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

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Camden posted...

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

my interest is piqued

also my first thought was "2022? damn that's like two years away"

my concept of time has been forever broken

The miniseries Station Eleven starts tomorrow. As early as this morning I thought it was still weeks away.

I think my concept of time broke years ago when someone asked me how old I was and I didn't just know off the top of my head.

the bell doesn't dismiss you, the bright flashing light dismisses you

I feel like they're searching him for a wire but that wouldn't make any sense

An hour later I still don't know why they had him strip

By all means it still seems like they were checking him for a wire

Just watched Spielberg's West Side Story last night. Damn it was good. Although the main character had the charisma of wet paper.

The Tribe

This is definitely an intriguing concept, but there's a good bit that holds it back. Most notably, it's pretty goddamn hard to stay awake through. Making a film entirely in sign language could work, but removing any sort of audio design (including music) requires having visual design to compensate and keep things interesting. The Tribe does, occasionally, but in between long, dull takes of almost nothing happening. It doesn't help that with no voices, similar appearances, and similar behaviors, most of the characters largely blend together.

I still don't get certain aspects, like why they strip-searched him initially? And where are literally any adults anywhere in this movie?

There are some REALLY striking moments in here, particularly near the end. The bottle smash over the head in particular was chilling, followed by the nightstand head crush scene. Some of the most brutal stuff out there (and I hate that it took me until the fourth nightstand to realize why nobody was waking up to all the commotion).

But some of this feels borderline exploitative, particularly the long, hard-to-watch abortion scene.

Hard to rate this properly, because it's extremely ambitious, but I also didn't really enjoy it much at all. 6/10

copy pasting writeups from the last topic for movies i haven't seen yet

Luca
I knew very little about this movie going in, though I think I watched a little of its trailer months ago and forgot most of it. Luca is a very competently made film with a ton of heart; it's very fun to watch throughout with gorgeous animation that Pixar is known for. The dynamic between the main characters is excellent.
I do have a few small grips. The premise itself is not as memorably unique as some of other Pixar outings. The villain's take-down was really quick and could've been more satisfying. And the sea monsters being accepted right away didn't really feel all that natural.
But yeah those are minor enough and it was still a very lovable movie. Shout out also to the character designs that felt familiar but different enough, I'm glad Pixar's not too attached to their usual human proportions and such.

I know that Vespa was in rough shape, but I hope they got something for it other than a single train ticket to Genova. Bad trade, that's how those guys start with a stick of gum and trade their way up to owning Amazon or however that works.

Movie is fantastic in most ways. Looks and sounds gorgeous, voice acting is great though not watching a lot of western animated movies it took me back when Jim Gaffigan all of a sudden started talking, not used to hearing voices of people I'm familiar with.

Plot... everything felt safe? Kind of reminds me of a lot of Marvel movies, where it feels like a non-comedic madlib where they just insert new names and places into the same madlib and pass it off as a new movie. Feels like I've seen this before without having seen it before.

And if you take the most accepting group of people in the world, on top of that make them super vegans who would as soon kill themselves before eating an egg, and all of a sudden you put a harpoon in their hands and magically a sea monster appears in front of them... that sea monster is getting 'pooned. I know that's not a story they're going to tell in a movie mostly geared towards children but everyone seemed way too okay way too fast about that.

Twilight Samurai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yan4CaKs5X4

My favorite samurai film. Fell in love with it right away and have since watched everything adapted from Shuhei Fujisawas work, and while I love almost all of it Twilight Samurai is still my favorite. I'd love to read his books instead of only watching adaptations, but whomever is in charge of his estate refuses to sign off on translations so the single collection of stories from over a decade ago is all there is. Glad I bought it years ago as it now routinely sells for 20-30 times what I paid for it.

I love the setting. It always feels strange to me that my least favorite part of a samurai film is the fighting, seeing as it plays such an integral part of most of them. It's hard to blame Koei for utilizing the 'One Man Kills Thousands' style of combat in the Warriors series when most samurai movies eventually have a scene where one man is constantly surrounded by swords on every side and yet he wades through them all, while they take turns meeting their end. Nothing of the sort here, outside of the short duel, if you can call it that, in the middle of the movie there's just the one battle at the end between two men, neither of whom truly wants to be there.

I wish there were more movies where the samurai are the focus rather than the swords.

damn it

my body can't hold out any longer

YO

you fool!

you absolute fool!

I just checked up on Memoria, and what in the world is this release schedule they're going with?

