Last Film You Watched?

Alex H. said:
Saw that in the theater a couple weeks ago.

It's a neat film, very experimental. Great story, great score and great direction of local/first-time actors. The one thing that bothered me was the cinematography. it was shot on film, but it seemed like it was influenced by the recent school of DSLR filmmaking that shoots everything super-shallow just because it can be done. It's that terrible misconception that shallow DOF is what defines "cinematic" footage. It was a good film in most other ways, but I did get tired of all the soft focus as the DoP was working to keep up with the subjects.
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The question is... did you suffer from motion sickness... as I did?


By the time the film had run half way through I could care less about the 'soft/shallow' DoF... it was just a battle not to run to the exit and puke... The Wife had been wanting to see this film for a month or so, so I felt it was obligatory to stay...

I'll probably buy the disk when it comes out... hopefully the small screen will limit any motion that would result in my personal 'distress'...
 
j1clark@ucsd.edu said:
The question is... did you suffer from motion sickness... as I did?


By the time the film had run half way through I could care less about the 'soft/shallow' DoF... it was just a battle not to run to the exit and puke... The Wife had been wanting to see this film for a month or so, so I felt it was obligatory to stay...

I'll probably buy the disk when it comes out... hopefully the small screen will limit any motion that would result in my personal 'distress'...
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It was a super 16mm film and the shallow DOF did not bother me - what did was the occasional shot that was badly out of focus. I thought there was a lot of creative decisions that worked - most importantly the visual language was well thought out for the movie. The story is really being presented to us from Hushpuppy's perspective - and reminded me of how I saw the world when I was that age - in glimpses and pieces with everything much larger than life.

Ultimately though 5yr old Quevenzhane Wallis made the movie what it is - don't think it would have worked with a different cast.
 
Gonna chime in again and say Swimming with Sharks (1994) saw that yesterday after more than 15 years. Once I saw it now... older.. and with some knowledge of cinema... damn. That's a good flick. I loved it. I love the 90's. I think that's my favorite 'kind' of movie. Dunno what to call it though.
 
Last night I watched 'The Hunt for Red October' for the first time ever. There were some "dated" moments, but the story was so enthralling that it captivated me through to the end. I loved the cinematography as well. Great 90's film that still holds up 20+ years later.
 
The Company Men
The Descendants
The Brothers McMullen
Looking For Kitty
Sidewalks Of New York

Tearing through movies daily for inspiration as I write...
 
Pretty in Pink. Saw it for the first time. I really liked the cinematography and color. Everything popped. I liked Annie Potts' character. I thought she was very genuine and it was interesting to see her outside of Ghostbusters.
 
Last night I watched "Beyond the Black Rainbow", the feature debut of director Panos Cosmatos. It was an unusual film, but I liked it. Visually very strong, and I really dug the 80's aesthetic. It had a very dreamlike tone and pacing, which actually made me a bit sleepy while watching it, helped on by the fact that it dragged quite a bit at some parts. Overall I think it was a nice debut film, and I look forward to what Cosmatos does next.
 
Here are a few I watched in my flu-ridden state last week (all on Netflix Instant):

Senna
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Castaway on the Moon
I Saw the Devil
Warrior
BUG
 
Just saw that rarest of birds...a perfect movie. The kind of movie that will always elude the masters, they make great movies but they can't make a perfect movie. A perfect movie can not be made on purpose by people who know what they are doing. A movie that will always remain in a genre of it's own because it cannot be repeated. Every element of this movie is spot on, performance, cinematography, sound, pacing. It is a story that could only work in the medium of film. This could not be a book. Every filmmaker on a budget needs to see this to know that budget need not be a limitation when the stars align. There are movies that I enjoy, movies that I admire and movies that inspire me. But only occasionally do I come across a movie that destroys part of my soul because I won't be the one that made it.

No trailer here, a FULL MOVIE!

I present to you: Six String Samurai



A b-movie transcended.
 
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Ace in the Hole on Netflix. Billy Wilder at his best. A pitch black satire about the media circus that surrounds a man stuck in a cave collapse, with Kirk Douglas as the reporter who exploits the situation for his own selfish gain. Kirk has never been better. Wilder's dialogue has never been sharper. Curiously, the film was hated at the time of release, with several critics calling it unrealistic. Seeing it today, it is sadly all too believable. Great film.
 
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