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« Reply #2580 on Sept 29, 2012, 1:32am » | |
Sept 29, 2012, 1:24am, Cbats wrote:
Sept 29, 2012, 1:13am, DREW OF THE RUSHES wrote:| RE: The Master. Roger Ebert's review sums up my experience - it's incredible, visceral, a masterpiece of visual art, and I have no idea what the text was trying to say or accomplish. That's loaded because it makes a big assumption about the nature of art (that it has an object in mind), but still my reaction. |
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yeah I saw Ebert's review and definitely agree with it at the moment. I expected to feel this way though and I don't want to reject the broader meaning of the movie before I see it again. There are things I can begin to grasp right now and I imagine they'll become clearer the second time through.
Then again, Ebert may be dead on and there might not be anything there. I have a hard time believing it based on PTA's track record but who knows. |
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[spoiler=The Master]I keep thinking of the end, and Dodd's sort of pathetic attempt to recruit Freddie back into the Cause, and Freddie coming close to joining him again but deciding to leave. I think that if there's a meaning, it's in how that relationship ends.
Dude's movies have THE BEST ENDINGS. Like, if you can't Dr. Garbanzoure out an ending for your movie, call PTA. Frogs, bowling alley homicide, close up a capella solo...[/spoiler]
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« Reply #2581 on Sept 29, 2012, 1:33am » | |
Sept 29, 2012, 1:31am, NadineHurley wrote:| So whadya guys think of The Master? It looked freakin beautiful in 70mm and I was engaged the whole time, albiet a little disoriented at the end. Joaquin will get his third nomination and first win for this performance and PSH will be nominated for a supporting role, sin dudo. All of the actors really gave powerhouse performances. |
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The acting is the only thing I could think about for the first few hours after the movie. So in your face
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« Reply #2582 on Sept 29, 2012, 1:49am » | |
We missed our bus to the theater to watch The Master. Then the bus that was gonna take us to see Looper was late. We eventually decided not to go downtown at all, what with the crazy fucking full moon, and we came home and watched V/H/S.
Put THAT one on your list, Nadine. Uhhhh jibbly jibbly jibbly jibbly jibbly. That's some unsettling shit.
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« Reply #2583 on Sept 29, 2012, 2:04am » | |
Not sleeping anytime soon.
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Apr 13, 2013, 1:08am, weenie wrote:But seriously...those flowers are seriously beautiful and i will curb stomp you if fuck them up.
But really.
Don't fuck up my azaleas. |
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« Reply #2584 on Sept 29, 2012, 3:03am » | |
Like for real.
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Apr 13, 2013, 1:08am, weenie wrote:But seriously...those flowers are seriously beautiful and i will curb stomp you if fuck them up.
But really.
Don't fuck up my azaleas. |
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« Reply #2585 on Sept 29, 2012, 3:24am » | |
Sept 28, 2012, 6:24pm, Cbats wrote:
Sept 28, 2012, 5:49pm, kymess_jr wrote:| And then there was third film, The Comedy, which has the distinction of being the third movie I've ever walked out on. What a complete piece of hipster bullshit that was. I got the feeling it's supposed to be this generations version of Kids, except the problem is hipsters are boring, self-entitled douches that just spend their time riding bikes, spitting PBR on each other, saying things like slave vaginer and cum chugging and talk about hobo dicks and Hitler's good ideas as if it's supposed to be funny and/or shocking but unfortunately is neither, and sometimes they also play stickball with James Murphy. That was probably what duped me into seeing it, James Murphy listed in the cast. Anyway, the kids we followed in Kids had way more value as human beings than these twenty something hipster twats do. I just wish I didn't waste 45 minutes trying to decide if my gut instinct from the first scene was right. |
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I'm never going to see this movie because I'm sure it's awful and I can't stand Tim & Eric but I'm pretty sure it's trying to attack the emptiness of hipsters rather than glorify them. Doesn't really change anything about how horrible it was but don't blame this one on hipsters.
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Don't worry I'm not blaming hipsters. I shoulda said *these* hipsters in the film; didn't mean to paint such a broad stroke there. Anyway, I could see that maybe they were trying to show them as empty, and if that was the case, they kinda succeeded there. But this was in no way a satire, parody or mockery. I kept waitng for it to become one but unfortunately, no.
Unless, maybe the mockery is supposed to be of the group of hipsters I watched walk into the theatre, sit dead center with anticipation, and were the only people giving pity laughs at the poo and dick conversations? Perhaps it was some sort of meta-mocking of the audience that was stupid enough to sit through the whole thing. As soon as I finally got up to leave, about five or six people followed me out as if I had given them the ok to admit we were watching a piece of crap. All in all though, I probably won't forget this one for awhile and it's kinda nice to have a movie I hate this much as its been awhile for me.
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« Reply #2586 on Sept 29, 2012, 4:36am via the ProBoards Mobile App » | |
V/H/S... Check!
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« Reply #2587 on Sept 29, 2012, 9:54am » | |
Sept 29, 2012, 1:49am, Horned Gramma wrote:We missed our bus to the theater to watch The Master. Then the bus that was gonna take us to see Looper was late. We eventually decided not to go downtown at all, what with the crazy fucking full moon, and we came home and watched V/H/S.
