Interview with Jack Fisk, who has worked with Malick on all of his movies. He also recently was nominated for an oscar for There Will Be Blood. Haven’t heard this interview in a month or so, but I remember him talking about Malick using a whole new narrative structure that will change cinema. Oh, and also that this was easily the most excited he’s seen Malick over any of his projects.
This news from AICN has gotten me way too excited. I watched Badlands last night also. I’ll bet this movie(s) won’t come out in 09, especially with over a million feet of film used.
I follow several film blogs and have tried two or three times as many before quitting on them. I can’t say that I’ve found many good ones. The only decent ones seem to only have a few posts a week and don’t really cover news/trailers/etc. The several I’ve learned to barely stand that do are even wearing on me. I notice all of them posting the umpteenth trailer for Star Trek and only one of them has even bothered to post the trailer for Limits of Control that came out way earlier this morning. They seem very uninformed and lack any knowledge of film for the most part. Also, very often I notice that they throw their opinions out there that obviously have no merit and show their ignorance of a topic. Do you guys know of any good ones in which they post often and are actually smart and knowledgable? Do you think that the only people willing to spend all day blogging on films are people that don’t know much about them or are really only fanboys of genre films?
It’s refreshing to see your guys’ responses. I’m starting to come here first for everything. Hell, I found out about the Limits of Control trailer from coming here in the first place! Congrats on starting your own Crap Monster. I sometimes think about doing so myself, only for the fact that I constantly tell myself that I could do it better than most that I see on the internet. I just don’t see myself being able to post about the flavor of the month constantly just to get the traffic and revenue as you touched on briefly.
Just got back from seeing it. Was a lot of cool stuff I enjoyed from the book, but so many things were left unsaid and the execution and pacing was off to me. I can tell you that this will get bad word of mouth and you will see in the next few weeks a HUGE dive in box office return. I went with a friend who had never read the comic and he couldn’t help but laugh his ass off over Bubastis. Clearly he’s explained properly in the book and not a huge joke. Small things like that were missing in the movie that threw people off. 90% of the movie theater attempted to clear out 5 mintues before it ended because they thought the antarctic scene was the ending. They were that much anticipating it’s ending. Everyone I heard leaving the theater, all were grumbling about how bad it was and a big group of people were even comparing it to The Spirit. I enjoyed it, but was mostly disappointed. I’d give it maybe a 6 or 7 out of 10.
I’m closing in on several directors, but I’ve been postponing the finishing of their works because of that empty feeling I know I’ll have that’s close to what Drew spoke of earlier in the thread.
I agree with everything said thus far. Did it also not annoy people that the great ending line of Doctor Manhattan is said by Laurie at her mother’s house to Dan? They completely flubbed the ending in terms of the tone, message, etc. I thought everyone played their roles very well, but they weren’t given much to go with. Snyder kind of messed up the execution of a lot of important moments for each of them, as was pointed out by Kurt Walker when he talked about Dan’s impotency. It was moments like that where you knew that Snyder didn’t have a firm grasp of the graphic novel. Also, I never thought I’d say it but I think he was way too faithful to the graphic novel in some ways. He threw in Bubastis with no explanation at all. He did this with quite a few things in the movie. Overall I still liked it and just seeing these great characters brought to life by some fine acting was as much as I could have expected.
I can’t say I gush over either of them, though I have only seen two of Godard’s and three of Bergman’s. I find both of them to be distant in a way that doesn’t really suit my tastes too much. That’s a weird statement coming from me as some of my favorite directors are distant as well, Kubrick and Lean being two examples of this. If you’re wondering, I’ll tell you which of both I’ve seen
Godard – Breathless, Band Of Outsiders
Bergman – Persona, Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries
I know these are considered some of their best, but maybe other movies from each of their filmographies would suit me better?
Alan Moore has disowned the adaptation for a long while. He’s also not taking in any cash from it, he told them to give his share to Gibbons.
Also, did anyone find the scenes they added with Richard Nixon to be completely unnecessary? Instead of putting him in the movie, focus more on Rorschach’s past or Doc Manhattan’s or even have the Bernies be more than background characters.
I’ve always been a fan of Scorsese, but it wasn’t until recently that I started delving a bit more into his filmography. In the past two months I’ve seen both of his comedies, The King of Comedy and After Hours and I must say that it’s a shame he hasn’t at least done a few more comedies/satires. They’re both genius movies with multiple layers and incredible dark humor. What other directors do you feel haven’t or didn’t dabble enough in certain genres that you thought they were great at?
I wholeheartedly agree Brandon. It instantly became one of my favorite movies of all-time as soon as I saw it. Not a day has gone by that I haven’t thought about this movie since seeing it at the beginning of November. I have it on the way in the mail at the moment, can’t wait to see it again.
