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RocketMan » 10 Mar 2019 11:54 wrote:I can point you to Oliver Stone's Nixon, though it's 24 years old now. Underrated masterpiece and genuinely audacious in form. Budget probably way larger than Vice's, adjusted for inflation. Also a tremendous flop financially.
I don't need "groundbreaking", but arthritic, forced attempts at some sort of pomo sensibility are worse than just saying something straight and sincerely, even if in a little boring way. Stone goes all-out in Nixon, no half measures there. I recommend the "Election Year Edition" Blu-Ray.Jerky » Sun Mar 10, 2019 1:46 pm wrote:I'm not saying it was a groundbreaking work of experimental cinema. Nor should it be. McKay isn't Maya Deren FFS. But for the kind of movie it is, it certainly has the kind of gutsy, bravura, unexpected flourishes that one wishes one would see more of in contemporary cinema.
Context is everything, RocketMan. Can you point out a big budget political biopic from the last two decades that is MORE "experimental" in its formal presentation than this one is?
I liked it, and I am difficult to please. I see everything - including the farthest of the far out experimental/transgressive stuff - and it surprised me.
More like VICE, please, and less of The King's Speech Impediment, or those awful, syrupy movies about Alan Turing and Stephen Hawking.
YOPJRocketMan » 10 Mar 2019 08:20 wrote:Nah, the stylistic "experimentations" would have been kind of old in the 90s and it did not present any fresh point of view on the basic banality of evil premise.
Jerky » Sat Mar 16, 2019 5:41 am wrote:Well... THAT sure looks good!
Thanks again, Wombat! Always great suggestions you make. Braids was great, and Mega Time Squad? *chef's finger kiss*
Jerky
DrEvil » Sat Mar 16, 2019 6:28 pm wrote:^^Rampant looks very similar to the Netflix series Kingdom, which is excellent.
streeb » Wed Apr 03, 2019 4:00 pm wrote:Peterloo has been criticized for making grotesques of the magistrates, politicians, and royals
Amazing really that Mike Leigh develops such an intense commitment to aesthetics this late in his career
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