I love Ron Shelton's good movies, and obv he would've been a less formally sassy director for this material -- but then his movies are cheerfully heterosexual. Morris misses that point, I think.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 May 2024 18:17 (three weeks ago) link
this looks like an insurance advert https://t.co/sRsok9Oz3b— joolsd (@joolsd) May 19, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 19 May 2024 21:53 (two weeks ago) link
He makes very pretty advertisements too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pObRIP1H4us
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 19 May 2024 21:58 (two weeks ago) link
I'll buy it
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 19 May 2024 22:22 (two weeks ago) link
god i loved this ridiculous movie
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Sunday, 19 May 2024 23:18 (two weeks ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/gf3udlL.gif
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 May 2024 23:22 (two weeks ago) link
My wife went to see this and she thought it was so bad she walked out!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 May 2024 15:35 (one week ago) link
what insurance adverts involve a live tennis ball cam
― ivy., Monday, 20 May 2024 15:39 (one week ago) link
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, May 20, 2024 1
how well do you know her
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 May 2024 15:41 (one week ago) link
xp I don't think something seeming like a stylized commercial or music video is an indictment! A lot of directors and cinematographers started out doing that (or do so as a side gig) because you get to do a lot of interesting action camera work and the budget per minute is higher than a movie would be.
The reason entire movies tend to not be that punchy is it'd be tiring and expensive.
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 20 May 2024 16:18 (one week ago) link
That tennis ball thing just seems pointless. Like, there's no possible way it can serve a narrative function that could not have been served in any other way. It's just the director (or, more precisely, the VFX department) jacking off.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 20 May 2024 16:20 (one week ago) link
Or having fun! (Not that jacking off and having fun are mutually exclusive.) I enjoyed it in the moment, it was in keeping with the dizziness of the whole thing.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 20 May 2024 16:22 (one week ago) link
(Not that jacking off and having fun are mutually exclusive.
on ILX I guess they are
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 May 2024 16:31 (one week ago) link
every camera choice must serve a narrative function
― ivy., Monday, 20 May 2024 17:03 (one week ago) link
but it's also one of the last shots of a tennis exchange, and the tension has been building over the whole movie to this point, so yeah i'd say it serves a narrative purpose, given that these two are only communicating their totally repressed love for each other through the medium of a tennis ball. why am i arguing with someone who hasn't seen the movie
― ivy., Monday, 20 May 2024 17:05 (one week ago) link
the audience i saw this with were audibly enjoying themselves throughout the movie but they really lost it during that scene
― ivy., Monday, 20 May 2024 17:12 (one week ago) link
YES. That function may be "disruption, because narrative coherence is a bourgeois construct," but every shot in a movie must carry meaning, whether textual or subtextual.
but it's also one of the last shots of a tennis exchange, and the tension has been building over the whole movie to this point, so yeah i'd say it serves a narrative purpose, given that these two are only communicating their totally repressed love for each other through the medium of a tennis ball.
So it's a cumshot? Why didn't you say so? That, I get.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 20 May 2024 17:13 (one week ago) link
Do they love each other? I'm not sure. They'd fuck each other blue, yeah. It's all in the game.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 May 2024 17:20 (one week ago) link
yeah i think i meant to type "repressed longing"
― ivy., Monday, 20 May 2024 17:26 (one week ago) link
I know this is small fry, but, god, to watch a mainstream movie reeking of sex and whose camera kept leering at totally willing male actors was such a trip.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 May 2024 17:32 (one week ago) link
It is obvious subtext needed to be text, ergo, the final shot of the movie would have to involve one ramming a churro down the other's throat since they left that plot point hanging uh wait.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 May 2024 17:41 (one week ago) link
The churro scene is great because it's so on the nose, it's like a porn movie parody and it's hilarious.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 20 May 2024 18:55 (one week ago) link
down to the powdered sugar on the nose
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 May 2024 20:19 (one week ago) link