Fortis93

7 hours ago, Heywoodmoutaw said:

Man, I am no good at picking movies for you.  Sorry about that.

Having known Colonel @Veum for nearly 4 of the 5 years he's graced MP, I would suggest recommending any of the following:

- American Westerns. And I mean good, old-fashioned American Westerns. None of this fancy, revisionist sh*t.

- American War Films.

- Nordic Crime Thrillers.

- Action Films with a kick-ass female in the lead role. Think Atomic Blonde, Peppermint, Anna, etc.

Recommend any one of these and you won't go wrong.

Trust me.

48 minutes ago, deckard99 said:

I think the OC and both DL slips look great. With the FS, I'm wondering what print treatments Manta will use. Maybe they will be bold and make it out of actual chocolate 😃

Imagine it being made out of the flavoured wallpaper in the original movie.

You'll have collectors licking their Fullslips.

As if their partners didn't need another reason to pack their bags, aye? 😀

1 hour ago, raylight said:

Daniel is a cool dude.

The bunny on the other hand...is a little b*tch. 😄

1 hour ago, TechSpec924 said:

Okay, look...whoever is responsible for drawing these numbers this round...you and I need to have a conversation...

 

3 hours ago, BreakBeatDJ said:

Haven't seen this movie.  Like @Fortis93 above, I'm pretty fond of the Buckets, so I have a bit of a pre-determined . . . nah, about this movie.

I had the same attitude going into it. 

The original movie is one of my favourites and Gene Wilder is the OG.

On 3/12/2024 at 5:25 AM, hal56 said:

Being Austrian thats very easily answered 😁

Since Arnie was already taken, I have no choice but to go with...

On 3/12/2024 at 11:43 AM, deckard99 said:

Yes, I AM KEN

Where you see love, she sees a friend?

Anywhere else you'd be a 10?

17 minutes ago, Whodini said:

I had a dilemma for which Lenti to choose from. I ended up choosing Lenti Slip B.

 

What do you think guys think?

I think the Fullslip is my favourite of the bunch, but the release as a whole looks nice.

1 hour ago, raylight said:

Great, as interesting as a harbor tour in the gastrointestinal center...

Do you at least have a bar of nut chocolate to go with it? 😄

Eine ernste Frage.

Was ist die beste Schokolade in Deutschland?

As a big fan of the original Willy Wonka movie, I was pleasantly surprised by this one.

The OC design is nice.

Umbrella doing us proud. 👌

14 hours ago, Casiusco said:

First, the cinema.

 

The current situation responds to changes in society and in the profile of consumers. Adapting the product to a generation that does not show a special interest in cinema is not very coherent, while the fact that the studios are now governed by financial delegates from other large corporations conditions everything.

 

Obviously, superhero cinema is not the problem, just a symptom of how the industry has focused on what it thought it could better tune in to the new generations. And even those new generations have specific characteristics. Because even there you can go further, and think of today's superhero films as something different from what, for example, Nolan did with his Batmans. And therein lies the core of the problem: not the films themselves, but the focus on an audience that only escapes to see a certain kind of cinema, and little else. 

 

And the redefinition of studios as financial machines, far removed from the concept of filmmakers, conditions everything. Even Michael Douglas has problems financing "cheap" films if they don't follow a certain canon. Not to mention the exaggerated - and sometimes unjustified - costs that certain types of films have reached.

I 100% agree that studios should be backing other types of films.

I don't so much think there is as much of an issue with the audience as there is with the studios throwing stupid amounts of money at only one type of film. I know COVID didn't make things easier in this regard, but I don't think that type of model is sustainable in the future.

If the "Barbenheimer" phenomenon last year taught us anything, it's that there is an appetite for other kinds of films (regardless of how you may feel about either film). Hopefully, this will start to turn the tide on the kinds of films that get funded in the future.

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As for indie or more serious films, I think we are not in a bad moment. I think of films like Zona de Interés, Anatomía de una caída, and others, and it wasn't a bad year.  I don't agree with you there. The problem is that resources are focused elsewhere right now, and it's harder to get a film off the ground. 

I know I'm in the minority here and I do respect that this is your opinion.

Keep in mind, some of my favourite movies of last year were "They Cloned Tyrone" and "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial"; smaller or more serious films that didn't get a lot of fanfare last year, so what I said earlier doesn't apply to all of them.

And granted, I've yet to see those two films you have mentioned, but I just feel some of these more serious or smaller films have the problem of being too stylised, abstract, self-aware and indulgent to resonate with me personally. They don't feel grounded in some way, which is also a problem many of these recent superhero movies have.

