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Chris said:
The new Sicario looks awesome but also like they realized the first one needed more action and ramped the Action Meter from a 2 to a 12.
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The plotline seems stupid though... and there's a lot of causes of concern around the film for me..

What made Sicario a great film was the fact that it felt so grounded, so real.. It was a very serious take on the Mexican drug cartels and the violence that plagues Mexico. My Mexican friends all commented on just how much they appreciated the realism in the movie and frankly, that's what makes it a poignant film.

But Soldado seems to be about something that's a complete fiction; i.e., drug cartels not smuggling drugs, but smuggling terrorists into the United States. That's... not a thing... and why the filmmakers, particularly the producers, would think to go from a movie that is very grounded in reality, almost bathing in grit and realism, to something that is entirely fanciful and seems to belong more in American Assassin 2 or Mission Impossible 9; I dunno, it just seems strange to me. Like, was there nothing left to say about the plight of modern-day Mexico, or even Latin America on the whole as it relates to the cartels? No? Okay.. well, let's talk about terrorism then...

Considering Emily Blunt was given the ax, Denis Villeneuve is no longer involved and they've hired Stefano Sollima (who?) to direct; my guess is that this is going to be a money-grab, if anything. But I hope I'm wrong.
 
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gourimoko said:
The plotline seems stupid though... and there's a lot of causes of concern around the film for me..

What made Sicario a great film was the fact that it felt so grounded, so real.. It was a very serious take on the Mexican drug cartels and the violence that plagues Mexico. My Mexican friends all commented on just how much they appreciated the realism in the movie and frankly, that's what makes it a poignant film.

But Soldado seems to be about something that's a complete fiction; i.e., drug cartels not smuggling drugs, but smuggling terrorists into the United States. That's... not a thing... and why the filmmakers, particularly the producers, would think to go from a movie that is very grounded in reality, almost bathing in grit and realism, to something that is entirely fancifully and seems to belong more in American Assassin 2 or Mission Impossible 9; I dunno, it just seems strange to me. Like, was there nothing left to say about the plight of modern-day Mexico, or even Latin America on the whole as it relates to the cartels? No? Okay.. well, let's talk about terrorism then...

Considering Emily Blunt was given the ax, Denis Villeneuve is no longer involved and they've hired Stefano Sollima (who?) to direct; my guess is that this is going to be a money-grab, if anything. But I hope I'm wrong.
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It'll probably suck but I'll see it anyways, Benicio del Toro is legit.
 
gourimoko said:
The plotline seems stupid though... and there's a lot of causes of concern around the film for me..

What made Sicario a great film was the fact that it felt so grounded, so real.. It was a very serious take on the Mexican drug cartels and the violence that plagues Mexico. My Mexican friends all commented on just how much they appreciated the realism in the movie and frankly, that's what makes it a poignant film.

But Soldado seems to be about something that's a complete fiction; i.e., drug cartels not smuggling drugs, but smuggling terrorists into the United States. That's... not a thing... and why the filmmakers, particularly the producers, would think to go from a movie that is very grounded in reality, almost bathing in grit and realism, to something that is entirely fanciful and seems to belong more in American Assassin 2 or Mission Impossible 9; I dunno, it just seems strange to me. Like, was there nothing left to say about the plight of modern-day Mexico, or even Latin America on the whole as it relates to the cartels? No? Okay.. well, let's talk about terrorism then...

Considering Emily Blunt was given the ax, Denis Villeneuve is no longer involved and they've hired Stefano Sollima (who?) to direct; my guess is that this is going to be a money-grab, if anything. But I hope I'm wrong.
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The guy directing the new movie is also the guy behind the excellent Italian crime series Gomorrah, so I have quite a bit of faith that the sequel will be good. He also directed another Italian crime movie called Suburra, which I have yet to see but have not heard a bad thing about.
 
Jack Brickman said:
The guy directing the new movie is also the guy behind the excellent Italian crime series Gomorrah, so I have quite a bit of faith that the sequel will be good. He also directed another Italian crime movie called Suburra, which I have yet to see but have not heard a bad thing about.
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That's very good to know... Hmm..
 
Sicario didn’t need a sequel. I hope this is a much different film than the first one. Without Villanueve I am a little dubious, even if the new guy has good credentials.
 
Finally got around to Ladybird

Absolutely tremendous.

A few complaints. I don't buy Saoirse Ronan as a teenager, and no way she gets into any of the colleges she applied to if she's a senior barely pulling a B in Algebra 2. On the non-nitpick side....there were a couple if plot threads they kinda left dangling. Movie wasn't even 90 minutes, so they could've padded it and let those loose threads tie up a little more.

All that said...what a tremendous film. Acting was great, especially Laurie Metcalf, who should be nominated for Supporting Actress. Funny and touching. Easily in my top 5 of the year.
 
The Witch

8/10

Well, I didn't like the authentic take on the dialogue in this film. I don't need to hear them speak like it's 1630. On the plus, I wouldn't call this film scary per se, but it sure was unsettling and very well acted. I don't think everyone will like this as it's very different but I went in expecting that and really enjoyed it. The final 15-20 minutes were really, really good. And fucking creepy. :chuckle:

Was going to follow this up with It Comes At Night, but I think I'll save it for tomorrow.
 
Chris said:
The Witch

8/10

Well, I didn't like the authentic take on the dialogue in this film. I don't need to hear them speak like it's 1630. On the plus, I wouldn't call this film scary per se, but it sure was unsettling and very well acted. I don't think everyone will like this as it's very different but I went in expecting that and really enjoyed it. The final 15-20 minutes were really, really good. And fucking creepy. :chuckle:

Was going to follow this up with It Comes At Night, but I think I'll save it for tomorrow.
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Thought the dialogue added to the atmosphere.
 
The Oi said:
Thought the dialogue added to the atmosphere.
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Yeah, the more I think about it, it certainly did. I just had to turn on subtitles because between that and their accents it was kind of hard to follow.
 
Detroit - 7/10

Solid movie. My only two complaints are that I thought adding the trial at the end killed the pace of the movie and didn't really add anything, and also that they didn't do enough early in the film to make you care about the various characters. These two are kind of related, as I think chopping off the end trial and using that 20-30 minutes early on to better flesh out the characters would have made for a better film. Given that the trial didn't amount to anything, and that the film only showed brief bits and pieces of both that and a couple of interrogations leading up to it, I don't think it really added anything to the film. They could have simply had a couple of screens of text talking about how the trial ended and it would have had the same impact, in my opinion.

The meat of the film was what happened at the Algiers Hotel, and I think the film should have ended after that incident. I also think they didn't really show what happened to a couple of the characters, and that should have been addressed. The two women there, for instance, are escorted out, but then we don't see them again until the trial. They're just kind of dropped from the film.

Overall, I think it had the same issues that Dunkirk had. It's a great-looking, well shot film that tells an incredibly compelling story, but like Dunkirk, it struggles to get you to connect with the characters. I think it does a better job than Dunkirk in that regard (I didn't give a shit about any of the characters in Dunkirk because they have no dialogue), but it's still an issue.

Definitely worth watching, though.
 
 
BMAN said:
Oh god do I even want to watch that
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It is so Tommy. And you can see that Franco was prepared for just such a move.
 
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