Still so crazy to me that they fuck in the original cut of the film when one of the main reasons why the final cut works so well is how entirely unexpressed so much of that attraction and intimacy inevitably is and how that adds to the cumulative tragedy of the ending
Martin Scorsese on criticism of ‘Flower Moon’s’ 3+ hour runtime: “Not every film is for every person...I don’t know if it’s something that will be universally accepted. This one felt right [at this length], and I felt that while I was watching it.”
It is reported that Barry Keoghan, Robert Pattinson, Harry Styles, and Tom Holland are being eyed to play Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in ‘DUNE: PART TWO’
Who would you like to see in the role?
One of the most terrifying personifications of pure, wretched evil I’ve ever seen in a film. Sad that such an insane late career turn is getting so ignored this year
I know there is more interesting narratives or whatever (Riverdale to Haynes, Downey Jr making real movies again, etc) but De Niro as William Hale is for me, by far the greatest supporting role of the year.
Really surprised by how genuinely sympathetic to leftist perspectives Oppenheimer is after people have spent years calling Nolan a conservative/fascist and some of the legitimately troubling conservative notions of his Batman films
One of the most unconscionably bleak movies ever financed and released by the Hollywood studio system, even after 4 viewings I’m still astonished that this thing exists. Maybe THE definitive ending of the 2020s, stuns me to my core every time
This one’s rep as the epic to end all epics didn’t even remotely prepare for how much of this is a psychologically jagged portrait of messianic worship turned tragic. What the movies are for really, frames of towering vistas turned bloody and rancid. (Also this is gay af)
Really funny that a lot of people straight up refuse to engage with Taxi Driver’s very obvious racial subtext. So many of Travis’s actions are driven by discriminatory animus to the point that I’d argue you can’t truly understand the movie if you aren’t willing to understand that
@NameisMavi
Nah, Kendrick has Alright, Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe, m.A.A.d city, DNA, Swimming Pools, and King Kunta which could all pretty easily beat No Role Modelz
A genuine pop art triumph and so obviously the best superhero ever made. Need another one of these things to ditch the whole cameo fest theme park ride thing and be as genuinely soulful and unabashedly earnest as this.
RWing John Wick 4 and the people who hate the talky bits in these movies simply do not understand the joy of a prestigious character actor chewing the absolute hell out of lore dumps about blood medallions or whatever
The idea of liking a movie but also thinking it’s “bad” is so foreign to me. If I like something and garner some amount of enjoyment or elucidation from it then I think it’s “good”
@thesolarcoffee
Thing that makes it so awful is how the camera is constantly starting and stopping rather than moving in one continuous motion which just exposes how fake it is. Makes it feel more like a video game cutscene than an actual movie
Kind of horrific how we’ve attempted to romanticize our older gen auteurs to such an extent as to ignore or discredit the very real pain and horror they supported or caused and still often cause. As much as we want them to be, they aren’t our “epic movie grandpa”, they’re…
@TheDouggernaut
Would so easily be the best MCU movie if they just let Raimi loose instead of giving him like three scenes where he’s allowed to be stylistically idiosyncratic
In what world does Nolan think he’s Godard lmao. Nolan’s good b/c he’s an entertainer who’s aware of the fact he’s an entertainer first and foremost, people who try to paint him as some faux intellectual fraud are more critiquing the popular conception of Nolan than Nolan himself
Hmm idk, one of Fincher’s very best vs one of the most stupid, boneheaded, faux intelligent prestige thrillers ever released. Such a hard fucking comparison amirite
WHY THE FUCK ARE THE CONVERSATION SCENES SHOT LIKE A FUCKING STUDENT FILM. YOU PEOPLE HAVE HUNDREDS OF FUCKING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND THIS IS THE BEST YOU CAN DO?
Honestly kinda pathetic that he’s so pedantically obsessed with some artificial conception of “legacy” that he’s unwilling to actually just be a fucking artist. He’s one of the last guys we have left who can get a huge budget on name alone and he’s choosing to hang it up early
Quentin Tarantino has decided ‘THE MOVIE CRITIC’ will no longer be his final film and has dropped the idea.
He is now back to thinking about what his final film could be.
(Source: Deadline)
Love Breaking Bad but tbh over time I’ve found myself at odds with what feels like Gilligan going easy on Walt at the finish line, vs The Sopranos where Chase basically denies both Tony and the audience any sort of catharsis, damning him to a hell of true nothingness
This is so obviously meant to make Peter look like a lame dweeb trying his hardest to be cool and edgy that it’s honestly hilarious that people took this at face value back in 2007
RWed The Irishman yesterday and I think Frank Sheeran straight up might be one of Scorsese’s most despicable protagonists. Just a purely unfeeling sociopath who even after so many deaths and so many murders barely feels anything resembling regret for his horrific sins
Stunning. Maybe the only war film to truly understand war as not man vs man but man vs nature at large, a summation of our own inherent desire for dominance and violent subjugation. Yet crucially Malick never lapses into misanthropic nihilism, instead centering the struggle of
@thesolarcoffee
Absolutely feels like 2 seasons sandwiched into one but the finale is pretty excellent either way. Perfectly anti climactic in the exact way that Barry excels at
Surprise surprise Michael Mann made a movie about how capitalistic enterprise degrades the mind and soul and the personal and professional contradictions inherent in the guise of a skilled professional. Ofc I loved it
Debates on Sydney’s talent as an actress aside (Personally think she’s p decent) but there’s def something to be said for the fact that a lot of Sydney’s peers got to make the transition to more prestige, respectable film without judgement but when she expresses a desire to do…
Irma Vep has multiple scenes with Maggie Cheung in a skintight catsuit so I’m morally obligated to give it 5 stars. Also helps that it’s one of the best movies ever made
"I love Kurosawa, but I don’t like 'Throne of Blood' (1957); its finale didn’t impress me at all. The arrow that penetrates Mifune's throat is badly done. You can see it’s glued from both sides. It ruins the impression. Cinema doesn’t permit any such faults."
— Andrei Tarkovsky