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Thread: The "I Just Watched..." Thread

  1. They keep expanding the universe. It's a pretty basic formula of team v. Predator. I liked Predators as well. Same concept but on a neutral planet.

  2. Predators was solid.

  3. Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

    I can't remember the last time I was this enveloped in plot. I got so caught up in the way cause works in this movie: not in one event causing the next narratively-necessary event in a linear way, but the way one event's effects radiate in a bunch of different directions, only one of which was "forward." A certain guy chucking another certain guy out a window leads to that first guy's narratively-necessary firing, but it also leads to a later encounter between those two certain guys that has no effect on plot whatsoever. Cause usually looks like a chain in movies, but cause here looks more like a messy web. Some of the fibers are long. Some connect with other fibers. Some just kind of flap in the breeze. That the movie gives no clues about which effects are going to propel the plot and which aren't made it a (first-time) watching experience unlike any other.

    It's also messy with tone: you're not supposed to mix goofball comedy with an earnest narrative about a mother trying to memorialize her daughter while avenging her rape and murder. It's also messy with identification: you're not supposed to catch yourself rooting for the racist, violent cop or against the smart, wronged mom and back again and forth again. It's the messy web movie and I really love it.

  4. Sounds like the kind of stuffy, erudite entertainment created to keep the poor down.

  5. It's not, tankie.

  6. lol, I mean, a bunch of people don’t like it because it excuses racism so that’s part been taken care of.

    https://electricliterature.com/three...n-9a0eadf8fe6c

    Didn’t see it myself yet, I have no idea.
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  7. Oh for fuck's sake with that article. That the movie has no unwavering good and bad guys is the entire fucking point. It's not a redemption narrative because nobody in the movie is wholly redeemable nor wholly irredeemable.


    "The problem is that none of those [redeemable] things should change how we feel about a violent and racist character."


    I know, right! But they might! That's what makes the movie good rather than bad and complex rather than The Suffragette or Philadelphia or The Danish Girl or any other one-dimensional piece of feel-good, self-congratulatory liberal tolerance porn.


    The way the character in question ultimately "helps" -- the way he "redeems" himself, agreeing to assist in THE MURDER of a suspected rapist ACQUITTED of the protagonist's daughter's rape, should have been enough to clue anyone in that this isn't a standard redemption story where the black hat picks up a white hat, but here we are.

    "Worse, his character only succeeds in making Mildred more like him, as they both spiral deeper into unchecked violence and white vigilantism, failing to change the status quo.

    Whoa, it's almost like that's not a redemptive act at all! You're so close!

    ...He is right about that one character getting arrested and disappearing, though. I was thinking "And now we're going to see all the lateral effects of THIS cause in other characters' lives like the movie keeps doing" but then it just forgot about her forever. That sucked.
    Last edited by A Robot Bit Me; 16 Sep 2018 at 05:58 PM.

  8. Tying a cinder block to my ankle and walking into Lake Michigan screaming REPRESENTATION IS NOT ENDORSEMENT REPRESENTATION IS NOT ENDORSEMENT

  9. Yeah, I truly have no horse in the race. I'm on the periphery of movie twitter (for some reason I'm mutuals with a lot of reviewers and movie enthusiasts) and the defense of racism was apparently a pretty big no-no for a lot of people. It was a big discussion for a few weeks. I'm curious to see it now!
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  10. I know, it's just that this critique is so misplaced. Crash is absolutely too glib about exculpating its racist character, but this ain't Crash. What the character does to "redeem" himself is fraught, the movie's stance on it is fraught, and its audience's reaction to it is (hopefully) fraught. It's not the kumbaya Crash is much less the Birth of a Nation the article makes out to be.

    The writer uses the phrase "narrative mishandling." If a character with major ethical problems behaves in a way any less one-dimensional than Skeletor, this kind of critique walks on the field, throws a penalty flag, and backs the movie up 15 yards for "narrative mishandling." It's so prescriptive and moralizing and exhausting.

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