In contrast, though this year's nominees have a lot of variety, but none so far has crossed the "very good" tag for me. Most of them seem like retreads of familiar things. (Except maybe Dunkirk)
Hoping Ladybird or Phantom Thread changes that.
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yovargas wrote:I was in the minority in finding Moonlight and Arrival just okay.
Silence is in my (very long) "to do" movie list. The only 2016 movie I would have put in the very-good-to-great was foreign film The Handmaiden. (And Civil War on the more "pop" side of things.)
Whereas in 2017, all these qualified for me:
Get Out
Baby Driver
mother!
Ladybird
Shape of Water (though fully agree nothing comes close to Pan's)
And again on the more "pop" side:
Spiderman homecoming
Thor Ragnarok
Coco
Smaug's voice wrote:Mother! Is a weird film (to say the least) it's pretty well made. But the main metaphor is laid so thick and obviously in it that I ended up hating it.
And I get bored of slow, reflective films so, yeah, you're probably right.I have a feeling you won't like Silence a lot, yov.it's a long and bleak film with long stretches of nothing really happening. But I do like slow, reflective films.
I was actually thinking something similar yesterday about how Cinematic some games are. Given a lot of the big set pieces in movies are entirely, or almost entirely CG, when will they have to start recognising games. I know we discussed this before in "Games as an Art Form" but seriously some of this wouldn't look out of place in a Marvel movie. Bear in mind these are not cut scenes but interactive scripted eventsyovargas wrote: It would be kinda cool if the Oscars had an award for something like best action choreography or best stunt work. I would totally get behind that.
That is awesome.Voronwë the Faithful wrote:I haven't seen the movie but I seen lots of stuff on Facebook of folks in the African-American drumming community doing impromptu drum and dance performances at showings.
This is why I think it deserves Best Screenplay. The movie makes writing dialogue that good, so natural and sincere, seem effortless, but given how rare it you know that it's really damn difficult.Túrin Turambar wrote:Lady Bird. I’ve tried to write a proper review, but I don’t have much to say beyond praising it for being a very well-made and entertaining film. Particularly the writing and the acting. It hardly needs to be said again, but it shows just how critical the script is to a film – while the performances are all great I feel the foundational strength of the movie is in the dialogue. I wish more big-budget directors would understand this.
Frelga wrote:Wanna rant about it?yovargas wrote:Did he? I guess I don't really remember it that well since I only saw it once (because I kind of hated it...)I watched for the second time just last week, and, well, did not hate it quite as much. Ultron is probably my second favorite Marvel villain after Loki, just for how done he is with humans.