The Movie Thread

[Jag_Warrior]

P.S. Looks like I'm the only one who's still going to the movies.

Also in Sweden the cinemas almost always only shows "Hollywood" and big budget British movies.
hardly any independent movies or anything.

I used to love going to the movies. But where I live now (much like BleAivano) only big budget, mind-numbing, formulaic, politically correct, predictable Hollyweird crap is shown. When I lived in another part of the state, we actually had two independent theaters that showed old movies as well as foreign language films, small/medium budget films and art-house films. That was so cool. I miss that. Now I just watch old movies or current shows on Turner Classic Movies, American Movie Classics or PBS Masterpiece Theater.

By the way, scientists have proven that if you watch a big budget Hollyweird movie, your IQ will drop by 10% for every hour that you sit there. Ever wonder why Americans appear to be getting dumber by the day? Well, there ya go. What's that... what's my excuse? Well, we don't know. The scientists are still looking into that!

[gadjo_dilo]

Then the whole world gets dumber because those productions are spread everywhere and are an important tool in brainwashing our heads.
What I also regret is the lack of the real cinema magazines like we had in the past and of TV programms of cinema culture. I mean my cinematographic taste was formed by reading monthly, since I was just a kid, a very serious magazine where important film critics wrote reviews, analyzed different trends or talked about a certain topic with many references to the old movies. Some of these critics had also TV shows where we could also learn about the best of world's cinema.
But what really worries me is that today even those who study the cinematographic art don't have such culture. I have a niece whose husband is a cameraman at an important TV station and he never heard of Italian neorealism and Bycicle Thieves....

[Storm]

movies upon movies made for Marvel comics and that sort

I haven't seen a movie for more than a year (in the hall), good you managed to go gadjo!

[gadjo_dilo]

I haven't seen a movie for more than a year (in the hall), good you managed to go gadjo!

Movies used to be my hobby. I tried to see the most I could from the beginning of cinema. Even from the likes of Griffith, Fritz Lang or Sergey Eisenstein. Even when I couldn't see a movie I read about it.
I lost this pleasure in the last 10 years. The one for theatre too. But from time to time I like to go again and feel the magic of a cinema hall. As I've said above I'm lucky with this cinema hall close to my home. It's attended only by cinephiles like me and at least I'm sure nobody will eat popcorn near me.Unfortunately we're but a few.
I can watch loads of movies online but it's not the same thing. I love the movies of Milos Foreman from his Czech period. Then I wanted to watch his One flew over the cucoo's nest but never could. Not even on TV. Now I can watch it online but it's not the same. I tried a few times but quitted after half an hour. It would be different if I saw it at Cinemateca....

OK, I know I'm weird. Don't wanna bother you with such stupid ideas....

[gadjo_dilo]

Been again at the movies.
This time it was a Belgian movie - Deux jours, une nuit, directed by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
It's the story of a woman who during a weekend has to convince her coworkers to give up their bonus just to help her keep her job. Marion Cotillard plays the leading role and is excellent as a depressive, emotionally unstable, who lacks self esteem - wonder why I'm always impressed by such characters......
The movie lacks action, I can't see american people watching such thing but for me it was touching. I watched the heroine walking down the street with wet eyes and I saw a familiar image.
Then it's the raw reality of relationships at the working place. For a moment I thought at the hostile environment at my own working place. What if I were in her situation?
BTW guys, is 1000 euros a big amount of money in the western world?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JSlJPjEvzM

[Rudy Tamasz]

And I watched Le passé, a recent French relationship drama this morning. I woke up at 5 am and couldn't sleep any longer. I decided to make use of these early hours by watching something decent. It's pretty long, so couldn't complete it before going to office, but it has impressed me quite a bit. I'm going to finish watching it tonight.

[gadjo_dilo]

A friend insisted to watch Birdman together but I preferred to go to a Turkish drama called Winter Sleep. The movie is directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan and won Palme d'or at Cannes in 2014. The film is very good but it lasts 197 min. I had a very tiresome week, with but a few hours of sleep so for the first time in my life I felt like falling asleep in a cinema theater. It was a considerable effort to keep my head straight and to be honest I wouldn't mind if I had a little nap but I was afraid I might snore.

[Tazio]

BTW guys, is 1000 euros a big amount of money in the western world?

That is roughly the amount it would cost for one months rent of a very economical studio apartment in S.D.

[gadjo_dilo]

That is roughly the amount it would cost for one months rent of a very economical studio apartment in S.D.

OMG.....

[Tazio]

OMG.....

The costs here are pretty obscene, and higher than in most of the rest of the country.