Watching Movies Alone with crumbsroom

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Posted by crumbsroom
7/29/2022 9:49 pm
#121

I keep planning on revisiting Lynch's version. I'd have to like it more the second time as I hated the first watch of it. And, if I'm being honest, I almost always need a second viewing of Lynch to really absorb what he's doing (so far Dune is the only thing he's done I don't love...and also the only one I've only seen once)

EDIT: forgot about Wild At Heart. Still can't get on board that one. I know, I know.


I also need to see Villeneuves Blade Runner.

 
Posted by Jinnistan
7/29/2022 10:16 pm
#122

crumbsroom wrote:

EDIT: forgot about Wild At Heart. Still can't get on board that one. I know, I know.


 
Posted by crumbsroom
7/29/2022 10:29 pm
#123

Holy fuck. Not for this thread, but now there is debate over whether Network is a comedy over in shitsville?

For fuck sake

 
Posted by Jinnistan
7/29/2022 10:51 pm
#124

I just got back from there.

1)  Thank you for not reviewing Halloween Kills here.
2)  Airplane is "sappy"?
3)  Haha.  Raul's mad about Shrek getting snubbed.
4)  I have to admit, I'm starting to get very curious about what's on some of these people's lists.  A lot of them don't seem to find anything funny.
5)  Raising Arizona is one of my classic litmus test movies.  I don't care who you are, if you don't like it, I just can't fully trust you ever again.  Sorry, honey.  Pack your bags.  I'm eating sand.


 
Posted by Rock
7/29/2022 10:59 pm
#125

I like Lynch's version quite a bit. It's got that nice retro sci-fi look and feel while feeling very distinct from something like Star Wars. I do think it's probably difficult to follow the first time around unless you've read the book. I remember Impavido had a detailed analysis on RT (now lost to the wind) that I looked at beforehand before I dived in, definitely made things easier to follow.


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Posted by crumbsroom
7/30/2022 1:17 pm
#126

Jinnistan wrote:

I just got back from there.

1)  Thank you for not reviewing Halloween Kills here.
2)  Airplane is "sappy"?
3)  Haha.  Raul's mad about Shrek getting snubbed.
4)  I have to admit, I'm starting to get very curious about what's on some of these people's lists.  A lot of them don't seem to find anything funny.
5)  Raising Arizona is one of my classic litmus test movies.  I don't care who you are, if you don't like it, I just can't fully trust you ever again.  Sorry, honey.  Pack your bags.  I'm eating sand.

1) It was put where it belongs. Hell.

2) That guy seems a little touched

3) That guy has astonishingly bad taste. Astonishing.

4) I'm not

5) It's great. I'm shocked it rated so high with that lot

 
Posted by Jinnistan
7/31/2022 3:12 pm
#127

crumbsroom wrote:

4) I'm not

It's a morbid interest, to be sure.  But it'll make those films not showing feel all the more triumphant.


 
Posted by crumbsroom
8/01/2022 4:06 pm
#128

Frownland is getting a Criterion release.

I watched that probably less than two months ago and it still is lingering like a tumor. A doom cloud overcasting my vision. A strange shape that I only half recognize, the particulars blurred, but the unease stuck to me like melted plastic.

 
Posted by crumbsroom
8/01/2022 11:05 pm
#129


This movie hits nearly every beat you might expect from a biopic, or a run of the mill sports documentary. So it is to its credit that it is somehow something more. Rarely have I seen a film where excellence in performance has seemed this almost completely inert thing. Sport, in the case of Borg and McEnroe, has eroded personality and all that is left is the reflex to win. As we watch this film, we never really find ourselves rooting for either of them to win the ultimate match. But also, don't want either of them to lose. It's a weird limbo where we watch two men destroy themselves for something that maybe doesn't even matter.

The film has a nervy energy, but it isn't really this that makes it as interesting as it is. It is mostly the two lead performances. They are both great. But in particular, LaBeouf is the standout. His McEnroe is a wounded dog who you don't like, but who you can't help feel sorry for when you look into his eyes. It's both a gregarious and extremely subtle performance, and I'm wondering if Shia has finally escaped his purgatory of irrelevance this last few years as he's been proving himself to be one of the more interesting American actors out there. Yes, he's a douchebag, but he's a compelling one.