Watched Don't Look Up. It was fun enough for what it was but it's slightly too long and slow in the middle.

Camden posted...

I just checked up on Memoria, and what in the world is this release schedule they're going with?

is this the thing i heard a while back where it's only showing in like one city a day or something

yes it is

all i can say is that i won't ever be able to watch it on their schedule

Tilda Swinton is always great though

my hbo max runs out on jan 6 and netflix on jan 9. being subbed to streaming services is really convenient but every time i'm not watching something i think about how i'm bleeding money

going to try and binge some stuff on those two before i cancel and do my disney+ trial for Luca + stuff. i'll probably finish my rewatches of ITOET and Pi to finish up my club watches though.

then i'll go back to the sea life for a while i think

on another note i really hope more platforms do same-time releases for streaming/theatrical past pandemic age (who knows when that will end at this point though) because i watched Matrix Resurrections and would never have watched it in theaters. it is just so insanely convenient being disappointed by major film releases in the comfort of my chair instead of paying $20 to drive somewhere and do so.

as for Matrix Res

i know i said "disappointed" in the post before but i wouldn't describe that as how i felt about this movie. i was more confused than anything. confused about whether i like it or not that is. liked some things. hated other things.

i love Matrix 1 and i've heard it described as one of those 'had to be there in that moment' movies. i'd imagine for someone seeing it for the first time recently it might not come off as amazing as it did back then. actually did rewatch it relatively recently and i liked it even more than i did when i was younger.

anyway Matrix Res. it was definitely a movie. i legitimately laughed out loud at one scene when he tried to fly near the end because at that point i was paying like half attention and it caught me off guard. it definitely did make me just want to watch the first two and a half movies again though. i fuckign love Trinity

kateee posted...

then i'll go back to the sea life for a while i think

I have Netflix and Amazon and when I want to watch something, even when it's available on one of those, I still just grab a torrent most of the time.

Makes sense in some way.

being on a streaming service is definitely more convenient for me to start watching but for times i want to check something then yeah the other way is preferred

what are you trying to tell me that i can dodge bullets

come on stop trying to hit me and hit me!

how about...i give you the finger...and you give me my phone call

wow is an all-purpose exclamation

i am reminded of the Matrix watching this intro sequence

Pi

This was a movie. 6/10

well finally got around to finishing everything so i guess i'll do loose rankings now

out of the rewatches:

1. Perfect Blue (1997)
2. The Lobster (2015)
3. Fargo (1996)
4. Bad Genius (2017)
5. Mother (2009)
6. Lost in Translation (2003)
7. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995)
8. I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
9. The Tribe (2014)
10. In Bruges (2008)
11. Enter the Void (2009)
12. Pi (1998)

#31: Murder By Death

Obvious last place here. I couldnt believe what I was seeing half the time in a wow they really did that kind of way.

#30: Cut Throat City

Promising potential that failed to deliver and in turn made me more frustrated with it so it gets the second to last spot here.

#29: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

Went on way too long for me. Like Adam Driver though.

#28: Its Such a Beautiful Day

I wanted to like this more because of the seeming quirkiness but I just remember more parts of it landing on the grating side.

#27: Hunt for the Wilderpeople

This position is probably interchangeable with Beautiful Day since I remember feeling similarly, particularly the intended humorous parts where I didnt really find very funny.

#26: Aguirre
#25: The Muppets
#24: Stalker

Some parts I liked at the time but not enough.

#23: Long Days Journey Into Nighy

The same but had more of those parts I liked.

#22: Melancholia

Actually liked almost half of it.

#21: Munchausen

Come on, that kid was NOT playing college football.

#20: When Marnie Was There
#19: Luca

Serviceable but overall lower-tier films from their respective animation studios.

#18: Big Fish

Sure were some big fish in this movie.

#17: Nobody

Just put the trash out the night before bro.

#16: We Need to Talk About Kevin

I had so much I wanted to say after I finished this at the time but I said I would write it up later and now I dont remember what I wanted to say. Just goes to show that if you dont do it in the moment youll likely never end up doing it at all. At least for me anyway.

#15: M



#14: The Guilty

Maybe if I watch the original, this will go down.

#13: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Some parts of this were actually so cool.

#12: Saint Maud

Definitely will be remembering certain scenes for a while.

#11: Cool Hand Luke

Probably the most surprising out of the watches in that I enjoyed it as much as I did because I was not expecting much before I started. But a good story is a good story. Still mad about one part though.

