his Blade Runner 2049 recaptured much of the shine but little of the soul
okidoke
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
I'm so familiar with the gom jabbar scene that I noticed the set-up and took my pee break accordingly
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
Which then led me to be like "wait Charlotte Rampling was in this?!" at the closing credits
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, October 26, 2021 10:44 AM (seventeen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
do people like that movie i couldnt get into it, seemed like an elaborate perfume commercial
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 14:48 (two years ago) link
Has anyone tweeted about making their own stillsuit so they could pee in the theater and not miss anything?
― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link
and dune was 2.5 hours of exfoliation propaganda xp
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 14:53 (two years ago) link
Blade Runner 2049 was maybe a more attractive film to look at, but this was considerably more entertaining
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 14:55 (two years ago) link
writing it's "not a prestige hardcover" is a good way of signalling one is a total wanker without changing your name by deed poll to Barry Wanker.
― calzino, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link
interesting that villeneuve and nolan are two of the big mainstream auteurs, theyre pretty similar they both make highly competent visually bold seamless films that are also kind of dull and lifeless, you could even throw fincher into that basket although hes obvs much better, films that seem a more like works of technology than art
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
no no i don't agree with this thesis at all
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
call it a perfume commercial if you want but the sex scene in 2049 is probably one of the most emotionally vivid scenes i've ever seen in a hard sci-fi-ass movie, which it undoubtedly is
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
i dont think i made it that far but i might give it another shot
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
Nolan inspires intense loyalty among straight men under 40, i.e. not me.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
its true its weird its almost like hes... incepted them
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
I really liked Villeneuve's Blade Runner and liked Arrival, too, iirc. The difference between him and Nolan is that Villeneuve's movies are filled with lots of ideas, and Nolan's movies are usually built around *one* idea, and often a dumb one at that (as much as I've liked more than a few of his movies).
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
i dont want to offend anyone here because i know the movie touched a lot of people i will just speak to my personal experience which is that arrival was one of the most singularly stupid things ive ever encountered
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
is this something: CHOAM NOMSKY
― mark s, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link
nom nom nom
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
like at least inception wasnt trying to be deep about the meaning of life, it was men running in suits all the way down, where arrival was meeting an alien who gives you a hallmark card
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
we do not watch movies the same way.............. and that's ok
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:22 (two years ago) link
I think Inception *was* trying to be deep about deep stuff, just wasn't that successful at it. "All that we see or seem ..." etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
Tbf, I haven't seen "Arrival" since it came out, but aspects and elements of it definitely stuck with me.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
yeah i mean obvs inception was trying to be deep but it was just so dumb and bland, where the glib sentimentality of arrival was more offensive to me personally particularly with the super hackish dead kid storyline i was just like you cant possibly be trying to pull this one over on us
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:30 (two years ago) link
you know what other scifi evoked the dead kid, and totally extraneously in this case, was gravity, which wouldve been a much cooler movie with out all that character building
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link
I appreciated his making Dunkirk. We needed more movies making Churchill a hero and celebrating the English fighting spirit.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:35 (two years ago) link
matthew mcconaughey whispering through his daughters wall from the fifth dimension... we go to space when really all we wanted... was to come home
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:37 (two years ago) link
i only vaguely remember what sort of bullshit was in the martian, im mad at scifi now, anyway dude was cool in that it was more about cool shit than fake deep shit
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
went to see this at the actual cinema last night, my wife hated it, more on the fence myself, certainly the cinematography and sound was excellent, yet it didn't quite draw me in enough, it was really very pretty but uninspiringly so. could not stand the action scenes (with a few exceptions all fighting on screen is of no interest to me), and would have liked a lot more of the expected mesmerising hallucinatory dialogue-free long tracking shots.in the real world where nobody is throwing away their money on sci-fi epics in the tarkovski or even malick mode, then I am happy that this exists, it just isn't for me.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
👏👏👏 you forgot these Alfred 👏👏👏
― calzino, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
liked this a lot, although i read the book recently enough that i cant get a sense of how well it explained everything bc the details are all fresh in my mind.
only complaint is tbh i am sick beyond measure hans zimmer and his booming bellowing featureless sonic mush, when will we be free of this guy already. in particular hated that recurring vocalization, which felt extremely hack & lazy to me. wish western filmmakers & composers would find a different sound to denote 'exotic religion' & 'desert landscapes' in 2021 ffs
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
wish western filmmakers & composers would find a different sound to denote 'exotic religion' & 'desert landscapes' in 2021 ffs
Joel Osteen singing psalms flying over Arizona desert.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
I watched some promo piece about how Zimmer went about writing this soundtrack, just thousands of hours of creating instruments and talking to disparate musicians and experimenting and then we get the soundtrack and... it's just more Hans Zimmer noises.
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
like the Stones working with the Dust Brothers and walking out with a song sampling k d lang
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
i was expecting to dislike zimmer's score, and i def eco the feeling that the vocalizations are very played out. there were def good moments though, especially the hair-raising sounds during the gom jabbar scene and the scene on the sarduakar planet
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
More accurate, Hans Zimmer noises.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
lol yes there was plenty of that one particular hans zimmer noise, which really only makes sense in a theater, and even then is not quite what it was a decade ago
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link
I did think less soundtrack than sound design (and as such enjoyed it). It really almost wanted to be the anti-Toto soundtrack, barely anything resembling a hook!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
it's pretty amazing that Toto brought way more chunky guitar riffing than you get from virtually any other sci-fi epic, who'da thunk?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
Watched the new one this past weekend. It's so dull! And that scene near the end where Paul says DESERT POWER is like a Chevron commercial. Lynch Dune is 1000x better.
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
what was the deal with the bagpipes then?
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
Has Villeneuve explained why Paul no longer has a younger sister?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
Because said younger sister hasn't been born yet in the movie's timeline.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 18:00 (two years ago) link
He mentions he knows his mother is pregnant and there's that one vision sequence where she's holding a baby with blue eyes, which will almost certainly be Alia.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
Ah the bagpipes. Exact quote from the art book, I kid you not: "A week before filming the Atriedes landing on Arrakis, Denis woke up with an idea. He had been dreaming of bagpipes."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link
as one does
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
is that a Sting lyric
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 18:05 (two years ago) link
Would have been awesome if instead of bagpipes it was, like, a New Orleans brass band.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
If I were Villeneuve I would have had some alien playing space bagpipes, not a Scottish guy from 10 millennia ago
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link