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I don't see how this refutes my point. It reinforces it, if anything.
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It does. Same script, shot over three months, like most shooting schedules, would suck.
Hell, both films I was in took longer to get a distributor for than they did to shoot. And they sucked. Well, I was good in them.
Hell, both films I was in took longer to get a distributor for than they did to shoot. And they sucked. Well, I was good in them.
Zack
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So what? It wasn't shot in three months. It being shot over 12 years is an integral part of the movie, saying it would suck without it is silly. It would also suck if Godzilla appeared halfway through and killed his mom, but would you consider that a valid criticism?
RT is highlighting that most of the actual elements of the film - script, acting, plot and so on - were actually a bit rubbish, but people didn't notice them because of the general conceit. So it was a good film that could/should have been much better. I had a similar criticism of Avatar: the overall experience of watching at least the first bit was good, but that was because the visual effects compensated for the rest of it.
I've just seen Birdman, I knew it was good (friends have already seen it) but I didn't expect to enjoy the movie this much. In my opinion the movie nails it in every single aspect drama, love, comedy and god damn it am I glad to see Michael Keaton on the big screen again. Absolute must watch!
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Spoiler the ending :
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Spoiler :
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I interpreted as a postmodern take on cinema. I watched it with my dad, and about 2/3 of the way through he asks "is [his powers] real or a fantasy"? And that's rather the point. It's all "a fantasy". Nothing on-screen is "real" because it's on-screen. None of this actually happened. The ending is ambiguous precisely because it's entirely irrelevant whether or not a thing actually happened within the internal logic of the movie because none of it "actually happened". This is also why the film is shot "in one take". It emphasizes the fakeness of film. Things seem weird and unnatural when you take away cuts. Actors literally walk from one scene to another, emphasizing the dreamlike nature of teleporting from location to location and time to time with the benefit of cutting. The artifice of the stage is constantly referenced during the course of the film by Edward Norton - the fake cabinets and fridge, the fake sex scene (which he tries to make real), and the fake gun (which Keaton makes real - but is really still fake). Everything in film is, by definition, artificial, and so, to me, this screams of a movie poking fun at the artifice of its own medium.
Blue Velvet.
Hm.
Didn't like it as much as other (and latter) Lynch films. Dennis Hopper was very good, but the theme of doubles there is possibly even less fleshed out than analogous themes in Lynch's works.
Going even just by the scene with Don, it is evident that things aren't exactly 'real', but again suffers from the usual Lynchian aversion to have at least a basis there for extrapolation.
Other than that: again has the core element of abused women, juxtaposed to impossibly saccharine views which likely are not part of reality but an escape-mechanism. But the film itself seems to not allow much more concrete explanations.
Hm.
Didn't like it as much as other (and latter) Lynch films. Dennis Hopper was very good, but the theme of doubles there is possibly even less fleshed out than analogous themes in Lynch's works.
Going even just by the scene with Don, it is evident that things aren't exactly 'real', but again suffers from the usual Lynchian aversion to have at least a basis there for extrapolation.
Other than that: again has the core element of abused women, juxtaposed to impossibly saccharine views which likely are not part of reality but an escape-mechanism. But the film itself seems to not allow much more concrete explanations.
TIL i learned (goes in this thread too
) that after Dogtooth the strange movies created here (surely far better than before, but still creepy) are termed as 'New Greek Weird' wave..I suppose the Old Greek Weird are Gorgones stuff on amphorae
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Godzilla (2014)
An interesting title, since it is a popcultural title resting on a popular franchise for which there is a lot of discontent, but also a lot of praise.
Popular criticism was as trivial as that Bryan Cranston had no bigger role (contrary to trailer suggestions), but the most widespread criticism seems to have been that Godzilla action took too long.
Well that last one is, from my perspective, some mighty BS criticism. The great moments of this movie entirely evolve around playing with the stereo-typical understanding of a Godzilla movie, all while still giving us plenty of epic monster imagery, a lot more epic and styled than previous iterations ever had!
The movie got issues. Until the finale battle scenes, the plot got ambition mixed with a lot of cliche and some awesome stuff. It works, partially. bt there is quickly a sense that amibtion nd potential did not meet realization. And the main hero isn't satisfying.
