That was the film I realized Leo was a great actor. The butcher is possibly the GOAT performance of all time and Leo held his own on screen with DDL.Originally Posted by lump
That was the film I realized Leo was a great actor. The butcher is possibly the GOAT performance of all time and Leo held his own on screen with DDL.
Projection is ordinary. Person A projects at person B, hoping tovalidate something about person A by the response of person B. However, person B, not wanting to be an obejct of someone elses ego and guarding against existential terror constructs a personality which protects his ego and maintain a certain sense of a robust and real self that is different and separate from person A. Sadly, this robust and real self, cut off by defenses of character from the rest of the world, is quite vulnerable and fragile given that it is imaginary and propped up through external feed back. Person B is dimly aware of this and defends against it all the more, even desperately projecting his anxieties back onto person A, with the hope of shoring up his ego with salubrious validation. All of this happens without A or B acknowledging it, of course. Because to face up to it consciously is shocking, in that this is all anybody is doing or can do and it seems absurd when you realize how pathetic it is.
whats a GOAT performance?
Greatest of all time.
Projection is ordinary. Person A projects at person B, hoping tovalidate something about person A by the response of person B. However, person B, not wanting to be an obejct of someone elses ego and guarding against existential terror constructs a personality which protects his ego and maintain a certain sense of a robust and real self that is different and separate from person A. Sadly, this robust and real self, cut off by defenses of character from the rest of the world, is quite vulnerable and fragile given that it is imaginary and propped up through external feed back. Person B is dimly aware of this and defends against it all the more, even desperately projecting his anxieties back onto person A, with the hope of shoring up his ego with salubrious validation. All of this happens without A or B acknowledging it, of course. Because to face up to it consciously is shocking, in that this is all anybody is doing or can do and it seems absurd when you realize how pathetic it is.
@reverie But the camaraderie!
Fair enough. I think chapter 2 will basically be like the miniseries. It'll be them as adults with random flashbacks to the original.Haha
I've thought about this. I think the reason why I didn't feel the camaraderie as strongly in the It movie was because when the adults came together in the books and the miniseries, they seemed connected by their experience, and the flashbacks which they shared with each other made it seem to me like they were more connected by this experience as children. It just seemed to make them closer to me, or seal this bond they had together. Since the new movie didn't have the adults in it, that certain equation that I liked in the book and miniseries was lost, and I think this is why I personally wasn't getting that vibe as strongly.
Alatriste (2006)
Soldiers of Spanish Empire in end days of its glory. Aragorn is not bad there.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395119/
new Kingsmen
new Star Wars and spin-off
Gaurdians of the Galaxy
- I don't understand how such may like someone except teenagers. To spend tens millions dollars on making such trash and be able to get money on this. Fascinating.
Its what the people want.
It's what they get. People want better, but have no choice and can spend money only for such shit. Except teenagers I doubt others like that, at least among intellectual others (corn farmers may think that ok too while are drunk).
Relax comrade, we all know you are a serious adult who would never lower himself to the level of the common immature teenage masses.
At any rate my ex roomate is 56 and he loved the movies, called them brilliant. I can see the merit.
Ugh, still waiting for a movie I'll like as much as Perfume, Only Lovers Left Alive and The Fountain..
Those movies...
“My typology is . . . not in any sense to stick labels on people at first sight. It is not a physiognomy and not an anthropological system, but a critical psychology dealing with the organization and delimitation of psychic processes that can be shown to be typical.” —C.G. Jung
Yeah, loved both the book and the movie. Found it through some now forgotten page that lets you search litterature by different parameters like 'dark' etc.. I remember putting the settings to something extreme. Perfume and like two other books where the only ones that showed up.I've never seen Perfume! I didn't even know they made a movie. I feel like I've been living under a rock. It's been on my to-read list for the longest time. Did you read the book?
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Blade Runner 2049 5/5
Neon Demon 4/10
Blade Runner 2049! 4.5/5
I must say it's a visual masterpiece. Colors and landscapes, camera work in particular - perfectly crafted. My eyes have never caught glimpse of something so grand.
