This movie is amazing and you are all crazy
― Everyone is awful except you. Wait, no, you are also awful. (jjjusten), Friday, 15 August 2014 06:23 (nine years ago) link
It's also so much better than drive that I can't even figure out where to start the comparison
― Everyone is awful except you. Wait, no, you are also awful. (jjjusten), Friday, 15 August 2014 06:29 (nine years ago) link
hey, i dug it okay, and it's stayed with me more than most of what i watch. saying it isn't quite as good as bad guy or i saw the devil hardly qualifies as a slam. not going for "amazing", but i am looking forward to watching it again at some point.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 15 August 2014 07:55 (nine years ago) link
ha well given our shared sensibilities i wasnt talking about your comments, but blanket statements are so much more fun
― Everyone is awful except you. Wait, no, you are also awful. (jjjusten), Friday, 15 August 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
I like the Pusher trilogy (particularly the 2nd + 3rd) and Valhalla Rising movies by NWR. Drive and Only God Forgives are merely shitty Tony Scott/Gaspar Noe pastiches imo.
― autumn reckoning faction (xelab), Saturday, 16 August 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
This movie had one hilarious scene.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 17 August 2014 01:05 (nine years ago) link
What hilarious scene?
Watched this. Quite disappointed but I find it odd that people felt such passionate extremes for it (but I've been confused a lot lately by extreme reactions to films, I'm still coming to terms with the idea of some people really loving Iron Man, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Stakeland, American Graphiti 2:Dazed & Confused and Poltergeist).
Not nearly as violent as I expected. Not much incest either. Some nice images and sounds. I liked the scene of the boy watching the man being killed. Just too slow and not enough good stuff.
Drive was a nice snack, Bronson was fine but Valhalla Rising is better than any of the former by a long distance, really lovely film. I'm curious about the earlier films like Pusher trio, Bleeder and Fear X (opinions about those?) and I really want Refn to be great in the future.
I was very fond of Kim King Duk for a while but after seeing 8 of his films I felt like I wasn't going to get anything more out of further films. But I am really impressed by how quiet and slow he makes his films without ever getting boring. He always gets the right balance.
I Saw The Devil is pretty decent but I don't think the ordeal is really worth it for any element.
I still think Only God Forgives is better than Spring Breakers which is quite pretty at times but too boring. But it felt unpleasantly mean spirited to me, as if the whole film was just mocking these shallow boring people. One big feature length sneer.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 17 August 2014 01:42 (nine years ago) link
I haven't seen a single positive review of Fear X but I'm still quite curious about it- John Turturro, surveillance thriller (yes more of these please), accusations from multiple critics of being a Lynch ripoff (yes also more of these too).
I liked Only God Forgives despite the sheer dumbness of the psychology and moralizing just for the visuals: this is a really fucking pretty movie, you guys. And Kristin Scott Thomas, and the scene set to "Wanna Fight" (the track in 4/6 with the ludicrous gothic pipe organ and synth lines running up and down the scale) that just builds and builds for ages until Vithaya Pansringarm just casually beats the shit out of a character whose only defined trait is "boxing". I mean, it's not great, but I don't regret it (and I definitely don't regret picking up the soundtrack either).
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Sunday, 17 August 2014 04:09 (nine years ago) link
fear x is really good
been periodically ~thinking abt~ fear x since seeing it, stumbled upon this -http://www.offscreen.com/index.php/pages/essays/fear_x/
― johnny crunch, Monday, November 18, 2013 5:16 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 17 August 2014 04:45 (nine years ago) link
Pusher 2 + 3 are elevated above average genre pics by brilliant central performances from Mikkelsen and Burik, but I suppose tbh they are just above average genre pics but there is nothing wrong with that. Mikkelsen brings a lot of pathos to the heroically stupid Tonny character. Will have to give Fear X a dabble, I let the bad reviews dissuade me.
― autumn reckoning faction (xelab), Sunday, 17 August 2014 11:53 (nine years ago) link
the refn doc 'my life' is p good, interesting that just days before shooting started for OGF he sez 'I don't even know what this movie's about' & he reads one of those super negative reviews upthread on camera
also further confirms gosling as an all-time bro
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
oh man I couldn't stand that piece of shit
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
xp should say "& LATER he reads.." the neg review, yknow after hes made the fim
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 17:43 (eight years ago) link
film!
I love the fact that there has been made three docs on Refn. I think at least one of them was made due to money problem. The guy can be so good, but when he fails, he fails hard.
I might have said this before, but the best 'doc' on Refn was this long interview he did over several nights on a weird Danish late night show some time ago. It was before Drive, before Bronson, I think, at a time where his carreer was going nowhere, and the whole interview was the host asking him to explain, in detail, how he ended up as such a failure. I remember Nicolas ended up breaking down in tears, which made the host smile gloatingly as if that was the entire point. Now, it was probably staged, but it's absolutely incredible. And I can't find it. And it needs to end up as a dvd-extra on something.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
refn seems to be kind of positioning himself as a von trier-like "personality" as much as a film director, or at least that's how it appears from over here
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 22:33 (eight years ago) link
I wish the last doc had shown how his wife despises his films; it looked like it was going to!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 22:41 (eight years ago) link
She's been in a couple of them, so I guess she likes those?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 00:13 (eight years ago) link
maybe she just likes hanging out w/ her husband.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 01:37 (eight years ago) link
Reminds me of Gilliam laughing as he tells us how his wife thinks his films have went to shit.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 01:39 (eight years ago) link
terry gilliam's wife OTM
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 01:42 (eight years ago) link
Knew that was coming but apart from Brothers Grimm and bits of Parnassus, I disagree.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 02:32 (eight years ago) link
Cut-and-paste reviews of this one and you have the reviews of the new one.
Refn's gonna Refn.
― Any Given User (Eazy), Saturday, 25 June 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
The new bad movie deserves its own thread.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 25 June 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
The reviews I've seen have been more positive than ones for OGF, but I'm not ready to trust him again.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Saturday, 25 June 2016 21:16 (seven years ago) link
If there is god, he would not forgive Only God Forgives. Utter trash
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 4 September 2017 03:59 (six years ago) link
Fuck sorry for double post. Should've said he/she (recovering christian)