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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.
I Love Boosters was everything I dreamed of. I saw it with a friend and he was so taken with the comedy he beat me up with his jovial gesticulations and almost suffocated from his uncontrollable laughter. It’s also possibly the least preachy Boots Riley film.
I thought it was more preachy, he has Eiza Gonzalez talk about dialectical materialism
Isn't this just his second film?
It is, but I include his series I’m a Virgo as well.
Ah, haven't seen it. Worth watching?
I personally loved it. It felt like a fun little adventure that let you really explore a world of absurdity that is very relatable.
I got out of the theater for Obsession today, and holy crap what a movie. Nikki's actress is incredible. The lighting and makeup were insane. The fact that his name was Bear (as in, man or the bear) is amazing. And the fact that the budget was under a million? 10/10 movie, very hard to find flaws.
Haven't been checking here so often, and a few weeks back I took a sort of mental "review reset" as I could sense it influenced my film watching by having a constant "trying to form an opinion" thought process going. It really helped just taking a week with only rewatching old favorites and not doing anything about that.
Well for the last week I ended up with some Hong Kong and Japanese crime action films, which all share a very aesthetic approach to the combination of lighting and music to form an atmosphere. Tarantino certainly took notes, most notably with City on Fire from 1987 which to say the least, "heavily inspired" Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs with how an undercover cop and a big jewel heist goes terribly wrong at the end. I really enjoyed Chow Yun-Fat in it as he masters a wide range of emotions, from being both a goofy womanizer to really terrified with where he ends up in the criminal underworld being undercover. Lady Snowblood from 1973 also heavily inspired Tarantino. The beautiful title song Shura no Hana is used in Kill Bill and the whole female samurai revenge parallels that plot also - including all the bloodspatter. I found the film to be very poetic, like a fable from a lost time, gorgeous looking scenes - but I was a little bored at times.
My Heart Is That Eternal Rose from 1989 and The Execution Game from 1979 are less about violence and more on forming atmosphere with neon lights, dark cityscapes and soft jazz. They take place in a crime world with hitmen and gangsters, but what I got from them was more the beauty from silence and small parts of sweet romance.
EDIT: And completely unrelated, I also wrote a small piece about my favorite actress Isabelle Huppert which I just want to share
I don't tend to like horror movies, but the word of mouth for Obsession has me intrigued (and to a lesser extent, also Backrooms). Without spoilers, could someone please give me the last kick of persuasion I need to actually go see them?
I think it depends on why you don't like horror movies! There's a couple of (very well done) jump scares, but otherwise Obsession was more creepy than scary. I think if you also appreciate things like lighting and makeup and camera work, it's a great movie to see, especially if you consider it was filmed under 20 days with a 750k(i think) budget.