Recommend (or don't) a movie thread v2

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Cortez

haha yes - that environmentalism documentary was called down to earth. Hence my (failed) joke

Ah! Sorry. I totally forgot what it was called. I essentially 'hate-watched' it.

I think theres even a second season but I cant. I just cant.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Tenet was visually stimulating but all the spectacle felt like it had little purpose or meaning in the end.

I must confess I was just lukewarm on Arrival, and I love those kinds of movies.. I don't know what it was that just didn't hit for me. Better story than Tenet though.

Bladerunner 2049 is my favourite movie overall from that list, followed by Interstellar.

I'm hoping Dune 2 can dethrone BR but that will be tough.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by Elkyiv

Their 4 before the most recent 4 are also incredible films.

Nolan has The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises. Villeneuve has Incendies, Prisoners, Enemy, Sicario. There's not a single weak film in that list.

So good on both sides.

Aggressively good.

[PepsiFree]

I like Tenet, Zendaya, and Zac Efron.

[Johnny Makarov]

Dunkirk was worse than Tenet.

[trackercowe]

Efron was also great as Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. Someone else mentioned Iron Claw as well, which was criminally underrated from last year. It should have received more attention during awards season, everyone was great in that movie.

As for Nolan vs Villeneuve it's incredibly close.. throw in David Fincher and those are probably my three favourite directors of this generation. My top three movies of the last 15 years are Oppenheimer, Prisoners, and Zodiac. Honestly you can't lose picking any of their movies, and they each continue to make modern classics (The Killer by Fincher is another underrated 2023 movie).

[Sr. Mints]

Fincher's last two films were total duds. I want to believe Netflix is the problem.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Robert Eggers, Yorgos Lanthimos and Ari Aster are in my B tier. Not quite at the same heights but their films are can't-miss for me.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

Dunkirk was worse than Tenet.

Tom Hardy's obscured dialogue to exhilarating backdrops, Part II

[Sr. Mints]

Dumb and Dumber is delightfully dumb, and I can't help but love it.

While Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan received praise for their portrayals of dimwits in The Banshees of Inisherin, poor Jeff Daniels must feel overlooked for his role in Dumb and Dumber.

There were a couple of scenes I didn't recognize, leading me to assume they'd been buried in my memory over time. It later dawned on me that I was watching the unrated version, which ups the homophobic themes between characters, and were as unfunny as they were unnecessary. One was an extended honeymoon motel scene, and I think the other was an elongated Sea Bass encounter in the bathroom. There was more to the toilet scene toward the end as well.

[Sr. Mints]

Originally Posted by Sliver

I found it boring on the first watch, but I think I wasn't in the right mood and I know I didn't know it was just the first part, so I was expecting the entire story to wrap up and was disappointed when it didn't.



Watched it again a couple weeks ago and liked it way more. Plus I read Cole's notes or something like that summarizing the book, so I understood more about the universe going in, which I think you kind of need to really get what the movie is doing. Going in cold on my first watch was a mistake.

I suspect that isn't uncommon. My brother prides himself on having never read a single book in his life, and he couldn't get through Dune. Another person I know read it 20+ years ago and even with a pretty faint idea what was going on in the movie, had a hard time really getting into it.

Judging by the trailer for part 2, it looks like they're going to up the complexity by introducing characters that ought to have been in part 1. My feeling is they're going to make this as easily digestible as the first film, but with the added benefit of the first film having created a foundation to build upon. If that makes sense. I'm too tired to edit this for clarity.

I've got my tickets for Friday morning!

[Locke]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I like Tenet, Zendaya, and Zac Efron.

Get Him!!

[calumniate]

Originally Posted by AC

Finally caught Poor Things last night.

Incredible movie, I loved it so much.

It was my favourite from last year

[undercoverbrother]

Dune ####ing rocked.

I hope Dune 2 ####ing rocks

[Nadal Fan]

Look how they massacred my boy

https://twitter.com/user/status/1762852832334487912

[Yeah_Baby]

Interstellar is by far the best Nolan for me. I haven't seen 2une yet, but I really do think Tenet (which I remember thinking was fine) really brings down the average. BR 2049 and Arrival are movies I love just as much as Interstellar. So I'm leaning towards CanCon on this one.

Originally Posted by Nadal Fan

Look how they massacred my boy

https://twitter.com/user/status/1762852832334487912

So this is actually happening, huh

[PepsiFree]

On the Nolan/Villeneuve thing, I give the edge to Nolan only because I think his writing/storytelling is more interesting and his originals are better. They both have worked with some incredible cinematographers (Fraser/Deakins for Villeneuve, Hoytema/Pfister for Nolan) who add a ton to the overall feel of their films. If you take away their franchises (which is kind of arbitrary but whatever) Nolan is a step above, but Blade Runner is better than any of the Batman films so stuff like that is where it gets murky.

Both are great though. I found Dune pretty boring but I enjoyed watching it anyway, which probably speaks to its quality.

[PepsiFree]

On a completely different note, I really recommend Past Lives and All of Us Strangers. They feel similar in that they are love stories really centred around loss and real/imagined distance between people. Both incredibly sad, so there’s that, but not without hope. I loved them all the same.

Strangers is helped by the fact that Scott and Mescal are just beautiful to watch together. And that one hit especially hard.

[Huntingwhale]

Watched The Beekeeper last night. Typical Statham romp which was decent fun. I thought the acting outside of Statham was pretty poor, borderline sucked. But good to see him kick ass on screen for a bit.

[Jiggy_12]

Just gonna hop in here to say that Intersteller continues to be the most incredible movie ever made.

Even upon repeated watchings, it's firmly entrenched in my #1 overall.