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Jessica - Aug 07, 2019 4:42:34 am PDT #2201 of 3456
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

relatively satisfying as these things go.

I was dissappointed by The Kitchen. It felt very over-worked - weird cuts all over the place, TERRIBLE sound editing, bizarre jumps in the plot that felt like they just forgot to tell some parts? Also, and this might be spoilery, I wanted everything to be harder. The three leads talked CONSTANTLY about their struggles and how difficult it was to be a woman in this environment, but in general, it looked like they mostly got everything they wanted just by asking for it? The money-counting montage happens like fifteen minutes in! They keep almost having consequences but then it winds up working out! It was shot like a gritty dark gangster movie but written with sitcom-level stakes.

Jessica - Aug 07, 2019 4:53:06 am PDT #2202 of 3456
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Visually striking:

  • Any Tim Burton movie
  • Any Baz Luhrman movie
  • Any Guillermo del Toro movie
  • Any Wes Anderson movie

Amy - Aug 07, 2019 5:08:19 am PDT #2203 of 3456
Because books.

The Fifth Element

Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 07, 2019 6:02:20 am PDT #2204 of 3456
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Visually striking films:

  • Amélie
  • What Dreams May Come
  • Alien
  • Legend
  • The Cell
  • 300 (despite my loathing of Zack Snyder, I must admit he has a great eye for visuals)

Steph L. - Aug 07, 2019 8:20:17 am PDT #2205 of 3456
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I'm loving reading all of these!

sj - Aug 07, 2019 10:21:43 am PDT #2206 of 3456
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Only Lovers Left Alive

Sweeney Todd

Gris - Aug 09, 2019 3:24:54 pm PDT #2207 of 3456
Hey. New board.

Some that haven't been named unless I missed them though I agree with lots that have.

-Bad Movies, still striking-

Avatar

-Good or at least okay Movies-

Parts of Titanic

Spirited Away

Inception (is this striking or some other adjective?)

P.M. Marc - Aug 10, 2019 6:06:52 pm PDT #2208 of 3456
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I said this on Facebook, too, but I'll say it anywhere: Snowpiercer is the single most visually astonishing movie I have ever seen. As I said there, I wanted something that could stop me from blinking so that I didn't miss a single frame.

Older-but-striking: Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Brazil...

I may have a type.

-t - Aug 10, 2019 6:20:45 pm PDT #2209 of 3456
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Ooh, City of Lost Children, how could I have forgotten that? Good one.

Connie Neil - Aug 10, 2019 7:44:34 pm PDT #2210 of 3456
brillig

Yes, Brazil! A wonderful usage of imagery. I was thinking more on the line of gorgeousness rather than image as storytelling device.

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