What was the last movie you've seen?

[Golgo 14]

Loving Vincent - Absolutely brilliant in concept and execution. It is the only feature film animated in oil paintings. They filmed actors, then keyed them on top of the Van Gogh paintings, then painting that. The result is a memorizing mess of realistic oil painting that sometimes goes near the uncanny valley but just sucks you in. Follows Armand Roulin trying to deliver a letter to Vincent's brother a year after his death in the town of Auvers-sur-Oise. I thought it was going to be a hokey experimental film but it is a film that sticks in your mind and shows not only did Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman do their research, that they have a genuine respect for the artist.

I really liked Loving Vincent. It's unique style is what draws you in, but there's more to the movie than that and that keeps the visuals from becoming a one-note gimmick.

This is weird, but in terms of story structure, the thing it reminded me of most was Mean Streets. No, not the Martin Scorsese movie, but the first Tex Murphy mystery adventure game. Just the idea of a character traveling to different locations and talking to people while trying to solve a mystery at a fairly leisurely pace. Another big part of it is that when a scene starts, the character Roulin is talking to is often looking straight at the viewer because the starting point is a copy of one of Van Gogh's portraits.

[fastbilly1]

It was a like a Tex Murphy game, you are spot on there!

[REPO Man]

Pierre Le Fou. Liked it.

[samsonlonghair]

I really WANTED to like Loving Vincent, but I couldn’t sit through it. I got so bored watching that movie that I started doing house chores instead.

It’s a shame too, because I really like paintings. I would have thought that Loving Vincent was made for me. Go figure.

[fastbilly1]

Appropriately:
https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/search/ ... gesize=105

The Van Gogh Museum just released digitized versions of many of his paintings.

[prfsnl_gmr]

I hate to be that guy, but...I don’t think that images of his paintings really do justice to his genius. The texture of his work is so important, and the paint on some of his work is so thick in spots that it almost leaps from the canvas.

Basically, what I’m getting to is, if you have the chance to see a Van Gogh exhibit, you really should go to it. (Monet on the, other hand, is highly overrated, and you can safely skip an exhibit of his work! )

[OldSchool_Boy]

The Guest (2014) - 2/5

It looks nice and the music is enjoyable. Shame about the rest of it.

[fastbilly1]

Paintings are worth seeing in person, period.

[noiseredux]

So Lex Luthor is the president and Superman and Batman are demonized as threats to the country's safety. It's... an interesting premise for sure. There were some cool and surprising cameos, too. I've said it before, and will say it again - with the exception of last year's Wonder Woman - the DC Animated Originals series just blows the live action DC Extended Universe films out of the water. Everyone complains that the DC movies aren't as good as the Marvel movies, but my goodness, there's this whole series that I feel is probably vastly overlooked just because it's animated. This was movie #6 in my slow chronological viewing of every DCAO, and of those there was only one I didn't think was great (Batman: Gotham Knight, which was actually set within the continuity of the Dark Knight trilogy...). Only 25 more movies to go, haha!

[Ack]

So Lex Luthor is the president and Superman and Batman are demonized as threats to the country's safety. It's... an interesting premise for sure.

It is an actual comic series, from the Jeph Loeb run on Superman/Batman in 2003. The movie contains what was basically the first six issues of the series, after Lex had been elected president in the DCU.