It would be if he'd directed it instead of Linklater.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
Realizing I haven't even seen half of Soderbergh's movies, but Side Effects is still magnificent stupid entetainment
― Nhex, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
So far I'd say:
Make a golden statue in yr city's biggest park for:Out of SightTraffic
Deeply satisfying stuff:HaywireOcean's ElevenOcean ThirteenMagic Mike
The very definition of meh:Ocean Twelve
Burn it down and bury the ashes on a mountain:Side Effects
I have a lot to go still: tonight it's Erin Brockovich, then I'll do the scary SL&V ->Schizopolis part of his career.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
The Limey is good stuff, especially if you liked Point Blank
― Nhex, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
the informant is great
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
^my choice for his worst.
haven't seen King of the Hill in 20 years, liked that quite a bit.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
The Knick is immediately one of the best shows on television btw
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
I would rank the Limey as his best
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
you know what film of his hasn't been mentioned once in this thread? this one.
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/and-everything-is-going-fine
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
I can't bring myself to watch something that sounds so depressing
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
Gray's Anatomy isn't much more uplifting, at least now.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
VHS- have you gotten to the girlfriend experience yet? Be sure you see the directors cut and not the theatrical cut.
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
traffic is such a huge piece of shit movie just unbelievable bad a corny
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link
wow check out those filters and years before instagram too
side effects is cool too
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
traffic isn't that bad but its definitely bad
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:12 (ten years ago) link
i think soderbergh's got kind of a light touch that works really well with a lot of if not most of his films and a sort of 'let's throw something together and see how it works' style, which paid off with something like 'the limey', but i think 'traffic' was the worst sort of project for his two styles.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
dude likes wide shots of rooms more than i do
― da croupier, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
big fan of wide shots of rooms, its true. throw in some non-actors and i start swooning
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
idk if traffic is technically the worst movie but it is extremely stupid and lame
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
like to the extent that you wonder if its purposely insulting you
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
Oscar winner!
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080),
why I liked The Girlfriend Experience.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
it's just an odd movie storywise too, it's like a really lurid afterschool special spliced together with a south of the border docudrama and a gritty episode of CSI san diego.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
Saw a bit of Oceans 12 flipping channels and even that one has some fine wide shots of an Amsterdam rowhouse.
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
did the people who hated Traffic also see Traffik (the tv series on which it was based)? did they hate that too if so?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096716/
― piscesx, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, August 26, 2014 1:28 PM (37 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
its cool tho u can tell which one is which from the colors
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, August 26, 2014 12:26 PM (4 minutes ago)
totally, but don't forget Bubble!
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, August 26, 2014 12:30 PM (1 minute ago)
lol sadly otm
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, August 26, 2014 10:30 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
my favorite story is the orange one tbh
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
i keep meaning to revisit haywire based on the buzz but he gave me all those actors i love and it was just like this lady who couldn't act in a room from far away and ugh i didn't trust him to go elsewhere, i know his kicks
― da croupier, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
this is what The Movies should always be like IMO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCIXKzeaAAs
― piscesx, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:35 (ten years ago) link
helloe tess
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:41 (ten years ago) link
I'll step up to the mound and defend Traffic here. It's heavy handed both stylistically and thematically, for sure. However, I think what Soderbergh wanted to express is on the money on so many levels. He manages to tie so many things together, both very personal (what can one person do against addiction or corruption) and very political (how do we deal with Tijuana). I generally agree with his views on the drug trade: take care of the demand side of things, in a way that floats your boat. That notion found interesting echoes in his post-Lehman films about money and greed (Magic Mike, Haywire). I think its wise that you get to have clear stylistic distinction between all three sides of the trade itself: transportation, supply and demand and how they are all connected made me very hopeless and how Soderbergh find a way to get his character out of the situation without being too corny (at least to me) and I enjoyed that.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
yeah, Traffic is not terrible even if it might be improved with the sound off.
Wolf of Wall Street IS terrible even if it might be improved with the sound off.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
Traffic was solid, I had no misgivings at the time. "Heavy-handed" is accurate, I'll admit
― Nhex, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
Traffic was OK whenever Michael Douglas wasn't worried about his daughter and Benicio didn't dream about his ballpark.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
Erin Brockovich has become my most watched Soderbergh.
traffic is hilarious, traffik is somber in the same way departed US is hilarious, departed HK is somber.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
so what you're saying is that in Traffik, the humor is unintentional
― Nhex, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
traffik is pretty dour!
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
wolf of wall st def not one of soderbergh's best
― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
it is def David O. Russell's best tho
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2014/09/steven-soderbergh-the-knick-directing-race-riot.html
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
does the knick get less gory
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 04:57 (nine years ago) link
not really, though the opening episode is a straight up "oh blood bothers you, GTFO" gutbucket. it never gets worse than that.
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 05:05 (nine years ago) link
blaaahhhhh i guess i'll keep going until i explode
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 05:41 (nine years ago) link
I have gotten quite hardened to the surgical scenes, that opening failed c section scene in ep1 is very disagreeable - that is probably the most troubling scene of the series.
― xelab, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 07:40 (nine years ago) link
syphilis nose way harder on my stomach than the c section
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 9 October 2014 04:31 (nine years ago) link
oh should i still be watching this? i kind of forgot about it!
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 9 October 2014 04:36 (nine years ago) link