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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2016 15:46:34 GMT -5
As someone who has been watching movies at a more consistent rate as of late (thank you AD) I thought I'd give it another try at making this a consistent feature to look forward to on the site this year & moving forward. This month's theme shouldn't be too difficult to accomplish:
Watch any movie from last year and tell us what you thought of it.
I'll start up a new theme for the month of February (and every month thereafter) on the fifth. Alright movielovers/watchers/kindalikesthem/whatever, off you go!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2016 2:08:00 GMT -5
Mad Max: Fury RoadStarring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne & NATHAN JONES (he was pretty good)I don't know how I lasted this long without seeing Fury Road. I'm one of those people that just likes to watch movies at home on a TV & sound system I put all of my credit into in order to "justify" the purchases. While that may be a flimsy cop-out (side note: I HATE THAT MOVIE) to not see the movie until now, I am glad I waited because I was able to absorb the movie when I was ready to watch it and boy was there a lot to absorb in my first watch.
From the very beginning, the movie puts the pedal to the metal and does not let up. When people said it gives action movies the ass kick it deserves to wake up and be something more, they weren't kidding. The breaks in the movie where the plot comes in does not drag down the movie one bit. In fact, I wished we got to know the characters more because they were all fascinating (even that little baby dude). The soundtrack was incredible and I liked how George Miller didn't just fill the movie with it. There were moments where he didn't have anything playing the background when he went wide with the cars driving. You just hear the rev of the engines and the tires tearing through the desert. When the soundtrack does come, it fits the scenes and enhances those car chases. Oh, those car chases. Each one had something new that topped the one previously and I can see how it could become overfill and lose it's impact but Miller did a masterful job making each one top the other in the most insane ways. I want to learn how to play guitar so I can buy one with a flamethrower at the neck. If I have to custom make one with a lighter and a can of hairspray, then dammit that's what I will do because I want to live my fantasy dammit! In all seriousness, this is already one of my favorite movies in the last decade. It does everything right, and then kicks it's ass and pushes up the bar to new heights.
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Post by AD on Jan 30, 2016 4:01:36 GMT -5
Slow WestDirected by John Maclean A group of British and Australian actors starring in a western (the most American of all genres) that was directed by a Scottish musician and filmed in New Zealand. That might sound like a recipe for disaster, but "Slow West" is actually a delightful little oddball take on the genre. It presents the old west as a place full of eccentric characters of every possible nationality. And it mixes philosophy (passages on Darwinian natural selection, speculation about men traveling to the moon and waging war with the moon people) and gallows humor with sudden bursts of violence like only a top-notch Coen Brothers knockoff can. Kodi Smit-McPhee is perfectly cast precisely because of how out of place he looks in a western. The great character actor Ben Mendelsohn essays yet another memorable supporting performance. This guy's got a way of making even the simplest dialogue sound interesting. I don't know how he does it. And of course, Michael Fassbender continues to be maybe the best actor working today. In the same year that he brilliantly portrayed Steve Jobs he's also able to perfectly embody a classic western antihero. That's the very definition of range, right there. But what really makes this film stand out are the visuals. Director John Maclean employs some simple film language, like shooting the characters moving from right to left in the frame to suggest that they're heading west (left=west, just like on a map). But he also sprinkles in some surrealist touches, like a shot of a perfectly preserved skeleton stuck underneath a fallen tree, axe in hand. And the climactic shootout delivers the whimsical image of professional killers popping up and down in a wheat field to fire bullets at each other. Plus, you know, it's nice to watch a modern western that actually uses the full color spectrum. Not just the drab tones of brown and grey we usually get in these movies now. The grass is actually green and the sky is actually blue. What a novel concept!
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