Clovis, my true movie obsession began in the 80s, when VHS happened. I'd go rent things I'd read about like Wings Of Desire, Blood Simple, and Aguirre: The Wrath Of God and just be blown away.
I'd put those three films right up there as the ones that most important to me.
I was fortunate to have the Brown Film Society in Providence right after college, so I was able to see films by Tarkovsky, Bresson, Hitchcock, and many others during my mid 20s four or five nights a week. I even saw a 13 film Fassbinder retrospective there one time. I'd go see just about anything whether I'd heard of it or not. Also, a couple of Providence's theaters regularly showed new films by Fellini, Kubrick, Wenders, Herzog, and other favs, so I was able to see these during first runs.
But I still think most influential was being a film nut since I was a kid, and the Boston UHF station showed Bergman and Powell and Pressburger films to fill time slots when I was in high school.
One last influence was Screening Room on channel 5 in Boston that first aired in 1973 and ran through 1980. It played on Monday night, after Monday Night Football and after the news, but I'd stay up to watch religiously.
Anyone seen climax yet? I was one of the people that really enjoyed enter the void but i know a lot of people despised it. Never saw love or the Monica Bellucci rape movie but climax gonna be in kc next week and I’m prob gonna give it a shot
Captain Marvel - If it weren't for the tying in to the grand story, this might have been enough to turn me back off of superhero movies again. It's so boring for long stretches, and the action is usually mindless.
Especially towards the beginning you have no clue what's going on and could not care less about who's killing who, nor would you be able to figure out what's happening on screen even if you did care.
It has good moments, the action later on is better, and as is commonly the case I think you already know whether you need to see this. If you were on the fence somehow and don't care about the overall Avengers picture, definitely don't bother.
A plus is that it was not nearly as much of a "women in the U.S. military" commercial as I expected (and they didn't show the actual commercial in IMAX), though I'd prefer they not have the gross collaboration deals with the military.
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I had never even heard of this movie until this post. I just got tickets to an April screening that will be attended by Grandmaster Y.K. Kim and Joseph Diamand. Maybe they are touring with it.
Yeah. I've climbed a little and had no problem at all on 100'+ rock faces with ropes and people who really knew what they were doing and were very safety conscious. I've also bouldered a little and don't like being even 6-8' up even if it's pretty easy.
Most important movies for teenage years were 2001 and The Good, the Bad and The Ugly. First important arty movie, probably The Seventh Seal. Most blown away by a movie as a young adult in the theater - Dr. Strangelove. Honorary mentions: Annie Hall and Harold and Maude.
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I was totally with you until September, when I saw a few Marvels in IMAX and decided they were good enough for throwaway experiences akin to mediocre Disneyland rides.
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Us currently 34/34 with extremely strong reviews so far.
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Not unless you've left Baltimore for Texas.
Never lived in Baltimore, SF now. Are you Austin Alamo Drafthouse area?
I watched The Favourite last night, I liked it quite a bit but felt it fell a little short of being truly great. This Greek guy who made it also made The Lobster which I thought was 10 kinds of tremendous, such wacky weirdness but profound ideas behind it all. Can't wait to see what he does next.
midnight run is incredible.
I hate being one of those guys esp cuz it's not how I feel overall but I can't help but feel like movies like midnight run, trading places, coming to america etc just don't come around anymore.
not sure if its actually true or even why as there are plenty of amazing movies made nowadays but there is something I can't put into words about them I just don't find anymore.
It's been a minute, y'all! Long story short, I forgot my pw, never bothered to slam the "forgot password" button lol how's everybody been?
my movie podcast is still going strong, battled some health issues in the last year and a half, but I'm fine. I'll be chillin here now that I'm back in to my account lol
It's been a minute, y'all! Long story short, I forgot my pw, never bothered to slam the "forgot password" button lol how's everybody been?
my movie podcast is still going strong, battled some health issues in the last year and a half, but I'm fine. I'll be chillin here now that I'm back in to my account lol
Watched a few movies the past couple days. My favorite may have been Semi-Tough (Dan Jenkins novels used to be a guilty pleasure). Except for a ludicrous fight scene near the end, it's a good movie. Loved the line, "How come we never ****ed before?"
Also watched Woody Allen's Cafe Society and Anything Else. I liked the first, but Anything Else bored me. Probably most frustrating about the film is having Woody Allen playing his Woody Allen character opposite a younger version of himself. And I'm not sure why Woody Allen's character falls for the women he does.