Posted on 02/09/2020 8:44:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I saw 1917. Well done
I saw ford Ferrari. Liked it.
Everyone I know who has watched the movie and every commentary I have read on it believes it to be about class. Notice how the lady of the house is a complete light weight ditz and completely shallow?
Phoenix didn’t do better....he took the role of Joker to the bottom rungs of leftist society after they destroy it. His role as a poor, helpless, fragile, mentally derranged Joker was to put ‘a guilt trip’ on society for why murders/criminals do what they do......it’s societies fault don’t you know!
Yes.
It was worth seeing, yes. Forgettable. The lead actor is pudgy so I had to go into pretend mode. There is no chance a soldier in the 1st world war was fat. Not a chance. That ruined it for me like the players in Dunkirk with the coifed hair and the guy in the raft for forty days the pow movie Angelina Jolie did. Didn’t need a shave or a haircut.
Suspending disbelief in a war film.
I’m spoiled by Band of Brothers. Perfect
Jo Jo Rabbit is excellent - it took guts to put that movie together but it is rather poignant. Ford v Ferrari was interesting and a lot of fun.
Great comments, however I remember Renee Zellweger praised our men and women in uniform and first responders during her acceptance speech. That was refreshing, compared to the other liberal crap we heard tonight. Overall, though, the Hollywood pretenders were pretty quiet regarding politics. I thought they would be MUCH worse...
the big hollywood studios are beholden to china and china only. korean cinema is largely ignored by the studios and has produced much better work for it.
the oscars themselves have always been terrible, no idea how you made it thru it now
That's what bothered me the most (among some other things) about 1917. Really bad casting with the chubby actor Dean-Charles Chapman. The other lead actor (George MacKay) was excellent, and really looked the part.
I saw it on Netflix. I agree with your assessment.
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It shows the horror of war on a very personal level. It is epic but intimate. Everyone I went with liked it but would not see it again and said it was like a gut punch, but there is no gore and little blood.
I thought it was best pic worthy.
You’re the first person I’ve run into who didn’t like it. You didn’t think it was a story well told and extremely entertaining? The ending is completely unpredictable.
I think Parasite depicted how Asians see classes as they are extremely class oriented societies in every sphere of their life.
It’s also how Hollywood celebrities live in their bubble.....which is why they celebrated the movie.
For that, "They Shall Not Grow Old" was a much better movie about WWI.
Wow. I’m impressed with your review. You articulated it perfectly.
It is a first, although it should not have been, in that I felt, that both "Goodbye, Lenin" and "The Lives of Others" were two German films that should have won Best Picture.
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ks I was ready to get flamed for that.
I have been wanting to see that one.
My son and I saw 1917 tonight. Even after having seen the real thing in Peter Jackson’s stunning “They Shall Not Grow Old”, 1917 kind of blew us away. Its cinematography was masterful, not in a cliched or overly dramatic manner, but a way that pulled us into each scene, and often conveyed a sense of surreal beauty. Yet, the possibility of sudden, violent death was felt throughout, and many sweeping panoramas were, up close, a dark morass of mud, bodies, rats, and ashes, showing the stark horrors of WW1 trench warfare. Not gratuitously, but realistically. The characters are believable and real; ordinary soldiers doing extraordinary things out of duty, without Hollywood-esque false heroics or superhuman abilities.
I definitely recommend this movie.
As a side note, Ford v Ferrari was another excellent film from last year.
I didn’t think it was well told or entertaining....Perhaps because it actually depicted how superficial Asian cultures really are when it comes to classes, and this in every area of their life...and the ending was very predictable.
I could go on but I’ve written enough on this thread for tonight...
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