This is a thread for those of us who have been watching cinema seriously for over 5 years and have seen over 1000 films. Don't be offended; some of us have simply moved past imdb-core, capeshit, and the same old indie flicks. Do not derail the thread with trolling or off-topic discussion.
Without further adieu, I wish a warm welcome to my fellow cinephiles. Here are some discussion points to get our thread started:
>What have you been watching recently?
>What is your opinion on the current state of American and world cinema?
I watched Looper today and I must say, I was blown away. A revolutionary sci-fi and a well-deserved award winner.
>I watched Looper today and I must say, I was blown away. A revolutionary sci-fi and a well-deserved award winner. God dammit why did you have to include this?
Tyler Scott
>some of us have simply moved past imdb-core >"I watched Looper today and I must say, I was blown away." this is either some advanced 4D reverse baiting or you're a pathetic pleb
Sebastian King
Berberian Sound Studio was boring, original Wicker Man was kino, Wicker Tree was bad and American Cinema is shit but European is rising. Also fuck USA for abandoning Verhoeven.
Ethan Sanders
I only watch Van Wilder movies
Connor Wright
Beau Travail was great, can't wait for the Kino Claire Denis is making next year Also watched Embrace of the Serpent. Pretty good
Charles Watson
I mildly enjoyed 400 Blows.
Logan Peterson
is von trier actually a nazi
Levi Gonzalez
watched Lost City of Z recently Robert Pattinson was actually pretty bad after Sup Forums kept shilling me on him but I liked him in Good Time
The movie itself felt quite magical but didn't justify his motivation at all and got a bit repetive without enough world building in the amazon
Jaxon Evans
It's just shitty bait.
>Without further adieu
Logan Rivera
>tfw KG invites are still closed
Brody Perry
>some of us have simply moved past imdb-core, capeshit, and the same old indie flicks >I watched Looper today and I must say so it's gonna be that kind of a fake /lbg/ thread
>The movie itself felt quite magical this was the reason I loved it >didn't justify his motivation at all the fat fraud Murray explained it on the second jungle trip: Fawcett didn't care about his family or his crew, just MUH JUNGLE. All makes sense to me.
Oliver Evans
satan trips so you get a free reply >world building im looking for my plebcore critic bingo macro
Nathaniel Moore
I deleted my KG account because I realized I was not a retard and had everything I needed on PTP.
Blake Moore
Yh i know he cared more about his jungle than family but didn't feel justified. When tom holland his son got slapped i felt like he had a point and it felt like the writers were just aimlessly making the main character do things for no reason
Thomas Diaz
>When tom holland his son got slapped i felt like he had a point and it felt like the writers were just aimlessly making the main character do things for no reason You mean his son had a point? Because yeah he kind of did. Fawcett is not really meant to be a heroic figure, he is tragic.
Christopher Garcia
"Embrace of the Serpent" is a 7/10 movie, and is miles better than "The Lost City of Z", and I may actually be the biggest James Gray fan on this board.
Leo Clark
You may not be a retard, but you definitely have narrow cinematic horizons if you didn't realise how much exclusive content KG provides in comparison with PTP.
Cooper Reyes
Dang you hated Lost City of Z? I thought it was his second best movie.
Dominic Brown
Oh sorry.
There weren't enough "visuals" in the amazon it looked like the same bit of forest every time. Is that better for you?
Ayden Jones
I watch Kinos since the early 90s. I watched 6 movies today since I'm depressed as fuck.
I watched;
Lady Bird The Florida Project Kingsman - The Secret Service Kingsman - The Golden Circle Columbus Manchester by the Sea
You see. sometimes some silly blockbuster is fun too. I love them cause you don't have to think and it's easy to watch. I have ascended into a care free world where I watch everything and am able to enjoy it all for different reasons.
Jack Allen
What's his first best
Ryder Perez
The Immigrant of course!
Zachary Hill
What was Columbus like? I heard it's john cho's best performance and one of the best movies of the year but underrated
Does haley have good scenes?
Ethan Lewis
visuals is also in the bingo card. you use adverbs like justified and aimlessly as if they should mean something to someone other than you.
