Film Discussion

[Nokt]

Star Wars IX Teaser:

 

[WhyIsPuffyTaken]

looks absolutely awful

[Mr Grim]

Avengers was great

[Knighty Knight]

it really was

 

after second viewing ill put my thoughts here but so far im just blown away and totally overwhelmed with emotion

[Cypress]

Loved it.   Just got home from a 3 hour cinematic journey into heaven.  Now, I am about to hit play on the GOT episode that carries the longest, most epic battle scene in movie history. What a time to be alive!

[Cursed Lemon]

Internet: "Wow Sonic looks bad!"

Also internet: "Wow Detective Pikachu looks unironically awesome!"

[Knighty Knight]

 

[gporter]

They should just cancel the sonic movie entirely.

[Gold]

They should cancel all video game movies. They are always terrible.

[Knighty Knight]

Warcraft and Silent Hill aren't terrible. Prince of Persia, Final Fantasy and the most recent Tomb Raider are the best.

Mortal Kombat & Pokemon are just awesome to watch as a fan.

[Basu]

Anyone seen the new Godzilla? Shit's awesome. As a fan of the entire franchise I was suprised by the amount of callbacks to previous movies.

[Mr Grim]

I just watched detective Pikachu and Broly recently.

 

The former was a solid flick but Broly was crazy (minus the minor retcons to bardock).

[Hully]

I honestly didn't even know this thread existed, I almost never venture into the off topic section. I love talking about movies and television. I'm curios to know what peoples top 10 films are. 

[Noodle]

On ‎11‎/‎8‎/‎2019 at 9:52 PM, Hully said:

I honestly didn't even know this thread existed, I almost never venture into the off topic section. I love talking about movies and television. I'm curios to know what peoples top 10 films are. 

That's a lot of work for me, but I can give you my favorite films from 2015 onwards (that's when I started working at a movie theatre and started really watching movies a lot):

2015: Green Room. I didn't see Ex Machina in theatre since that was before I started, that might have taken the cake if I did. I don't think it's the best film of the year, per say, but I found the conflict fun and how the situation was more or less grounded. Great performance from Anton Yelchin, RIP.

2016: Manchester by the Sea. Moonlight was great that year too, but Manchester would be my pick for Best Picture. Fantastic performances from Casey Afflec, Lucas Hedges, and Michelle Williams really tell the story of how to live life when have to face a tragic past.

2017: A Ghost Story. Definitely not for everyone: it's very slow paced and thin on plot. I'm not sure why, but even though I could easily see people conceiving this as overly artsty (there's a full five minute scene of Rooney Mara eating pie that I think most would be the most boring scene in cinema but one that was actually my favorite scene that year) the visuals, pacing, and camera work created for me something that made me think with enough substance for me to keep chewing on those thoughts for some time.

2018: The Favourite. Roma was a great film that year, but gotta give my Best Picture vote that year to Favourite. Fantastic performances from Colman, Stone, and Weiss throughout the whole film with the writer/director Lanthimos seemliessly transitioning the reversal between two characters' roles as protagonist/antagonist. Super funny with plenty of meat on the bones for the dramatic bits.

Plenty to go for this year still (haven't had a chance to see any of the award favorites that are starting to release), but my first half pick would be Midosmmar. Beautiflly crafted psychological film with plenty of fantastic visuallys and enough time given to fully develop character relationships and their shifts over the course of the story.

 

What movies have you enjoyed in the past five years?

[Hully]

1 hour ago, Noodle said:

That's a lot of work for me, but I can give you my favorite films from 2015 onwards (that's when I started working at a movie theatre and started really watching movies a lot):

2015: Green Room. I didn't see Ex Machina in theatre since that was before I started, that might have taken the cake if I did. I don't think it's the best film of the year, per say, but I found the conflict fun and how the situation was more or less grounded. Great performance from Anton Yelchin, RIP.

2016: Manchester by the Sea. Moonlight was great that year too, but Manchester would be my pick for Best Picture. Fantastic performances from Casey Afflec, Lucas Hedges, and Michelle Williams really tell the story of how to live life when have to face a tragic past.

