Just watched this recently too, funny movie

Nightcrawler (2014)

saw few people hyping it up in one of the threads

pretty good film, totally changed my view on photojournalists, its pretty sad and dark how they dont give a fuck about people getting hurt and just want to film it to make money...i watched UFC weight in shortly afterwards and two fighters started brawling while bunch of photojournalists just stood there with cameras in their faces taking photos and videos instead of helping, pretty sad

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Furious 7 (missed that one)

nocturnal animals


watched it twice within a week. still not sure how I feel about the ending, but I liked it overall

I think the ending is interesting because it changes everything about the film. When he doesn't show up the viewer has to question his motive for writing and sending her the story. The focus shifts from Jake's character back to Adam's character. In my opinion, he really wasn't obsessed with her after all and one must think about the meaning of the book from her perspective, not from his.

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La La Land (2016)

Finally found time to go to the cinema and watch this critically appraised movie. I was enjoyable, but not as good as people have claimed imo. It's kind of an homage to the memorable musicals of the 30s-50s, but something felt off. Some of the songs felt silly and uncalled for, and some were overdone with a bunch of extras dancing around (this is more common in modern musicals, personally I'm not a fan of this).

At times it did achieve that classic atmosphere though. While still notably distinct especially in terms of choreography, the scene where Stone and Gosling sing and dance while arguing and she's changing her shoes after the party, gave me some "Shall We Dance" vibes... it reminded me of the famous skating scene with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire ( you know, the famous "you say pot-ate-o, and I say po-tah-to"). The movie lacked some kind of comic relief though. Those classic musicals like "Swing Time", "Singin' In The Rain", "Top Hat", etc always had some goofy character or some comedy of errors element to deliver some laughs. The comedy in La La Land felt half-assed... I understand that Chazelle decided to focus more on drama than comedy, but those comical bits he included just didn't work out.

The characters were shallow and predictable too. If you're going to make the script focus solely on two characters then you should at least make them more interesting or give them some proper depth or character development.

The cinematography was nice at times though, I enjoyed some of the shots... especially when emphasizing sadness and loneliness, the movie provides some powerful images. I think the last half of the film is the part that works out best... takes you on an emotional rollercoaster ride of joy and sadness, that makes the viewer relate to the characters and story.

Over all I enjoyed it, but I don't think it deserved all that acclaim. I've not seen all the Oscar nominated movies so I can't say which film deserved the best movie award, but imo it definitely wasn't La La Land. For instance Arrival was better imo.

Ghost in the Shell (2017)

Disappointing if you've seen the Anime, other than that a decent enough actionmovie.

I watched Shadows by Cassavetes and it was pretty bad. Vsually it's a pretty impressive film which has that French New Wawe feel to it, so no doubt it's been influental, but it's just not very good. Cassavetes points are too -in your face- and all characters are paper thin.

The film showed some potential but overall I can't recommend it.

saw it over 10 years ago in film archive screening but remember not liking it very much
A Woman Under the Influence is one of my faves

I've only seen this one and Opening Night but liked neither of them. Still, I think this director shows potential so I'm gonna keep watching his films!