Cinema and Movie Thread: coming at you at 24fps

[Malcador]

David Lynch should direct Borderlands

[Amentep]

1 hour ago, Keyrock said:

Can we, down the line, get a Traveling Wilburys movie tied into the BECU (Beatles Extended Cinematic Universe)? It could be a crossover event with the HECU (Heartbreakers Extended Cinematic Universe).

The smarter way to go would be to create the TWCU (Traveling Wilburys Cinematic Universe, colloquially known as the Wilburyverse). They could do Beatles movies, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers movies, Electric Light Orchestra movies, Bob Dylan movies, and Roy Orbison movies, all culminating in an Avengers-style Traveling Wilburys team-up movie.

This seems the natural way to keep it going.  Not sure what Phase we get to Willburys and All-Starr Band, though.  

[HoonDing]

3 hours ago, Raithe said:

is this AI generated?

[Hurlshort]

I'd buy it other than Cate Blanchett. Maybe she lost a bet?

[Gromnir]

13 minutes ago, Hurlshort said:

I'd buy it other than Cate Blanchett. Maybe she lost a bet?

thought the same thing when we first saw the galadriel temptation scene from lord of the rings.

after thor: ragnarok and pinocchio, am accepting ms. blanchett takes herself less serious than does most o' her fans.

ms. blanchett does the vo for spazzatura.

HA! Good Fun!

[Malcador]

1 hour ago, Hurlshort said:

I'd buy it other than Cate Blanchett. Maybe she lost a bet?

Or she got offered good coin.  Lady's gotta eat.

[Zoraptor]

"I've never seen [Jaws 4], but by all accounts it's terrible. However I have seen the house that it built, and it's terrific"

[Raithe]

2 hours ago, HoonDing said:

is this AI generated?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4978420/

 

Edited February 21 by Raithe

[Gorth]

Since I'm such a Borderlands fan (except the 3rd game ), colour me interested!!!

Crossing fingers and hoping it catches the spirit of the game

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

I have never played Borderlands and calling Eli Roth a hack would be an insult to hacks.

[ShadySands]

I've never been able to get into Borderlands and over the years I've figured out that I just can't Diablo in any form. It looks like Crazy Enough to Work: The Movie and I'll probably check it out whenever it comes to a streaming service I have.

I feel kinda bad but that's my default state for all movies nowadays and I didn't mean it as a strike against this one in particular. 

[Bartimaeus]

1 hour ago, ShadySands said:

I feel kinda bad but that's my default state for all movies nowadays and I didn't mean it as a strike against this one in particular. 

With so much content constantly coming out and no real shared social consciousness on what's "important" to watch so that you can participate in the current zeitgeist, there's not really any pressure to immediately watch anything anyways. Really, the same issue applies to TV, video games, books, and music as well.

The Teachers' Lounge (2023). Or, uh...

Yeah, let's just stick with the first one. Premise as quoted from Wikipedia: "A teacher [is] tasked with finding out which of her students is responsible for a series of thefts." Normally, I'm all about backhand 'complimenting' both French and German cinema even when I kind of like something, but this was an honest to god great movie from beginning to end, certainly my film of the year for 2023 until/if ever proven elsewise. This film is like...kind of an anti-thriller, insofar that it doesn't really have much of the normal traits/tropes of a thriller (even up to and including the conclusion of the film!), but you will be stressed out watching this kindhearted teacher and her classroom of normal 12-year-olds trying to navigate difficult interpersonal conflict just as if it were a thriller.

Edited February 22 by Bartimaeus
Apostrophe after and not before the "s"...

[Gfted1]

 

[LadyCrimson]

*watches that Borderlands trailer*

As a huge fan of the Borderlands 1 and 2 and a ... uh ... player of BL3 stuff, my reaction to chr. casting (all of it, not just Hart) and the oddly cheap looking cos-play look is still

Edit: feels like they're going for a Guardians vibe, and a younger audience.

Edited February 24 by LadyCrimson

[Gfted1]

Ive never played Borderlands but the longer I watched the trailer the more I liked it. By the ending "keep looking at me" I was quite amused.

[Lexx]

Tried the first game once in coop. Was bored like hell. Couldn't stand it at all.

[LadyCrimson]

^ To be fair, especially as I grew older, I try to be pretty open minded or at least neutral. I mean I'm probably one of the "few" older trekkies/trekkers/whatever who actually somewhat likes the first two Star Trek reboot films (the rest were meh) because I looked past the ST and just saw them as silly action movies, unconcerned with what they were doing to any lore.

