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Post by coke & comics on Sept 20, 2024 1:21:56 GMT -5
Ooh, big 2012 fan for the superhero films.
The Avengers is a clear #1. Though the movie from the year I rewatch most often is Dredd. Just a clean action melodrama. I quite appreciated Life of Pi the novel and thought Ang Lee brought it to life quite well, though I'm overdue on a rewatch. And then, Slam's protestations notwithstanding, I think The Dark Knight Rises is an excellent piece of operatic cinema. Not as good as the first two films, but a movie I can get caught up in with ease. And then on the indy sci/fi-esque side, we have Travelling Salesman. Basically a few people sitting around a table arguing the whole movie. Think 12 Angry Men but if they're arguing about math.
Plenty of other great films that year. Hannah Arendt is something like the cliff notes for Eichmann in Jerusalem, but it's probably something people today could stand to review. Yeah, Looper is a solid take on time-travel, hints of the greatness to come from now one of my favorite directors Rian Johnson. Les Misérables is one of the best shows I've ever seen and this movie brings it to the screen well.
And then really just a great year for indy sci/fi with things like Robot & Frank, Safety Not Guaranteed, Doomsday Book, and Upside Down.
I'll also mention Wreck-It Ralph, which I have quite the fondness for. It's when Disney Animated Studios basically just gave up and decided to copy Pixar, but it worked for them. I think it kickstarted a new high period for the studio after a rough decade.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 21, 2024 15:17:49 GMT -5
I’m going with Seven Psychopaths.
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 21, 2024 19:59:29 GMT -5
I’m going with Seven Psychopaths. I can't tell if you're complaining or bragging about your dating life. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 2, 2024 14:44:02 GMT -5
Onward to 2013. Only two weeks this time. And, honestly, I'm wondering if it's not time to just close this thread out. Because there's only one movie that I've seen from 2013 that I actually remember and consider better than meh. I'll cop to the fact that I've not really seen more than a handful of movies from 2013. Clearly I had other things going on.
The sole movie I remember that I've seen and thought was pretty darn good was...
Snowpiercer. Super solid post-apocalyptic film. Very good turn by Chris Evans. Not without its issues, but at least I remember it and I remember liking it, which is more than I can say for any other films of that year.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 2, 2024 15:15:40 GMT -5
I checked my IMDb list and I have a tie for 2013.
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
I saw American Hustle when it first came out and I saw Blue Jasmine a few years later. I haven’t seen either of them since.
We’re heading into a period where I didn’t go to the movies as much for a few years. I’m going to look at a list of movies from 2013 and see if I’ve seen anything better in the intervening decade.
Honestly, I remember both of these movies as being really good.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 2, 2024 15:16:53 GMT -5
I’ve seen Snowpiercer fairly recently and it’s really good. But not good enough that it makes me want to reconsider my choices for 2013.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 2, 2024 15:24:20 GMT -5
I came across two 2013 films that I think might be competitive with the two that I chose: Gravity and Blackfish.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 2, 2024 15:31:38 GMT -5
I came across two 2013 films that I think might be competitive with the two that I chose: Gravity and Blackfish. I remember watching Gravity and I remember liking it at the time. But that's pretty much all I remember about it. |
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Post by berkley on Oct 2, 2024 17:44:02 GMT -5
There are a few things I missed from 2013 that I suspect could be contenders - Snowpiercer would be one of them- but from what I can see after a quick scan I'll go with La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty), a visually impressive Italian film that isn't quite 2013's answer to La Dolce Vita, which I think is partly what director Sorrentino wanted it to be, but is a good movie in its own right nonetheless.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 2, 2024 17:52:11 GMT -5
There are a few things I missed from 2013 that I suspect could be contenders - Snowpiercer would be one of them- but from what I can see after a quick scan I'll go with La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty), a visually impressive Italian film that isn't quite 2013's answer to La Dolce Vita, which I think is partly what director Sorrentino wanted it to be, but is a good movie in its own right nonetheless. I saw La grande belleza, but I didn’t feel like I understood it well enough to even begin to critique it. Which, come to think of it, is how I felt about 8 1/2 the first time I saw it. |
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Post by berkley on Oct 2, 2024 19:13:27 GMT -5
There are a few things I missed from 2013 that I suspect could be contenders - Snowpiercer would be one of them- but from what I can see after a quick scan I'll go with La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty), a visually impressive Italian film that isn't quite 2013's answer to La Dolce Vita, which I think is partly what director Sorrentino wanted it to be, but is a good movie in its own right nonetheless. I saw La grande belleza, but I didn’t feel like I understood it well enough to even begin to critique it. Which, come to think of it, is how I felt about 8 1/2 the first time I saw it. I'm sure a lot of it went over my head as well, as did much of one of Sorrentino's earlier movies, Il Divo (which referenced a lot of Italian politics that I know very little about). I haven't seen LGB since 2013 (or more likely 2014, since these movies often take a year or so to get to our local cinema here) so I'm mostly going by memories that I liked it at the time. I'd like to see it again, now that I'm reminded of it.
