Posts by Sophia Evans76

mixa29 said:I heard Oldboy is actually the worst one in that trilogy! And that Sympathy for Lady Vengeance is the best!
I've had it for a while now but I can't find the subtitles anywhere!
If you happen to have them, I'd be super grateful if you could send them my way somehow!
Cheers!

You've got it backwards... Oldboy is the best... at least in my book...

Bekim

Robert Cooper41 said:I mean, yeah—the first time around, I was totally lost. I couldn't wrap my head around what he was even trying to get at... but then, fast forward a year later, I caught it again on TV and had this total moment of "enlightenment." 😬
btw, I actually gave it a third viewing just recently. 😍

Maybe I should give it another spin myself... that’s the struggle when you’re hitting up all those film festivals. You end up watching four movies in a single day and there's just no way to actually process them all properly....

Officer 663 said:You clearly have no idea what you're talking about... *Dolls* is an absolute masterpiece! 😬

Wait, what—did you actually change your mind? 😬

I’m totally with you on that 5x2 from Ozone—it’s one of those things where, at first, you’re just like, "Yeah, okay, pretty decent." But then you go back for a second look? Man, wow. Total masterpiece. It really hits different once you actually sit with it. 😬

and the main guy is actually in prison during that opening scene of Irreversible.... 😬

Honestly, my absolute favorite is just the weeds from Detroit 🤣

Maria Peterson said:probably. though you'd think they'd have enough sense to be smarter than that

Who? Our translators... 🤣

Oh, they definitely are... 😬 😛

Maria Peterson said:I had no idea. But seriously, why on earth did they translate it as 'Russian Ark' in the first place?!?!
I mean, why was the movie always known as 'Russian Ark,' and now all of a sudden everyone's calling it 'Russian Ark'???

Probably because they just did a literal translation of the English title "Russian Ark," whereas the actual Russian title is Russki Kovcheg.

I honestly don't get why everyone is freaking out so much about the pill... I've been on them for 10 years now—with a few breaks here and there—but it doesn't really matter if I was in a relationship or not, I took them regardless. Back then, the only way I could actually handle the pain was by basically getting high on Ibuprofen... which, yeah, meant I was completely useless at everything else. I’d spend the entire day just glued to my bed, totally incapacitated.
I mean, let's be real: I don't think the pills can do any more damage than those painkillers ever did...

Steven Ramirez3 said:I could probably track down Dolls, though I've been dodging him for a while now. Doesn't really strike me as my cup of tea... but alright, I'll give it a shot.

If you ask me, it's his weakest work... (Hana-bi is definitely the best 😍 )... sure, the production design is gorgeous... but honestly, it feels like nothing more than a pure stylistic exercise...

Wolf Creek is actually a really solid movie... and Batman Begins is just top-tier...

quietorca89 said:ps. please throw some more good Iranian film suggestions my way 👋

That Kiarostami close-up? Absolute masterpiece... honestly, pretty much everything he touches is. I'm talking Taste of Cherry, Ten, Wind Will Carry Us, Through the Olive Trees...

Then you've got Blackboards, The Apple, and At Five in the Afternoon by Samira Makhmalbaf...

And don't forget Circle, The White Balloon, and Crimson Gold from Jafar Panahi

Plus Kandahar and Gabbeh by Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Secret Ballot

The Cow

Honestly, just disappointing...

rowdyfox12 said:Go back and watch it again... I don't know about you... but I'm pretty sure there's stuff in that movie a twelve-year-old wouldn't even wrap their head around...

Let me guess... 😁

Coelho is your absolute favorite author, isn't he?

Tyler Price3 said:Can someone please walk me through how this director—who I honestly thought was some kind of visionary after watching stuff like Subway, Nikita, Leon, and The Fifth Element—could sink this low? Like, seriously, what happened with him after he did Joan of Arc? What goes through a person's head that makes them decide to film Joan of Arc in the first place, leading to movies like The Transporter or Taxia?

He didn't "sink" anywhere... you just aren't that same twelve-year-old kid who used to binge-watch The Big Blue anymore. Honestly, go back and actually watch those "genius" movies of his again with a bit of perspective... 🙄 😁

Tony Soprano said:I honestly have no idea how you can even group this movie in the same breath as something as mindless as American pie.
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Sorry, but American Pie is sixteen times better than this wannabe indie flick with its forced, scripted humor that feels straight out of a sitcom... unless, of course, you're Ben Stiller or Jim Carrey—in which case, maybe. For any young up-and-coming directors, it's probably best to just stay far away from this stuff...

I am just so done with these indie pretenders whose directors think they can just slap on a great soundtrack, a light tone, and some messy characters with that whole "Ally McBeal" style glamourization of "eccentricity" and suddenly—boom—they're at Sundance....

Braff seemingly tried to cook up a mashup of Donnie Darko and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind... but look, while I'll give him credit for having a good eye for cinematography, as a screenwriter he's pretty mediocre and overly slick... his character development is just poor and sloppy... plus, all these characters, in their supposed "dysfunction," "quirkiness," and "eccentricity," end up feeling totally one-dimensional, predictable, and half-baked.... which just leaves us with a shallow, mediocre movie, despite there being actual potential there...

I have to admit, though, the film annoyed me so much with its stupidity—I truly couldn't believe anyone could actually laugh at such unintelligent, forced humor... I was sitting there thinking I wasn't even going to make it to the credits... but my husband was absolutely dying laughing the entire time... so I just bit my tongue and stoically sat through it until the end.... 🙄

ironcrane7 said:Neither. They're both overrated.

So, what does "overrated" actually mean here?

Does it mean some group of high-brow critics all agreed that Al Pacino and Robert De Niro are brilliant actors, and you just happen to disagree... 😕

Because if you aren't buying what they're selling, why give them that much weight—as if their supposed greatness is some kind of objective truth we all have to respect? 😕

Just be straight with it next time... "I don't like them because [insert reason A] and [insert reason B]..."

Back to the actual point... Jack Nicholson 😁

redowl90 said:😂

But let’s be real, he’s a total pushover... 😉

Wait, who was it again... Martin or Harry? 😲 😁

redowl90 said:What friend? Seriously, what friend? 🙂

Martin knows 😉

redowl90 said:Yeah, sure—and I guess Narnia is going to be roughly 85794327509216509486 times better than Lord of the Rings... 😉

I mean, obviously—one of my buddies is actually doing the score... 😳 😁