Elijah Long
Columbus was decent. I didn't like the comatose father plot device and some of the dialogue between the characters felt really artificial. Haley is great and carries the whole movie.
Jacob Gray
DUDE EVERYTHING IS SUBJECTIVE LMAO
Ryder Cooper
which is your favorite of the six?
Cooper Ward
so what's the point of communicating without clarity? what's the point of shooting a film when all it expresses is a muddle
Landon Cox
I didn't hate it, it was kind of okay but pretty boring. Gray's best movies were co-written by the great cinephile Ric Menello over the phone, and his passing before the making of "The Lost City of Z" really hurt the movie.
James Gray's movies ranked, according to me:
1. "Two Lovers". 2. "The Immigrant". 3. "Little Odessa". 4. "We Own the Night". 5. "The Yards". 6. "The Lost City of Z".
Leo Anderson
>/advanced/ >blown away by Looper
Angel Adams
What's KG
Connor Campbell
Two Lovers was really hurt by the melodrama and predictability of the last act. I admired Joaquin playing such an unlikable and mentally broken person though.
Adam Sullivan
lizard in the desert
Ian Cruz
AHD, bud
Chase Nguyen
It's pretty good. I think with more distance to it I'm going to appreciate it more.
Manchester by the Sea From the newer ones The Florida Project
Isaiah Stewart
Post-ironic melodrama is James Gray's whole shtick. Once you realise that, how can you say that melodrama hurt Gray's movie?
Samuel Rodriguez
how do I be less of a brainlet. I literally know nothing about literature, so I feel like I'm missing a lot with movies below the surface. All my favorite movies are that because they look cool and have good characters or a good story. I don't really know anything about symbolism or what makes a movie "deep". basicallyw hat im saying is that i'm retarded and hate myself. i cant even properly articulate this thought.
Thomas Foster
>Post-ironic melodrama is James Gray's whole shtick. I got that. I just didn't think the story it was telling and the characters in it were compelling enough to justify the melodrama. We Own the Night, The Immigrant, Lost City of Z, and even Little Odessa were bigger, more important stories to me.
Angel Evans
In my opinion, "Two Lovers" is his most compelling and human story precisely because it is his smallest, the most non-genre one.
Brandon Johnson
>how do I be less of a brainlet. I literally know nothing about literature, Then read. Read a book every week for the rest of your life. No ifs, no buts.
John Bennett
A good step in the direction you are looking towards is to look for patterns. A recent example I could think of is the movie Stronger (the Jake Gyllenhall/Boston marathon bombing movie). After he gets his legs blown off he is invited to a Bruins game midway through to wave the flag in an opening ceremony. The handler giving him the flag is a little detached. His girlfriend is pushing his wheelchair so he can't even see her. The lights and music are too loud and crazy. It is clearly a terrible experience and the character suffers a breakdown as a result. Then at the end of the movie he throws the first pitch at a Red Sox game. This time it is outside, and his friends and family are all nearby and in sight. Pedro Martinez gives him the ball and is warm, friendly to him. This is a much better experience, and it demonstrates to the audience how the character has grown between the two points of the movie.
Adrian Adams
>>What have you been watching recently? The Legend of Billie Jean its a nostalgia thing Oscar
>>What is your opinion on the current state of American and world cinema? we need some originality. its the same repost of a repost, of a repost, of a repost.
Jonathan Thomas
Yes, that is your opinion I am accustomed to. I suppose it is a matter of taste. Always a pleasure.
John Morris
Can someone tell me what the fuck KG and that other shit is Are they just letterbox spin offs
Eli Young
Well I don't really know. You can get into the technical aspects of film and learn about scenes, settings, compositions and various techniques a director can use to convey certain dynamics between characters. Some symbolism comes down to general knowledge I guess.
For example the band guy in Lady Bird reads "A People's History of the United States" by Zinn a leftists literature classic and later explains how he doesn't like money or materialism. So a careful observe knows where the character draws his influences from. Must be good writing & directing or else those things wouldn't be possible in Film.
Stuff like that. just watch as many movies you can I guess and learn by doing.
