There is one woke moment in the movie where the obvious black guy on the phone just has to say that he was chosen to work around the UFO because nobody would listen to a black person's claims. It's stupid and it's the one thing that hurts the film.
This movie is set ten years before the Barney and Betty Hill abduction story, and even in that they claimed that their interracial relationship was a bit contentious to some people.
You're probably a zoomer, zoomers are consistently incapable of comprehending temporal context.
>consistently incapable of comprehending temporal context.
Wrong. Your understanding of the context is warped by your Blackphilia. The race of a person isn't what would make someone not believe a UFO story, it's the claim about an alien spaceship! The movie inserted a handwringing racism line for no good reason.
The race would obviously be a factor, you fricking moron, since he would have to communicate that to white people, in a segregated society where he couldn't even drink from the same water fountain.
Fricking have a nice day, internet politics has rotted your tiny zoomer brain.
I love it despite the overemphasis on le black man aspect of the phone call, it's distracting but ultimately not relevant.
The movie has great sense of place and feels fresh. The spunky phone operator running around has a type of odd charm about it. Likewise the 50s setting.
>You homosexuals say that about everything.
There is a single woke line. It's not deniable, so don't even bother. The question is whether or not someone is willing to ignore one woke line.
Which line? The one about a Tuskegee Experiment like thing by the army? Or the one about being segregated against in 1950s pre-Civil Rights Texas? Because both of those things happened.
>Which line?
The line about the army choosing black and hispanic soldiers to work around the alien spaceship because people wouldn't believe their claims if the told people about it.
The army injected black dudes with syphillis and then left them untreated to see the effects. They purposely chose black soldiers because they knew they'd have no recourse and the mostly white public wouldn't really care. There are other examples of experiments conducted on blacks and minorities. The movie is playing off of those experiences but is obviously a fictionally similar case. I feel bad for you that your racism impedes you from enjoying things because you're constantly searching for "wokeness" as signs of social destruction.
I agree. However, disingenuous wienersuckers who exist to worship the ground that black people walk on will go apoplectic just for mentioning how the line is clumsy and out of place.
few years ago (before the release of the movie) i wrote a short story that had a very similar plot to the movie. (it was also inspired by twilight zone) I mean, similar in such a way i would probably win the plagiary case in court. Anyway, no one read it except couple of my friends. My point is, this made me think i'm not a total moron and i can construct decent plots. So i started writing some and i'm currently writing a feature horror.
most mainstream movies, you mean. Indie flicks are doing fine. Good drama with good dialogue moved there and into shows. Mainstream cinema is for capeshit and action flicks.
>charming
The main character guy was the complete fricking opposite of charming. I imagine he’s some producers son, because he was so goddamn annoying.
He was meant to be wordy I think-- talking is a big metaphorical/narrative element in the movie. His incessant 20 min chatter in the initial segment is deliberately grating
There is one woke moment in the movie where the obvious black guy on the phone just has to say that he was chosen to work around the ufo because nobody would listen to a black person's claims. It's stupid and it's the one thing that hurts the film.
>Wait, blacks didn't experience racism in the 50s?
You're an intellectual subhuman, disingenuous wienersucker. The line was written to handwring about the setting.
It's just a voice and literally just one woke phrase (which, does, in a sense, advance the plot and what's about to be revealed). It's a white small city in 50s America. By all means watch it, particularly if you enjoy the historical period and the UFO theme
It is to wannabe school shooter alt-right frog posters who cry like b***hes any time minorities are portrayed as disadvantaged by US society because acknowledging historical subjugation is wah-wah-wokeness gone awry
It's woke inasmuch as it feels a bit on the nose-- could have been suggested otherwise and the cloying tone in which the line is said could have been replaced by a humorous, self-deprecating remark for instance.
But yes, it does make sense contextually, and no, it doesn't harm the movie's overarching tone or story.
>It's woke inasmuch as it feels a bit on the nose-- could have been suggested otherwise and the cloying tone in which the line is said could have been replaced by a humorous, self-deprecating remark for instance
writers should go out their way to not offend chuds on /misc/. That makes sense.
