Netflix is funding the completion of an old Orson Wells movie. Apparently is a satire of avant garde films.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/movi ... d=tw-share

Monkeyboy wrote:

Youseff wrote:saw the François Truffaut movie Shoot The Piano Player. Only other movies I've seen of his are Jules and Jim which I think is one of the best movies ever, and 400 Blows, which every film nerd loves but I'm ambivalent about. It's a good movie, it's stylish, it's funny, but it feels a bit primitive. No major complaints but it didn't blow me away. He's a good guy from a hood family, and he gets wrapped up in their hood-ass behavior, and tries to resolve that. One really interesting thing about it is it stars Charles Aznavour, who was a very popular musician in France. Some described him as "France's Frank Sinatra." I'd say like 83/100.

Is it weird to admit that sometimes I put on Charles Aznavour chansons when nobody is around and it's a sunny, breezy day?

I've been puttin on his stuff lately & I think it's cool. I prefer the songs where he sings in French.

Arrival was really beautifully made and acted. I was sorry to see it end.

Mainly because the ending was rushed and jumbled and the subplot was actually the plot and it almost made it seem like a waste of time. Only almost, though.

Admittedly, I don't have a lot of patience for science fiction or pseudo-intellectual nonsense (or characters like the CIA agent who seem to have dropped in from the latest Godzilla remake). Eliminating it might have left a basis for a good movie about real people, but I would have missed the cool visuals from inside the spaceship.

swishnicholson wrote:Arrival was really beautifully made and acted. I was sorry to see it end.

Mainly because the ending was rushed and jumbled and the subplot was actually the plot and it almost made it seem like a waste of time. Only almost, though.

They made it a bit more dramatic for the big screen. In the Ted Chiang short story, the UFOs hover over the earth's atmosphere, and they drop these oblong discs that act as screens all over the world. The aliens are better formed and are in some sort of living quarter, not just some foggy whatever. There also wasn't any Fox News/Infowars paranoia subplot. It was mentioned but it was a background, background story. I'm not mad though, I still really liked it. If anyone is into linguistics, Chiang studied it for quite some time so he could write that story and others more authoritatively and with more depth. They went a lot more into the construction of the language and how they communicate. The underlying concept is the same, which I really dug. It reminded me of the Timequake book by Vonnegut where the aliens saw him as a caterpillar type creature, where each part of the caterpillar represented the protagonist at a different part of his life.

I saw Buster Keaton's The General. Everyone compares him to Chaplin because they are both awesome physical comedians, but Keaton is way different. Almost like a precursor to martial arts movies. Not sure how he pulled off those types of stunts. Also interesting he made a movie sympathetic to the Confederate cause in the 1920s. Wonder how that went over politically? Anyway, it was great, would watch again, would watch more of his movies. Still think I lean Chaplin but not aggressively. 94/100.

Youseff wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:Arrival was really beautifully made and acted. I was sorry to see it end.

Mainly because the ending was rushed and jumbled and the subplot was actually the plot and it almost made it seem like a waste of time. Only almost, though.

They made it a bit more dramatic for the big screen. In the Ted Chiang short story, the UFOs hover over the earth's atmosphere, and they drop these oblong discs that act as screens all over the world. The aliens are better formed and are in some sort of living quarter, not just some foggy whatever. There also wasn't any Fox News/Infowars paranoia subplot. It was mentioned but it was a background, background story. I'm not mad though, I still really liked it. If anyone is into linguistics, Chiang studied it for quite some time so he could write that story and others more authoritatively and with more depth. They went a lot more into the construction of the language and how they communicate. The underlying concept is the same, which I really dug. It reminded me of the Timequake book by Vonnegut where the aliens saw him as a caterpillar type creature, where each part of the caterpillar represented the protagonist at a different part of his life.

Yeah, that's the problem with films not really having time to explore ideas. The linguistic concepts were interesting, but by necessity were handled glibly and superficially. I'm surprised they didn't use the "17 words for snow story". I guess the kangaroo one had to stand in.

Youseff wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

Youseff wrote:saw the François Truffaut movie Shoot The Piano Player. Only other movies I've seen of his are Jules and Jim which I think is one of the best movies ever, and 400 Blows, which every film nerd loves but I'm ambivalent about. It's a good movie, it's stylish, it's funny, but it feels a bit primitive. No major complaints but it didn't blow me away. He's a good guy from a hood family, and he gets wrapped up in their hood-ass behavior, and tries to resolve that. One really interesting thing about it is it stars Charles Aznavour, who was a very popular musician in France. Some described him as "France's Frank Sinatra." I'd say like 83/100.

Is it weird to admit that sometimes I put on Charles Aznavour chansons when nobody is around and it's a sunny, breezy day?

I've been puttin on his stuff lately & I think it's cool. I prefer the songs where he sings in French.

me too. I also like the more upbeat stuff.

Bucky wrote:pretty sure I contributed to that $150K too, can't wait to see if I'm in the credits!

so you stuck your evil in her too?

Just saw "The Shack." I really liked it. The guy who played Mack is an Aussie. He couldn't control his accent. Movie was different from the book, which bothered me not at all. Started on the book again.

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:

Bucky wrote:pretty sure I contributed to that $150K too, can't wait to see if I'm in the credits!

so you stuck your evil in her too?

she "liked" my post!!!!!

check it out, the 1945 Hitchcock movie "Spellbound" is on Youtube. Looks like a really clean version. I've been meaning to see this but it's not on Netflix. It's very notable because he collaborated with Salvador Dali for the dream sequences in this movie. Apparently they're pretty cool.

Beauty and the Beast hot takes
Gaston actor meh
Emma can't sing
Ewen McGregor was poorly cast
Be Our Guest was underwhelming

Worst live action Disney film so far. Not really close

any chance that Song to Song won't be embarrassing for everyone?

I posted in the random thread but I finally (sober) found this thread to comment.



The Power Rangers movie was everything I wanted it to be. Lots of references and a good start to the reboot franchise. I was stoked.

i finally saw captain fantastic. I heard it was supposed to be good and it was about some hippie family being introduced to society. Well it was very good, one of the top movies of last year. While they may wear "funny" clothing and have a bus, I really wouldn't label them as your happy go lucky hippies. And with the title being captain fantastic, I thought it would be one of those feel good movies too. Another poor assumption.

Spoiler/rant


Highly recommend this movie.

shoulda written the spoiler in teal

The Jumanji reboot won't have a magical board game wtf

PTOITWCFTPP wrote:The Jumanji reboot won't have a magical board game wtf

So how is it Jumanji then?

magical video game?

CalvinBall wrote:magical video game?

Damn millennials.