Games into movies tho ... at least ones that aren't full blown story games (eg, Last of Us) ... it's not about lore, it's turning game graphics into live action. Never feels like it turns out right/I usually dislike it. Maybe akin to some anime vs live-action gripes a bit. Eh...maybe BL the movie will be lightly entertaining.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

An incredible small scale crime drama. It's sleazy and grimy in a way that you'd want the film to be, there are no criminal empires or masterminds, just a small gang of addicts who knock over pharmacies in order to consume and deal drugs. Because of this for me it has more heart and hits closer to home, I've known more than a few people who've gotten addicted to substances; of those more than a few have done less than legal acts to feed their addiction.

It also looks and sounds dope.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

It's a classic film that has some very beautiful scenes. Did I enjoy it? Yes. Do I think a 20-something brit showing up and showing the Arabs how to really do desert warfare is ridiculous western savior bull****? Damn right. The film serves to mythologize Lawrence's legend rather than be historically accurate, while the man himself was remarkable he certainly did not single-handedly lead the Arabs to defeat the Turks on the Arabian front and (try to) hand them democracy against the will of the British and French empires. We can go on and on about "products of the time" and "dramatization" and all that noise, but at the end of the day I think dramatized war stories (ie real events interpreted into fiction) that tend to make heroes, saviors, and/or legends out of single men end up reducing the many people who fought and died to just side characters at best so I'm inherently biased against them. It is a very good movie though.

Notably there are no lady characters at all in this movie. Women show up once to sing at the army once and otherwise are completely absent. That's to be expected from a 60s war movie but it does feel strange in 2024.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

The Girl From Monday (2005)

If there ever was a KP movie, this would be it. A satirical sci-fi where the world filmed on a shoestring budget and early digital that makes it a headache inducing fever dream with such memorable lines such as "let's **** and increase our buying power".

Speaking of movies, I read this and thought I'd share it with @Bartimaeus so we could both hate on it.

[Bartimaeus]

11 minutes ago, PK htiw klaw eriF said:

Speaking of movies, I read this and thought I'd share it with @Bartimaeus so we could both hate on it.

This guy stupid or something? No wonder all his movies are hot garbage.

. . .

Theoretically, there's nothing wrong with what he's saying. Obviously, what we value is very different, since I almost entirely remember movies by characters and what they do (and yes, especially dialogue!), but I'm not everyone, and clearly some people do like his films. This kind of thinking will probably, 999/1000 times, mean you're not going to have characters that I think are interesting or fun or pretty much anything else, which almost certainly means that at best, I'm going to be pretty neutral towards your film. So yeah, I guess it starts to make a lot of sense why I hate Denis Villaneuve films. That French Canadian bastard. It was nice they gave Ethan Hawke the last word with the obvious rebuttal to that nonsense to end the article.

Edited February 27 by Bartimaeus

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

41 minutes ago, Bartimaeus said:

This guy stupid or something? No wonder all his movies are hot garbage.

. . .

Theoretically, there's nothing wrong with what he's saying. Obviously, what we value is very different, since I almost entirely remember movies by characters and what they do (and yes, especially dialogue!), but I'm not everyone, and clearly some people do like his films. This kind of thinking will probably, 999/1000 times, mean you're not going to have characters that I think are interesting or fun or pretty much anything else, which almost certainly means that at best, I'm going to be pretty neutral towards your film. So yeah, I guess it starts to make a lot of sense why I hate Denis Villaneuve films. That French Canadian bastard. It was nice they gave Ethan Hawke the last word with the obvious rebuttal to that nonsense to end the article.

Having just watched the entire Ethan Hawke tiktok, it goes even harder than what the article quoted.

I would love to see a movie without any dialogue. But that would still require interesting characters and nothing that Villeneuve has done makes me think he can pull that off as all his major characters are flatter than Hank Hill's ass. There is no damn emotion in any of his films and as such all of the sound is noise and all the image is lifeless. Cinema is not just photography with motion and sound.

Edited February 27 by PK htiw klaw eriF

[ShadySands]

What? He made Arrakis look so cold and sterile. What's not to love?

[Lexx]

Love most of his stuff. You people just angry haters.

[Sarex]

I'm gonna rewatch Dune again before seeing the second part and see if I can spot what you guys are talking about, but yeah I don't really get what you are talking about. What do you expect to see in a desert planet, or is it mostly the color balance that ticks you off. I also thought the acting was fairly on point.