Eli Wright
They're private trackers, Karagarga is the best one for obscure films
Levi Cooper
Harshly put, it's very probably too late for a any major change about your possibilities of expanding brain power for knowledge and culture in the intersection of a richer relationship to the cinema medium. Try to not to downgrade at least. And keep not going the path of celebrating your ignorance like most on this shithole.
Nathan Johnson
>What have you been watching recently? Nothing, as I have moved on from watching movies to making movies.
>What is your opinion on the current state of American and world cinema? World cinema is fucked but I am going to save it with my third feature film with tells a story about hip hop and satanism.
Christopher Taylor
How are you clowns so stupid? Just google shit and learn in a couple of seconds, retards
Logan Reyes
I'm on PTP and SC.
Christopher Gonzalez
you're right it's his best by far
Jayden Williams
>he was just autistic he's just Danish
Eli Cruz
Those don't get you into KG. AHD does.
Samuel Hill
post your first two feature films
Liam Robinson
I remember you being less obnoxious and pretentious in the past, thor ( for the standards of a tripfag that is)
Liam Mitchell
>Without further adieu, This post is amazing.
Samuel White
>I remember you being less obnoxious and pretentious in the past You are remembering absolutely incorrect. He was a lot worse in 2011-2012.
Zachary Russell
>unironically responding to a tripfag
My 4chanX Filter filters all trip fags out. Too bad it doesn't work on mobile.
Adam Fisher
Having watched over 5000 movies I agree with Looper being good but it shouldn't win awards especially that year.
As for current state of cinema... think the most recent movie to break my top 250 is Sicario. I rarely of ever bother with new movies. When people praise garbage like Arrival, there isn't much hope.
Easton Lewis
What was the point of this?
Brody Brown
There's some weird shit going on with Sup Forums (maybe those new ads) that almost fries my phone whenever I enter a thread. They've truly finally killed my mobileposting. What kind of phone do you have?
Daniel Robinson
>praises one Villeneuve >shit talks the other Villeneuve
Why do you love and hate him at the same time and,how does a movie break your top "250" when Emily Blunts Character is so badly written it rivals the worst capeshits
Charles Peterson
Epic, right? How creative these Sup Forums guys are getting this year, lol
Sebastian Gutierrez
iPhone 6S
Christopher Allen
Wtf so do I. Strange.
Blake Miller
Why is she terribly written in your opinion? She's just an insert for the audience to be thrown into the moral chaos of the film.
>Dmitry, a self-proclaimed genius photographer, decides to finally lose his virginity, and invites three girls to celebrate his 22nd birthday in a countryhouse.
>Best Belarusian Film at the Minsk International Film Festival (2015). >Out-of-Competition Screening at GoEast Film Festival, Wiesbaden (2016).
>Minsk-based Igor travels together with his girlfriend to his hometown of Vitebsk. Whilst walking around the city he's constantly recording himself; after all, he can’t neglect the 50,000 subscribers of his YouTube blog.
>Minsk International Film Festival “Listapad” (2016) — Honorable Mention. >Cottbus Film Festival (2017) — Out of Competition.
Zachary Lopez
I judge movies by their merit. I have not looked into who wrote each of them but Sicario is both well made and well written while arrival is neither of those things. Ending to arrival or entire 3rd act is some of the worst cinema I have ever seen. It is so dumb.
And I don't care if popular critics of YouTube era such as RLM praise Prometheus or arrival while calling independence day shit schlock. Maybe they just can't see their own bullshit. Because having watched more than 5000 movies, might be 10000 from all over the world in all eras and study the pictures as I form my own opinion without being influenced by pretentious whores, I am confident in my criticism as to what makes a good movie.
Caleb Baker
>why is she badly written >insert for the audience
are you just baiting!? Are you aware that her character asks what "Medallin" is at the end of the movie. How's that even a question an agent that hunts drug lords asks? It's just embarrassing.
