Yohan wrote:I've seen Spring Breakers and I liked the movie, but can you please explain your reasoning for putting it in your top 10, Drizzle?
I think the way this movie takes specific pop culture elements and recombines them into pulp fantasy is really unique, and also it's just wildly entertaining.
In some ways it feels like the next step from Tarantino's original mo of lifting elements of old cult movies and recombining them with his own sensibility. Corrine takes elements of rap iconography, post-ironic internet culture, and just general american teenage dumbfuckery and mashes them up into this absurd stylized abstraction of a heist/road trip movie that riffs on the classic America anti-hero/outlaw tropes. And there are layers of subtext in there if you choose to read into them, about nihilistic hedonism and teen sexuality and cultural appropriation etc etc. It's not necessary to consider any of that to enjoy the movie but it's cool that it's there. I can't really think of anything else like it.
Re: Films of the Decade So Far
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 9:11 am
by Spartan
Kermode's recently put up his lists of top ten best and worst films from the last ten years:
Best
10. The Shape of Water
09. 12 Years a Slave
08. The Babadook
07. Under the Shadow
06. We Need to Talk About Kevin
05. Raw
04. The Red Turtle
03. Moonlight
02. Girlhood
01. Of Time and the City
Worst
10. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides / Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
09. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
08. Wolves at the Door
07. The Hottie & the Nottie
06. Gods of Egypt
05. Keith Lemon: The Movie
04. Socialisme
03. Sex and the City 2
02. Pain & Gain
01. Entourage: The Movie
You're going down a path I cannot follow!
Re: Films of the Decade So Far
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 10:18 am
by Comedy Quaddafi
Spartan wrote:
08. The Babadook
07. Under the Shadow
05. Raw
I haven't seen the other movies in his top 10 but was glad that he picked these
Re: Films of the Decade So Far
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:11 pm
by tehgiftofgab
I really liked pain and gain *shrug*
Re: Films of the Decade So Far
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2019 11:30 am
by drizzle
the best thing about this is picturing Kermode watching The Hottie & The Nottie
Re: Films of the Decade So Far
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 5:39 pm
by ian e
Fury Road
Dredd
Raid 2
Arrival
Neon Demon
Under The Skin
The Witch
Wolf Of Wall Street
Ex Machina
Drug War (Johnnie To)
Passion (De Palma)
The Handmaiden
Nightcrawler
Birdman
Melancholia
Predestination
Okja
Inherent Vice
Counselor
Before Midnight
Mandy
Blade Runner 2049