by Nathaniel R
So we were at the first screening of 1917 yesterday at the DGA theater in NYC and as you may have noticed if you were online, the Oscar pundits and online film press collectively went berzerk for it, immediately declaring it was going to win everything, it was best this and that... even of the decade! 'Nobody's ever done this before' (uhhhhh. people have been doing continuous take movies since at least Hitchcock's Rope in the 1940s and probably before that and one of 'em just won Best Picture five years ago!) For the record we enjoyed it and it is quite technically impressive... but deep breaths people. "Consider" your opinions before tweeting them out before the credits of the thing you just watched have even stopped rolling!
Much is made in 1917 about the futility of medals and yet my dumb ass still wants one for noticing each and every invisible cut in this “one-take” movie
— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) November 24, 2019
I'm not going to share the generically breathless super-hypey tweets (they all sound pretty much the same) but more 1917 reactions are after the jump, plus The Bad Place, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Dick Tracy, Cats, and Best Real Estate Envy movies. So read on for more curated tweets...
my favorite part of 1917 is when it cuts to roger deakins looking directly at camera to say ain’t nobody freak like me, give ya what u need like me
— hunter harris (@hunteryharris) November 24, 2019
Someone called "1917" "a combo of 'Saving Private Ryan' and 'The Revenant'" so I presume it's got a bear in it, and I'm stoked.
— Glenn Kenny (@Glenn__Kenny) November 24, 2019
1917 is traditional storytelling - stoic heroic men at war - spruced up with the one take gimmick. I appreciated the trick but was unmoved.
— Murtada Elfadl (@ME_Says) November 23, 2019
Sam Mendes 1917 is crazy impressive. Best Picture nominee lock. So happy Richard Deakins will hey his second Oscar. Richard Madden’s best work and it’s maybe 3 min on screen. #Oscars
— Gregory Ellwood - The Playlist 🎬 (@TheGregoryE) November 24, 2019
1917 is quite a thing. Always intense, often horrific (at times it feels like watching an actual horror movie). I was skeptical of the “one continuous shot” aspect — worried it would get too cute with it — but it really works for this story, putting us right there in this hell
— Mike Ryan (@mikeryan) November 23, 2019
THIS is the bad place. pic.twitter.com/ChJZ7Dqwlh
— Kristy Puchko (@KristyPuchko) November 24, 2019
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (19, A): It's the movie you think, AND it's Synecdoche, New York. Every piece simple, yet not. Stunning.
— Nick Davis (@NicksFlickPicks) November 24, 2019
I feel like we don't talk about Big Boy Caprice enough, a villain whose evil scheme was to orchestrate a massive, complex takeover over a city's criminal underworld so that he can put on a killer floor show pic.twitter.com/JUArEB7dkR
— Michael Cusumano (@WhiskeyTempest) November 22, 2019
At least once a day I think about how Rachel Getting Married’s original title was Dancing With Shiva
— Alejandro (@adounce) November 22, 2019
When I said I wanted to see Idris Elba naked, this is not what I meant.#CatsMovie pic.twitter.com/wFTctosQgz
— Joey Moser (@JoeyMoser83) November 19, 2019
"It's a great picture, it's cinema" - Martin Scorsese, putting on a brave face after Cats beats The Irishman to Best Picture
— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) November 19, 2019
Every CATS trailer is like a bad dream that a crying gay toddler explains to his parents at 3 a.m.
— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) November 20, 2019
Your responses have all been very valuable, and I’m exclusively announcing this years Best Real Estate Nominees:
— kateyrich (@kateyrich) November 22, 2019
PARASITE
PAIN AND GLORY
KNIVES OUT
THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
Ever think about how there’s probably a recording of Lucas Hedges doing all of “Giants in the Sky” somewhere in the Lady Bird dailies?
— kateyrich (@kateyrich) November 15, 2019
feeling sorry for people who refuse to watch foreign films and have been missing out on the last few years of remarkable asian cinema pic.twitter.com/P9BbnDh0ne
— spiro (@villianeuve) November 23, 2019
in order to be a writer you must
— C.G. Drews (@PaperFury) November 24, 2019
1. love writing so so deeply
2. also complain bitterly about it actually all of the time
it's funny because it's true. The End.