Just because, the list I submitted for 'best of 2010s

'It’s Such a Beautiful Day 
The Florida Project 
The Act of Killing 
The Raid 2 
Exit Through the Gift Shop 
Melancholia 
Stinking Heaven
Black Swan 
Inside Llewyn Davis 
Django Unchained 
Wolf of Wall Street 
Inherent Vice 
Computer Chess 
Warrior 
Phoenix 
8th Grade 
One More Time With Feeling 
Blackcoat’s Daughter 
Killing of a Sacred Deer 
In the Family 
Yakuza Apocalypse 
Everybody Wants Some 
Finding Vivian Maier 
Alchemist Cookbook 
Winter Brothers 

No doubt forgot a lot. Intentionally left a couple off I normally would put there, just because I'm bored of liking them

I'm literally at the point where I want to drive to whatever elevator shaft Yarn is currently living at the bottom of, and kick him in the nuts over his fundamental misunderstandings of the arguments he is trying to counter in the high frame rate thread. Like even that autobot Yoda seems to understand the general issue with image smoothing and the moral issues it presents when you change the intent or look or function of a film with new technolgoy.

He really is the Confused Matthew of RT refugees.
 

crumbsroom wrote:

As a fan of all the bands, Meet Me in the Bathroom is an easy watch.

I don't about all.  I mean, Ryan Adams?

crumbsroom wrote:

I don't hate Ryan Adams' music. But not much of a fan, no. He's mostly just a hanger on and not really part of that scene anyways.

I straight up hate Ryan Adams.  The music is just faceless.

I haven't read the book, only that excerpt when it came out that made Adams out to be a real bastard and drug pusher.

Terrifier 2 and Belly are two movies I should absolutely despise, and somehow, here we are. With vague loves for both of them.

And yes Ryan Adams music is faceless. And yes that is as good a reason as any to hate it.

crumbsroom wrote:

And yes Ryan Adams music is faceless. And yes that is as good a reason as any to hate it.

I've always hated him.  Somewhat irrationally, but I could smell asshole coming off of him.  Now that it's confirmed that he's a manipulative gaslighting prick who was grooming a number of his underage fans, it only confirms what my gut told me all along.

Rock wrote:

Belly has a really interesting visual style and a handful of great sequences (the opening in the club, the attack on the Jamaican gangster's mansion).

Nas' performance and screenplay, though. Yeesh.

Everything with the Jamaican is great. And the movie frequently looks great. But their is an absolute void of suspense or emotion during any scene where we might expect some kind of engagement with the audience. And I don't say that as an insult, more as an interesting illustration of how empty these bling dreams are for our protagonists. So much so even moments where everything is on the line feel insignificant, but also grand and beautiful and full of lights.

Nas isn't the only offender in acting. Other than TBoz who is decent and DMX who is passable, the acting is uniformly bad. And the dialogue terrible. The script garbage. And the staging of any dramatic scene very very poor. It lives and idea in its moments of superficial grandeur. And Jamaican patois

Jinnistan wrote:

I didn't mean to suggest that Belly was good, exactly.  But it has a solid fan base, and benefited from the non-existent expectations.

It's similar to Snake Eyes.  Some impressive technical work, completely devoid of brains, but better than anyone could have guessed from the critical reception.  Also, not one of the best films from 1998.
 

What kept me away for so long was the fans it has. The ones I know generally hold most films at a distance and have generally terrible taste but deeply gravitate towards this. Almost like a black Boondock Saints. Plus the fact 'directed by Hype Williams' comes with all sorts of lowered expectations. You can kind of guess what the movie is going to be....and it barely surprises on this front. But somehow it sorta works and, with a handful of terrible scenes notwithstanding, i  really can't complain about it much.

Crimewave. Sam Raimi. Yes.