The Last Movie You Watched

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I gave the first hobbit film another try. I made it 40 minutes, every one of which was a new experience in pain.

Boru

It was better than that one with the dragons and the ice guy.

[arewethereyet]

I gave the first hobbit film another try. I made it 40 minutes, every one of which was a new experience in pain.

Boru

I enjoyed listening to the audiobook but don't think I could make it through the movie again.  I am thinking about a revisit to LOTR but not till after I finish the audiobooks.

[LinuxGal]

I gave the first hobbit film another try. I made it 40 minutes, every one of which was a new experience in pain.

Boru

Take the shortest book of the four and turn it into another three films?  What could go wrong?

[Fake Messiah]

Lighthouse (2019). Talk about AI - this movie looks like it was done by AI that was fed on Criterion Collection. Bunch of "artistic" images without any storyline and the obligatory violent ending. I guess you could say it's style over substance.
For the horror, he took what seems like elements from Christianity - like guilt and punishment over masturbation - although I don't think that the director is a Christian, but, you know, other movies use it too.

[pocaracas]

The Flash

Once you get past the initial awful-2000s-level-bad-cgi and idiotic first scene, the rest of the film is a quite enjoyable super hero movie.

[FrustratedFool]

Benny and Joon

[FrustratedFool]

Lighthouse (2019). Talk about AI - this movie looks like it was done by AI that was fed on Criterion Collection. Bunch of "artistic" images without any storyline and the obligatory violent ending. I guess you could say it's style over substance.
For the horror, he took what seems like elements from Christianity - like guilt and punishment over masturbation - although I don't think that the director is a Christian, but, you know, other movies use it too.

I quite liked the Lighthouse. Though it was all style and little substance.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I gave the first hobbit film another try. I made it 40 minutes, every one of which was a new experience in pain.

Boru

Take the shortest book of the four and turn it into another three films?  What could go wrong?

Apparently, everything.

Boru

[Foxaèr]

The Machine

Bert's drunken past catches up with him 20 years down the road when he and his father are kidnapped by those Bert wronged 20 years ago while drunk on a college semester abroad in Russia.

[Rev. Rye]

Lighthouse (2019). Talk about AI - this movie looks like it was done by AI that was fed on Criterion Collection. Bunch of "artistic" images without any storyline and the obligatory violent ending. I guess you could say it's style over substance.
For the horror, he took what seems like elements from Christianity - like guilt and punishment over masturbation - although I don't think that the director is a Christian, but, you know, other movies use it too.

Here’s a place to start:




No, as far as I can tell, Robert Eggers isn’t Christian. He just prefers to immerse the viewer in the historical environment as possible. And if that environment is largely Christian, Christianity might seep into it. And if he’s making a movie set in Viking days, it’s going to be steeped in Norse Mythology. And not even just the stories from the Poetic Edda, but the way people from that era lived, and the way they saw the world is the way Eggers and us will see that world. And I know this because his next film did exactly that.





Oddly, between The Northman and The Witch (set in Puritan New England) this might actually be the least religious of Eggers’ feature film, though I suspect his upcoming Nosferatu remake might supplant that.