Talk About Movies: Part 4
Somehow threads merged, so here's part 4 of our ongoing movie discussion.
Sinners round two hits harder than round 1. There's a lot that I missed on first viewing. Gave me a chance to sit back and enjoy the ride. A buddy of mine said his only complaint is that it took too long to get going. I felt the opposite, I love the pacing and the opening 30-40 minutes are essential. I appreciate that we get a lot of backstory for the main and supporting characters. So when **** starts going down, it really hurts when ppl are being turned. I also love how this is a movie about the blues, wrapped in a stylish vampire film. I have no notes, more ANYTHING from Coogler please.
yeah, 2nd time I watched Sinners, I saw more of the thematic elements, mostly tying organized religion to vampirism.
Still think Nope is a masterpiece.
Nope is Peele's best. Get Out maybe the most overrated movie of the 21st century.
Don't @ me.
Think I finally found my people! I love Nope and agree it's his best and thought I was taking crazy pills with Get Out. Get Out has some great techniques, some great ideas, but falls short in execution, especially in the final act. I heard a bit of buzz going in, but I have a black belt in tempering expectations. I wanted to love Get Out I just couldn't jump on the hype train. Obviously I've been excited for his filmmaking career, and feel like it all came together with Nope.
Michael Wincott's character in Nope, spoiler below if you haven't seen it
Spoiler
Dude went out like a ****ing G. Was glad to get the perfect shot, die for it and take it with him. **** YEAH. How gangster is that?? Always loved Wincott and was glad to see him thriving in this role.
Rewatching Tommy Boy for the first time since forever. One of the greatest movie quotes of all-time. Dan Akroyrd (Zalinsky) "What the American public does'nt know is what makes 'em the American public".
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is terrific.
A woman, dressed in a costume for some kind of party, is driving home when she discovers her dead uncle lying in the road. Or was he laying? Did he just fall dead or was he put there?
Doesn't matter since the movie isn't about how the uncle died. In the aftermath of his death, secrets are revealed.
Some call this film a black comedy. It's not.
The movie is set in Zambia, and it's about the secrets that are kept and the ways they are concealed.
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Colombiana starring Zoe Saldana, written/co-produced by Luc Besson.
Only three words are necessary:
Spoiler
Girl On Fire!
Colombiana starring Zoe Saldana, written/co-produced by Luc Besson.
Only three words are necessary:
Spoiler
Girl On Fire!
I never got Besson. I know some people who love his, but I don't know why.
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Watched the first 2 films of the Red Riding Trilogy (2009) after reading good reviews, which concerns corruption and skullduggery in Yorkshire against the backdrop of a spate of child murders and the Yorkshire Ripper case, but personally, apart from a pleasing 70s aesthetic I found them dreary and plodding af as well as convoluted and somewhat incoherent. Not sure if I'll bother with the third film as these just didn't hold my interest.
I never got Besson. I know some people who love his, but I don't know why.
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I mess with The Professional, Lucy, The Fifth Element, and La Femme Nikita. I love Besson’s style. Recently rewatched The Fifth Element and it held up very well
it's hard for me to fault any movie with gary oldman in it, but his performance in leon was a masterpiece
I found this pretty dodgy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on:...
Léon has been critically re-examined in the wake of the "#MeToo" movement (French: #BalanceTonPorc or "expose your pig") after sexual assault allegations were levied against Luc Besson in 2018.[40][41] Maïwenn, Luc Besson's sixteen-year-old wife at the time of filming, says the film was inspired by their relationship. She says, "When Luc Besson did Léon, the story of a 13-year-old girl in love with an older man, it was very inspired by us"; Besson met Maïwenn when she was 12 and he was 29, and he officially started dating her when she was 15, the legal age of consent in that country. Besson married her at age 33 when she fell pregnant at 16.[42] At the time of the accusations, Natalie Portman discussed her "complicated feelings" about the film and her associated Lolita-like sexualization as a child.[43]
Besson is 100% a creep, but Jean Reno specifically played against the original script and refused to portray a romance between the two characters. I think this definitely translates to the screen. Mathilda clearly falls in love with Leon romantically, or whatever a child’s version of romantic love is, but his love for her comes across as paternal.
I do think some of the cinematography is problematic, Besson’s gaze can be explicitly felt in the director’s cut. But overall, it’s still a film full of wonderful performances and ultimately worth watching.
Besson is 100% a creep, but Jean Reno specifically played against the original script and refused to portray a romance between the two characters. I think this definitely translates to the screen. Mathilda clearly falls in love with Leon romantically, or whatever a child’s version of romantic love is, but his love for her comes across as paternal.I do think some of the cinemato
I read that about Reno's refusal also, but it was on reddit and I wasn't sure how accurate the claim was, so decided against including it in my post. Props to Reno if it's true though. I do like the film overall definitely, but this aspect just kinda creeped me out, even when I first seen when it was released. I did consider at the time that maybe I was reading too much into things but then a friend who seen it at the same time also commented on this part of it, so I was heartened it wasn't only me lol. But again overall I think it's a really good film, that part aside.
I mess with The Professional, Lucy, The Fifth Element, and La Femme Nikita. I love Besson’s style. Recently rewatched The Fifth Element and it held up very well
wasabi is where he really goes full besson
ignore the cheesy trailer - we still have no idea how to promote foreign films
I enjoy Besson's colorful worlds, even if they aren't really great films. The Fifth Element is a damn fun movie. But Natalie Portman prancing about as Marilyn Monroe in Leon is definitely creepy.
who he divorced that year after his affair with the main star became serious
Portman followed The Professional with Beautiful Girls. IRL Tim Hutton is almost 21 years older than her. Her parents were supposedly “reluctant” about those roles.
I liked BG when it came out but I saw it again a couple years ago and it hadn’t aged well.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is terrific. A woman, dressed in a costume for some kind of party, is driving home when she discovers her dead uncle lying in the road. Or was he laying? Did he just fall dead or was he put there?Doesn't matter since the movie isn't about how the uncle died. In the aftermath of his death, secrets are revealed. Some call this film a black comedy. It's n
Yeah, not really a comedy. Well-written well-acted story about a large modern middle class family clan in Zambia. The old detestable patriarchical sexual predatory practices in this subculture persist. The women hide it and they partly enable it. A bit shocking.
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I enjoy Besson's colorful worlds, even if they aren't really great films. The Fifth Element is a damn fun movie. But Natalie Portman prancing about as Marilyn Monroe in Leon is definitely creepy.
That's definitely a sequence where I play on my phone or skip completely. I'm glad Jean Reno played it the way he did because I didn't get creepy vibes from him. Definitely learning a lot of stuff via this thread. Didn't know that about his underage wife. YIKES. Even saying those words feels wrong.