The roaring and booming score by Zimmer - ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!
The tiny bits of gory violence (not for the faint of heart) - so poignant, so intense, because the rest was narrated slowly. The length didn't bother me. But you really have to be patient for this one.
Was a bit disappointed because they didn't show much intimate scenes while going into dialogue & fights extensively elsewhere. Also... so many unanswered questions
Ryan Gosling did a very good job. Ford, quite so.
Jared Leto's character was hard to understand sometimes with the effect used on his voice.
A lot of female characters, which is good - Bechdel test: passed! I was particularly impressed by Robin Wright. Sylvia Hoeks - terrifyingly strong performance. It was so good, it still haunts me.
Lastly, the tech and buildings... very novel and striking, reminded me a bit of Waterworld mixed with the 5th Element and Mad Max.
Certainly worth seeing.
3/5. Not bad, good visuals and acting with a decent storyline. A good amount of funny moments, but nothing spectacular overall.
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” Randy Pausch
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Oh and to add something useful to the thread. Baby driver is the best movie of the last 5 or so years, and The new Spiderman and Thor movies are top 5 MCU films.
Projection is ordinary. Person A projects at person B, hoping tovalidate something about person A by the response of person B. However, person B, not wanting to be an obejct of someone elses ego and guarding against existential terror constructs a personality which protects his ego and maintain a certain sense of a robust and real self that is different and separate from person A. Sadly, this robust and real self, cut off by defenses of character from the rest of the world, is quite vulnerable and fragile given that it is imaginary and propped up through external feed back. Person B is dimly aware of this and defends against it all the more, even desperately projecting his anxieties back onto person A, with the hope of shoring up his ego with salubrious validation. All of this happens without A or B acknowledging it, of course. Because to face up to it consciously is shocking, in that this is all anybody is doing or can do and it seems absurd when you realize how pathetic it is.
I went to see justice league, it was OK -> could do better. Light entertainment, was pleasant enough.
Stathams best movie is Parker, or Safe. Well, not including lock stock & snatch.
Projection is ordinary. Person A projects at person B, hoping tovalidate something about person A by the response of person B. However, person B, not wanting to be an obejct of someone elses ego and guarding against existential terror constructs a personality which protects his ego and maintain a certain sense of a robust and real self that is different and separate from person A. Sadly, this robust and real self, cut off by defenses of character from the rest of the world, is quite vulnerable and fragile given that it is imaginary and propped up through external feed back. Person B is dimly aware of this and defends against it all the more, even desperately projecting his anxieties back onto person A, with the hope of shoring up his ego with salubrious validation. All of this happens without A or B acknowledging it, of course. Because to face up to it consciously is shocking, in that this is all anybody is doing or can do and it seems absurd when you realize how pathetic it is.
"The Shannara Chronicles" - 3/5.
It's boring, cheap, strange races, idiotic script, bad actors, with redundant homosexual propaganda. But it looks pretty to switch off your brain. For those who likes fantasy + a little of post-apocalyptic.
"The Orville" - 2.5/5
They evidently imitate "Star Trek". It's bad and good. Made for teenagers, so it looks primitive in everything. The future of people is prosperous, many human-like aliens which think almost like humans, the culture of people after hundreds of years seems did not changed significantly, besides the technology. A lot of homosexual propaganda, - even the captain was must to fuck with a man, being kind of heterosexual. If you liked "Star Trek" - there will be good moments and you are able to watch the season to the end.
