so this would obviously exclude classics like The Godfather and Jaws. Interested in your opinions and in the end will help drive what I load onto the iPad for the next few months of air travel.
I'll mention that I just saw a movie on one of the premium channels I'd never heard of, The Trip, and found it really entertaining. Two actual British actors playing themselves go on a road trip to review restaurants. Sounds bleh but I found it quite funny.
I know some people hate it, but I really think Birdman was a unique experience and the more I watch it the more I concur with my original opinion. Tough to say the best movie in a given year, I know people loved Whiplash and that was a master performance by 2 actors but Birdman was a deserving winner.
But I laughed my ass off with Dirty Grandpa. This is the one with DeNiro not Knoxville.
I love that you went unorthodox with Dirty Grandpa!
In the same vain and maybe 3 years ago, but Horrible Bosses 2 was very funny. Don't believe the critics fucking bullshit. It only got bad reviews because it is politically incorrect but godammed hilarious and not in the Yahoo article title hilarious, really hilarious.
From Wes as far as I'm concerned. UConn has good taste
Such a nice surprise that year. Brilliantly told story with a few great performances and a simple but awesome cinematography. I came out of 2014 with it as my favorite movie I think.
Interstellar is up there as well because Nolan pulled of shots ive never seen before. I give technical achievements more praise than others might.
Ex Machina is just deep, creepy, and so well done.
Off topic Eric, but how long have we known each other? 1998 on the Yahoo Giants board? The Rams game we both went to was in 2005.
Matt... yeah a long time. Remember seeing you at the game but honestly forgot which one it was. Thanks for the reminder. Too bad that message board is long gone. Do you want to get back into our fantasy football league? CJ, Antonio and a couple of others are still in our league.
and end up not liking very many of them. I don't see a ton of foreign films.
Here are some movies I not only liked, but thought were good. (I like a lot of cheesy movies, which I don't think are objectively "good")
Since June 2014:
Her
(Scarlett Johanssen makes you understand how a guy could basically fall in love with his Siri. Actually a pretty deep and extremely well-crafted film.)
The Wolf of Wall Street
(Underrated film. A lot of people didn't get it. A lot of people STILL don't get it.)
Gravity
(Best seen in a theater. Great ripping yarn. Not as deep as it wants to be, but still...)
The Big Short
(Great, great agitprop.)
Mad Max: Fury Road
(both cheesy AND objectively good)
Brooklyn
(underrated; a side of the immigrant experience that's rarely been portrayed in movies. Plus Saoirse Ronan arrives as a grown-up movie star. Pencil her in for about 15 Best Actress nominations over the next 50 years.)
Son of Saul
(objectively, a terrific film, but a very difficult movie to sit through, being a particularly grim Holocaust story.)
Guardians of the Galaxy
(So much fun. And beautifully done. Rocket and Groot alone are worth the price of admission.)
basically there will be blood for me for the next 5 years. just a tremendous, gripping film if you have a good tv, great sound, and a dark room and some whiskey to watch it with
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Matt... yeah a long time. Remember seeing you at the game but honestly forgot which one it was. Thanks for the reminder. Too bad that message board is long gone. Do you want to get back into our fantasy football league? CJ, Antonio and a couple of others are still in our league.
I might. Let's see what I have on my plate when the league is near finalized. I realized that it takes a lot of time/thought to be any good at it.
RE: RE: RE: RE: Well I am getting a nice little list here Â
Matt... yeah a long time. Remember seeing you at the game but honestly forgot which one it was. Thanks for the reminder. Too bad that message board is long gone. Do you want to get back into our fantasy football league? CJ, Antonio and a couple of others are still in our league.
I might. Let's see what I have on my plate when the league is near finalized. I realized that it takes a lot of time/thought to be any good at it.
The editing is all over the place with horribly spliced scenes. And the sound straight up drowns out the dialogue.
