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It's excellent. Very atmospheric.
 
Punishment Park - Fantastic, angry mockumentary that still resonates with today's climate in America, was released before mockumentary was even a thing. Peter Watkins is a hidden treasure of cinema.
 
Inside Out

Watched this whilst I was on a flight back to Melbourne – thought it was a nice heartfelt movie with some funny moments thrown in, a typical PIXAR movie.

7.5/10
 
R.N7 said:
Watched two great companion pieces to Oslo, August 31st.

The Fire Within which was based on the same novel, just unrelentingly bleak and poignant.

Reprise, a freewheeling millennial film about self-actualization and other stuff with a poignant underlying sadness. Joachim Trier is a major talent, really need to watch Louder Than Bombs. I really hope it isn't a turkey.
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I really like Reprise but you can see how much Trier grew afterwards. Oslo is a much more confident film, none of the self conscious showiness.
 
Nocturnal Animals is brilliant, an incredibly well made thriller directed by Tom Ford. The story is excellent (I've already bought the book), and the first hour is directed perfectly, I genuinely don't think I've ever sweat as much in the cinema as I did watching some of the early scenes. I really couldn't recommend it highly enough. Only minor complaints are that the Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Michael Shannon sections were a bit too cliche, but maybe that was part of the point of the story within a story. I love Amy Adams.

I'd also love to hear people's responses to the first three minutes - even watching people's faces in the cinema would be great. :lol:
 
Hell Or High Water
This had all the ingredients for me to love it but some reason, i just couldnt connect with it. Ben Foster, who is criminally underrated, was fantastic and there was a lot of depth to the story but it also felt very empty. On another watch I might love ut but for now it was only ok 6/10

Dog Eat Dog
A group of cons featuring Willem Dafoe and the great Nic Cage get together to kidnap a baby in return for a tonne of cash... things go horribly wrong. It was brilliantly acted, well shot and genuinely quite funny with a bucket full of gore. The film felt very off-beat which was refreshing but the first 30 minutes are painfully slow so you must get through that first. Cage back to his best here 7.5/10
 
ThierryHenry said:
Nocturnal Animals is brilliant, an incredibly well made thriller directed by Tom Ford. The story is excellent (I've already bought the book), and the first hour is directed perfectly, I genuinely don't think I've ever sweat as much in the cinema as I did watching some of the early scenes. I really couldn't recommend it highly enough. Only minor complaints are that the Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Michael Shannon sections were a bit too cliche, but maybe that was part of the point of the story within a story. I love Amy Adams.

I'd also love to hear people's responses to the first three minutes - even watching people's faces in the cinema would be great. :lol:
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Loved it. Tom Ford makes everything look beautiful. Even that start(?) :lol:

Amy Adams with a shout for the Oscar, surely. Not seen Arrival yet and she's apparently great in that too.
 
Hell or High Water

Great performances by everyone especially The Dude. Worth a watch but pretty overrated, don't go in expecting something special like I did. 6.3/10
 
Saw Captain Fantastic the other night, the premise is sorta like Mosquito Coast and I usually enjoy that kinda thing, but this is just pretentious shite. Viggo Mortensen still somehow manages to be decent though.
 
R.N7 said:
Watched two great companion pieces to Oslo, August 31st.

The Fire Within which was based on the same novel, just unrelentingly bleak and poignant.

Reprise, a freewheeling millennial film about self-actualization and other stuff with a poignant underlying sadness. Joachim Trier is a major talent, really need to watch Louder Than Bombs. I really hope it isn't a turkey.
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Actually, Louder than Bombs was a lot better than I thought it would be when I saw Trier had made a movie in English, in America, with name actors. Definitely a step down from Oslo 31 August. The acting was top rate with Euro actors Gabriel Byrne and Isabelle Hupert, and Jesse Eisenberg was quite good I thought as it went down that isolation, troubled relationships and depression road of Trier´s previous two great films; but as you would imagine, there were parts too contrived and a lack of subtlety, as if whoever had gotten him the funding for the project had whispered in his ear that he must dumb it down a bit for an in English, American production.

There was however some great film making in it and a more polished production and excellent acting which made for a very decent film. Trier is a fantastic artist, but if he keeps going down this path his "poetry" will be compromised and I fear Oslo 31 August and Reprise will be the best films he will make.