Movie review in advance:
Jurrasic World 2
premise: the fallen theme park is now under threat by a formally extinct volcano. Right, Isla Nublar is actually an awakened volcano and the Dinosaurs need to be rescued. Like COME ON hollywood, fuck you for writting, producing and directing such a lame piece of garbage. I guess where do you go after T-Rex, cuddle fish hybrids..? Right lets make the island an erupting volcano and lets have our protagonists (Chris Pratt - soo hot right now) AND the Dinosaurs all running away from a flowing pyroclastic cloud of ash and pummice. God what a derivative piece of Dino dung. 0 Dante's Peak outta 5
Movie review in advanced:
Jumanji: Return to the Jungle (or whatever)
without having seen the movie and basing this soley off the trailer. Jumanji 2 is a steaming pile of horse shit and Robin is rolling in his grave. What a terrible looking CGI fuck fest and its got Dwayne Johnson so you know its going to be a commercialized turd. Jumanji is a computer game now? Right, need to stay current. Fuck you hollywood for once again ruining the legacy of a fantastic film. 0/5.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi - 5 / 10
idiocy for teenagers like all except original 4-6 parts. 1-3 at least did not look so cheap
Saw a lot of movies this year. My top five in order:
1. The Disaster Artist (hilarious and with surprising heart; watch The Room beforehand to fully appreciate; left theatre feeling great)
2. Get Out (representing real-life fears in symbolic form is the true essence of horror; left theatre feeling deeply disturbed)
3. Dunkirk (hate Nolan usually, but I thought this was his most disciplined and focused film in ages; took full advantage of 70mm and IMAX; plus am a sucker for WWII period pieces)
4. Coco (a bit formulaic, but otherwise Pixar’s best since Inside Out)
5. The Big Sick (forgot this came out this year; really great film)
(I haven’t seen Baby Driver, Logan, Spider-Man Homecoming, The Post, Call Me By Your Name and a few other well-regarded movies this year.)
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"How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
@reverie
So, star wars was 4.5/5 eh? I should go see?
I'm not keen on the star wars, they could be doing so much more. Now it's all owned by the same company, why iron man fighting the jedi etc. Anyway I shall try to fit it into my busy schedule.
Also, 4.5/5? What qualifies for 5
Ah, so I'm not the only one who doesn't like the guy! I just find him excessively bland though. Like a white-washed stepford version of a real person. The cardboard cut-out of whoever he's presenting himself to be with nothing behind it.
Ok hi! What I've been observing. We really have like two big camps on here for the Gos, this guy is just so polarizingProbs because of extreme cp6-ness idk, still struggling to arrive at an accurate typing. Gosh anyway I am here as I need to take a stance, LUV that guy. He's my thing. He either portrays the sweet baby boy into romance or the emotionless avenger fighting for his beloved in some orgy of violence and wtf that shit is so good. The duality of man. Like how! HOW! He's intense.
To bring it back to movie critique. To me, Blade Runner is a good fit for him visually and Ryan complements Harrison. I wrote a review earlier in hereHit me with your reviews in case you've checked it out so we can discuss, either way: pretty epic flick going hard with cinematography and I insist Ryan is an awkward sweetie worthy of a 16types support group
I'm really not into Russian art, but this movie was really beautiful. I enjoy the theme of this movie, I have to say there were scenes that were uncomfortably too sweet, but it's a fairytale so I think it's legit this time. 8/10
I just saw Star Wars TLJ last night and I thought it was decent overall. I don't think it is as good as critics are making it out to be, but I don't think it is as bad as many audience think it is. Rarely do you see a film that is generally positive by critics and negative by the audience. Usually, it is the other way around.
Anyways, I think the movie was a half hour too long. They could of done away with a subplot in the film involving two characters to shorten the film. Aside from that, the twists were interesting, but not necessarily amazing either. Worth watching if you are a Star Wars or Sci-Fi fan as there are many enjoyable moments.
3.5/5
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Lady Bird is a definite 4/5 for me. I would've given it a perfect score except for one obvious cliche that happens in the movie. But the performances are breathtakingly real here, the cinematography is simple but gorgeous, and I'm a sucker for the landscape shots because it gives me bittersweet memories of my childhood in California. This was a movie that took me back to my roots and reminded me that no matter how much you talk about the place you come from, especially if you reflect on the good or bad memories, that your family and roots are apart of you. It's your choice of where you choose to go in life when choosing to leave the nest. This was a tear-jerking, insightful, and effective watch.
Yeah. I love Pokémon.
I recently re-watched The Garden of Words. The second paragraph will contain a few mild spoilers.
