I'm not sure if this warrants its own thread, but I'm kind of bored of discussions of new films getting sunk in the Current Watching thread, so...
We watched The Climb a couple of nights ago. And it's almost a great film.
It's brilliantly shot - there's a bit of a 1917 thing going on with each of the 7 chapters being single-shots. Interestingly, I didn't notice until well into the film: unlike 1917 - it wasn't particularly showy about it.
It's very funny in places, darkly funny but funny.
And there's cycling. Although I was hoping for more cycling. Chapter one is a pair of guys cycling up a hill - the initial "climb" in question - and is probably my favourite of the chapters. Films should have more cycling.
It definitely has a low-ish budget American indie-film aesthetic going on, which I sometimes find grating but worked well for this.
Anyway, the film in general is a bit of a bromance thing, but a bromance of toxic male friendship. And that's really the main problem with it. All the characters are basically arseholes, but particularly the two main characters - the toxic friends - are just pretty obnoxious so it's hard to want redemption for them or their friendship. I think I've just seen too many films where the characters are unpleasant. really You don't need to be a total arse in order to be interesting or amusing.
Still, with that reservation, it was still well worth 90 minutes of my time and a $5.99 rental fee. It's not like anything else I've seen recently.
We watched The Climb a couple of nights ago. And it's almost a great film.
It's brilliantly shot - there's a bit of a 1917 thing going on with each of the 7 chapters being single-shots. Interestingly, I didn't notice until well into the film: unlike 1917 - it wasn't particularly showy about it.
It's very funny in places, darkly funny but funny.
And there's cycling. Although I was hoping for more cycling. Chapter one is a pair of guys cycling up a hill - the initial "climb" in question - and is probably my favourite of the chapters. Films should have more cycling.
It definitely has a low-ish budget American indie-film aesthetic going on, which I sometimes find grating but worked well for this.
Anyway, the film in general is a bit of a bromance thing, but a bromance of toxic male friendship. And that's really the main problem with it. All the characters are basically arseholes, but particularly the two main characters - the toxic friends - are just pretty obnoxious so it's hard to want redemption for them or their friendship. I think I've just seen too many films where the characters are unpleasant. really You don't need to be a total arse in order to be interesting or amusing.
Still, with that reservation, it was still well worth 90 minutes of my time and a $5.99 rental fee. It's not like anything else I've seen recently.
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