What Movies Are You Watching Lately

[Texasmade]

Oof yeah that one is really bad. Clooney's career since Michael Clayton has been pretty rough but you know what, he's super rich and happily married so I guess he's living his best life, nbd. Hail, Caesar! is the only half-way decent movie he's been in in the past decade, imo. I haven't seen Catch-22 on Hulu though, that got some good reviews and looks interesting. I hope he reconnects with Soderbergh at some point. I rewatched Out of Sight a while ago and it's still one of my favorites.

I watched The American. The plot sounds interesting but the movie is boring as ****. Only saving grace is that hot Italian woman that Clooney hooks up with.

 

[javyn]

As far as Daniel Day Lewis goes, In the Name of the Father was his best. JMHO.

 

[double00]

Oof yeah that one is really bad. Clooney's career since Michael Clayton has been pretty rough but you know what, he's super rich and happily married so I guess he's living his best life, nbd. Hail, Caesar! is the only half-way decent movie he's been in in the past decade, imo. I haven't seen Catch-22 on Hulu though, that got some good reviews and looks interesting. I hope he reconnects with Soderbergh at some point. I rewatched Out of Sight a while ago and it's still one of my favorites.

well said, i should amend and say that Clooney has pretty good taste in roles, maybe somewhat uneven as a director.

Out of Sight was a real epiphany just for J Lo's chemistry

 

[saint]

It's worth a watch as the cinematography really is spectacular.

The soundtrack is also quite good, as are the period details: particularly relating to siege warfare etc.

 

[Kaplan]

I quite like The American, as well as Syriana.

Also, I rewatched Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? the other day...

His recent The Midnight Sky was quite forgettable though.

 

[Lizard23]

I also enjoyed The American. Slow pacing but I thought it was well done.

 

[Texasmade]

I quite like The American, as well as Syriana.

Also, I rewatched Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? the other day...

His recent The Midnight Sky was quite forgettable though.

Syriana was great but I didn’t really like The American. It was too slow paced with too much of Clooney making faces not doing anything.

 

[Kaplan]

^ When other elements come together (can be something as intangible as 'the right mood'), I'm perfectly fine with a languid pace. Actually, I believe that the above mentioned two movies are the only ones with Clooney that I've liked well enough to add to the DVD collection for repeat viewings. But of course, different strokes.

 

[Lizard23]

“The Deer Hunter” is, for me, an all time great with glacial pacing. Certainly need to be in the right mood to watch it.

I recall once watching it at around 11am on a hungover saturday morning with a bunch of buddies in college. About halfway through we started drinking again. Made for a weird rest of the day/night.

 

[ter1413]

The American was not bad IMO. Nothing special, but I have seen it several times.

 

[edinatlanta]

Starfish.

It is good.

 

[edinatlanta]

Starfish.

It is good.

I am having to move this up to excellent.

1) I am continuing to think about it and 2) the more I think about it the more it sticks.

This is a 90ish minute movie on Prime. The plot is really incidental to the whole movie. At the risk of sounding dismissive or cliche it really is an Indie Cineaste Movie. I really don't know what else to compare it to. It's a little more standard than art house but more successful than experimental student filmmaking.

I don't know, man. It's causing me to think about some changes that need to happen in my life and how I'll handle them. What my choices will have on others. Yeah, good stuff.

 

[noob in 89]

It's my favorite of the financial crisis movies, a genre full of not-very-good movies.

How about The Big Short? I recall some actors in bad wigs standing around saying, “And by then things were so bad, *strippers* were getting second homes with mortgage-backed securities...” and I was like, “Hahaha, I understand none of this!”.

 

[double00]

no sleep, so, flicks:

The Nice Guys. two afflicted dicks trawl 1970s LA in search of a porno film with a political explosive... wait for it.... plot. adorable, sleazy fun.

The Grand Budapest Hotel. a refugee finds a mentor and more in this interwar diorama. terrific.

 

[King Calder]

How about The Big Short? I recall some actors in bad wigs standing around saying, “And by then things were so bad, *strippers* were getting second homes with mortgage-backed securities...” and I was like, “Hahaha, I understand none of this!”.

I think the big short is okay...I’m not really a big fan of McKay’s style and I think Gosling and Carrell are all not really well suited for the movie. It simultaneously tries to be *about* the crisis while *explaining* the crisis. I don’t like the tone of the movie, it’s trying so hard to explain and pass judgement on the crisis but comes off to me as condescending. For all the explaining it tries to do, and for all the effort it puts into reminding us “Bankers are BAD” (as if we didn’t know that in 2016), it’s entirely hindsight; it has nothing to say about where we are now or what needs to change. And yeah, the wigs are BAD.

On the plus side, the movie is still quite funny at times. The editing is really great. I really enjoy a lot of the smaller actors in this - John Magaro, Jeremy Strong, Rafe Spell. Bale is also wonderful - I like to imagine that McKay just locked him in that office isolated from everyone else for a month and let him go a little insane like Martin Sheen shooting Apocalypse Now.

Compare it to Margin Call. McKay spends so much time - celebrity cameos, Gosling voiceovers, diagram scribbling - showing us how the financial instruments work and how they led to destruction. Chandor spends almost no time explaining what the bank in Margin Call does - maybe a minute during the boardmeeting - but when Spacey and Irons are confronting each other on the eve of the firesale and Irons yells “THIS IS IT! I am telling you THIS IS IT” at a reluctant Spacey, we know that it’s life or death. It doesn’t matter that the movie hasn’t explained. The drama is in the air and all the characters feel it, and so the audience does too.