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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.190.206.232
Posted on Saturday, March 23, 2019 - 06:58 pm:   

The beginning of this film is so sublimely beautiful and eerie I didn't want it to end, but end it did.
I had no expectations of this film, knew little of what it was about, but I enjoyed Get Out very much (it was an Ira Levin throwback, and I miss those things enormously) so was there on the first day for the same kind of goodness. Which it did give, to be fair. The sense of strangeness and mystery in the first quarter is pure gold, so well done it felt like magic, that sense of 'How did they think of that, let alone do it?', and while it sort of keeps that going it definitely goes off the boil a little, and ends a bit arty, and makes a big mistake of having comedy moments, which really break the spell it has woven.
Also, while I kept feeling I knew what the subtext was I never really felt it gel in my mind into something clear.
On the whole I applauded, even welcomed it. But that humourous element just sank it, or at least put a leak in it.

I hate starting threads.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.132.162
Posted on Sunday, March 24, 2019 - 12:38 am:   

I haven't seen this or Get Out, just his comedy sketches, some of which were quite good. He's doing The Twilight Zone. He was wearing a suit in the trailer which I think was a mistake - you'll never be Serling. I thought a good way of introducing the stories would be the just be walking around the recognisable modern world, just looking at it sideways, which is what we really need.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.190.206.232
Posted on Sunday, March 24, 2019 - 07:57 am:   

TZ with a sense of CCTV? Walking into stories?
I find most old TZ hard to watch because it's so didactic. Single use.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 89.19.67.239
Posted on Sunday, March 24, 2019 - 09:30 am:   

That is a weakness of it, but in HD you can appreciate how beautiful it is. It'seems about the atmosphere and craft of the photography. But only seasons 1-3 seem to be good. I mean connecting it to the world but keeping it still magical. Like Twin Pe aks 3 sort of did.
Mark Cousins describes Hollywood filmmaking as a bauble, beautiful but fragile whereas international films trends to be more flexible and have more real life in them, less escapist. I sup pose I'm suggesting it have a bit of both. We need to show people the magic in the real world and less Marvel type escapism.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.190.206.232
Posted on Sunday, March 24, 2019 - 11:51 pm:   

In a freaky way hollywood is more spiritual. It shows us a world we would like. It's the America we wish was real, for the most part, what it aspires to be but can never quite achieve in reality because it's too scared/set in its ways.
Yes, it's true, early TZ did have a magic to it.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.137.109.102
Posted on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 04:03 pm:   

Craig! Us!

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