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Whiplash didn't do much for me. Maybe I would have appreciated it more in a cinema. Thought the lead was very weak.

Really enjoyed Whiplash. Intense right from the start and it never let up, totally rewatchable. One small beef:

about schmidt... just released on BD.

Not in the same league as sideways or especially Nebraska because of the comedic aspects... but the movie is just superb. The ending/final scene might be one of the best endings to a movie I have seen in the last decade or so... must see /experience status.

^^^I would love to see it, but there was a clip circulating of Jack Nicholson and Cathy Bates in a hot tub that made me LOLnope

Lol... truth

Are we still at the point where everyone has seen THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1990) or is this old enough now that the younger generations haven't seen it? At its heart, it is a procedural investigation of a serial killer by the FBI. a definite recommend for anyone who has never seen it.

I'll tell you what, everyone better have seen Silence of the Lambs by now.

Maybe not essential but it's one of two or three scenes where its only real point is to establish Andrew as an ******* with sociopathic tendencies, which is pretty important if the movie is to make you believe it's about two of these types of crazies colliding vs. it being about some "honorable pursuit of greatness at any cost" or whatever.

Also his burn about the NFL is pretty good.

There's a remake of Minority Report with Ethan Hawke coming out.

source? i was pretty skeptical about this, so did some googling: found nothing about a "remake" in terms of a movie; instead, looks like they're making a tv show out of it, set 10 yrs after the events of the film. also, no word at all about ethan hawke being attached.

About Schmidt is amazing.

It's not officially a remake. In the promo (YouTube ad), not only does Ethan Hawke's character "protect" by knowing the future, he's also time travels.

No time travel in Minority Report. Never-mind.

Is it Predestination?

Hahahaha yea he is clearly referring to Predestination

Mess up wasn't intentional. Just a bad comparison. Lighten up.

so there is no talk ITT yet about the Casablanca sequel?

Is there any new news about it? There have been reports off and on since forever. I just laugh and forget about them.

Besides, what sequel could ever hold a candle to the Casablanca TV series? At this point, even a reboot would be pointless. The Muppets did about as good a job as anyone could.

Birdman... where to begin,

Discount the visual and technical aspects of this movie completely, where so many seemed to have gotten lost, and focus solely on some of the ideas incorporated within.

I feel this movies Narrative brilliantly vibrates (dimensionally or delusionally) on the strings and strengths of it's performances... the critisism of the established in "hollywood" as it relates to the terribly outdated idea of formulaic and financially successful popularism (the blockbuster)... and the possibility and need of defusing the rage of the overbearing effect of Modern Murrowism (Edward R. Morrow) by exposing it for what it really is.

there in lies this films real genius.

in almost a final backhanded slap against established popularism, Iñárritu uses camera trickery to display these narratives in a stream of unedited storytelling that perfectly embellishes the dream state where the movie has taken place before the storyteller awakens to reality from a drunken stupor on a random New York door step and culminates in the delusional filled grandeurous suicide where the love of his estranged daughter and the appreciation of the equally estranged public is realized in his own mind as he falls to his death.

wat

lol

MSchu clearly on the good stuff

Really surprised by how much I liked it. Would have easily been a 9/10 if not for a little bit of navel gazing "plot mechanics" over-explanation at the end. Not a big enough complaint to ruin it though. I'm coming around on Mark Duplass being more than just a "good enough for now" indie movie icon.

Just watched The Captive and would not recommend it. My ex-work colleague told me to watch it because he knew I liked Prisoners and said I'd definitely like this. When I saw Ryan Reynolds was in it I was skeptical but gave it a watch and it is really a poor mans Prisoners.

Yeah captive is terrible