I like a good film about a narcissistic piece of shit. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this one, mainly because this film had very few redeemable characters.
He is a video tape operator, basically plays back what was just filmed for the director to look at to make sure it was shot properly
It does getting him working very closely with the directors since obviously they wanted to see how the scene went so he got to know the Daniels pretty well and said they were awesome. Also, Ke Huy Quan was asking my friend to replay his scenes because he was really nervous about how he was performing since he had not acted in years and Jamie Lee Curtis would watch the scenes with him and was super positive and supportive. He said the whole cast and crew was just really nice so hopefully it gets all the awards
58% isn’t exactly the rotten tomatoes score I’d expect for best picture nominees, if that’s what we’re using for justification
It’s almost as if you put out original and creative content when no one else is doing it, people will like it
Super happy for my friend to win he freaked out cuz his work monitor was featured when the Daniels won for best screenplay lol
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there was nothing special or original about the story for top gun, everyone knew the outcome would be the heroes win. cant believe people advocated for that for best film.
I really enjoyed Top Gun. But I understood it for what it was, and I need my best picture to elicit some emotional response that I can look back upon
TGM was good and really fun. I think it’s super weird to die on a hill that it’s the rightful best picture winner of all time or that it’s so bad you couldn’t get thru the credits cause Tom cruise was gonna shoot the bad guy with his jet guns.
can yall take the talk about that shit ass movie to its own thread and keep it out of here thanks, management
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Kinda wild. A couple australian youtubers who have never made a professional film before- directed this. Here's a video on their channel of them getting invited to sundance, getting rave reviews and messages from A-list directors, and then studios having a bidding war over the movie.
I've got a quiet month coming up after Evil Dead this week, so there's a chance I'll go to see this - does the 3 hours drag much? Gotta say it's a real disincentive.
its a journey film that gets pretty episodic, so i didnt have any problems with the pacing but like i said, i loved it would likely get a different viewpoint re: the run time form someone who it didnt work for
The acting was great and I laughed a handful of times, but that definitely didn't need to be 3 hours.
I really needed the middle journey to tie in better. At the end it just ended up feeling like a departure. And without it, you probably have a great 100min movie.
A lot of the scenes just felt like they were longer than they needed to be. I felt unsatisfied with the ending after sitting there for so long. Agreed that it would have been much better with about an hour cut out.
Yeah, thanks for the input, guys - I think I'm out. Sounds like it may not quite be the film for me. Plus I've been to the movies every week for the past 3 months, so I might just have a bit of a break between Guardians and Spider-Verse.
Maybe put it in spoilers but can you give me what you got out of it? I miss the IMDb message boards for these moments bc I haven’t seen anything good on YouTube about it.
no spoils, just my general feeling on it Spoiler If you haven't seen it, it's a combination of humor and anxiety ridden angst with moments of throwing your hands up asking wtf. It's not for a casual movie goer and is nowhere near as straightforward as Midsommar or Hereditary. It was a 3 hour nightmarish trip that left me, and what seemed to be the rest of the theater, uncomfortable up to the very end. Fairly psychoanalytic. As far as Aster movies, it's 3rd for me.
Spoiler I was just waiting for some kind of moment that connected all the threads. I thought maybe the ending was supposed to be this verdict of guilt and then he’d snap out of that and it go back to the apartment and show the keys in the door and revealing he decided to stay on his own or something. I also was lost on the personification of his dad being a literal dick and balls. Had it not gotten stabbed/killed someone then I could understand the projection of it, but in the literal sense it was such an odd choice that I wish someone would’ve reeled him back on. And as I said earlier, I don’t really see how the middle of the movie ties in with the bookends. I thought maybe it was supposed to be him finally having loving parents but it wasn’t that at all. I just need someone to decrypt this like a Lynch movie.
Oh you've seen it Spoiler I agree that the giant dick part should've been left out. First act was great, a view of Beau's life as a paranoid schizophrenic. If they ran with that, it would've been a masterpiece. From then, the sequences kinda got more arbitrary. I enjoyed the pissy mean daughter, but what was her point? Beau's mother had the parents sign a contract to test Beau. You could see the father was apart of MW though one of the pictures on the wall at Beau's mom's house. What weight did the daughter carry and why did she kill herself? Jeeves was great, finally realized he was the father harboring the Jewish family at the beginning of Inglourious Basterds. The second act, the play portion, dragged on a bit much. Could've been more grounded. Third act was good, but again, lots of ambiguous ambiguity. I took the whole movie as Beau's nightmare. He envisioned what he could be if his mother hadn't abused him (sexually was heavily hinted at). It was his mother who kept dragging him down. I need to watch it again.
I do have to say, Joaquin continues to solidify himself as one of the all-time greats. And Aster needs to see a therapist.
I definitely missed the bold it's a real shame that he'll get the Toni Collette treatment he was phenomenal