lured in is brilliant, and what seem like vague threats are genuine warnings.
“Oh Jesus Christ!” - He’s not swearing.
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Yeah there was definitely some stuff in there that was worth the deeper questions - no doubt Kubrick had some underlying themes in there that he wasn’t explicitly revealing. I can buy the Native American/genocide angle for sure.
Though I always question things like that, like if they’re ideas that are so well hidden as to be only revealed by some obsessives 30 years later, is it adding anything to the film? But, still cool to discuss.
It’s definitely a film you want to pause and dissect every scene, just from how it looks. I found myself pausing and looking at all the old branding and type on the food boxes in the fridge when I watched it.
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I quite enjoyed The Ballad of Wallace Island - if you like Tim Key you’ll enjoy it, and it’s definitely wife/girlfriend friendly.
Also thought the Phonecian Scheme was pretty great, definitely a return to form for Wes Anderson for me.
Rewatched Zodiac last week. Not my favourite Fincher, and it’s pretty long, but solid all round.
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I always found the main story in the shining kind of lacking something if I’m honest. The atmospheric/ dark vibe is what I like about it. So I’m well up for something more in there to get your head around.
I know what you mean though, if it’s so deeply hidden you can’t really pick up on it, what’s the point? But then again we’re talking about it now
Ah yes I’d forgotten about that Tim key film, I am definitely a fan, I’ll try to find it
Yeah absolutely dogshit this isn’t it. I rewound the last couple mins at the end as I thought I’d missed something. Turns out it’s just shite.
Like the last page of a childrens book where theres a mirror and it just say’s “how about you?”
I get they wanted to leave it ambigious and the whole decision that has to be made, the absolute mentalness of “kill billions or you look weak” or “there may be more and this is your only chance” - but trying to ape the likes of Fail Safe, that lets face it, did it 100 times better
Not the academy award winner they think it is
Yeah I got what they were going for and it could have been effective except there were too many things that just seemed like filler like:
The whole thing with the woman at FEMA, she ended up doing hardly anything and then just getting on a bus and that was that, or the tech guy trying to fix the TV and looking a bit shady and conspiratorial. Sitting through all that pointless shit made the ending way more annoying that it needed to be. But mostly the scenario could have been a much more plausible dilemma. As it was, given that no other missiles were flying by then the choice seemed to be to either start WWIII due to this one missile of unknown origin, dooming hundreds of millions or wait and see what the fuck was actually going on and respond then.
The only bit that I thought, “oh, that’s quite good” was you heard some commotion near the end of part two and the sound of a helicopter but they never lingered on it, they just kinda said” what was that”, turned out it was Jared Harris stepping off the roof of the pentagon you saw in part 3.
1 maybe nuke, send two intercepts, miss, “oh well, we tried”, wait 15 minutes, not one other missile launch, lets kill everyone….maybe, except the Fema wifey who constantly questioned the alerts and was generally useless other than pissing off her co-workers
I’m struggling to like films anymore
I thought all of the first part was pretty decent and tense to be honest. I still like films but just not that one so much.
I watched a YouTube fan made video about the Shining last night, pretty nerdy but points out how the timeline and time of day, and even seasons are all over the place. In places the time is meticulously detailed but in other places vague or just wrong or nonsensical. Probably another example of kubrick subliminally making things seem weird or disorienting
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Took a trip to the cinema on Saturday to see Bugonia with my better half, thought it was brilliant.
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Im looking forward to this one.
Just got back from it.
I find yorgos’s stuff very hit and miss (hated poor things) but this was so fucking great. Left the cinema and burst out laughing.
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Dogtooth is still one of my favourite films. I found Lobster way too try hard so I was worried that he’d go silly as he got more popular. Poor things didn’t look great but it’s on Disney + so I might as well watch it before I unsubscribe.
I enjoyed PT. Really liked The Lobster, The Favourite, TKOASD and Bugonia. The only recent film of his that I didn’t rate was Kinds of Kindness, thought it was a real mess.
I should watch Dogtooth.
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Killing of a Sacred Deer made me so uncomfortable the first time I watched it I never revisited it
Loved Poor Things and The Lobster but was on the fence with The Favourite
Yeah really enjoyed Bugonia but had seen the original it was a remake of so knew the ending already. Think Bugonia was overall the better film but definitely worth checking out Save the Green Planet as it does some stuff way better and is just a bonkers mish mash of genres, you sympathise a lot more with the kidnapper as well.
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