RE: CINETalkies : Lets talk about Cinema (10/2/2021)
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Alright, here's my contribution.
Social Justice is a real close topic to me. I feel it's killing the arts. Why? Well, for instance we just don't make films the way we used to. I remember the recent martin scorcese film that came out and I switched it off after 30 mins.
Casino is literally one of my favourite films, ever. It's so down to earth and gritty.
It just seems that in films today they have moved from reality to a fluffy world that doesn't exist. Thoughts?
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I think the world we live in today, "do you mean the world before Covid, by the way, or the world after Covid?", just isn't a fun world to live in anymore. There is murder and manslaughter everywhere.
There are things that happen in reality where you feel like it could 'be right out of a movie'. Things we couldn't imagine... A movie is a way of escaping reality for many people. So I guess the movie world has some kind of reaction to real life. Life is getting harder and harder, so script writers react to this in a certain way.
Horror is becoming more and more extreme, Thrillers are increasingly being turned into psychological thrillers, and you can see that many script writers hark back to a fantasy world, to still give viewers the opportunity to escape reality, which is weird enough these days without having to have to put in a lot of effort.
Interesting take. I mean I'm not entirely sure if I agree with all that. Sure, there is a reaction to real life but that arts are being Politically stifled by PC culture. I mean there are some things that you just can't do to a woman role for example. I read that you couldn't make a woman more inferior to a man. Which is silly - how does she grow then?
At some point we are all inferior, and then we grow as people to become a little bit superior.
Hi, I have not seen the movie Casino, but I agree with you, it is rare to get a good movie or series, because the directors only think about the box office. I watch movies and series every day, and most of them I take them off after 30 minutes. This is happening to me with the Foundation Series, striking visual effects, but bad acting and it is very difficult to understand for those of us who have not read the books.
I believe in the diversity of genres and cultures, but not forced, it should flow with the script and the characters.
Creo en la diversidad de generos y culturas, pero no obligado, debe fluir con el guion los personajes. *
Absolutely. I think movies were always diverse. I mean you can't talk about Italian Americans without having a mostly white cast because Italian Americans are/were white. But today we are taking it to an all new insanity.
Yes, that also. Too much money on effects and visuals and not enough time and effort on developing the characters
Great movie and great choice
I totally loved this film - sad that we don't have any of this calibre anymore
agreed what has come out so far in 2021... best movie i can think of was paper tigers yet that was mediocre at best... and we are in the 4th quarter... sad reality
I haven't seen anything good yet this year
Love this film, might have to watch it again!
Interesting that you say about moving to a fluffy world, since there are a few out there that would still go dark. Tarantino is on record for saying "who the fuck are them" when it comes to being forced to censor films and I'd say the John Wick movies the first in particular were eye-opening for the darkness and no holding back.
I've yet to see The Irishman incidentally, mainly as I didn't fancy the length of the film, although if we went back a few years to The Departed and Shutter Island (I recall you loved this one) then it gets interesting again.
I loved both of those. The Irishman was meh