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What Non-New Films Have You Seen? (2020 Edition)

Started by Small Man Big Horse, January 01, 2020, 05:03:07 PM

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Custard

Mrs Custard had never seen The Matrix, so guess what we watched last night!

It still holds up really, really well. Some of the CGI effects look a tiny bit dated, and the bit when Neo gets his mouth sealed  up looks fucking terrible, but fuck me, what a banging action film

It's so tight, too. It barely lets up from start to finish, and the premise is so well explained. Simple, yet massively effective. Who knows what happened with the sequels

Though 'er indoors wants to watch them, so my weekend is well fucked. I've tried to talk her out of it, but she's still on a high from the first film. Like a lamb to the slaughter

greenman

What CGI there is tends to stay within the limits of what could be done well at the time I'd say unlike the sequels plus the majority of the film being live action mean it looks very good in UHD, removed that excessive green tint from the previous home releases as well.

The difference with the sequels I spose was mostly they tried to move beyond a simple heroes story and didn't have the ability to come up with something very effective. Really the original is I think a bit of a testament to good taste in terms of pulpy sci fi, especially Ghost in the Shell.

NoSleep

Quote from: Shameless Custard on January 09, 2021, 11:47:22 AM
It still holds up really, really well.

I don't think the main premise holds up at all; it's just silly.

wasp_f15ting

The Snake Pit - This is one of the nicest things about blind buying films. I had zero expectations with this film as I had never heard about it, and it really blew me away. What a fantastic performance by Olivia de Havilland. This really must have influenced many films. It was quite scary for a film from 1948, the psychological horror felt very real. Do try and watch this somehow.

Deep Red - My first Dario Argento film.. I wasn't too impressed with this - perhaps there are better films of his I can watch.

greenman

Nah you dislike that and he's probably not for you.

Egyptian Feast


wasp_f15ting

Cheers shall investigate

Watched Paris . Texas after Greenman and Kurosawa thread. What a gorgeous piece of cinema. There are so many brilliant parts to this film, but my favourite part is when the main character gets to his brothers house and the following morning polishes the household shoes and boots and quietly sits there amidst foliage watching planes land. I%u2019ve always been a fan of serene scenes like this, and for me this just hit me somewhere deep. The German release is so clear it blew my mind. This is a film I%u2019ll definitely rewatch many many times! 

EOLAN

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Good movie. Although I just can't find Nurse Ratched to. Be anywhere near as evil as I keep hearing she is. With McMurphy being the main ignorant villain for me. A fun film, though not quite hard hitting. Maybe having then unknowns Christopher Lloyd and Danny deVito is a little distracting now although the character of Dale Harding was probably my favorite of the inmates.
4 out of 5.

greenman

Quote from: wasp_f15ting on January 10, 2021, 11:20:37 PM
Watched Paris . Texas after Greenman and Kurosawa thread. What a gorgeous piece of cinema. There are so many brilliant parts to this film, but my favourite part is when the main character gets to his brothers house and the following morning polishes the household shoes and boots and quietly sits there amidst foliage watching planes land. I%u2019ve always been a fan of serene scenes like this, and for me this just hit me somewhere deep. The German release is so clear it blew my mind. This is a film I%u2019ll definitely rewatch many many times!

I do like the more kodachrome colours of that version as well, the film as I whole is I think going for a kind of William Eggleston offbeat Americana.

wasp_f15ting

Quote from: greenman on January 11, 2021, 08:46:10 AM
I do like the more kodachrome colours of that version as well, the film as I whole is I think going for a kind of William Eggleston offbeat Americana.

Oh yeah the colour work was phenomenal, many early scenes could easily be a painting. The DOP also did Ghost Dog, and To Live & Die in LA. I have the latter yet to watch so will be interesting to see what he did there.

