Thoughts?

Thoughts?

i too found out about this movie completely independently

i saw it on redbox a while back, i should of jumped on the train.

Thought it was a very beautiful movie. I also don't think it takes itself as seriously as others seem to think it does, the entire premise is basically just a silly "what if" scenario but it works really well.

I know he's not "in" it much but it's a shame Casey Affleck is probably gonna be blacklisted soon considering he's one of the best working actors we got.

I clapped when I saw the ghost

I liked that it didn't become a generic love story or some shit, how it kind of focused on how goddamn boring it would actually be to exist as a ghost.

yeah. you gotta go for the light.

It broke down the theme of loss by reflecting how much time the ghost would have to think about losing his lover.

ALSO, WHAT ARE THE GHOST RULES. always fun.

I wanted to find out if hipster Steve got laid or not. A frame long cutaway shot is all it would have taken.
In probably practicing a depressing monolgue like that prior to rocking up he seems like our kind of guy.

Spoopy.

I actually knew about back in June when it first came out, I just never got around to it. But I get what you mean. Buzz brings normies to these movies, nothing else.

>ALSO, WHAT ARE THE GHOST RULES.
Standard Patrick Swayze Ghost Rules it seemed like.
You stay as one for as long as you have unfinished business.
You're bound to certain geographic location (that somehow shift in parallel with planetary movement and still exists after the Earth is destroyed
You can only manifest a physical presence when at peak anger levels and/or concentration.

I don't watch enough movies to know who Casey Affleck is, but I liked that he could double as the dude from Flight of the Conchords.

it was okay, I mean it wasn't anything special. I don't really get why they consider it their favorite movie of the year.

Would've been perfect without the hipster scene

Can you think of a better way to deliver exposition? If they hadn't introduced the concept of the reiterative universe then general audiences would have been even more confused.

IT BROKE NEW GROUND!

i thought the first half was boring as fuck but when you watch the whole thing its a moving and thought provoking erxperience.

i cried

Came for the Rooney. Stayed for the ghost.

hipster aspect ratio - the movie

characters leave the tv turned on and some kooky fuck talks about it on History

>mfw realizing there's going to be a lot more shitposting about the pie and exposition party scene from people who generally didn't get or appreciate most of the movie

With the trailers and what I had heard about the film, at the beginning I thought it was gonna be awful pretentious wank but everything after the pie scene is really beautiful and entrancing.

You're hired.

I totally get and appreciate the movie but those scenes still could have been done better, mostly the party scene, the pie scene was fine.

The movie becomes great after the scene when she hears the song, before thats it’s meh

Hmmm where have i seen this exact opinion verbatim...hmmmm

the pie scene seemed to be completely self indulgent to me, I can accept the concept of it but it could've been at least half the time and had the same effect.

I understand your point but I definitely don't think it would have the same effect at half the duration, if anything I think it's problem is where it is in the movie and how many other really, really slow scenes are before it, the beginning of this movie is genuinely gruelingly slow.

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>spend the entire duration of the movie trying to fix the aspect ratio

For sure I agree. D'd say it's the other way around though. The pie scene is supposed to be a subversion of expectations and how casey is feeling but it really misses all marks. Everything is slow paced for good reason though as it contrasts perfectly with the ending. The party scene is obviously intentionally annoying which a lot of people seem to miss, he even says lets forget about love in the monologue which is what becomes a sort of crossroads for casey's character.

It's my favourite of the year. I love the pie scene. Even though there's little going on there's also so much to think about. Having to stand there, helpless, watching the one you love hurt themselves. I almost broke down when she ran to throw up

I really loved the little touches like this as well.

Maybe the party scene would be improved if after the faggy hipster speech the ghost made the chandelier fall on the guys head or something.

This looks like an album cover

RLM talked about it: The thread

Do people not realize that the hipster monologue was there to show the irony in what the guy was saying? It wasn't just useless thematic exposition, in fact that whole philosophy is pretty antithetical to what the movie seems to suggest at large.

Also true patricians will know that the hipster was Bonnie Prince Billy and is actually a top lad irl.

But that's way too on the nose and pointless, the scene already communicates whatever that would achieve.

yeah it was pretty obvious, I mean the guy is this obnoxious hipster talking about how everyone dies and it's all meaningless while a literal fucking ghost is listening

>Even though there's little going on there's also so much to think about. Having to stand there, helpless, watching the one you love hurt themselves. I almost broke down when she ran to throw up
What a soy boy

You'd think that the rest of the movie basically explaining how the hipster was wrong would be enough for people to get it but i guess not. The irony is they complain about this "exposition" when they could use some themselves to actually figure out what's going on lol

Also I see a darkness is amazing

looks like large format photography

really cool shot desu

He is Ben Affleck's younger brother, and he's a pretty good actor. And allegedly a sexual assaulter.
A better actor than his brother for sure.