He’s a poor man’s Cameron or good Ridley Scott (as opposed to bad Ridley which comes around all too often). Say what you want about Avatar’s hackneyed story…it’s a clean, well-edited film. Ditto The Martian. To say nothing of the Terminators, Alien/Aliens, Blade Runner etc.
Nolan’s best are Begins (which, despite suffering from the same pitfalls as his worst films, had a solid origin story) and the first half of Insomnia. The Dark Knight Rises is possibly the worst big budget movie I’ve ever seen. I’m serious when I say I thought it was jaw-droppingly bad. In his defense, taking a dump into a film reel and making a Billion dollars could make anyone lazy.
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To answer the OP’s question:
The Big Short: Christian Bale is, we know, a huge asshole. But fuck can that guy act. Ditto Steve Carrell: he is a really, really good actor. And so much style in this film from celebrities as themselves explaining financial instruments to splicing in Will Ferrell’s Landlord sketch with Ludacris blasting in the background.
Nightcrawler: reference to Oscar snubs are overplayed and usually simply the individual’s preference. But Gyllenhaal in this film is stone cold amazing. I read somewhere a comparison to Travis Bickle. My favorite film in several years.
Chef: light-hearted, enjoyable film with Sofia Vergara’s very large breasts.
I thought Everest was well done, though fairly boilerplate. I dunno…maybe it was just residual Jake G badassery left over from Nightcrawler.
Wild is a nice watch for scenery and seeing Reese Witherspoon get nailed. But nowhere near Sean Penn’s similarly titled film.
Props to whoever said Blue Ruin. MINOR SPOILER: there’s a scene where the main character steals a handgun, but can’t get the trigger lock off. So he gives up and moves on. Cue next scene. It was a great, real life moment which the film is full of. While not nearly as good, if you liked this film, check out Cold in July with our boy Dexter.
And man I wanted to love Sicario. My kind of film: gritty, minimal Hollywood flair, Benicio. It just did not deliver.
I enjoyed was Rudderless. About a dude who starts a band after his son passes away. The original music was surprisngly enjoyable (Not great) and it was Willam H Macy's directorial debut. Plus, Billy Crudup is one of the best out there and he doesnt fail to deliver.
Ex Machina was also trmendous. Not sure people who Aren't filmophile"s would enjoy it, however.
Wow, those were two crappy films. Stay away from those recommendations.
Crappy? Holy shit
Yes, crappy. Nolan is a severely overrated filmmaker. Interstellar was an overlong hot mess of a story with a final act that came apart at the seams. In other words, typical Nolan.
radar showing how much smarter he is than everyone else again...
More about taste. Awful story. Awful character development. One long absurd car chase.
It was neither great art nor great story telling. Just an adrenaline ride that abandoned every other aspect of great movie making.
Ehh, you didn't like it, just move on since your are making a fool out of yourself. Not art? There arguably isn't another director in the industry who can pull off the shots Miller did, all in daylight (except for maybe 5 minutes of the action), with real stunts and minimal CGI. Yeah, no art there at all, he only did the opposite of what everyone else in Hollywood does 99% of the time.
is Gone Girl. I though it had a horrible 3rd act which ruined the entire movie. Surprised Fincher took this project considering how weak the writing was in the book. The initial disappearance and investigation were fine but the wheels fell off and it turned into a comedy.
indie film entitled "Sing Street." Premise is a teenage boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress a girl he likes. Probably not the best mive I've seen, but a fully entertaining film with a great 80s British band soundtrack of Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, etc.
is Gone Girl. I though it had a horrible 3rd act which ruined the entire movie. Surprised Fincher took this project considering how weak the writing was in the book. The initial disappearance and investigation were fine but the wheels fell off and it turned into a comedy.
Yes. Gone Girl is not awful start-to-finish. But that third act absolutely casts it into the "do not waste your time" category. During the second act, you can sense the film starts coasting. Then that absurd third act...Best Picture nomination?! Major lulz.
