Thread for those who've been watching cinema seriously for 5+ years and have advanced past capeshit, mainstream movies and the same old flicks.
Don't be offended, this is not meant to be pretentious, its just some of us have moved past IMDb-core, indie flicks and the latest hyped blockbuster and have more developed tastes. Do not troll or derail the thread with off-topic discussion.
What good films have you been enjoying lately?
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Batman v Superman
i hated movies for the majority of my life becasue i thought they were dumb. i have never seen capeshit or ever been to the cinemas. i've only seen shitty entry level arthouse.
what does this make me?
>this is not meant to be pretentious
You have failed.
I've been enjoying some of the cinematic classics lately, like Ultraviolet and Aeon Flux.
so what are your top 5 favorite movies? and dont say you cant choose, surely with your /advanced/ taste you can least make some impressive choices
That film was so forgettable, it's unbelievable prime-Theron was in it.
that image makes we want to rewatch both despite the memory of sitting through both of those bloated and rotting funerals
yeah, it's very mediocre.
The Boondock Saints
Reservoir Dogs
Full Metal Jacket
Seven Samurai
Godfather 2
Last night I watched Bava's Blood and Black Lace, seeing it restored in HD it's like a completely different film, it's glorious.
Tonight I'm going to watch Huston's The Man Who Would Be King
have another
>The Boondock Saints
I see, this is a ruse thread.
theres no way you're OP, I'm gonna have to die laughing if you really are
So what do you watch, NyanCat? I love NyanCat . I like the director's cut that runs for ten hours. It's one of the great classics. It's so esoteric, it doesn't even show up on imdb.com
As a patrician I love Starship Troopers, thinking it's a pleb film is a pleb opinion, it's got so many layers.
Stroszek [1977, Werner Herzog]
L'Eclisse [1962, Michelangelo Antonioni]
Mysterious Object at Noon [2000, Apichatpong Weerasethakul]
Beau Travail [1999, Claire Denis]
Battle in Heaven [2005, Carlos Reygadas]
>Battle in Heaven
gtfo of this thread buddy
theeere we go, thanks for the recs, OP
I'm going to hope that at least one person that comes to this thread isn't meming
Here's a few movies I recently watched for the first time that I found interesting.
Pather Panchali - I recently picked up that Apu trilogy boxset and was pretty impressed by this. Some of it was just outright gorgeous and it has some really good features like Ray reading an essay he wrote about his problems with the experience.
The Terrorizers - Pretty great actually. Not quite as good as A Brighter Summer Day or Yi-Yi at least not yet, I've only seen it once though. May grow on me.
An Autumn Afternoon - Man Ozu knew how to use color. It's pretty impressive in just its restraint and simple beauty. I just wish ozu's movies weren't so... I don't know if simple is even what I mean. I wish they didn't revolve around these social stigmas that seem so outdated. It obviously still kind of works because the emotions are still resonant.
I'm also about to watch Children of Paradise and I'm trying to go in blind.
Super edgy!
Lacenaire assassinates the count
>Lacenaire assassinates the count
What an absolute cunt
Is this black and white screenshot from Buffy a meme or something?
Its from Buffy.
Victoria and Louder Than Bombs were fantastic. i guess they qualify as indie, though. i have absolutely no idea what you mean by imdb-core.
so movies like American Beauty (not the actual movie but the scene with the bag dancing in the wind)
le 1 take. kys my dude
yeah, so? that's the gimmick. give it a shot, though. i was dubious about it at first, too, and then i actually saw the film instead of acting the idiot on Sup Forums.
Working through Peter Greenaways catalogue right now. Drowning by Numbers has had a profound effect on me. It has this entrancing dreamlike quality that totally got me.
Happiness was a disappointment. Went in with extremely high expectations. It was dark and funny and enjoyable. Hes hitting something I like. I want Solondz to give it to me harder.
Rules of Attraction was intriguing. Not sure if I enjoyed it or not. It reminded me of some Gregg Araki movies. I love when films end with a baffling blatant disregard for the closure that surprises the audience. Might need to re-watch it.
