As far as Western stuff, Ford v Ferrari was pretty good. Just car porn and competitive guys pushing the state of the art forward. I feel bad for the real Leo Beebe's family though. They needed a corporate stooge to play the villain and made him one-dimensional. Generally positive regarding fatherhood as well.
Godzilla Minus One was kino, but I find it so rare that eastern productions are able to “bubble to the surface” of the discussions that I ever come across. Where do you even hear about eastern media worth checking out?
Train to Busan was great, and was one of the few eastern films that managed to hit my radar.
Tangentially, I’ll just add here: the Rebuild series of films for Neon Genesis, I thought were awesome in and of themselves, and managed the crazy hard task of both honoring the original while adding to the universe through the themes that Anno has grown to appreciate as he got older. I think true beauty is enhanced by context and subtext and imo he’s a master of using those tools to convey a story
Depends on what you like, eastern cinema does revenge thrillers and horror films very well. Oldboy, man from nowhere, and I saw the devil all stand out. Horror wise there’s a plethora, tale of two sisters, noroi, haunted asylum, three extremes, infected, incantation, on and on.
Minus One was good. For the most part I'm just a weeb. I watch the first couple episodes of anything with a synopsis on the seasonal chart that catches my eye and see what's decent enough to continue.
Any specific recommendations are really dependant on personal taste, comedy especially. The Legend of the Galactic Heroes remake and Frieren are the two that jump to my mind as being good watches recently, even if anime isn't your thing.
The ending of that movie pisses me off and nearly ruins the entire rest of it for me. Completely out of character for Christian Bale's character (or any man with a sense of honor) to react the way he does. And everyone else just goes along with it like "of course this is the way we expected the race to have ended!"
They're kind of stuck with the way real events unfolded? I guess they could have made Miles more pissed, but McLaren did win the 1966 LeMans and that's why he won. And the Miles really did die in a testing accident 2 months later.
They did take some artistic license in his favor. They put Enzo Ferrari there to give Miles a knowing nod of respect. In reality, Enzo didn't attend '66.
I would have expected him to be way more pissed given the way they they portrayed him in the rest of the film. At the start of the movie he's throwing wrenches at people, they don't really show any character development that would suggest he wouldn't be pissed, and then it's just "oh well: I went against my better judgment and got fucked over by my own team. I guess I'll let that slide."
I get that's generally the way it happened, but you still have to make the characters act/react consistent with how you portrayed them.
[Gestures Eastward]
As far as Western stuff, Ford v Ferrari was pretty good. Just car porn and competitive guys pushing the state of the art forward. I feel bad for the real Leo Beebe's family though. They needed a corporate stooge to play the villain and made him one-dimensional. Generally positive regarding fatherhood as well.
What do you recommend from the East?
Godzilla Minus One was kino, but I find it so rare that eastern productions are able to “bubble to the surface” of the discussions that I ever come across. Where do you even hear about eastern media worth checking out?
Train to Busan was excellent. It's like Dawn of the Dead crossed with Speed.
The unrelated sequel wasn't bad, but definitely didn't re-capture the excitement of the first.
Train to Busan was great, and was one of the few eastern films that managed to hit my radar.
Tangentially, I’ll just add here: the Rebuild series of films for Neon Genesis, I thought were awesome in and of themselves, and managed the crazy hard task of both honoring the original while adding to the universe through the themes that Anno has grown to appreciate as he got older. I think true beauty is enhanced by context and subtext and imo he’s a master of using those tools to convey a story
Depends on what you like, eastern cinema does revenge thrillers and horror films very well. Oldboy, man from nowhere, and I saw the devil all stand out. Horror wise there’s a plethora, tale of two sisters, noroi, haunted asylum, three extremes, infected, incantation, on and on.
Minus One was good. For the most part I'm just a weeb. I watch the first couple episodes of anything with a synopsis on the seasonal chart that catches my eye and see what's decent enough to continue.
Any specific recommendations are really dependant on personal taste, comedy especially. The Legend of the Galactic Heroes remake and Frieren are the two that jump to my mind as being good watches recently, even if anime isn't your thing.
Michael Mann's Ferrari was decent as well. I didn't see a single minority cast in the movie.
The ending of that movie pisses me off and nearly ruins the entire rest of it for me. Completely out of character for Christian Bale's character (or any man with a sense of honor) to react the way he does. And everyone else just goes along with it like "of course this is the way we expected the race to have ended!"
They're kind of stuck with the way real events unfolded? I guess they could have made Miles more pissed, but McLaren did win the 1966 LeMans and that's why he won. And the Miles really did die in a testing accident 2 months later.
They did take some artistic license in his favor. They put Enzo Ferrari there to give Miles a knowing nod of respect. In reality, Enzo didn't attend '66.
I would have expected him to be way more pissed given the way they they portrayed him in the rest of the film. At the start of the movie he's throwing wrenches at people, they don't really show any character development that would suggest he wouldn't be pissed, and then it's just "oh well: I went against my better judgment and got fucked over by my own team. I guess I'll let that slide."
I get that's generally the way it happened, but you still have to make the characters act/react consistent with how you portrayed them.