Angelica Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 I liked Blue Jasmine.Another B movie style offering. With this film you are effectively watching someone crash and burn, it is awkward, yet interesting, to watch. Cate deserves all the plaudits because she is carrying a complicated character.Not to be a dick but...how the hell is Blue Jasmine a 'b movie style offering'!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysteron Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 I liked Blue Jasmine.Another B movie style offering. With this film you are effectively watching someone crash and burn, it is awkward, yet interesting, to watch. Cate deserves all the plaudits because she is carrying a complicated character.Not to be a dick but...how the hell is Blue Jasmine a 'b movie style offering'!?B movie 'style'. This means the movie that is roughly an hour and a half, and very often no special opening or closing credits to the movie. It is a good thing. It is pureThere was a big fuss a decade or two ago about movies, should they be kept to an hour and a half, or should directors be allowed to do two/three hour affairs.The latter has happened, but now there is a big salute to those who can do a film under 110 minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Man of Steel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Gonna check out Before Sunrise. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelica Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 (edited) I liked Blue Jasmine.Another B movie style offering. With this film you are effectively watching someone crash and burn, it is awkward, yet interesting, to watch. Cate deserves all the plaudits because she is carrying a complicated character.Not to be a dick but...how the hell is Blue Jasmine a 'b movie style offering'!? B movie 'style'. This means the movie that is roughly an hour and a half, and very often no special opening or closing credits to the movie. It is a good thing.A low budget and an ecenomical running time are frequently ASPECTS of B pictures. Having those things does not automatically qualify something as a B picture, there are a shitload of other characteristics (absolutely none of which include a cerebral nature, being Oscar bait, the future Dame Cate Blanchett, let alone the presence of America's most prolific auteur). At heart, the term denotes a certain fundamental lowbrowness. Blue Jasmine is not a B movie. Edited January 15, 2014 by Angelica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixes Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Gonna check out Before Sunrise.Hopefully you like it enough to continue through the trilogy, all filmed 9 years apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Enough Said. Kind of like a pilot for a tv series. Tony Sopranos' last movie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysteron Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 I liked Blue Jasmine.Another B movie style offering. With this film you are effectively watching someone crash and burn, it is awkward, yet interesting, to watch. Cate deserves all the plaudits because she is carrying a complicated character.Not to be a dick but...how the hell is Blue Jasmine a 'b movie style offering'!? B movie 'style'. This means the movie that is roughly an hour and a half, and very often no special opening or closing credits to the movie. It is a good thing.A low budget and an ecenomical running time are frequently ASPECTS of B pictures. Having those things does not automatically qualify something as a B picture, there are a shitload of other characteristics (absolutely none of which include a cerebral nature, being Oscar bait, the future Dame Cate Blanchett, let alone the presence of America's most prolific auteur). At heart, the term denotes a certain fundamental lowbrowness. Blue Jasmine is not a B movie.You have responded to my post, but have also said what I would have said as a responseI never said it was a B pic, I said it was done in the style of a B pic, because like you said it has some aspects of a B pic.All in all though, you are right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixes Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Tried to watch Oblivion but just couldn't get all the way thru. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Alpha Patrol was solid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewbacca Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Detroit Rock City Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tater Totts Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Gonna check out Before Sunrise.Hopefully you like it enough to continue through the trilogy, all filmed 9 years apart.Cinema in London is doing a triple feature of them all back to back in Feb. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Gonna check out Before Sunrise.Hopefully you like it enough to continue through the trilogy, all filmed 9 years apart.I really liked all three, especially Before Sunrise.I'm watching The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Shitty so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewbacca Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Resident Evil 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Umberto DThe Bicycle Thieves (again, twice in one mth)I Vitelloni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 The Bicycle Thieves (again, twice in one mth)He did a good film with Montgomery Clift too, Indiscretions of an American Wife i think it's called? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 In Italy, Stazione Termini. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 I had to study Bicycle Thieves at great length in college. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 We had to study Russ Meyer, it was hard work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NGOG Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 The Departed was on Film 4 last night and I watched it again. They had a bit of a Scorsese night as The King of Comedy was on after (though I didn't stay up to watch it).I definitely prefer Departed to Wolf. By quite a margin actually. The story is just way more interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 (edited) I reckon they're in each others league, definitely. The story is told interestingly and the way it unfolds makes it more edge of your seat-ish and thats not really what Wolf is offering, Wolf is like a rise and fall tale, like Goodfellas or Casino or a lesser non-Scorsese example in Blow. In fact I'd go so far as to call it a well presented Blow.Departed was a cracker though We had to study Russ Meyer, it was hard work.I remember Steve Jones from The Sex Pistols doing an interview around the time Russ Meyer was drafted in to make Who Killed Bambi (later to be called The Great Rock n Roll Swindle) and it's just SOOOO funny listening to this working class illiterate (literally) reform school tea leaf attempting to answer these fuckin' questions that are like, y'know, intellectual questions, it's like:Interviewer: How do you feel about the partnership between The Sex Pistols and Russ Meyer and what do you think the two parties will offer each other and what their coming together will offer the project.Steve: Well, the fing is we're just gonna like, do our thing, bring our thing and then like, he's gonna bring his thing, y'know, birds with big knockers and what 'ave ya and there ya go. Edited January 17, 2014 by sugaraylen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 I had to study Bicycle Thieves at great length in college.I am glad I avoided tha. I hate that, when you have to do Dickens or Shakespeare and they just suck the life out of the thing. You feel like saying to the teacher, ''fuck off, leave my works of art alone''. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 I had to study Bicycle Thieves at great length in college.I am glad I avoided tha. I hate that, when you have to do Dickens or Shakespeare and they just suck the life out of the thing. You feel like saying to the teacher, ''fuck off, leave my works of art alone''.Tell me about it, i had to write a fuck knows how many thousand word essay on a passage of Apocalypse Now, dissecting it to the minutest detail, the bit where they arrive at that bridge thing, the 'there's gooks out on the wire!' scene, from where they sail in, to where the black guy kills those vietcong screaming 'FUCK YOU GI!!!', when you watch a sequence of film THAT many fuckin' times just to pick at things or re-check to see something you thing is there or looking for something you missed it does your head in after a while. Hitchcock used to story board almost every last frame of his movies from beginning to end, all planned out, pored over, with a schedule all set up and everything well oiled and ready to go, I choose to do that with this thing they had us do, like a vignette and then storyboarding of it and i tell you what mate you gotta fuckin' love that shit to do it, you really do. I love getting an idea, i love it coming together, i love to put it down but after that i lose interest rapidly, how they fuckin' keep up the enthusiasm I'll never know. Then again if you don't ever see the creative process through at least once how do you know whether you've enjoyed it or not cuz you never got to the end product.In the right frame of mind I find that shit fascinating but it's kinda too easy to be ever so rewarding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixes Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Rocky Balboa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GivenToFly Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 I had to study Bicycle Thieves at great length in college.I am glad I avoided tha. I hate that, when you have to do Dickens or Shakespeare and they just suck the life out of the thing. You feel like saying to the teacher, ''fuck off, leave my works of art alone''.It's different when you're studying literature in high school where, I agree, it takes away all the fun. But when you're learning how to make the stuff I expect dissecting established works is essential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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