A House Full of Dynamite
8/10
I liked it. It was tense. I do feel like the Rashomon structure kind of weakened the overall movie. The first segment was were all the juice was and the subsequent revisitations revealed a bit more but not enough to really justify the structure. I feel like a more linear movie would have been a bit more nail biting
Theatre or home?
I wish people saw this in theatre. That said, thinking about it more you might be right. I wonder if a continuous narrative might not have been better.
I really would like to feel this way about GoNY as the historic setting + Scorsese touch should be right up my alley. Iâve watched/rewatched most of his filmo in recent years and he very rarely misses for me.
But idk I rewatched this one last year and after about 30min I remembered why I didnât really like it the first time. The whole Cameron Diaz subplot is terrible, and the whole movie looks pretty bad (half of it takes place in a tunnel underground ?)
It feels like itâs one of those where producers made them go through multiple rewrites/recuts and the end result is just doing everything and nothing.
Thereâs one moment where Leoâs character is supposedly disfigured after a fight, and the passerbys look at him with disgust, and then thereâs a reverse shot on his face and he just has a tiny tiny scar lolâŚI guess his agent really didnât want to hurt his âpretty boyâ image. Just a small thing but one of many that make it difficult to take this movie seriously.
It seems that no one here mentioned Watcher (2022). Horror/thriller about Maika Monroe Rear windowing/ getting Rear Windowâed as an expat in Romania.
I havenât seen many good horror movies in the recent years and those that Iâve seen are more about mixing up wildly different genres (Malignant, Barbarian) so it feels refreshing to see one that is just working great by going back to the fundamentals (lurking threats in the background of the screen etc).
Nothing here is very original and the ending kinda misses (too be expected for that kind of movie so didnât mind it) but I highly recommend if you want to see a take on Hitchcock/De Palma with an eastern euro feel bad vibe.
At least to keep us patient while weâre waiting for They FollowâŚ
I actually fired this up yesterday on Netflix but had to turn it off as I was busy. Glad to hear as I was planning on knocking it out today or tomorrow.
i watched this last month and its a solid slow burn thriller with some nice shots throughout. the language barrier was a nice touch, it really added to the isolation of being in a foreign country imo.
if you streamed this on netflix i recommend giving Calibre a watch, but go in completely blind though.
Gangs of New York was a real letdown when it came out. The subject material is relevant to my interests and it was a real passion project for Scorcese - something he had wanted to make since he was young. But it is definitely one of his lesser works. I remember thinking that both Bringing Out the Dead and the Aviator were both notably better.
At home on the phone. The sound design was perfect so headphones really worked well.
Inspired in part by this threadâs discussion, watching through Gangs of New York with the Scorsese commentary track on. He notes that it was actually Robert De Niro who worked with Leo previously and had been in his ear multiple times telling Marty that he really needs to work with this kid, and he had another person in his ear (I forgot the dudeâs name already) telling him the same thing. Leo being interested in this movie was apparently the reason it finally got funded, so Marty was more than happy to get on board. But it doesnât sound like it was him independently spotting something necessarily.
Either way, itâs obviously made for an extremely successful marriage on both sides, Scorsese being able to use Leo for the roles that his usual standby De Niro had aged out of.
Have you seen Red Rooms or Dead Mail?
This hurts my cinephile soul. But glad you liked it.
It may shock you to know this but I usually edit and mix in headphones these days (everything translates big and small). I can give you the exact model if youâd like a really good pair of headphones that are very reasonably priced.
It wasnât headphones. It was the phone part. 
I watch stuff on the phone all the time. As long as you watch landscape it still has a movie feel. Itâs just like youâre in a theater a block away.
Red rooms yes though I wouldnât call it horror.
Dead mail looks interesting, added to watchlist thx
I woke up early and had to do laundry! 
Dead Mail is fucking intense. Itâs sort of like Barbarian in that you really have no idea where the story is going next.
Interesting. Iâve never watched a movie on a phone.
Start slow and watch a TV show first. I have no choice sometimes because I canât bring my 75 inch TV to dialysis.
I watch almost everything on my phone anymore. Doesnât bother me one bit.