Grand Budapest Hotel (was as beautiful as it looked visually)
Ex Machina (OMG, I feel in love with the girls in this one)
Pride (British movie about the Gay and Lesbian community helping the striking Welsh coal miners)
Edge of Tomorrow - just a total roller coaster of an action movie. (and I am NOT a Cruise fan)
Creed - thought it was a great script and really well acted.
I'll also put the Marvel movies (Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, Deadpool and Civil War...just well done and fun) The others, not as much.
Also, I enjoyed Jungle Book. Thought it handled the memory of the original cartoon movie very well.
And, since I am a child of the 70's (parents took me to see the original when it came out for my 7th birthday. Star Wars. Like Creed, I think it played into it's history and held love for it's past and the people who grew up with the franchise.
I didn't care for was Birdman. Loved the directing, hated the movie (if that's even possible). I did enjoy the final 5-10 minutes, but as a whole the story did nothing for me.
Inside Out was awesome, such a deep animated movie that felt like it was made for adults. Right up there with Up and Wall-E.
I thought was pretty good not great. Didn't like how it ended. They beat you over the head with him having PTSD but never really went into any great depth with it. Just kept showing him not being comfortable back home but then kinda just stopped. I felt like it was a lost opportunity.
It seems silly to call a Best Picture nominee and Best Screenplay winner "underrated," but that was one of the most carefully crafted movie I've ever seen. The smallest details about "the future" were attended to.
At one point Theodore is on a train. A scene that could've been just a guy on a train, but he had a cup of coffee and it was on his little table, and the liquid wasn't in motion at all. It was completely still. That's the type of thing one might expect from a train ride in the future, but would be impossible today. It's the type of detail that gives a film subtle character.
Then the story itself was just truly incredible and organic. The way Theodore doubted himself the entire way as he fell in love with his OS; the way he questioned love itself because he was actually able to fall in love with an OS.
Just a beautiful film. One of my favorites ever and I feel like it's been mostly forgotten.
brought the future to life in "Her" which was awesome. I just didn't care for his relationship with the PC. It was fine at first but then it just got ridiculous and their conversations didn't seem natural anymore. I did like it though, just not as much as a bunch of others the past few years.
Although some may have not been released in the past two years, they are still in rotation on "the movie channels".
The Departed - with Leo Di Caprio, Matt Damon & Jack Nickleson. Love this movie with all the twists. Even though I know how it turns out, I still watch it every time and feel like the first time, if that makes any sense. Great acting & directing by Scorcese.
The Martian - another Matt Damon movie. I swear I'm not his biggest fan or anything, but the guy can act & has been cast in some great films. Love the story. It has a way of making you question if/how you could handle surviving living alone on Mars until being rescued.
Star Wars, the Force Awakens - I never thought it would have been that good, being that it was so overhyped & anticipated. It actually not only lived up to the hype, but exceeded it. I find myself looking forward to the next chapter.
100 Foot Journey - This is one of those movies that you watch because there's nothing else on. Unlike most of those types of movies, this one is a very nice, original story.
It seems silly to call a Best Picture nominee and Best Screenplay winner "underrated," but that was one of the most carefully crafted movie I've ever seen. The smallest details about "the future" were attended to.
At one point Theodore is on a train. A scene that could've been just a guy on a train, but he had a cup of coffee and it was on his little table, and the liquid wasn't in motion at all. It was completely still. That's the type of thing one might expect from a train ride in the future, but would be impossible today. It's the type of detail that gives a film subtle character.
Then the story itself was just truly incredible and organic. The way Theodore doubted himself the entire way as he fell in love with his OS; the way he questioned love itself because he was actually able to fall in love with an OS.
Just a beautiful film. One of my favorites ever and I feel like it's been mostly forgotten.
I wanted to like Her so much. I expected to love it. I like Spike Jonze, and I love good A.I. premises.
I shut it off in the middle. Just couldn't continue forcing myself through it. I just found it a massive disappointment. Mismanaged characters, mismanaged story, misplaced vulgarity. Just so disappointing.
was excellent, better in the theater on a big screen. Also "The Wrecking Crew" documentary was very well done. The movie "Frank" was very strange but I liked it.
