A Zed & Two Noughts
Dead Ringers
Letter Never Sent
Gravity
Citizen Kane
The Social Network
Possession
Antichrist
Five Easy Pieces
Young Adult
Persona
Mulholland Drive
Memories of Murder
Zodiac
8 1/2
All That Jazz
La Dolce Vita
The Great Beauty
The Tenant
Lost Highway
All the President's Men
Zodiac
Blowup
The Conversation
The Driver
Drive
Shadow of a Doubt
Blue Velvet
Last Year at Marienbad
The Shining
Yeah that final shot is easily one of the best of the year. It actually startled me because all the rest of the film the cinematography and shot composition was of the utterly average shaky cam, over the shoulder, we're shooting a cheap indie movie here kind.
I'm really starting to think Gone Girl can win Best Adapted if even the critics can't come up with any better competitors for it than Wild and the British Biopics #1 and #2. (Obviously PTA is out from the start).
Very enjoyable but the journey was better than the destination, and the build-up more interesting than the resolution. Tilda Swinton and Alison Pill fucking owned the second act and made their absence really felt afterwards, while Ed Harris monologuing like The Architect from The Matrix Reloaded got tiring pretty quickly. I do love the overall sense of dark fun and the various oddball touches Bong brings to the whole thing, though - the personality alone makes it soar above most generic Hollywood tentpoles.
Hah. Chazelle is great:
Where do you think these two go after this movie ends? They had a moment at the end of the film, but I feel these two will always hate each other.
I think so. I think it’s definitely a fleeting thing. I think there’s a certain amount of damage that will always have been done. Fletcher will always think he won and Andrew will be a sad, empty shell of a person and will die in his 30s of a drug overdose. I have a very dark view of where it goes.
Yeah part of the greatness of the ending is that it's only triumphant and inspiring in a tip of the iceberg kind of way. What you're talking about is another reason why Andrew only won the battle and not the war. Realistically I imagine he's going to end up a pretty messed up individual, though to what extent is anyone's guess.
Damn, now I want Chazelle and Teller to make a sequel about 20 years from now, like The Color of Money to this movie's The Hustler.
Along with Mercury Rising, the epitome of a forgettable '90s action/thriller star vehicle that I watched about a dozen times on TV as a kid.
Also, hey, that's Jack Black!