@Ravix@FuriousMachine I'm a bit mixed with his films, I'll either love em or loathe em. Fantastic Mr Fox, Isle of Dogs and The Grand Budapest are amongst my faves. Asteroid City, Poison and The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar i could not stand.
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haha very different filmmakers! I’m a huge P.T. Anderson fan but can totally understand why some folks might not jive with his work. His films are rarely, let’s say, narratively straightforward. However, I’ve always loved how deliciously rich in atmosphere and thematically challenging they are. Not to mention the incredibly layered characters he explores and his ability to consistently coax out career-best performances from his cast. One of the few who still works exclusively with film as well. If you’re looking for a starting point beyond OBAA, ‘There Will Be Blood’ is a stone cold masterpiece!
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@Metonymy If I like this one, I think I'll give all his "major" movies a go, I think, but that one will most likely be the first. It was, after all, the one that actually made me realise my mistake recently as I couldn't mentally fit it in with Wes Anderson's filmography and remain sane, so my eyes were opened instead
@JohnnyShoulder Where do you stand on "Darjeeling", "Tenenbaums" and "Life Aquatic" (if you've seen them)? I'm asking, because if we're in agreement on those, I'll give the ones you liked a fair shake and check them out
i saw “One Battle After Another” earlier this afternoon.
Excellent, beautiful, gripping, and a little odd. I am still not exactly certain what he was trying to say. But throughly enjoyed the experience nonetheless. And it certainly needs to be seen on a big screen.
The only other one of his films I have seen is “There will be blood”. Excellent, also. Weirdly, on my first viewing of that movie, I did not even recognise Daniel Day-Lewis. (Don’t laugh). I was just so used to him being Hawkeye, that i did not realise it was him until afterward.
In fact, I feel that Michael Mann’s Last of the Mohicans is one film that definitely deserves a 4k release.
Wes Anderson’s films do not have that appeal to me. Isle of Dogs and Fantastic Mr Fox seem to two of my dad’s favourites, but I just do not like them. I do not actually know why.
I guess that I simply prefer the David Lynch variety of weirdness. Or even the Coen brothers variety.
@Matthewnh Yeah, Coen-weird is also good weird, to me Glad you liked "One Battle After Another", my viewing is only hours away!
@Metonymy "Event Horizon" forever!! I think maybe P.W.S.A. may be blamed for some of my underlying confusion. "Everybody" says "P.W.S.A. = bad, P.T.A. = good" and while that may be true, skills wise, in my head head it's always been "P.W.S.A. = hacky fun" and then "P.T.A." got equated with "odd and dull" as Wes Anderson stepped in for Paul T. in my head. This happened around the time of "Magnolia", I guess, which I was told by friends was "boring and pretentious" and that was probably why Paul T. got Wes Andersons "odd and dull" label unfairly imprinted on my mind.
(I don't mean to pour so much hate on Wes, BTW, as I can see why people would like his movies; they just aren't my cup of tea, so I hope I don't come across as too harsh there)
@FuriousMachine I rememeber, as it has been along time since I've seen them, I thought they were only ok. So somewhere in between the films iI liked and the ones I did not. Not seen Life Aquatic.
@Matthewnh Daniel Day-Lewis was Hawkeye? I don't recall him being in any Marvel films? Doesn't seem something like he would do.
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[...] Daniel Day-Lewis was Hawkeye? I don't recall him being in any Marvel films? Doesn't seem something like he would do.
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Funny thing, I actually thought they were mistaken; my first thought was that Daniel Day Lewis was being confused with Alan Alda, and boy did I feel silly a few moments later when the penny dropped
I'll blame it on me not having seen "The Last of the Mohicans"
It is that time of year again for me. (October is mid week again, so it gives me an excuse to kick off my Spooky Season early). I started with a 2015 mockumentary called Savageland. It is a weird film in the sense that any attempt to do a brief summary to explain what this film is and all about will both spoil it and also give you the wrong impression. But it is a really great example to me of the kind of really special films that can be born out of creators having to achieve high concept ideas with seemingly no budget, and its social commentary is arguably more relevant a decade on than when it released. A really cool way to kick off my daily watching.
