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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Friday 2/1/19 - 1:28:11 AM EST (GMT-5)
On Friday 2/1/19 - 12:43:32 AM Disappears wrote:
I just watched that trailer what is even happening |
The premise is that Adam Driver's character is a bus driver (!) that's also a poet/writer, if I remember correctly. |
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Friday 2/1/19 - 1:30:14 AM EST (GMT-5)
it's a very abstract, quiet little film. i like it a lot but it can be a difficult watch if you don't know what you're getting into (something reserved and artsy)
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Friday 2/1/19 - 8:49:03 AM EST (GMT-5)
see I got a reserved and artsy vibe at the beginning of the trailer and then as time went on it seemed like things were moving into a more supernatural area
like paterson was controlling paterson
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Friday 2/1/19 - 2:13:56 PM EST (GMT-5)
My husband and I went to see Glass last week. I wanted to see it because I’ve loved James McAvoy ever since I saw him in Inside I’m Dancing. Plus I remember liking Split even if though I couldn’t really remember that much about it. Glass was meh for me for the most part though I’m feeling pretty dumb I didn’t know it was a super hero movie. Never saw the one with Bruce Willis.
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Monday 2/4/19 - 11:47:12 AM EST (GMT-5)
The Favourite - I really liked it. Overhyped, for sure, but witty and fast - with some proper emotion underneath. Man, Olivia Coleman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weiss are terrific. As is Nicolas Hoult.
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 12:28:03 AM EST (GMT-5)
a star is born is fine
i'm surprised it got a best picture nom
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 10:27:19 AM EST (GMT-5)
to be fair all of the best picture noms are kinda lackluster
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 10:36:21 AM EST (GMT-5)
i haven't seen the green book or vice yet, but the favourite, blackkklansman, and roma i can all see as good noms
there are aspects of bohemian rhapsody's production that i hate to the point where i think it's nomination should be withdrawn
minus the bullsh-t i can see why it would be nominated
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 11:49:16 AM EST (GMT-5)
Re: Bohemian Rhapsody, the best picture award is a producers' award, so I don't think Bryan Singer would actually be credited with the win (if that helps).
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 12:12:20 PM EST (GMT-5)
vice is too heavyhanded for my tastes
dont get me wrong, i LOVE adam mckay and thought the big short was incredible but at a certain point (very early on) i had to check out of this movie because good god we get it.
i haven’t seen green book either
blackkklansman should win but the academy are cowards and will go with something safer
roma is at the top of my list and as soon as i finish watching legion season 2 and that jake gyllenhaal movie on netflix i will watch and report back
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 4:06:40 PM EST (GMT-5)
On Tuesday 2/5/19 - 10:27:19 AM cola wrote:
to be fair all of the best picture noms are kinda lackluster |
wrong
BlacKkKlansman |
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 4:51:25 PM EST (GMT-5)
BlacKKKlansman is a really good movie that feels way too...optimistic and protective of the police. it feels very 'pro law enforcement' and it doesn't sit entirely right with me
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 5:00:38 PM EST (GMT-5)
Really? Even though the one policeman is a total racist sh*tbag?
ok
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 5:03:43 PM EST (GMT-5)
yeah, I didn’t get that vibe at all
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 5:06:40 PM EST (GMT-5)
I mean, it's based on a true story and that story is that a black policeman infiltrated the KKK.
Some of the policeman are going to be portrayed as good guys as a given.
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 5:07:03 PM EST (GMT-5)
*policemen
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 5:28:51 PM EST (GMT-5)
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 5:37:42 PM EST (GMT-5)
It's as if people don't understand what "based on a true story" means.
It's not a documentary; it's a dramatization *based* on a true story.
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 5:40:58 PM EST (GMT-5)
i mean he addresses that
his issue is that it dramatizes real life events to the effect of taking a problematic real-life figure and glorifying his actions to the point of making cops look like woke heroes
the bomb, Adam Driver's character being jewish, the cop being arrested
none of that stuff is true, and it's all used to make the police look better
i find that sort of troubling
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 5:42:53 PM EST (GMT-5)
(and i shouldn't need to say this to criticize this aspect of the film, but it is one of my favorite films of 2018. it's Very Good. but Lee's framing of the police is my least favorite angle of the film)
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 5:43:57 PM EST (GMT-5)
I have no thought that Spike Lee was trying to make the police "look better".
There are good and bad cops, just like there are good and bad _________ (fill in the blank with whatever you like).
It's a statement on racism, that's what the movie is. You can nitpick it all you want, but it makes you feel that and it's successful.
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 5:49:47 PM EST (GMT-5)
sure, but again, the entire framing of the movie is Police Good (made up plot of points of police stop Bad Police, police work with and empower Black Cop and his Black Power Feminist Girlfriend, Police employ Jewish and Black Cops who risk their lives to stop bombings)
which, in an era of Black Lives Matter and repeated stories of police brutality, feels....kind of icky
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 5:51:29 PM EST (GMT-5)
i'm not asking for this movie to say "f-ck cops" and "all cops are bastards"
but a more nuanced, gray area viewpoint of the police (and even Stallworth's actions) would have been a lot more compelling
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 6:09:19 PM EST (GMT-5)
I have to agree with a lot of those points, tbh. The choices on what they made up for dramatic effect were particularly very unexpected from Spike Lee.
I 100% believe that the Klan guys were at least as dumb as the movie portrayed them (partially because the cop it was based on has said they actually made them look *smarter* for the movie). But it was a pretty romanticized view of how cops and race intersected during that time (or even now, depending on where you are).
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3 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/5/19 - 6:19:11 PM EST (GMT-5)
I think a lot of that does depend on who you are and who you're dealing with, absolutely.
The Klan are a bunch of idiots, undoubtedly. A friend of a friend back at home used to go around showing off his granddad's KKK membership card like it was some prize to be had.
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