Put THAT one on your list, Nadine. Uhhhh jibbly jibbly jibbly jibbly jibbly. That's some unsettling shit. |
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Bummer! I'm going to see Looper tonight. In Fresno. I'm pumped.
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« Reply #2588 on Sept 29, 2012, 10:50pm » | |
We just did The Master and Looper back to back.
Looper was great. The Master was knee-buckling. Holy shitcakes, what a film. Fucking Joaquin Phoenix. God damn.
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« Reply #2589 on Sept 30, 2012, 12:27am » | |
Yeah Looper was solid. I would trust Rian Johnson to be the new dude making tight genre movies with good actors, and let Chris Nolan go....do something else.
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« Reply #2590 on Sept 30, 2012, 12:45am » | |
Still haven't seen the new Batman shit, because I just don't care. Nolan is a hack
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« Reply #2591 on Sept 30, 2012, 12:50am via the ProBoards Mobile App » | |
Yeah Looper whatever, I don't buy it. How the hell did Willis have time to make all those Die Hard movies when he was busy doing Third Rock From The Sun?
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« Reply #2592 on Sept 30, 2012, 7:42pm » | |
Posting this in the more appropritate thread, where people actually like movies. See the Memes thread for context.
Sept 30, 2012, 2:19am, NO LOVE DEEP BJORRITO wrote:What Drew said, and what Gramma said.
Fuck Dancer in the Dark. That was the first time I ever questioned Bjorrito's decisions, and is exactly why I'm always making comments to my friends like "why the fuck do you guys watch so many movies?" because I can't possibly conceive how a person could get any enjoyment or learn anything useful from trash like that. |
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Sept 30, 2012, 4:22am, NadineHurley wrote:| Bjorrito gave the performance of a lifetime in Dancer in the Dark. She reaches right through the screen and tugs at your heart. She beautifully portrayed the plight of a single mother living in poverty and dealing with a disability. I tend to agree about Lars Von Trier and the roles he writes for women, however I find that in some cases (Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, Melancholia) the female lead, however tortured and beaten down, shines through as an enlightened badass by the end. Bjorrito accomplished this. She was courageous, strong, inspirational, effervescent- to associate the word "trash" with Bjorrito & Dancer in the Dark is just foolish. |
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Sept 30, 2012, 9:46am, DREW OF THE RUSHES wrote:I just remember Bjorrito's scream at the end. Shivers.
Still haven't seen Melancholia, but it's on Netflix. Worth it? |
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Sept 30, 2012, 1:03pm, NO LOVE DEEP BJORRITO wrote:
The ending of Dancer in the Dark is exactly what I'm talking about as an example of the female character emerging as the enlightened badass, immune to her tormentors by the end.
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[spoiler=Dancer in the Dark] When B.jork is brought into the hanging chambers by a group of male guards (and one female guard) she freaks the fuck out. This is the chilling screaming Drew is referring to. They strap her to a board and put a hood over her head. She screams out that she can't breathe and the female guard breaks protocol and removes her hood. The male guards are totally caught off guard and try to put the hood back but the female guard refuses to allow this, causing an argument which forces them to call the supervisor and prolonging B.jork's life long enough for the following to happen: B.jork screams out the name of her son repeatedly, wildly. Her female best friend, who is seated below, gets out of her seat, pushes past the male guards and runs up to B.jork. The male guards try to separate them but she Dr. Garbanzohts them off long enough to give B.jork a hug and kiss and hand her Gene's (B.jork's son) glasses, stating, "Gene's right outside, he wanted you to have these." IMMEDIATELY B.jork stops screaming, she inhales deep and breathes out slowly, peacefully and smiles. She won. All she wanted her whole life was to be able to afford the treatment for her son to prevent the genetic disorder they both shared from taking his vision as it had hers. He gave her his glasses, he didn't need them anymore- her life's work actualized. She begins to sing, commanding every one's attention in the room:
"Dear Gene, of course you are here
And now there's nothing to fear
Oooh, I should have known
Oooh, I was never alone
This isn't the last song
There is no violin
The choir is so quiet
And no one takes a spin
This is the next to last song
And that's all, all
Remember what I have said
Remember, wrap up the bread
Do this, do that, make your bed
This isn't the last song
There is no violin
The choir is quiet
And no one takes a spin
This is the next to last song
And that's all ..."
She effectively hijacked her own execution with the help of the female guard and her female best friend. She radiated happiness, tranquility and enlightenment as she dropped to her death. Ok, ok that's all ;-)[/spoiler]
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« Reply #2593 on Sept 30, 2012, 8:55pm » | |
I love difficult movies but I've been burned by Lars Von Trier far too many times. No matter how many good things people say about his movies, I'm not watching another one.
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« Reply #2594 on Sept 30, 2012, 9:05pm » | |
Sept 30, 2012, 8:55pm, Cbats wrote:| I love difficult movies but I've been burned by Lars Von Trier far too many times. No matter how many good things people say about his movies, I'm not watching another one. |
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I feel the same way about fro-yo
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