Last Film You Saw

mrbelfry said:
Just watched Michael. I would describe it as an enjoyable movie but not a good one. It felt like the kind of film a cult would make about it's founder but it was easy to see MJ's talent and both leads were good. Must have been weird for the actor playing Michael to be reacting to his own grandfather. Despite the big musical numbers at the end it did have an unsatisfying ending if you view it as a movie and obviously they left out a bunch of his later life.

It was very clumsy in foreshadowing the subsequent drug addiction and as much as Joe's insistence that Michael think about his brothers I don't even think they were named and you got no sense of them at all.

I think it's a very British thing to also be cynical of sincerity and I think only in Britain would another pop star wiggle his bum during another artists song and I think if you were on Jarvis Cockers side in that discourse there is a lot to find unintentionally funny.

It was also mad to think (assuming it's true) that Jackson was making Thriller whilst living with his parents. He remains an intriguing character for obvious reasons and whilst I don't think the controversy around his accusations will ever been truly resolved the film did seem to be going out of its way to demonstrate how child like he was so much so that it wasnt clear how old he was in any of the segments (unless you were keeping track of the dates).

I also felt a little bit sorry for Antoine Fuqua directing. There were a few moments that demonstrated it was being filmed by a proper director but other times it felt like a commercial. He is a little inconsistent as a film maker but at his best his films have a big of weight and grit. I guess though that this might not have been the project for it but Joe Jackson could have been a classic villain with a big of Fuqua Flair. The film told you he was terrifying rather than showing you except for a couple of bits at the beginning. In summary much more enjoyable than I was expecting but also very unsatisfying
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I'm not going to critique your review, but there are reasons why the film might feel 'unsatisfying' (and lots and lots of post "Michael" information seeping through in the background, some of which is astonishing, true or not) and from what I understand, the film was going to look at some of the accusations, but some stuff is still going through the courts and some families declined being involved in the film (along with some family members, of course, and who knows why).

So, essentially, things needed to be omitted, reshot and rejigged.

I believe they're looking at a part two for the rest of his career and, possibly, address some of the controversy. As it's at $750,000 without opening in China, I believe it will reach around about a billion, so opens the door for the second film.
 
One last deal....Danny dyer plays a good part as a football agent,kind of got the plot after 15 minutes but a watchable 90 min film.7/10
 
I am a huge film fan - everything from Hollywood to animated to international cinema. I go to the cinema very often.

Anyway, I went to see Close Encounters of the Third Kind on Tuesday night - it was a notable gap in my watchlist as I'd never seen it before. I really enjoyed it on the big screen - the final scenes were mesmerising on a cinema screen.

Other great films watched for the first time recently: Ugetsu, Chungking Express, Hot Fuzz, Sansho the Bailiff, Peeping Tom, Eyes Without a Face, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, M, The Vanishing, and Harakiri. Harakiri is the pick of the bunch - an incredible film.

And here's my recent 4k haul
 

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Boo or Boo-urns said:
Here's my review of Harakiri (1962)
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Gave it a like my man - very good review that mate and quite concise too. I have a pdf of my film reviews I had on letterboxd before I left the site (seeing you alluded to it). I too love reading and writing reviews.

I enjoyed reading that. Thanks. The Sword of Doom and Onibaba are on my list too, along with the Hidden Fortress, Ran, Jojimbo and Sanjuro. However, I have seen High and Low, Seven Samurai, Rashomon and Throne of Blood.

It feels like South Korea in the 21st century has taken over where Ozu and Kurosawa left off with Japanese films.
 
Boo or Boo-urns said:
RAN (1985) in 4k must have been glorious.
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I haven't got around to it yet - and it will be my first ever watch. But I am looking forward to it. I deliberately put it off til I could get the disc. Had it a while now and not got to it - but hopefully during the week.

I have a strong set up - a 55 inch 2025 AI Samsung TV, so pretty normal TV. But I feed it world-class sources - Sonos Beam Gen 2 sound bar, Panasonic UB820 and Nvidia Shield Pro.
 
Davie82 said:
I haven't got around to it yet - and it will be my first ever watch. But I am looking forward to it. I deliberately put it off til I could get the disc.
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Kurusawa was going blind by the time they shot RAN (1985) and he relied on his cinematographer to follow his visual descriptions also using his own paintings as storyboards to depict the imagery to portray in his film.

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Boo or Boo-urns said:
Kurusawa was going blind by the time they shot RAN (1985) and he relied on his cinematographer to follow his visual descriptions by using his own paintings as storyboards to depict the imagery to portray in his film.

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Yeah I knew he went blind, it was a shame.

Those paintings are stunning, though. I did hear that the yellow, red and blue primary colours of the armies look amazing on UHD.
 
Davie82 said:
I am a huge film fan - everything from Hollywood to animated to international cinema. I go to the cinema very often.

Anyway, I went to see Close Encounters of the Third Kind on Tuesday night - it was a notable gap in my watchlist as I'd never seen it before. I really enjoyed it on the big screen - the final scenes were mesmerising on a cinema screen.

Other great films watched for the first time recently: Ugetsu, Chungking Express, Hot Fuzz, Sansho the Bailiff, Peeping Tom, Eyes Without a Face, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, M, The Vanishing, and Harakiri. Harakiri is the pick of the bunch - an incredible film.

And here's my recent 4k haul
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No Takashi Miike or Kiyoshi Kurosawa?
 
Boo or Boo-urns said:
Kurusawa was going blind by the time they shot RAN (1985) and he relied on his cinematographer to follow his visual descriptions also using his own paintings as storyboards to depict the imagery to portray in his film.

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I also love the background landscapes in Dreams (1990).
 
In a violent nature. Really dont like gory stuff like Saw, Hostel etc, but do like a classic slasher.
But theres a fine line between comic book violence (friday 13th's, halloween's) and nasty, brutal violence like this. Just not for me.
Having said that, it was quite inventive and enjoyable. Genuinely tense in the end aswell. 6/10
 
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