The finale scenes got tremendous beauty, visually as well dramatically. Yet again, there is a sour taste to it, a clinch to used dramatic Godzilla and Disaster and Hollywood patterns which put some sour into it.
All in all - a well made and ambitious movie. Certainly a worthy entry into the franchise. A good Godzilla movie. But troubled.
An interesting title, since it is a popcultural title resting on a popular franchise for which there is a lot of discontent, but also a lot of praise.
Popular criticism was as trivial as that Bryan Cranston had no bigger role (contrary to trailer suggestions), but the most widespread criticism seems to have been that Godzilla action took too long.
Well that last one is, from my perspective, some mighty BS criticism. The great moments of this movie entirely evolve around playing with the stereo-typical understanding of a Godzilla movie, all while still giving us plenty of epic monster imagery, a lot more epic and styled than previous iterations ever had!
The movie got issues. Until the finale battle scenes, the plot got ambition mixed with a lot of cliche and some awesome stuff. It works, partially. bt there is quickly a sense that amibtion nd potential did not meet realization. And the main hero isn't satisfying.
The finale scenes got tremendous beauty, visually as well dramatically. Yet again, there is a sour taste to it, a clinch to used dramatic Godzilla and Disaster and Hollywood patterns which put some sour into it.
All in all - a well made and ambitious movie. Certainly a worthy entry into the franchise. A good Godzilla movie. But troubled.
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As far as Godzilla movies goes, it was great, definitely a cut above most of them.
The Brian Cranston criticism was definitely well deserved. Now, his performance and role in the movie by themselves were perfectly fine. However, the trailers made him out to be a major character; this was probably done to cash in on his post-Breaking Bad popularity. They shouldn't have hyped his participation as much as they did and deserved criticism for it.
Most people I've known tend to focus on the lack of Godzilla until the end. I'd quibble with them in that a lot Godzilla movies tend to show Godzilla more regularly through the movie but he isn't actually doing anything. However, the way this one was set up left way more to your imagination and built up suspense with regards to Godzilla and the other monsters and then delivers an awesome fight at the end.
I like their approach in this one over the approach of the old ones (show Godzilla stomping around without doing much before a quick, but good, fight at the end) but it's definitely a fine line to walk.
Let them fight!
Most Godzilla movies are utter crap. Likely all apart from the first one (?) and this last one, which has issues but is still better than the superhero movies produced in the same period.
Godzilla movies are by and large the kind of movies that are so bad they are awesome.
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Finally, a Bloor Cinema documentary that is more than just a sentimental anecdote. Merchants of Doubt is based on the book of the same name, about key figures hired by industries to obfuscate mounting scientific evidence that could harm them. It focuses on the tobacco and the oil industries.
The 50-year struggle to inform the public about the dangers of smoking shows the efforts of the tobacco companies, which include foisting flame retardants on furniture fabricators to deflect another danger of cigarettes. The film segues into a discussion of the ways fossil fuel companies have fought the scientific consensus on climate change, even hiring an honest-to-God professional troll and s**tposter who enjoys sending death threats to climate scientists involved in major international proclamations such as the IPCC report.
Informative, funny, visually stunning at times...but the final 15-30 minutes of the film is just about global warming. Would really have loved to see more of other obfuscations only mentioned such as acid rain and sugar consumption.
The 50-year struggle to inform the public about the dangers of smoking shows the efforts of the tobacco companies, which include foisting flame retardants on furniture fabricators to deflect another danger of cigarettes. The film segues into a discussion of the ways fossil fuel companies have fought the scientific consensus on climate change, even hiring an honest-to-God professional troll and s**tposter who enjoys sending death threats to climate scientists involved in major international proclamations such as the IPCC report.
Informative, funny, visually stunning at times...but the final 15-30 minutes of the film is just about global warming. Would really have loved to see more of other obfuscations only mentioned such as acid rain and sugar consumption.
After Earth. Entertaining (although it mostly shows Will Smith's son only having 2 facial expressions).
Immortal scene: Will Smith telling his son that "Everything on this planet has evolved to kill humans", followed by the advice not to be scared: "Fear is a choice." Surprisingly, that doesn't help.
Immortal scene: Will Smith telling his son that "Everything on this planet has evolved to kill humans", followed by the advice not to be scared: "Fear is a choice." Surprisingly, that doesn't help.
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