Youseff wrote:

WheelsFellOff wrote:How's it compare to Statham classics like the transporter or crank? I know he's not in it but it feels like those

Scott Auckerman described it as a movie where the director started out making a Fast & the Furious movie and got bored part of the way through and decided to make a musical.

It's a musical? Hard pass

phatj wrote:

Youseff wrote:

WheelsFellOff wrote:How's it compare to Statham classics like the transporter or crank? I know he's not in it but it feels like those

Scott Auckerman described it as a movie where the director started out making a Fast & the Furious movie and got bored part of the way through and decided to make a musical.

It's a musical? Hard pass

that's a tough way to describe it. By all accounts, the action/dialogue/story is all pushed forward by the main characters personal soundtrack.

Guardians of the Ford Galaxie

Yes to the last two posts.


Calling it a musical is fucking lazy.

saw Tartovsky's Stalker at the Brattle yesterday. it was beautiful but... I didn't get it. there were pregnant scenes here and there but whatever the allegory was didn't really sink in and definitely didn't hit emotionally for me. I'll have to read some stuff to see what I missed

I was really looking forward to finally seeing The Lobster, but after the first hour it really wandered away too far into aimless strangeness for me. Some great images, though.

yeah, I thought the second half was a mess

agreed.

I'm fine with an hour movie. it's no big deal.

Houshphandzadeh wrote:saw Tartovsky's Stalker at the Brattle yesterday. it was beautiful but... I didn't get it. there were pregnant scenes here and there but whatever the allegory was didn't really sink in and definitely didn't hit emotionally for me. I'll have to read some stuff to see what I missed

i fucking love stalker. won't claim i know or care about any of the symbolism but i liked the story overall, the main character was cool, and the interplay between the writer and professor was interesting. i remember first watching the movie being on the edge of my seat, and the cinematic beauty of it all makes it an undisputed masterpiece in my eyes. the very end when it all comes together blew my mind, when that fucking phone starts ringing out of nowhere goddamn. obviously tons of long tracking shots of water and dead dogs and shit but andrei tarkovsky might be my fav director and ive seen all his films so i love all his touches. the wife's monologue at the end is friggin ace.

LOST would have been better if they didn't try to explain the mystical island shit and just made it an unknowable existential hellscape like the zone

also reminder tarkovsky and his wife and i think some other crew members died from the toxic radiation they immersed themselves in while filming on location at a nuclear wasteland making stalker

Finally got around to a bunch of musical/dance movies
Chicago: One of the best musicals I've seen. Loved everything about it. Great music, perfect casting, memorable songs.
Dirty Dancing: I liked it. Amazing soundtrack. Swayze was hot shit. So how old is he in this movie? 25 is my best guess, even though it's more like 35. Baby is 17.......
Hairspray: The main girl and Travolta were great. Fun music, wouldn't watch again.
Footloose: John Lithgow is the bad guy in almost every movie. In the conversation for the most "80s" movie ever.

wwry wrote:i #$!&@ love stalker

maybe I was just having a bad day. it is funny you mention the wife's monologue. I thought it was incredible but seemed out of a totally different movie. I did love Andrei Rublev (and was loving Solaris before I fell asleep) so I appreciate the guy's immense talents. an artist friend of mine has been trying to get me to read his book Sculpting in Time for about ten years so I might finally take him up on it

lmao its awesome you fell asleep during solaris. tarko is def methodical and hypnotic. andrei rublev was actually probably the only tarkovsky film that totally bored me on first viewing but on a second watch i loved it, that scene with the pagans is so fwiggin good.

you probably didn't miss anything about stalker, i just personally was really in to the whole atmosphere and feel of the film. the vague references to stalker's absent brother/partner Porcupine, the set pieces, the invisible dangers of The Zone itself, tension being built from nothing but slow shots and droning music and that guys weird face. regarding the wife's monologue it def came out of nowhere but for a pretty mysterious movie i appreciated it for shedding a little light on the background of our hero.

reccomendation: A. tark's first film Ivan's Childhood is awesome if you want a tarkovsky film without all the flowery bulk. its got the same beauty but its a nice trim old time war movie.

i watched Dune yesterday and it really is as bad as they say holy shit.

Baby Driver was fucking awesome

Eem wrote:Baby Driver was fucking awesome

i can't even find words of justice. just.. smh at how fantastic it is. They did it right

Despicable Me 3 was not good

did it need more minions?

More everything, less what they actually put on the screen

Liked the big sick.