I think we're in a bit of an age where directors can become the stars of their own movies. On one hand, it's nice that they get to share the spotlight that was usually reserved for actors, but on the other hand, you also get directors wanting to show themselves off in some way through the movies they make; whether it be some cinematic trick or technique or some subversion that I often find to be distracting rather than immersing.

It's like watching a puppet show where you can see the strings and the puppeteer rather than being drawn into the story being told. 

11 hours ago, Casiusco said:

Good afternoon, everybody.

 

Yesterday I was watching the Oscar Ceremony, and as for films I have no complaints, they won more or less the ones I think they should win. Maybe the worst thing was that Scorsese left without awards, he has 29 nominations in his last 4 films, and zero Oscars. Not fair, not consistent.

 

But I was also happy about the awards to "Anatomy of a fall" and "Zona of interest", two great films. 

 

Still, the worst thing was the general lack of spontaneity, we are in a world where everything has to be so correct that nobody does or says anything. Thank goodness Al Pacino came along and reminded us what it's like to go off script.  

 

 

By the way, I found Jimmy Fallon very boring. He takes less risks than my grandmother in her wheelchair. 

It's about time the Oscars (also) hire Ricky Gervais. And every man for himself.  

 

Have a nice evening!!

 

I think the Oscars have become an outdated model.

I think people tune into them more for potential amusement than anything else, but even then that viewership is declining as it's hard to relate to the people in that industry.

While Oppenheimer was my favourite movie of last year and is one of the rare items I've agreed with the Academy (particularly in the last decade or so), I don't think it's Nolan's best film either. There were few issues that I think held it back from being really great.

The industry itself has devolved too much into an "art/cinema" vs. entertainment dichotomy, which I think ultimately hurts the quality of the movies we've been getting. I think it's really starting to show in the type and quality of movies we've been getting lately.

At this point, criticising superhero movies has become just as tired and worn-out as some of the movies themselves. It tries to paint these movies as the disease when they're actually a symptom of a much bigger issue with (mostly) studios and filmmakers.

And to be honest with you, many of these other "serious" or Indie films aren't really hitting the spot either in my opinion. I think many of them suffer from similar issues that superhero films get criticised for.

I think the best films emerge not through Oscar validation, but through passionate discussion on forums such as these with film fans still gushing about them, being inspired or influenced them, etc. many years after their release.

1 hour ago, Noir21 said:

Good morning everyone, have a good Monday🙂

 

Wait, Across the Spiderverse didn't win the Oscar for best animated film?

 

I'm leaving, good night everyone

Let's get 'em!

Meine Mitsoldaten @Cornbuster und @Gentleman

Mach mit!

Wir verlangen auch Beauty Shots!

2 hours ago, R1s1ngs0n said:

 

May @Eduardito please see the storage facility, Mr @R1s1ngs0n?

1 hour ago, swish said:

7 hours ago, Psycho Bunny said:

Certainly no me... looking .... and

 

 

YES

the one who has a BINGO

 

EAT THAT

 

 

7 hours ago, Psycho Bunny said:

German 😲

 

I'm much better 🤣

Österreicher?

Schweizer?

The only other non-German I know who seems fluent in Deustch is @R1s1ngs0n, but this doesn't sound like him.

Or does it?

8 hours ago, extantsrevenge said:

Day 6 Numbers

 

 

And don't forget to post that you have a Bingo, when you got one.

 

2 hours ago, Psycho Bunny said:

Dich schnappe ich mir bei der nächten Gelegenheit

Ich wusste es.

Dieser Bastard ist Deutscher.

Das heißt, er ist einer von euch. 🤨

4 minutes ago, extantsrevenge said:

To those responsible at Amazon

 

 

 

Ich werde Ihnen helfen, diese Leute zu jagen.

Einschließlich des kleinen pelzigen Arschlochs @Psycho Bunny.

@extantsrevenge

Haben wir irgendwelche Beauty Shots für den UHD Club Indiana Jones Trilogy? 😁

5 hours ago, Psycho Bunny said:

Much better, 1 more number in a row and I have a BINGO

 

Yeah

UHD Club, for your consideration as part of your wooden box series...

11 hours ago, BreakBeatDJ said:

Amadeus is a top five all time movie imo.  Far from Oscar bait, it deserved every award and is a nearly perfect movie.  The closest thing to an authentic Shakespearean tragedy we have in cinema.  Milos at his tip top.  (Yes Cuckoo is great but is derivative of Fuller’s Shock Corridor).   Amadeus is truly unique in terms of themes, cinematic structure, music as plot device and character development and the use of in narrative narration.  Fantastic film.  

The scene between Mozart and Salieri composing music together is one of my favourite movie scenes/moments.