Watch, Watched, Watching: The cancellations continue

[Cas Stark]

2 hours ago, Tywin et al. said:

I'm not sure you need spoiler tags for a movie that's over 20 years old unless it's something like The Usual Suspects or Seven.

Is DA worth renting?

Yes.  Absolutely.  For once Pacino's scenery chewing works, since you would expect the Devil to be, er, dramatic.  Good supporting cast.  

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

48 minutes ago, Nictarion said:

I still do both. I only rent a movie on Prime every once in a while, but I still buy blu rays pretty frequently. Mostly of older or more obscure films that I can’t just easily find on a streaming platform. 

They're really cheap these days too. If you rent something three times, you might as well have just bought it. 

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

54 minutes ago, Cas Stark said:

Yes.  Absolutely.  For once Pacino's scenery chewing works, since you would expect the Devil to be, er, dramatic.  Good supporting cast.  

Fuck it, let's go!

Also, while scrolling through movies on demand, "de" really tempted me with Deep Blue Sea 1, 2 and 3. 

And buy. 

[Teng Ai Hui]

My current guilty pleasure is I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.

[TheLastWolf]

Is there an Oscars thread? Since I couldn't find any, here's the post anyway. 

Jallikattu is India's official 2021 Oscar entry. With Parasite winning Oscars, foreign films are being considered without bias hopefully. Indian cinema has always been Satyajit Ray for many. Lijo Jose Pelissery is touted to be his contemporary. Malayalam, Bengali and Tamil cinema are the only ones worth watching. Telugu is shit and Hindi produces one good film a year. And they are all named after Hollywood. Kollywood. Bollywood. Tollywood. Molly wood. Lol

Anyway, Jallikattu was fantastic with great visuals and the subtitles were spot on according to a friend. 

Iranian Majid Majidi's fans would love this guy and his films. 

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

Movie contains one random Donald Trump reference. 

Also, I know I haven't seen this before because I've had a crush on both female leads for years and hot damn!

[GallowKnight]

20 hours ago, Tywin et al. said:

I thought I heard that Black Christmas was bad, and I've never even heard of the other film.

Black Christmas is great, one ofe the best slasher movies ever made. The two remakes are trash though.

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

14 hours ago, DMC said:

Meh, whatever.  I'm not editing again.

I've always really enjoyed it.  Pacino is great hamming it up, and it's probably in my top two/three favorite roles for Reeves as well.  And a young Theron with a great performance.  It's a blast, quite rewatchable too.

Okay, we have to discuss this. The movie is not good. There isn't much to take away from it other than, spoiler alert, two women I think are amazing show their tits. That's the only reason why I'd watch this film again, and that's not ever a reason to watch a movie. 

ETA: 

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Double spoilers, FUCK THIS MOVIE. The whole movie is a dream, don't watch it. Ever!

 

[Deadlines? What Deadlines?]

Finally got around to William Friedkin's Sorcerer. I recommend it. Friedkin is a madman.

[Ran]

Watched Tarkovsky's Stalker for the first time. A remarkable, singular director, devoted to letting the lens linger. I've read that his film had something like 142 cuts in its 163 minute run time. It's a science fiction parable, loosely based on Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers (who wrote this script), and has been decidedly influential. It's also very Russian, deep depths of melancholy and existential discussions struggling with the human condition. Amazing atmosphere, too, most of shot on location in desolate parts of Estonia, depicted as to make it feel like you were marching slowly towards the end of the world.

The end was not what I expected, including a terrific fourth-wall-breaking speech by Alisa Friendlich.

Pairs well with his Solaris.

[DMC]

1 hour ago, Tywin et al. said:

Okay, we have to discuss this. The movie is not good.

I wasn't saying you needed to rewatch it for some deeper meaning or because it belongs on AFI's Top 100 or anything.  It's a fun bad movie.

1 hour ago, Tywin et al. said:

ETA: 

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Erm, the entire premise of the movie is the devil trying to tempt Keanu Reeves into siring the antichrist.  And literally ends showing the devil's gonna try to do it again.  Saying the whole thing is a "dream" is like saying the third act of Last Temptation of Christ is a "dream."

 

[Week]

18 hours ago, Zorral said:

Hillbilly Elegy -- just not working for me, for whatever reason(s).

It's a bad book and a worse movie. Reductionist poverty porn by the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" peddlers.

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

13 minutes ago, DMC said:

I wasn't saying you needed to rewatch it for some deeper meaning or because it belongs on AFI's Top 100 or anything.  It's a fun bad movie.

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Erm, the entire premise of the movie is the devil trying to tempt Keanu Reeves into siring the antichrist.  And literally ends showing the devil's gonna try to do it again.  Saying the whole thing is a "dream" is like saying the third act of Last Temptation of Christ is a "dream."

 

I mean, you did sell it higher than that....

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Not exactly, it's about him awakening to temptation. 

 

[DMC]

6 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said:

I mean, you did sell it higher than that....

I said it was a "blast" and Pacino was great hamming it up.  NO REFUNDS!

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

9 minutes ago, DMC said:

I said it was a "blast" and Pacino was great hamming it up.  NO REFUNDS!

Oh well, at least on this day you can rely on getting both an Indiana Jones and a James Bond marathon. You might not get the best with the latter though.

[DMC]

41 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said:

at least on this day you can rely on getting both an Indiana Jones and a James Bond marathon.

I think you should rent Bedazzled then get pissed the entire movie is a Faustian bargain.

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

9 minutes ago, DMC said:

I think you should rent Bedazzled then get pissed the entire movie is a Faustian bargain.

I'll watch Bedazzled after you watch Next. 

[A True Kaniggit]

21 minutes ago, DMC said:

I think you should rent Bedazzled then get pissed the entire movie is a Faustian bargain.

The Big Mac and Large Coke shouldn’t have counted.

He even had to pay for it!

[Veltigar]

Knocked Dog Day Afternoon of my list of long overdue classics to watch. I was kind of disappointed by it. The film kind of shows its age and not in a good way. I can see why it caused quite a stir back in the day 

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For a 1970s movie, it seems surprisingly respectful to queer people.

but I found it pretty boring to watch. A lot of things have changed since the 1970s and I feel like some of the themes of the film have been done better elsewhere. It's mostly a film you watch for the performances, but aside from Casale (who is not in nearly enough scenes) I'm not really that blown away by any of the others. 

I wouldn't discourage people to watch it, but there are definitely other classics more worthy of attention.

[DMC]

4 hours ago, Veltigar said:

I feel like some of the themes of the film have been done better elsewhere. It's mostly a film you watch for the performances, but aside from Casale (who is not in nearly enough scenes) I'm not really that blown away by any of the others. 

I absolutely adore Dog Day Afternoon, but I can't really disagree with most of this.  The "themes" aren't exactly ambitious, and yeah, they've been done better elsewhere.  And the largest appeal is simply watching Pacino and Cazale.  But Lumet does a great job drawing you in with the intensity of the situation and it's one of those movies that when the credits role you can't believe it's already been two hours.  The only recent film I'd say that could compare in that regard is Dunkirk.  Also, it has one my favorite movie quotes of all time:

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Sonny: Is there any special country you wanna go to?

Sal: Wyoming.