I also have a mild problem with costume dramas, but I should probably have a go at it. Licorice Pizza has me hopeful.
A movie set in the 1970s *is* a costume drama.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 02:46 (two years ago) link
Yeah, what's a costume drama?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 02:48 (two years ago) link
I watched Inherent Vice again recently, and somehow the pacing and tone settled in a lot better than on the first viewing. I don't think I had inappropriate expectations when I first saw it, but maybe having a vague memory about what was about to happen allowed me to pay more attention to what was occurring in the moment.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 03:03 (two years ago) link
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 03:13 (two years ago) link
MOVIE REVIEWS
'Licorice Pizza' Is Paul Thomas Anderson's 1970s Power Ballad - and the Funkiest Love Story of the YearA spiritual prequel to 'Punch Drunk Love,' the filmmaker's look back at a bygone era couldn't be more personal — or have better performers at its centerHave not read rest; ads are fucking w my computer:https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/licorice-
― dow, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
Were there 1970s power ballads? "Fade Away and Radiate"?
― dow, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 19:11 (two years ago) link
Kiss's "Beth" The 70s were full of them.
― nickn, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 19:28 (two years ago) link
Styx "Lady" comes to mind
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
Dust in the Wind
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 19:49 (two years ago) link
Buncha Elton: "Candle In The Wind"; "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me"; "Levon" etc.
PLUS THE FUCKIN' EAGLES
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 19:55 (two years ago) link
BOB GODDAMN SEGER
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
read a positive review of this which confirmed my lack of desire to see it
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
LYNRYD SHITKICKIN' SKYNYRD
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
Yeah but the 'power' in power ballad connotes an explosion of electric guitars and thundering drums
Otherwise it's just a ballad
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
ELECTRIC MELLONFARMIN' LIGHT ORCHESTRA
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
Some if not all of those bands did that.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
Ballads are Ballads but part of the "Power" is the showstopping, reach for the rafters sing-along chorus.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
ANTHEMS
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 20:06 (two years ago) link
Possibly substitute Queen for ELO.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 20:09 (two years ago) link
Juice Newton - “ Angel of the Morning” is a total 70’s powerballad
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
candle in the wind is just a ballad imo
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link
I've always maintained that Whitesnake's Here I Go Again is just a rewrite of Angel of the Morning
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
Whoa Juice has kind of a crazy-eyed Kate Bush thing going here... pretty awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTzGMEfbnAw
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
Nazareth: "Love Hurts" so good (their covers of "Hollis Brown" proto-folk-metal ritualizm, the Joni cover, though blanking on title, more ov a power folkie-ballad)(they should have done "Candle In The Wind," then it would have been proper power ballad) But I was thinking more "tasteful romantic move by 80s metal etc."
― dow, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
Joni cover = "This Flight Tonight"
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
Ramones had a few!
― clemenza, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link
For an acoustic guy, Cat Stevens had a ton of these.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 25 November 2021 01:02 (two years ago) link
Licorice Pizza Love Jams
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 November 2021 01:17 (two years ago) link
I don't even own a Film Twitter, but sorta surprised the grievance Chaw had that's getting run with is the age difference thing and not the racial thing, but OTOH I guess the former is easier to address without having yet seen the movie.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 November 2021 01:22 (two years ago) link
Between the trailers for THE TENDER BAR and LICORICE PIZZA this weekend, I was deeply irritated with lovingly recreated 70s scuzz. So of course AFI Silver just announced a 70mm screening of LP for this Saturday evening. (It previously was scheduled to open there Christmas Day; no word on analog or digital format.) Decisions, decisions.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Monday, 6 December 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
goddamn i hated this so much. what a bullshit white dude nostalgia trip. and im a jew that grew up in the valley! it should have hit different. oh well.
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 6 December 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link
These types of films aren't always (or even usually) aimed at people who shared in their era, experience, geography, etc.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 21:12 (two years ago) link
As in, I can totally see hating it, especially if your experience has some parallels in the movie itself.
I also haven't seen it, though. I'm speaking more "generally."
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 21:13 (two years ago) link
goddamn i hated this so much. what a bullshit white dude nostalgia trip. and im a jew that grew up in the valley! it should have hit different. oh well.― kurt schwitterz, Monday, December 6, 2021 6:44 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, December 6, 2021 6:44 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
this is what it looked like to me, i'm going to avoid it.
some review was talking about it portraying scrappy small business owners and that's when i decided no thanks, i'd rather watch train cab footage at home.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 21:46 (two years ago) link
Not scheduled for either of the independents/rep houses in my area, so it must be getting a Cineplex opening.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 23:13 (two years ago) link
So, wait, it's not a good movie about people working?
I love those!
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 23:15 (two years ago) link
Just read a post on Criterionforum about an advance screening a few days ago at an Austin Alamo Drafthouse that had a surprise appearance from Alana Haim, who-in lieu of doing an after-screening Q&A-treated the audience to a secret Haim show at a neighboring club.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 23:38 (two years ago) link
xxp it's distributed by Universal here in Canada, so of course it's Cineplex
but also if you wanna come to Toronto, the Lightbox is getting a 70mm run (there's an advance screening this Sat that sold most of its tix to TIFF members, fucking TIFF)
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 00:30 (two years ago) link
I've made the trek into Toronto two or three times (two-and-a-half hours), but if it's opening here, I'd have to be promised dinner with the cast or something.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 02:13 (two years ago) link
Bro if this movie was about people just regular ass working in the valley I'd be all about it.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 02:14 (two years ago) link
Good interview w Anderson on The New Yorker Radio Hour---he knows how to sell it of course, but mainly about backstory of plot and what it's like to direct Hoffman and Haim, both of whom he's known for quite a while---Hoffman's character seems based or fusion of his own persona and that of 15-year-old Anderson, pestering and then (as he remembers it) bonding with a couple of his sister's friends (18, 19, had cars omg, though of course Haim is still older)https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLndueWMub3JnL25ld3lvcmtlcnJhZGlvaG91cg/episode/ZTg4MDMyOWEtY2M5ZC00ZDRkLThhMz
― dow, Monday, 13 December 2021 00:41 (two years ago) link
Oops--not on there yet, sorry.
― dow, Monday, 13 December 2021 00:42 (two years ago) link
It's playing now (while I'm signed in to Google, haven't tried otherwise)
― dow, Monday, 13 December 2021 01:42 (two years ago) link
Best movie of the year, ridiculously good
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
Dang, and I was looking forward to this one too.
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 16:39 (two years ago) link
Lol
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
I don't know what to think, a promising sign. The time line confused me: Gary's a high schooler who in the course of the film opens a water bed store and pinball joint? Alana Haim's a natural, though, and those tracking shots adore her. Most tolerable Bradley Cooper work in a long time -- I hope Babs was thrilled.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 25 December 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
I can tell you I don't care much for the Valentine character and Hoffman performance, especially PTA's insistence that we adore him. The ending irritated the fuck outta me.
So maybe I didn't like the film after all.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 25 December 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
That we adore Hoffman or Valentine?
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 25 December 2021 22:52 (two years ago) link
both!
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 December 2021 01:08 (two years ago) link