Films of the year (1 Viewer)

[Cormcolash]

My big problem with Yawn of the Planet of the Apes was that there were no lads getting in the faces of people and whooping like apes when I went to see it

 

[chris d]

My big problem with Yawn of the Planet of the Apes was that there were no lads getting in the faces of people and whooping like apes when I went to see it

Remember this...

Spoiler

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Remember this...

Spoiler

best bit in any film this year

 

[Kermit McDermott]

My main problem with the new apes films & most blockbusters in general....too much CGI.

Hopefully Afternoon of the planet of the apes won't have as much.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

My main problem with the new apes films & most blockbusters in general....too much CGI.

Hopefully Afternoon of the planet of the apes won't have as much.

it's used pretty sparingly in DOTPOTA and mostly it's state of the art motion capture which looks terrific. it's hardly The Scorpion King.

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I do have a problem with CGI gunfire and blood splatter. That's just cheating.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I hate the unnatural body movements.

 

[Cormcolash]

One of the best films of the year was In Order Of Disappearance, but naturally fuck all people here have seen it because it was Norwegian.

 

[ann post]

My main problem with the new apes films & most blockbusters in general....too much CGI.

Hopefully Afternoon of the planet of the apes won't have as much.

yes it really detracted from the unfaltering realism pre-CGI

 

[ann post]

will have a think on the commute home and post my favourites

This sentence has me thinking. I always assumed that you would commute home from work rather than commute home. Maybe you live at work? Anyways i read the etymolgy and it's going in my trivia reservoir

 

[David Kronenbourg]

This sentence has me thinking. I always assumed that you would commute home from work rather than commute home. Maybe you live at work?

yeah whatever

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Adding The Drop to my films of the year. Great, old fashioned crime thriller with a terrific cast.

Foxcatcher didn't do much for me. Good performances but I didn't really get what it was trying to say other than "look at this freak"

 

[Kermit McDermott]

yes it really detracted from the unfaltering realism pre-CGI

fair point, but I still prefer the original POTA films to any of the new ones.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

fair point, but I still prefer the original POTA films to any of the new ones.

The movement was definitely more natural

 

[David Kronenbourg]

@7 - No tomorrow, what did you think of Foxcatcher. I haven't stopped thinking about it since I saw but I didn't enjoy watching it at the time. It felt creepily voyeuristic or something.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

@7 - No tomorrow, what did you think of Foxcatcher. I haven't stopped thinking about it since I saw but I didn't enjoy watching it at the time. It felt creepily voyeuristic or something.

I loved it. Three very strong performances, Ruffalo's probably the most affecting.
Really liked the pace of it, slow and deliberate. And just all the interplay of jealousies, how they all want something from each other and the family interactions.
I thought it worked well how the murder was something they almost just used to tie up the third act. I want to say that another filmmaker would have shown you the murder and then cut to .... Three Years Earlier or something.
It was a murder story where the murder was almost the least important thing. If that makes sense.

In fairness, I had been interested in the story since it happened, so I was well-disposed to like this. Still, I think they did a bang-up job.

 

[george mcfly]

I rewatched True Detective over the weekend and I think it deserves recognition as one of the films of the year.

I'm a big fan of Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen and Robert Chambers and it was amazing to see a film with ideas from their weird fiction.

Also, in certain ways I'd consider it a modern companion piece to The Exorcist.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Also, in certain ways I'd consider it a modern companion piece to The Exorcist.

how so?

 

[george mcfly]

how so?

Spoiler

There are a lot of parallels between Rust as a character and Damien Karras. Both have lost their faith, though in different ways, Karras in his religion and Rust in humanity and both have it restored in facing up to the void in the form of a supernatural/possessed entity.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I also re-watched it again a couple of months ago and agree that it’s absolutely deadly

 

[george mcfly]

I also re-watched it again a couple of months ago and agree that it’s absolutely deadly

Have you read The King In Yellow or any of the weird fiction that it's influenced by? Some amazing stuff