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The Menu

Some of the creative talent behind Succession attempt to excoriate narcissist chefs and elitist food connoisseurs and gastronomers with dark satire. Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult and John Leguizamo round up the cast. I didn't find it as well written as their streaming hit series though, nor were the characters anywhere as deep or interesting as the Roy family. It's too easy to have a laugh at these obnoxious characters with little finesse to the whole experience.
What was the reason Fiennes couldn't just start another restaurant and serve what he wanted to whoever he wanted?
Not that the resolution with Anya was believable either.
 
I have also seen THE MENU. First two acts were very good, but fell off in the third act. The denouement seems to suggest that the best art is that which caters to the lowest common denominator? Maybe I just missed on it, but seems a rather baffling message given the current state of the film industry. But I also think THE GRAY MAN is trash so :dunno:

Overall, I'd give it a 3.5/5. Performances from Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Fiennes, Nicholas Hoult, and Hong Chau are all wonderful
 
Blood and Bone. Acceptable fighting flick. Not a lot of nuance or challenge for the MC, really. Straightforward winning from beginning to end. 7/10.
 
TÁR. Heard some say it is a movie about "cancel culture", which is just reductive (if not outright inaccurate). Definitely one of the best films of I've seen this year, maybe the best. Cate Blanchett is my frontrunner for Best Actress. 4.5/5.
 
Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941). Joan Fontaine and Cary Grant, excellent!
 
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What can you do ^^
 
I have also seen THE MENU. First two acts were very good, but fell off in the third act. The denouement seems to suggest that the best art is that which caters to the lowest common denominator?
I saw The Menu as well and I quite liked it. The message I got from it was that food is primarily meant to be eaten for sustenance and enjoyment. You can get artistic with food but when that interferes with the sustenance/enjoyment part then you're just a food snob.

Other movies I saw were Knives Out and the sequel Glass Onion. Knives Out is one of my all time favorites and still holds up after multiple rewatches. Glass Onion is very good as well but doesn't quite capture the same magic that Knives Out had. The new ensemble cast is great and the plot has all the twists and turns that any good murder mystery should have.
 
A New York crime movie double-feature: Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) and 21 Bridges (2019). Both are recommendable to anyone with a passing interest in that kind of stuff. I'd seen Die Hard many years ago, but didn't remember a lot of it. Some good laugh lines in both, along with all of the gunfire and chase scenes you'd expect. Actually, I think there was more gunfire and chase scenes than I expected. Both films also rely heavily on practical fx and stunt work.
 
^Exactly. Listen to Barbie Girl while actually paying attention to the lyrics and de(con)struct the Barbie Empire.
 
I had my problems with Memories of Murder , a 2003 Korean serial killer movie.
Plays out more like a dark comedy..incompetent looking police at work once again.
Not a big surprise in asian movies, but this one also has little tension and no real twists.

I understand it was an unsolved case of 9(?) real life murders,
so i guess they couldn't add some interesting elements which would have been badly needed.

Just 4/10 for me..high ratings all around (imdb etc) but i'm used to not agreeing by now :)
 
Just watched the Coen brothers' Hail, Caesar!, which, frankly, I'll have to rewatch a couple of times just to understand all the references and sub-plots and only-apparently-random events.
 
I had my problems with Memories of Murder , a 2003 Korean serial killer movie.
Plays out more like a dark comedy..incompetent looking police at work once again.
Not a big surprise in asian movies, but this one also has little tension and no real twists.

I understand it was an unsolved case of 9(?) real life murders,
so i guess they couldn't add some interesting elements which would have been badly needed.

Just 4/10 for me..high ratings all around (imdb etc) but i'm used to not agreeing by now :)
As one of those people that rates MEMORIES so highly, I would say the movie is more about the detectives than the case itself. It is looking at the psychology of the detectives' obsession and, ultimately, their failure and lack of resolution. David Fincher's ZODIAC is very similar, and certainly influenced by MEMORIES.

There is also this lovely video analysing Bong's staging!
 
I have watched Memories of Murder, sometime in the past, and don't recall much - so it didn't make a positive impression :/

I did like Zodiac, despite the problematic ending. Was the suspect that burdened by circumstantial evidence in the real case?
 
I understand it was an unsolved case of 9(?) real life murders,

Memories of Murder is based on a real serial killer case in South Korea, yes. Writer/director Bong Joon-ho stated that the very last shot of the film, was supposed to address the real and at the time unidentified killer, in case he was in the audience watching the film. In 2019, the killer was identified, confessed and convicted via DNA traces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Choon-jae#Investigation

I did like Zodiac, despite the problematic ending. Was the suspect that burdened by circumstantial evidence in the real case?

Arthur Leigh Allen was the prime suspect for the Zodiac killings; no convincing case could be made to positively identify him as the killer. Fincher's film focused on Allen, but other individuals were in the detectives search light as well. As far as I know, the killer left no usable DNA on his victims or at the crime scenes, so it is unlikely he will ever be identified. Note that when the killings happened, DNA tracing wasn't a thing, so the police didn't secure all the items that theoretically could have had his DNA on them.
 
Memories of Murder is based on a real serial killer case in South Korea, yes. Writer/director Bong Joon-ho stated that the very last shot of the film, was supposed to address the real and at the time unidentified killer, in case he was in the audience watching the film. In 2019, the killer was identified, confessed and convicted via DNA traces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Choon-jae#Investigation



Arthur Leigh Allen was the prime suspect for the Zodiac killings; no convincing case could be made to positively identify him as the killer. Fincher's film focused on Allen, but other individuals were in the detectives search light as well. As far as I know, the killer left no usable DNA on his victims or at the crime scenes, so it is unlikely he will ever be identified. Note that when the killings happened, DNA tracing wasn't a thing, so the police didn't secure all the items that theoretically could have had his DNA on them.
Going by the wiki page, and from memory of how Allen was presented in the movie, it would appear the movie makes him be more of a suspect than in the real events.
Or maybe it's just the cheesy way they ended the movie, with paranoia about someone else (iirc a projectionist).
 
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