The Shape of Things is the best LaBute film I've seen thus far. He seems to be constantly toying with gender dynamics and finally he made something refined that spoke to my insecurities and affirmed my beliefs.
Full Metal Jacket was a huge disappointment. Often I hear that the first third is a lot better than the rest of the movie and that the rest is good just not as good. Well, for me the rest was completely empty. I was sitting and watching and none of it meant anything to me. I wasn't moved by the action or the horror. It all seemed very expected to me. Pauline Kael's review was on point.
I don't watch mainstream media anymore
Calm down autismo. Do you hate long takes from contemplative cinema too?
You should watch Greenaways favorite filmmaker Bill Viola.
okay, nothing really lost there. it was an entertaining enough movie but nothing life-altering. still don't get why you have issues with the technique implemented to film the narrative. it works for the story. criticizing that particular aspect is like complaining As I Lay Dying isn't worth reading because of the style Faulkner used in it.
The Aeon Flux ep "Tide" had potentially one of the best action sequence motifs ever. As a big fan of that and Theron I was very disappointed with the movie.
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It cycles through a bunch of camera angles in a set pattern for a set time each. I'm surprised I haven't seen it done on film.
>some pleb trying to compare fotm gimmick movie to faulkner
lmfao
Thanks for the recommendation.
Wanna try something other than memespeak?
wanna try something other than memecinema?
victoria is a mediocre movie that tries to heighten its significance via a gimmick. the one-shot thing serves absolutely no narrative purpose at all - in fact, many would argue it makes it poorer since it adds lots of filler between actual sequences and throws the endless possibilities for retakes and meaningful editing through the window. it is a literal mememovie
i was joking when i posted aeon flux as an example of cinema classic, which i'm sure was obvious. that said, the movie COULD have been way more interesting if were filmed and scripted more like the animated series. if they would have cut out most of the dialog, and allowed the story to be told through bold, interesting visuals instead of the hamfisted dystopic theme the Hollywood version delivered, it would have been much better.
Some of these I haven't seen. I'm going to check these out. :)
i'd say the single take actually enhances the experience and pulls the viewer in the film, as if he or she is a part of the group. it also mimics real life scenarios where moments of violence, tenderness, joy, and horror can erupt at any moment. so, yes, the one-shot gimmick does serve narrative purpose. however, that doesn't take away from your opinion that the film is mediocre. i didn't think so, but i also don't think it's a masterpiece. it's an entertaining indie flick, no more, no less.
btw, you're debating with 2 different posters, if that makes any difference.
>/advanced/
cringed hard
I don't know anyone autistic enough to stop watching big studio movies because they've moved past it.
What are some good books/essays about film?
the long take is used tastelessly in Victoria tho
THIS THREAD PROVES WHY /film/ WON'T WORK
I TRIED TO MAKE A THREAD THAT DISCUSSES FILMS BUT NO, Sup Forums WILL ALWAYS BE SHIT YOU'RE NOT WORTH SAVING
FUCK YOU ALL
the best book for newbies is borwell's film art
>Might need to re-watch it.
The Richard Avery film? Do it, it's even better the second time.
Roll trips and I'll invite you
rolling. why not. *shrug*
Looking bad aeltbx
The "Monsters of Megaphones" sketch that follows this is my favorite of all time.
being on KG should be a prerequisite for posting in this thread
Euphoric.
this thread is not for capeshitters, kiddo
I've been aggressively studying film and filmmaking since 1999. I've been working in the production industry since 2011. After a certain point you realize you don't really "advance past capeshit, mainstream movies and the same old flicks." That's fucking stupid. You watch the old shit, you seek out the obscure shit, and that eventually just makes the popular shit better. I worked 13 hours today on a fucking movie production, I don't want to watch some iamverysmart.png shit.
Eventually you reach the point where you realize that exclusively watching pretentious indies and structureless foreign movies and shit doesn't make you better.
If you're still at the point where you think it has to be either/or, you're a know-nothing youngfag and a tryhard. It's all schlock.
i had a music teacher tell me essentially the same thing. in my experience, he was right and so are you.
so what have you been watching recently?
idk just rewatched Green Room. Watched Hail Caesar! like yesterday. Watched the 7 hour OJ Simpson 30 for 30 the last few days. Watched Civil War for the second time whilst doing shit around the house a few days ago.
