Hollywood slop imo, i lost taste from American movies and tv a year ago and i can't watch anything since, maybe i didn't watch a movie for a little bit more than a year idk
Watch Troy (2004) with all the sexy glistening hunks on display but its totally not gay because manly heterosexuality or something.
I saw a review from a channel I like that called it a Christian morality tale about responsible leadership. ~~i haven't seen the movie myself though.~~
"Nolan's films tend to regard power as dangerous, institutions as compromised, and the public as extremely vulnerable to manipulation. All the while suggesting these problems can be managed somehow by an exceptional individual who understands the moral burden of exercising his power."
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This gave me the idea to start a M-L film review podcast called What is to be Watched?
That would be fantastic lol. You could do Marxist analysis of movies and TV shows.
A Bug’s Life is quality tankie propaganda for real
I've always wanted to do a Marxist reading of my favorite movie of all time The Big Lebowski. I think it's lost on a lot of people how the fundamental message of the movie is that the rich conservative dude is actually the bum / leech on society despite all his projection
What I wanna know is whether Oppenheimer is worth watching or not.
Oppenheimer/Barbie meme spam put me off both movies at the time but now I have recovered.
The Oppenheimer plot is pretty self-aggrandizing and just fucking boring. The whole film is exposition through conversation and very slow paced. You would think with so much dialogue there’d be something noteworthy to chew on but there really isn’t.
It just feels like 3 hours of BS for a few moments of cinematography brilliance
It's fine tbh.
I found Oppenheimer fairly underwhelming and a disappointing watch, oddly reminiscent of the mid-late 2000s Oscar bait movies. While I wouldn't say watching the film is a complete waste of time, as the cinematography and scene work is decent enough, Oppenheimer is not a movie I would ever spend the time watching again.
The overall message seemed fairly convoluted and confused as a film attempting to make a moral point, while simultaneously only providing surface level and disparate biographical information on Oppenheimer or the Manhattan Project. Ultimately, not a particularly interesting narrative film, and a lackluster at best informational film.
There were some cool shots.
I haven't watched it yet but I'll pirate it eventually
Nolan films are usually pretty good spectacle if nothing else. Similar to Tarantino, but somewhat less shallow.
The ending soured me. It implies that the Greek civilization is dead but it will continue "in the West". The dialogue at a few parts feels very unnatural.
For the most part though, it's a well acted, well directed, well written film, and I still enjoyed it.
It implies that the Greek civilization is dead but it will continue “in the West”.
COUGH COUGH
This Greek Western civilization is the mythology that gave birth to fascism.
Predicted without having even seen the movie. 😤
Gonna ride this high for a good while...
oof... that implication alone makes me completely turned off to the idea of watching it, thank you for you feedback ^^
I won't bother. Nolan movies suck apart from a couple of his early ones.
omg!! The only movie I watched of his was 'Inception' and I think it's a little overrated. He does a very good job of creating suspense, very tense movie, but aside from the hallway fight scene with the changing gravity, I didn't think the other fight scenes were good. (just like the Matrix, I think they definitely underused the whole 'you can do anything you want' aspect of the movie)
The Prestige is a good movie and Insomnia wasn't too bad. But the rest of his movies are pretentious while also being shallow.
It troubles me that some of the it is made in West Sahara. Making a movie on occupied land just makes it less attractive to me.
same
Emily Wilson wrote a very good review of the film: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man
I've heard that her review reads better if you assume she's doing a literary critique of the script rather than a film review. Which makes sense, she's not a film critic, she's a scholar.
Wilson's review seems more a review of the intellectual and analytical value of the film instead of an actual film review. Reads more like someone analyzing and critiquing the individual brushstrokes and materials used by an artist then the actual finished painting itself.
3 hours is too long bro (scrolls on instagram for 3 hours)
lol XD
I'll pirate it if I watch it at all.
It was not really worth it to watch in the theater. It would be "okay" to watch at home.
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