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The Grand Budapest Hotel - Didn't want to like it, ended up liking it. But then it got old pretty fast. I just can't shake the feeling that there is very little to Wes Anderson's movies aside from very strong visuals. Characters feel like characterless and have very little to do with actual people. There is no one or nothing to relate to. Each new actor mugging for camera just detracted from the movie, not added to it. A movie has to be about something, it just can't be about itself. B-

01-20-2015 , 09:33 PM

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Ra_Z_Boy

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If someone with your general feeling about movies liked it even, that shows you how good it was.

What I mean is I completely disagree that a movie needs to be about people at all. Movies can be about almost anything.

It was also very much about something I don't even understand what that means?

01-20-2015 , 09:52 PM

#11429

SenorKeeed

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The best way I've heard Wes Anderson's characters described is that they aren't so much characters but dolls carefully arranged in a diorama.

01-20-2015 , 09:58 PM

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Mother of god that's good, accurate. Found TGBH boring, whole time I thought "who cares"

01-20-2015 , 10:00 PM

#11431

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Originally Posted by Dominic

Horny Teen Sluts was pretty good, but I made that one and I might be a little biased.

"I've lost interest in that one a bunch of times."

"Yeah, I like it too."

01-20-2015 , 10:22 PM

#11432

BustoRhymes

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Horny Teen Sluts was good. Great even. But I could only ever watch it in 5-10 minute spurts.

01-20-2015 , 10:35 PM

#11433

Baltimore Jones

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A Most Wanted Man was slow but I liked it.

Spoiler:

Inland Empire got better the more I sat with it in the following days. The song at the end (Sinnerman) keeps running through my head. So good. Ending song is often so key to the way a film affects you. Good examples: Sopranos like every episode, Mad Men often, No Country For Old Men. Cheesy but good examples: Fallen, Devil's Advocate (both Rolling Stones).

Inland may ultimately stand above Mulholland, Lost Highway and Blue Velvet for me.

01-20-2015 , 10:50 PM

#11434

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Originally Posted by Oroku$aki

Mother of god that's good, accurate. Found TGBH boring, whole time I thought "who cares"

You can literally say that about any film.

I was never bored for a single second of that movie.

01-20-2015 , 11:11 PM

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You can say that about any film, it's subjective. Just an opinion. But all the colourful costumes and colourful colours make his movies seem more surreal, and bright, and doll-like than most.

01-20-2015 , 11:13 PM

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Oroku$aki

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He made a prison break seem cute and funny. That is something.

01-20-2015 , 11:25 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Baltimore Jones

A Most Wanted Man was slow but I liked it.

Spoiler:

I actually didn't mind Inland Empire myself (which is odd as I can take or leave Lynch) but Blue Velvet will always be his best film for me. Hopper is iconic in it.

Edit: Thanks also to those who gave their thoughts on Coherence. I missed out on a chance to see it at a film festival and have it now but haven't watched it yet, so looking forward to it.

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01-20-2015 , 11:32 PM

#11438

domer2

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I've tried watching Inland Empire either two or three times. My record is like 10 minutes.

01-20-2015 , 11:53 PM

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Watching Leon the Professional for only like the third time in my life, Gary Oldman's the man "I haven't got time for this Mickey Mouse bull****!" *proceeds to throw some kid's bball away ala Biff in BTTF2.

01-20-2015 , 11:58 PM

#11440

biggerboat

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Out of Africa

so good

01-21-2015 , 12:46 AM

#11441

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Still lose the interest. Although it had a funny and interesting premise, it just can't hold my attention while drinking.

01-21-2015 , 07:51 AM

#11442

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American Sniper was very good on the whole. I would've cut all of the enemy sniper out, other than his presence. Probably a few other things. The politics will only bother those who cannot fathom that there exists other minds separate from their own. Kyle, as played by Cooper, has a pathological obsession to protect his own, in the only way he understands how. Bradley Cooper is phenomenal, he's able to convey so much without saying a word. I'd rate this movie, quality wise, to The Hurt Locker or thereabouts. 8/10

01-21-2015 , 10:51 AM

#11443

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Punch-Drunk Love is such a phenomenal movie. Great love story, incredible character transformations on-screen, quirky and bizarre but always engaging.

Philip Seymour Hoffman delivers an amazing performance as usual.

This was the film that convinced me for all Sandler's buffoonery, he is an incredible actor who deprives himself of the opportunities to showcase it.

I HAVE SO MUCH STRENGTH IN ME

THAT'S THAT!

I WILL BEAT THE HELL FROM YOU

Honestly, this is my favorite Paul Thomas Anderson movie.

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01-21-2015 , 11:09 AM

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ya hard to top TWBB and boogie nights imo, but PDL was fantastic.

01-21-2015 , 12:27 PM

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i am the world's biggest joaquin phoenix fan and the world's biggest PTA fan. like, of the top of my head, right now, i'd have them both 1. 1. in actor and director raking respectively

but

goddamn, Inherent Vice sucked. maybe i didn't truly "get it", maybe i was in the wrong mindstate for it, but i dunno i had to force myself multiple times to finish it.

01-21-2015 , 12:37 PM

#11446

lycosid

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I ****ing loved Inherent Vice

01-21-2015 , 01:04 PM

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Where did you watch it?

01-21-2015 , 01:13 PM

#11448

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Where did you watch it?

are you a cop?

Spoiler:

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01-21-2015 , 01:29 PM

#11449

microbet

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It's not as big a deal to me as to some of the industry people around here, but in hopes of countering the idea that people who don't complain think everything is ok, I also think piracy is wrong.

(Not $10000 fine or w/e wrong, but wrong enough that I don't do it or let my children do it. )

If you pay any attention to this thread, you know there are several industry people here and it's a slap in their face.

01-21-2015 , 01:51 PM

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i agree and before this thread gets derailed, i watched in a theater. the "are you a cop" thing was a stupid way to tie in a hilarious scene from the movie. the visuals aren't the thing i had a problem with. and ok, "sucked" is a strong word. ti didn't suck. i guess there was a big gap b/w my outsized expectations for the movie and the movie itself. but like i said, i am def going to rewatch and give it another chance because of my

for phoenix and anderson. maybe it's pynchon since i've started and abruptly stopped reading 2 of his books.

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