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Handman said:

Also recently saw Torn Curtain, but I saw it immediately after seeing Marnie, so I wasn’t very impressed with it.

Interesting. I saw Marnie years ago and don’t remember being terribly impressed by it.

There just wasn’t very much going on in Torn Curtain. It felt pretty standard, and by that time other filmmakers were doing Hitchcock better than Hitchcock with things like Charade. Marnie had the benefit of the psychological stuff, which was interesting, and most of Hitchcock’s old crew.

Handman said:

There just wasn’t very much going on in Torn Curtain. It felt pretty standard, and by that time other filmmakers were doing Hitchcock better than Hitchcock with things like Charade. Marnie had the benefit of the psychological stuff, which was interesting, and most of Hitchcock’s old crew.

I’m not necessarily saying Torn Curtain is better, just didn’t seem to be a chasm in quality between them. You make a good point though. That it came out in 1966 is kind of weird, honestly. I feel like he would’ve made that same film the same exact way had it been decades earlier. Certainly fairly basic for him.

Definitely. Reading into the production of the film is pretty interesting too. Hitchcock was never happy with it, the studio forced Paul Newman and Julie Andrews into it, discarded the Bernard Hermann score, and forced him into production before he was satisfied with the script. Kind of wild, really.

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It’s like you want me to provide you a list or something. . . .

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After some reconsideration, I’ve decided to upgrade my rating to a perfect 10.

Satisfied, Java Man?

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After some reconsideration, I’ve decided to upgrade my rating to a perfect 10.

Satisfied, Java Man?

Of course I’m not satisfied. Why do you think I write? A man writes because he is tormented. Because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and others that he is worth something.

Deep.

It’s a line from the movie, just in case it wasn’t clear.

Crazy Rich Asians

In the past few days, I’ve read countless articles about how significant this movie is, being the first large Hollywood production to feature an all-Asian cast since 1993. Now, its significance to the cultural forces at play here are undeniable, but the question remains if it’s still a good movie.

And, for the most part, it is. But, it is still entrapped in all those rom-com cliches you’re probably already familiar with. After a strange prologue, weirdly disjointed from the rest of the film (and the only scene to feature white actors in a speaking role, only further distancing it from the story it ends up telling), the film plays out as any number of other rom-coms do. Beautiful woman falls in love with a rich man, and comes to find his family doesn’t approve of her. There’s a wacky comic relief character and, wow, look how wacky everyone is! But, of course, everything manages to work out by the time the credits role, because that’s how all of these movies end.

I was also surprised at the look of the production, in that it felt very much like any other studio film. Unfortunately, that is not a compliment. The film is not very pretty to look at. I had read that this film was initially going to be a Netflix production, and I don’t think it would look too out of place there.

It sounds like I’m beating this movie to a pulp, but it really isn’t awful. The cast is serviceable, and Constance Wu is delightful in the lead. I had just hoped, with all that I’ve read about how groundbreaking this film is, that it would have more to offer. I had seen this film with a friend of mine, an Asian-American (he said he felt obligated to see it, haha), and upon leaving the theater, all he could muster was that it was “alright”.

However, despite either of our feelings (or lack thereof), Crazy Rich Asians is already a smash hit. Let’s hope that its success will bring in better films from this too often ignored demographic.

Oh, gosh, it’s so hard to rank those movies. But I definitely love Spartacus. It doesn’t really fit with any of his other movies.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Paths of Glory is actually the only Kubrick older than Strangelove that I’ve seen.

Next BN Criterion sale, I want to pick up Paths of Glory and The Killing.

You’d be making a smart choice.

But not as good as the Barnes and Noble sales… most of the time.

Always smart to keep your eyes on eBay too. That’s how I just got the Qatsi trilogy for $30 (new and unopened, with a B&N price tag still on it for $79.99).