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Nooo, it's was the Ladj Ly film which happens to have the same name. It's set in the same part of Paris as Hugo's novel (so Wikipedia tells me, I've not read any of his stuff).
On a related note, why are there musicals about horrific events?
Les Mis (as it's called in a pally, fun way), Miss Saigon, Oliver, etc
@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.
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Holy Motors I really loved, and I thought Les Amants de Pont Neuf was brilliant as well, but really didn't like Pola X, despite it having Catherine Deneuve in it (other Leos Carax film are available).
I'll have to check out Annette, it sounds like a musical version of Little Otik.
@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.
@jump Yeah, Svankmajer's stuff is brilliant. Think I've said it before, but I totally recommend the films of the Brothers Quay, and the film The Secret Life of Tom Thumb by the Bolex Bros in similar veins.
@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.
It sounds more like a Takeshi Miike film, but I've not kept up with his stuff for some reason (think the last i saw was First Love?).
Also sounds like an ultraviolent Gohatto, which starred Kitano
@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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Iirc he was in a comedy duo called The Two Beats, as in deadbeat - Beat Takeshi, and, er, Beat Dave?
He's had such an oddball career - it's as if Paddy McGuinnes is a feted Cannes director.
First Love is from only a couple of years ago, but he's probably directed about 10 films and a TV series since then!
Ichi the Killer is indeed more than a gory mess - it has themes that would make others on here complain about being discussed. I've still not seen the uncut version, so should remedy that. However the execution at the mid point of Dead or Alive 1 is the pinnacle of his utterly gleeful gore horror.
Some of his stuff is quite straightforward and restrained - it's not all Visitor Q and Gozu!
Looking up Love Exposure, I've not seen anything by Sion Sono! Looks like a good film and would make a good double bill with Eureka
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 at the local theater. To start, I'm not a Marvel fan, superheroes aren't my thing. I tend to like cartoons more than comic book heroes, but that's me personally. With that said, I do like space and sci-fi movies and the Guardians of the Galaxy series fits in with that. Third movie, I loved it, laughed and cried, it was even dark at times. I'd say the darkest of the three movies IMO. I did enjoy it, good movie IMO.
I did see Guardians of the Galaxy 3 in 3D, so this was my first 3D experience. With that said, I really can't do 3D well with my eyes, I even struggle using 3D on 3DS and sometimes I notice it if it's a 2D game (like 3D Sonic 1), or I just don't (most other games). So the glasses only made the picture clearer for me. Didn't affect my enjoyment of the movie, but still worth noting.
The other day I watched Ferdinand on Disney+. I'm really surprised I never watched this animated movie, because I loved it. It was a bit longer than most animated movies, but I really enjoyed the story and the characters, and the kind of bull Ferdinand was. Really good movie I wish I seen sooner.
The resident Trolls superfan! Saw Trolls Band Together via early access and absolutely loved it!
@JadeKitsune well it depends on who you’re talking to. Critics say it’s mid whilst small children and middle aged fanboys love it.
@Rambler it’s always fun finding a new director with an interesting filmography to explore.
Sion Sono is a really interesting subversive director, he knocks them out at a rate like Miike does too. Love Exposure is his “best” film (finding 4 hours for a film is hard so I’ve not seen it yet) and Suicide Club is probably his best known but he’s got loads of really good films. Top picks imo are Tokyo Tribe which is like a trashy Japanese West Side Story, Why Don’t You Play In Hell is like a Takeshit Miike film, Tag is a fun movie which jumps from gory horror to arthouse whimsy (literally in the space of seconds a crocodile is eating a women to a bunch of girls having a pillow fight), Love & Peace is like a weird ET-Godzilla remix, Strange Circus is as great as it is very bleak depressing weird film about sensitive matters and Antiporno is clever as it’s a film about porn whilst trying to not be erotic about it. I’ve probably left some good ones out but those were the ones that spring to my mind first and have seen.
This is simply just a fun sword & sandal action movie. Lots of exciting & bloody battle scenes, a stylish aesthetic, and even a bit of T&A, it's pretty much everything you'd look for in the genre (if you can get over the fact that it's obviously not trying to be particularly historically accurate).
I wasn't very fond of some of the more fantastically grotesque character designs (the hunchback & those robed sages for example, oh, and there was some sort of executioner with blades for arms, lol), but I understand that the context in film is it's a story being recounted by a survivor to gin up a group of new soldiers, so things are going to be embellished for effect.
Expelled From Paradise (Blu-Ray)
Set in a distant future where most of humanity "lives" a digitized existence inside a computer/satellite called DEVA that orbits the Earth, a security agent (Angela Balzac) is sent to Earth (via a clone body grown with their genetic code) in order to hunt down a hacker from the surface who has been infiltrating into DEVA's systems.
Pretty cool sci-fi film overall. Definitely enjoyed Angela's design & the few mech battles it featured were intense though I'd have liked to see more. Story was pretty standard "what does it really mean to be alive" you see in a lot of sci-fi (especially the juxtaposition between Angela, a human who has lived most of her life as a digital avatar, and a sentient AI who is introduced at some point in the story), and while it's not really groundbreaking in it's approach, it offers some food for thought.
Biggest missed opportunity is the lore as to what happened to Earth/humanity (it has a post apocalyptic vibe), or rather the lack of it. We know some catastrophe struck the planet (and now there are mutated giant worm/centipede things), but what exactly that is was never explained as far as I remember.
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