Which films have you seen lately Vol.22 Now with Smell-O-Vision.

[Takhisis]

They released a prequel a while back. It is to the Hunger Games as the Hobbit is to LotR (film wise). That is, pure and utter simplistic drivel hyper-focused on gloss and shine.

My conscientious research also tells me that new materials have been announced for 2025.

Some prequel based on Snow's rise to power. Oh well. How original.

 

[EvaDK]

It's nothing like any other de Palma film I've seen.

I've got Arrow's blu releases of Sisters and Obsession. They're like looking at the genesis of his later trademark editing and visual style.

So I reckon this one represents a 'pre-de Palma' Brian de Palma, if that makes sense

 

[Clubber Lang]

 

[Voidwalkin]

A nose you never forget.

 

[Clubber Lang]

Yep, Adrien's a serious contender for a Roxanne or Cyrano de Bergerac remake.

 

[Kyriakos]

When the premise is so terribly dumb, that you have to show half the movie in the trailer.

 

[lymond]

Love ATY but February release dates usually spell "fail" (also, the director has put out rather mediocre fair though I've not seen his movies)

 

[Broken_Erika]

A Real Hobbit movie

 

[Smellincoffee]

Raging Bull, 1980. I’ve wanteda to watch this movie since I seen it on da JOE PESCI SHOWWWWWWWWWWW! In one episode he got his brudder Robert de Niro on to talk about Bobby’s ,movie, RAGING BULL! It’s abouta boxer whose gotta tempa! That’sa all I know! Also it’sa got Frank Vincent, AKA PHIL LEOTARDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Lemme tell you two or tree tings, Phillie’s a great character.

 

[Voidwalkin]

Joe Pesci trivia: he actually released a musical album called Little Joe Sure Can Sing. He also has released a rap song.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Excellent trailer for 28 Years Later (2025). The audio is a recitation of "Boots" (1903) by Rudyard Kipling. I'm still not sure I want to see the actual movie, but Jodie Comer is in it, so that's something. I have to admit, whatever Aaron Taylor-Johnson's appeal is as a movie star, it's not working on me. He's got Kraven coming out soon, and then this, so he's having a little bit of a moment. Good for him, I guess. I liked when Ryan Gosling made fun of his abs in The Fall Guy, but otherwise...

 

[Smellincoffee]

A Christmas Carol, 1999. Patrick Stewart. The best version, and I’ll brook no argument. Ladyfriend hadn’t watched this, so after we watched a community theater production of the play, we watched the movie proper. Never spotted Vicar of Dibley actors before! It so happened that the week we watched it was the 25th anniversary of this particular version.

 

[bene_legionary]

Counterpoint: the Muppets Christmas Carol. I watched it for the first time on the plane to Pearson International Airport. Pure joy. I can never complain about Christmas again.

 

[Kyriakos]

Neither had Tin Tim.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Counterpoint: the Muppets Christmas Carol. I watched it for the first time on the plane to Pearson International Airport. Pure joy. I can never complain about Christmas again.

Hmm, I'll give it a shot.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Joker: Folie à Deux. Wasn't going to watch this, but a friend just watched Joker and really wanted to try this out, and since it was Joaquin Phoenix on his time I was agreeable. Very interesting movie on multiple levels: the discord between the official setting of the movie (after the 2010s) and the cars, clothing, etc; the use of music, and so on. Didn't too much care for the story in which Fleck is reduced to simply a crazy person whose movement turns on him after he loses touch with the 'Joker' persona after .....something is done to him in the prison by the guards. His recurrent paranoia bout being betrayed does not help. The woman who played Harley Quinn could really make something herself in the music biz if she doesn't like acting.

Spoiler Harley :

Yes, that was a joke.

 

[Takhisis]

I can never complain about Christmas again.

And then you see the million Christmas films that USian TV inflicts on us and end up thinking that the Inquisition may have had a point about Protestants tergiversating Christianity.

 

[Kyriakos]

Christmas stories were a tradition already in literature, with a few famous ones - including that one by Dickens.

 

[Clubber Lang]

Letterboxd's official top 10 flicks this year (based on audience ratings) -

 

[Voidwalkin]

NGL, apart from Dune, they all lack the cool factor. Don't feel tempted to watch any.

Getting the vibe the majority are movies we are culturally encouraged to react to positively. It leads to pretense.