2017: A Ghost Story. Definitely not for everyone: it's very slow paced and thin on plot. I'm not sure why, but even though I could easily see people conceiving this as overly artsty (there's a full five minute scene of Rooney Mara eating pie that I think most would be the most boring scene in cinema but one that was actually my favorite scene that year) the visuals, pacing, and camera work created for me something that made me think with enough substance for me to keep chewing on those thoughts for some time.

2018: The Favourite. Roma was a great film that year, but gotta give my Best Picture vote that year to Favourite. Fantastic performances from Colman, Stone, and Weiss throughout the whole film with the writer/director Lanthimos seemliessly transitioning the reversal between two characters' roles as protagonist/antagonist. Super funny with plenty of meat on the bones for the dramatic bits.

Plenty to go for this year still (haven't had a chance to see any of the award favorites that are starting to release), but my first half pick would be Midosmmar. Beautiflly crafted psychological film with plenty of fantastic visuallys and enough time given to fully develop character relationships and their shifts over the course of the story.

 

What movies have you enjoyed in the past five years?

Here's my kind of unofficial list. 

https://letterboxd.com/hully14/list/my-favorites/

Literally everything you listed except for The Favourite is on my watchlist, and The Favourite isn't on there only because I've seen it, loved it, and is in my favorites list. 

[Proximity]

On 11/8/2019 at 7:52 PM, Hully said:

I honestly didn't even know this thread existed, I almost never venture into the off topic section. I love talking about movies and television. I'm curios to know what peoples top 10 films are. 

Thread's dead, my dude, but best of luck to those of ya who remain.

[Knighty Knight]

On 11/11/2019 at 9:59 PM, Noodle said:

That's a lot of work for me, but I can give you my favorite films from 2015 onwards (that's when I started working at a movie theatre and started really watching movies a lot):

2015: Green Room. I didn't see Ex Machina in theatre since that was before I started, that might have taken the cake if I did. I don't think it's the best film of the year, per say, but I found the conflict fun and how the situation was more or less grounded. Great performance from Anton Yelchin, RIP

 

What movies have you enjoyed in the past five years?

If you enjoyed Green Room I HIGHLY recommend Blue Ruin which is written and directed by the same guy.

My recent favorites:

Peanut Butter Falcon
Ad Astra
Parasite
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The King

All-times: 

Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
Pulp Fiction
The Fifth Element
Lord of the Rings Trilogy

The Thing

 

 

 

[bman]

Decade List to keep this thread alive:

 

Upstream Color

Drive

The Tree of Life

Hereditary

Whiplash

 

HM: The Forbidden Room, Good Time/Uncut Gems, Parasite, Mandy, Annihilation, Sorry to Bother You, First Reformed, Arrival, Take Shelter, Moonrise Kingdom, Tangerine, Spring Breakers,

[Knighty Knight]

2010 - 2019

Mad Max Fury Road


Infinity War

Whiplash


Arrival

Hereditary


HM: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Moonlight, Coco, The Shape of Water, The King's Speech, Logan, Boyhood, Her, Get Out, The Master, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Parasite, The Imitation Game, The Conjuring, SpiderMan: Into the Spiderverse.

[francisbaud]

I rewatched War of the worlds with Tom Cruise yesterday. It was disappointing imo.

[FatkidForger]

On 6/28/2020 at 8:48 PM, francisbaud said:

I rewatched War of the worlds with Tom Cruise yesterday. It was disappointing imo.

how come?

[Knighty Knight]

Also interested to hear why. I loved that movie so much

[francisbaud]

I think there were a few things that were immersion breaking (but that's not only thing that created the disappointment). Example: When they're on the highway with the mini-van and all the cars have stopped working, they are all parked at the side of the road like no driver would have got stuck ON the road. So that allows Tom to magically go through the highway without any issue. Or the scene when they're driving slowly through a lot of people (at the port I think) and those people start acting like zombies to get in the mini-van, breaking the glass with their bare hands. I think it's exaggerated. It's the accumulation of little things like that that made me appreciate it less than the first time I've watched it. I would have to watch it again since last time I only watched some of it.

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[Knighty Knight]

Suspend disbelief. Nothing about that movie is realistic!