Don Quixote is going to be his project after Zero Theorem. He’s changed the screenplay around for it apparently. Haven’t seen Tideland yet, but am a big fan of Gilliam.
I suppose Criterion needs to make money too in these hard times. I’m okay with them putting out a few duds that will sell as long as it allows them to stay afloat and continue to bring us so many great films. I’d prefer Synecdoche, New York of all the movies that came out last year for a criterion release, but beggars can’t be choosers.
I never got to see this film in theaters, but after reading that it seems that I probably won’t be seeing it unless they do the film justice and leave the better/right dialogue. Besides this film, do you guys know of any other films that have suffered from this plight?
That’s true and I already pretty much knew that, but in this case they changed the translation that was in theaters and on screeners and dumbed it down for DVD. Something like you said is an unfortunate thing, but what I posted is pretty much sabotage by the US DVD distributor. They purposely let even more get lost in translation and in some of the cases they show in the link, it seems for no apparent reason.
And that’s what’s so ridiculous about this whole thing. They changed the subtitles that already existed on the theatrical cut in order to appeal to idiots apparently. I want to see the movie that everyone is raving about, not this version with idiot proof subtitles.
If only Billy Wilder had you around to tell him how to shoot his movies! He could have made some real masterpieces. In all seriousness though, I’m one of those guys who thinks The Apartment is a masterwork and is one of my favorite films. There’s just something so honest about the film and it’s hilarious to boot. Wilder’s made some great films, but The Apartment is my favorite among the ones I’ve seen so far. That includes the company of Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot. All great movies, but I prefer The Apartment.
Also, the ending is one of those bittersweet endings. You might even be able to deduct that it’s a fleeting feeling with Kubelick, that she’s not attracted to the clean cut kind of guy. She’d rather deal the cards than kiss the man. It’s only that kind of genius in Wilder in which he was able to make movies in the Hollywood system and still not have to make a gung ho happy ending, that he had ways to go around it. Just a few of my cents.
Interesting how two different posts have said the same director but with different movies so far. Also, I think PT Anderson should be one of the last modern directors in this thread.
I hope that all of your aren’t so cynical to think that a movie made between now and then wouldn’t end up there. I doubt that’s the case as it wouldn’t make the listing of movies in this thread as fun.
I’ll name one movie not listed that I hesitate to list out of my ambivalence towards it…..
Forrest Gump.
Why you may ask? I recently became interested in how many people rate each movie on Netflix. I started going through a bunch of very popular classic and modern movies and Forrest Gump was the most rated. About 2 million more ratings than movies like Citizen Kane, 2001, Godfather, Star Wars, etc. Hell Lawrence of Arabia isn’t even at one million ratings while Gump is at about 3.6. It even has more than 1 million more ratings than a populist movie like Shawshank Redemption.
This reminds me of the scene in Annie Hall where the Columbia professor is spouting off his opinions and Alvy Singer just puts him in his place by bringing in one of the people the guy is critiquing. The OP is that guy.
Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIYz8tfGjY
It bothers me when people say all his films are the same or that he’s completely derivative of someone’s style. These people obviously haven’t seen enough of his films to make a decent judgement. They’re almost as bad as people who refuse to watch his movies because of his personal life.
I’m glad they already announced Last Year At Marienbad last month. Wings of Desire would be nice and so would the Three by Scorsese or whatever it’s called. Perhaps add the new doc American Prince to it.
Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" over 3 years ago
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Back-By-Midnight/2008/10/29/Interviews
Interview with Jack Fisk, who has worked with Malick on all of his movies. He also recently was nominated for an oscar for There Will Be Blood. Haven’t heard this interview in a month or so, but I remember him talking about Malick using a whole new narrative structure that will change cinema. Oh, and also that this was easily the most excited he’s seen Malick over any of his projects.
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Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" over 3 years ago
More than likely won’t be on screen together. Pitt plays Penn’s father.
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Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" over 3 years ago
This news from AICN has gotten me way too excited. I watched Badlands last night also. I’ll bet this movie(s) won’t come out in 09, especially with over a million feet of film used.
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Film blogs with a side of disappointment. about 3 years ago
I follow several film blogs and have tried two or three times as many before quitting on them. I can’t say that I’ve found many good ones. The only decent ones seem to only have a few posts a week and don’t really cover news/trailers/etc. The several I’ve learned to barely stand that do are even wearing on me. I notice all of them posting the umpteenth trailer for Star Trek and only one of them has even bothered to post the trailer for Limits of Control that came out way earlier this morning. They seem very uninformed and lack any knowledge of film for the most part. Also, very often I notice that they throw their opinions out there that obviously have no merit and show their ignorance of a topic. Do you guys know of any good ones in which they post often and are actually smart and knowledgable? Do you think that the only people willing to spend all day blogging on films are people that don’t know much about them or are really only fanboys of genre films?