Thomas Garcia
How can you even claim that Arrival isn't well made in a technical sense? Point out its directorial flaws and other missteps. (Hint it's the same director who also made Sicario). I think you are just a story fag nothing more. Go back to arguing about the Star Wars franchise all day cause we all know by now that you do haha
Wyatt Bell
>Looper
Tyler Butler
Also gonna add I have an insane amount of life experience to draw on. I know what a fight is. I know what crime is and I know what love is, I even know war. When I read someone's opinion like that of Roger Ebert on war movies, crime movies or love character dramas even kids movies, I can tell the guy most of the time in his criticism just can't relate or understand genuine articles because he has no idea about any of it as he hasn't lived it.
Jack Peterson
Is this the new navy seals copy pasta
Ayden Campbell
Everyone always says how they saw this "AMAZING" or life changing movie that is a work of art.
Im just a imdbcore pleb but still nothing is that amazing to me yet. Recommend me a really good movie your very best something unique to cinema that doesn't really on context of when it came out
Liam Cox
*tips fedora*
Isaac Bell
>I know what a fight is. I know what crime is and I know what love is, I even know war. How did you manage to type this out unironically
Mason Morgan
Sort of like when British people try to talk to Americans about niggers.
William Morgan
Yeah but what does well made mean. Especially these days when half the work is done by SFX studio and SFX director with digital cameras, most are not even their own cinematographer. If we judge movies quality, calling something like Prometheus well made when the story is broken and the viewer is left confused as to wtf is even going on, how is that a well made picture. The movie sucks yet he finished the final edit and called it good. Might as well take any music video director of the street and give them Oscars for best director. Directing isn't just camera work. A movie with terrible acting is also the responsibility of the director.
Jacob Reyes
Here are the 10 best movies of all time.
1. "Greenberg" (Noah Baumbach, 2010). 2. "Nights and Weekends" (Greta Gerwig & Joe Swanberg, 2008). 3. "Wendy and Lucy" (Kelly Reichardt, 2008). 4. "Mumblecore" (Megan Boyle & Tao Lin, 2011). 5. "Hana and Alice" (Shunji Iwai, 2004). 6. "Right Now, Wrong Then" (Sang-soo Hong, 2015). 7. "Edvard Munch" (Peter Watkins, 1974). 8. "A Tale of Winter" (Eric Rohmer, 1992). 9. "Margaret" (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011). 10. "Heremias" (Lav Diaz, 2006).
William Hernandez
Winter Light
Lincoln Gomez
Why not. I love memes.
Elijah Lewis
That's a bad case of recency bias
Adam Davis
kek
Brandon Ramirez
You are just stringing words together that make no sense. You are a popcorn eating pleb who likes his genres and stories thats it. don't pretend you can be objective when you can't.
Bentley Taylor
I will give you 2 movies.
Melancholia by Lars von trier.
And Blue is the warmest color.
>inb4 retards who saw neither attacks me Get a life.
Nathaniel Murphy
It's not recency bias, as I have seen "Greenberg" back in 2010 (if anything it's the opposite, as in 2010 I was only 16 and getting deeper into movies), and have seen countless "old" movies since then.
Juan Russell
I am also making movies, and they will be way better than this shit.
Jace Lee
Exactly.
I'm like the opposite of a hipster lol live a normal blue collar life since my last time in prison, where I don't plan to go back to. Mostly watch movies and tv instead of going out these days and for the last couple of years.
Jaxson Russell
>Melancholia by Lars von trier. >And Blue is the warmest color. You picked those two movies, wow.
Jackson Perry
Sure they will.
You sound like a semi-crazy person asking for a change near a gas station.
Ryder Mitchell
>Melancholia by Lars von trier. Watch "4:44, the Last Day of Earth" instead.
>And Blue is the warmest color. Watch "Call Me by Your Name" instead.
Alexander Ward
I'm not. I just have a profoundly better opinion because of my vastly greater experience of watching far more movies while being intelligent and with plenty of life experience. Most don't have that. You shouldn't even argue unless you are 30 because you just lack all of the above.
Nathaniel Bennett
>Watch "Call Me by Your Name" instead. Beach Rats was better. Hell, Thelma was better.
Carson Hill
>you picked those 2 wow >wow Nice rebuttal baka
You should watch them before you knock on them. I promise you that you are in for an experience. Provided you know what love is and if you ever had an eventful life or experienced sadness.