Aw thank you x
― The difficult earlier reichs (darraghmac), Friday, 1 January 2016 11:04 (eight years ago) link
Thanks: I love America, but not that America this AmericaScottish guy: you stand guyThanks: remember Kevin Costner in the untouchables? That.Bad americans: boo usThanks: well certainly boo youse. My isnt Germany rotten whatGermany: rooms and furniture and walking around.All: parallels and contrastsBridge: I'm bored and this is a terrible soundtrack.Scottish guy: you stand guy. Thanks: *stands*All: FIN
― The difficult earlier reichs (darraghmac), Thursday, 31 December 2015 02:08 Bookmark
A+ almost made this inane fluff pos movie worth existing
― r|t|c, Friday, 1 January 2016 13:23 (eight years ago) link
Realised this morning that I would rather have seen any of these movies:
Thanks' insurance law career courtroom corporate thrillerScottish guy spy movie, prison gritty drama or post-soviet integration family dramaDomestic 50s slice-of-life about the wife n kids during thanks' absenceRomance between cutprice armie hammer and miss bono jrEast Berlin carchase compilation, with Vogel and Burt Reynolds.
― The difficult earlier reichs (darraghmac), Friday, 1 January 2016 16:25 (eight years ago) link
genius draws such blind hatred
i can see why Granny and Gramps left Eire (and there weren't even many flickers back then)
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 January 2016 16:52 (eight years ago) link
is there something u could point us towards that expands upon ur bewildering esteem for this thing
bitingly ironic meta, great american genre pantheon, both, what
― r|t|c, Saturday, 2 January 2016 03:44 (eight years ago) link
betting on the latter
― flag post please (mattresslessness), Saturday, 2 January 2016 04:21 (eight years ago) link
"what"
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 January 2016 04:22 (eight years ago) link
lol
― flag post please (mattresslessness), Saturday, 2 January 2016 04:23 (eight years ago) link
bridge over troubled whatters
― The difficult earlier reichs (darraghmac), Saturday, 2 January 2016 04:24 (eight years ago) link
this is such a piece of shit
― bloat laureate (schlump), Saturday, 23 January 2016 05:02 (eight years ago) link
is this guy allergic to subtlety
do we really need everything to happen in the brashest film language possible, is there even a moment of hesitation before just cycling through just every available default orchestra-drenched inspirational speech cliche, endless boring period chrome car bumper pornography, long overcoat-clad moody floodlit inscrutable standing, the loving fan-made road to perdition cosplay reenactment nobody needed. so many moments just crammed down your throat: the wild happenstance of the young man being assigned extra evening work being the same guy standing up hanks' daughter!, multiple brutal foreshadowings of this before its flaccid reveal, kids jumping over fences in the name of apparent mid-century american freedom, the family are eating fucking meatloaf because that was the only dinnertime food available until microwaves were invented. also receives 10000 extra bonus points for using the transparently-meaningful-glances-from-strangers-on-trains bookending device most recently lazily used by fellow-awful-film-filmmaker steve mcqueen in shame. so bad! so surprisingly bad! such a piece of shit!
― bloat laureate (schlump), Saturday, 23 January 2016 05:09 (eight years ago) link
i feel like spielberg is sometimes too quick to clarify things that might be better left uncertain for a few more scenes.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, December 15, 2015 1:31 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i actually watched a screener of this & it's weird but at the bottom it didn't have the standard PROPERTY OF SONY PICTURES or whatever disclaimer it just said DO U SEE ??? in caps lock
― bloat laureate (schlump), Saturday, 23 January 2016 05:11 (eight years ago) link
i remember seeing nick james introduce in the mood for love, once, years ago, having chosen it - actually having originally chosen yi yi, which couldn't be screened because there wasn't a circulating print - as part of a series in which each year of the first decade of this century was represented by a film. explaining why he picked it he said he felt like it represented the end of the kind of filmmaking it so clearly demonstrates, this very classical kind of photochemically-golden & luscious & transportive & immersive romantic storytelling buttressed by sweeping orchestral scores & perfectly weighted meaningful glances & this kind of 'original' film language; the things that were made after this needed a different language. i really think this film is a meaningful illustration in support of its thesis; it's so utterly straightforward & comes off as uncanny instead of convincing, too many degrees removed from a kind of classical, believable refraction of reality that we could have seen in an old drama. it just looks like bizarre expensive dress up, hanks stately language mannered and unconvincing, the dinnertime scenes stiff and cartoonish, everything so incredibly broadbrush and awkwardly stitched together, telling a story so boringly through this montage of incredibly direct expressions of what's happening with no spare life or fat or spillover into anything beyond a tight narrative. just so lifeless and dull. i would be interested if anybody had an idea of something like this that has worked, recently; it's a different period but i think i could get behind lincoln!, in this respect, in being dress up & so potentially eligible to feel as stifling & buttoned down as this did, but actually coming out weirdly fresh as a kind of old-timey legal procedural lit by performances that broke their molds.