It seems silly to call a Best Picture nominee and Best Screenplay winner "underrated," but that was one of the most carefully crafted movie I've ever seen. The smallest details about "the future" were attended to.
At one point Theodore is on a train. A scene that could've been just a guy on a train, but he had a cup of coffee and it was on his little table, and the liquid wasn't in motion at all. It was completely still. That's the type of thing one might expect from a train ride in the future, but would be impossible today. It's the type of detail that gives a film subtle character.
Then the story itself was just truly incredible and organic. The way Theodore doubted himself the entire way as he fell in love with his OS; the way he questioned love itself because he was actually able to fall in love with an OS.
Just a beautiful film. One of my favorites ever and I feel like it's been mostly forgotten.
I wanted to like Her so much. I expected to love it. I like Spike Jonze, and I love good A.I. premises.
I shut it off in the middle. Just couldn't continue forcing myself through it. I just found it a massive disappointment. Mismanaged characters, mismanaged story, misplaced vulgarity. Just so disappointing.
I suppose this is why I call it underrated, ha. Your opinion is not an unpopular one. I've heard that often.
For the life of me I just don't get it. The only "misplaced vulgarity" I can think of is the scene with Kristen Wiig, but that was what, 3 minutes? One of my favorite movies ever, but to each his own :)
Props to whoever said Blue Ruin. MINOR SPOILER: there’s a scene where the main character steals a handgun, but can’t get the trigger lock off. So he gives up and moves on. Cue next scene. It was a great, real life moment which the film is full of. While not nearly as good, if you liked this film, check out Cold in July with our boy Dexter.
That's what I loved about it, it didn't feel like a "movie revenge tale", it felt like a story about what would happen if a regular, average guy set out to avenge a murder. Excellent movie.
That church scene in Kingsman was amazing.
True Grit
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Super 8
Gone Girl
and of course, Frozen.
all good movies. Frozen now is so annoying that if I hear the word or see the characters I twitch a little bit.
True Grit
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Super 8
Gone Girl
and of course, Frozen.
all good movies. Frozen now is so annoying that if I hear the word or see the characters I twitch a little bit.
Sorry, I meant to say none in the past 2 years, so that's why I went back 10.
2015: The Martian, Bridge of Spies, Room
If you have a quick flight: Lucy or Ex Machina
If you have a quick flight: Lucy or Ex Machina
Well i am on flights every week so I will have enough time to eventually see everything
Have you seen "The Gift"?
If the later it's probably these 5:
The Revenant
Mad Max: Fury Road
Nightcrawler
Grand Budapest Hotel
Ex Machina
I know some people hate it, but I really think Birdman was a unique experience and the more I watch it the more I concur with my original opinion. Tough to say the best movie in a given year, I know people loved Whiplash and that was a master performance by 2 actors but Birdman was a deserving winner.
Room was so hard to sit through especially the second half but it's a great movie. The gift was good too.
The revenant was fantastic.
If the later it's probably these 5:
The Revenant
Mad Max: Fury Road
Nightcrawler
Grand Budapest Hotel
Ex Machina
Actually came out since 2014 (give or take). I saw the revenant and mad max.
I love that you went unorthodox with Dirty Grandpa!
In the same vain and maybe 3 years ago, but Horrible Bosses 2 was very funny. Don't believe the critics fucking bullshit. It only got bad reviews because it is politically incorrect but godammed hilarious and not in the Yahoo article title hilarious, really hilarious.
John Wick was awesome. I will check out the Revanant.
Such a nice surprise that year. Brilliantly told story with a few great performances and a simple but awesome cinematography. I came out of 2014 with it as my favorite movie I think.
Interstellar is up there as well because Nolan pulled of shots ive never seen before. I give technical achievements more praise than others might.
Ex Machina is just deep, creepy, and so well done.