I need to find a way of capturing the scenes that really stand out for posterities sake, this and Body Double had several scenes that could make excellent posters.

dissolute ocelot

Margaret (released 2011 but apparently made 2005ish) - Kenneth Lonergan's "lost film" between the masterpieces You Can Count On Me and Manchester By The Sea. Margaret is an astonishing, wilfully perverse film: Anna Paquin plays a spoilt teenager (called Lisa) living in a fancy part of New York who gets all moral-crusader after witnessing an accident, but who really needs to get over herself and realise she's not the centre of the universe. The film forces this home by a lot of amazing filmmaking techniques: some truly brilliant scenes like she's talking to a friend in a cafe but you hear everyone else's conversation around them; some incredibly annoying scenes where she's trying to have a serious conversation with someone but gets repeatedly interrupted; and some completely random scenes like one where Matthew Broderick playing an English teacher shouts at a minor character that he doesn't understand Shakespeare. It's a brilliant film about post 9/11 New York, particularly the instinct to get out and punish someone, regardless of whether they were actually responsible; the cast is amazing (Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Jean Reno); and it's all wonderfully observed and recreated. But it's also dramatically very unsatisfying because the whole point is to ram home to the central character that she's not the centre of the story.

Also Little Women (2019) which if you don't know the story is like trying to solve a logic problem but is ultimately moving and funny.

phantom_power

Quote from: dissolute ocelot on January 11, 2021, 11:43:05 AM
Margaret (released 2011 but apparently made 2005ish) - Kenneth Lonergan's "lost film" between the masterpieces You Can Count On Me and Manchester By The Sea. Margaret is an astonishing, wilfully perverse film: Anna Paquin plays a spoilt teenager (called Lisa) living in a fancy part of New York who gets all moral-crusader after witnessing an accident, but who really needs to get over herself and realise she's not the centre of the universe. The film forces this home by a lot of amazing filmmaking techniques: some truly brilliant scenes like she's talking to a friend in a cafe but you hear everyone else's conversation around them; some incredibly annoying scenes where she's trying to have a serious conversation with someone but gets repeatedly interrupted; and some completely random scenes like one where Matthew Broderick playing an English teacher shouts at a minor character that he doesn't understand Shakespeare. It's a brilliant film about post 9/11 New York, particularly the instinct to get out and punish someone, regardless of whether they were actually responsible; the cast is amazing (Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Jean Reno); and it's all wonderfully observed and recreated. But it's also dramatically very unsatisfying because the whole point is to ram home to the central character that she's not the centre of the story.


I read something about a 4 hour cut of this being released. Was this the version you saw?

Chedney Honks

Great Oharu chat on the previous page. I've yet to watch but picked it up a little while back. Will prioritise.

wasp_f15ting

Quote from: Chedney Honks on January 11, 2021, 05:49:15 PM
Great Oharu chat on the previous page. I've yet to watch but picked it up a little while back. Will prioritise.

Well worth it, looking forward to more of his works when my Blu-ray budget refreshed in Feb hah

dissolute ocelot

Quote from: phantom_power on January 11, 2021, 12:34:50 PM
I read something about a 4 hour cut of this being released. Was this the version you saw?
I saw the extended DVD cut which is about 188 minutes (sometimes described at 3 hours), while the original release was 150 minutes, and there was a 165-minute cut co-edited by Thelma Schoonmaker that Lonergan initially planned to release (the editing history is complex and I've seen slightly different figures cited). I think there was another cut shown to critics early on (and maybe shown at some film festival) but I don't think it's been released and don't know how long it was. But the 188 minute version is probably long enough - some plot threads are more interesting than others but I don't think you could cut much without having major plot holes. There are moments in the 188 minute version where you still wonder "what's the point of that? should I know who that is?" but I don't think they were meant to be explained.

Famous Mortimer

Vegas In Space

Drag queens in space. Made by a queer theatre troupe from San Fransisco, back when queer theatre troupes could afford to live there, it's handmade and lovely. One bloke and two women pretending badly to be men are sent by their Empress on a mission to Vegas In Space, to retrieve something or other. They have to take sex reversal pills as Clitoris (the place where Vegas In Space is) doesn't allow any men. Every single person on the planet, apart from the two women, are drag queens. It's garish as fuck, but lovely.

zomgmouse

Last couple of things I watched in 2020:

Sound of Noise - excellent Norwegian comedy about a bunch of terrorist drummers who go on making music out of all sorts of everyday stuff. An expansion of the short "Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers" which is simple and brilliant, and the feature truly kicks it up several notches.

Marty - really is a banger isn't it, something so singular and a huge mood and punch. I really really liked the original teleplay and I think Rod Steiger's energy is a lot more suited to the character but the film just oozes classic.