That still seems to be a myth. No sign of There Will Be Blood, at least not in the next four weeks.
For anybody interested in the other Paul Anderson, Event Horizon is getting a 4K steelbook at the end of next month. It seems somewhat rude to call that his only good film.
My second horror flick was 'Horror in the High Desert' - saw this coming up a lot in Savageland reviews. It was honestly awful, bad in all the ways Savageland avoided. I was kinda tempted to watch the full High Desert trilogy, but this one just killed my interest.
@Matthewnh@Ravix I dunno, there has been enough smoke around a "There Will Be Blood" release lately that I wouldn't count out an impending announcement yet. "There May Be Disc"
I own the 25th anniversary edition of "Event Horizon", which is a very good package, so I will refrain from double-dipping, but I have entertained the notion of comparing it to the new one. That way madness lies, of course, so I will fight it with every fibre of my being.
@GirlVersusGame THANK YOU! I've had it in my mind for years that he broke through with "Young Americans" and was hyped up for that, but when I found out that he didn't make that one a while back, I've been left questioning why I even thought that in the first place. Now you reminded me that I had it confused with "Shopping". And he only directed the first "Death Race" remake, didn't he?
@FuriousMachine I think he directed the first Death Race (which wasn't that bad) and then either wrote or had a hand in the screenplay. Have you seen Doomsday from 2008? it's from the same director as Dog Soldiers (an absolute must see British horror movie)
Shopping is one of those great British movies that don't always get the recognition they deserve. There's another British movie about joyriding in Belfast called You Me and Marley, small enough budget too but it definitely made it's mark in the UK and in Ireland. Someone uploaded it to Youtube.
One of the top comments is so accurate 'This film was responsible for every ford escort, orion and fiesta going missing in west Belfast in the 90s'
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@GirlVersusGame I did see "Doomsday" when it came out as I was a fan of Neil Marshall after I caught his excellent "Dog Soldiers" at a rare cinema screening in Oslo when that came out (they had a brief, but excellent "Midnight Madness" program where they screened horror movies that weren't otherwise getting a theatrical release here... I miss that...). However, "Doomsday" didn't really stick with me, not sure why. Been meaning to give it another go, but you know, hours in a day and all that. I fell off after that and haven't seen any of his later output (apart from his work on TV series).
Did you see his "Hellboy"? If so, do you think its drubbing was deserved? Worth giving a go?.
I need to rewatch "Shopping" again, and will check out "You Me and Marley" at one point as well
I saw Nosferatu the other day, and boy was it good. Dripping in atmosphere with magnifecent designed sets and a haunting score. I really appreciated the use of practical effects, with cgi used to top up them up in some scenes. Top performances all round especially from Lily-Rose Depp and Bill Skarsgård. It maybe be a bit slow paced for some, but that was not a problem for me.
Saying all that, I still prefer Francis Ford Coppla's version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Nosferatu maybe the better film overall (Nicholas Hoult is so much better than Keanu Reeves for example), but there is something about the earlier film that will always be my favourite version of that story.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
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@JohnnyShoulder I 100% agree with you about Coppola's version being my favourite take on the Stoker story, but I try to avoid comparing the Nosferatus with the "official" movies, as they are famously unsanctioned "rip-offs" due to Murnau not being able to secure the rights and not giving a damn anyway
That being said, I won't harp on why I didn't like this new one, but I will use this opportunity to claim that Herzog's version is the best Nosferatu in my opinion (definitely has the best ending) and Murnau's original is also a brilliant piece of film history. A fun companion piece to that is Shadow of the Vampire with John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe, which posits that Murnau (Malkovich) hired an actual vampire (Dafoe) in the title role for his movie.
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