It was his 1st movie made under the current bullshit ESG stench, so it was a minor flaw/cop-out in an otherwise excellent debut. Had it been left unsaid, hinted at or done with a less pompous line it'd be better, but this definitely NOT the most important thing in The Vast of Night, it's just a blemish and I look forward to his next movie (about a crime story involving beekeepers or something)
2 years ago
Anonymous
why can't characters just say things like that? Even when it makes total sense for them to do that? Because it offends you? This is pathetic.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>why can't characters just say things like that?
It's weird, awkward, clumsy speculation that is barely on-topic. He is talking about an alien spaceship and the implications of it existing are massive, but then he thinks it's important to mention that he's black. It's clumsy inserting of handwringing by the writer, because the Blackphile can't write anything about the 1950s without agonizing about their pet oppression narrative.
2 years ago
Anonymous
i hope your manifesto is better written
2 years ago
Anonymous
The fact that the guy on the phone was 1)black and 2)discredited by his seniors could have been satisfactorily surmised by just intonation instead of spelling it out
2 years ago
Anonymous
lol imagine criticizing other writers when you're this shit at expressing yourselfga4yt
2 years ago
Anonymous
how pathetic
2 years ago
Anonymous
The delivery, the narrative way to present it could have been subtler. It just comes across as a heavyhanded 10 second moment in an otherwise subtle, well-written movie
2 years ago
Anonymous
>It just comes across as a heavyhanded
for a small community of chud people. Literally no one else saw it that way.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Only midwits will nod solemnly upon hearing the phrase, which felt distracting, trudging and narratively needless. Good thing you read this thread and educated yourself.
2 years ago
Anonymous
i feel nice schadenfreude knowing /misc/ sours nice things for you and deprives you of joy
2 years ago
Anonymous
That's a philistine view for 2 reasons:
-movies are to be enjoyed, not to serve as an ideological crutch, which Vast of Night never tries to be btw
-even if a person is conservative, that one line doesn't make the movie any less enjoyable, technically amazing and original.
2 years ago
Anonymous
who are you, God? who said you get to define all these terms?
2 years ago
Anonymous
I'm stating 2 important aspects of moviemaking. Now that you know them, you've just got an extra remedial lesson, you're welcome
2 years ago
Anonymous
>doesn't make the movie any less enjoyable
yet here you are along with other chuds screeching about it like a school shooter
2 years ago
Anonymous
shut the frick up karen nobody needs your attitude adjustments
they’re important to you i guess
go spout your boring OPINIONS somewhere else
2 years ago
Anonymous
>they’re important to you i guess
They're important to look at art, culture and society without coming across as a lowest common denominator-- for that you always have reddit
2 years ago
Anonymous
>art, culture and society
this isn’t 1930s germany little incel, nobody cares about your white supremacist dog whistles
2 years ago
Anonymous
This isn't Planet of the Apes of the Idiocracy world either
No--I was one of the people above who mentioned the line was poor and seemed tacked on, while describing exactly what should have been done instead.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Turns out you can enjoy a movie and still be able to point out flaws.
That's what being free and rational means, some leftist sheep seem to assume they have to fall in line and stay quiet but that's not how life works, it's more nuanced.
The other conservative ppl in this thread, such as this guy
also did what leftist midwits seem incapable of: noticing the movie's brief woke faux pas while acknowledging that this was an exception in an otherwise good, creative movie that has nothing to do with sjw dreck
2 years ago
Anonymous
i love it when pol pretends to be normal so they can trick people into being racist
here’s a hint, it never works
2 years ago
Anonymous
Here's an even better hint: if you're that triggered by pol's opinion, you might subconsciously think they have a point
2 years ago
Anonymous
that's why you're so triggered by that line in a movie?
>writers should go out their way to not offend chuds on /misc/.
You're just an anti-White piece of shit. Then you think that makes you virtuous. What a joke. You're not a good person.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>if you're not racist towards non-white people that means you're racist towards white people
pure chud logic
it was so fricking boring
also >dude let's just talk fast, and in meme tier oldies lingo, that will appeal to young people
and then zero payoff at the end lol
Zero payoff? The film has a better payoff than any movie I can think of in recent years. It's a film totally building and dependent on that last scene as a payoff. Your criticism is stupid. If you found it boring, that's one thing, but to say it has no payoff is denying the basic structure.
