movies

[33anda3rd]

Hope you guys enjoy:

https://www.strangedays.net/2019/12/31/ ... the-2010s/

Great list. In no particular order I'd include these, and probably others that I'm not remembering: Parasite, Toni Erdmann, Burning, Moonlight, Manchester By The Sea, Carlos, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Little Women, Ladybird, Sorry To Bother You, Shoplifters, Fury Road, Into The Spiderverse, A Separation, Personal Shopper, Holy Motors, John Wick, The Master.

[The Third Man]

Hope you guys enjoy:

https://www.strangedays.net/2019/12/31/ ... the-2010s/

Great list. In no particular order I'd include these, and probably others that I'm not remembering: Parasite, Toni Erdmann, Burning, Moonlight, Manchester By The Sea, Carlos, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Little Women, Ladybird, Sorry To Bother You, Shoplifters, Fury Road, Into The Spiderverse, A Separation, Personal Shopper, Holy Motors, John Wick, The Master.

Could easily have swapped many of those in for the ones I did choose, it’s so arbitrary. Shoplifters in particular I adore.

(Fury Road was #4; you may have missed it because all I wrote was “Duh.”)

[33anda3rd]

Hope you guys enjoy:

https://www.strangedays.net/2019/12/31/ ... the-2010s/

Great list. In no particular order I'd include these, and probably others that I'm not remembering: Parasite, Toni Erdmann, Burning, Moonlight, Manchester By The Sea, Carlos, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Little Women, Ladybird, Sorry To Bother You, Shoplifters, Fury Road, Into The Spiderverse, A Separation, Personal Shopper, Holy Motors, John Wick, The Master.

Could easily have swapped many of those in for the ones I did choose, it’s so arbitrary. Shoplifters in particular I adore.

(Fury Road was #4; you may have missed it because all I wrote was “Duh.”)

I didn't mean my list to be Not Your List, just those are the ones that come to mind for me. We also both had the Farhadi film. Also I'd add Uncut Gems and Good Time, I love the Safdies ability to maintain tension for a full two hours. Also I forgot The Souvenier, which I unreservedly loved. I really loved Spring Breakers but liked Beach Bum even more. I absolutely hated Drive.

[The Third Man]

Ahhhh gotcha. Yeah, we have a lot of overlap in taste.

[ghostrunner]

FWIW, I keep hearing good things about Atlantics on Netflix, with the recommendation that you don’t read anything about it going in. This is all via different film critics and fans on Twitter. All I know is it’s an African movie and there’s some sort of supernatural element but maybe isn’t that explicit about introducing that element?

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Little Women. Take your daughters and grand-daughters. You might like it yourself.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Frozen 2 was not good.

[ghostrunner]

Little Women. Take your daughters and grand-daughters. You might like it yourself.

We took our sons. It was good! Better than the 90’s version I think, which wasn’t bad. It could potentially come off excessively sweet but I think Gerwig did a nice balancing job, folding in some of the crummier aspects of that era.

[33anda3rd]

FWIW, I keep hearing good things about Atlantics on Netflix, with the recommendation that you don’t read anything about it going in. This is all via different film critics and fans on Twitter. All I know is it’s an African movie and there’s some sort of supernatural element but maybe isn’t that explicit about introducing that element?

It won't kill you to know much. It's for sure in my top 5 of 2019. It's a love story, a ghost story, a story of star-crossed lovers and a woman at odds with her arranged marriage, and a story of exploited laborers.

Little Women. Take your daughters and grand-daughters. You might like it yourself.

This would also land in my top 5 of last year, probably top 2* it's pure movie magic, it's that thing like when you're a kid and a movie just sweeps you off your feet to another time and place with compelling characters and you just get lost in it.

The older I get, the less I'm into Filmmaker-y Films where it's like "he made a 7-hour movie with only 12 takes!" or "did you see that long dolly shot?" or other kind of slick technical stuff and I'm way more into simple, direct, compelling stories about interesting people, or ideas about us as a people instead of ideas about film. These both fit that bill nicely.

*My 6 faves of 2019 were probably Parasite, Little Women, Transit (it's streaming on Prime), Atlantics, Uncut Gems, and The Souvenier (Prime), with special mention to Irishman (Netflix), UOATIH, Atlantics, Beach Bum (Hulu), Booksmart (Hulu), High Life (streaming on Prime), and An Elephant Sitting Still (streaming on Criterion Channel.) I still need to see Lighthouse, The Last Black Man In San Francisco, and Us. The two movies I thought were most overrated this year were Midsommer and Marriage Story.

If I could take a second on Transit. It's based on a novel from the 40s about Hitler marching through France. But it's set in present-day. The police have machine guns, not revolvers, and wear tactical gear. The cars are modern. The French say stuff is "cool" in it. There are a good bit of Northern Africans populating the France of this film. So it's certainly modern. But it's that story of Naziism, told through these immigrants in France fleeing whoever this police state is that's doing a cleansing. It's not really specified what their ethnicity is and it doesn't really matter. It's a remarkably good parable about the world in the age of Trump, just an all-out masterpiece. It's streaming on Prime and very much worth a couple hours of your time.

[tlombard]

Seems like someone should have created a flowchart to determine whether there was an audience for Bombshell.

Do you like Fox News?

* “Yes” -> Would you like to see a movie about how lousy Fox News is? “No”
* “No” -> Would you like a movie about the plight of Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly? “No”
* “I don’t care about it” -> OK

I don’t know maybe that’s not a flowchart, but you see where I’m going.

Happy Holidays, everyone.

I saw Bombshell over the holidays and I thought it was pretty good. I would have liked for it to have gone farther but it stayed focused on the subject at hand without wandering and the entire cast was great.

After the movie Rachel's view was that it was good but hit a little too close to home with the harassment, a lot of which was really subtly implied and rarely direct although at times it was VERY direct (you have to give some head to get ahead).