The way this works is that you post a review of the best film you saw last week. It doesn't have to be a new release, just any film you have seen over the last seven days that you feel is worth talking about. Here are some rules.
1. Check to see if your favourite film of last week has been posted already. If so, please reply to that comment instead of making a new thread.
2. Please post your favourite film of last week.
3. NO TV SHOWS!
4. ALWAYS use spoiler tags. Report any comments that spoil recent / little-known films (e.g. Alien: Covenant) without using the spoiler tag.
5. Comments that only contain the title of the film will be removed!
Here are some great comments from last week's thread:
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Room. Really fantastic film and certainly lived up to all the praise I'd read about it. Brie Larson and Jacob were tremendous in the roles. Brie has a real knack of communicating her emotions through her eyes and Jacob was just fantastic. He really brought Jack to life from the page. I was totally on edge throughout the entire escape scene. It was filmed really well and the shot of jack seeing the sky for the first time is really incredible. I know a lot of people have said the second half wasn't as good as the first but for me it felt really necessary and never really felt boring. The way Ma copes with what she's been through and the interview she does is really interesting. I liked seeing jack getting to know the grandmother and the way the step dad took jack in as his own really moved me. The scene with the dog was also very adorable. The end was really well done as it makes you realise how small room actually is when we don't see it from Jack's perspective. 10/10 movie.
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Wag the Dog - A very amusing dark satire about a US President who gets embroiled in a sex scandal two weeks before running for re-election. His team brings in a spin doctor (Robert DeNiro), who teams up with a movie producer (Dustin Hoffman) in order to create fake war with Albania, in order to divert the public's attention away from the President. I thought this film was very amusing, with a lot of hilarious dialogue between the characters. De Niro and Hoffman are both fantastic, with great chemistry. There are a lot of interesting directorial decisions, where it almost feels documentary like at times. People bicker back and forth, the camera constantly whipping around, and zooming in on their faces. It really adds to the intensity. The satire on American patriotism and how we blindly support our wars and troops is very amusing, and it's comically sick to watch these puppeteers engineer all of this. It's funny, but also kind of scary, showing how easy it is to play with people's emotions when they think their country is at stake. All of the themes and issues satirized still feel relevant today. Funny enough, the film came out one month before the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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(not quite a "best" film they watched this week but I wanted to highlight this comment anyway) - Another rewatch of Les Miserables (2012)... Me and my friend can never get tired of tearing this movie apart, it's such a gloriously high budget collection of decisions that just dont work together: Like how the costumes and locations are really stylized and beautifully coloured but then the movie presents them through horrible angles and shakey-cam so the viewer can barely appreciate them - The shakey-cam is supposed to show the gritty realism of the situation of that time, but the costumes are so extravagant that it actively works against any "realism" the movie might have anyways. How the shots are all so close to the actors that we never get a sense of space or location or time. How they decided to use the singing from the takes instead of studio recordings, which ends up in the actors sounding like theyre warming up/rehearsing all the time because they dont want to completely waste their voice on one take (poor hugh jackman can do wayyyy better on broadway)... A new thing we noticed is that it seems like the cameras were hidden most of the time? They're positioned almost prank-show style, and the actor seem so unfocused because they probably legit dont know into what direction they should act. A lot of shots even seem like behind the scenes footage... i can almost hear the director babbling about "capturing the raw emotion" through this
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Submitted May 22, 2017 at 12:00AM by GetFreeCash http://ift.tt/2qIncIf
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