The Garden of Words is a story about two characters: a young male student (Takao Akizuki) and a mysterious adult woman (Yukari Yukino) who touch base with each other on days where it rains. It initially starts off as an accidental meeting between two strangers, but, as time goes on, it happens so frequently that eventually the pair silently agree to meet with each other at the garden whenever it rains. Takao is an aspiring shoemaker and it's that treasured pastime which becomes the main point of conversation between him and Yukari, wherein he sheds his usually reticent deportment in favor of a talkative personality where he freely opens up to Yakuri about his pastime, which seems to be an opportunity rarely granted to him in his everyday life. Yukari's side of the story is kept hush-hush until about halfway through the movie where we start to get little peeks into who she is and what she does.
I've never been good at writing movie reviews, but what I found interesting about the crux of the movie reviews written for The Garden of Words is that quite a few Western viewers took issue with the quiet nature of the "romance", which I felt was missing the point because romance was never meant to be the focal point of their story. It played a part, especially from Takao's perspective, but the plot centralizes around the impromptu bond that materializes between two lonely people. There's a Japanese term for this bond: "koi", which means "a sense of longing for companionship in solitude", which - in the context of The Garden of Words - is shown by Takao and Yukari finding solace in each other in times of loneliness and hardship. I think Makoto Shinkai has always taken an authentic and characteristically Japanese approach to human relationships where little is verbalized but a lot is done. It's just done quietly, but I feel like that sense of subtlety is lost on Western viewers who want a quick and fiery "Romeo and Juliet" style love affair. They're viewing it through the wrong lens. Here, it's always the simple stuff, there's a focus on companionship where romantic love usually takes a backseat to platonic love.
If anything, I'd recommend the movie to anybody who admires high quality animation. And it's only 46 minutes long. I posted a GIF of one of my favorite scenes from the movie above, but I seriously don't feel like anything I find online will do it justice. I've never known how to rate movies because either I'm telling everyone and their moms about the movie I just watched, or it's something I forget about until someone mentions it to me years later.
Okay. Finally. The La La Land review I promised - 2.5/5
The ending was unique, though admittedly I didn't quite roll with it at first. But I think there was a life lesson. The first two thirds were boring somehow, the real entertainment started in the last half. I can see why it's a hommage to Hollywood that made it deserve the OSCAR, other than that my expectations were disappointed. The genre was confusing, too.
About Ryan Gosling: impressive piano learning journey.
The Mission Impossible - Fallout trailer looks incredibly well-made in so many ways. I'll go see it. Black Panther review coming soon, too! (I AM SO EXCITED FOR CHADWICK BOSEMAN AHHHH)
Mahoutsukai no Yome (2018) - 4/5
Good done anime about cute magic girls, sorcerers and strange Japan mythology.
Black Panther: 3.7/5
(0.2 more outside the usual 0.5 scale since it has two very important post-credit scenes!)
Score, costumes, 3D effects, and CGI, set visuals all stunning and arranged masterfully. My eyes and ears were blessed throughout. As for the cast: As with almost all-female casts, an almost all-black cast unsurprisingly works out well like any other - Hollywood better catch up. The only thing I had a problem with was the plot and here's why. The movie, at its core, is not as anti-racist and revolutionary as it was touted to be. The narrative is definitely made well (Marvel is outstanding at creating an authentic new world), but behind that lurks something very weird that says divide, not unite. When I put on my SJW glasses, what I see is black people pitted against black people, damage control instead of breaking down white supremacy, and even a return of black people as servants. I only realized it much later, while I was watching I was totally positive about it. The overall excellence of Black Panther as a whole really drowned it out. But a second thought about the story changed my mind a lot, although the movie still remains highly commendable in my eyes. I merely want to write down what it really is not which has been perpetuated by white media.
My expectation was that we really get to see PoC dropping their shackles and/or not picking them up again. That we get a statement against why discrimination is shitty. But it shines through that the idea came out of a comic made by white people. The latter are very conscious what they are doing. Martin Freeman's character gets called a colonizer. But he's still helped and accepted without any further critique. And that's just a detail! The main thing that stood out to me: The supposed villain Erik (though portraying peak toxic masculinity which does make him evil in that way) rightfully points out what has lead to this black-against-black situation and has to die despite the good intention. All while T'Challa accomodates and prefers not to tackle pressing global issues of the black community at first and is shown in a good light for that. In the meantime, the whole drama only started since T'Chaka died at the hands of white people.
