Letterboxd thread: Hong Sang-soo has 3 films comming out this year edition
I simply think the numerous Malick (and Haneke) knockoffs are all fairly insipid, but that's just my opinion.
Terrence Malick shot an anonymous perfume commercial that went unnoticed until the rumours started floating. You can also take this "Malick or Nature Doc?" quiz at Fandor (fandor.com/keyframe/malick-nature-doc), and there are some shots that are near identical. (I got around 50-60%. Perhaps I'm just a bad Malick fan.)
His influence on modern cinema: Shane Carruth, Trey Edward Shults, the odious Innaritu, and a whole swath of indie films, one which I saw recently which partly sparked this musing, from a Quebec filmmaker (that also somehow won a big award at IFFR). These days, as soon as I start seeing cameras panning up and swiveling with some abstract musing in "poetic" voice-over, I just roll my eyes. Voyage of Time is still one of the most vapid films I've seen in a while, and for some reason I watched The Neon Demon and American Honey. With Song to Song being heavily trashed, well...
As for Haneke, I can only bring up Seidl and Markus Schleinzer, both of whom I've seen films from which I absolutely detest. Maybe you can extend his influence to the Greek New Wave, von Trier, or Vinterberg, but that's probably stretching it.
Anyway, everything I type is just word vomit so don't take me seriously.
I was really debating between a 3 and a 3.5, generally don't care for capeshit, but it was honestly a more visceral experience than any other that I'd seen, helped that the dialogue wasn't the airtight quipfests like Avengers. Impressed me.
I think I'm going to watch the 3 films I have left from the Slovak cinema Blu-ray coffret, and then Story of Sin if I have a chance
;^)
Nathan Robinson
>What are you watching today friends kino
Nolan Sanders
I'm going to nap then run then watch the rest of the saisons tetralogy or kingdom of hills that part of the episode was hype
Julian Diaz
>mfw the canines have infiltrated the human race
what's your account mate
Bentley Wilson
letterboxd.com/albion
I felt like that whole human dog thing was a reference to anubis as that'd tie in heavily to the whole afterlife shite lindelof is shitting out heavily but I don't think he's smart enough to actually use symbolism that isn't hamfisted although that in itself would be too on the nose tbqh
Hudson Wood
can't wait for the flood and kevin's arc.
Levi Cruz
Yo, is there any stream around for the theatrical version of the Exorcist? Every link I've found seems to be the Blu-ray version.
Caleb Richardson
magnum force was a surprisingly solid sequel. I may even like it a little more than Dirty Harry.
Why are Letterboxd users so lame, easily offended, and have a prevailing "no fun allowed" attitude? It's like all these reviews were written by my mom.
And they watch so many genre movies that they knew are something they'll hate going into it and then give it a bad review. They'll give a bad review to a martial arts movie because they "hate violence and macho crap", why would they watch a film like that in the first place then?
I swear, they watch films just to get butthurt and offended by content they could have known would be in there by reading the description of the movie.
Thomas Adams
reminder to follow people that you like and then only look at activity/friends reviews
Aiden Reed
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Zachary Cox
I know, it just seems silly to me for people do write takedown reviews of movies from genres they know they hate. I get that they're trying something new, but instead of watching the peak of genres they don't care for, it seems like they'll watch some lesser known, middling film that fans of that genre might like but they'll hate because they hate all films of that type.
They should go outside instead of watching movies they have such low expectations for.