I admired that they had the balls to actually show the ayy lmao ship. Again, the film is building to this ominous appearance of the aliens and then the tension finally lets off when they meet the ship. Your turn.
Patterson described in an interview how he did it with minimal equipment and crew. It was just sheer vision and talent, it looks very beautiful and works like a smooth transition that places the viewer right there in that city on that night
>He grabs audience attention with a bravura tracking shot. >In this sequence, the camera crosses the geography of the town at high speed in one uninterrupted take. “We scale the entire distance of the town and connect three locations,” said Patterson. “It was written into the script. Fay is at the switchboard, then we’re sucked into the basketball game, and then the DJ at the radio station.” >The extended shot is used to shock the viewer into attention. “It doesn’t matter what movie it is,” he said. “If a left-field curveball thing is thrown at me 20 minutes or an hour into the movie, I’m at the mercy of the filmmaker. I’m trying rhythmic ways to change the pacing when people are not expecting it.” >Patterson’s production team built three locations for the camera to traverse. “It’s a long shot, a practical run-the-camera-down-a-fricking-street, around the back of houses, through backyards,” he said. “We had to literally drive down on a Go Kart with a 3-1/2-foot-wide piece of gear. I walked out of the switchboard running down the road with the camera for at a 7-or-8 mph fast sprint for 40 to 50 feet. I’m in good shape. I was okay. The camera is mounted on a gimbal with a motion-isolating piece of gear that makes it not look shaky and unwatchable. It hooks up with another pair of individuals who dovetail into the shot and cut away using bungee cords. The driver is an 18-year-old with a Go Kart deputized as a dolly grip. He then takes that short first eighth of a mile, and crashes into a green screen. We then blend two more shots from the Go Kart.”
(continued below)
>Patterson was inspired by a nifty shot from 2009 Argentinian movie “The Secret in Their Eyes,” he said, “which starts as a helicopter approaches a stadium, and then the shot drops into the stadium where we find the lead character in a melee of fans and follow him as he’s looking for the killer.” >Patterson created four practical shots for a visual effects house to blend and stitch together, much like “1917.” “You can’t see a cut,” he said. “The effects change the geography, tighten up how our four shots played out in the real world when we filmed them. It was lot of work.”
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/06/the-vast-of-night-oklahoma-indie-andrew-patterson-dazzling-debut-amazon-1202232583/
Don't trust either side. The movie is good and not woke at all, but it's boring and it doesn't have anything going for it other than cinematography and atmosphere.
If you like movies like Stalker then go for it.
I don't see it being about the plot-- it's about how the spoken word travels across space and how that mystery becomes more vivid on the eve of TV and other mass media overtaking the cultural landscape-- it starts by semantic saturation (the guy yapping), then the message becomes more precise, than it's replaced by sheer physicality (running around, going to the field)-- the beautiful tracking shot was meant to foreshadow the kinetic aspects of the ending
Damn I really like this movie and yes the woke moment was distracting and bad but I didn't even remember it until this thread. Whole thread is derailed now though. Here's an hour loop of the music from the ending scene: https://youtu.be/-_eIxZffUIw
It is honestly a hard 5 out 10. The main character is uninteresting, the radio scenes grow old after 10 minutes. The dialogue has a rushed rhythm wit a million words spoken and not one thing said that would engage the viewer. The continuous shot was good but then again, shows fricking nothing of worth.
Stay away from this if you're looking for kino. Watch it if you want to learn how cheap movies are made.
I found the dialogue charming and was on the edge of my seat during the audio only parts. It reminded me of Pontypool in that way, but I was way more tense during Vast of Night than that movie
Huh, weird that we respond differently to the movies. Pontypool made me feel like I was watching a low-budget film where the tension and acting was manufactured. Which is weird because I suspect it was more naturally scripted and acted than this film, which is highly constructed but somehow sucked me in more.
It is honestly a hard 5 out 10. The main character is uninteresting, the radio scenes grow old after 10 minutes. The dialogue has a rushed rhythm wit a million words spoken and not one thing said that would engage the viewer. The continuous shot was good but then again, shows fricking nothing of worth.
