Movies
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Yep. I think that misery and joy are required to produce great art, because if you haven't experienced one, how would you know the other? So I can't make sense of statements like one or the other creates the best art, personally.
I'll use the blues as an example. Wouldn't exist without extreme privation, but it is every bit as grounded in the hope and joy of African tribal celebratory musical and gospel music traditions as it is suffering. And despite the name, not all blues is blue.
At any rate, you sad sacks can have your depressing bullshit, and you children can have your superheroes
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It is interesting that most debates become polarised….which camp do you stand in?
The only cinema I don't enjoy and support is where cynical marketing is used to brand and sell product. We keep our son away from that. If a product range and pop soundtrack are in the bag even before the reel has finished rolling it suggests that the franchise aren't THAT concerned about what they churn out.
The insesent need to trawl the bottom of barrels to find the next super hero franchise is just cynical. This is from someone that has a loft full of comic books (don't panic, they are in archive grade packaging!).
I just love cinema that challenges me, not just to be repulsed, but to laugh, think, reflect on my views and values. Hollywood rarely (but does sometimes with immense affect) does that for me (this is all subjective).
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Soldado…not as bad as the reviews make it out to be, but nowhere near as good as Sicario. Obvious weaknesses include poor plot development, questionable casting of secondary characters and an anticlimactic final scene. Still, I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would given the general opinion of the film.
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THE LOBSTER - deliciously silly. Camels in the woods for no reason whatsoever kinda silly. Lovely. Can't wait to see THE FAVOURITE.
Btw I do love a good, lighthearted movie… Classics for me are THE BORROWERS, CHICKEN RUN, all good PIXAR flicks, BABE (best movie ever made), stuff like JOHN WICK, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY etc etc...
But I can also watch COME AND SEE at 9am whilst having some toast and tea... Doesn't bother me...
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Soldado…not as bad as the reviews make it out to be, but nowhere near as good as Sicario. Obvious weaknesses include poor plot development, questionable casting of secondary characters and an anticlimactic final scene. Still, I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would given the general opinion of the film.
I think it felt like the kind of a sequel that tries its utmost to feel like the first, highly acclaimed movie and forgets about becoming a movie by itself. The music, the drawn out scenes etc. felt like the 1st one but not quite.
I thought it was really solid up until the mission "return the package", it went downhill from there with the convoluted back-and-forth, will-they-or-won't-they.
Having said that, I won't mind seeing the 3rd installment if it gets greenlighted (like it seems it will).
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We took our 3 1/2 year old son to the cinema for the first time this morning to watch Small Foot. I enjoyed it's sledgehammer of an anti zealot religious message, and a way above 'animation soundtrack song by Common. Sennen was a little star and sat through the whole 1 1/2, something that 50% of the adults didn't seem to be able to do! (You are out with your kids and friends, get off your phones and enjoy each other's company!!!!).
Not one bleak moment in it either. I must be going soft eh @Seul
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Loved 'Green Book' and found Viggo hilarious.
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Intrigued by all the comments about Irréversible I watched it the other day. It's shocking and disturbing, no doubt. When it comes to heavy movies I'd still say Requiem For A Dream is by far the more depressing one.
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I like bleak films, the reason being that I dislike films that try to sugarcoat everything and pretend everything in life is peachy. I just like a good story when it's all said and done, whether it's a superhero film or a film about the apocalypse. I know a guy that refuses to watch The Wire tv show because he's not interested in the gang violence. I tried explaining the premise of the show and that it's not all black and white and that the show offers perspective. He'll watch The Walking Dead with its extreme violence but he won't watch The Wire. Go figure ???
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The Favourite - Lol, this was unexpectedly hilarious (I tried to avoid reading up on it beforehands). Oscars-a-plenty for this one, I predict, and deservedly so. Many many memorable scenes, great dialogue, stellar performances by everyone… Quite the complete package and highly recommended!
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I know a guy that refuses to watch The Wire tv show because he's not interested in the gang violence.
That's just crazy talk. As I said previously, I prefer upbeat stuff, but The Wire is spectacular.
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I know a guy that refuses to watch The Wire tv show because he's not interested in the gang violence.
That's just crazy talk. As I said previously, I prefer upbeat stuff, but The Wire is spectacular.
I know, right? It's the realism that puts him off for some reason. He can watch a guy hack somebody into hamburger meat via The Walking Dead but seeing someone get shot is scary
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I wouldn't want to make an aversion to gratuitously miserable or depraved content be interpreted as my being unwilling to watch things that cast light on the underside of things (I also love "The Wire" and my favorite drama of all time is "Breaking Bad"). I think it would suck to live in that kind of denial where you can't be exposed to certain things.
I think the key is "gratuitous," as in, not serving a role in telling a story I care to witness. I don't want to see a story like "The House that Jack Built" and believe that shows like "True Detective" Season 1 and the above used different kinds of darkness and suffering to tell interesting stories (being a big fan of Lovecraftian horror, I'd particularly love a bit more existential darkness and cosmic horror per TD season 1).
Basically, if it isn't fun or doesn't expand my experience in a beneficial way, I'm not interested. Perhaps I'm just a hedonist.
To address @DougNg 's point, they changed the gun emoji to now be a water gun. I'm sure gun violence has been cut in half.
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Same here. My natural disposition trends toward depression. Willfully pushing my emotional state further that direction is just a bad idea. Anything dark and painful is a hard pass.
However, a movie I did see recently was Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. That was absolutely phenomenal. Definitely, worth catching in the theater, too. There are a couple of scenes that are genuinely beautiful.
Couldn't have said it any better.
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I think the key is "gratuitous," as in, not serving a role in telling a story I care to witness. I don't want to see a story like "The House that Jack Built" and believe that shows like "True Detective" Season 1 and the above used different kinds of darkness and suffering to tell interesting stories (being a big fan of Lovecraftian horror, I'd particularly love a bit more existential darkness and cosmic horror per TD season 1).
Speaking of Lovecraft, why does no one adapt more of his stories into film? Next to Edgar Allen Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle he is absolutely one of my favorite authors. Truly ahead of his time
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