There's plenty of good old and/or foreign and/or independent and/or "challenging" movies that I still haven't seen, but the way I see it, I already put in like a decade of consuming filmographies and movements and films from different cultures. I don't need to constantly watch some focus-demanding Japanese incest drama or russian depression porn to feel validated.
When I was in highschool it was probably like a 9 to 1 ratio of "non-mainstream" movie consumption. But now that shit has probably flipped. Not to mention I'll go through phases where I just obsessively study one movie for like a month. I've watched Batman v Superman like 16 times or something, because it's just that goddamn bad. It's a beautiful disaster where almost every creative decision is somewhat baffling. You can sometimes learn a lot more about what good filmmaking is by studying bad filmmaking.
you sound like an embryo projecting his need of validation on actual cinephiles
Neat. Would you like to compare spreadsheets of movies watched every year? I quit doing that shit when I actually started working but 2001-2009 where pretty busy years. Watched and logged around 900 movies a year from 2002 to 2006. I still try to watch around 3 movies a day in December and January every year. Still watch around an average of a movie a day every year. Not every one of them is going to be some avant garde think piece that fucks up your whole day.
Idk what to tell you man. It's all the same after awhile, just with different variables. Having worked on $30 million features, $1 million dollar features, microbudgets, commercials, industrials, and television shows, college productsion, etc, I'm honestly way more impressed nowadays by huge budget tentpoles. Just from a production coordination standpoint a $200-300 million movie is pretty fucking awe-inspiring, especially when it's well done.
And honestly, it's pretty fucking retarded to act like you're a "cinephile" and then talk about all the genres or contexts of movies that you don't like. If you don't like some shit just because it is new or popular, you're not a fucking "cinephile." You're a tryhard contrarian faggot.
I've almost never watched a movie I didn't appreciate or respect on some level. Making a movie is a hassle, and good on anybody that pulls that shit off. Even if the movie is dogshit, they still made a fucking movie. And that's pretty cool. It's all art. And it's all also trash. Who gives a shit? Stop putting it on a pedestal. Come and See was pretty good. So was Ant-Man.
damn
>Would you like to compare spreadsheets of movies watched every year
lol got eem
if you're the same person, good on you. in the limited music production experience i have, there is huge amount of work that goes into the process. people who don't actually create and produce material have no idea. a movie production is a much larger piece of work than a music production, in collaborative terms. the amount of teamwork, artistic direction and people management is very impressive when you think about it.
probably fake but here's my throwaway email anyways
I've been trying to find 4k versions of Trash Humpers for years
>advanced
>treating film like xbox achievements
Kill yourself kiddo or stick to the containment thread for retards
>wasting time on flicks
eyyyy
Like I mostly do art department shit and set dressing is sometimes schlepping and dressing a location or a set that involves days of effort for like 40 seconds of screen time. But from any department POV, there is so much effort put in to things that "laymen" don't really register. Keeping focus involves multiple people. Lighting and flagging is a fucking art form in itself. Camera movement is often totally unappreciated. Complicated shots that might take a day to nail and sequences that could take weeks (or months) are ignored. I'm on a $1 million feature right now and its ~60 people sweating their taints off for 10-14 hours a day to make some likely-forgettable goddamn House of Cards knock-off.
Its just like with music (or really any other) production. Even if you don't like the final product, knowing the intricacies by which it's made makes it a lot harder to hate it.
I'm not that guy you replied to but I agree with your prior comment. After learning the shit that goes into making a movie or tv show, I actually am reluctant to pirate or torrent anything. Hell, even the average popcorn flick I'll rent at the Redbox.
As an aspiring creator, it really does help you respect the craft more.
>tips fedora
I never collected spread sheets of movies watched because I'm not a fag like op
So you just come to Sup Forums for the memes? I'm sure you'll fit in here fine.
You just made op look like a massive faggot and pretty much shut him down.
This thread was thinly veiled bait though I think. But good on you, you know what you're talking about. Respect.