Stay away from this if you're looking for kino. Watch it if you want to learn how cheap movies are made.
Woke garbage.
wow that's a really shitty poster and doesn't match the tone of the film at all but yeah I really liked it and thought it was kino as well
how so?
>how so?
there's a woman on the poster HELLO
>Woke garbage.
>how so?
There is one woke moment in the movie where the obvious black guy on the phone just has to say that he was chosen to work around the UFO because nobody would listen to a black person's claims. It's stupid and it's the one thing that hurts the film.
This movie is set ten years before the Barney and Betty Hill abduction story, and even in that they claimed that their interracial relationship was a bit contentious to some people.
You're probably a zoomer, zoomers are consistently incapable of comprehending temporal context.
>consistently incapable of comprehending temporal context.
Wrong. Your understanding of the context is warped by your Blackphilia. The race of a person isn't what would make someone not believe a UFO story, it's the claim about an alien spaceship! The movie inserted a handwringing racism line for no good reason.
The race would obviously be a factor, you fricking moron, since he would have to communicate that to white people, in a segregated society where he couldn't even drink from the same water fountain.
Fricking have a nice day, internet politics has rotted your tiny zoomer brain.
>in a segregated society
That was Southern law. You don't even know what you are talking about.
The movie is set in New Mexico, you actual ape.
Texas.
I love it despite the overemphasis on le black man aspect of the phone call, it's distracting but ultimately not relevant.
The movie has great sense of place and feels fresh. The spunky phone operator running around has a type of odd charm about it. Likewise the 50s setting.
You homosexuals say that about everything. It was a pretty solid movie with a couple genuinely creepy scenes.
>You homosexuals say that about everything.
There is a single woke line. It's not deniable, so don't even bother. The question is whether or not someone is willing to ignore one woke line.
Which line? The one about a Tuskegee Experiment like thing by the army? Or the one about being segregated against in 1950s pre-Civil Rights Texas? Because both of those things happened.
>Which line?
The line about the army choosing black and hispanic soldiers to work around the alien spaceship because people wouldn't believe their claims if the told people about it.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
The army injected black dudes with syphillis and then left them untreated to see the effects. They purposely chose black soldiers because they knew they'd have no recourse and the mostly white public wouldn't really care. There are other examples of experiments conducted on blacks and minorities. The movie is playing off of those experiences but is obviously a fictionally similar case. I feel bad for you that your racism impedes you from enjoying things because you're constantly searching for "wokeness" as signs of social destruction.
HAHAHAHAHA BTFO
>NOOOOOOOO! YOU SHOULD PRETEND THAT RACISM DIDN'T EXIST IN THE 50S! NOOOOO STOP SHOWING IT! IT'S OFFENSIVE TO THE RACIST COMMUNITY
It was clumsy but does not define the movie.
I agree. However, disingenuous wienersuckers who exist to worship the ground that black people walk on will go apoplectic just for mentioning how the line is clumsy and out of place.
You might be overreacting a tiny bit to there being one solitary racial line of dialogue in a feature length movie
Set in Texas. In the 1950s.
>woke
Almost all females are portrait as stupid, the only smart is emonional and become irrational...fricking the MC
this
fpbp there was no good reply to this so i’m not watching
this is wrong but if it keeps people from watching this waste of time then fpbp
The radio scenes were so great I can't comprehend it
few years ago (before the release of the movie) i wrote a short story that had a very similar plot to the movie. (it was also inspired by twilight zone) I mean, similar in such a way i would probably win the plagiary case in court. Anyway, no one read it except couple of my friends. My point is, this made me think i'm not a total moron and i can construct decent plots. So i started writing some and i'm currently writing a feature horror.
For me, the dialogue makes the movie. Most movies these days suck at that
most mainstream movies, you mean. Indie flicks are doing fine. Good drama with good dialogue moved there and into shows. Mainstream cinema is for capeshit and action flicks.
>i'm not a total moron
>Cinemaphile
Choose one
Maybe you should learn how to spell first before you start talking about a screenplay.
>dude long takes of walking and talking lmao
Boring nuscifi
>>dude long takes of walking and talking lmao
It's chill, atmospheric and charming. Get chill, motherfricker. Learn to appreciate charming.
