Last Film You Saw And Rate It

Sodacake · **Posted:** Fri Dec 25, 2015 3:11 pm

swipe cuts are great. love them. i actually really like the editing across all the star wars films.

Forgotten Son · **Posted:** Fri Dec 25, 2015 3:20 pm

Sodacake wrote:

swipe cuts are great. love them. i actually really like the editing across all the star wars films.

Good one.

Sodacake · **Posted:** Fri Dec 25, 2015 4:00 pm

by that i didn't mean the narrative construction of the films, just the wipes and dissolves and shit.

Dreww · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2015 12:14 am

Dreww wrote:

Jurassic Park films don't have a culture industry surrounding them which present them as something which they are not. Star Wars has a culture industry around it presenting itself as the heir to mythic traditions.

Forgotten Son wrote:

It does? I thought it just had a big following of nerds who like to sperg out and craft reams of pant-on-head-retarded lore. It's little different to shit like Star Trek and Warcraft in that respect.

also, "Every Generation Has a Story." ergh

boo boo · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2015 12:27 am

Anpass wrote:

most hated thing about a SW film? the wipe cuts.

Not a Kurosawa fan I take it.

ClashWho · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2015 1:11 am

Nightcrawler - 9/10

Cinematography, music, script, acting, everything comes together to create a near-masterpiece. Wish I'd seen it in a theater. And what a killer final line.

corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:11 pm **Posts:** 27988

Dreww wrote:

The Guest
Holy moly, how great googly moogly is this film? If Taxi Driver was a neo-noir New Hollywood version of The Searchers, and Drive was a hipster Shane version of Taxi Driver, then this is an 80s subversive underground thriller take on Drive's respectable arthouseification of 80s aesthetics. This makes the subtext (or what should be the subtext) of Drive very explicit so that instead of ambiguously evil poetic identification with 'The Hero', it's pure righteous indignation against deception in a spirit of John Carpenter left-intellectual savagery. And yet it's more fun than any of those films, while being just as well made. I love it I love it I love it, fun fun fun all over the place.

YES!

corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:11 pm **Posts:** 27988

So saw Star Wars the Force Awakens a second time and enjoyed it more this time. Saw it in 2D but I don't think that is what made the difference but I think the derivativeness of the story bothered me a lot less this time and I was able (knowing what happened) to just enjoy the movie's good moments more

ClashWho · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2015 1:22 am

corrections wrote:

So saw Star Wars the Force Awakens a second time and enjoyed it more this time. Saw it in 2D but I don't think that is what made the difference but I think the derivativeness of the story bothered me a lot less this time and I was able (knowing what happened) to just enjoy the movie's good moments more

This is exactly what I plan to do this weekend with that very result in mind.

ahawk · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2015 2:45 am

Amadeus
10/10

pgm · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2015 8:11 pm

corrections wrote:

So saw Star Wars the Force Awakens a second time and enjoyed it more this time. Saw it in 2D but I don't think that is what made the difference but I think the derivativeness of the story bothered me a lot less this time and I was able (knowing what happened) to just enjoy the movie's good moments more

I should watch it again (with beer!).

I liked VII, but I thought it was messy. It's the longest Star Wars film and feels like it. It just has so much to do. I can only think of one scene to cut and it served a purpose.

You had to introduce new characters and give them a sort of back story and motivation. You had to reintroduce new characters. You had to introduce new stakes/mcguffin (finding Luke). You had to introduce a new super weapon and demonstrate it. You had to stop said super weapon. You needed the Obi Wan moment (I guess). You needed a lightsaber fight (for some reason). And you needed the ending because Luke.

The original Star Wars was a self-contained arc. VII makes it obvious it's preparing for two sequels, which is fine. But it's messy. I still liked it an the nostalgia flashbacks will probably be fine for me later. Is it better if I watch Jedi immediately before?

John Williams's score is amazing in the opening. The rest didn't register.

ahawk · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2015 10:33 pm

pgm wrote:

Is it better if I watch Jedi immediately before?

I watched Jedi right before and somehow I think it affected my viewing of Force Awakens in a negative way.

ahawk · Hugo (2011) 8.4/10

Hugo (2011)
8.4/10

ClashWho · **Posted:** Sun Dec 27, 2015 3:52 pm

The Hateful Eight - 10/10

Quentin Tarantino does it again. 'nuff said.

ClashWho · **Posted:** Sun Dec 27, 2015 4:15 pm

Just read the original ending from the leaked script. Supposedly he changed the ending because the script was leaked. I was hoping that he wouldn't do that. But now that I've seen the film and read the early script, I can say that the new ending is much, much better. That script leaking might be the best thing that could have happened.

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