Nice argument, you sure rekt movie-user.
Kill yourself my man.
yeah, when you understand the work that's put into, it makes you appreciate it so much more. it grinds my gears when people chuckle and write you off after asking you what you've been doing, and you tell them what you've been working on...and they say, "heh, yeah right, like you work." it's very frustrating. i hardly make shit doing what i do. i only do it because i love it. it's just frustrating when not even your own family thinks your doing actual work.
kek!
Invite me please
no becuase you're a faggot
Here's my 2016 so far.
[1993] Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
[2007] Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
[1993] Trois couleurs: Bleu (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
[1994] Trois couleurs: Blanc (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
[1994] Trois couleurs: Rouge (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
[1994] Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
[1994] Regarde les hommes tomber (Jacques Audiard)
[1994] Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
[1994] Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
[1994] The Lion King (Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff)
[2011] Jiro Dreams of Sushi (David Gelb)
[1995] Safe (Todd Haynes)
[1995] 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
[1995] Mighty Aphrodite (Woody Allen)
[1995] Casino (Martin Scorsese)
[1995] The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
[1995] La haine (Mathieu Kassovitz)
[1995] Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
[1995] Kids (Larry Clark)
[1995] To Die For (Gus Van Sant)
[1995] Heat (Michael Mann)
[1995] The American President (Rob Reiner)
[1995] Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
[1996] Trees Lounge (Steve Buscemi)
[1996] Lone Star (John Sayles)
[1996] Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
[1996] Big Night (Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci)
[1996] Swingers (Doug Liman)
[1997] La vita è bella (Roberto Benigni)
[1997] Gattaca (Andrew Niccol)
[1997] The Game (David Fincher)
[1997] Con Air (Simon West)
[1997] Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
[1997] Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)
[1997] Contact (Robert Zemeckis)
[1997] The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
[1997] Lost Highway (David Lynch)
[1997] Gummo (Harmony Korine)
[1997] Face/Off (John Woo)
[1998] Dark City (Alex Proyas)
[1998] The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
[1998] Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
[1998] Rounders (John Dahl)
[1998] Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam)
[1998] Lola rennt (Tom Tykwer)
[2008] In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
[1998] Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac)
[1998] The Big Lebowski (The Coens)
[1999] The Insider (Michael Mann)
[1999] Office Space (Mike Judge)
[1999] The Limey (Steven Soderbergh)
[1999] Rosetta (The Dardennes)
[1999] The Straight Story (David Lynch)
[1999] Pola X (Leos Carax)
[1999] Election (Alexander Payne)
[1999] Beau travail (Claire Denis)
[1999] Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese)
[1999] Todo sobre mi madre (Pedro Almodóvar)
[1999] Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce)
[1999] Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen)
[2000] Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
[2000] Amores perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
[2000] Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh)
[2000] Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer)
[2000] High Fidelity (Stephen Frears)
[2000] Animal Factory (Steve Buscemi)
[2000] O Brother, Where Art Thou? (The Coens)
[2000] You Can Count On Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
[2000] Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
[2001] Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
[2001] Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott)
[2001] L'uomo in più (Paolo Sorrentino)
[2001] A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
[2001] La pianiste (Michael Haneke)
[2001] The Man Who Wasn't There (The Coens)
[2001] Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón)
[2001] Sur mes lèvres (Jacques Audiard)
[2001] Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
[2001] Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
[2001] Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
[2001] Tape (Richard Linklater)
[2002] Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney)
[2002] Irréversible (Gaspar Noé)
[2002] Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes)
[2002] Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
[2002] Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
[2002] Lilja 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson)
[2002] Panic Room (David Fincher)
[2002] Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears)
[2002] Hable con ella (Pedro Almodóvar)
[2002] About Schmidt (Alexander Payne)
[2002] Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore)
[2002] Le fils (The Dardennes)
[2002] Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)
[2002] Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
[2001] La ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel)
[2002] 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom)
[2003] Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
