The Movie House - Part 11

Freeza wrote:Can't believe I managed to watch it without going to the toilet

Cinema or netflix?

Firenze wrote:once upon a time in hollywood is probably my least fav tarantino thing

not to say it's bad just forgettable

Had the same reaction after walking out of cinema but it's warmed up a bit more to me recently. I think some of the shots and scenes are incredible in it. But the film just feels meaningless half the time.

RealGunner wrote:

Freeza wrote:Can't believe I managed to watch it without going to the toilet

Cinema or netflix?

It's not on Netflix till the 27th iirc.

RealGunner wrote:

Freeza wrote:Can't believe I managed to watch it without going to the toilet

Cinema or netflix?

Cinema

Not here

Should i go watch Knives out or Le Mans '66 this weekend?

RealGunner wrote:Not here

We’re the only cinema in the region who got it. None of the others want to show Netflix movies.

Knives Out would be my pick. Think it looks incredible

RealGunner wrote:

Director Elizabeth Banks defends reboots & blames men for #CharliesAngels flopping with $8.6M domestically on a $50M~ budget

'You've had 37 Spider-Man movies'

'It reinforces a stereotype in Hollywood that men don’t go see women do action movies'

(via @WSJ, @theheraldsun) pic.twitter.com/Nm3C1EUhKj

— Culture Crave (@CultureCrave) November 17, 2019

lol

Maybe she should make a film that men actually want to watch.

Clown.

Freeza wrote:

RealGunner wrote:Not here

We’re the only cinema in the region who got it. None of the others want to show Netflix movies.

Knives Out would be my pick. Think it looks incredible

Yea but Bale...

not a big fan of whodunnits tbh, would say Le Mans

Jesus Christ Ford v Ferrari was outstanding.

Best film of that ilk since Rush to which I utterly loved.

Yes I am a motorsport fan but any casual film goer will love it.

152 mins but it is paced and edited so well you will not notice along with its masterful direction and just so entertaining to watch. Beautifully shot, excellent sound editing and definitely worth it to go to the cinemas for. Strikes some poignant moments emotionally too.


Matt Damon has a very nuanced role but Christian Bale took the screen by the balls with his tour de force performance and proves why he is the best actor in cinema without hogging the screen like other A listers need to.

RG I 100% recommend it.

The Irishman is on Netflix now btw

Just finished it. Very good movie. Not sure if I like it more than Goodfellas. Maybe.

I'm gonna watch it again next week, performances were definitely better.

The Irishman is fantastic. Despite being three and a half hours long, the movie never felt like it dragged at any point. Scorsese completely deglamourizes the gangster life more than any of his other previous movies. The final thirty minutes was poignant and heartbreaking.

Goes without saying the performances were incredible. Al Pacino was the standout and Joe Pesci surprisingly does not play a short tempered psychopath, in fact the complete opposite and he is perfect in the role. What a performance after twenty years of retirement. The prole you would expect out of Pesci in a Scorsese movie is instead filled by Stephen Graham who channels his Al Capone performance from Boardwalk Empire. De Niro is a very engaging lead of the movie in his best performance in years. Scorsese really brought the best out of everyone.

The deaging looked fine but there's one massive problem. The characters look younger but they still move like 70 years old. There's one particular scene where De Niro beats up a guy that was painful to look at because of the way he was moving. This is actually addressed in the interview with Scorsese and the main actors which airs after the movie on Netflix. Same problem happened in Captain Marvel. Samuel L Jackson looked young but the way he ran you could tell he was 70.

There plenty young dudes who move like old men tbh.

We’re just not used to seeing it in movies because it’s often very physical gifted men who stars in them.

Don’t know we’ll the draft-aging will age though. It was my least favourite part.

Pretty good makeup on the dude from The Wire playing Fat Tony though

Finally saw OUatIH, another Tarantino masterpiece. The ending was one of the best I've seen in a long time, how hilarious it was, how it marginalized the Manson gang as mere "fking hippies" and how well connected the alternate reality was from the start. "I'm one pool party away from a Polanski movie right?". It just felt so right. Also I could've continued watching this hours more, and again it's one the few new movies I never thought about time, or even moving my ass. Although it's mostly movie without a grand plot, and just a slice of Hollywood in 60's, because it's so well directed and acted, it feels so authentic and I never wanted it to end.

while i wouldn't say Tarantino presents the message that the Manson gang were just "mere fuckn hippies" i do agree that it was a phenomenal film, and my favourite of the year so far.

Marriage Story is an absolute masterpiece... God damn... It really shook me emotionally. Adam Driver is so good... By far the best leading performance I've seen this year.

