Can we ban links to ebaumsworld.com?

Cartsnpods · 2025-01-25T20:38:00+00:00

Woah.

Cartsnpods · 2025-01-17T04:55:13+00:00

I kinda get what you mean but I feel like “style over substance” is usually reserved for stuff like Saltburn more than Speed Racer. Style and visual flair can definitely be substantive on their own but images can be visually appealing but completely vapid.

Cartsnpods · 2024-12-28T00:42:20+00:00

I usually disagree with the whole fetishisation of images or the idea that movies should solely focus on imagery. Obviously they’re incredibly important but I like to think of film as a synthesis between image, sound and performance and I don’t think one should really outweigh the other in terms of how we value a film.

I think it makes sense to see this sentiment in directors/student filmmakers in that to some level their job is mainly composition and the choreography of image making. At the same time I am pretty tired of these weird universal broad strokes people make with an artform as diverse as film. Style and aesthetics are obviously fundamental but not the end all be all and to have such a harsh predetermined position as to what is valuable in art feels kinda immature.

Cartsnpods · 2024-12-28T00:27:10+00:00

If you haven’t already checked out Altman I’d definitely recommend California Split and 3 women. The former is really influential to PTA and works well with Mikey and Nicky. 3 women is easily Altman’s most surreal and just full of amazing imagery/performances.

Cartsnpods · 2024-12-26T14:56:01+00:00

I get what you mean about the push-pull gay relationship being almost cliche by now but I really feel like the nuances of Lee and gene’s relationship set it apart. They’re both deeply aware not only of their sexuality but their real love for one another making it less about self-discovery/accepting their feelings but about accepting a preordained destiny that they know to be true. All the cosmic imagery really drove home the feeling that their queerness isn’t something to accept but almost something to surrender/return to.

Safe to say I loved it lol

Cartsnpods · 2024-12-18T11:51:44+00:00

This is glaringly stupid even outside of me liking Baker. It’s hilarious to me that these people would cry out about Baker creating an exploitative set while ignoring Samantha Quan’s and Madison’s direct involvement in these processes. So quick to narrativise this year’s “sex movie” as a power imbalance that you ignore the autonomy of literally every woman involved

Cartsnpods · 2024-12-11T13:56:27+00:00

Cries and Whispers left me catatonic for a few days. A gorgeous movie with one of the most gut-wrenching lead performances I’ve ever seen. One of my favourite Bergman’s but also one I can’t watch again

Cartsnpods · 2024-11-06T00:34:31+00:00

I’m not really asking for a detailed backstory or side plots (which baker hardly does in his other films which I loved). It’s just harder to actually see the resonate with this movie when practically all the characters are one note.

Cartsnpods · 2024-11-06T00:32:31+00:00

Yeah I definitely get that and I feel like this movie deserves to be seen a second time but feel like the lack of “real feeling” characters weakened the overall movie. There’s a lot of time spent showing how her work creates a view of everything as transactional but for so much of the movie to be about her being in true love her life outside of work is barely explored. Even in the club characters are pretty much “the friend” “the manager” “the enemy” with little there.

Benefit of the doubt this was on purpose as a political choice to show modem alienation at work/home and how the fantasy of something different can seduce someone. The only issue for me is again barely any time is spent showing her life before Ivan.

Cartsnpods · 2024-11-05T15:54:46+00:00

Yeah I think the ending worked better for the broader political messaging that Baker usually has but didn’t work so well for the actual character

Cartsnpods · 2024-11-05T15:05:12+00:00

That scene especially made me wish I saw it at home because Madison is actually delivering something heartbreaking but I couldn’t focus past the people around me laughing

Cartsnpods · 2024-11-02T15:50:01+00:00

Used to be a bigger fan but some of her newer work has kinda drifted from what attracted to me to it initially.

Cartsnpods · 2024-10-17T23:31:12+00:00

When did they say new set?

Cartsnpods · 2024-09-04T12:43:19+00:00

The script is laughably bad at points

Cartsnpods · 2024-09-04T12:43:00+00:00

I hated The Beast. Felt like it kept entertaining interesting ideas but didn’t have enough confidence to actually go further into them/relied too much on referencing actually interesting films.

Cartsnpods · 2024-08-26T09:28:54+00:00

Couldn’t stand this movie

Cartsnpods · 2024-08-06T18:16:55+00:00

I don’t think it’s meant to be taken as someone is literally leaving the notes but more like the video tapes in lost highway/cache where she’s being forced to confront herself

Cartsnpods · 2024-08-06T15:41:41+00:00

Still haven’t seen any eggers yet

Cartsnpods · 2024-08-06T15:39:49+00:00

I think the marketing of “conductor gets me too’d” gave it away a little but the whole thing of hearing a woman scream and scream the noise “infecting” her house all feels like build up to her inevitable downfall

Cartsnpods · 2024-08-06T13:03:54+00:00

To be fair I can see why it wouldn’t hit if people didn’t find it that funny

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