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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5      Non-Film Score Discussion: Under The Skin - Jonathan Glazer     1 2 3    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Mar 16, 2014 - 5:06 PM     By:   Heath   (Member) I saw Glazer's Under The Skin tonight. Excellent, properly risky film making with brilliant technique... also has some of the most unnerving scenes I've seen in a long time. If you really need a shortcut to what it's like: Species and Lifeforce done properly by grown-ups. Pretty much uncompromised British film making from the lineage of Lindsay Anderson with a touch of David Lynch and a whole lot of darkness.    Posted:   Mar 16, 2014 - 5:50 PM     By:   mastadge   (Member) Can't wait to see it. Glazer's an interesting director and this looks to be a diamond in the rough as far as filmic treatment of sci-fi material goes.    Posted:   Sep 15, 2014 - 2:37 PM     By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member) I thought Mark Y was the only person on this board who could possibly like this travesty. I was mistaken brm    Posted:   Sep 15, 2014 - 2:43 PM     By:   Heath   (Member) Best stick to The Dukes Of Hazard, bud. If you need help figuring out any of the plots, just drop me a line.    Posted:   Sep 15, 2014 - 2:57 PM     By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member) Best stick to The Dukes Of Hazard, bud. If you need help figuring out any of the plots, just drop me a line. IMdb has over 20 pages of reviews that "hated it". 204 out of 373 total give it one star! 'nuff said! brm    Posted:   Sep 15, 2014 - 3:13 PM     By:   Thor   (Member) I saw the film yesterday. Absolutely loved it! Superb performance by Johansson and some fantastic visual ideas. I also dug Levi's score in the film (especially the 'plucked strings' stinger in the underwater scene -- small stuff like that sets it apart from other thriller scores). I'm still not too keen on the score on album, but it was PERFECTLY used and spotted in the film itself.    Posted:   Sep 15, 2014 - 5:09 PM     By:   vinylscrubber   (Member) This film took me a few days to assimilate and now I have every intention of seeing again. It's one batshit crazy film though. It has a way of sticking with you like some of Robert Altman's stranger efforts. I'm thinking of IMAGES and THREE WOMEN, but this goes WA-A-Y beyond those (from this vantage point) more conventional films. And, yes, Mica Levi's almost off-putting score does certainly lend a unique atmosphere to the strange goings-on. I was also more than a little astonished to find that one key character was NOT the product of elaborate makeup.    Posted:   Sep 15, 2014 - 6:28 PM     By:   Heath   (Member) Best stick to The Dukes Of Hazard, bud. If you need help figuring out any of the plots, just drop me a line. IMdb has over 20 pages of reviews that "hated it". 204 out of 373 total give it one star! 'nuff said! brm IMDB? Nuff said? I see. Well, I promise you this - you wouldn't want to be trapped in a lift with a single one of those people (mostly terrified, gynophobic guys who wish they were eight years old again, I'll wager ).    Posted:   Sep 16, 2014 - 2:37 PM     By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member) Best stick to The Dukes Of Hazard, bud. If you need help figuring out any of the plots, just drop me a line. IMdb has over 20 pages of reviews that "hated it". 204 out of 373 total give it one star! 'nuff said! brm IMDB? Nuff said? I see. Well, I promise you this - you wouldn't want to be trapped in a lift with a single one of those people (mostly terrified, gynophobic guys who wish they were eight years old again, I'll wager ). When i say "'nuff said" I mean "nuff said" No further comments from me on this atrocity brm ps am NOT your "bud"! pss Amazon has 700 customer reviews. Literally half (351) gave it one star . And many of these folks actually who bought the damn thing!    Posted:   Sep 16, 2014 - 2:39 PM     By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member) . IMdb has over 20 pages of reviews that "hated it". 204 out of 373 total give it one star! 'nuff said! brm IMDB? Nuff said? I see. Well, I promise you this - you wouldn't want to be trapped in a lift with a single one of those people (mostly terrified, gynophobic guys who wish they were eight years old again, I'll wager ). Better them than the people on this board who like UTS, TO THE WONDER, THE MASTER, INSDIE LLEWELLYn DAVIS... etc. BRM ps "nuff said" (this time i mean it!!!!!!)    Posted:   Sep 16, 2014 - 3:24 PM     By:   Mike_J   (Member) I found this film excruciatingly dull, pretentious and poorly made. Ok, so it is nice to see Scarlett Johannsson's pubic hair but seriously is film was a load of artistic twaddle that looked like a home video.    Posted:   Sep 16, 2014 - 3:43 PM     By:   Grecchus   (Member) Well, whaddaya expect - after Starman comes Starwoman! The female of the species is (blah, blah, blah) deadlier than the male. And that goes for Lucy, too.    Posted:   Sep 16, 2014 - 3:55 PM     By:   Thor   (Member) LUCY is IMO the best film of the year...so far (but that's for another thread). But I keep thinking -- if you think THIS was "pretentious", "arty-farty" or whatever, I wonder what you think about really hardcore arthouse films like those of Bela Tarr. I sometimes wish this board wasn't so mainstream-oriented; or that there was at least a handful of people who would sometimes look outside classical Hollywood storytelling.    