Now that eventually Wakanda chooses to share its resources, the message is: submit to the white western agenda and try to save what can be saved, instead of collapsing the entire system in the first place. The screenplay makes T'Challa go back to slave mentality of service and providing resources. They've been shielding the country with good reason, possible exploitation of vibranium is evident because it is so powerful. The Black Panther literally has to protect it. He's already confronted with racial prejudice (that was almost a shithole country level comment after he said that thing about the wall, certainly a stab at Trump but immediately countered) at the final conference, ending with the "I'll show you" look. But having anybody else tackle Wakanda's vibranium was already indicated to be a bad move.
It only took one white guy aka Klaue to show the consequences of having their technology in the wrong hands. That is disguised by having Erik as Klaue's proxy. To make it seem like its an intraracial issue. The latter says he thought Erik was an American, not from Wakanda. That gives it away. It's good that the movie caused me to think about it, though it makes me suspicious of the enthusiastic promotion. It is a milestone with the cast and really inspiring as I hear right and left and think so myself. Hence a solid 3.7, I really recommend that you see it. But plot-wise: same old Marvel material
It's disappointing especially since Infinity War is coming upWhich is the real big dog while Black Panther sadly is turned into a fish in the sea - so I am happy they continue to break records at the box office and get a lot of praise on social media. But yeah, the grand finale has few melanin involved, Wakanda is left behind in the leads:
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Watched this yesterday, Men in Black II. I'm no good at giving a score, but suffice to say it was funny. Will Smith is good (EIE in real life), Tommy Lee Jones is good as Tommy Lee Jones (SLE in real life.) I wonder how they get on in real life, being activators and all. Maybe I should pick up a new hobby, of celebrity gossip.
going thru the DIE HARDs -- first three!
First movie ruled, second movie sucked, third movie most fun!
Cool -- first movie had John as agent of relative chaos, Hans and co. thrived on order. "Iconic" one-liner noteworthy for being simultaneously awkward and smooth, said w/o full conviction, in the context of a strained convo. It worked on its own terms, and those terms never existed again, and the fucking line got beaten to death and beyond elsewhere.
Hans slipped up in one obvious-to-me spot, and it looks like John missed it, which is odd, given the context, with all the "USA cowboy" versus "refined European" stuff in the atmosphere.
Second movie -- couldn't get the movie past the fucking invasive orchestration, the movie couldn't breathe! Even a lone walk down a flight of mildly-lit stairs was jammed with roaring bassoons. First and third movies in the, series, were solid w orchestration/music usage. I couldn't count to ten without the orchestra blaring the hell away in this one. This was before Coen Bros got big? Some of the scenes would be simultaneously hilarious and deadly serious if it wasn't for the incessant and relentless orchestration. I was numb for almost the whole thing.
Third one you just gotta see! Legit use of a few hours, more alive and free than the first. Only one part sucked imo -- the stupid and apparently obligatory-for-the-series one-liner, you know, THAT one, it'll be hard to miss, you probably know it well by now, etc., and it didn't even sink the scene.
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Three billboards, baby driver, and Wind River were the best movies of 2017.
Projection is ordinary. Person A projects at person B, hoping tovalidate something about person A by the response of person B. However, person B, not wanting to be an obejct of someone elses ego and guarding against existential terror constructs a personality which protects his ego and maintain a certain sense of a robust and real self that is different and separate from person A. Sadly, this robust and real self, cut off by defenses of character from the rest of the world, is quite vulnerable and fragile given that it is imaginary and propped up through external feed back. Person B is dimly aware of this and defends against it all the more, even desperately projecting his anxieties back onto person A, with the hope of shoring up his ego with salubrious validation. All of this happens without A or B acknowledging it, of course. Because to face up to it consciously is shocking, in that this is all anybody is doing or can do and it seems absurd when you realize how pathetic it is.
4/5 Hilarious!
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