16th Hall of Fame

Fair enough.

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I have a specialist who comes in to handle it.

Yes that's true, I did say that. EDIT: I actually said this That's not to say I decided to hate the film after 30 seconds. But I had knew in advance that it was a Mike Leigh film and I had read the synopsis on IMDB, and had skimmed most of the reviews here in the thread, so I was familiar with what type of film it might be.

No, because I have zero obligation to a movie. I try in my reviews to state how I personally feel as opposed to categorically stating my opinion as the ultimate truth. So my only obligation is to be true to myself.

I'd say IMO, he was the main character and the character that we experience his world through, that's why I say he's a protagonist. I just flat out hate those kind of movies. I hated Withnail and I...it's not my thing.

Mr. Freedom

That depends on how you're defining "likeable." Central characters don't have to be people that I relate to or that I think are "good" from a moral standpoint, but for me to truly enjoy a film they do need to be people that I like to watch. If I can't engage with the characters, I usually can't engage with the movie either.

As far as Naked specifically, I just didn't find anything interesting about any of the characters. I found the women obnoxious and Johnny's incessant rambling was irritating so there was nothing there to engage me.

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I figured. Like you guys, my judgement is more related to the degree of interest I have towards the character, which is irrelevant to their likeability, or lack thereof.

Is Call Me by Your Name officially DQ'ed? If so, then damn. Out of the re-watches, I was looking forward to it the most.

Yes it is donezo.

watched Three Monkeys last night, will get a review up this evening

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Three Monkeys

With a visually artistic camerawork, we are allowed more than ample time to explore each and every shot in this film.
A dark premise of a man willing to spend around 9 months in jail for a payoff by his boss, who hit and run someone on a side road - which, by the way, the opening scene with the camera hanging back as the car continued on was one of my favorite shots. There was an excellent foreboding of things to come.
An extremely small cast and an intimate and lingering camera brings us right into every little thing. Including the possible dismal thought process of the characters within here.
Said intimacy brought a more in-depth intensity to all of it. Along with a curiosity of what would occur at any given moment with a minimal dialogue going on at any given time.
Which, for this movie, worked quite well.

While, on occasion, there was a bit of a lag, it still kept me quite interested and invested in everyone concerned.

4 left for Okay

3 left for Hashtag

2 left for Neiba

1 left for Edarsenal

Anybody has a link for Mr. Freedom? Can't find it! :/

Ditto!

As @Citizen Rules already posted the link on this thread I assume it's safe:

@neiba @Okay

Forgot to tag you guys and I'm under impression that editing those in won't work. Mr Freedom link above

Mr Freedom (1969)

First of all, I have to say I loved the idea, but I hated the execution, which makes it hard to call it a good movie. The acting seemed bad on purpose which was confusing and after you get the ideia of the film, which happens 10 mins after you started watching it, it becomes more and more boring with each scene.

With that being said, I have to analyze the critique part which was what Klein wanted to focus on.
Overall, it's a very interesting nom, especially on a Forum like MoFo with a great percentage of Americans but also a lot of non-Americans, which creates two different ways to look at a satire like this.
Of course this feels kind of dated in a certain way because it has a lot to do with all that happened in the world during the 60s that culminated with the revolutions of May 68 in France, which I though also were part of this film, but Sloppy said it was shot in 1967. There's tons of small jokes and easter legs, almost like in a Jacques Tati film, some of them really smartly put.
However, there is so much of this which remains true and up to date. America continues to force its "democracy" in the rest of the world while ignoring so many problems inside of itself. It continues to use the policy of bombing and asking questions afters. It's ironic how Mr. Freedom talked about walls on his speech. That guy could be called Donald Freedom Trump and still be the exact same character, a racist and mysoginistic idiot with a pathogenic delusion of grandeur. If we look at it from the perspective of someone outside USA, Mr. Freedom is still a clear caricature of American's foreign policy of today.

As for myself, I never believed in patriotism, no matter what country we're talking about, so it ended up being really funny to watch a movie destroying that idea, even if in a completely messy and non-articulated way.

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Also in the film they mention 'Gremlins 3' so I thought that was the perfect opportunity to show off this amazing YouTube comment I found;

'I think in gremlins 3 they should make gremlins kill the isis'

I'm going to London and I'll be back on Aug 1st. I'll watch my last 2 films after that.

Watched Poison For Fairies last night.
Will post, hopefully later today and get my vote sent in.

Poison For The Fairies aka Veneno para las hadas

I gotta say, I got a kick out of this one. It had a feel for the older, unintentional faux horror films of early seventies and late sixties filled with a campy approach to the "dark arts". Where you know it's supposed to be scary, but you find yourself chuckling. And this brought back a number of such films with dark stories that had a more black humor to it. This is in no way a critique since this bit of nostalgia definitely endeared the viewing of this film for me.

Like so many others I really liked how they kept the visage of adults out of view, except when dead, or in the necessity of scaring Flavia with Veronica's grandma. It's a great tool for bringing the focus to the world the children are experiencing and it worked great here.

All the actors did very well, especially the two girls. Veronica's darken looks and casual indifference hiding the insecurities beneath were a credit to the young lady. And Flavia played the reluctant friend very well. The real highlight was the hidden smile in the closing scene as she pets her dog while watching the barn burn with Veronica inside. For all of Veronica's intent on being evil, I really felt sorry for the girl in those final moments.

As an aside, after seeing this, I thought it would have been a cool little twist that, unbeknownst even to Flavia, that perhaps, she herself, was a Fairy.
Just an amusing thought after watching this.

Regardless, a very enjoyable film I would never have seen if not for it being nominated. Much appreciated, @pahaK