No.69564
Recently rewatched some stuff and ended up watching some old ones that I hadn't seen yet
>No Country for Old Men (rewatch, great)
>Blade Runner 2049 (rewatch, good visuals only)
>28 Days Later (sucks)
>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (not my type of thing)
>Fargo (great)
>Matrix (surprisingly good, thought it was just a meme)
>Let the Right one In (on recommendation, is okay, vampire succubus is cute)
>Requiem for a Dream (I can't feel sorry for drug addicts, might rewatch it at some point idk)
>The Big Lebowski (rewatch, much better than I remembered)
>The Shining (good, I just don't like horror)
>Drive (rewatch, mediocre)
No.69702
Well, with the death of Jim Lovell, it got me to thinking about the film Apollo 13. As time marches on, I gotta say, each passing year I love this film more.
I think this movie is the most stereotypical male movie ever made. Emotion and bullshit relationshit drama is RARELY the focal point of the movie. It's always a standoff one-off scene of his wife being sad for two seconds before getting back to another "WE SOLVE PROBLEM NOW" scene. In fact, those scenes are so short and so downplayed that they almost feel like a parody of those films from the 50s that would hammily shove them into the movie to say they had romance for the trailer. The only times I can think of where emotions actually happen with the main characters, it's immediately shut down. E.g., when they start blaming each other for the accident and displaying anger and Jim says, "NO ANGER NOW, WE SOLVE PROBLEM FIRST"
It's also a REALLY repetitive and simplistic act structure:
Act
Scene 1
THERE PROBLEM.
Scene 2
BRAINSTORM PROBLEM.
Scene 3
I DON'T KNOW IF SOLVE PROBL–WE SOLVE PROBLEM.
Scene 4
IMPLEMENT SOLUTION TO PROBLEM–WILL IT WOR–IT WORKED. NEED TO FOCUS ON NEXT PROBLEM.
And it's just that Act repeated over and over and OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN HOLY FUCK I DON'T CARE THAT IT'S REPETITIVE I WISH THAT ACT STRUCTURE WOULD'VE KEPT GOING EVEN MORE! Given the real Apollo 13 though, it could've, because there were actually MORE problems they solved irl and they had to tone it DOWN for the fucking movie!
I also love how self-directed everyone is. For example, Gene Krantz has that general meeting where he gives that Captain Jelicho speech trope of "I want men running every simulator, we need hands on every nut and bolt, I need people running double shift bla bla bla!" EVERY other time that speech trope is done, the leader character ASSIGNS tasks to people. This is the only piece of media where he's just giving the motivating speech, and in fact MID SPEECH you see actors moving around and leaving the room WITHOUT having tasks assigned to them. Like the moment he says, "Let's get simulators running the power-up procedure," you see a couple guys self-directed leave the room with no further questions. There's just this MASSIVE amount of non-verbal communication.
No toxicity.
No relationshit crap.
Just solve problems.
The movie is a form of male wish fulfillment.
No.69744
>>69117>I really don't understand how people think 2049 is better than the original Blade Runnerit's a philistine opinion. The original Blade Runner has superior visuals, music, scripting, casting and pacing
2049 is popular because it has the AI girlfriend and Ryan Gosling looking sad and lonely
No.69747
>>69117>>69123>>69125>>69242>>69744I don't know if this is well known and I don't need to explain this or not, and I thought this was common knowledge, but just in the 1% case not, here goes…
There are multiple versions of the original Bladerunner. One has this really hammy voiceover that ruins half of the film(*). The other knows what it's doing and let you _watch_ the film (and has the famous origami unicorn with a lot of meaning). People just getting into Bladerunner are basically at a coin flip about what they see, and many, many people think "Oh, theatrical cut, that must be the good one, it's 'theatrical' or 'more original' so that must be 'authentic!'" and it's definitely not.
(*)It's theoretically not that much voiceover, but half of what makes Bladerunner great is that it's one of the few movies that has silence and ambiance. So it doesn't take a lot to absolutely crush what is the soul of the film. And once it's destroyed once, it's kind of just destroyed from that point onwards.
No.69748
>>69747I didn't notice that
>>69117 already knew about this
>No narration of coursesorry.