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Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu
Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 90.244.47.133
| | Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 10:16 pm: | |
Anyone seen this house invasion film? It seems to have split viewers between those who think it's the greatest thing ever and those who think it's the worst thing ever. Personally, I just thought it was average. |
Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo
Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 109.52.11.123
| | Posted on Friday, January 31, 2014 - 08:25 am: | |
I think "The Purge" to be much better, and "The Strangers" too. |
Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu
Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 90.244.41.251
| | Posted on Friday, January 31, 2014 - 09:54 am: | |
Cheers. I might take a look at those. |
Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
| | Posted on Friday, January 31, 2014 - 03:39 pm: | |
I loved the posters/trailers for You're Next, they aroused a wonderful film in my mind... but from all I've heard and read about it, it doesn't play out nearly that great. |
Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu
Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 90.244.43.23
| | Posted on Saturday, February 01, 2014 - 04:33 pm: | |
It's not as scary as the marketing made it look, but it is funnier. Intentionally. |
Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 108.221.136.29
| | Posted on Monday, May 17, 2021 - 08:01 pm: | |
I saw You're Next finally. Liked it! I can't even believe it's this fucking old! How?!?
WHAT IN GOD'S NAME HAS HAPPENED TO TIME ITSELF?!? |
Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 212.129.76.27
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 - 01:48 am: | |
We've absorbed so time that it's become weak in the outside world. |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.249.184.228
| | Posted on Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 12:19 am: | |
Everything happened ten years ago, nothing since.
That director also made the brilliant The Guest, and the ok King Kong vs Godzilla. |
Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 108.221.136.29
| | Posted on Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 07:21 pm: | |
A scary, but I'm thinking now true statement....
What in the past ten years has been of real, deep, lasting, meaningful merit?
In writing, the arts, film, music....
The only thing I'd nominate is: "Breaking Bad." Which ended, I believe, in 2013 - it started over ten years ago. So, actually... no, doesn't count.
My god. It is too late. We are in the wasteland. We've been wandering in and around for so long, finding our way out might be beyond our ability... or our time left.... |
Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 212.129.75.142
| | Posted on Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 07:41 pm: | |
Just off the top of my head, I'd say that THE YOUNG POPE and TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN are the best television of that decade.
It's far from new, but the restoration of THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND was a miracle to have that might not have happened in another decade. Others I really enjoyed that may last:
GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
TANGERINE
FIRST REFORMED
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
UNDER THE SKIN (though I don't think I can ever watch it again)
PHANTOM THREAD
THE MASTER
BEFORE MIDNIGHT
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
In December, the depths of winter, the depths of the pandemic, watching live as sunlight pierced into the inner chamber of the oldest building on Earth, Newgrange, as it does just once a year on the solstice brought me to tears last year. Though admittedly that piece of art was made 4,500 years ago.
The centre of gravity has shifted from TV and film, though - there are probably many video games, online channels and much music I know nothing about that have produced wonderful art. The centre, the town square, has become diffuse, though.
There's a lot going on out there, if you can find it! |
Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 212.129.75.142
| | Posted on Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 09:37 pm: | |
Ànd what's going on in the world or modern dance? Or sculpture? Or the soprano saxophone? I don't know - it could be a golden age right now. |
Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.180.70.140
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2021 - 04:21 pm: | |
I will grant you, Proto, I've not seen most of those... so you're right, I'm not a final judge of anything! I'm just giving you my own "Spidey sense" of things.
My Spidey sense tells me none of those films you brought up will stand the test of time. How can I say that, not having seen one?!? Blame my "Spidey sense." He's an awfully surly and impatient coot. Let's check in here in 10, and do a reassessment.
To say it could be a golden age of art genres we know nothing about (sculpture? Modern dance? etc.) is to say nothing - it holds as much value as me saying it is not a "golden age." At least in the subject of film, you can beat me down with facts, having seen/judged them. Here, we're battling ignorance vs. ignorance... who's right? |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.11.27.244
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2021 - 09:06 pm: | |
Maybe all that is happening is telling us to "look to ourselves". |
Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 212.129.77.155
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2021 - 11:43 pm: | |
"To say it could be a golden age of art genres we know nothing about (sculpture? Modern dance? etc.) is to say nothing - it holds as much value as me saying it is not a "golden age."
No, I don't think those are equivalent. I'm saying that we don't know, whereas (if I'm not mistaken?) you're saying that it _isn't_. It's the difference between being agnostic and atheist.
Could be, Tony. I'm doing that. There was an episode of Star Trek Voyager where they fly through a black void - no stars outside the windows, nothing - and it'll take them 2 years to get through it. The episode squanders the potential but the premise really felt like what we've been through. |
Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.180.70.140
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 - 05:43 am: | |
Actually, point of logic purely, you've not refuted my statement: that we're "battling ignorance vs. ignorance."
You claim maybe yes, maybe no - but don't know = ignorance.
I claim NO - but also, don't know = ignorance.
Ignorance + ignorance = Ignorance.
Simple math!  |
Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 212.129.72.64
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 - 11:48 am: | |
Not really, to clarify, my claim is not "yes, maybe no", it's that we simply don't know. |
Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 212.129.72.64
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 - 11:50 am: | |
Maybe my list of things I liked muddied the waters, though. I'm always freed by the power of agnosticism and the power of acknowledging our ignorance. It's the first step to wisdom and true learning. |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.205.241.64
| | Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2021 - 12:46 am: | |
Star Trek. |
Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 212.129.72.64
| | Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2021 - 10:18 am: | |
Yes, from one of those early 1st season episodes that have their own grandiosity. |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 2.102.3.28
| | Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2021 - 04:19 pm: | |
I mentioned it this year- about "I don't know" being the first step to wisdom!
Don't worry, I'm scatty these days, too.
I've come to realise the best episodes had Wesley in them. And that Whoopi Goldberg was great in it. |