Also, Edge Of Tomorrow. Incredibly fun movie.
Oblivion was a surprisingly good movie. As was Edge of Tomorrow with Cruise and Emily Blunt.
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2013 with Tom Cruise was really, really good.
Also, Edge Of Tomorrow. Incredibly fun movie.
Or what he said ;-)
Off topic Eric, but how long have we known each other? 1998 on the Yahoo Giants board? The Rams game we both went to was in 2005.
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Off topic Eric, but how long have we known each other? 1998 on the Yahoo Giants board? The Rams game we both went to was in 2005.
Matt... yeah a long time. Remember seeing you at the game but honestly forgot which one it was. Thanks for the reminder. Too bad that message board is long gone. Do you want to get back into our fantasy football league? CJ, Antonio and a couple of others are still in our league.
Here are some movies I not only liked, but thought were good. (I like a lot of cheesy movies, which I don't think are objectively "good")
Since June 2014:
Her
(Scarlett Johanssen makes you understand how a guy could basically fall in love with his Siri. Actually a pretty deep and extremely well-crafted film.)
The Wolf of Wall Street
(Underrated film. A lot of people didn't get it. A lot of people STILL don't get it.)
Gravity
(Best seen in a theater. Great ripping yarn. Not as deep as it wants to be, but still...)
The Big Short
(Great, great agitprop.)
Mad Max: Fury Road
(both cheesy AND objectively good)
Brooklyn
(underrated; a side of the immigrant experience that's rarely been portrayed in movies. Plus Saoirse Ronan arrives as a grown-up movie star. Pencil her in for about 15 Best Actress nominations over the next 50 years.)
Son of Saul
(objectively, a terrific film, but a very difficult movie to sit through, being a particularly grim Holocaust story.)
Guardians of the Galaxy
(So much fun. And beautifully done. Rocket and Groot alone are worth the price of admission.)
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Oblivion was a surprisingly good movie. As was Edge of Tomorrow with Cruise and Emily Blunt.
Agree on both. Neither is top of my list but both are well worth seeing.
This a was a great movie. Fakes everything so they save him
Matt... yeah a long time. Remember seeing you at the game but honestly forgot which one it was. Thanks for the reminder. Too bad that message board is long gone. Do you want to get back into our fantasy football league? CJ, Antonio and a couple of others are still in our league.
I might. Let's see what I have on my plate when the league is near finalized. I realized that it takes a lot of time/thought to be any good at it.
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Matt... yeah a long time. Remember seeing you at the game but honestly forgot which one it was. Thanks for the reminder. Too bad that message board is long gone. Do you want to get back into our fantasy football league? CJ, Antonio and a couple of others are still in our league.
I might. Let's see what I have on my plate when the league is near finalized. I realized that it takes a lot of time/thought to be any good at it.
Still have my email?
MrVax... yes I do
I've only seen 5 movies in 10 years, I didn't have much to compare it with.
Crappy? Holy shit
He’s a poor man’s Cameron or good Ridley Scott (as opposed to bad Ridley which comes around all too often). Say what you want about Avatar’s hackneyed story…it’s a clean, well-edited film. Ditto The Martian. To say nothing of the Terminators, Alien/Aliens, Blade Runner etc.
Nolan’s best are Begins (which, despite suffering from the same pitfalls as his worst films, had a solid origin story) and the first half of Insomnia. The Dark Knight Rises is possibly the worst big budget movie I’ve ever seen. I’m serious when I say I thought it was jaw-droppingly bad. In his defense, taking a dump into a film reel and making a Billion dollars could make anyone lazy.
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To answer the OP’s question:
The Big Short: Christian Bale is, we know, a huge asshole. But fuck can that guy act. Ditto Steve Carrell: he is a really, really good actor. And so much style in this film from celebrities as themselves explaining financial instruments to splicing in Will Ferrell’s Landlord sketch with Ludacris blasting in the background.
