The Last Movie You Saw?

[Ema98]

In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar-Wai A sublime beauty of a film. It was so refreshing to see that kind of platonic love and friendship shown in a film. Stunning cinematography and costumes, all together very stylish. At times slow and quiet but never boring.


Fallen Angels by Wong Kar-Wai
I didn't really get this one. It was beautiful to look at, but overall it felt like a long artsy late 90s music video. Takeshi Kaneshiro's character was the only one I was interested in because his story was touching, kind of sad and it had a certain something.

 

[eugenius]

“Multiple Maniacs” by John Waters. Divine gets raped by a lobster, which is absurd AF, but her screams in this scene are the BEST I’ve heard on TV.

 

[cestmagique]

The Feast

 

[vogue28]

Been on a Harry Potter marathon over recent weeks and watched from Philosopher's Stone to the final Deathy Hallows Part 2 instalment which I finished last night. I haven't watched the Potter movies for years and enjoyed them all the more as a result! Always and forever a HP fan.

 

[cestmagique]

Never Let Me Go

 

[eugenius]

The Abercrombie + Fitch documentary. (I know I've definitely bought horrible merchandise from horrible brands before, but I'm very glad A+F wasn't one of 'em.)

 

[dior_couture1245]

I’m trying to watch “Outlaw King,” but I absolutely cannot get past this Florence Pugh girl.

Who in the Hollywood system thought she needed to be a star? She absolutely has the worst proportions of all time. Most actors and actresses look taller on screen than they really are - but what a feat to look shorter that you actually are! I find it terribly distracting. And she’s 100% charmless. Did Hollywood stop doing screentests???

Hollywood has a strange problem with casting period pieces, anyway. They’re usually able to cast the men quite well and get them believably looking “of the time,” but so often they get a female lead who just happens to be “hot right now,” and she almost rarely is able to inhabit the period the movie is set in, and ends up sticking out like a sore thumb.

I guess it’s why certain actresses, like Keira Knightly, seem to get typecast for period roles…she’s one of the few who believably can look and feel accurate to many different time periods.

 

[vogue28]

Downton Abbey on Friday night, and then went to see Downton Abbey: A New Era at the cinema on Saturday and would give it a 11/10! A total must-see for any Downton fan, thought it was fabulous from start to finish.

 

[dior_couture1245]

White Hot, the Abercrombie & Fitch documentary.

Loved it. For all the wrong reasons! Everyone in the doc was so butthurt and pressed! Stay mad! Abercrombie & Fitch was amazing. The Quarterlies are legendary. The clothes were cute.The models and employees were hot. All the haters are whiners.

 

[MulletProof]

Who in the Hollywood system thought she needed to be a star? She absolutely has the worst proportions of all time.

She has the same problem as Doutzen, reason why I could never get on board: no neck. I find it visually problematic too. There are other actresses like this, I think Elizabeth Olsen is one of them, but she manages to be so photogenic that you almost forget that her shoulders almost start in the ears.

As someone who grew up surrounded by people uniformed in A&F.. including my own sister :.. jesus, these clothes were absolutely revolting. The suburban teenager's Dsquared. Their staff were just.. sorority/frat boy types?. I remember looking at Polo and Tommy Hilfiger ads years earlier (both brands with a similar, strict 'vision' of American beauty) but their models were absolutely stunning and unique-looking... Frankie Rayder, Angela Lindvall, Matthew Gray Gubler, that ad with Anouck, Liya and Amanda Murphy? Susan Eldridge, Jessica Miller.. they were supposed to be 'next-door' but there was nothing really next-door about them. Meanwhile the people fronting A&F ads and the staff at their stores looked plucked from your nearby community college and cherished for their ugly jeans, sweatshirts and flip-flops, nothing glorious about that aesthetic (unless you're currently 16 and completely missed the context of those days), just pedestrian to the core.. randoms packaged as special via the eternal trick of b&w photography. I haven't seen the documentary, and doubt I will, but not sad to see this company out of the picture... although.. I did see an 18 year old on Twitter bragging about paying a ton of money for one of the hideous A&F cardigans like the ones my sister rocked in 2004, who would've thought lol. I wanted to burn them, turns out, I could make decent money out of them now.


.. I've been watching a ton of s*it movies recently because.. bored in airplanes, then got sick: I watched 365 Days .. which is really just a horrific Polish telenovela for the extremely horny chav community. I did skip A LOT because even though the acting is hilarious, it gets to a point where you feel like you're watching a 'film' by a local film school with people who agreed to act just to brag about it on their social media.

