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Wong Kar-wai is a highly acclaimed director, but I cannot see how this can be among his best works. A watchable movie that never bores precisely, but it's kinda just 'there'. I also can't decide if its supposed to have such a surreal dreamlike quality or the colour grading is just weird (read: bad).

Very solid. Not seeing why people don't like this one.

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I have wildly mixed feelings on this one.

Being a niche movie to begin with (it's over five and a half hours long), it's the kind of film that you need to be in the right mood and frame of mind for before even attempting it, and I'm not convinced I was in it today. But I only had until May 4th to check this out, so there's that.

That said, this isn't my first foray into what's known as slow cinema and I have seen a film in the style that's got about another two hours on this one and I was captivated by that. With this film I just wasn't feeling it. I never reached a point that I could say I disliked the film, but I was left many times just wishing it would get a move on.

By the time I eventually got to the final hour (done in shifts across the entire day) I found I couldn't care less about it and was just sticking with it out of stubbornness of having gone that far with it already.

Even for slow cinema, I felt many times I could leave the film running, leave the room to make a cup of tea and I still wouldn't have actually missed anything.

Other slow cinema films like Stalker opened up on the subsequent viewings, but I don't see myself inclined to ever try this one again, should I find I have access to it again in the future.

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^ By chance have you picked up Arrow's Years of Lead boxset? I was looking at that one but I haven't taken the plunge yet.

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adg211288 wrote:

^ By chance have you picked up Arrow's Years of Lead boxset? I was looking at that one but I haven't taken the plunge yet.

My local video store has it, I've been renting them.

Must be about the fourth time I've watched this one. Love it.

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The debut film of Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Not as polished as his more yet work as you'd expect, but the potential is on show already and it's clearly a deeply personal film for him, being based on his sisters memoir and featuring other members of his family in the cast.

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It's been far too long since I last revisited this. A masterpiece from beginning to end.

Now that I have Disney+, I'm going to attempt something I've been thinking of doing for a while, which is to go through all the MCU movies (I may watch different series at a late date, but for now I'll just stick to the movies, outside of Wandavision, which I've heard is a must watch before the new Doctor Strange movie, if I get that far.) I've seen about 7 of the movies before, so well over 2/3 of this will be entirely new to me, which will be interesting.

I started with this one, which I had seen before (along with its two sequels):

The movie itself holds up about as well as expected. RDJ is obviously phenomenal as the title character, and the pacing is pretty much perfect. I forgot how annoying Jeff Bridges is as the villain, though, which is the one thing that holds it back a bit for me. I remember liking it much more than IM2, and about as much as IM3 when I saw them all before, so we'll see how those go on a rewatch.