Posts by Amy Mendoza25

He’s a true craftsman. But you have to be one, too.

Arthur Garcia59 said:And me again. Ana Hušman - "Lunch."

It played at tons of festivals, won a DHF, everyone was talking about it, and still, nobody actually watched it. 🤷

I saw it, and now that I've thought about it: I wonder what her third film will be. Just more exploitation of the same core idea? Maybe she had to break the ice with "Crying" just to build "Lunch" on those exact same foundations to snag an award. Honestly, the fact that they released an English dub for "Lunch" pretty much explains why it isn't hitting the festival circuit quite like her previous work...

As for Sundance: just another festival where they bombard you with everything under the sun until you're completely burnt out by the end of the week, having maybe seen three good new films. Slowly but surely, I'm getting sick of festivals. It's an overdose.

The China character isn't actually a bad movie; redowl90 just missed the mark on this one.

northerncrane4 said:The ending? 😕 The suitcases?

I knew you'd catch that.

A total loss. The director's menu was fine, honestly! But that ending? Just sad and limp. I didn't see that coming... easily his worst work.

I knew that quartet made a great movie! Always knew...

thumbs up from me too 🙂

betty blue

A sad way to lose.

I’ll jump on the bandwagon here: that sequence where Americans finally storm the Japanese camp, and then when the Japanese take Finn prisoner, says more than all those hours of Eastwood's 'Letters from Iwo Jima.' In just a few minutes, Mallick captured everything—the suffering, the sheer terror, the humanity, and the equality shared with the Americans.

But seriously, why not just make an entire new movie about that whenever they get the chance? Honestly, Mallick nailed it; he did more than just nail it. It's definitely a film for those who "get it," whether the "outcasts" liked it or not...

Yeah, why even bother filming 'Letters' when Malick already covered all that ground in 'The Thin Red Line'? For Malick, you only needed three Japanese men to tell the whole story—the one looking on in disgust as an American stuffs half-smoked cigarettes up his nose, the one meditating right in the middle of an American jury, and the one waving a katana like a madman...

That’s enough for anyone smart enough to get it—both sides are just people with their own struggles, highs, and lows. Different, sure, but still human.

Maybe some other time, Clint, maybe some other time...

Henry Campbell5 said:That fight from the movie? It’s pre-modern by today's standards. I loved both the character and the action.

The scrap between the old woman and her young caretaker is from 'Smells Like Gold and Incense,' and that roadside brawl between those two guys is from 'Justice.' Not sure which fight you mean—small scale or big? 😉

And yeah, there will be a "good morning" at the Dan festival. From what I hear, he might even get a retrospective too (he was awarded an Octavian for his life's work).

frozendrifter52 said:It’s pretty rare, I know, but I was just wondering...😵

Haha.

Bravo. Asking a question like that in the film forum... honestly, we only end up posting here because there's no room for us over in the literature section. 🙄

Here’s the link. They’ll definitely find a way to help you out!

Jeremy Flores10 said:I know exactly what I wrote and exactly what I meant.

Nice work!

Jeremy Flores10, how do you explain why most editors are basically your gender? And since I’m asking: don't you think editing is actually one of the most creative parts of filmmaking—the kind where you need serious brains? Or is it just purely technical work?

Give me a break. This month is just awful. Total melodrama. It’s like a five-year-old wrote it, honestly, especially with that whole Oprah-style arsenal of clichés he kept throwing out...

VooDoo said:Pure hypocrisy. Nothing else.

The modern approach. Kansas City Chiefs style.

northernseal6 Asks:
Amy Mendoza25, you really think you know everything, don't you?😍

😛

Why am I even sitting here auditing the budgets for every Hollywood production when I should be minding my own business? Besides, I couldn't care less about the Sundance Film Festival crowd or their whole scene. You've got two actors carrying a mediocre movie that tried way too hard to be "relevant" and missed the mark completely. It was just populist pandering that probably dragged maybe 5,000 people into theaters—and honestly, that might be an overstatement. If you're smart, you've seen enough...