- Tue Dec 31, 2019 2:02 pm
#124560
I snuck out of work an hour early yesterday to make a screening of this
I'll start by saying I absolutely loved it. I'll then follow that up with it was one of the hardest films to watch this year for me. I'm not an anxious person, I don't really have anxiety but holy hell did this film make me uncomfortable, anxious and wanting to scream at the character for every fucking idiotic choice he made. Great acting from all involved, it was shot really well, they nailed the aesthetic they were going for. Highly recommended.
And one that I didn't discuss last week but watched late one night because I realized it was the same directors as Uncut Gems.
I loved this one too. Pattinson kills it as the ultra scummy brother trying to "save" his brother from jail. If you haven't seen this I highly recommend it, it is streaming on Amazon as part of Prime right now. I felt like this film could have easily been shot during the 90's NYC independent film boom. If there wasn't cell phones and a well known actor you could easily convince some one of this. Watch it if you haven't.
We watched the first episode of The Witcher. Takeaways from that were his wig looks fucking horrible, how do they have all this money and can't get a realistic looking wig on him? There are way too many shots of characters in foreground and background is obviously CG not done well. I would have been fine leaving it at just one episode but the wife does want to see if it gets better so we'll keep watching.
Castle Rock S2 EP1. Lizzy Caplan is amazing and I can't wait to see where this goes.
I started Fulci's Conquest but after about 15 minutes and two actual animal deaths I had to shut it off as it was making the wife incredibly uncomfortable. Fucking Italians loved to just killed animals for the sake of "realism" in their films during the 70's & 80's. I'll get back to it this weekend maybe. Really bummed as my wife loves Fulci films just like me but animal violence is a no go for her, she understands that it happens in those films and I try to warn her but it doesn't always work and it makes her pretty upset so this one gets skipped by her.
And I watched this over the weekend too.
This film hit some emotions for me. I'm a little younger than some of you on here. I was born in the 80s but the 90s is where I did my dumb shit. I experienced the skateboarding boom very similar to the events in this film. While I'm from a backwoods middle of nowhere town, we still skated, a lot. I had the same experience as the main character, going into the local skate shop, being incredibly nervous to talk to the good skaters who worked there and were constantly hanging out front dicking around. I never made friends with those guys because the shop was too far from where I lived but we had our own group of misfits in town. We all did dumb shit, partied, got chased by the cops, got jealous of the kids who were way better than the others, pushed some of the kids out of the group for childish reasons. Stayed out late, got in trouble with my mother, argued with her. Dumb teenager shit. We never had the drunk driving accident but I had a few friends who did end up making that mistake at some point in their teens. This one just made the memories come flooding back. I still love skateboarding wish I still did it and wasn't an out of shape old man. Back to the film, the kids were all believable. I was quite impressed by the ones who could actually skate. I really like the mother, she was great in her role. Directing seemed good from Jonah. I do wish he dug a little deeper for the hip hop tracks, they were all fine but I felt like it could have had a few other one from the era that you saw in a lot of the skate videos. The ending feels a bit abrupt but the film didn't outstay it's welcome at a brisk 85 run time. Not sure this will have a huge appeal for certain people but for me it worked really well.
I'll start by saying I absolutely loved it. I'll then follow that up with it was one of the hardest films to watch this year for me. I'm not an anxious person, I don't really have anxiety but holy hell did this film make me uncomfortable, anxious and wanting to scream at the character for every fucking idiotic choice he made. Great acting from all involved, it was shot really well, they nailed the aesthetic they were going for. Highly recommended.
And one that I didn't discuss last week but watched late one night because I realized it was the same directors as Uncut Gems.
I loved this one too. Pattinson kills it as the ultra scummy brother trying to "save" his brother from jail. If you haven't seen this I highly recommend it, it is streaming on Amazon as part of Prime right now. I felt like this film could have easily been shot during the 90's NYC independent film boom. If there wasn't cell phones and a well known actor you could easily convince some one of this. Watch it if you haven't.
We watched the first episode of The Witcher. Takeaways from that were his wig looks fucking horrible, how do they have all this money and can't get a realistic looking wig on him? There are way too many shots of characters in foreground and background is obviously CG not done well. I would have been fine leaving it at just one episode but the wife does want to see if it gets better so we'll keep watching.
Castle Rock S2 EP1. Lizzy Caplan is amazing and I can't wait to see where this goes.
I started Fulci's Conquest but after about 15 minutes and two actual animal deaths I had to shut it off as it was making the wife incredibly uncomfortable. Fucking Italians loved to just killed animals for the sake of "realism" in their films during the 70's & 80's. I'll get back to it this weekend maybe. Really bummed as my wife loves Fulci films just like me but animal violence is a no go for her, she understands that it happens in those films and I try to warn her but it doesn't always work and it makes her pretty upset so this one gets skipped by her.
And I watched this over the weekend too.
This film hit some emotions for me. I'm a little younger than some of you on here. I was born in the 80s but the 90s is where I did my dumb shit. I experienced the skateboarding boom very similar to the events in this film. While I'm from a backwoods middle of nowhere town, we still skated, a lot. I had the same experience as the main character, going into the local skate shop, being incredibly nervous to talk to the good skaters who worked there and were constantly hanging out front dicking around. I never made friends with those guys because the shop was too far from where I lived but we had our own group of misfits in town. We all did dumb shit, partied, got chased by the cops, got jealous of the kids who were way better than the others, pushed some of the kids out of the group for childish reasons. Stayed out late, got in trouble with my mother, argued with her. Dumb teenager shit. We never had the drunk driving accident but I had a few friends who did end up making that mistake at some point in their teens. This one just made the memories come flooding back. I still love skateboarding wish I still did it and wasn't an out of shape old man. Back to the film, the kids were all believable. I was quite impressed by the ones who could actually skate. I really like the mother, she was great in her role. Directing seemed good from Jonah. I do wish he dug a little deeper for the hip hop tracks, they were all fine but I felt like it could have had a few other one from the era that you saw in a lot of the skate videos. The ending feels a bit abrupt but the film didn't outstay it's welcome at a brisk 85 run time. Not sure this will have a huge appeal for certain people but for me it worked really well.