Talk About Movies: Part 4

I always thought political art was a contradiction in terms.

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These "rules" sound like someone selecting assorted doughnuts. Let's see, I'll have one woman actor, a couple Pakistani grips, and a deaf cinematographer.

And are women really an underrepresented group?

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Not in the movies I watch.

2 thumbs up

Just saw Dune 2.

It was good. Great looking, great sound, some pretty good performances. Fun and worth seeing. It was good.

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Shall We Dance (1996)

I saw this one in the theater when it first was released. Hard to believe it was 28 years ago, and although I have what I think is a good memory, I only remembered the opening scenes.

I watched it again because it stars Koji Yakusho from Perfect Days. He plays a stodgy account (is there another kind?) who spots a young woman gazing from the window of a dance studio, so he takes up ballroom dancing. The woman is a pro, but her father makes her teach in the studio to learn a much needed lesson.

This is a charming and delightful film with a terrific cast of characters, especially the three novice dancers, the detectives who follow Yakusho's character (they have been hired by his wife who suspects him of cheating. He's not), and other assorted dancers, including one who works in the same office as Yakusho.

I can't see anyone not liking this film. It's free on YouTube.

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And much better than the American remake.

great movie

Even though it was little more than a procedural exercise, I rather enjoyed the slow burn of Fastbender in The Killer.

I got a guy that makes me Bootleg discs..

These are all great movies. Regarding the Oscars, I can't imagine how Toni Collette and Adam Sandler weren't even nominated for their roles in these films.

But what is the Civil War film, and does it have anything to do with these three?

Upcoming A24 release set in near future USA in midst of a civil war

it does not... just the first film in the iMax series, which was obviously Garland's.
I think A24 is trying to market their IP's in new and interesting ways, and I applaud them for all the creativity of their films and the pushing of the marketing narrative.

It's been a long time since I went to an Imax theater, and the only things I ever saw that were films made specifically for the Imax format. What is it like seeing a regular movie on Imax? Is there anything more to it than a bigger screen? I thought to take full advantage of the format special cameras had to be used, etc.

Speaking of Sandler... my guy made me this Bluray for my bootleg collection.

I thought is was amusing and interesting and had great potential, but the end left me a little to hopeful... Hollywoody.
I would have much preferred a bleak and cold reality ending... everything that begins, must end

I imagine it will have softness to it... and ex-machina is already slightly soft in its native resolution. though the article did say that the films were remastered to iMax scale.

Sometimes studios release what is known as 'open gate' versions of their IP's... that is, a non-cropped full frame image that wasn't part of the original film's release. I don't know if that is what is happening here because it is not specified, but I think the sound immersion and image scale will be worth the time...

I made it maybe 20 minutes? Lifes too short!

I have a question. I see people proclaim that a certain film "changed my life." I mean I know that I developed a love for films early on, but changed my life? Do any of you believe a film (or some other artwork)can change your life?

Hell, my love for movies started when I was eight or nine years old. I knew nothing about life.

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I know a book can change a life, why not a film?

I’m not exactly a “film guy” though I watch damn near everything. I’m “in the industry” but not in a particularly noteworthy capacity. Yet lol

That said, Pulp Fiction and NBK did in fact change my life because prior to those 2, I didn’t know anything about indie or underground film. I started to think about ideas for scenes based on those 2, and from the movies I watched after those 2, that I’ve even used recently. PF was the bigger of those 2 in that when it premiered, I saw it in a small shitty art house venue with 30 other people. By the time I took the 4th (of 9) people to see it, it was in the big cinema with packed houses.

I don’t recall having seen a film that changed my outlook or effected the way I live my life, but there are films I can understand why they would have.

I can't think of a book that would have changed my life. Maybe I'm taking "changed my life" too literally?

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If taken extremely literally then every book changes your life.

Playing Starcraft drastically changed my life.
Watching Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was a major inspiration for me to move to China which drastically changed my life.
Reading the Indian in the Cupboard, Redwall, and Dinotopia series as a child drastically changed my life as well.

I guess that seeing a movie that inspired you to move to China is life changing.

I love reading and movies, and I am fortunate to teach literature and film. But I don't believe a book or a film was life changing.

I could point to life changing events but not life changing films or books.

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I think it is a necessity that art changes life... otherwise, it's barely artistic.
The term is... enrichment, to enrichment.

I didn't say decorate.

Perhaps it is more the frivolous nature and at the constant rate with which people quote 'changed my life' that causes you pause. Seemingly It's become hyperbole much of the time it is used in passing