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Gotcha. Wasn’t trying to berate you for not having watched foreign films before, mind you, I was just surprised that anyone would pick Solaris as their first foray into foreign films, as it’s not exactly an accessible film even by foreign/arthouse standards!

Oh, and I can’t recommend City of God enough. One of my all-time favorites. It’s about gangs/crime/drugs in the slums of Brazil, all involving kids. It’s intense and hard-hitting, but also surprisingly very funny. Such a good movie.

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I was browsing a Barnes and Noble store’s Criterion selection and the description on the back sold me pretty quickly. It was a random impulse buy that I’m very grateful for.

I’ll add City of God into my long mental list of movies to watch.

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I am someone who has a lot of patience for slow movies, but Solaris is one of the few that has tested that patience for me - definitely felt there were a couple spots that when on just a tad too long. Otherwise, a fantastic film.

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Blade Runner 2049 - 9/10

Oh wow look, a sequel released several decades after its predecessor that doesn’t feel like a retread or a greatest hits montage, and actually builds on and improves upon the original.

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Really surprised this is being portrayed as a bomb just because it didn’t smash any opening weekend records. By today’s standards Titanic would be considered a failure.

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Blade Runner 2049 - not perfect, but a lot better than we could have ever hoped for. 4/5

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  • Gerald’s Game (2017) – 7/10
  • The Truman Show (1998) – 8/10
  • Song of the South (1946) – 7/10
  • The Chase (1994) – 6/10
  • The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959) – 9/10
  • Persona (1966) – 10/10
  • Kong: Skull Island (2017) – 6/10
  • Cemetery Man (1994) – 8/10
  • Creak (2015) – 5/10
  • Every 90s Commercial Ever (2015) – 10/10
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SilverWook said:

Really surprised this is being portrayed as a bomb just because it didn’t smash any opening weekend records. By today’s standards Titanic would be considered a failure.

Blade Runner is too much of a cult/niche film to pull the kind of money some people apparently want it to pull.

I’m assuming.

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Blade Runner is niche? Apparently I don’t have that many friends, because most people I know like Blade Runner.

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I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.

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Most people I know have either never seen it or saw it once and don’t really remember it that well.

I fall into that second category.

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TV’s Frink said:

Most people I know have either never seen it or saw it once and don’t really remember it that well.

I fall into that second category.

Most people I know I have never discussed blade runner with, so I have no idea how they feel. The fault is mine, obviously.

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TV’s Frink said:

SilverWook said:

Really surprised this is being portrayed as a bomb just because it didn’t smash any opening weekend records. By today’s standards Titanic would be considered a failure.

Blade Runner is too much of a cult/niche film to pull the kind of money some people apparently want it to pull.

I’m assuming.

This is true.

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TV’s Frink said:

Most people I know have either never seen it or saw it once and don’t really remember it that well.

I fall into that second category.

“Personal anecdotes are representations of universal truth.”

-A Guy Who Sometimes Comes Here

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I know a fair amount of people that love Blade Runner just like me but I still realize it is a niche film. The original was a cult classic. Both are slow, esoteric, and existential. Not the the standard sci-fi action fare. Ultimately the low numbers aren’t that much of a surprise. We should just be grateful they made the film in the first place (and hope that one day down the line they might be crazy enough to make another).

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darth_ender said:

TV’s Frink said:

Most people I know have either never seen it or saw it once and don’t really remember it that well.

I fall into that second category.

“Personal anecdotes are representations of universal truth.”

-A Guy Who Sometimes Comes Here

Lol, however it was just a counterpoint to the “everyone I know is super into it so it can’t be a niche film” comment.

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BR 2049

Good grief.
My brief reaction spoiler free quick analysis.
https://wordpress.com/post/thehificelluloidmonster.wordpress.com/1203

It’s not really bad…but it isn’t good. To me 2049 is everything critics complained the original was in 1982 when describing the theatrical version.

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ChainsawAsh said:

Wow, Solaris was your first foreign film? I’ve known people who are super into foreign films that couldn’t stand Solaris.

I’m into world cinema in a big way and I loved Solaris. I’ve also seen the Soderbergh adaptation. Lew derided Soderbergh’s approach as reducing the storyline to, “Love in Outer Space.”

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Might I recommend:

  • Pan’s Labyrinth
  • Let the Right One In
  • City of God (2002)
  • Rashomon (or any Kurosawa, but that’s my favorite)
  • The Lives of Others
  • Das Boot
  • Stalker (same director as Solaris)

All good choices. I saw City of God at my local art house cinema during its original release and I was transfixed from beginning to end. During a conversation with a Brazilian, I mentioned it and they launched into a tirade, “Cidade de Deus is not the only film from Brazil!” Yep, I had no idea. That entire semester during my BA where I studied Hispanic and Lusophone cinema was all for nothing. 😃

I’d also recommend:

  • The Golden Dream
  • Joint Security Area
  • Black Book
  • The Baader Meinhof Complex
  • La Haine
  • Mesrine
  • Elevate (2011)

The other day, I caught Viva Zapata on TV - the combination of Kazan and Steinbeck sold me and it was interesting to see how it had influenced the work of so many filmmakers - from Lucas, to Coppola, to Noyce.

“Logic is the battlefield of adulthood.”

  • Howard Berk
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Ah, yeah, Baader-Meinhof is great too! I’ll have to check out the others on your list eventually, too.

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TM2YC’s Ghostbusters III (edit of Ghostbusters (2016)). Considering the source material, I was surprised at how well I enjoyed this movie! Even though it didn’t fit into the continuity at all, I still enjoyed it quite a bit.

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TV’s Frink said:

Most people I know have either never seen it or saw it once and don’t really remember it that well.

I fall into that second category.

I don’t know why people are acting so shocked that the new Bladerunner is flopping. It’s almost three hours long and is a sequel to a standalone film made nearly 40 years ago that most people haven’t seen in its entirety.

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moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

Most people I know have either never seen it or saw it once and don’t really remember it that well.

I fall into that second category.

I don’t know why people are acting so shocked that the new Bladerunner is flopping. It’s almost three hours long and is a sequel to a standalone film made nearly 40 years ago that most people haven’t seen in its entirety.

I don’t know that I’d say it’s “flopping.” Sure, it’s not a blockbuster hit; but it is a damn good movie, and isn’t that what movies are all about? Not anymore, I suppose.

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Whether a film is a flop or not depends on its box office, not its quality.

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DominicCobb said:

Whether a film is a flop or not depends on its box office, not its quality.

Of course, I guess the term flop has just become associated with bad movies, in my mind, so I have trouble calling it that.

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I’ve also heard some people online, not here but elsewhere, giving others hell for not wanting to see this movie even though it’s good. Just think about all of the 90+% movies on Rotten Tomatoes that you’ve skipped because you had no interest in them.

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