Thread 213676408

Should I watch this?

>>213676408 (OP)
It's pure kino

>Robbie Müller cinematography
Instant watch

i watched like an hour and was bored so i stopped

>>213676408 (OP)
The only good things about this movie are how pretty some of the scenes are and how pretty Nastassja Kinski is. It's not a must watch, the story is kind of lame and sappy, but my inner white girl also don't regret watching it. 6/10.

its utter garbage

>>213677607
>>213677746
Nu-/tv/ has no sovl or taste

It's cozy

>>213676408 (OP)
Not if you're a chud, you'll never understand it. It's the ultimate normie movie.

>>213678744
>man cheats on and abuses his incredibly young and beautiful wife because he's an insecure retard
>purposefully leaves her friendless and lonely living in a trailer
>freaks out when he thinks she's cheating
>she runs away and takes the kid
>becomes a whore
>retard boomer loses his mind and becomes a zombie
not really...it's also the nightmare scenario of all of the age gaps are bad because of power dynamics, and you're literally a groomer pedophile, people on tiktok and twitter.

>>213678999
It's still comfy tho

>>213676408 (OP)
This sounds like a dig but wait until you're older. 16-25yos watch this to be cool but it'll fuck with your perception of love

>>213676408 (OP)
Eh, don't know about the movie but the soundtrack is great.

>>213678875
I'm a chud and like it

>>213676475
>>213676408 (OP)
>>213678999
i tried watching this movie and like an hour or so in literally nothing happened and i was so bored i just deleted the file and gave it 2 stars on RYM.

not that i don't enjoy slow burning films, but this was just so unbelievably boring i just had to quit watching it, i saw it was classified as "neo-western" and i expected some crime mystery type of shit not some family drama slop, who gives a shit about this hobo in the middle of nowhere, i didn't even make it to the Nastassja Kinski part

>>213676408 (OP)
Wenders is pretty vapid but it is one of the most stunning looking movies you'll ever see.

>>213676408 (OP)
Was Lucky (2017) a sequel of Paris, Texas?

>>213679439
>>213678875
What does that word mean

>>213678999
I don’t remember anything in the monologue that implied he cheated. He just abandoned her because it hurt too much to be with her and away from her.

>>213679478
I don't blame you. It is boring. The 3rd act saves it though. The payoff makes it a 3.5-4.

>>213679478
We're lucky voting isn't real because then people like you would be allowed to have a say.

>>213677450
So many movies forgot that cheap fluorescent lighting was either blue or yellow.

Saw one movie recently where the main character was walking through a hole-in-the-wall pool hall and all the light fixtures were clearly low hanging fluorescent tubes but the scene is perfect chroma, then he goes into the bathroom, which would have incandescent lighting, and the pool hall lighting can be seen as cheap-CFL blue

>>213679478
>i didn't even make it to the Nastassja Kinski part
She's literally one of two of the only redeeming thing about this movie. The second being the cinematography, as other anons mentioned. And yeah I have no idea why anyone would label this movie as a neo-western.

Pro tip: 4chan is full of hipster niggers. Here's a quick cheat sheet:
>/tv/ loves a movie and says it's pure kino
It's a pretentious garbage artshit "movie"
>/tv/ spams it either saying it's kino or it's over
Actual genuine kino, but too popular for /tv/ to admit it
>/tv/ says it's shit almost unanimously
It's probably good brain dead fun, but it's popular to normies, so /t / hates it

>>213679618
I could be remembering wrong, but I thought he stayed out drinking and avoiding going home to purposely make her jealous and worried because he's self destructive and mentally ill. I think him and his brother talk about it on the way to California and blamed it on their parents or whatever.

>>213679478
>>213679774
It's literally Shane, you fucking retards.

>>213679748
>So many movies forgot that cheap fluorescent lighting was either blue or yellow.
Do you mean incandescent? Incandescent bulbs were yellow and Mercury bulbs were blue. Fluorescent lighting has always been a bright white violent assault against the eyes. And yeah I miss incandescent street lights. Life literally looked like a movie at night because of them. There's a park near me that still has all of the old orange bulbs and it's like a little slice of heaven at night, especially during the winter when it snows.

>>213680007
i hated them. they were always in the ghetto areas. orange light meant danger

>>213679478
This is for you

>>213680053
Anon what?

>>213679543
never ask a leftoid to define any of the buzzwords they mindlessly spam

>>213678875
What is chud?

>>213679478
i'm not surprised. so many of these type "great" movies are devoid of pacing and tension. Scenes just start, go on and on with no real punchline.
I watched andrei rublev and stalker, and they're not that bad movies or anything but people rally exaggerate how genius tarkovsky is. Doesn't solaris open up with a 15 minute soviet conference meeting discussing the plot of the movie? I can only handle so much slavic self-loathing nihilism before i give up.
I wanted to LOVE on the silver globe but holy shit dude, it's like the director trying to bore you.
I loved once upon a time in the west, barry lyndon or even holy mountain, so it's not that i don't like slow/long movies.

>>213679800
>t. Gets his opinions from the Critical Drinker

>>213676408 (OP)
Sure if you're having trouble falling asleep, this should knock you out.

>>213677746
no, something like a generic superhero movie would be utter garbage, paris texas is a work of art, so the exact polar extrema from utter garbage, see, when you lie you give yourself away by saying the opposite of the truth, so that makes the lie really obvious, are you russian by any chance?