>tfw after that scene you suddenly start to think how many graves you could be living on right now.

Oh, is that why there's so many threads lately? What a shame.

>You browse a board and try to discuss movies with a person like this

>Having emotions makes someone a soyboy
False.
Many of the most influential men in history have at times shed manly tears. For example after they committed acts of genocide or if they ever saw their nation's flag touch the ground.

was he really? I mean the ghost did eventually see everything around him die and a new universe come into being and he eventually got the note he wanted from the world and then disappeared. And didn't the guy basically said that the only thing that really matters is your time now and that everything else in the future and long standing goals like making money/finishing the book, but I don't know. Maybe I misunderstood.

I saw it back during it's theatrical run. It was a miserable experience because it was, obviously, screened in one of the smaller theaters in the multiplex and I shared the theater with only two other people: a big black guy and his fat Latino friend.

I was trying to enjoy the movie, but around five minutes in, they both started fucking laughing and shouting at the screen. Shit like "THIS MUFUCKA AN IDIOT" and "I'D FUCK THE SHIT OUTTA HER" and it was fucking infuriating. At about the "pie scene" point, I left and told the staff they were being assholes. The staff was like "we'll send someone in to take care of them" and about ten minutes after I returned, the manager walked in and stood there for like 45 seconds, and left without saying anything.

The two guys kept shouting and screaming incoherently so I just left about 40 minutes in.

I went back on a damned Tuesday at noon and saw it in a theater all to myself and I loved it. It reminded me, weirdly enough, of Interstellar (fuck off, I know how Sup Forums feels about that) but executed a lot more cleanly and I liked it a lot.

But fuck talkers in the theater. I know that makes me a Tismo, and the way I handled it was probably beta as fuck, but when you pay like $20 for a movie and it's ruined by fuckers who never learned manners, it sucks. Thank God for MoviePass now, though.

What would that have achieved exactly?
He literally just told you that he's a useless waste of space that's eventually going to die and be be forgotten anyway.

>For example after they committed acts of genocide or if they ever saw their nation's flag touch the ground
>this is the equivalent of crying for about fake event of a women gorging herself on a pie
the fucking
Even the idea behind it (Watching a love one in pain) isn't anything deep and ponderous. God damn, kids movies have shit like that in it. Do you cry to those as well?

Had no idea the weird girl was Kesha

why do you hate based RLM?

Dude was a straw nihilist telling people to only focus on what makes them happy now since anything they achieve won't have a lasing impact and for sure there isn't any other plane of existence. We know that he isn't wrong on this since the premise movie's entire premise is "what would it actually be like to be ghost?"

Because they're IMDbcore but in YouTube form.

>virginfilmconnoissuervschadmovielover.jpg

I cried during Sintel and Grave of the Fireflies, yes.

I have a man crush on Casey Affleck since Assasination of Jesse James

>aaoooha guys I knew about it before it was cool
Stop lying to yourself, you're the worst kind of normie

I enjoyed it. The pie scene was a bit much but overall worth the experience.

grave of fireflies builds on the idea and is the whole point of the movie. It is understandable to cry.
It is not however, understandable to cry about the concept when it is two people who you have almost no connection to in the first 20 minutes of the movie.
I have never seen Sintel.

When you pay like $20 for a movie and the manager doesn't try his very best to make your experience more comfortable then you just don't come back later like a fucking loser mate.

I forgot to mention I did get three free passes out of it. So that wasn't bad.

>20 bucks for a movie

wtf

same

I actually think it was a nice touch that BPB was in that role. His music has been exploring the same kinds of concepts for years.

spoilers you nigger

>It reminded me, weirdly enough, of Interstellar (fuck off, I know how Sup Forums feels about that) but executed a lot more cleanly and I liked it a lot.

It reminded me of the forward-only time machine episode of Futurama which was really fucking distracting. Generally I liked it though.

