The Substance was wild. Our theatre wasn't as packed or as loud as I would have hoped, it would have made the movie even better with a boisterous audience.
As trackercowe said, the director (Coralie Fargeat) is excellent. What's really interesting is she once again mixes beautiful cinematography, shot composition, lighting, sound design etc. with a horror subgenre that hasn't historically utilized those elements (rape revenge and body horror).
The Substance is basically smack dab in the middle of a Venn Diagram with Society (1989) and The Neon Demon. It also has the most gratuitous butt shots I've ever seen.
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Was a little disappointed in “Beetlejuice 2”. Too busy with lots of plot lines that just abruptly ended, kind of unsatisfactorily. Michael Keaton and Bob were fantastic though.
Felt awkward about Jeffrey Jones character being given a somewhat gracious send off. They’d gave Jay Thomas’ character a worse send-off in Cheers after he badmouthed Rhea Perlman.
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Was a little disappointed in “Beetlejuice 2”. Too busy with lots of plot lines that just abruptly ended, kind of unsatisfactorily. Michael Keaton and Bob were fantastic though.
Felt awkward about Jeffrey Jones character being given a somewhat gracious send off. They’d gave Jay Thomas’ character a worse send-off in Cheers after he badmouthed Rhea Perlman.
There was one scene I thought was brilliant: Beetlejuice playing the guitar in the model. Everything about it--the lighting, the colours, the cinematography--was great, it almost felt iconic. The movie itself was pretty terrible, don’t get me wrong, but strangely, I didn’t hate it.
An older movie, Only The Brave from 2017, was not what I was expecting at all, and far, far better than I anticipated.
This is a movie that knows exactly what it wants to do and does it. I wasn't familiar with the real life events, and was shocked. Very heart wrenching film, and one of the finest natural disaster movies.
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Also I wonder if the Nicholas Cage movie City of Angels took inspiration from this, very similar plots.
Der Himmel über Berlin (the actual name of the film, meaning "The sky/heaven over Berlin") is indeed fantastic. Wings of Desire is a pretty bad and odd translation, and City of Angels, the American supposed remake of the film, is... a very loose remake.
There's also a sequel/second chapter called Faraway So Close! that supposedly falls short of the first one. I still plan to seek it out, though. Anything following up a movie like Wings of Desire would be a tough hill to climb.
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There's also a sequel/second chapter called Faraway So Close! that supposedly falls short of the first one. I still plan to seek it out, though. Anything following up a movie like Wings of Desire would be a tough hill to climb.
I always felt that Himmel was a bit meandering in the way many European art films are, and while that "meandering" is deliberate, it's not a way to make reliably good films. It's inherently risky, but when you hit your mark it can deliver very deep experiences.
Der Himmel über Berlin (the actual name of the film, meaning "The sky/heaven over Berlin") is indeed fantastic. Wings of Desire is a pretty bad and odd translation, and City of Angels, the American supposed remake of the film, is... a very loose remake.
Haha, that's being generous. It turned into a schlock love story instead of the original themes.
Also, can't forget the U2 video that was inspired by Wings of Desire. Edit: on recollection, I think it was actually part of the soundtrack to the follow up Faraway, So Close!
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Watched this French Canadian slow burn horror last night. About a woman obsessed with an ongoing serial killer trial who tries to insert herself into the case. Really interesting and disturbing psychologically.
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Physical media is just as susceptible to AI ####wittery, unless you’re talking about media that’s already released. I’m not going to trust anything “remastered” without checking to see how it was done first.
Saw My Penguin Friend at the cheap theater yesterday. Good little movie. Great for $5.
About a Penguin that got kind of lost on some sort of migration and ended up at this dude's place in Brazil. The guy became friends with the penguin and the penguin came back to him for 6 months every year for several years. Makes we want my own penguin.
Physical media is just as susceptible to AI ####wittery, unless you’re talking about media that’s already released. I’m not going to trust anything “remastered” without checking to see how it was done first.
I think they were talking more about how before the movie even ended they put it in the corner on a small screen and had a giant ad for Big Bang Theory as the main component
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Saw My Penguin Friend at the cheap theater yesterday. Good little movie. Great for $5.
About a Penguin that got kind of lost on some sort of migration and ended up at this dude's place in Brazil. The guy became friends with the penguin and the penguin came back to him for 6 months every year for several years. Makes we want my own penguin.
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Ah. That’s lame but it was at the final frame before it switches to the end card so not a huge deal to me. If they cut his look to camera that would be unforgivable.
I thought it was AI because his eyes went wonky but I haven’t watched Psycho in a long time and that was probably compression artifacts.
Saw My Penguin Friend at the cheap theater yesterday. Good little movie. Great for $5.
About a Penguin that got kind of lost on some sort of migration and ended up at this dude's place in Brazil. The guy became friends with the penguin and the penguin came back to him for 6 months every year for several years. Makes we want my own penguin.
You should definitely get a penguin. They’re not filthy at all.
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