>>213679676
I thought the first hour was fantastic, watching somebody that basically stranded themselves in the desert return home. I love Trevor's character, how he's this gentle, aloof guy

>>213679800
You’re brown

>>213680007
Incandescent is the “normal” wire bulb. You’re confusing it with sodium-vapor

>>213681059
Correct. The new bright white LEDs they put in are gay and joyless.

>>213680462
Tarkovsky's films are metaphysical. To grasp this, you have to have that sense yourself. Or rather, everyone does, but certain cultures, like the English, blunt this sense and force literalism upon people. That's why Hollywood films begin and end with the literal meaning of the plot, with nothing in between.

In other words, you've been mutilated.

Should have left the kid with his aunt and uncle.

>>213680931
I don't get how someone couldn't be completely hooked from the first frame of this movie. Then again, I'm not a TikTok poisoned zoomer.

>>213681407
is that your excuse?
>Oh it's metaphysical, you wouldn't get it.
This is exactly what i was talking about. These faux-intellectual types always love to belittle superior works to protect their identity, which they based off of boring third world films. As if tarkovsky is some gatekeeper of existentialism.
I say this as a fan of jodorowky btw. Get real.

>>213680119
is that real?

>>213681901
Nothing quirk chungdorowsky has done can touch this singular frame from Ivan's Childhood. Which isn't even Tark's best film. Go be an insufferable twat somewhere else.

>>213676408 (OP)
>"heartbreaking," "romantic" movie
>female lead is in her early 20s
>male lead is in his late 50s
I try not to get all libbed up about Age Gaps or whatever but it reaches a point where it breaks my suspension of disbelief.
It's beautifully shot and well-acted, but the "romance" of the film is only appealing to brainbroken women that got used to being told they were "so mature for [their] age" when they were in high school.
>AAAAAAHHHHH I tied my child bride to a radiator because I'm such a Tortured Romantic AAAAAAHHHHH

Not getting choked up during the Super 8 scene is pretty much equivalent to stomping on puppies for fun in my eyes.

>>213676408 (OP)
Yeah

>>213682412
the 4k version looks great

>>213676408 (OP)
Definitely the perfect movie to put you to sleep

>>213682859
I love that shot

My hot take: the movie would have been better without the massive age gap

Travis at no point feels like a guy that would fall for an underage girl and it makes the whole dynamic feel more contrived than if she was like 10 years younger

It's really dull.
I loved perfect days but for some reason I just can't stand Paris Texas.... Nice photography though.

>>213681407
It’s more that Russians were more “metaphysical” because their physical sucked so hard.

>>213680462
>>213679478
The Great Darkened Days (now free on Tubi), starring Canadian actress Sarah Gadon is the best neo-western

>>213681901
Ah! The classic English "IF IT'S NOT SIMPLE AND LITERAL, IT MUST BE A FRAUD!"

One more thing – both Jodorowsky and Tarkovsky combine spirituality and metaphysics, but in different proportions. You see, spirituality is the transcendence of matter, and metaphysics is the experience and sense of transcendence of that which is more than a simple relationship between the senses and the mind. While Jodo seeks an experience beyond life, Tarko is a contemplative. One is Western, the other Eastern.

Not that you understand what I'm talking about.

>>213679504
Now this is what I call KINO

>>213684153
>Not that you understand what I'm talking about

it looks like you don’t really understand what you’re talking about either.

>>213684894
UNO card instead argument?

Ok...

>>213685060
Not much to say in response to internally contradictory gibberish seated in a faulty understanding of the terms used

>>213676408 (OP)
I wouldn't watch it, I would listen to what it had to say. And that's what nobody did.

>>213684045
i'll check it out gadonanon, thanks

>>213682369
What bothered me is how unrealistic it was for someone who looks like Harry Dean Stanton to have a relationship with a 35 years younger 11/10 Nastassja Kinski.

>>213685923
HDS could pull way out of his league tho

>>213685923
Most girls develop a weird crush on an older man when their vaginas wake up. It’s usually their father, but if he’s out of the picture it’ll be essentially random.

Ya know, little facts about human sexual development that everyone is trying to pretend don’t happen.

>>213679543
don't tell him

>>213679478
You should stick to capeshit if you cannot appreciate this movie for its pure cinematography.
You like plots, not cinema.

>>213684153
is this what pretending to be smart looks like. Please stop trying to impress me, it's really cringe.
Never assume who you are talking to is stupid, you will just make a fool of yourself. Like you do now.

>>213676408 (OP)
Yeah it's good

>>213686661
>You like plots, not cinema.
This is the most retarded cope i have read so far on this thread, a film is not only cinematography or fancy shots man, it's everything, the characters the plot, the photography, etc.
Capeshit has plot but lacks substance and cinematography for example.

I just didn't like this movie because it failed at the main goal of entertainment, which is....to entertain, if a movie isn't plot driven at the very least it can be more character driven like some mumblecore films and still be fun to watch, sorry but just some mute doofus brooding over his life is not a compelling character.

>>213688792
>a film is not only cinematography or fancy shots man, it's everything, the characters the plot, the photography

And all of that is serving a unified vision in Paris, Texas, that you immediately understand or you’ll never comprehend.

>>213688792
The sole purpose of art is not just entertainment, it is to communicate ideas and emotion. You just want an electric babysitter.

>>213680916
>le work of art
>muh cinematography
Go look at paintings. It fails as a movie because it's boring fucking trash for faggots like you

>>213689779
Paris, Texas is one of the very few movies where it can be said every frame is a painting. They either move you or you’re just dead inside.