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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
Just some quick thoughts about recent viewings.
Relay - 7/10. Very very good until it wasn't. Gripping and immersive and great stuff all around except for the poor ending.
Caught Stealing - 6/10. An entertaining attempt at a vibe similar to something like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Glengarry Glen Ross - 7/10. I was not entirely hooked on it in the first act but then it started clicking. Incredible writing.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post - 8/10. Great coming of age movie, really good characters all around.
Bastarden - 8/10. (English title: The Promised Land). Great film from my own country which hopefully if anyone is reading this would get curious by me namedropping Mads Mikkelsen and look it up! It's not an epic but it felt like one.
A Real Pain - 7/10. Pretty good conversations-and-talking movie. Interesting relationships that they built.
October Sky - 7/10. A little derivative at times, but inspired awe and wonder in a way not many other movies do.
Freaky Tales - 7/10. Consisted of 4 points of view which made it more like 4 short films than 1 normal length movie. Very over the top fun flick!
Yeah Relay really suffered from the ending. I dont even think it’s the content so much as the way is shot and blocked dissipated any tension. I really loved Caught Stealing, it’s like a darker version of After Hours
thanks for posting these every week!
Phantom Thread (not Menace, as my muscle memory insists) tonight. I love this film. I don't know a lot about film stock, but I do appreciate that one of the stocks used allows them to stress the exposure in low light without getting a lot of additional grain... neat stuff. Amazing that new film is still being invented and improved.
PTA loves commentaries but stopped doing them. I really wish he'd pay into that. One for Boogie Nights was just him and was great where the other was a total gong show; still good, but an absolute mess. Magnolia had a little featurette where he talked about getting everybody to watch Network and some other films... and it's good, but not the same.
I think I'm going to continue doing director's filmographies. It's neat to see how their craft evolves.
edit: I love her short sleeved green sweater in the end