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Film blogs with a side of disappointment. about 3 years ago
It’s refreshing to see your guys’ responses. I’m starting to come here first for everything. Hell, I found out about the Limits of Control trailer from coming here in the first place! Congrats on starting your own Crap Monster. I sometimes think about doing so myself, only for the fact that I constantly tell myself that I could do it better than most that I see on the internet. I just don’t see myself being able to post about the flavor of the month constantly just to get the traffic and revenue as you touched on briefly.
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What does the success of watchmen mean about the future of action movies? about 3 years ago
Just got back from seeing it. Was a lot of cool stuff I enjoyed from the book, but so many things were left unsaid and the execution and pacing was off to me. I can tell you that this will get bad word of mouth and you will see in the next few weeks a HUGE dive in box office return. I went with a friend who had never read the comic and he couldn’t help but laugh his ass off over Bubastis. Clearly he’s explained properly in the book and not a huge joke. Small things like that were missing in the movie that threw people off. 90% of the movie theater attempted to clear out 5 mintues before it ended because they thought the antarctic scene was the ending. They were that much anticipating it’s ending. Everyone I heard leaving the theater, all were grumbling about how bad it was and a big group of people were even comparing it to The Spirit. I enjoyed it, but was mostly disappointed. I’d give it maybe a 6 or 7 out of 10.
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Which directors have you seen every feature from? about 3 years ago
I’m closing in on several directors, but I’ve been postponing the finishing of their works because of that empty feeling I know I’ll have that’s close to what Drew spoke of earlier in the thread.
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Watchmen about 3 years ago
I agree with everything said thus far. Did it also not annoy people that the great ending line of Doctor Manhattan is said by Laurie at her mother’s house to Dan? They completely flubbed the ending in terms of the tone, message, etc. I thought everyone played their roles very well, but they weren’t given much to go with. Snyder kind of messed up the execution of a lot of important moments for each of them, as was pointed out by Kurt Walker when he talked about Dan’s impotency. It was moments like that where you knew that Snyder didn’t have a firm grasp of the graphic novel. Also, I never thought I’d say it but I think he was way too faithful to the graphic novel in some ways. He threw in Bubastis with no explanation at all. He did this with quite a few things in the movie. Overall I still liked it and just seeing these great characters brought to life by some fine acting was as much as I could have expected.
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Bergman vs. Godard about 3 years ago
I can’t say I gush over either of them, though I have only seen two of Godard’s and three of Bergman’s. I find both of them to be distant in a way that doesn’t really suit my tastes too much. That’s a weird statement coming from me as some of my favorite directors are distant as well, Kubrick and Lean being two examples of this. If you’re wondering, I’ll tell you which of both I’ve seen
Godard – Breathless, Band Of Outsiders
Bergman – Persona, Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries
I know these are considered some of their best, but maybe other movies from each of their filmographies would suit me better?
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Best Director: 1986 - KUROSAWA OR STONE? about 3 years ago
I personally found Alexander to be one of the worst movies I’d ever seen. Ran on the other hand is a masterpiece in my book.
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Watchmen about 3 years ago
Alan Moore has disowned the adaptation for a long while. He’s also not taking in any cash from it, he told them to give his share to Gibbons.
Also, did anyone find the scenes they added with Richard Nixon to be completely unnecessary? Instead of putting him in the movie, focus more on Rorschach’s past or Doc Manhattan’s or even have the Bernies be more than background characters.
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5 Films you saw that are considered masterpieces that you thought were overated,horrible or you just "didnt like" about 3 years ago
Wow, A LOT of my favorites posted in this thread. Also, I think Blues Brothers is one of the best comedies ever. Infinitely watchable for me.
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Genres that certain directors should do more of. about 3 years ago
I’ve always been a fan of Scorsese, but it wasn’t until recently that I started delving a bit more into his filmography. In the past two months I’ve seen both of his comedies, The King of Comedy and After Hours and I must say that it’s a shame he hasn’t at least done a few more comedies/satires. They’re both genius movies with multiple layers and incredible dark humor. What other directors do you feel haven’t or didn’t dabble enough in certain genres that you thought they were great at?
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Synecdoche, New York, Brecht and Godard about 3 years ago
I wholeheartedly agree Brandon. It instantly became one of my favorite movies of all-time as soon as I saw it. Not a day has gone by that I haven’t thought about this movie since seeing it at the beginning of November. I have it on the way in the mail at the moment, can’t wait to see it again.
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Recent Acquisitions. about 3 years ago
In the last week I have purchased the following…..
That Obscure Object of Desire(Criterion)
Synecdoche, New York
No Country For Old Men
Being John Malkovich
Eastern Promises
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should i rent gilliam;s tideland? about 3 years ago
Don Quixote is going to be his project after Zero Theorem. He’s changed the screenplay around for it apparently. Haven’t seen Tideland yet, but am a big fan of Gilliam.
