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The Banshees of Inisherin is one ####ed up movie. I had no idea what the story was going in and I nearly left at the halfway point. Only curiosity made stay to see how it ended up.
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Rewatched Planes, Trains & Automobiles last night. Just as enjoyable as when I was a kid, even knowing exactly what was coming in each scene I was laughing. Steve Martin and John Candy are so damn good in that movie.
I watched a Nic Cage movie called Mom and Dad where parents are hit with a sudden urge to kill their children. It was Nic Cage at his most Nic-Cagiest. I liked it but I don't think it was a good movie.
The Banshees of Inisherin is one ####ed up movie. I had no idea what the story was going in and I nearly left at the halfway point. Only curiosity made stay to see how it ended up.
Please watch BONES AND ALL next.
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Thats why Flames fans make ideal Star Trek fans. We've really been taught to embrace the self-loathing and extreme criticism.
Watched the 1971 film Carnal Knowledge with Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel. The film is about two college roommates (Jack and Art) as they navigate through life with different women that they date/marry. The two of them talk opening about sex and what they want in a women, only problem is neither of them can relate or understand women. Jack plays a chauvinist pig and a real unlikeable character, but he gives a hell of a performance. After the movie Roger Ebert said Nicholson was the most exciting new actor since James Dean, high praise well deserved.
This film is also one of the most controversial films ever. A theater owner in Georgia was arrested for showing this movie and charged with distributing obscene material
Worth a watch I really enjoyed it, and the performances are great. Candice Bergen and Ann-Margret both give terrific performances, particularly Ann-Margret she's really good in the scenes she's in.
Liam Neeson playing a Texan former marine is one of the greatest accent fails in the history of film. Makes Kevin Costner circa Robin Hood Prince of Thieves look like ####ing Shakespeare.
Liam Neeson playing a Texan former marine is one of the greatest accent fails in the history of film. Makes Kevin Costner circa Robin Hood Prince of Thieves look like ####ing Shakespeare.
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Watched Cabaret, what an excellent film, one of the best musicals ever made. Set in 1931 in Berlin, the film follows a Cabaret singer played by Liza Minnelli during her daily life as she meets a man from England who is staying in Germany and they have a relationship. Inside the Cabaret it's all fun and games but outside the Nazi party is starting to gain momentum and acceptance from Germans. The film would go on to win 8 Oscars , the most of any movie from 1972. However, it would not win Best Picture as that went to a small film you may have heard of called The Godfather.
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Pleasure (on Crave) was…intriguing. Honestly it was hard to tell if it was good or not. Much of it is so explicit that it comes off as brutally realistic but sometimes I find people confuse shocking for earnest. It seems to give an honest take on the difficulties young women face in the porn industry but it also seemed to at times stray too close to the type of exploitive media it purports to expose. At times it felt like gritty Showgirls, which is obviously not a compliment. Other times it felt like it was heavily influenced by the Netflix doc Hot Girls Wanted, which made it feel incredibly true to life.
Ultimately I enjoyed it but it never quite got me to believe that it was as earnest and gritty as it wanted me to think it was, despite so much graphic sexual imagery. I can’t help but think it wanted to emulate the style of a movie like The Florida Project, which despite the vastly different subject matter, truly made me feel like I was watching a realistic depiction of the life of a troubled young woman and her daughter. The characters felt so raw. Instead this had a level of polish and style that made it seem like it wanted to come across as equal parts sexy and depressing. Although this might have been intentional because it certainly didn’t strike me as purely anti porn so portraying it as sexy could be purposeful to contrast the pleasure it brings with the dark side of the industry.
What it did do really well is portray porn as an industry full of willing participants with a wide range of people who, like many other “influencer” types, rely on selling an image of themselves to the public. It also did well to avoid the porn cliche of everyone has daddy issues and are coke addicts with all men being dirty rapists. Like any industry with desperate performers and wide power disparity, it made it clear that there are no shortage of good and bad people with lots of grey.