Another one I didn't notice at first in the 2013 list is a Spanish movie Blancanieves that updates the Snow White fairy tale in an interesting way. I've seen it listed as 2012 and 2013.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 2, 2024 21:00:21 GMT -5
I saw La grande belleza, but I didn’t feel like I understood it well enough to even begin to critique it. Which, come to think of it, is how I felt about 8 1/2 the first time I saw it. I'm sure a lot of it went over my head as well, as did much of one of Sorrentino's earlier movies, Il Divo (which referenced a lot of Italian politics that I know very little about). I haven't seen LGB since 2013 (or more likely 2014, since these movies often take a year or so to get to our local cinema here) so I'm mostly going by memories that I liked it at the time. I'd like to see it again, now that I'm reminded of it.
Another one I didn't notice at first in the 2013 list is a Spanish movie Blancanieves that updates the Snow White fairy tale in an interesting way. I've seen it listed as 2012 and 2013.
I saw Il divo and I liked it a lot. It’s been a while since I saw Blancanieves, but that’s another one that I remember thinking it was really really good. They’re all matadors, right? Sometimes I think I dreamed that one. |
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Post by coke & comics on Oct 2, 2024 21:09:46 GMT -5
Well, I like 2013. It was actually the year I started getting into movies, coinciding with starting my Letterboxd account. I'd always been a comic guy, but I found myself living in a hotel room for 6 months without my comics... and well, I had movies. I think all 5 of my top choices for this year will be romance movies. #2-4 will be sci/fi romance movies. Close call for #1. Going to go with Before Midnight. I love the entire series, and each one gives us something different. The second film gave us the happily ever after. This film told us there was no such thing. I could easily go with Upstream Color instead. Hard to follow. Took a couple viewings to get what was happening, but it's fascinated me ever since. Suggested comic book pairing is Tales of the Beanworld. Next sci/fi romance on the list is the endearing About Time. A bit of time travel. A bit of cute romance. A lesson about appreciating life's moments. Final sci/fi romance on the list is Her. Which must be reality by now. It must be. Who knows what people are doing with ChatGPT these days. Leaving sci/fi but keeping the romance theme, is the beautiful coming of age story based on the comic Blue is the Warmest Color. Warning that the sex is quite explicit in the film. What else is great. Yeah, Snowpiercer. Another excellent comic adaptation there. The fading Studio Ghibli had two more great films for us from the masters, The Tale of Princess Kaguya and The Wind Rises. Coherence is a delightful low-effects twisty sci/fi tale. Gravity is best seen on the biggest screen you can find, as it's mainly a visual treat. |
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Post by berkley on Oct 2, 2024 23:08:58 GMT -5
Well, I like 2013. It was actually the year I started getting into movies, coinciding with starting my Letterboxd account. I'd always been a comic guy, but I found myself living in a hotel room for 6 months without my comics... and well, I had movies. I think all 5 of my top choices for this year will be romance movies. #2-4 will be sci/fi romance movies. Close call for #1. Going to go with Before Midnight. I love the entire series, and each one gives us something different. The second film gave us the happily ever after. This film told us there was no such thing. I could easily go with Upstream Color instead. Hard to follow. Took a couple viewings to get what was happening, but it's fascinated me ever since. Suggested comic book pairing is Tales of the Beanworld. Next sci/fi romance on the list is the endearing About Time. A bit of time travel. A bit of cute romance. A lesson about appreciating life's moments. Final sci/fi romance on the list is Her. Which must be reality by now. It must be. Who knows what people are doing with ChatGPT these days. Leaving sci/fi but keeping the romance theme, is the beautiful coming of age story based on the comic Blue is the Warmest Color. Warning that the sex is quite explicit in the film. What else is great. Yeah, Snowpiercer. Another excellent comic adaptation there. The fading Studio Ghibli had two more great films for us from the masters, The Tale of Princess Kaguya and The Wind Rises. Coherence is a delightful low-effects twisty sci/fi tale. Gravity is best seen on the biggest screen you can find, as it's mainly a visual treat.
I've become a big Léa Seydoux fan the last few years but still haven't seen Blue is the Warmest Colour or any of her other work from around that time. I must have seen her in in Inglorious Basterds but I don't remember her character right now. I missed the Mission Impossible movie she did and didn't see Spectre until a few years after it came out, so I think it was Just the End of the World (2016) where I first really noticed her. But since then I've been really impressed with everything I've seen her in. I think she's one of the very best actors out there right now.
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Post by berkley on Oct 2, 2024 23:09:50 GMT -5
I'm sure a lot of it went over my head as well, as did much of one of Sorrentino's earlier movies, Il Divo (which referenced a lot of Italian politics that I know very little about). I haven't seen LGB since 2013 (or more likely 2014, since these movies often take a year or so to get to our local cinema here) so I'm mostly going by memories that I liked it at the time. I'd like to see it again, now that I'm reminded of it.
Another one I didn't notice at first in the 2013 list is a Spanish movie Blancanieves that updates the Snow White fairy tale in an interesting way. I've seen it listed as 2012 and 2013.
I saw Il divo and I liked it a lot. It’s been a while since I saw Blancanieves, but that’s another one that I remember thinking it was really really good. They’re all matadors, right? Sometimes I think I dreamed that one. Yes, one guy was at least. As so often, I haven't seen it since then and can't recall many details, just that I liked it at the time. |
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