review of new movie made it sound as insufferable as every other movie this dude has made
― Ross, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
Christopher Robin on the other hand was pretty good.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
had no idea that was the "Pooh movie" he'd been signed to do, I thought he was doing an actual Pooh story. Also one of 5 writers credited, so who knows what he did.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
he goes into it in some detail here
https://www.metro.us/entertainment/movies/how-indie-darling-alex-ross-perry-came-to-write-christopher-robin-and-what-he-learned-from-disney
he originally wanted to write a Teddy Ruxpin movie
― Number None, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
Finally getting around to Golden Exits. Adrock as vaguely creepy middle aged protagonist just feels awkward
― calstars, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
Sevigny’s pain feels very real though, and Schwartzman is on point. he’s played this role at least two or three other times though
― calstars, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
i feel similar with this dude as i feel with jason reitman, movies are comforting and watchable enough but they leave me feeling hollow or something (poorly articulated)
probably will see the new one tho after reading your post calstars
― Ross, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
last three posts OTM. when I first saw Golden Exits, I liked it because it looked so good. super saturated 35mm color. Cool. nothing to chew on though. and calstars especially OTM about Schwartzman and Ad-Rock. shitty, boring people.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
<I>Her Smell</I> made me ask: is there a worse working filmmaker than Alex Ross Perry?
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 April 2019 03:59 (five years ago) link
he's so bad, he made me forget we use BBcode here
I've only seen Golden Exits and Her Smell, but I'm putting a priority on watching the rest of his films asap to confirm my theory.
so much wrong in Her Smell but main problem is one that fells most fictional rock band movies: the music isn't there. the songs are why we care about people like Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain and Bowie. without the music, we're left with a bunch of trim and nothing to hang it on. it's why Velvet Goldmine and Last Days suck, and I'm Not There is amazing. even something like Walk the Line gets by because the songs are there.
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 April 2019 04:08 (five years ago) link
Subbing the Roxy songs for Bowie's in Velvet Goldmine was a slick move imo.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 22 April 2019 05:16 (five years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BwKkmGCBLg4/
I saw this on Insta when I was baked and laughed for 20 minutes.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 22 April 2019 05:52 (five years ago) link
Anika Pyle of Katie Ellen and Alicia Bognanno from Bully wrote some of the music so I had hopes for that.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 22 April 2019 05:55 (five years ago) link
So did I, I don't know them but my brother is a big fan, and he was taken aback by how bad / completely anonymous, almost algorithmically generated the songs were.
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 April 2019 06:08 (five years ago) link
Moss looks like she picked up a guitar for the first time a few weeks before shooting started. Her right hand is way out of position
― calstars, Monday, 22 April 2019 13:03 (five years ago) link
No one knows how to play guitar in this movie
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 April 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link
he moves into Stephen Kingland
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/alex-ross-perry-stephen-king-rest-stop-1203192545/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 May 2019 11:30 (five years ago) link
also he is making me pro-bully
https://www.indiewire.com/2019/05/alex-ross-perry-avengers-endgame-oscar-best-picture-1202130965/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 May 2019 11:35 (five years ago) link
Like you weren't already.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Monday, 6 May 2019 12:56 (five years ago) link
Not until the last drugstore has sold its last pill.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 May 2019 13:02 (five years ago) link
What a godawful piece.
― jmm, Monday, 6 May 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link
xp After all, you didn't personally drain the gasoline out of the tank...
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Monday, 6 May 2019 13:10 (five years ago) link
This is the most ghoulish conversation!
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 May 2019 13:19 (five years ago) link
So unlike (apparently) a lot of people, I actively root for Disney’s success. I am really intrigued that Disney bought Fox. I am eager to see how many of the top 10 grossing films of the year Disney puts out. I have a lot of friends there at the executive and producer level, and I want the best for them.
Fuck you!
― flappy bird, Monday, 6 May 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
I can get behind a defense of Avengers as a work of art that deserves the BP Oscar, but being "intrigued" by Disney acquiring Fox? this guy is a fucking idiot
― flappy bird, Monday, 6 May 2019 16:25 (five years ago) link
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Monday, 6 May 2019 16:27 (five years ago) link
If you don't support Disney's total monopolistic domination, it's bullying.
― jmm, Monday, 6 May 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
the way of all Kim's Video employees
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 May 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
When people dismissively bemoan “the state of things” culturally and use Marvel/Disney dominance as their primary target, all I can see is a square, flat-topped father drinking a beer in a barca lounger while the game is on, telling his son to quit playing guitar/painting/writing/reading comic books/daydreaming and get a real job.
Oh my god, we don't live in a binary of SPORTS vs. NERDS!
― flappy bird, Monday, 6 May 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
he's from Bryn Mawr so
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 May 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
An eloquent defense of those quirky, subversive, creative, outside-the-mainstream Marvel films that so many squares want to ban
― One Eye Open, Monday, 6 May 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link
it's more like the SPORTS guys took the NERDS' stuff and made a bajillion dollars out of it
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 May 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
This guy is not making a good case for my checking out one of his movies. Nor is titling one of them Her Smell.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Monday, 6 May 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
the title is the only good thing about it
― flappy bird, Monday, 6 May 2019 20:09 (five years ago) link
Her smell is the first one of his I have no desire to see. Maybe because the story seems so familiar and I don’t buy e Moss in this role
― calstars, Monday, 6 May 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
Didn't Juliette Lewis basically make this same movie 10 years ago?
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 6 May 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
that indiewire piece reads like a poorly executed satire of film popism
― maura, Monday, 6 May 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
Tarantino is awful but having read this I have to take issue with the thread title
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 6 May 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link
Heard a number of variations of this argument IRL this past weekend from otherwise-reasonable people and they honestly made me sad.
It’s hard for me to empathize with the person who feels lost in a world where the biggest show in the history of television stars dragons
― One Eye Open, Monday, 6 May 2019 23:48 (five years ago) link
a dominant group obsessed with its own imagined victimhood? how weird
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 6 May 2019 23:56 (five years ago) link
avengers: ressentiment
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 6 May 2019 23:58 (five years ago) link
I watched Her Smell on Kanopy and -- while I agree it was probably not a film that needed to be made -- I cried! I think it paints a portrait of a person who people can easily write off as a monster as a real person. I'm sure it could have been BETTER but that doesn't usually determine whether or not I liked a movie. I found it scary and emotionally resonant (when she's singing to her kid? cmon that's touching) and my only real complaint is that I couldn't hear the dialogue very well because everyone is hissing at each other through the first hour and there's tons of noise from the noisy club (as there often is). I also thought Virginia Madsen was really good as the mom. Dan Stevens was uninspiring as the former husband and Eric Stoltz is as creepy as he always is.
I have yet to determine why it's called Her Smell but I kind of like the title. The band name leaves something to be desired but I like the idea of a movie about Her Smell.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 7 July 2019 00:35 (four years ago) link
Listen Up, Philip is unwatchable except for Elisabeth Moss.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 22 July 2019 02:08 (four years ago) link