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8 hours ago, Elite said:

It's a great film. In my top 10 of all time.

 

I love it, the way it sucks you in to believing all this weird shit is absolutely normal is superb. Inception pulls off the same trick. Bowie is good as Tesla too.

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Smile Orange, a Jamaican comedy from the 70s about a hotel waiter that doesn't get on with his old lady, runs scams on the tourists, shags their missuses and gets into scrapes with the assistant manager. A mix of the Confessions of... films and Death in Paradise.

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1 hour ago, SasaS said:

I never get Nolan's reputation. He just tries too hard and achieves very little, for me.

 

Edit: Or maybe, he asks a lot of the viewer and eventually gives very little in return.


Really? Mate he’s done some great films. His Batman films were superb, he made superhero films cool. Interstellar is visually amazing. Oppenheimer is very good as is Dunkirk. The Prestige is excellent. I think he’s brilliant. 

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Dune - the David Lynch version from 1984.

 

Now, Lynch is one of my favourite directors, probably second only to Spielberg. But fuck me, what was he thinking here. Absolute calamity of a film. 

 

I know he was messed round by the company, money ran out, I know it's a difficult story to film, but still, he was in way out of his depth here. 

 

2/10, and I'm being generous. 

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45 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:


Really? Mate he’s done some great films. His Batman films were superb, he made superhero films cool. Interstellar is visually amazing. Oppenheimer is very good as is Dunkirk. The Prestige is excellent. I think he’s brilliant. 

Yep. There is a film for everyone amongst his stuff.

 

Well apart from Tenet. That was wank.

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Just now, Elite said:

Yep. There is a film for everyone amongst his stuff.

 

Well apart from Tenet. That was wank.


Im not massive on Inception either but people seem to love it. Probably because I didn’t have a clue what the fuck was going on 

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2 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:


Im not massive on Inception either but people seem to love it. Probably because I didn’t have a clue what the fuck was going on 

I need to rewatch Memento, I watched that a out 15 years ago and haven't watched it since. I remember enjoying it.

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2 hours ago, SasaS said:

I never get Nolan's reputation. He just tries too hard and achieves very little, for me.

 

Edit: Or maybe, he asks a lot of the viewer and eventually gives very little in return.

 

I like that he assumes intelligence and attention in his audience. Rare these days, especially with a massive budget behind him. 

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1 minute ago, Elite said:

I need to rewatch Memento, I watched that an out 15 years ago and haven't watched it since. I remember enjoying it.


Yeah same. The Batman films are cracking though. They came a long way from …….

 

 

 

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What I mean about Nolan, take Dunkirk for example. It has a narrative structure which makes it more demanding for the viewer to follow. It is done, you'd think, because he wants to avoid making a war epic and the accompanying pathos and propaganda, Dunkirk spirit etc. Yet, this is where he mostly eventually ends up, because he is shying away from exploring anything controversial about Dunkirk. So he might as well spare as the narrative affections and give us a proper WWII war epic.

 

 

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1 hour ago, SasaS said:

What I mean about Nolan, take Dunkirk for example. It has a narrative structure which makes it more demanding for the viewer to follow. It is done, you'd think, because he wants to avoid making a war epic and the accompanying pathos and propaganda, Dunkirk spirit etc. Yet, this is where he mostly eventually ends up, because he is shying away from exploring anything controversial about Dunkirk. So he might as well spare as the narrative affections and give us a proper WWII war epic.

 

 

Just enjoy the films for what they are. Not everything has to be broken down into filmmaking 101. Take the Rise of the Footsoldier films for example, it's obvious that they are absolute nonsense but I love them because they are massively entertaining. 

 

Enjoyment beats craft in any entertainment sector.

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7 hours ago, Elite said:

Just enjoy the films for what they are. Not everything has to be broken down into filmmaking 101. Take the Rise of the Footsoldier films for example, it's obvious that they are absolute nonsense but I love them because they are massively entertaining. 

 

Enjoyment beats craft in any entertainment sector.

The Rise of The FootSoldier original film was another one based on those Essex gangland murders. But after it's original success I am not sure where it has led in the sequels.

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11 hours ago, Bjornebye said:


Yeah same. The Batman films are cracking though. They came a long way from …….

 

 

 

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I prefer the Adam West Batman to the Nolan ones.

 

I actually rewatched them all fairly recently and they seem to get worse each time. They take themselves far too seriously and Batman doing his Cookie Monster voice is laughable.

 

The last one is a genuinely awful film.

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14 hours ago, SasaS said:

I never get Nolan's reputation. He just tries too hard and achieves very little, for me.

 

Edit: Or maybe, he asks a lot of the viewer and eventually gives very little in return.

 

It's sad that we get fed so much cookie cutter shit at the cinema that when people like Nolan and Villenueve come along and offer real quality it's seen as trying too hard.

 

The problem isn't them trying to hard it's others not trying enough and making us accept by the numbers balance sheet film making.

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Nolan's insistence on practical effects made Dunkirk appear to be a battle between a couple of 5-a-side teams that managed to scrape a few boats and planes together rather than what the battle /operation actually was. His dedication has to be applauded but he's far too up his own hoop to see that it really takes away from some of his movies. People will believe there were more people fighting at the end of Tenet than in a World War II operation to evacuate the British from France.

 

Oh and agree with Mook, Dark Knight Rises is genuinely boring and way too long. 

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10 minutes ago, Brownie said:

Watched Leave the World Behind yesterday. There were some good bits about it but overall I just found it boring.

 

5/10.

 

I really enjoyed that. More like a low 7 from me. 

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53 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

 

It's sad that we get fed so much cookie cutter shit at the cinema that when people like Nolan and Villenueve come along and offer real quality it's seen as trying too hard.

 

The problem isn't them trying to hard it's others not trying enough and making us accept by the numbers balance sheet film making.

 

But there are other people making good non-cookie cutter films which don't come across as contrived as his work.

 

SasaS doesn't strike me as the kind of chap who watches production line superhero films and romantic comedies tbh.

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