Nightcrawler: reference to Oscar snubs are overplayed and usually simply the individual’s preference. But Gyllenhaal in this film is stone cold amazing. I read somewhere a comparison to Travis Bickle. My favorite film in several years.
Chef: light-hearted, enjoyable film with Sofia Vergara’s very large breasts.
I thought Everest was well done, though fairly boilerplate. I dunno…maybe it was just residual Jake G badassery left over from Nightcrawler.
Wild is a nice watch for scenery and seeing Reese Witherspoon get nailed. But nowhere near Sean Penn’s similarly titled film.
Props to whoever said Blue Ruin. MINOR SPOILER: there’s a scene where the main character steals a handgun, but can’t get the trigger lock off. So he gives up and moves on. Cue next scene. It was a great, real life moment which the film is full of. While not nearly as good, if you liked this film, check out Cold in July with our boy Dexter.
And man I wanted to love Sicario. My kind of film: gritty, minimal Hollywood flair, Benicio. It just did not deliver.
Ex Machina was also trmendous. Not sure people who Aren't filmophile"s would enjoy it, however.
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Crappy? Holy shit
Yes, crappy. Nolan is a severely overrated filmmaker. Interstellar was an overlong hot mess of a story with a final act that came apart at the seams. In other words, typical Nolan.
best movie i've seen that was new in the last two years. Of course I've only seen like 3 new movies in that time frame.
More about taste. Awful story. Awful character development. One long absurd car chase.
It was neither great art nor great story telling. Just an adrenaline ride that abandoned every other aspect of great movie making.
Yeah but I'm lazy about my snobbishness.
Just watched Maleficent - enjoyed it very much.
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radar showing how much smarter he is than everyone else again...
More about taste. Awful story. Awful character development. One long absurd car chase.
It was neither great art nor great story telling. Just an adrenaline ride that abandoned every other aspect of great movie making.
Ehh, you didn't like it, just move on since your are making a fool out of yourself. Not art? There arguably isn't another director in the industry who can pull off the shots Miller did, all in daylight (except for maybe 5 minutes of the action), with real stunts and minimal CGI. Yeah, no art there at all, he only did the opposite of what everyone else in Hollywood does 99% of the time.
I very much enjoyed both of these as well. Also the Martian.
Yes. Gone Girl is not awful start-to-finish. But that third act absolutely casts it into the "do not waste your time" category. During the second act, you can sense the film starts coasting. Then that absurd third act...Best Picture nomination?! Major lulz.
Others I've seen recently that I really loved:
Black Mass
'71
Mr. Holmes
Animal Kingdom
Elite Squad (and it's sequel)
Mr. Turner
A Most Violent Year
Calvary
The Band's Visit
Child '44
Inside Out
Ex Machina (OMG, I feel in love with the girls in this one)
Pride (British movie about the Gay and Lesbian community helping the striking Welsh coal miners)
Edge of Tomorrow - just a total roller coaster of an action movie. (and I am NOT a Cruise fan)
Creed - thought it was a great script and really well acted.
I'll also put the Marvel movies (Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, Deadpool and Civil War...just well done and fun) The others, not as much.
Also, I enjoyed Jungle Book. Thought it handled the memory of the original cartoon movie very well.
And, since I am a child of the 70's (parents took me to see the original when it came out for my 7th birthday. Star Wars. Like Creed, I think it played into it's history and held love for it's past and the people who grew up with the franchise.
Guardians of the Galaxy
American Sniper
Inside Out was awesome, such a deep animated movie that felt like it was made for adults. Right up there with Up and Wall-E.
Enjoyed Guardians of the Galaxy with the kids... for plain old fun.
The actual war scenes were great though.
At one point Theodore is on a train. A scene that could've been just a guy on a train, but he had a cup of coffee and it was on his little table, and the liquid wasn't in motion at all. It was completely still. That's the type of thing one might expect from a train ride in the future, but would be impossible today. It's the type of detail that gives a film subtle character.