I also watched Last Night in Soho, which, again, is pretty bad lol..

 

[MulletProof]

Murphy

*MOORE. It's my ancient brain.

 

[dior_couture1245]

Idk…I just feel like the A&F hate is major coping.

Whether or not it was your style personally is besides the point. To deny the power and appeal of the branding, casting and advertising is, I think, to be in denial. No other brand has ever captured the beauty, athleticism, idealism, sensuality and wholesomeness of youth like A&F did.

I will agree, though, that by 2004-2006, a lot of the clothes got a little corny, but late 90’s-2003 A&F clothes are actually quite cute. The earlier era was a bit more outdoorsy and classic preppy, whereas as the brand got closer to 2006 it started to look more Regina George “Mean Girls.” I find some really nice flannels, logo’d tees and cargos from that era on Depop that I really love.

 

[MulletProof]

To deny the power and appeal of the branding, casting and advertising is, I think, to be in denial.

Not denial, it's just ignorance. I was already into fashion by the time this company seemed to have their heyday and frankly, not going to lie, as young as I was I've always been rather authoritarian in the things/people I like, so I was not going to bother to dig around and educate myself on the 'origins' of what the basic bimbos and nightclub dudes in my school wore haha (for reference, I thought the guys from Interpol/The Strokes were ~a dream~ lol, so I was not particularly intrigued by the 'lifestyle philosophy' of the people who danced to Nelly's Hot in Here every Friday ), I just assumed there was not much depth in flip flops and some ugly grey sweatshirt with a logo.. I still don't think there is but again, having being into fashion for so long, I know these very specific looks always come from somewhere so.. I guess this uniform did come from A&F after all. Was it extremely imaginative to say it was powerful? no, it was influential in the fact that people specifically chased the label and logo but it's not really a phenomenon unique to this brand.. the 90s were all about logos and there's always been a group of people (and by group, I mean the majority) delusional enough to think plain jeans and a sweatshirt can be powerful and convey a one-of-a-kind status if it comes with a logo. And.. .. I guess it can be, for a certain type of demographic that aspires to similar, not-so-creative but very status-driven sartorial 'codes'.


Seriously considering selling my sister's clothes on Depop ..

 

[Phuel]

Always associated wannabe-beta types with A&F. The actual customers never did live up to the branding LOL

Anyway, about Florene Pugh: Same reason couldn’t sit through Midsommar. Her— or to be fair, just her portrayal of such an insufferably needy, clingy character is so obnoxious. She likely appeals to the worst of the sheltered, gen-z delicate flowers. That’s the only reason I can conjure as to why she is popular and keeps getting cast: She is a reflection of the charmless, blandness of many of a generation. (...And her "short neck" is likely another reason why she is so popular. Relatability and all that...)

 

[KoV]

I love Florence Pugh, make of that what you will. She's great in Little Women, Lady Macbeth, and Midsommar (though her character is kind of insufferable at times, I think that's by design). She was good in Black Widow and The Little Drummer Girl as well. Gonna have a big career. Huge. Can't wait to see her upcoming work over the next year with Sebastián Lelio, Olivia Wilde, and Christopher Nolan.




Last movie I saw was First Wives Club. Still a fun movie after all these years.

 

[Phuel]

I hope she ends up being cast for that guaranteed-to-be insufferable, self-penned and self-directed autobiography by Madonna LOL

Really enjoyed The Northman. Robert Eggers is easily becoming the talent of talents. And this woman is impressive with her dedicated research of the authenticity of the costumes for the film:

 

[vogue28]

The Batman with Robert Pattinson and Zoe Kravitz. First 30 minutes I was bored rigid, thought I was going to have to turn if off but I became invested once the plot began to unfold. A good watch overall, keen to see how the next movies play out and thought Kravitz was brilliant as Catwoman.

 

[vogue28]

The Northman, The Lost City and Tomb Raider. I enjoyed The Northman far more than I thought I would, The Lost City which I thought was rather garbage filled in a rainy afternoon and Tomb Raider with Alicia Vikander I've seen a dozen times and always enjoy it - can't wait for Tomb Raider 2!

 

[vogue28]

Top Gun: Maverick... 20/10! Absolutely brilliant from start to finish, far exceeded expectations given the fact it's a sequel. Superb cast, superb soundtrack, superb movie... a Sunday afternoon at the cinema well spent.

 

[susseinmcswanny]

Has anyone seen Men? I've been trying to find HQ bootleg links to no avail. I really should just go to the theatre and see it like a normal person.