I'll definitely remember the ending of Saint Maud for a looong time.

That just warms my heart

Not as warm as Maud was, though

Still need to knock out those last few

#10: Hoop Dreams
#9: Sound of Metal
#8: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
#7: Twilight Samurai
#6: Barry Lyndon

Some GREAT parts but not enough on the first watch to push it into that thoroughly enjoyable tier for me. I would be willing to rewatch these.

Top 5 are all pretty close to each other and positions could be switched around in the future. I will definitely want to rewatch these at some point.

#5. Thoroughbreds

Memorable and fun characters in a relatively short, contained piece.

#4: 45 Years

The buildup to climax is so good and I love all the revealing little subtleties in their conversations that still feels natural. Incredibly strong performances.

#3: The Vast of Night

The dialogue and interaction between the main characters were so instantly captivating and fun that it makes it this high despite my issues near the end.

#2: The Love Witch

This gets better in my head as time goes on. I do remember the Renaissance stuff being a little slow but so much memorable imagery and the colors ahhhhhh. Looking forward to a rewatch to see how itll come off now that I know the basic plotline and what its going for. But it might also be one of those films where I like the idea of it more than the film itself.

#1: House

Transcendent.

i update my "Top 100 Movies" list at the end of every year. haven't gotten around to it for last year yet but i'm going to get on that now

ideally i would have watched everything on that list at least two times so i know i still like them but that's not happening anytime soon. some of these i haven't rewatched in years though. who knows how i would feel now.

but the new year already started so i'll probably give myself a week to just update it a little bit and spend the rest of the year doing rewatches now in addition to watching new stuff

Going to finish my fav 100 movies list and will be posting here with minimal writeups in a couple days maybe. If anybody wants to join me with your own 100 list that would be cool (you can join late too). Might as well fill the topic up with something.

Top 100 would be a lot tougher than a top 10, there's probably a lot of movies I've seen and would put on that list that I just don't remember having seen or at least haven't thought to add to my list. I can pull the top 1XX from my ratings list and remove my least liked ones until it gets down to 100, which I imagine is mostly everything 8.5 and above and would be as close to a top 100 as I'm likely ever to get.

I'll see how it looks a little later. Maybe the culling is easy enough and the ordering would just be the difficult part.

Edit: Apparently, I've seen exactly 50 of that sites users top 100 movies list.

I did a top 100 years back that I'm sure is not even slightly accurate anymore

Damn I still gotta get through a grip of these, last one I watched was Girl Walks Home Alone at Night around Halloween but I don't think I ever wrote it up in this topic. I will do it eventually as long as the topic stays alive

Totally interested to read anyone's top 100. I'll have to draw up my own at some point

When this current topic fills up I wont make another one. So you can consider that a deadline of sorts.

UNLESS we're in the middle of list reveals though. I don't anticipate the list reveals to take that many posts tbh. I'm not going to give every single one of the 100 movies it's own post or anything. Minimal writeups too.

I'll give my top 100, though it'll be very iffy where anything actually lies on it, since it changes all the time outside of my top 3-4

Camden posted...

I can pull the top 1XX from my ratings list and remove my least liked ones until it gets down to 100, which I imagine is mostly everything 8.5 and above and would be as close to a top 100 as I'm likely ever to get.

This is basically how I'm doing it although since I keep a document with all the movies I've seen grouped by rating I imagine it's easier for me than most people.

The biggest problem I'm having is the 'all the movies I've seen' part. If I could somehow pull that information from my brain my watchlist would have an extra 0 on the end most likely. Thanfully, 99% of those movies probably aren't ones I'd end up putting in a top 100 list, like there's no way Halloween 5 or Friday the 13th 8 is going to be on my list, so I don't think it would change much.

Edit: Everything I've rated 8+ puts my list at something like 165 movies, so that's my starting point.

Interesting.....I could try it, though I'm sure I'd think of stuff later that I missed. I think it'd be about half horror.

Camden posted...

The biggest problem I'm having is the 'all the movies I've seen' part.

