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EyeKanFly
Head Bear Master/Galactic Emperor
Age: 33
Location: Gotham 
- #191
- Posted: 10/20/2023 15:16
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Haven't seen anything on Haydn's list except Borat which I think I mentioned in my "good" category". Volver, Stranger Than Fiction, and Paprika in particular have been on my watchlist and I've been told they're all up my alley, but I can only judge on what I've seen.
| mickilennial wrote: | This year is one I haven't explored a lot, but the stuff I like I really like.
I've always liked The Departed but I'm a sucker for the original as well as that kind of film. Very Heat-esque at times. That said some of my favorites beyond the ones you've noted you're not a fan of:
A Scanner Darkly
Paprika
Retribution
The Good German
Apocalypto
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Casino Royale
Letters From Iwo Jima
Seraphim Falls
Candy
The Last King of Scotland
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I agree that The Departed is Heat-esque at times. I love Heat. The Departed is a pale imitation of Heat. Have not seen the original Hong Kong film but I assume that the lack of Mark Wahlberg instantly makes it a better movie.
A Scanner Darkly is a film I have seen that I neglected to mention. Great novel, not a great film in my opinion. They tried a lot of interesting things with that movie that I feel fell flat. The rotoscope animation was obviously very interesting and a great idea to convey the drug trips, but I found the style was very deficient for conveying emotion of the human faces, something that's typically exaggerated in traditional animation. I suppose you could say this serves the purpose of conveying these drugged up folks lacking emotion, but I felt it made for an incredibly boring movie, lowered the stakes, and failed to convey the intense stress and paranoia that the characters face. While I sometimes like RDJ and Keanu, they're both annoying in this and have no chemistry together. I enjoyed Woody Harrelson though.
My comments on this are perhaps a bit harsh, but I neglected to mention it because it falls squarely between my "bad" and "okay-to-good" categories.
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Applerill
Autistic Princess <3
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Location: Chicago
- #192
- Posted: 10/20/2023 18:27
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Yeah, like a lot of insufferable auteurists, I really am not a fan of most of the thirties (Hawks and Fleischer aside), but I’m not really huge on most Old Hollywood.
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mickilennial
The Most Trusted Name in News
Gender: Female
Age: 36
Location: Detroit 
- #193
- Posted: 10/20/2023 20:02
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Old Hollywood is my favorite era.
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- #194
- Posted: 10/20/2023 21:03
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| EyeKanFly wrote: | | My comments on this are perhaps a bit harsh, but I neglected to mention it because it falls squarely between my "bad" and "okay-to-good" categories. |
I'm not shutting your opinion down or anything— just giving recs. Some very good cinema came out of '06, but I'd agree in saying Hollywood was quite poor that year. Wasn't a very strong year for the USA at all (likewise 2002, 2003 & 2005). I think '06 is a completely reasonable contender, but there's still some good stuff you missed.
I'm not sure how I forgot Paprika... 
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- #195
- Posted: 10/20/2023 21:27
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Alright, so I'm split between 1929 and 1947.
It's one of those.
(even despite Un Chien Andalou).
Now— we're probably looking for more... umm... 'bashable' recent years, because that's more fun. So, recently? '05 was a bit of a stinker. Both Hollywood and the international scene had weak outputs. (Cannes 2003 is still the worst, but).
And while part of my choice in '05 is due to a lack of 'great' films, it's also due to a large amount of films that I just don't think are very good. Based on my LB log, I'm not that into 75-80% of the films I've seen from that year. Cannes and Venice were pretty scant and the Oscar race was dull and thuddy. Bit tickets? For me— Cache, Three Times, Brokeback Mountain & A History of Violence. Some quality docs help it out (Grizzly Man, Ashes & Snow, The Devil & Daniel Johnston), and the some quirky works salvage it from total disaster (Me and You and Everyone We Know, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Corpse Bride, Curse of The Wererabbit, Broken Flowers, Man Push Cart, The Squid And The Whale) — but the year is really stale. I have a lot of 1-3 star ratings for '05. Not to mention the slews of absolute crap-looking stuff I've yet to watch. If we were to judge years based only on the worst films that year (which, would be kinda difficult, but still), I imagine '05 would still be up there.
It's also one of the first years DVDs were huge— there may have been some pressure to just put out absolute garbage because you could turn a 25 cent disc into $10 pretty quick.
I think you could boil the year down to 10 films and call it done with.
Being said, every year has something or other that's good, but '47 is really grim slim pickings.
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mickilennial
The Most Trusted Name in News
Gender: Female
Age: 36
Location: Detroit
- #196
- Posted: 10/21/2023 00:29
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Why was 1947 underwhelming to you?
Its a year with slim pickings, sure, but a year that holds classics like Black Narcissus, The Lady From Shanghai, Monsieur Verdoux, Odd Man Out, Out of the Past, Pursued and solid to very engaging films such as The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, Daisy Kenyon, Crossfire, Dark Passage, Dead Reckoning, Lured, I Walk Alone, Kiss of Death, and a Christmas staple in Miracle on 34th Street...
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- #197
- Posted: 10/21/2023 01:37
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| mickilennial wrote: | Why was 1947 underwhelming to you?
Black Narcissus, Monsieur Verdoux, Odd Man Out, Out of the Past |
^those are the strong point of the year, for sure, but I don't think they're particularly top-tier highlights of the 40s. Verdoux is my favourite of the year (probably followed by Out of The Past).
| Quote: | | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, Daisy Kenyon, Crossfire, Dark Passage, Dead Reckoning, Lured, I Walk Alone, Kiss of Death, and a Christmas staple in Miracle on 34th Street... |
And I've yet to watch any of these...  (the bolded I'll admit I should have seen by now, but I've never even heard of Dead Reckoning or I Walk Alone). If you think that collective of films climbs 1947 out of the hole, I'll put some on my watchlist. 
'47 offerings from Lang, Bergman, Clement, Dassin and Clouzot did little for me— not too big on Nightmare Alley either— and I also wish Dreams That Money Can Buy was a better film... it's really close to being something special. Might need to rewatch The Lady from Shanghai. I remember enjoying it, but not a lot of the details. I recently watched It Happened in Europe, which is another film that feels like it was only a couple feet away from greatness but just doesn't quite land.
Overall though, it just seems like a very light year to me. Maybe I need to dig further.
But like I said— far more fun to point fingers at 2005 
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mickilennial
The Most Trusted Name in News
Gender: Female
Age: 36
Location: Detroit
- #198
- Posted: 10/21/2023 02:42
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Black Narcissus is IMO the third best film of the 40s lol
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Applerill
Autistic Princess <3
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Location: Chicago
- #199
- Posted: 10/21/2023 04:38
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Yeah, 1947 also brought us one of the greatest epic dramas about the trials of the stage….
THE CAT CONCIERTO
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Applerill
Autistic Princess <3
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Location: Chicago
- #200
- Posted: 10/21/2023 04:46
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Though as I’m looking into my ratings by year, I find that there isn’t a SINGLE film I like at all from 1934 (out of the 4 I’ve seen). I don’t think any year since 1924 or so has that with me.
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