What film did you watch last night?

Nitefly said:
@SixTwoSix

Hmm I think that’s a bit of a reach? They don’t really interact with the girl at all:

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If the film has a theme, I guess it’s just the struggle of being human - having emotional (sexual) needs that are destructive, yet the further you push them away… OR the more you expose yourself to them… the more they suck you in! Have to keep those desires close, but not too close.

Or something :)
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Just a bit of fun tbh, there are so many theories around the movie - you can really read as much or as little as you like into it.

I hated it on release and only recently as last year watched it again and actually liked it.
Nitefly said:
Oh - not a film but just sharing with ‘horror club’… (@SixTwoSix @arc@css) there is a video game I’ve been playing through called Visage that is pretty much unbearable. I’m not even sure I can recommend it because it’s so stressful. But… if you want to push yourself beyond what is possible in a film… :eek:


Huuurghn!
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Oh yes - will be giving this a try, currently on a replay of Alien Isolation a decade later as i'm finally recovered from it :D
 
Glass Onion

The same clever, well observed, film making that made Knives Out so good is back and it's mostly very good with a beautifully realised cast of utterly unlikeable characters and Craig shines again. The number of small, subtle, clever details is simply stunning and will doubtless support rewatching. However, I found the resolution rather unconvincing and I didn't like the bit where the sister was shot; it seems Benoit only won because of pure luck that she wasn't killed or the way we seemed to be supposed to cheer the burning of the Mona Lisa.

Brilliant, but a little flawed in places: 8/10
 
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Glass Onion

The same clever, well observed, film making that made Knives Out so good is back and it's mostly very good with a beautifully realised cast of utterly unlikeable characters and Craig shines again. The number of small, subtle, clever details is simply stunning and will doubtless support rewatching. However, I found the resolution rather unconvincing and I didn't like the bit where the sister was shot; it seems Benoit only won because of pure luck that she wasn't killed or the way we seemed to be supposed to cheer the burning of the Mona Lisa.

Brilliant, but a little flawed in places: 8/10
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Really wanted to like it more then I did in the end. Felt that the mid point turn was just too easy a writing technique to artificially inflate the narrative. I was honestly a little bored throughout, though can see why so many seem to like it. I just felt it lacked the hook of the original.
 
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ArcticHeron said:
Really wanted to like it more then I did in the end. Felt that the mid point turn was just too easy a writing technique to artificially inflate the narrative. I was honestly a little bored throughout, though can see why so many seem to like it. I just felt it lacked the hook of the original.
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Yup - I don’t like it when the you, the viewer, are the person that’s least in the know. These things work best when you’re broadly on the same page as the protagonist. I don’t think withholding massive info from the audience is particularly clever tbh. It happens 3 times in glass onion:

1. She is the sister… including the existence of the sister.
2. Dying, but not really.
3. Throwing the helium thing - not major and you can see it a mile off but yet another BS rewind and ‘add information’. By this point, yawn.

I don’t hold the Usual Suspects in a super high regard for a similar reason:

In the retelling of the story, we the audience are shown some fabricated scenes as if they were fact… if it had just shown Kevin Spacey telling the officer what happened then I wouldn’t have minded… but no, we are shown things as a ‘fake flashback’. Otherwise great but that’s always niggled me!

In both, the audience is presented with more deception than the actual characters in the film.
 
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Nitefly said:
Yup - I don’t like it when the you, the viewer, are the person that’s least in the know. These things work best when you’re broadly on the same page as the protagonist. I don’t think withholding massive info from the audience is particularly clever tbh. It happens 3 times in glass onion:

1. She is the sister… including the existence of the sister.
2. Dying, but not really.
3. Throwing the helium thing - not major and you can see it a mile off but yet another BS rewind and ‘add information’. By this point, yawn.

I don’t hold the Usual Suspects in a super high regard for a similar reason:

In the retelling of the story, we the audience are shown some fabricated scenes as if they were fact… if it had just shown Kevin Spacey telling the officer what happened then I wouldn’t have minded… but no, we are shown things as a ‘fake flashback’. Otherwise great but that’s always niggled me!

In both, the audience is presented with more deception than the actual characters in the film.
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Exactly. You look at something like Chinatown for example, all the clues are there and if you're watching closely enough you could probably put it all together before the key pieces of info drop. Glass Onion and ESPECIALLY Usual Suspects deliberately bait the viewer away from the conclusion which I suppose can have some merit if you play it off right, but neither do imo (though I suppose you could make the argument that Usual Suspects builds that into the theme of an unreliable narrator, but it'd be a push...).

Glass Onion never felt like a traditional murder mystery for that reason which is fine, if they want to try and subvert genre trends then great, but you can't just rejig the narrative halfway through to suit a conclusion you want to end up at but never really seemed to be pointing at.
 
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Nitefly said:
Oh - not a film but just sharing with ‘horror club’… (@SixTwoSix @arc@css) there is a video game I’ve been playing through called Visage that is pretty much unbearable. I’m not even sure I can recommend it because it’s so stressful. But… if you want to push yourself beyond what is possible in a film… :eek:

Huuurghn!
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Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't tried that but will definitely look it up. There aren't many horror titles that push me beyond my comfort zone, though the last one was Amnesia. I felt so uncomfortable that I had to stop playing.
 
arc@css said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't tried that but will definitely look it up. There aren't many horror titles that push me beyond my comfort zone, though the last one was Amnesia. I felt so uncomfortable that I had to stop playing.
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Not to take the thread of topic, but SOMA has a similar feel and the story is truly excellent.
 
ArcticHeron said:
Exactly. You look at something like Chinatown for example, all the clues are there and if you're watching closely enough you could probably put it all together before the key pieces of info drop. Glass Onion and ESPECIALLY Usual Suspects deliberately bait the viewer away from the conclusion which I suppose can have some merit if you play it off right, but neither do imo (though I suppose you could make the argument that Usual Suspects builds that into the theme of an unreliable narrator, but it'd be a push...).

Glass Onion never felt like a traditional murder mystery for that reason which is fine, if they want to try and subvert genre trends then great, but you can't just rejig the narrative halfway through to suit a conclusion you want to end up at but never really seemed to be pointing at.
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Finally, someone who agrees with me on The Usual Suspects! I feel so understood =_]
 
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The Menu
Unlike any movie I've seen in ages. Kept me wondering what was going to happen next, what's on the menu next, will Margot save the day?! Very arthouse in a way.

Pale Blue Eye
Christian Bale and Harry Melling in an American Gothic telling of Edgar Allan Poe's murder solving ways. IMDB reviews are average, but this sort of thriller is a perfect nighttime escape.
 
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Hachi: A Dog's Tale - 8/10

Brilliant film. A college professor bonds with an abandoned dog he takes into his home. Loosely based on the true story of Hachikō, a Japanese Akita dog remembered for his remarkable loyalty to his owner, Hidesaburō Ueno, for whom he continued to wait for over nine years following Ueno's death.

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