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 Post subject: Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
PostPosted: Thu July 28, 2022 3:58 pm 
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I generally hate these Hollywood hagiographies. They are so fake.

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And formulaic.

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I think this one is trying to be "fake"

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Jorge wrote:
I think this one is trying to be "fake"

You mean like in a sorta I’m Not There kinda way?

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Or like in a Spencer kind of way

Using a real story as a sort of canvas to explore themes and ideas

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I generally hate these Hollywood hagiographies. They are so fake.

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That Brad Pitt Bullet Train movie looks absolutely terrible. The trailer looks like it's trying so goddamn hard to be a Shane Black movie

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That Brad Pitt Bullet Train movie looks absolutely terrible. The trailer looks like it's trying so goddamn hard to be a Shane Black movie

i agree but I'm kind of surprised to hear you say this


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i find it difficult to accept that the guy who directed The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford -- a film with a final act that literally dramatizes the problems of (auto)biographical representation -- would be making hagiography. we don't need to invoke other films, like Spencer, as desirable alternatives to what burt criticizes. dominik is already on record.

a big part of what makes hollywood biopics so insufferably dull is historical pedantry, of which a critique centered on authenticity (whether it has to do with accents or otherwise) is just a part

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hagiography is a necessarily uncritical mode. dominik's first historical drama featured an auto-critique at its center. maybe dominik has changed since then, but i doubt it. anyways. i'm mostly jazzed about Blonde. wish it hadn't been produced by netflix, which has an overwhelmingly bad track record of producing great movies.

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I trust Andrew Dominik.

And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).

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What are there, like 40 good movies?


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The Argonaut wrote:
I trust Andrew Dominik.

And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).


i think The Irishman is legitimately great, Okja has legitimately great politics. have totally lost interest in kaufman, so i never saw that one. Buster is mostly gold.

spoink -- what's the last great movie you saw?

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Malloy wrote:
Buster is mostly gold.

"Meal Ticket" and "The Mortal Remains" were average. The rest is top shelf.

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Malloy wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:
I trust Andrew Dominik.

And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).


i think The Irishman is legitimately great, Okja has legitimately great politics. have totally lost interest in kaufman, so i never saw that one. Buster is mostly gold.

spoink -- what's the last great movie you saw?

Give us the narrative of your relationship with Kaufman. Were you ever interested?

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The Argonaut wrote:
Malloy wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:
I trust Andrew Dominik.

And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).


i think The Irishman is legitimately great, Okja has legitimately great politics. have totally lost interest in kaufman, so i never saw that one. Buster is mostly gold.

spoink -- what's the last great movie you saw?

Give us the narrative of your relationship with Kaufman. Were you ever interested?


former kaufman fanboy. i don't know that my relationship to his movies is necessarily complicated enough to merit a narrative account. the fairest way to put it is this: my boredom with myself has grown proportionally to my impatience with self-reflexivity & neuroses

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Malloy wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:
I trust Andrew Dominik.

And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).


i think The Irishman is legitimately great, Okja has legitimately great politics. have totally lost interest in kaufman, so i never saw that one. Buster is mostly gold.

spoink -- what's the last great movie you saw?

I don’t even know.


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