Also agree with Archie about what he said about Reprise and Oslo 31 August.

8.5 cocks up
 
Arrival - a frustrating film for a number of reasons.

The film is essentially a six minute short about a family's breakup with a one hundred minute hokey science fiction explanation for why Daddy left

It looks great and has Villeneuve's trademark tension. Amy Adams is good but the other actors don't have a lot to do. I did find the discussion of language pretty interesting. But overall, I didn't like it.

Nocturnal Animals - I don't know how to feel about this. The story within is a story is a great noir-ish crime thriller but I'm not sure the surrounding plot holds it all together and the ending surprised me in its...ineffectualness. Michael Shannon is particularly good as usual. Ford is kind of a master stylist but his obsession with close shots and over-editing was distracting at first. I might have to think a bit more about it.
 
Nobby style said:
Actually, Louder than Bombs was a lot better than I thought it would be when I saw Trier had made a movie in English, in America, with name actors. Definitely a step down from Oslo 31 August. The acting was top rate with Euro actors Gabriel Byrne and Isabelle Hupert, and Jesse Eisenberg was quite good I thought as it went down that isolation, troubled relationships and depression road of Trier´s previous two great films; but as you would imagine, there were parts too contrived and a lack of subtlety, as if whoever had gotten him the funding for the project had whispered in his ear that he must dumb it down a bit for an in English, American production.

There was however some great film making in it and a more polished production and excellent acting which made for a very decent film. Trier is a fantastic artist, but if he keeps going down this path his "poetry" will be compromised and I fear Oslo 31 August and Reprise will be the best films he will make.

Also agree with Archie about what he said about Reprise and Oslo 31 August.

8.5 cocks up
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Encouraging stuff. The consensus on it has been pretty ambivalent as far as I've gathered.
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The Lobster

WTF?

6/10
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Atrocious film.
 
Manoel's Destinies/Manoel on the Island of Wonders - Another feverish Lewis Carrol-esque fantasy masterpiece from Raul Ruiz. It's really hard to get a hold of and I was lucky that someone had uploaded it on youtube the day before I decided to watch it, the rip is terrible, but the cinematography and the amazing score is just bursting through the screen, the only copy doing the rounds is a French dubbed version that was broadcast in Australia only once that someone managed to record. Like City of Pirates it was shot on a shoestring budget on the Portuguese coast. It's a disturbing 'childrens' three part serial that experimented with narratives, time travel, body switching before it completely disintegrated into dream logic in the third part (which wasn't totally successful). It's sort a weird prelude to Mysteries of Lisbon.

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Army Of One
An American patriot (Nic Cage) is instructed by God (Russell Brand) to go to Pakistan and capture Bin Laden. Based on a true story. this was a pretty boring film. The pacing was all over the place and the story was quite flat. There were some funny scenes, Nic Cage was great playing a crazy man and there was a great meta scene that mentioned Con Air! However, I was quite bored by the end and if you take the great Cage out of the film, it would suck pretty bad 5.5/10
 
The Crow (1994): 6.5/10

Thought the fighting scenes looked amateuristic but the overall noir vibe was fantastic IMO.
 
Dirty Schwein said:
Army Of One
An American patriot (Nic Cage) is instructed by God (Russell Brand) to go to Pakistan and capture Bin Laden. Based on a true story. this was a pretty boring film. The pacing was all over the place and the story was quite flat. There were some funny scenes, Nic Cage was great playing a crazy man and there was a great meta scene that mentioned Con Air! However, I was quite bored by the end and if you take the great Cage out of the film, it would suck pretty bad 5.5/10
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Russell Brand playing god?! As an aside, a PR emailed me about something on Monday and said 'Oh G*d'. Was bemused by the asterisk.
 
Angst (1983) - This was a really horrible, unsettling watch, not in a bad sense, or maybe, not sure yet if I hated it or not, it certainly raised my anxiety levels though. Would probably had been even more chilling without the 80's synths.
 
I'd rather have my eyes removed than watch it again. One of the point pointless boring movies of all time.
 
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) - If existential road movies and Americana are your thing then this is the one for you. As stripped-down a movie as you'll ever see. minimal acting, script, story, action but it's great. Warren Oates steals it but the director meant for that to happen as the other three characters are aimless but without the need for affirmation that the older GTO possesses. A film that will have you searching for meaning long after it ends. I'd recommend listening to Springsteen's Racing in the Street right afterwards, preferably in your car, on a lonely back road, in the moonlight.
 
