Return Of The Film Corner Thread

[gmonahan]

Endgame, this weekend! I have some friends coming over to see it with me, and the first time we could get in with ok seats was...Sunday morning. Sure would be nice to have 1% of what this movie is going to make over the next several days!

 

 

gregmo

[Brad]

2 hours ago, gmonahan said:

Endgame, this weekend! I have some friends coming over to see it with me, and the first time we could get in with ok seats was...Sunday morning. Sure would be nice to have 1% of what this movie is going to make over the next several days!

 

 

gregmo

We’re seeing it in about 40 minutes. 

[jlhoots]

5 hours ago, Brad said:

We’re seeing it in about 40 minutes. 

Sunday afternoon - already have tickets!

[Brad]

12 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

Sunday afternoon - already have tickets!

It was a fun movie. We saw it at 3 and the place was packed. They even have a 3am showing tonight.  We bought tickets a few weeks ago. 

Edited April 26, 2019 by Brad

[jlhoots]

Ash Is Purest White

[gmonahan]

On 4/26/2019 at 4:40 PM, Brad said:

It was a fun movie. We saw it at 3 and the place was packed. They even have a 3am showing tonight.  We bought tickets a few weeks ago. 

I agree--maybe the best from Marvel so far. I wonder if it will get an Oscar nomination the way "Return of the King" did.

[kinuta]

Victoria & Abdul - Stephen Frears (2017)

Unexpectedly endearing film.

I really enjoyed it.

[kinuta]

Crazy Rich Asians - John M Chu (2018)

Don't know why I bothered, curiosity I guess.

Tacky, lame and plastic fluff.

[jlhoots]

Her Smell

[duaneiac]

This song (and scene) just cracks me up:

 

[kinuta]

Apollo 11 - Todd Douglas Miller (2019)

[jlhoots]

Long Shot

[Matthew]

Since You Went Away. 

[Brad]

[duaneiac]

Admittedly, I dozed off at a couple of points while watching this, but I think I saw enough of it to give it a fair shot.  What at first seemed like a gorgeously filmed adaptation of a third rate, contractual obligation story by James M. Cain is instead grossly surreal when one realizes it is a tale of a man who begins a love affair with an older woman only to later fall in love with her step-daughter.  WTF?!?!?  If the creative idea file is so thin nowadays that Mr. Allen has to cannibalize/fictionalize some of the more sordid features of his private life for movie ideas, then perhaps it is time to walk away from the camera.  Or as some one else once said, "Have you no sense of decency,sir?  At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

That said, Kate Winslet was very, very good.  Jim Belushi seemed to be attempting to show us his version of "Acting", or else he was trying to do a poor John Goodman impersonation.  Either way, one is willing to indulge him up to a point, but then one simply must insist it stop!

[kinuta]

Rewatching - Red Riding Trilogy 1974 - Julian Jarold

                                                    1980 - James Marsh

                                                    1983 - Anand Tucker

 

[jlhoots]

Shadow

[kinuta]

Doubt - John Patrick Shanley (2008)

Masterpiece.

The cover doesn't reveal  two essential contributions - Viola Davis as the mother and the camera of Roger Deakins.

[kinuta]

The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford - Andrew Domink (2007)

Camera by Roger Deakins

[Matthew]

32 minutes ago, kinuta said:

The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford - Andrew Domink (2007)

Camera by Roger Deakins

I keep going back and forth about watching this one or not. Yea or nay?

[jlhoots]

1 hour ago, Matthew said:

I keep going back and forth about watching this one or not. Yea or nay?

Yea IMHO.

[kinuta]

On 2019年4月23日 at 1:01 PM, Matthew said:

5 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

Yea IMHO.

As the man said. A must see film. It's quiet and character based with exceptional cinematography. Worth seeing just for the night time train robbery scene

[medjuck]

I don't remember much about it except that I thought it was real, real good. 

[kinuta]

The Devil's Backbone - Guillermo del Toro (2001)

Dark City - Alex Proyas (1998)

[T.D.]