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Filmmakers that Paint-ed about 3 years ago
David Lynch and Julian Schnabel first come up in my mind as to those who do.
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Benjamin Button!?!? What the Hell? about 3 years ago
I suppose Criterion needs to make money too in these hard times. I’m okay with them putting out a few duds that will sell as long as it allows them to stay afloat and continue to bring us so many great films. I’d prefer Synecdoche, New York of all the movies that came out last year for a criterion release, but beggars can’t be choosers.
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What 2008 film deserves the Criterion treatment? about 3 years ago
Synecdoche, New York
The Fall
Let The Right One In
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Dumbing down subtitles. about 3 years ago
It appears the US dvd version of Let The Right One In has been dumbed down quite a bit.
http://iconsoffright.com/news/2009/03/let_the_wrong_subtitles_in_to.html
I never got to see this film in theaters, but after reading that it seems that I probably won’t be seeing it unless they do the film justice and leave the better/right dialogue. Besides this film, do you guys know of any other films that have suffered from this plight?
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Dumbing down subtitles. about 3 years ago
That’s true and I already pretty much knew that, but in this case they changed the translation that was in theaters and on screeners and dumbed it down for DVD. Something like you said is an unfortunate thing, but what I posted is pretty much sabotage by the US DVD distributor. They purposely let even more get lost in translation and in some of the cases they show in the link, it seems for no apparent reason.
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Dumbing down subtitles. about 3 years ago
And that’s what’s so ridiculous about this whole thing. They changed the subtitles that already existed on the theatrical cut in order to appeal to idiots apparently. I want to see the movie that everyone is raving about, not this version with idiot proof subtitles.
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WILDER about 3 years ago
If only Billy Wilder had you around to tell him how to shoot his movies! He could have made some real masterpieces. In all seriousness though, I’m one of those guys who thinks The Apartment is a masterwork and is one of my favorite films. There’s just something so honest about the film and it’s hilarious to boot. Wilder’s made some great films, but The Apartment is my favorite among the ones I’ve seen so far. That includes the company of Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot. All great movies, but I prefer The Apartment.
Also, the ending is one of those bittersweet endings. You might even be able to deduct that it’s a fleeting feeling with Kubelick, that she’s not attracted to the clean cut kind of guy. She’d rather deal the cards than kiss the man. It’s only that kind of genius in Wilder in which he was able to make movies in the Hollywood system and still not have to make a gung ho happy ending, that he had ways to go around it. Just a few of my cents.
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The 2010's: What Will Happen in Film? about 3 years ago
I think with the advent of affordable HD cameras and such, there could be a huge surge of independent voices coming out in the next decade.
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Masterpieces By Mediocre Directors about 3 years ago
To Kill A Mockingbird – Robert Mulligan
Interesting how two different posts have said the same director but with different movies so far. Also, I think PT Anderson should be one of the last modern directors in this thread.
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odd man out--yehaa!!! about 3 years ago
Thanks for the heads up, just added it. One of those hard to see movies I’ve been wanting to see.
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It's Year 3009 - What 3 Films Survived Through A Millenium of History? about 3 years ago
I hope that all of your aren’t so cynical to think that a movie made between now and then wouldn’t end up there. I doubt that’s the case as it wouldn’t make the listing of movies in this thread as fun.
I’ll name one movie not listed that I hesitate to list out of my ambivalence towards it…..
Forrest Gump.
Why you may ask? I recently became interested in how many people rate each movie on Netflix. I started going through a bunch of very popular classic and modern movies and Forrest Gump was the most rated. About 2 million more ratings than movies like Citizen Kane, 2001, Godfather, Star Wars, etc. Hell Lawrence of Arabia isn’t even at one million ratings while Gump is at about 3.6. It even has more than 1 million more ratings than a populist movie like Shawshank Redemption.
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Woody Allen about 3 years ago
This reminds me of the scene in Annie Hall where the Columbia professor is spouting off his opinions and Alvy Singer just puts him in his place by bringing in one of the people the guy is critiquing. The OP is that guy.
Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIYz8tfGjY
It bothers me when people say all his films are the same or that he’s completely derivative of someone’s style. These people obviously haven’t seen enough of his films to make a decent judgement. They’re almost as bad as people who refuse to watch his movies because of his personal life.
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Criterion's April Releases? about 3 years ago
I’m glad they already announced Last Year At Marienbad last month. Wings of Desire would be nice and so would the Three by Scorsese or whatever it’s called. Perhaps add the new doc American Prince to it.
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FAVORITE 5 OR 10 WOODY ALLEN MOVIES about 3 years ago
Purple Rose of Cairo
Annie Hall
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Sweet and Lowdown
Deconstructing Harry
That’s more or less my top 5. Manhattan could easily be swapped with one of those as well.
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