Then the story itself was just truly incredible and organic. The way Theodore doubted himself the entire way as he fell in love with his OS; the way he questioned love itself because he was actually able to fall in love with an OS.
Just a beautiful film. One of my favorites ever and I feel like it's been mostly forgotten.
The Departed - with Leo Di Caprio, Matt Damon & Jack Nickleson. Love this movie with all the twists. Even though I know how it turns out, I still watch it every time and feel like the first time, if that makes any sense. Great acting & directing by Scorcese.
The Martian - another Matt Damon movie. I swear I'm not his biggest fan or anything, but the guy can act & has been cast in some great films. Love the story. It has a way of making you question if/how you could handle surviving living alone on Mars until being rescued.
Star Wars, the Force Awakens - I never thought it would have been that good, being that it was so overhyped & anticipated. It actually not only lived up to the hype, but exceeded it. I find myself looking forward to the next chapter.
100 Foot Journey - This is one of those movies that you watch because there's nothing else on. Unlike most of those types of movies, this one is a very nice, original story.
Mad Max
Theory of Everything
Whiplash
Star Wars
Boyhood
Still need to see Birdman, the Revenant, and the Big Short
At one point Theodore is on a train. A scene that could've been just a guy on a train, but he had a cup of coffee and it was on his little table, and the liquid wasn't in motion at all. It was completely still. That's the type of thing one might expect from a train ride in the future, but would be impossible today. It's the type of detail that gives a film subtle character.
Then the story itself was just truly incredible and organic. The way Theodore doubted himself the entire way as he fell in love with his OS; the way he questioned love itself because he was actually able to fall in love with an OS.
Just a beautiful film. One of my favorites ever and I feel like it's been mostly forgotten.
I wanted to like Her so much. I expected to love it. I like Spike Jonze, and I love good A.I. premises.
I shut it off in the middle. Just couldn't continue forcing myself through it. I just found it a massive disappointment. Mismanaged characters, mismanaged story, misplaced vulgarity. Just so disappointing.
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It seems silly to call a Best Picture nominee and Best Screenplay winner "underrated," but that was one of the most carefully crafted movie I've ever seen. The smallest details about "the future" were attended to.
At one point Theodore is on a train. A scene that could've been just a guy on a train, but he had a cup of coffee and it was on his little table, and the liquid wasn't in motion at all. It was completely still. That's the type of thing one might expect from a train ride in the future, but would be impossible today. It's the type of detail that gives a film subtle character.
Then the story itself was just truly incredible and organic. The way Theodore doubted himself the entire way as he fell in love with his OS; the way he questioned love itself because he was actually able to fall in love with an OS.
Just a beautiful film. One of my favorites ever and I feel like it's been mostly forgotten.
I wanted to like Her so much. I expected to love it. I like Spike Jonze, and I love good A.I. premises.
I shut it off in the middle. Just couldn't continue forcing myself through it. I just found it a massive disappointment. Mismanaged characters, mismanaged story, misplaced vulgarity. Just so disappointing.
I suppose this is why I call it underrated, ha. Your opinion is not an unpopular one. I've heard that often.
For the life of me I just don't get it. The only "misplaced vulgarity" I can think of is the scene with Kristen Wiig, but that was what, 3 minutes? One of my favorite movies ever, but to each his own :)
That excellently explains how I feel, too. Perfect analogy regarding Lars.
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Props to whoever said Blue Ruin. MINOR SPOILER: there’s a scene where the main character steals a handgun, but can’t get the trigger lock off. So he gives up and moves on. Cue next scene. It was a great, real life moment which the film is full of. While not nearly as good, if you liked this film, check out Cold in July with our boy Dexter.
That's what I loved about it, it didn't feel like a "movie revenge tale", it felt like a story about what would happen if a regular, average guy set out to avenge a murder. Excellent movie.
- Moon
- Interstellar
- Sicario
- Grand Budapest Hotel
- Chef
- Burnt (with Bradley Cooper)
All excellent films. My favorites are probably Moon and Sicario.