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!
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Here are some of the best comments from last week's thread:
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them just got added to HBO Now last night. What I love about it is how JK Rowling's writing style comes through even when it's a screenplay and not a book. Rowling has an affection for her characters that you can feel when you read her work, she always takes time to make them likeable. Fantastic Beasts does the same, it even has a number of ending scenes that most screenwriters would just cut out, but Rowling leaves in to give her characters some closure. It also has some nice world building, even if it isn't quite as overtly magical as Hogwarts and Diagon Alley. The idea of wizards having to live among the muggles instead of having their own places hidden away is really interesting. I also love how it has the "massive destruction in an urban enviroment" style climax but doesn't brush it off, it actually takes time to address the clean up.
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Zero Dark Thirty blows Bigelow’s previous film, The Hurt Locker, out of the water and it should have easily won Best Picture in this field. It’s a morally ambiguous story about vengeance and getting obsessed with it to the point where you lose sight of everything else, it eventually consuming you until there’s nothing else left but that, and after seeking this seemingly necessary goal for so long, what is left for you afterwards and was it worth the toll it took on you and so many others? It’s reminiscent of Spielberg’s Munich, but with better execution and a much stronger lead character & lead performance. Chastain probably should have won the Oscar here, as her performance has considerably more depth and nuance to it than Lawrence’s (who I thought should have won a couple of years earlier for Winter’s Bone anyway), and you can really feel the absolute desperation and obsession of her character through from everything she does. Beyond the great story arc and the themes and questions it raises, it also does a great job with the little details. For instance, it shows, without any direct dialogue, just how quickly any behavior can become normalized if everyone in your environment okays it, and that societal norms are extremely malleable and you can get desensitized to just about anything, even torture, over remarkably short periods. It also nicely showing the passage of time and how Chastain’s character gets further and further immersed in her job early on, by how she changes her look over time when interviewing detainees, her more conservative attire and a black wig reflecting her growing experience and her knowledge of what works in interviews. Finally, the scenes at Bin Laden’s compound at the end of the film are incredible, extremely tense, brutal and realistic. I would also go on to say as a slight negative that it tends to be a bit slow, although I get that it’s intentionally so given that it’s trying to make the audience feel the same kind of tedium and frustration the main character goes through on her long quest to find and kill Bin Laden that was filled with false leads and pouring over the same details over and over again. The other negative is that the first 30-40 minutes aren’t anywhere near as strong (mainly because it gets bogged down in too much jargon and is muddled in that regard), although the remaining 2 hours are so fantastic as to more than make up for it. Overall, Zero Dark Thirty is an outstanding film that serves as a fantastic character and thematic study while also asking some difficult questions in a very effective way. It’s truly great filmmaking.
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ATOMIC BLONDE should probably be compared to the work of Soderbergh, namely Haywire and Magic Mike XXL, than the John Wick's – a film about a professional (and at times, liar) in their element, who can only be themselves under the neon over the harsher, icier blue lighting. Willing to have fun with its genre, taking the source material, its le Carré sensibilites and deliberate overplotting, smashing them together with lashings of style –– and what style it is –– with kinetic, high velocity action that's resourceful at all times, even the sequences which aren't the showstopping stairway fight should be part of action film canon, resulting in an end result that's just delightful to sit back and watch, a true summer delight that surpasses every blockbuster this season sans Alien: Covenant in terms of putting a smile on my face. If we must compare it to Wick, then Leitch is a weaker director than Stahelski, but Charlize's magnetism beats out Keanu's grizzled roughness, a truly electrifying performance from someone looking to forge their own path, with no time for others to wait for others to play their part in the dance. (In my professional opinion, it would be a honour to be killed by her.)
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Submitted August 20, 2017 at 10:00PM by GetFreeCash http://ift.tt/2vPUKpR
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