What film did you watch last night?
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While looking at it on letterboxd I came across 1992 movie with Larry Fisburne and Jeff Goldblum with the same name. Watched it and enjoyed it. 8/10
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Yea that is a good watch.
Watched K.O. , a French action thriller where a cop and a former mma fighter are looking for a kid who witnessed a gang murder and is now being hunted by the gang.
Its ok but could have done with a bit more action to be honest.
6.5/10
Its ok but could have done with a bit more action to be honest.
6.5/10
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
Technically I watched it this morning while on a flight. Probably the forth or fifth time of watching now and every time I like Brad Pitt's portrait of Cliff a little more. Hopefully "The Adventures of Cliff Booth" definitely starts filming this year.
9/10
Technically I watched it this morning while on a flight. Probably the forth or fifth time of watching now and every time I like Brad Pitt's portrait of Cliff a little more. Hopefully "The Adventures of Cliff Booth" definitely starts filming this year.
9/10
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Definitely a film that grows on you the more you watch it imo, I remember the first time I watched thinking it was ok/good 7/10 but after further viewings I would give it a solid 9/10 now
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I'd agree with that, I certainly didn't gush over it when I originally watched at the cinema.
I hated the film, I've only seen it at the cinema when it came out, until Brad Pitt's character ended up at the ranch. I wonder if it's worth a rewatch.
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A couple of well regarded animated films:
Flow - a ‘no dialogue’ following a troupe of animals dealing with a flood.
This is mostly held together with perpetual animal threat. It works and is very watchable, but didn’t leave any lasting impressions on me.
The animation style is interesting. The is a grainy filter and the backgrounds look good, but the animals have a cell shaded look that I think was a poor choice… the cat perpetually looks like it has ‘crushed blacks’ and it’s quite distracting…!
7/10 for watch-ability, 6/10 lasting impressions.
Memoir of a Snail - a stop motion ‘memoir’ of someone doing their best to get by in life. I won’t say anything further as I went in pretty blind and that worked well.
This is excellent. Heartfelt, tragic, funny, beautiful… a must watch IMO, one of the best films I’ve seen in a long time.
10/10
Flow - a ‘no dialogue’ following a troupe of animals dealing with a flood.
This is mostly held together with perpetual animal threat. It works and is very watchable, but didn’t leave any lasting impressions on me.
The animation style is interesting. The is a grainy filter and the backgrounds look good, but the animals have a cell shaded look that I think was a poor choice… the cat perpetually looks like it has ‘crushed blacks’ and it’s quite distracting…!
7/10 for watch-ability, 6/10 lasting impressions.
Memoir of a Snail - a stop motion ‘memoir’ of someone doing their best to get by in life. I won’t say anything further as I went in pretty blind and that worked well.
This is excellent. Heartfelt, tragic, funny, beautiful… a must watch IMO, one of the best films I’ve seen in a long time.
10/10
I did a search before my post and I saw you were the only person on the forum to have previously mentioned it! Seems to be really under the radar.
Aside from the core story, I absolutely love the attention to detail and focus on life’s little ‘irrelevant’ moments.
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Director Tsui Hark orchestrates what can only be described as a frenetic operatic hallucination disguised, daringly, as an action film. Beneath its surface of explosions, inexplicable tiger motifs, and product-placement pyrotechnics, lies a meditation on identity, estrangement, and the absurdity of geopolitical machismo.
Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Jack Quinn is less a character than an avatar of modern existential exile a soldier without a war, estranged from family and self, grappling with both his past and the supermodel-styled consequences of poor decision-making. Enter Dennis Rodman’s Yaz a postmodern trickster figure draped in vinyl and chaos, whose fashion-forward nihilism provides a Brechtian counterpoint to Van Damme’s tragic stoicism. Their chemistry is inexplicable, and perhaps that's the point it represents the incoherence of male intimacy in a hyper-commercialised world.
The film’s mise-en-scène is a fever dream of late-‘90s aesthetics: neon-lit coliseums, cybernetic techno-lairs, and Coke-adjacent explosions. Cinematographer Peter Pau crafts each frame like a pop-art tableau Andy Warhol by way of Michael Bay.
Director Tsui Hark orchestrates what can only be described as a frenetic operatic hallucination disguised, daringly, as an action film. Beneath its surface of explosions, inexplicable tiger motifs, and product-placement pyrotechnics, lies a meditation on identity, estrangement, and the absurdity of geopolitical machismo.
Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Jack Quinn is less a character than an avatar of modern existential exile a soldier without a war, estranged from family and self, grappling with both his past and the supermodel-styled consequences of poor decision-making. Enter Dennis Rodman’s Yaz a postmodern trickster figure draped in vinyl and chaos, whose fashion-forward nihilism provides a Brechtian counterpoint to Van Damme’s tragic stoicism. Their chemistry is inexplicable, and perhaps that's the point it represents the incoherence of male intimacy in a hyper-commercialised world.
The film’s mise-en-scène is a fever dream of late-‘90s aesthetics: neon-lit coliseums, cybernetic techno-lairs, and Coke-adjacent explosions. Cinematographer Peter Pau crafts each frame like a pop-art tableau Andy Warhol by way of Michael Bay.
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Pop this on letterboxd and I'm confident it will become the top popular review
It really does deserve more people viewing it than seems to be the case.
A very human film. I don't know how to describe it really. As you say, it's the details that help make it