Posted:   Sep 16, 2014 - 5:02 PM     By:   DeputyRiley   (Member) Ok, so it is nice to see Scarlett Johannsson's pubic hair but seriously is film was a load of artistic twaddle that looked like a home video. My point is not to censor, but do you think that only men read these threads? Do you honestly make comments like that and not think a woman might be reading this? If this thread were a conversation being held in person would you say that if a woman were present? You could have said a lot worse, its true, but honestly exercising a wee bit of public civility or gentlemanly behavior would be very cool. My opinion of course.    Posted:   Sep 17, 2014 - 12:47 AM     By:   Heath   (Member) Best stick to The Dukes Of Hazard, bud. If you need help figuring out any of the plots, just drop me a line. IMdb has over 20 pages of reviews that "hated it". 204 out of 373 total give it one star! 'nuff said! brm IMDB? Nuff said? I see. Well, I promise you this - you wouldn't want to be trapped in a lift with a single one of those people (mostly terrified, gynophobic guys who wish they were eight years old again, I'll wager ). When i say "'nuff said" I mean "nuff said" No further comments from me on this atrocity brm ps am NOT your "bud"! pss Amazon has 700 customer reviews. Literally half (351) gave it one star . And many of these folks actually who bought the damn thing! God... you're not JS Walsh are you???    Posted:   Sep 17, 2014 - 1:35 AM     By:   Mike_J   (Member) Ok, so it is nice to see Scarlett Johannsson's pubic hair but seriously is film was a load of artistic twaddle that looked like a home video. My point is not to censor, but do you think that only men read these threads? Do you honestly make comments like that and not think a woman might be reading this? If this thread were a conversation being held in person would you say that if a woman were present? You could have said a lot worse, its true, but honestly exercising a wee bit of public civility or gentlemanly behavior would be very cool. My opinion of course. I wasn't aware that this board was rated PG only. Only last weekend I was talking to three lady friends who were planning on going to see a male strip show (what used to be the Chippendales I believe). Ok so they didn't say they were looking forward to seeing male wobbly bits but they were openly talking about going to a male strip show to me, the only male in the room. Was I offended? Not in the slightest. The fact of the matter is that the only thing that interested me about this dreadful movie was seeing Black Widow in the buff. Could I have phrased that more delicately? Yes I could. Do I intend to redact my original post to remove a reference to female body hair? Absolutely not. It isn't my intention to offend anyone here at all but we're all adults here for goodness sake.    Posted:   Sep 17, 2014 - 2:55 AM     By:   Ian J.   (Member) I haven't seen the film yet, but I have read the book and enjoyed it. I think there might be a problem with expectation management over this film. Most of those who've given it poor reviews probably expected a conventional mainstream movie and basically didn't get one. Would they have bothered with it if they knew it wasn't Saturday night popcorn fare? Probably not. But then, I don't get the feeling this is a 'hamburger ready to eat' type of film, but something more exotic that requires care in the eating to get the best out of it. I'm looking forward to seeing it, and expect to be at least a bit challenged by its style.    Posted:   Sep 17, 2014 - 3:01 AM     By:   Membership Expired   (Member) I saw it yesterday. I expected it to be a "weird" film and that's what I got. It's quite brilliant. I like movies like this, which refuse to sugar coat the viewer with obvious exposition. and yes Scarlett show us her stuff in a scene or two, but that's really not the point of the movie. Excellent and unusual score. Not something I'd listen to on it's own, but it really gives the film an extra edge.    Posted:   Sep 17, 2014 - 8:14 AM     By:   joan hue   (Member) Stefancos said that her nudity isn't really the "point of the movie." I'm wondering about the "point." I am curious about this movie and will watch it. I've read the comments, and no one has said that there is a theme or message in this film. If it is an avant garde movie or a very unique movie, is the story or script trying to depict a theme? Is it just weird entertainment? I'd just like to know if any of you viewers thought there was a moral or message in the movie. Thanks for any insights. (Deputy, many of us do appreciate you. I think I'll adopt you.)    Posted:   Sep 17, 2014 - 8:24 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) It's NOT an avantgarde movie or even socalled 'art movie'. Quite the contrary, it's fairly traditional storytelling (with a tinge of indie fare), but it has one or two examples of experimental mise-en-scene. What's the moral? What makes us human, I guess, like a lot of other sci fi -- i.e. how someone alien to us is confronted by humanity in all its beauty and darkness, and becomes incapable of ignoring these layers of our existence. However, the appeal of the movie is not so much in any original thematic angle as it is in the original staging of familiar tropes.     Non-Film Score Discussion: Under The Skin - Jonathan Glazer    < 1 2 3  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5

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