JaDanketies

Quote from: EOLAN on January 11, 2021, 02:16:30 AM
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Good movie. Although I just can't find Nurse Ratched to. Be anywhere near as evil as I keep hearing she is. With McMurphy being the main ignorant villain for me. A fun film, though not quite hard hitting. Maybe having then unknowns Christopher Lloyd and Danny deVito is a little distracting now although the character of Dale Harding was probably my favorite of the inmates.
4 out of 5.

Widely considered one of the best films of all time. I thought it was pretty great although yeah Nurse Ratchet is a nasty person, she's not 'Netflix serialised drama on her backstory' nasty. It's good they went with the depressing a f ending, there aren't enough movies like that.

Sebastian Cobb

Turning into an actively evil character like Netflix have misses the point doesn't it, it was the banality of evil, a mildly unpleasant person turned evil by the mechanisms of the institution they were part of.

Dex Sawash

Deja Vu (2006) dir- Tony Scott

After a terrorist blows up a ferry, Denzel W works with government project that uses enhanced satellite imaging to view perfect video of 4 1/2 days ago. The images are not rewindable, you get one chance to look one place.
They spend about 30 minutes looking at Paula Patton in the shower then decide to stop the terrorist. Denzel gets inside the machine to go back 4.5 days to look directly at Paula Patton in her pants. Then it gets a bit ludicrous. 5.9/10

amputeeporn

Victoria and Inland Empire - a wicked Friday/Saturday double whammy.

Sebastian Cobb

Tonight I watched that Eternal Beauty film, it's quite bizarre and I think I'm going to have to watch it again to make up my mind. Good cast of oddballs in it: Sally Hawkins, David Thewlis, Alice Lowe and Billie Piper.

Quite interesting stylistically too. But I dunno, mixed feelings.

After that I watched Eve's Bayou, which was fantastic, it felt a bit like Housekeeping in a way; the tale of a dysfunctional family from child's point of view, but with added supernatural stuff.

phantom_power

Phantom of the Paradise - what could have been a rote b-movie amalgamation of Phantom of the Opera, Faust and Picture of Dorian Gray is elevated by De Palma directing the living shit out of it. Great fun but I can't thinking it is a load of old shit with some glitter on it.

SteveDave

Wait Until Dark

After reading about it in the "Undercover characters who blew their cover" thread we watched this last night. Amazing. 5/5. Who knew that Alan Arkin was once a young man?


Gulftastic

Quote from: phantom_power on January 17, 2021, 10:29:47 AM
Phantom of the Paradise - what could have been a rote b-movie amalgamation of Phantom of the Opera, Faust and Picture of Dorian Gray is elevated by De Palma directing the living shit out of it. Great fun but I can't thinking it is a load of old shit with some glitter on it.

Great music though. Paul Williams can't half write a tune.

phantom_power

Yes, there's loads about it to like but a lot of it is a bit half-arsed. How can we get him out of prison? Oh, I don't know. Just have him jump in a box and get taken out with the goods the prisoners make. But that makes no sense. Fuck it. I am being a bit harsh as it is just a bit of knockabout fun that is in no way trying to be realistic or logical but some stuff like that does stick out

Shit Good Nose

Quote from: Gulftastic on January 17, 2021, 01:23:38 PM
Great music though. Paul Williams can't half write a tune.

No matter how old I get and how many other films I see (and hear) him in, I can't ever get away from Little Enos.  Daddy.

wasp_f15ting

Watched the rather crazy To live and Die in LA Shot by the same DOP as Paris Texas, another absolutely stunning transfer by arrow. I am tempted to get a few more films by him, as it was so darn good.

Very fast paced, rather mad film. Pretty violent, and Dafoe looks absolutely gorgeous when young. Rather than the Gargoyle he has become :P

Shit Good Nose

Quote from: wasp_f15ting on January 17, 2021, 10:08:34 PM
Watched the rather crazy To live and Die in LA Shot by the same DOP as Paris Texas, another absolutely stunning transfer by arrow. I am tempted to get a few more films by him, as it was so darn good.

Avoid Body Rock.  REALLY avoid it.

wasp_f15ting

3.7 on IMDB wow

I just noticed he did Repo-Man, I have been waiting to see that - perfect excuse to unwrap that