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Pro-Apocalyptic
Joined: 03 Dec 2010
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 Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:53 am |
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I just got back from seeing Black Swan. I was really just at a loss for words for like 45 minutes afterwords. I definitely loved it, but I don't think I ever want to see it again.
I'd offer some pithy critique about the story and the use of horror cinematography tropes, but, honestly, I like it less the more I try to analyze it- and I don't think that's any fault of the film.
Body horror plus high art is a win any day in my book.
Oh, and if the portrayal of ballet culture is accurate (I don't know if it is, I lived with a ballerina for like a year and she was very laid-back and pleasant), then my ill-conceived prejudices against the medium were dead on. |
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Pro-Apocalyptic
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:22 am |
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| evnvnv wrote: |
| body horror is high art :( |
I agree entirely, but it's so rarely presented as such. |
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Pro-Apocalyptic
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 1:11 am |
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| Faithless wrote: |
This all happened in my 12:45am screening, as well. The mom part, the biting part, and a bunch of other serious moments. Felt like tension-relieving laughter, but I don't really remember laughing in a Hitcock movie or something similar. |
I saw Black Swan in one of San Francisco's classier movie theaters (where the theater design tries to capture the atmosphere of a symphony hall or live theater stage) at a 7:30 show.
There was a good amount of laughter at first (especially during the bite scene), but by the 2/3 mark everyone was more or less entirely silent as far as I can remember (either that, or I was too absorbed to really notice). |
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Pro-Apocalyptic
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 7:07 am |
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in non-Aranofsky related news, I watched "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" last night.
I'm the first to admit that my biggest genre weakness is wizards. Not lame magic-missile-casting wizards , but "my power shakes heaven and earth and I've got a kick-ass beard" wizards. Sadly, they are a highly under-represented minority in cinema. The wizardy bits in the movie were quite fun. In, fact if the entire thing had just been Nick Cage and Alfred Molina being epic wizard rivals (they were both quite good), I would have walked away very happy.
Basically, what I'm saying is that as bad as this movie was it's still the best wizard flick we've had since 1981's Dragonslayer.
(because as far as I'm concerned, Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings never fucking happened) |
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Pro-Apocalyptic
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 7:22 am |
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I watched "Exam" on Netfliix instant-play last night. It was actually worth watching. I was so happy that it didn't turn out to be an allegory. It was just a decent straight-forward semi-sci-fi story with a premise that looks allegorical.
Of course, I just have a figurative hard-on for single room movies, and this one wasn't retarded.
Actually, if you liked the Star Trek TNG episode "Allegiance," then it's like that but better executed.
| rabite gets whacked! wrote: |
| I watched The Invention of Lying which was totally tepid and unfunny and way too soft-hearted to be the social/religious critique it was going for. Though Jennifer Garner had some excellent moments. Apparently Ricky Gervais can get just about anyone in the world to take a cameo?s. |
Yeah, I watched this with the folks over the holidays. I was the only one who had any real problems with it.
If the damn thing had ended when Ricky Gervais's mother died, then the light satire would have worked beautifully. Of course it had to go all rom-com at the end, in a way that made no sense.
What the hell does genetic compatibility have to do with lying? Emotions still exist in this movie, but they start acting like eugenics fascists for no reason. The writers didn't actually follow a direct line of reasoning with their premise, and that ruins the film. The first 45 minutes were quite funny, but the randomly pseudo-Mel-Brooks level of religious "satire" ended up creating an inferior "Idiocracy", which was a bad movie in the first place. |
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Pro-Apocalyptic
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| Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:07 am |
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Ridley Scott is a good director when he does science fiction. Yes, I making a generalization based on two movies; and based on the difference in quality between those two movies and the rest of his output, I make it wholeheartedly.
I mean, it's better than thinking that he got that lucky twice. |
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Pro-Apocalyptic
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| Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 5:21 am |
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| Ronnoc wrote: |
| I will defend Black Hawk Down, as far as his non-scifi movies go. |
and I'll defend Matchstick Men. I liked it, but then I like con-man movies and I like movies where Nick Cage bothers to act, so I guess that doesn't really count.
But the thing is that his sci-fi movies really are some of the greatest movies of the last fifty years, and I'm saying that as one of those elitist modernist auteur-theory french-new-wave fags.
Oh, and I haven't seen Legend, but from what I hear, it sounds like a decent way to spend an hour and a half. |
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Pro-Apocalyptic
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| Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 12:47 pm |
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| Baseballkappe wrote: |
| I don't think I like Blade Runner :( |
I have a hard time parsing this sentence.
I don't understand how "I don't like" can be the predicate when "Blade Runner" is the subject. Even when the qualifier "think" is in there, what makes Blade Runner great has so little to do with thought that the sentence itself seems invalid.
It might sound like I'm being intolerant here, but I really don't get it. On a visceral level, Blade Runner is sort of perfect. |
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