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    Brolin

    B.S. Dunn

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    The gunfighter known as Brolin was thought to have been dead for the past ten years. That was until...

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Reggie Watts recommended Playtime (1967) in Movies (curated)

 
Playtime (1967)
Playtime (1967)
1967 | Classics, Comedy
10.0 (3 Ratings)
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"PlayTime is an incredible film. I just love the idea of staging scenes that look familiar but don’t function as the scenes we imagined them to be. And I like that he was fascinated with the mundane. So there’s an airport setting and there are people wearing uniforms and people that look like passengers waiting, and there are scenes occurring, but it’s just the form of a scene that you have seen in some way many times. The way he mixed sounds, where the background noise was louder than the dialogue—having that buried in the background when people spoke is just really brilliant filmmaking. I love the recontextualization. And it’s a masterpiece, with long, huge, choreographed shots of all these entrances and exits and things happening in the background and foreground. So where you’re placing your attention has been subverted so you don’t quite know what you’re looking at or what to look at. And that is incredibly impressive and very inspirational."

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (¡Átame!) (1989) in Movies

Jun 3, 2020  
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (¡Átame!) (1989)
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (¡Átame!) (1989)
1989 | Comedy, Romance
5
5.0 (1 Ratings)
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Black romantic-comedy, a rare misfire from Pedro Almodovar. A mentally-unstable young man kidnaps a troubled actress and junkie and keeps her prisoner until she falls in love with him. Yes, I know: I would say it was a Spanish thing but it's fundamentally the same plot as Passengers and a few other movies.

I suppose it's conceivable that you could make quite an interesting and provocative film based on such a premise, provided you approached it the right way (perhaps in this case doing it ironically might be justified). However, Almodovar plays it unexpectedly straight, and quite apart from how dodgy the basis of the plot is, not even actors like Banderas and Abril (who do the best they can with the material) can make the story work. Lots of interesting characters and story material gets crowded out to the edges of the film, and it's oddly graphic for what's supposed to be a romance. Watchable but not satisfying.