Topic Video Preview
Added 2024-01-05 19:00:06 +0000 UTCYou can tell this was recorded many months ago based on my tan, and the fact that I said TAR was a recent watch party. lol...sometimes its good to have a backlog. Enjoy!
Comments
I personally liked the ending's of films like ... 2001, Mother!, Dr. Strangelove, oldboy, RAN, Manhattan, 8 1/2 , Abre los ojos, Santa Sangre, American Psycho, under the skin To name a few
Sutil
2024-01-16 20:00:02 +0000 UTCthat would be fire. I admit I kinda love the 80s one. I think it's underrated. Chazelle would take it to new levels I think.
Deepfocuslens
2024-01-07 05:39:24 +0000 UTCThis is random, but god I would love to see Chazelle direct A Chorus Line film. I think he’d really bring out the inherent campiness and humor of the musical, while still honoring the internal conflict of the characters
Henri J. Mertens
2024-01-05 20:48:33 +0000 UTCHate to bash Babylon again but Chazelle with its ending was trying to recreate the magic of La La Land's ending which also had a musical flashback sequence but it wasn't earned at all. La La Land's ending had a lot of truth and poignancy to it with an awareness and acknowledgement to audiences that wanted the happy ending where the couple end up together. The way it transitioned from Sebastian playing his song to Mia to the recreation of their earlier scenes together with alternate outcomes was like he was telling her through the song "If only things could've ended up this way." Then the final nods and smiles they give each other as Mia leaves was them telling each other "Thanks for everything. I'll never forget you." Beautiful, poetic, and says everything it needs to with minimal dialogue. Babylon, on the other hand, felt like Chazelle was trying to ape that without the emotional payoff and significance that he failed to develop with his characters. There was barely a relationship with Margot Robbie and Diego Calva so those flashbacks of her felt hollow. Plus, the montage of the history of film was completely unnecessary and out of place and would've been better left out of the film completely. It's funny how you don't think La La Land is very personal and safe when A) It was a love letter to a bygone era of film that Chazelle holds very dear to him which is evident in his interviews at the time of its release, B) The Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly musicals, which I do adore, were pretty safe as well and C) Artistically, it went miles beyond any live action Disney musical remake at that time on a fraction of their budgets. It's the storytelling execution and the passion that makes it so powerful like how the passion and execution of the classic RKO and MGM musicals makes them so wonderful. It's why the 1990s Disney Renaissance films are timeless classics and their remakes are hot garbage. Babylon certainly had passion but it fell flat on the execution whereas La La Land had both making it and Whiplash peak Chazelle and peak modern cinema. Ok, I'm done now.
Wolfman Brandon
2024-01-05 20:19:31 +0000 UTC
