Board 8 > Movie Club Topic 5 - The Rest Is Silence

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Kanopy has the German dub. That's the version I watched (and then was too lazy to do a write-up for.)

Starting Aguirre because Twilight Samurai and Long Day's Journey are not on streaming

Long Dat is on kanopy

Xeybozn posted...

Kanopy has the German dub. That's the version I watched (and then was too lazy to do a write-up for.)

Oh yeah I'll check that out if it's up for me

Reminder though that writeups aren't required

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

My opinion on this was pretty weak from the beginning, with a lot of pretty poor performances coming from anyone that wasn't Klaus Kinski. For the first half of the film, my opinion remained mostly the same, and it was overall an "ok" jungle survival drama. In the second half of the film, it begins to shine, in particular in the last 20 minutes or so as the remains of the crew begin to lose their senses and finally give in to the madness and hopelessness of their journey. It also helped for the performances too, as most of the bad actors were weeded out by the story early on, as the crew slowly dwindles to a few desperate survivors.

Is it one of the great films of all time, like it's made out to be? I mean, I wouldn't go nearly that far. It inspired Apocalypse Now (which was a much better film in my opinion) and overall I thought it was solid and its strengths overpowered its weaknesses.

8/10

I would highly recommend looking up the behind-the-scenes of this one though; they're as wild as the plot itself.

oh cool, let me get in on this

Mother (2009) - 8
In Bruges (2008) - 9
Lost in Translation (2003) -10
Fargo (1996) - 9
When Marnie Was There (2014) - 4
Perfect Blue (1997) - 7
Cool Hand Luke (1967) - 8
Enter the Void (2009) - 8
The Muppets (2011) - 5
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) - 8
Hoop Dreams (1994) - 9
Pi (1998) - 7
Melancholia (2011)- 8
Big Fish (2003)- 8
M (1931) - 8
Barry Lyndon (1975) - 7
The Twilight Samurai (2002) - 7
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) - 8

new ratings whoo

i was actually thinking about doing a long-running topic series for just compiling ratings from the board

just so i could make use of the B8 letterboxd account i made when we started this

kateee posted...

i was actually thinking about doing a long-running topic series for just compiling ratings from the board

just so i could make use of the B8 letterboxd account i made when we started this

I'd be into that!

i'm just saying if i missed the garbage truck one week i would make sure to put that shit out the night before the next week

(that has actually happened to me before)

the smell

the ineptitude on display here is actually frustrating

Next up is The Guilty

I'll get to the non-streaming ones after

The Guilty beat

Bill Burr and Jake Gyllenhaal yelling "fuck you" back and forth was great

Paul Dano trying to complain about the prostitute he hired robbing him also great

this is a movie mostly carried by Jake Gyllenhaal doing a good job as lieutenant mr angry boy

This type of bottle episode (thanks Abed) movie can usually be great or a drag, and I think for the most part I enjoyed it. It helps that Gyllenhaal had a pretty solid story and voice cast to work with. Reminds me a little of Ryan Reynolds in Buried, where he had even less to work with spatially so it was entirely dependent on dialogue.

Not something I'd watch again or even really remember in a year, but solid enough.

watch Source Code

7/10

oh shit that was Bill Burr

Busy day for Bill Burr, guy just got done punting for the Texans.

kateee posted...

I did happen to see the letterboxd rating (2.9) before watching. Obviously I don't agree with them half the time but if anything, they tend to be higher than what I end up rating.

so letterboxd ratings and such for me are such a weird thing

I'd say in general, I agree with them on a lot of stuff, specifically, movies that are just under the radar enough to get snubbed over for the Oscars despite having Oscars-worthy performances/etc. It really stands out every awards season, where my favorite films of the year (over the last 3 years, it's been I'm Thinking of Endings Things, The Lighthouse and You Were Never Really Here) tend to be the ones that get love on Letterboxd but don't get the awards they deserve. Same went for Eighth Grade, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Blindspotting, and it goes on. In any given year, the fan-voted awards on Letterboxd are way more in line with my tastes.

That being said, people on Letterboxd can get... pretentious? Shitty? Like there's a certain point where a good movie with a mixed reception goes from being a fun little gem that the users love, to being too popular, and those same users suddenly hate it for what makes it controversial. And like, you're free to like what you like or not, but I swear every user I see on that site labelled as a "patron" ends up with just the top rated review on every single movie by spewing out bullshit to fit whatever letterboxd's particular crowd will eat up.

It's hard to pinpoint exactly where it goes so wrong and what's so annoying about it, but that's all to say I love letterboxd's end-of-year lists and could care less about their actual ratings

Everything Everywhere All At Once going on the short list of upcoming movies I'm interested in watching.

i really only like letterboxd so much because of the UI and it lets me make lists