Watched "Vernon, Florida" for what I think is the first time. I feel I've seen it before. Maybe I've lived it. I just let it happen. It was fine.

cakes wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 1:31 pm We just watched A Different Man. What an amazing and simple movie. Super dark and funny at the same time.

That's one of the better movies I've seen from the last year. Enjoyed it a lot the first time round. Slightly scatter-brained/unfocused at times, but has an interesting series of vibes, a unique mixture of heartening/warm blooded and dark/troubling/discomfiting. Something special about it. It's one of those A24 movies people should mess with.

I caught A Different Man at the local cinema, and enjoyed it as well.

Thelma & Louise for the first time in a while. Still good. Ridley Scott is seriously fucking with the auteur theory by making shit like Black Rain and Gladiator, but actually being able to execute something approaching profundity, out of a script that could have easilly succumbed to cartoon silliness.

tallchris wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 1:01 pm New Soderbergh, NO SUDDEN MOVE, on HBO Max is good, great cast, nice twists to the story. He shot it entirely with fish eye lenses though, so any time it pans it does some really weird stuff that I found off putting.

Watched this last night. Was good! Lots of moving parts.

The Talented Mr. Ripley - also good. Showed the bf Saltburn and he suggested the Anthony Minghella joint for a double feature

rsmurphy wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 2:13 pm
The Talented Mr. Ripley - also good. Showed the bf Saltburn and he suggested the Anthony Minghella joint for a double feature

Highly recommend the new series Ripley if you haven't seen. Very different than the film, IMO much better.

enframed wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:33 pm Highly recommend the new series Ripley if you haven't seen. Very different than the film, IMO much better.

It's hard for me to get into tv series but I've heard it's much darker and that makes it easier.

rsmurphy wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:42 pm

enframed wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:33 pm Highly recommend the new series Ripley if you haven't seen. Very different than the film, IMO much better.

It's hard for me to get into tv series but I've heard it's much darker and that makes it easier.

It's darker yeah, the pacing is slower (in the best possible way), and it's much better looking. It's not young Jude Law, though. It's only eight episodes. You can do it!

Saw The Brutalist this week. First half was about as close to perfect as a modern film of that scope can get. Second half got a little wonky.

Sorta like Full Metal Jacket in that way.

Indebted to There Will Be Blood, The Master, Foxcatcher, and Tar, by my reckoning, but still running its own race. Very much want to see it again. Thumbs up. Didn't hit me viscerally continuously the way, say, Moonlight or The Master did, but had flashes of it. Filmed in Hungary, which looks nothing like Philly.