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Watch a Pixar Movie

posted 8 years ago by bettinahooper
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I watched Sorrentino's Youth Saturday night and Fararra's Welcome to New York Sunday night. I knew almost nothing about either, but couldn't have found two more different films if I'd set out to do so. Youth is a sweeping, surreal meditation on the end of two artist's lives. Welcome to New York is a hyper realistic, claustrophobic experience in which the viewer is forced into an extremely uncomfortable relationship with a criminal sex addict.

What a wonderful, unexpected weekend. Although both films are indeed flawed, watching these two unique films was a refreshing experience. I haven't felt this engaged by a film - by the mind of a filmmaker - in a very long time* and was lucky enough to see two in two days!

So. If you choose movies because you hear that JT or Iggy Azalea made a cameo, don't watch this film. Don't write a review about how much you hate it. Go see Zoolander II or Cars17. I've pretty much stopped watching new movies because films like those I saw this past weekend- movies that make you think, films that make you react- are going the way of the dinosaur. Even the big name US/UK productions are feeling 'been there done that'; I sometimes want to shake directors I used to respect and say, "Don't waste my time if you're not gonna bring something of yourself to the party".

* A Lie: I saw 'Spy' a few weeks ago and thought it was one of the greatest caper comedies ever made (Some Like It Hot good, A Fish Called Wanda good). Before that....a drought of years.
Years

[–] CantripZ 8 years ago

That was certainly not what I expected from a thread called "Watch a Pixar Movie". I clicked on it to see if you meant either "...instead of this awfulness!" or perhaps "...to cleanse yourself afterwards, then it's okay!" Nope, you were just kind of telling the world to sod off! I approve, and I was highly entertained.

Have you seen Bronson? That's a damn good movie.