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 Posted: 24 Apr 2022 at 6:24am |
I loved this one, and even saw it at a theater. Haneke is so delightfully pessimistic, bleak, and depressive in the way he views the world...this one is downright nasty and unpleasant...sadisitic even. Did you see the original 1997 version? I hear that the 2007 american remake doesn´t hold up to it.
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Posted: 24 Apr 2022 at 8:05am |
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^ That is the original version.
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Posted: 24 Apr 2022 at 10:57am |
 Very good, but the subtitling in this was terrible. Entire lines of dialogue were missing and what was there was often misspelt. The person who did them seems to have had a real problem with the letter T. One early scene sees the lead told to 'take a seal' instead of 'take a seat'.
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Posted: 24 Apr 2022 at 11:34pm |
 The very first Oscar winner. I hadn't realised it was a silent movie. No matter, it's absolutely brilliant. The combat scenes are some of the best you will ever see in a movie of this age. It scandalised people because Clara Bow's boobs were visible for about a second, there was male nudity, and the two leading men kiss. I had thought Howard Hughes' dogfight scenes in Hells' Angels were good, but this is so much better. And a similar but better story too.
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Posted: 25 Apr 2022 at 1:07am |
 Quite a quirky film that remains little known today.
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Posted: 25 Apr 2022 at 2:33am |
 So I found out today that just because a film has John C. Reilly in it doesn't mean it's going to be a comedy... Pretty gritty and stylish western with a nice spin on the story instead of the usual goodies vs baddies.
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Posted: 26 Apr 2022 at 1:05pm |
 Massively overrated. It does eventually get going, but takes half the movie to get there, prior to which it just plods along at a snail's pace (and not even a particularly artistic slow like say Stalker or Satantango). It's better than the last Kelly Reichardt film I saw (the even more overrated Meek's Cutoff), but overall it's still really meh.
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Posted: 26 Apr 2022 at 1:41pm |
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It's a nice looking Jersey cow though. They're a nice breed to work with. The bulls are fucking nuts though.
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Posted: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:34am |
 I don't care what anybody says, this is ESSENTIAL canuxploitation
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Posted: 27 Apr 2022 at 3:32am |
 That's some fucked up shit. I reckon I might have seen some of this before but couldn't really remember it. And the Clint Mansell soundtrack is brilliant.
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Posted: 27 Apr 2022 at 2:34pm |
 The last feature film in my Chaplin boxset (although not the last he directed). This isn't his best work, but it has some really funny stuff especially in the first couple of acts but the final act gets a lot more serious and turns into a statement about the Red Scare that Chaplin got caught up in.
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Posted: 28 Apr 2022 at 7:57am |
 It's a slice of life film, so not a lot really 'happens' by usual movie standards. This was oddly compelling though, full of quirks and a brilliant dog (though that dog is absolutely not a good boy!). There's even a cameo from the kids from Moonrise Kingdom as students in one scene.
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Posted: 29 Apr 2022 at 3:51am |
 So this is either pretentious wank or I didn't get it.
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Posted: 29 Apr 2022 at 10:29am |
 The final disc of my Chaplin boxset. Consists of three early short films. A Dog's Life was excellent. The other two were solid. There's a handful of other shorts as bonus features on a few discs still to wait.
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Posted: 29 Apr 2022 at 9:59pm |
 A run through of some of the most important events of the first third of the 20th century through the eyes of two families. Based on a Noel Coward play, this was quite the stage spectacle, but it doesn't transfer so well to film. The first half is entertaining, but it starts to drag in the second. A movie of it's time I think.
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Posted: 30 Apr 2022 at 12:16am |
 I've never seen this movie or the live show before, but this was excellent. It has everything a good musical needs - a simple story (complex plots get lost in musicals), great music, and some brilliant dancing.
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Posted: 30 Apr 2022 at 12:34am |
 The trouble with two part films is that they're only half a story. Nothing will stop that being true here as well, but I guess Hollywood filmmakers leave the 5+ hour epics to world cinema auteurs. Otherwise it's very good, though lacks some of the impact of Villeneuve's best works, perhaps for the above reason. It's a 2 and a half hour long film that takes that long to get it's first major plot development set in motion.
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Posted: 30 Apr 2022 at 3:39am |
 That was better than I expected. I was thinking it would be another dreary teary drama like Terms of Endearment that goes fucking nowhere, but the way Ted and Billy's relationship built and strengthened keeps it interesting all the way through. And apparently Dustin Hoffman was a complete shit to Meryl Streep while working on this, and she's never forgiven him (don't blame her!) This also means the 1970s is the first decade I've completed in watching all the Best Picture Oscar movies, although I'm going to give the two Godfathers and The Sting rewatches because I haven't seen them in a very long time.
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Posted: 30 Apr 2022 at 8:42pm |
 Similar idea to NZ-made The Devil's Rock (2011) but with a bigger budget and more bang. A good one to sit back and watch with your brain out of gear.
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Posted: 30 Apr 2022 at 11:08pm |
 This was everything Ready Player One should have been and wasn't. Great fun, lots of gaming humour, several great actors free to just let rip and enjoy themselves, looks amazing... and yeah.
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