Hardware | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099740/?ref_=nv_sr_1

The feck, found this on some indy horror list of 90's movies. Actually quite a good movie if you can see past the insanity, kind of a apocalyptic horror movie with AI, a nuked world and a very dark backdrop going for it. About as 90's\80's as it gets. Also features Iggy Pop and Lemmy in small roles. The music is also very good and it has a lot of gore. Worth a watch for the nostalgia

5/10
 
Jason Bourne
I was never a HUGE fan of the series but I did enjoy them but this one was awful. Felt very pedestrian, plot was so convoluted and all over the place. Tommy Lee Jones was abysmal, Damon is just going through the motions. Alicia Vikander is smoking hot though. I did enjoy some of the action scenes 4/10
 
Weiner - Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg (2016)

Unbelievable fly-on-the-wall documentary of Anthony Wiener´s last stage of his political career. He gives these directors pretty much full access as you watch his congressional career take a dump as he´s outed for sexting his cock bulge and other pathetic photos, then after that humiliation he attempts a political comeback running for mayor of New York and doing well, only to get busted sexting once again with some young woman who takes full advantage of her new found fame and shit gets real.

Funny thing is, he seems to love it all, getting battered on film and taking his poor wife with him, who happens to be Huma Abedin, Hillary´s right hand lady. It´s just political junky and attention whore-ism at its most disgusting-yet-fascinating. Made in USA.

Shame the documentary ends a couple of years early as later on as Weiner´s whole sordid story gets dug up and dusted off by Trump and his Breitbart fiend goon squad when he ends up getting busted for sexting with a minor and this gets mixed into the heat of the reality show, Trump vs Hillary race for president due to Weiner´s muslim wife, Huma Abedin, being so integral to Hills. What a fecked up political show. You can see symptoms of why this country was ripe for the picking for a douchebag like Trump.

9 cocks up
 
Grinner said:
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) - If existential road movies and Americana are your thing then this is the one for you. As stripped-down a movie as you'll ever see. minimal acting, script, story, action but it's great. Warren Oates steals it but the director meant for that to happen as the other three characters are aimless but without the need for affirmation that the older GTO possesses. A film that will have you searching for meaning long after it ends. I'd recommend listening to Springsteen's Racing in the Street right afterwards, preferably in your car, on a lonely back road, in the moonlight.
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Many things in that film were not long for this world...Oates, Wilson, Bird, James Taylor's glorious hair.
 
R.N7 said:
Many things in that film were not long for this world...Oates, Wilson, Bird, James Taylor's glorious hair.
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GTO was a fake drifter but his kind won the race in the end. The America of the driver, mechanic and the girl seem to have disappeared forever.
 
Hacksaw Ridge - Superb film. One of my favourite this year. Mel Gibson won't get any accolades for it, but it's a hell of a gripping movie. Very good acting too from both Hugo Weaving and Andrew Garfield.

9/10
 
In a few minutes I'm going to watch the debut of a movie called Trailers by Rouzbeh Rashidi, filmmaker and founder of Experimental Film Society, in an underground cinema in Porto. They've been showing us small movies made by Experimental Film Society for about an hour and a half and after the movie, which will last 3 hours, Rashidi will answer some questions made by the audience. It's all for free too.

Here's Trailers' trailer:



Have I reached ultimate hipster levels yet? Someone please try and beat this shit.
 
Brown Toothpick said:
Hacksaw Ridge - Superb film. One of my favourite this year. Mel Gibson won't get any accolades for it, but it's a hell of a gripping movie. Very good acting too from both Hugo Weaving and Andrew Garfield.

9/10
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Yep, was great. You'd think the pre-war stuff would drag, but it didn't and was excellent also. Then the battles start :eek:
 
Donut said:
Yep, was great. You'd think the pre-war stuff would drag, but it didn't and was excellent also. Then the battles start :eek:
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I've read the battles are more intense than the ones in Saving Private Ryan?
 
VorZakone said:
I've read the battles are more intense than the ones in Saving Private Ryan?
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It's been awhile since I've seen Ryan, but these are fantastic. Really long takes, very brutal, but not gratuitous. Should really be seen in the cinema.
 
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