 
Posted by Jinnistan
8/01/2022 11:13 pm
#130

crumbsroom wrote:

LaBeouf is the standout. His McEnroe is a wounded dog who you don't like, but who you can't help feel sorry for when you look into his eyes. It's both a gregarious and extremely subtle performance, and I'm wondering if Shia has finally escaped his purgatory of irrelevance this last few years as he's been proving himself to be one of the more interesting American actors out there. Yes, he's a douchebag, but he's a compelling one.

As long as he sticks to compelling douchebags, he may turn out alright.  Like a douche whisperer.


 
Posted by crumbsroom
8/02/2022 12:08 pm
#131

Jinnistan wrote:

crumbsroom wrote:

LaBeouf is the standout. His McEnroe is a wounded dog who you don't like, but who you can't help feel sorry for when you look into his eyes. It's both a gregarious and extremely subtle performance, and I'm wondering if Shia has finally escaped his purgatory of irrelevance this last few years as he's been proving himself to be one of the more interesting American actors out there. Yes, he's a douchebag, but he's a compelling one.

As long as he sticks to compelling douchebags, he may turn out alright.  Like a douche whisperer.

Having recently seen clips of McEnroe sniffing Maher's butt on his weekly shame "Club Random", LaBoeuf was the right choice for the part.

 
Posted by Rock
8/02/2022 5:30 pm
#132

JJ rightfully has some issues with Fury, the WWII tank movie, but I think LaBoeuf is definitely one of the better things about it.


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Posted by crumbsroom
8/03/2022 12:14 pm
#133

Oh, and after years of avoiding it because I thought it looked stupid (and I think the Outsiders is also pretty dumb), I finally watched Rumblefish and that was Everything.

It's obviously absurd, and full of dopey dialogue, and annoyingly overt symbology, and great gasping grasps at pretension, and yet all of these artificial trappings somehow just raise the volume of the emotional honesty that lays at the heart of the film. A place where pointless teenage rebellion is all swagger and grandiosity fuelled by loneliness and confusion. It's just as big and stupid and bleeding as adolescence feels.

One of my favorite Coppola's.
 

 
Posted by Jinnistan
8/03/2022 12:19 pm
#134


 
Posted by crumbsroom
8/05/2022 3:45 pm
#135

A Serious Man rewatch went well.

I still kind of understand why I didn't like it much on first watch. It does feel very episodic, and repetitive, with every scene just adding misfortune upon misfortune. But there is also something so deliberately contrived about the injustices being paid upon the character, that it works when we think of life as something that has been scripted to just run this guy down. God just leaning his elbows into the grease of this man's pitiful existence.

 
Posted by Jinnistan
8/05/2022 10:49 pm
#136

crumbsroom wrote:

A Serious Man rewatch went well.

I still kind of understand why I didn't like it much on first watch. It does feel very episodic, and repetitive, with every scene just adding misfortune upon misfortune. But there is also something so deliberately contrived about the injustices being paid upon the character, that it works when we think of life as something that has been scripted to just run this guy down. God just leaning his elbows into the grease of this man's pitiful existence.

It was one of those Coen Bros films that definitely needed some digestion and a couple more viewings (which I had to undertake very shortly after my first viewing), and I'm still not completely sure about all of the Dybbuk stuff, and obviously that ending is intended to frustrate, but there were so many little wonderful things there ("Look at that parking lot!") that still managed to make that first viewing something special.  Great eminently quotable support from Fred Melamed, Richard Kind and George Wyner.


 
Posted by Jinnistan
8/15/2022 9:33 pm
#137

Good for you, slamming the door on Yarn with his six-pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon.  The fuck is he thinking?  That's sipping beer at best.  Bring a case, motherfucker, at least.


 
Posted by crumbsroom
8/27/2022 7:56 pm
#138

Jinnistan wrote:

Good for you, slamming the door on Yarn with his six-pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon.  The fuck is he thinking?  That's sipping beer at best.  Bring a case, motherfucker, at least.

It's like he doesn't even know me.

I want my beer infused with blueberries. And the foam on top infused with the crushed powder of some 3rd rate speed.

 
Posted by crumbsroom
8/27/2022 9:14 pm
#139


Words

Blurbs.

4/5
 

 
Posted by crumbsroom
8/27/2022 9:16 pm
#140

Mephisto is a perfect example of a movie I wasn't in love with at any point, and yet the cumulative effect of what it happened to be in the end, is what I am very fond of.

 


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