mexico1970
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If it's nominated for the oscars it's a sure sign that it should be avoided.
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If it's nominated for the oscars it's a sure sign that it should be avoided.
Gareth Barry Conlon
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Just watched this over the weekend.The French Dispatch
Can't believe there hasn't been more hype around this one. It's not available everywhere which may explain that, I had to go to the Trafford Centre to watch it but it's well worth it.
It's about a fictional magazine in a fictional twentieth century French town for an American Newspaper. It's a Wes Anderson film so it's quirky and weird but the settings are brilliant as you'd expect.
It's broken into 3 stories. The 1st one with Benicio Del Toro and Lea Seydoux is worth the admission alone. If you know you know.
7/10
Excellent. 8/10
Blue Maverick
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Worth on Netflix true story about how compensation was paid to the victims of 9/11, 6.5/10 and I wanted to twat the lawyer who represented the CEOs, greedy fuckers.
Del_Bosque
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Just watched Jeen-Yuhs part 1. Is it 3 films? Is it a series? It's 7 hours long...
Anyway it's a great watch. Even if you don't like Kanye West or his music/rap in general it's absolutely fascinating seeing his rise to the top.
The scene where he's wandering around Def Jam records playing people songs you know will go multi-platinum and make him one of the defining artists of the the 00's and they look at him like he's a tramp yodelling Yoko Ono songs is incredible.
Loved it but got really strong hood documentary vibes off this bit.
Rollsafe doing fire in the booth.
LongsightM13
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The original novel by Donald Ray Pollock is a stunning piece of work and deservedly won loads of awards all over the world. Heard the film was a bit of a mess though, probably would have worked better as a series with such a large cast of charactersDevil all the time - watched this on Netflix at the weekend. Good list of actors who all did a great job, even Tom Holland's deep south accent was good. But the character development was really poor IMO, you don't really feel anything for any of the characters. Things are just happening by them and to them, but no real explanations for anything. It's an exploration of religious values and how trauma can pass through generations of families, but i feel like it doesn't really explore the anything other than giving you information. 6/10 for the acting, and some decent scenes.
Uncle Wally One Ball
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The Power of the Dog is a great filmI cannot understand the oscars these days. I have seen four of the heavily nominated films, Coda, The Power of the Dog, The lost daughter and Don't look up. Two were very bad (TPOTD and TLD) one was ok but hardly what I would call oscar material (don't look up). Only Coda worked for me and it is probably the least fancied. If these are best then bloody hell there must be some absolute shite out there.
Having said that I am looking forward to Dune.
Saddleworth2
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Glad you liked it. I found it tedious in the extreme and a waste of the acting talent employed. Mind you I have a similar view of most of Jane Campions work.The Power of the Dog is a great film
Saddleworth2
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Calibre. A Indy Scottish production from around three years ago. Two Edinburgh yuppies (is that still a term) go deer stalking in the Highlands. What could possibly go wrong?
Well quite a bit in fact. An excellent piece of evidence that highlanders hate lowlanders even more than they dislike English (joke, I’m joking ok, we love you like brothers).
A far better film than you would expect from the budget, good pace with a taut story that says hi to cliche but never shakes hands. You could spend worse 90 minutes. On Netflix.
Well quite a bit in fact. An excellent piece of evidence that highlanders hate lowlanders even more than they dislike English (joke, I’m joking ok, we love you like brothers).
A far better film than you would expect from the budget, good pace with a taut story that says hi to cliche but never shakes hands. You could spend worse 90 minutes. On Netflix.
Bigga
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I think I'm pretty decent at deconstructing film and I think I know what "The Power of the Dog" is supposed to be about, but can anybody explain why the film plays out the way it does?
Very rare a film narrative has me stumped about what it's trying to say or convey, but I play this piece over in my head, from time to time, and find it poorly constructed.
Very rare a film narrative has me stumped about what it's trying to say or convey, but I play this piece over in my head, from time to time, and find it poorly constructed.
I think I'm pretty decent at deconstructing film and I think I know what "The Power of the Dog" is supposed to be about, but can anybody explain why the film plays out the way it does?
Very rare a film narrative has me stumped about what it's trying to say or convey, but I play this piece over in my head, from time to time, and find it poorly constructed.
Yeah the ending was weird but before that thought Was about a man’s sexuality in that era and how isolated and lonely he felt being a “cowboy” rancher. Thought it was ok something different to watch.
Is no interviews of Benedict Cumberbatch about the film and what it’s about?