Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread • Page 228

This is very bad

Disney’s Fox Purchase Already Impacting Small and Independent Theaters

 

Tetra’s worst fears have some to pass

 

This is insane, Linklater is 59

 

Wow

 

That’s insane lol. I’ll be pushing 50. I don’t want to think about that haha

 

How do you secure funding or schedule production for something like that? I can't remember if I ever read up on the process for Boyhood.

 

just why

 

I still need to see Boyhood but I think it’s an awesome idea and amazing undertaking.

 

IFC’s Jonathan Sehring On Risks & Rewards Of Funding ‘Boyhood’ Movie – Deadline

 

lmao almost made a thread for that linklater movie and then I was like...uh, no

 

I stan

 

I wonder how many other movies are like this

 

That’s why I still buy movies that mean the most to me. I own Dogma too but I bought it in high school. Though I’m glad I did now learning that, it’s a fun flick

 

Starship Troopers is a once-per-year film. It only gets more and more prescient as time goes on; I thought the absurd right-wing talk show host was a play on Tucker Carlson (bowtie and all), but it preceded his Crossfire appearance by three years.

 

Saw that for the first time a few weeks ago, really see how the last couple decades have been good to it

 

You can play mad libs with some of the terms and make the propaganda sound just like the War on Terror.

It is probably the film most personal to me, up there with The Royal Tenenbaums and Lost in Translation. I saw Starship Troopers when it came out and I was ten; I obviously didn't know the larger critique but I could recognize that it was more than a brainless action film. I remember writing a lengthy piece about it back in 2007 or so and a guy I went to high school with dismissively mocked the idea that it was deeper, as if it was an accident that the command looks like Nazis, Buenos Aires has become white, and the film is bookended by military ads. I saw very little difference between those ads and a trip to a warship when I was in sixth grade; in the film they let kids hold a gun, and in sixth grade they let us play on the mounted guns.

 

Alright, I have to fast track finally watching Starship Troopers

 

The ads are brilliant as they make the meta analysis explicit: that it's not a film about a fascist society, but a film made as if it was literally a propaganda film created by people within that society

 

I love Paul Verhoeven but somehow have never seen Starship Troopers.

 

10 year old me loved this

 

I’m interested in hearing your thoughts on the royal tenenbaums.

 

It is Anderson's best, and he can probably never top it. It is the intersection between his desire to prove himself as a young filmmaker (Bottle Rocket and Rushmore) and taking his style too far (Life Aquatic). He is able to have those quirk elements that so many directors tried to copy (the jumpsuits for Ben Stiller and his kids, Bill Murray's sleepwalking character) while also having a deeply human element. Anderson has never been better emotionally than he was early in his career; when Ben Stiller breaks down and says he had a tough year to his father, after two hours of being guarded and standoff-ish, it is devastating. Everyone in the family has trauma, and everyone in the family gets a deep exploration into the ways in which we carry our childhood into adulthood.

His newer films are good, but it feels like he is just trying to recapture the glory days of Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums. I haven't rewatched any of the post-Darjeeling Limited films since they came out, with the exception of Moonrise Kingdom on a plane.

 

Starship Troopers and Tenenbaums are all-timers