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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - not a good movie.

Lady Bird - a really great movie.

As far as my Oscar picks go, I’m pulling for Get Out, Phantom Thread and Lady Bird. I liked The Shape of Water and Dunkirk too, but they’re decidedly second-tier. Phantom Thread was probably my personal favorite, but I think Get Out is definitely the most important film of the year and the one people are going to still be talking about the most twenty years from now. As for Lady Bird, it was beautifully done and hit my early-2000s-Catholic-school feelings hard. I’ve been a big fan of Greta Gerwig for a while now and would love to see her get some recognition for this.

Three Billboards is the only one I saw that I didn’t like. It was very well crafted and full of legitimately Oscar-worthy performances, but I just found the screenplay to be preposterous.

I didn’t see The Post, Call Me By Your Name, or Darkest Hour.

ray_afraid said:

(Also, Clover3 was bad. BR2 was great.)

This.

joefavs said:

I think Get Out is definitely the most important film of the year and the one people are going to still be talking about the most twenty years from now.

No doubt about that.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Moon (2009)

A really enjoyable, interesting, and realistic science fiction film. A masterpiece? No. But a really great directorial debut. I’m definitely going to try and seek out what Duncan Jones has done since.

It pains to me to say this, but… um… maybe don’t? Or at least don’t get your expectations too high.

I haven’t seen Source Code since it came out, but I do remember hating it quite a bit after seeing what he’s capable of in Moon. Warcraft I haven’t forced myself to sit through, I just can’t muster the will. It’s a blockbustery studio flick, though, so it might be perfectly acceptable cinematic fast-food.

Mute is an utter disaster, but this one I feel sympathetic towards. There’s clearly heart and several great films in this disjointed, badly written, often poorly acted, miscast mess. It feels as if just about everything that could’ve gone wrong has gone horribly wrong, except for Clint Mansell who knocks it out of the park again.

I’ve just seen it, so it’s all really loose thoughts at this point, but the failure to do anything with the main character and the thematic thread that’s set up, but never really followed through… at all and then somehow concluded without there being a thematic thread to conclude… completely kills this movie. On that note, the screenplay they filmed feels like a failed initial draft that should’ve been thrown out half-way through writing. It really is that bad. Several decades of polish too many?

In view of the above, Paul Rudd is incredibly grating as the counterpoint to the protagonist (?). He’s focusing on playing against type to the point where he loses track of the movie, it feels like.

And they should’ve gone lighter on the special effects - they’re distractingly terrible. Minor quibble in the grand scheme of things, but annoying given that the worldbuilding is pretty good.

At least it wasn’t boring.

m_s0 said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Moon (2009)

A really enjoyable, interesting, and realistic science fiction film. A masterpiece? No. But a really great directorial debut. I’m definitely going to try and seek out what Duncan Jones has done since.

It pains to me to say this, but… um… maybe don’t? Or at least don’t get your expectations too high.

Moon is great, Source Code is pretty good, Warcraft is meh and I haven’t seen Mute but I see a pattern here.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Yeah, after writing this, I actually went and looked this up. Source Code is the only one I’m remotely interested in seeing.

Definitely check it out.

Sir Ridley said:

m_s0 said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Moon (2009)

A really enjoyable, interesting, and realistic science fiction film. A masterpiece? No. But a really great directorial debut. I’m definitely going to try and seek out what Duncan Jones has done since.

It pains to me to say this, but… um… maybe don’t? Or at least don’t get your expectations too high.

Moon is great, Source Code is pretty good, Warcraft is meh and I haven’t seen Mute but I see a pattern here.

Somehow I liked Warcraft better than Mute. And I didn’t really like Warcraft.

Wow, Mute must be really bad.

Source Code was no Moon, but I liked it well enough. Haven’t seen any of Duncan Jones’s other stuff.

joefavs said:

That’s no Moon

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suspiciouscoffee said:

No more Barneys?

The gag was amusing for a while, but I feel it’s run its course.

Chairman of the Board?

What is wrong with you?

TV’s Frink said:

Chairman of the Board?

What is wrong with you?

Watched it as a kid, liked it. Wanted to revisit it to see how it held up, it doesn’t.

End of line.

Days of Wine and Roses (1962) - Perhaps Hollywood’s best depiction of alcoholism, with great performances from Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick. It goes a bit far out there that it sometimes loses its effectiveness for me, particularly in the second act, but it’s very strong material. Especially that ending!

Handman said:

Days of Wine and Roses (1962) - Perhaps Hollywood’s best depiction of alcoholism, with great performances from Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick. It goes a bit far out there that it sometimes loses its effectiveness for me, particularly in the second act, but it’s very strong material. Especially that ending!

In what way? Should I watch it or should I absolutely not watch it?