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Franck
I wasn't really convinced by the film at first and the plot is pretty dodgy but as the film went on I got really engaged in it. I'll probably think less of it after a re-watch but for now I'll just enjoy the experience.
I disagree. I think the last 30 minutes or so really drive home that the film is meant to be something of a modern-day 2001 experience rather than a sci-fi doomsday film.
The Platypus
No matter how much Nolan wants to be Kubrick, he'll never get away from the fact that he's Spielberg. He can deliver an emotional journey, but he's filled the film with so much fake depth and philosophy that only answers questions he himself has fabricated for the film.
Also, the film should've ended when McConaughey is floating around in space.
Franck
The Platypus
The answer is no.
Telegram Sam
Franck
The first film is legitimately one of the very best of all time, the overly dramatic deaths typical of films from that era look silly now, more than 40 years later, but otherwise it is essentially a perfect film.
The second film is also excellent, though for me it doesn't quite reach into the greatest of all time territory of the first.
The third film is a mediocre mess, that mixes a lot of bad, like the awful plot and Sofia Coppola's non-acting with some brief glimpses of greatness, like the scene where Anthony sings for his father. Overall the music is the only thing in this film worthy of the title.
The Platypus
1: masterpiece
2: better masterpiece
3: doesn't exist
The overly dramatic deaths isn't really a 70s thing, as much as it is a stylistic choice from Coppola. He loved the operatic and overly dramatic.
Compare it to films like French Connection, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver from the same era. Nothing alike.
Franck
Out of those films only The French Connection was made before The Godfather. I don't think of it as a 70s thing, more of an old school thing, it's how someone being shot to death used to be portrayed in films in the 40s, 50s and 60s, The Godfather is a film that has one foot in the modern and the other in the traditional, especially as it was made right at the start of the 70s, and I think the dramatic deaths is an element of the traditional.
With my modern eyes I think it looks silly because for the past 30 or so years people have only died that way in films either for comedic effect or as a light-hearted homage to films of the past.
Franck
Strange is the only word I could think of to describe it.
The Platypus
Coppola was always on the forefront. Whether it was made in 69 or 75, I can pretty much guarantee you it would've been made in the same way. Realism, grit and groundedness began breaking through in Hollywood in the late 60s. Films like Bonnie and Clyde (which has a pretty operatic, but at the same time pretty rough scene of the main characters getting slaughtered) and Easy Rider changed the way Hollywood made films.
Having a foot in the traditional has nothing to do with it being made in the early 70s, it's very much a stylistic choice.
bmg033
Franck
Franck
Watching a film that old is a real reminder of just how much filmmaking has progressed in the past 50 years.
The Platypus
Franck
Am I turning you on or am I making you angry?
The Platypus
Franck
Amour (2012) dir. Michael Haneke
Shows love from a different perspective than that typically seen in fiction, depicting the struggles of an elderly couple after the wife suffers a stroke. A film that is both very sweet and thoroughly depressing.
Her (2013) dir. Spike Jonze
A man who writes other people's intimate letters for a living falls in love with an intelligent operating system, and it's exactly as weird as it sounds.
Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013) dir. Abdellatif Kechiche
Probably the best coming-of-age film that I have seen, shows the transformation of young Adèle from teen-aged girl to a woman through her passionate lesbian relationship with a blue-haired painter.
bmg033
Franck
Producer, apparently. Doesn't surprise me as he got started making skateboarding films.
Telegram Sam
Tommo.
This is on my list to see. Heard so many good things since it came out in US about it and Keaton
Franck
A film centred on a psychopath who isn't a serial killer, don't see that very often. Pretty good, Gyllenhaal is really creepy as the lead character.
Kano134
Franck
I loved it when I saw in in the cinema three months ago. Especially impressive as it was the feature film début for both the director and the screenwriter.
The Platypus
Telegram Sam
Franck
The Platypus
Franck, I'm gonna crack your fucking head open.
Franck
I'm just saying, what I've heard so far isn't very promising.
The Platypus
I'm in.