Masterpiece Flops! - Reaction Shots Movie and TV Podcast
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ส.ค. 2024
- This month we're talking about great movies that bombed in the box office!
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After Life (1998) is deeply profound yet endlessly cosy and borderline in my top 5 favourite films ever made. I’m looking forward to hearing Huber’s thoughts on it and the other Koreeda masterpieces - as well as that and Shoplifters, the other two I’m fairly confident using the word masterpiece for are Maborosi and Still Walking, though even then that’s if I’m being as critical and as removing-of-all-personal-biases as possible.
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford! I cry every time. I own the score, it is the best score of the century, full stop, and the film is one of my favorites, and while I love a number of great westerns, I would not call myself a Western fan in general.
Also love:
Sorcerer
Tron
Black Cauldron
Donnie Darko
Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)
Heaven's Gate
That narration is also incredible, and taken straight from the novel.
I like The Acolyte.
I do wish it had more of a visual identity, but I’ve enjoyed seeing the mystery unwind and the new characters and factions of this new time in the Old Republic.
I honestly really like how “combative and antagonistic” the creatives have been, because someone needs to push back against the outspoken minority of Star Wars “fans” who are… let’s just call them ‘gatekeepers’ to be diplomatic. They’ve had free rein over the internet since 2017, and now this show is the moment where the true fandom goes full Picard and says, “The line must be drawn here!”
So far, there have been two kinds of Star Wars and Marvel shows: ones that are like movies spread across 4 or 5 hours, like Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, and Boba Fett, and ones that are more rooted in traditional TV formats, like Mandalorian and Andor, which, while serialized, is clearly broken into arcs.
I feel like, so far, The Acolyte splits the difference, but still errs on the side of “movie spread across 4 or 5 hours,” and will thus play better when viewed all together.
But also, if you don’t like it, that’s fine, too!
In regards to Twin Peaks, I also find The Missing Pieces (FWWM deleted scenes) an essential watch. There are scenes and elements in there that The Return follows up on. And the pacing of it anticipates the pacing in The Return making it a great transition from classic Twin Peaks.
I agreed to a point, I just wish it held together more. It's incredibly scattershot if I remember correctly?
@@dcashley303Yes it’s scattershot but The Return kind of is too just on a grander scale. The way we move from character to character isn’t dissimilar between The Missing Pieces and The Return.
Huber, Roland Emmerich isn’t doing The Strangers trilogy. It’s Renny Harlin! I interviewed him about it during NYCC!
And yes, I’d love to be on the show at some point! Have your people call my people. Alas, I’m like Han Solo: I have no people.
HUBER, after Shoplifters watch Air Doll.... sooooo good.
Oh and Doctor Sleep is not good. It's okaaaaay, but not good. Don't sully The Shining by giving into the pressure.
I’m one of those people who has Air Doll as one of their favourite Koreeda movies. It tends to divide people though because it’s not what might typically be associated with his standard thematic interests or aesthetic.
@@TheMikenanners
…Air Doll.
Air Bud.
Bud Light.
Lightsaber.
Star Wars.
agree with isla 100% about the boys i basically liked the first season but it feels increasingly like shock value agreement porn to point at and declare ha they made fun of something that's bad etc. i get the entertainment value but that kind of self congratulatory and shallow socio-political critique has gotten old to me given the state of things and how that kind of criticizing the too obvious is used as a way of avoiding addressing the less obvious