― bloat laureate (schlump), Saturday, 23 January 2016 05:21 (eight years ago) link
Like Lincoln, Bridge of Spies plays a lively game of hide-and-seek with the American present, sometimes by means of parallels (between the inflamed anti-Communist rhetoric of the late Fifties and the inflamed anti-immigrant/anti-Obama rhetoric of today) and contrasts: neither Donovan nor Abel trumpet, advertise, or “brand” what they do—they simply do it. However, Steven Spielberg’s film is also an excavation of a dowdier, plainer, and visually darker moment in time, peopled by soft-bodied but iron-willed men in shades of blue and gray who meet in oak-floored wallpapered rooms darkened by cigarette and pipe smoke, men possessed of a weariness that, I suppose, also stands in contrast to the current obsession with sleek, youthful verve....
http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/essential-films-bridge-of-spies/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 January 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
i liked that, thx morbs
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 04:13 (eight years ago) link
Skill and craft, and as ‘70s auteurs go, a thousand times preferable to the hysterical self-parody of The Wolf of Wall Street or Femme Fatale. And there’s some playfulness--it didn’t feel suffocating like J. Edgar. Ruffalo’s the only other Supporting Actor performance I’ve seen, and I’d much rather see Rylance win. Came up short for me as a procedural and as a period piece. If you like Hanks, I guess he’s fine; I’m indifferent, so he was a bit of a distraction. (As was trying to remember Jesse Plemons’ name in Friday Night Lights--I couldn’t get past Landry.) The guy getting shot at the Berlin Wall made me think of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, a film I like much better.
― clemenza, Monday, 1 February 2016 03:49 (eight years ago) link
Everything that happens is telegraphed from a mile off, and the kids jumping the fence after you've seen the attempted defectors getting shot trying to go over the wall was a gigantic eyeroll moment, but I really liked this movie.
― Sith Dog (El Tomboto), Sunday, 6 March 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
Best Spielberg since Catch Me if you Can (I haven't seen Lincoln.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 11 March 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
or closed my parentheses.
"So don't tell me there's no rule book, and don't nod at me like that you son of a bitch."
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 19:49 (eight years ago) link
I found this rather slow paced tbh. But the Cohenesque touches like "would it help?" were good, if way too few (in fact, the very few moments of levity almost jarred, in contrast to the rest).
The ending dragged on a bit once he got back home. Was that over long end scene really needed?
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 02:20 (eight years ago) link
would it have helped?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 02:30 (eight years ago) link
this is the only trailer i get out of the booth to watch, every night
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 02:40 (eight years ago) link
no lol. sorry. forget me. thought i was in the hail caesar thread.
i will watch this tho! sucker for the period if nothing else.
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 02:43 (eight years ago) link
you could say this about most of spielberg's films.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 04:37 (eight years ago) link
that would be why I didn't bother to even point it out
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 04:42 (eight years ago) link
Ha yes that did occur to me.
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 07:34 (eight years ago) link
Like I honestly got up and left the room after he fell asleep on the bed (we were watching a d/l copy), then my dick bf yells OMG HES DEAD and I fell for it :(
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 07:36 (eight years ago) link
Something about that ending ever-so-slightly bugged me. Hanks spends much of the film wandering around an icy Berlin with a bad cold, complaining that he just wants to be wrapped up warm in bed. Then, at the very end, he's seen lying fully clothed, conked out on the bed. Except that... he wasn't pining for his bed because he was tired, was he? It was because he was ill and just wanted to lie in bed. But it's as if he's collapsed on the bed from exhaustion, without even bothering to climb under the covers like he was craving to... A whole star docked off the rating for me.
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 16:18 (eight years ago) link
microcomplaint
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
Christ
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 18:19 (eight years ago) link
That's what I thought.
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 19:14 (eight years ago) link
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, March 16, 2016 12:37 AM (17 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, March 16, 2016 12:42 AM (17 hours ago) Bookmark
i thought this last time i watched Close Encounters
― Hungry4Ass, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
which version? dont need that starship interior, but he was kinda forced there. Otherwise the whole Devils Tower sequence is a high point of mersh Hollywood cinema.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 March 2016 00:39 (eight years ago) link
i thought the starship interior stuff was in the "director's" cut!!
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 17 March 2016 02:16 (eight years ago) link
this thread is v depressing
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 March 2016 03:19 (eight years ago) link
wrongo as usual xp
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 March 2016 03:39 (eight years ago) link
ah, i see, he did add some stuff, but took out most of the starship interior.
pleasant as usual! i can only assume you are only like this on ILX, b/c if you took these needless potshots every time you interact with another human IRL, your nose would have been folded over on your face so many times that your reconstructive surgery bills would rival those of michael jackson.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 17 March 2016 04:00 (eight years ago) link
i'm closer to dying btw buddy
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 March 2016 04:13 (eight years ago) link
ok, i'll stop bugging you then, i don't follow your health travails closely.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 17 March 2016 05:18 (eight years ago) link
Why would you punch someone after saying "wrong as usual"? Don't act like a hardman amt - because you aren't one.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 March 2016 12:23 (eight years ago) link
dnftasshole
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 March 2016 13:39 (eight years ago) link
Best Spielberg since Catch Me if you Can
― impossible raver (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 17 March 2016 14:06 (eight years ago) link
i'm not a "hard man" -- i was just imagining that if after every utterance made in his (real) presence, morbius were to return with a snarky rejoinder or insult (as he does here, with increasing consistency; the "...as usual" was just one instance of dozens yesterday alone), eventually someone would be inspired to punch him. it's the sort of behavior that for some reason people feel OK indulging online but wouldn't tolerate IRL.
that said, if he's suffering, then he's suffering, and i don't want to add to it.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 17 March 2016 14:18 (eight years ago) link
Saw trailer for this
Drove home what it is.
The shit parts of jfk
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 June 2016 11:35 (seven years ago) link
I enjoyed watching this well enough, the tense bits were tense, but not long after I watched an episode of The Americans and was like "fuck off, Stephen Spielberg".
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Sunday, 19 June 2016 12:10 (seven years ago) link
BoS > JFK
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 19 June 2016 14:07 (seven years ago) link
it's all of JFK, dmac?
hey chap you don't read credits real well
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 June 2016 14:40 (seven years ago) link