>Homeless street urchin girl has no friend in the world until she finds a lost baby dragon
>shortly after teaching that baby dragon o fly it's snached up and taken away by a larger adult one.
>she then spends her entire life tracking that adult dragon through dangerous territory
>eventually she finds a cave with an adult dragon in it that she barely manages to slay
>as it's dying right in front of she notices it has exactly the same scars that her buddy used to have
>her entire life wasted try to save a dragon, and she kills it by accident instead
>as she drops her weapons and armour and walks off dejeced another baby dragon starts scampering behind her.
>fin

I unironically think it's sexy af, I live in a third world country where everyone is walking almost naked, including family and women all the time.
So this sex ghost drives me crazy. Also, women in burqa.

boring

I honestly got a little curious when RLM discussed it, but I feel like it would be hard to watch at home. It seems like the kind of movie I enjoy in the theater, buts too slow for me to watch at home with a bunch of other distractions.

anything that has rooroo is a 10 b

can RLM drones come up with a single original thought for themselves? jesus christ dude

Mostly good but shit like the five minute long pie eating scene is totally fucking unnecessary and pretentious. I hate the stigma of being labelled an idiot just because you call an arthouse film pretentious. Sure, the slow burner beginning does work well with the increasingly fast time skips in the second half, but that's still no excuse for forcing viewers to watch next to absolute nothing for 30 minutes. Hell, I didn't even get a sense of the man and the woman's relationship other than "they were a couple." I saw them sleeping together and they discussed moving, then boom, dead. Of course the music scene improved upon their relationship, but it would have been more impactful if they developed their relationship more before the man dies.

If that's all you pulled from those scenes then you're probably just a brainlet. It's fine to call arthouse films pretentious since plenty of them are, but this isn't even an arthouse film and was actually pretty deliberately paced.

pro tip: the reason that they didn't show much of the relationship is because it's not about the relationship.

These were my thoughts as well. I hated the beginning, but enjoyed the later half of the movie. Once I saw the whole picture I appreciated the beginning more and saw what they were going for. I'm still not sure on whether or not I would want to watch it again but I will admit that the movie was stuck in my head. I was contemplating about for a week or two and slowly changed my opinion on it.

I am completely flabbergasted by this movie. It has like a 92 on RT. It has absolutely stunning reviews, and Mike and Jay BOTH said it was their favorite film of the year? What the FUCK?

Pie scene was great, I had no issues with that, I could watch Roon grieve for hours. Party scene was okay I guess, who gives a shit. But the lack of any logic or rules had me constantly asking questions in my head.

So is he bound to the house, or what? I assume all the walking around the corporate building he did was a larger area than the small ass house, so that was already dumb. He walked down hallways and up to the roof, and then, what, jumping off the edge sent him back in time? Or time is cyclical? But what did jumping off the roof accomplish, then? And how was he bound to a plot of land during pioneer times? One can assume he's stuck there, otherwise he probably would have followed Rooney around.

And the wall note - he presumably spent decades? Hundreds of years? trying to get at it, and he was actually sort of making headway, he eventually got to it, but why did it take so long? He can lift a glass of milk to spook some beaners, but he can't summon the energy to get the one thing he's obsessed with? Even over hundreds of years?

And then he's in a time loop? He sees himself, as a ghost? What the fuck? What are the rules of this universe? And why could he get the note the second time? What was different?

I wouldn't call it "pretentious", because I don't see how it was even trying to make a point. Then he passes on after reading her note? But he watched her for weeks/years, what could the note have said that he couldn't have learned about her watching her over two lifetimes? What bullshit poignant phrase was he waiting to hear? And why did the other ghost wait so long they forgot what they were waiting for? Why didn't they live long enough to get time loops as well? Why didn't he forget about the note, if ghosts live long enough to forget?

But I'm not, I saw the trailer for it when I saw It Comes At Night over a year ago.

looks like a pretentious hippie garbage, which it probably is. i will pass.

>no rooney snuggles
;_;

I loved the pacing of It Comes At Night and I'm the first guy to like pretentious movies about death and meaning, fuck, my favorite movie ever is Synecdoche, New York, and this film was utter trash. I'm not going to say the pie scene was too long, if anything the movie wastes too much time with harassing mexicans and futuristic skyscrapers. For an "epic about love and loss" like the reviews claim, Roon Roon is only in the fucking movie for like a half hour.

that scene was one, unbroken shot and all I could think was how many times I would fuck it up as Casey in order to redo it over and over

But you can also scratch at a wall for hundreds of years and accomplish nothing, except on New Game+ where you can easily get to the note before your house is demolished.

Pretty gud. Pie scene could've been a tad bit shorter.

Why the GHOST is sooo fucking QT? Is this a fetish? I also love women wearing burqa.

What