Overall I’d give it a recommend. Given how graphic some of the scenes are though, I can’t imagine it’ll have anything but a niche audience.
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Liam Neeson playing a Texan former marine is one of the greatest accent fails in the history of film. Makes Kevin Costner circa Robin Hood Prince of Thieves look like ####ing Shakespeare.
yeah but that only lasted for like 3 minutes and then they went to natural accents. I still love the way that transition happened in the movie. So cool.
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Pleasure (on Crave) was…intriguing. Honestly it was hard to tell if it was good or not. Much of it is so explicit that it comes off as brutally realistic but sometimes I find people confuse shocking for earnest......
I remember seeing a trailer for this movie at a Landmark theater maybe a year and a half ago but I don't think it ever got a theatrical release here. I remember thinking that it seemed pretty graphic and was kinda suprised even the trailer would get shown. I was curious as hell and tracked it down, definitely different but overall I think they achieved what they were going for.
I also watched pleasure this weekend. Was happy to catch it on Crave on as I missed it when it played at the Metro here in Edmonton. This is what I said about it on letterboxd.
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Success, as defined by Capitalism, is about power and the ways you can further yourself by the domination and exploitation of those with less power. While you could certainly read this anti-porn, this story could have easily been about any industry. My read is it’s a critique of capitalism and how it reduces us all. But especially non cis men. The film it reminds me the most of is Barbra Loden’s WANDA.
I also watched Belle De Jour this weekend and it ruled.
The other new to me movie was the giallo The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, which was very solid giallo fare.
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Thats why Flames fans make ideal Star Trek fans. We've really been taught to embrace the self-loathing and extreme criticism.
Watched Cabaret, what an excellent film, one of the best musicals ever made. Set in 1931 in Berlin, the film follows a Cabaret singer played by Liza Minnelli during her daily life as she meets a man from England who is staying in Germany and they have a relationship. Inside the Cabaret it's all fun and games but outside the Nazi party is starting to gain momentum and acceptance from Germans. The film would go on to win 8 Oscars , the most of any movie from 1972. However, it would not win Best Picture as that went to a small film you may have heard of called The Godfather.
If you enjoyed Cabaret I highly recommend you check out both Sweet Charity, which was Fosse's debut film before Cabaret. Which is more of a classic musical than his quasi deconstruction of Cabaret and also what I think is one of the best movie's every made, Fosse's semi autobiographical All That Jazz, which is based on his experiences making Lenny the same time as he's staging Chicago.
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Thats why Flames fans make ideal Star Trek fans. We've really been taught to embrace the self-loathing and extreme criticism.
I also watched pleasure this weekend. Was happy to catch it on Crave on as I missed it when it played at the Metro here in Edmonton. This is what I said about it on letterboxd.
I also watched Belle De Jour this weekend and it ruled.
The other new to me movie was the giallo The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, which was very solid giallo fare.
I'd say that's a good interpretation. It definitely didn't come across as anti-porn and is more of a critique of capitalism and a showcase of the power imbalances that exist and how people exploit them.
I'd say that's a good interpretation. It definitely didn't come across as anti-porn and is more of a critique of capitalism and a showcase of the power imbalances that exist and how people exploit them.
Thanks!
I was reading that some of the real porn industry folks when they first saw the finished movie felt 'duped' into being made look 'bad'.
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Thats why Flames fans make ideal Star Trek fans. We've really been taught to embrace the self-loathing and extreme criticism.
If you enjoyed Cabaret I highly recommend you check out both Sweet Charity, which was Fosse's debut film before Cabaret. Which is more of a classic musical than his quasi deconstruction of Cabaret and also what I think is one of the best movie's every made, Fosse's semi autobiographical All That Jazz, which is based on his experiences making Lenny the same time as he's staging Chicago.
All That Jazz is on my radar, just waiting for the next Criterion sale. Never heard of Sweet Charity thanks for the recommendation will search for it!
