Movies205 Goes to the Movies! Discuss, Review, and be Merry!

[War Party]

Hey Movies! Have you seen "The Fall?" I'm about to watch it now on Blu-ray and if you have seen it, I would like to here what you thought of it. It looks like a fantastic film.

 

[JLBats]

I'll definately check it out



I've never really watched a lot of French Cinema for some reason... I am really big into Ingmar Bergman and Fellini, like Persona, Seventh Seal, and Wild Strawberries are three films I swear by. Then again perhaps that's because I am very much into Bergman's stories.

What's your opinion on 1920s film? I am really big into that period of cinema, I find the atmosphere of silent films is really untouched to this day. They relied so heavily on visual imagery (especially due to the limited amount of movement with the camera) that it has that errie type of enhance stage play feel to it. You ever see Lon CHaney's "The Unknown".

Fellini: Every film's a dance. I love it.

As for silent '20s films, I love to death Paris Qui Dore, (I'm sure I spelled it wrong, but it's also known as Crazy Ray and 3:25). And modern editing came in shockingly early in film; there's tons of really fast paced work from as early as 1915, which I think is often more clever than modern film editing.

 

[black_dust]

Watch these British films and give me your thoughts.

That should see you right for awhile more to come

 

[Movies205]

Fellini: Every film's a dance. I love it.

As for silent '20s films, I love to death Paris Qui Dore, (I'm sure I spelled it wrong, but it's also known as Crazy Ray and 3:25). And modern editing came in shockingly early in film; there's tons of really fast paced work from as early as 1915, which I think is often more clever than modern film editing.

Thing about editing which always shocks me every time is how quick everything came together in one sense or another, I mean you go from early film Lumere and Edison in 1896 to a year later with short stories edited together by Melile, then by early 1900s your into Nickolodeons. Obviously, this is an over-simplification of it all since Film almost became merely an interesting foot-note in history once people got tired of the novelty factor. It fascinates me Tom Gunning's "Cinema of Attractions" theory, that beginning cinema was wholly based on the spectacle, however there was an obvious underlying need for story. (Something which experimental film would later challenge in the decades to come)

As for fast paced editing work, look no further than Sergei Eisenstein's work, however I'll take what the Germans were doing during that same period over that.

 

[Movies205]

Watch these British films and give me your thoughts.

That should see you right for awhile more to come

I will definitely check those out

 

[Movies205]

To those reading I am curious what is the general consensus on

I personally find the green screen aesthetic to be far from hitting its true potential, I'd love to see it used by someone such as Gilliam or Lynch because I feel it could be amazing in creating a certain surrealness which worked for Sin City since it operated in that nebulous region of film about film specifically noir. However with 300 it just came off as just over-the-top and cartoony. I also was not a fan of the story which was just very mysoginistic male fantasy and very homoerotic. The entire film just made me sad to be a man

 

[JLBats]

I just don't think anybody's used the entirely green screen aesthetic to do anything particularly interesting yet... nobody's created a particularly interesting world with it yet EXCEPT, maybe, Sky Captain. Every other one has been kind of... eh in terms of imagination.

 

[Movies205]

I just don't think anybody's used the entirely green screen aesthetic to do anything particularly interesting yet... nobody's created a particularly interesting world with it yet EXCEPT, maybe, Sky Captain. Every other one has been kind of... eh in terms of imagination.

I have to tottally agree with you, JL and also Sky Captain had a terrible script from what I remember, I hate those tongue-in-cheek homage movies, there garbage

 

[JLBats]

I have to tottally agree with you, JL and also Sky Captain had a terrible script from what I remember, I hate those tongue-in-cheek homage movies, there garbage

I'm just trying to think of a movie that actually MADE UP its own world to take advantage of the technology, and really, as far as I'm concerned, tongue-in-cheek or no, it's the only one that's done it.

 

[BizarroAids]

I'd like to hear your thoughts on 2 of my favorite movies.


Heat

Black Hawk Down

 

[Movies205]

I'm just trying to think of a movie that actually MADE UP its own world to take advantage of the technology, and really, as far as I'm concerned, tongue-in-cheek or no, it's the only one that's done it.

True, well I saw an interesting independent short film that try to achieve that over the summer. It wasn't particularly great (the effects were) but it at least took it in an interesting direction. The short told the story of a 18 year old girl suffering from cancer, who imagine herself as a kind of female-flash gordon. It was interesting since it achieved what the effect does which is a surreal world that looks real but obviously isn't.

 

[Movies205]

I'd like to hear your thoughts on 2 of my favorite movies.


Heat

Black Hawk Down

It's been far too long since I've seen either film to comment but when I watch them I'll get back to you

 

[Movies205]

Currently watching the original "The Day the Earth Stood Still" so far its excellent...