General Movie Thread

[masterofsparks]

Yeah, it looked really good.  I had no idea it was digital until afterward, when I went online to look something up about it.

And has Tarantino cracked a late-period Bergman movie much?

I think so. I read an interview where he said his next movie will be a "re-imagining of Fanny & Alexander in the style of Cannibal Holocaust." I wish I was making this up.*





* - I am.

[jbissell]

Did anyone see Moon?

I'm pretty sure it's the director's first feature, and you can tell. He draws way too much attention to his plundering of bits and pieces from other sci-fi films, especially 2001. To be fair, a lot of this comes from of the script, and you can excuse it as homage, but I think he also lacks a strong visual sensibility of his own, compounding the problem.

I was listening to a Salon.com interview with him and he said that since the classic sci-fi comparisons were inevitable, he just decided to embrace certain elements like Hal and the design from Aliens.  I liked how the station has a very lived-in feel to it. 

I agree with the Rockwell praise, I thought he was great.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Yeah, it looked really good.  I had no idea it was digital until afterward, when I went online to look something up about it.

And has Tarantino cracked a late-period Bergman movie much?

I think so. I read an interview where he said his next movie will be a "re-imagining of Fanny & Alexander in the style of Cannibal Holocaust." I wish I was making this up.*





* - I am.

This is actually a better idea than most of what Tarantino has done.

[dave from knoxville]

Yeah, it looked really good.  I had no idea it was digital until afterward, when I went online to look something up about it.

And has Tarantino cracked a late-period Bergman Trent L Strauss movie much?

fixed

[crumbum]

Yet another extensively researched Tarantino opinion that I completely discount.   Admittedly many directors lose their drive or fall by the wayside but a lot more than 3 have had great 30-year + careers. 

Fair enough, I was pretty rash in my declaration, and there are certainly more than three such careers. Mann could be on his way to greater things, but the odds seem pretty low. What I got from QT's statement and agreed with was that the vast majority of the best directors have their great period pretty early in their career, and then set off on a long and slow decline. In general with my favourites I end up spending a ridiculous amount of time combing through the late period chaff looking for the wheat (I think that's how the analogy goes), and ending up wishing they'd quit while they were ahead.

The problem with Tarantino saying it might be that 20 years is giving him too much time.

[Martin]

I'm a big Mann Fann. Love everything from Thief onwards! QT is off his rockers as usual.

Also, it's The Insider, you Mannadummy, not The Informant. Crack a best-movie-based-on-a-60-minutes-segment much?

[masterofsparks]

Yet another extensively researched Tarantino opinion that I completely discount.   Admittedly many directors lose their drive or fall by the wayside but a lot more than 3 have had great 30-year + careers. 

Fair enough, I was pretty rash in my declaration, and there are certainly more than three such careers. Mann could be on his way to greater things, but the odds seem pretty low. What I got from QT's statement and agreed with was that the vast majority of the best directors have their great period pretty early in their career, and then set off on a long and slow decline. In general with my favourites I end up spending a ridiculous amount of time combing through the late period chaff looking for the wheat (I think that's how the analogy goes), and ending up wishing they'd quit while they were ahead.

The problem with Tarantino saying it might be that 20 years is giving him too much time.

Hopefully this means Tarantino will find a new job in 3 years.

[Martin]

Directors with good 20+ years careers:

Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Lars von Trier, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Alain Resnais, Michael Mann, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, John Huston, Werner Herzog, John Ford, Clint Eastwood, Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Jacques Tourneur, Sam Fuller, Wim Wenders, Jan Troell, Robert Bresson, Agnès Varda, Brian De Palma, John Waters, Steven Spielberg etc etc.

I know this is a pointless exercise (it's a matter of taste etc), and I don't wanna be all Comic Book Guy about this, but all of these guys have made great films late (20 years on) in their careers, and far from all of them delivered right out the gates. QT's statement is ludicrous.

[fletcher munson]

Yeah, exactly, it is all pointless because it's just a matter of opinion and Quentin Tarantino's opinion is just as valid as anyone else's.  By the way, could any of you putting Tarantino down pull off a Kill Bill.  Just wondering.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Yeah, exactly, it is all pointless because it's just a matter of opinion and Quentin Tarantino's opinion is just as valid as anyone else's.  By the way, could any of you putting Tarantino down pull off a Kill Bill.  Just wondering.

Define "pull off."

[yesno]

I love Michael Mann, and in a totally unrelated continuation to that sentence, Martin is right, In the Loop is very good.

[Trembling Eagle]

I watched Into the Wild. Depressing.

[kittykittymeowmixhead]

I want to see Bruno.

[fletcher munson]

Me too, and I can't wait to see Moon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0j_ONmVcXA&feature=fvst

[kittykittymeowmixhead]

Gotta love Sam Rockwell.

NPR interview about Moon:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105294494