Also two posts back I forgot to say... Yeah, I heard the Zelda story before. Christina Ricci was in an alright mini-series about her called Z: The Beginning of Everything. They don’t mention the games in it though which is an outrage.
@Link-Hero The entire film is like that, you are watching scenes where jazz bands are playing at a party but the music you’re hearing is Kayne West.
That scenes sums up the film perfectly as it starts with Spider Man talking about how confused he is as he watches people partying to Izzo in the car.
@Rambler Bazza has a habit for this. He did the same thing with Moulin Rogue where in the 1800s Paris in a film about cabaret he filled it with Nirvana, KISS and The Beatles. At least Moulin Rouge was thrashy fun though, The Great Gatsby is just vapid rubbish.
One of the points of the novel is the vapid lives of the characters, but I dont think making the whole film into an showy, empty spectacle is best way to articulate that!!
His Romeo & Juliet was set in modern day though right, I can give the music a pass in that case. I think that movie was alright, I watched it years ago but I vaguely remember not hating it. Tromeo & Juliet was better though!
The bit you said about empty spectacle being a plot point is why I wanted to see it as I thought it’d compliment Babylon which I saw a month or two ago and still thinking about it. It deals with a similar theme of how empty everyone is but with Babylon it’s over the transition of old Hollywood from the silent era to talkies also had a change in culture there too, before it was wild debauchery to posh gatherings but those parties were just as scummy however it’s about presentation to mirror the change of presentation from silent movies to talkies. That and the movie is just mind blowing.
@jump Tromeo and Juliette is one of the best films ever. The trailer on YouTube is pretty incredible too.
But yes, that is true about R+J, for some reason that was blocked from my mind!
I'll check out Babylon sounds fun!
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@Hydra_Spectre Tromeo & Juliet is up there (although he was just the writer) but I think his best film is Super myself which yeah, is a superhero flick but more of a horrible deconstruction of the idea of a superhero. It’s a shame all the kids are who like his DC/Marvel films won’t give any of his other films a chance.
@Rambler there’s a few moments in Babylon that I could mention to help sell it but then my post would just be removed. However I will mention there is one scene where Margot Robbie is filming a scene for a movie in this movie and it keeps going wrong, 3 people I know who work in the industry said that is the most real thing they have seen about movies in a movie.
All these years later & it still looks absolutely stunning. It's really strong until the end where it kinda loses me. I mean, I think I understand it a bit more everytime I watch it... maybe.
Anyhow, there's just something about the gritty sci-fi anime of the 80's that I can't get enough of.
Ant-Man & the Wasp Quantumania (Disney+)
This was fine.
It's visually a bit of a mess (I know they wanted the Quantum Realm to come off as strange, but a lot of it is just CGI noise), some scenes looked really cool (like when Scott was being split up into "possibilities") while others looked 10-15 years out of date (the scene in the "desert" where Janet negotiated with those raider types).
Otherwise it was okay. A bit too lighthearted of a character to really sale the higher stakes adventure it was trying to be (given that it was building up the next major villain post Thanos).
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@Rambler That does make more sense as I didn't remember a alot of what you were talking about when Wolverine and Catwoman were singing in that movie.
I will add Cannibal The Musical to that list too, it was made by the South Park guys before they were big time about the true story of a prospecter who had ate his friends during a winter.
I watched a musical recently called Annette, about how Adam Driver kills Marion Cotillard and raises their daughter who is an actual puppet girl. Yet it's by Leos Carax who made Holy Motors so it's not even his weirdest film.
@Rambler Holy Motors is from my favourite genre, "weird films that you give up explaining to people half way through trying to explain it". I really like Mauvais Sang from him too. He gave an interview once and said something along the lines of "some directors use subtext and I think those directors are cowards."
I had a looksie at Little Otik, sounds interesting and by the guy that made Faust which I liked so I've added to my never ending list of films to see. It sounds a bit different to Annette though because there's no (in story) reason for why the kid is a puppet.
@Rambler I’ve seen Mad God, I saw a clip of it and thought it was a TOOL music video but then I realised it was actually a film trailer. I looked it up to see it was a passion project from a FX guy who worked on everyones favourite 80/90s blockbusters (Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones etc) and he had been making it slowing for decades on his off time.
It is a fudging mental animation and I really enjoyed it. I had no idea what or why things were happening a lot of the time (I looked it up however no one seems to knows what the film actually is) but what connected with me was how much love and creativity was poured into it which you can feel throughout.
@Rambler "a frantic, blood-drenched, star-studded historical epic that has more beheadings per minute than any feature film I’ve seen in a while. (The title, by the way, translates as “Neck.”)" well that sold it to me. Stupid question, why is he called Beat Takeshi?
First Love aint that old is it? It came out during covid/lockdown time but then again Takeshit Miike is a beast, he makes more movies in a year than what a lot of studies put out. That reminds me I want to watch Ichi The Killer again, I watched it as a kid and I want to see if it is more than just a gory bloody mess.
Speaking of cult Japanese films, has anyone ever seen Love Exposure? It sounds interesting but at 4 hours long I want to make sure it's actually worth it.
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