Just finished the Irishman.

It's like Tarantino and Scorsese just flexed on these younger directors this year.

Incredible. Great to see Marty is still the king of gangster depiction on film. Second is David Chase of course

Coppola disrespect smh

So sad the guy died making Apocalypse Now...

What the third Godfather movie couldn’t have been if he didn’t destroy himself in the jungle.

Ford v Ferrari is decent. Its pretty formulaic and the pacing in the first part if off, but once it gets going it gets really good. Bale was immense obviously, so was Damon. The racing sequences were incredible to watch on the big screen and so I would recommend people to watch this on theaters. Movie has a lot of heart and great characters which sets it apart.

Knives Out is so fun

One of the best movies of the year. Hilarious, and a refreshing take on the "whodunnit" type of movie. Some social commentary mixed in too.

Recommend a watch to anyone. Regardless of how you feel about Star Wars ep 8, Rian Johnson has a lot of talent

El Gunner wrote:while i wouldn't say Tarantino presents the message that the Manson gang were just "mere fuckn hippies" i do agree that it was a phenomenal film, and my favourite of the year so far.

I think it there was a motive to take away the notoriety from the Mansons, at least that feeling I got. Kind of like indirect revenge movie against them. Genius, and I would be surprised if this doesn't earn Tarantino the third writing Oscar.

Watched Irishman, it's good, and one thing about Netflix is great, that it's a medium that allows lenghtier movies like this, with OCD generation. The acting again was fantastic, De Niro will probably pick another Oscar, if Hollywood doesn't really come down against Netflix too much. Other than that, got the mini series vibe from it rather than movie vibe, and I think it's too much like Casino and Goodfellas, yet not really getting in those heights. Anyway it completes a great gangster trilogy.

Harmonica wrote:

El Gunner wrote:while i wouldn't say Tarantino presents the message that the Manson gang were just "mere fuckn hippies" i do agree that it was a phenomenal film, and my favourite of the year so far.

I think it there was a motive to take away the notoriety from the Mansons, at least that feeling I got. Kind of like indirect revenge movie against them. Genius, and I would be surprised if this doesn't earn Tarantino the third writing Oscar.

Watched Irishman, it's good, and one thing about Netflix is great, that it's a medium that allows lenghtier movies like this, with OCD generation. The acting again was fantastic, De Niro will probably pick another Oscar, if Hollywood doesn't really come down against Netflix too much. Other than that, got the mini series vibe from it rather than movie vibe, and I think it's too much like Casino and Goodfellas, yet not really getting in those heights. Anyway it completes a great gangster trilogy.

agreed, that's better phrased.

I feel like it had a more dramatic tone as compared to the aggressive nature of GoodFellas and Casino. Also Irishman it focused more on the political tensions within the mafia hierarchy and the characters felt richer than the Casino characters to me, and thus the performances were also better.

Would rank the trilogy like this:
GoodFellas
Irishman
Casino

I’d be absolutely dumbfounded if Baumbach doesn’t win best script tbh.

El Gunner wrote:

Harmonica wrote:

El Gunner wrote:while i wouldn't say Tarantino presents the message that the Manson gang were just "mere fuckn hippies" i do agree that it was a phenomenal film, and my favourite of the year so far.

I think it there was a motive to take away the notoriety from the Mansons, at least that feeling I got. Kind of like indirect revenge movie against them. Genius, and I would be surprised if this doesn't earn Tarantino the third writing Oscar.

Watched Irishman, it's good, and one thing about Netflix is great, that it's a medium that allows lenghtier movies like this, with OCD generation. The acting again was fantastic, De Niro will probably pick another Oscar, if Hollywood doesn't really come down against Netflix too much. Other than that, got the mini series vibe from it rather than movie vibe, and I think it's too much like Casino and Goodfellas, yet not really getting in those heights. Anyway it completes a great gangster trilogy.

agreed, that's better phrased.

I feel like it had a more dramatic tone as compared to the aggressive nature of GoodFellas and Casino. Also Irishman it focused more on the political tensions within the mafia hierarchy and the characters felt richer than the Casino characters to me, and thus the performances were also better.

Would rank the trilogy like this:
GoodFellas
Irishman
Casino

Yeah the plot was great, and finally I got to know the Hoffa story, because I've never bothered to read about it, even though it's so referenced in movies. I agree on depth of characters. Because of the slow pace, it allows to create that. But in the individual scenes, it still fell kind of flat compared the previous two. That's why I still rate Casino beyond this. Irishman is still my second best movie of the year, which is kind of surreal thing to say in modern movie scene. I've still got the Joker to see, but I already feel like it's going to be a let down.