[1970] MASH (Robert Altman)
[2003] 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
[2003] Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott)
[2003] Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)
[2003] The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
[2003] La meglio gioventù (Marco Tullio Giordana)
[2003] Good Bye Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker)
[2004] Crash (Paul Haggis)
[2004] Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
[2004] Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)
[2004] Der Untergang (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
[2004] Collateral (Michael Mann)
[2004] Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
[2004] Friday Night Lights (Peter Berg)
[2004] The Machinist (Brad Anderson)
[2004] Le conseguenze dell’amore (Paolo Sorrentino)
[2004] La niña santa (Lucrecia Martel)
[2004] Sideways (Alexander Payne)
[2005] Caché (Michael Haneke)
[2005] Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
[2015] The Big Short (Adam McKay)
[2015] Room (Lenny Abrahamson)
[2005] The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
[2005] A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
[2005] Lonesome Jim (Steve Buscemi)
[2005] De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté (Jacques Audiard)
[2005] Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)
[2005] L'enfant (The Dardennes)
[2005] Match Point (Woody Allen)
[2006] United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
[2006] Inland Empire (David Lynch)
[2006] Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
[2006] Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
[2006] Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood)
[2006] Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
[2006] El Laberinto del Fauno (Guillermo del Toro)
[2006] Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris)
[2006] Das Leben der Anderen (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
[2006] Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog)
[2006] Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre)
[2006] L'amico di famiglia (Paolo Sorrentino)
[2006] Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)
[2007] The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
[2007] American Gangster (Ridley Scott)
[2007] Le scaphandre et le papillon (Julian Schnabel)
[2007] Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
[2007] Naissance des pieuvres (Céline Sciamma)
[2007] Interview (Steve Buscemi)
[2007] Zodiac (David Fincher)
[2007] Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie)
[2007] Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
[2007] Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols)
[2007] Bridge to Terabithia (Gábor Csupó)
[2007] Stellet Licht (Carlos Reygadas)
[2007] 2 Days In Paris (Julie Delpy)
[2007] Sicko (Michael Moore)
[2008] Changeling (Clint Eastwood)
[2008] Burn After Reading (The Coens)
[2008] Hunger (Steve McQueen)
[2008] Milk (Gus Van Sant)
[2008] The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
[2008] Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino)
[2008] Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kurt Kuenne)
[2008] La mujer sin cabeza (Lucrecia Martel)
[2008] Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
[2008] Le silence de Lorna (The Dardennes)
[2008] The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
[2008] The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
[2008] Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
[2008] Låt den rätte komma in (Tomas Alfredson)
[2008] Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen)
[2009] Kynodontas (Yorgos Lanthimos)
[2009] A Serious Man (The Coens)
[2009] Das weiße Band (Michael Haneke)
[2009] Moon (Duncan Jones)
[2009] Up In the Air (Jason Reitman)
[2009] Mary and Max (Adam Elliot)
[2009] El secreto de sus ojos (Juan José Campanella)
[2009] Get Low (Aaron Schneider)
[2009] Capitalism: A Love Story (Michael Moore)
[2009] Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé)
[2009] Sin Nombre (Cary Joji Fukunaga)
[2009] Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve)
[2009] An Education (Lone Scherfig)
[2009] Un prophète (Jacques Audiard)
>/advanced/
cringe
And what did you learn from watching all these movies?
>jibberish
We speak American in these parts.
>broke back mountain
I almost thought the list was serious until I found the punchline. 7/10 bait
Learn? I don't watch films to learn. I've discovered some directors that I want to delve deeper into at some point.
Then why do you want to delve depeer into those directors? What's the purpose of you watching all these films?
So you only watch films you think you'll like? Interesting.
>why do you want to delve depeer into those directors?
Because they've made films that I greatly enjoyed.
>What's the purpose of you watching all these films?
I like watching films.
What's the criterion a film should adhere to for you to enjoy it? And why do you enjoy watching films?
brokeback mountain is solid, aside from the straight to tv vibe it has sometimes
j-jack i swear
ez trips
these trips don't lie
I learnt to keep a spread sheet to show how much of a faggot I am.
>What's the criterion a film should adhere to for you to enjoy it?
I don't know enough about film to be able to answer that. Right now I'm just watching a lot, going into each one with an open mind, knowing as little as possible about it.
>why do you enjoy watching films?
Why does anyone?