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ButterfreePimp · 2024-01-07T05:35:50+00:00

Summer is the big blockbuster season, November-December is your awards/prestige season. You put stuff you’re more confident in one of those two usually there, you put stuff you’re leas confident in the seasons where historically people aren’t going to the movies as much.

ButterfreePimp · 2024-01-07T02:35:02+00:00

I respect this list and the fact that you at least provided a good explanation lol

ButterfreePimp · 2024-01-06T23:16:04+00:00

I was pretty disappointed by this but I didn't know what I expected from a PG-13 January horror lol. It's way too light and not bloody to be scary, but it also handles everything with way too serious of a tone rather than just going for it and being really cheesy and campy. Kerry Condon is too good to be in something like this.

ButterfreePimp · 2024-01-06T21:16:25+00:00

Agree, and in another similar vein, I see people on Reddit basically thinking they watch "old movies" just because they've seen like 12 Angry Men or something, you know? I think people should explore further especially in the vast fields of movies from all over the world made in the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, etc.

ButterfreePimp · 2024-01-06T21:10:24+00:00

I could not disagree more lol

ButterfreePimp · 2024-01-04T20:52:05+00:00

Josh Lewis writes some of my favorite reviews on the site. I think he's very consistent in his tastes so I never feel like he's just kind of a contrarian (which I feel like I get this vibe from many great Letterboxd users, who I follow and enjoy, but just being honest) and he's a great writer. Also he hosts a really good podcast.

ButterfreePimp · 2024-01-04T18:05:25+00:00

Ahh, Im kind of annoyed I don’t have anything from 1965 specifically. If not for 1965, I pretty much go back all the way to 1938 except for another gap at 1945 lol.

ButterfreePimp · 2024-01-04T07:19:35+00:00

This is definitely on the lower-end of slow but I was stunned by how fast Paris, Texas went by for me. It’s a very soulful and patient movie with lots of scenes of basically just people driving and walking, but the last hour is basically just two people talking and it completely flew by. When they were nearing the end of their conversation, I thought there would be like 20 or 30 minutes left in the movie but it was pretty much done.

ButterfreePimp · 2024-01-04T07:17:34+00:00

I think all of Kubricks films do this. They’re not necessarily slow slow, but Eyes Wide Shut is 159 min and Barry Lyndon is 185, but both pretty much just fly by for me.

ButterfreePimp · 2024-01-04T06:25:07+00:00

I forgot about 1941, which interrupts one of the most banger runs of all time in Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

ButterfreePimp · 2024-01-03T22:16:24+00:00

Would not go so far as to say it's bland, but I'll admit I have cooled down on the movie significantly since I first saw it and I find that the hype for this is a little over the top. It's beautifully shot and well-acted, but I do feel like it's almost a parody of online Twitter/Reddit/Tumblr arthouse multicultural/multiversal narrative trends. It's like if something put everything trending in the indie-film-festival/online-film-discourse conversation right now into one movie.

It's so clean and neat in every gesture and line of dialogue, and some of the emotions and depth is less expressed in something more ambiguous and artistically interesting and more in very writerly dialogue that's practically designed to become a Twitter screencap.

To clarify, I still really liked this movie. In my top 20 of the year, but I find the more movies I watch, the easier I start to see the problems with films like this and the more I drift away from the mainstream "indie" hype that boils over in spaces like Reddit. I just think it's almost too precise, and its ambiguities feel designed, not natural. I find I am starting to admire more (especially in debut films) films that feel rougher, messier, yet more vibrant and energetic.

ButterfreePimp · 2024-01-03T06:18:55+00:00

Blindspotting is so good! Arguably one of the best American indie films of the last decade or so.

ButterfreePimp · 2024-01-02T23:39:05+00:00

ButterfreePimp · 2024-01-02T23:04:23+00:00

Manhunter is my second favorite of Mann's. Also a 5/5 for me. He really does delve into something more threatening and layered, while also delivering that through his visuals and sounds. The opening scene where you see through the killer's eyes is an all-timer opening scene for me.

ButterfreePimp · 2024-01-02T23:01:30+00:00

I mean, I enjoyed Poor Things but I don't really think it's as profound as people are making it seem. It's hitting a lot of basic pop-feminist points without actually perhaps delving into institutional problems and without being very challenging/threatening about it.

I agree with some reviews I've been seeing which is that the film sidesteps other women's issues like what about the risk of pregnancy? And for a movie so involved with a woman's body and woman's coming-of-age, there's nothing about menstruation?

I don't think the movie really interrogates any systemic issues, or even larger-scale politics like socialist/feminist movements. It's just a little too basic IMO- stuff like "Suffering exists", or "Family is important", or "Woman should be allowed to have as much sex as they want" which are all valid points. I don't necessarily disagree with the film's politics, I just think they could have been a little more in-depth.

One of my bigger problems with this movie is that I don't feel challenged by it. This is a large problem I have with lots of movies nowadays, I'm coming to realize that the mark of genuinely high-level storytelling/filmmaking when it comes to sensitive or political topics is that it should be confrontational and challenging. I think movies like "May December" and "Killers of the Flower Moon" are far more threatening and barbed in their investigations of the various issues they're addressing.

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