This is what I use sites like letterboxd for. Although I also keep a main excel spreadsheet as well

Okay well I'll probably be ready to go around sunday evening. You can follow my pace or go at your own. Reiterating that this is pretty low effort which is why it's happening pretty soon

01 - Dersu Uzala [1975]
02 - Gattaca [1997]
03 - Seppuku AKA Harakiri [1962]
04 - Tengoku to jigoku AKA High and Low [1963]
05 - The Thing [1982]
06 - Starship Troopers [1997]
07 - 12 Angry Men [1957]
08 - Moon [2009]
09 - Tremors [1990]
10 - Tasogare Seibei AKA The Twilight Samurai [2002]
11 - Rear Window [1954]
12 - No Country for Old Men [2007]
13 - Akahige AKA Red Beard [1965]
14 - Arrival [2016]
15 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [2001]
16 - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [2002]
17 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King [2003]
18 - Sansh day AKA Sansho the Bailiff [1954]
19 - Fargo [1996]
20 - Rocky [1976]
21 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day [1991]
22 - Tky monogatari AKA Tokyo Story [1953]
23 - Interstellar [2014]
24 - Ugetsu monogatari AKA Tales of Ugetsu [1953]
25 - Nora inu AKA Stray Dog [1949]
26 - The Truman Show [1998]
27 - Alien [1979]
28 - Ikiru AKA To Live [1952]
29 - 10 Cloverfield Lane [2016]
30 - Bushi no ichibun AKA Love and Honor [2006]
31 - Kakushi ken oni no tsume AKA The Hidden Blade [2004]
32 - Jackie Brown [1997]
33 - Logan [2017]
34 - Shichinin no samurai AKA Seven Samurai [1954]
35 - Children of Men [2006]
36 - 28 Days Later... [2002]
37 - Ran [1985]
38 - The Prestige [2006]
39 - Aliens [1986]
40 - Kaze no tani no Naushika AKA Nausica of the Valley of the Wind [1984]
41 - Jui kuen II AKA The Legend of Drunken Master [1994]
42 - Dredd [2012]
43 - It [1990]
44 - C'era una volta il West AKA Once Upon a Time in the West [1968]
45 - Rashmon [1950]
46 - Office Space [1999]
47 - The Silence of the Lambs [1991]
48 - Pafekuto Buru AKA Perfect Blue [1997]
49 - Hisshiken torisashi AKA Sword of Desperation [2010]
50 - Blade Runner 2049 [2017]
51 - Raiders of the Lost Ark [1981]
52 - The Usual Suspects [1995]
53 - Yjinb AKA Yojimbo [1961]
54 - Tsubaki Sanjr AKA Sanjuro [1962]
55 - The Princess Bride [1987]
56 - Vertigo [1958]
57 - Salinui chueok AKA Memories of Murder [2003]
58 - Die Hard [1988]
59 - Stargate [1994]
60 - Tenk no shiro Rapyuta AKA Laputa: Castle in the Sky [1986]
61 - Cube [1997]
62 - Blade Runner [1982]
63 - Hung Fan Au AKA Rumble in the Bronx
64 - Stand by Me [1986]
65 - Forrest Gump [1994]
66 - Miyamoto Musashi AKA Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto [1954]
67 - Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijji no kett AKA Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple [1955]
68 - Miyamoto Musashi kanketsuhen: kett Ganryjima AKA Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island [1956]
69 - Escape from New York [1981]
70 - Kedamono no ken AKA Sword of the Beast [1965]
71 - Cloverfield [2008]
72 - The Terminator [1984]
73 - Akira [1988]
74 - Oldeuboi AKA Oldboy [2003]
75 - Mibu gishi den AKA When the Last Sword Is Drawn [2003]
76 - The Shawshank Redemption [1994]
77 - Jason and the Argonauts [1963]
78 - The Machinist [2004]
79 - Ji-uchi: Hairy tsuma shimatsu AKA Samurai Rebellion [1967]
80 - Total Recall [1990]
81 - Paycheck [2003]
82 - Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru AKA The Bad Sleep Well [1960]
83 - Solyaris AKA Solaris [1972]
84 - Taxi Driver [1976]
85 - American History X [1998]
86 - Jsan-nin no shikaku AKA The Thirteen Assassins [1963]
87 - Primer [2004]
88 - Misery [1990]
89 - Chshingura AKA The 47 Ronin [1962]
90 - Pulp Fiction [1994]
91 - Ame agaru AKA After the Rain [1999]
92 - Gladiator [2000]
93 - The Game [1997]
94 - Dai-bosatsu tge AKA The Sword of Doom [1966]
95 - Se7en AKA Seven [1995]
96 - Raging Bull [1980]
97 - Los cronocrmenes AKA Timecrimes [2007]
98 - Dark City [1998]
99 - Kill Bill: Vol. 1 [2003]
100 - 45 Years [2015]