>charming
The main character guy was the complete fricking opposite of charming. I imagine he’s some producers son, because he was so goddamn annoying.
He was meant to be wordy I think-- talking is a big metaphorical/narrative element in the movie. His incessant 20 min chatter in the initial segment is deliberately grating
I just liked it because she's cute.
Vast of Night and Old Henry are the best films from the last couple of years.
>black man complains about fake racism
No thanks
seek help
Seek reddit because your taste in movies is awful
Wait, blacks didn't experience racism in the 50s? Woah
>Wait, blacks didn't experience racism in the 50s?
You're an intellectual subhuman, disingenuous wienersucker. The line was written to handwring about the setting.
is this essential boringcore?
If there's Black folk in this movie and they are complaining about white people I'm not watching it.
It's just a voice and literally just one woke phrase (which, does, in a sense, advance the plot and what's about to be revealed). It's a white small city in 50s America. By all means watch it, particularly if you enjoy the historical period and the UFO theme
Is it even "woke" if the racial complaint being levied is completely accurate and believable in the historical context in which its placed?
It is to wannabe school shooter alt-right frog posters who cry like b***hes any time minorities are portrayed as disadvantaged by US society because acknowledging historical subjugation is wah-wah-wokeness gone awry
In the headcanon of some people, history was both full of extremely based racists and simultaneously racism didn't exist at all.
It's woke inasmuch as it feels a bit on the nose-- could have been suggested otherwise and the cloying tone in which the line is said could have been replaced by a humorous, self-deprecating remark for instance.
But yes, it does make sense contextually, and no, it doesn't harm the movie's overarching tone or story.
>It's woke inasmuch as it feels a bit on the nose-- could have been suggested otherwise and the cloying tone in which the line is said could have been replaced by a humorous, self-deprecating remark for instance
writers should go out their way to not offend chuds on /misc/. That makes sense.
It was his 1st movie made under the current bullshit ESG stench, so it was a minor flaw/cop-out in an otherwise excellent debut. Had it been left unsaid, hinted at or done with a less pompous line it'd be better, but this definitely NOT the most important thing in The Vast of Night, it's just a blemish and I look forward to his next movie (about a crime story involving beekeepers or something)
why can't characters just say things like that? Even when it makes total sense for them to do that? Because it offends you? This is pathetic.
>why can't characters just say things like that?
It's weird, awkward, clumsy speculation that is barely on-topic. He is talking about an alien spaceship and the implications of it existing are massive, but then he thinks it's important to mention that he's black. It's clumsy inserting of handwringing by the writer, because the Blackphile can't write anything about the 1950s without agonizing about their pet oppression narrative.
i hope your manifesto is better written
The fact that the guy on the phone was 1)black and 2)discredited by his seniors could have been satisfactorily surmised by just intonation instead of spelling it out
lol imagine criticizing other writers when you're this shit at expressing yourselfga4yt
how pathetic
The delivery, the narrative way to present it could have been subtler. It just comes across as a heavyhanded 10 second moment in an otherwise subtle, well-written movie
>It just comes across as a heavyhanded
for a small community of chud people. Literally no one else saw it that way.
Only midwits will nod solemnly upon hearing the phrase, which felt distracting, trudging and narratively needless. Good thing you read this thread and educated yourself.
i feel nice schadenfreude knowing /misc/ sours nice things for you and deprives you of joy
That's a philistine view for 2 reasons:
-movies are to be enjoyed, not to serve as an ideological crutch, which Vast of Night never tries to be btw
-even if a person is conservative, that one line doesn't make the movie any less enjoyable, technically amazing and original.
who are you, God? who said you get to define all these terms?
I'm stating 2 important aspects of moviemaking. Now that you know them, you've just got an extra remedial lesson, you're welcome
>doesn't make the movie any less enjoyable
yet here you are along with other chuds screeching about it like a school shooter
shut the frick up karen nobody needs your attitude adjustments
they’re important to you i guess
go spout your boring OPINIONS somewhere else
>they’re important to you i guess
They're important to look at art, culture and society without coming across as a lowest common denominator-- for that you always have reddit
>art, culture and society
this isn’t 1930s germany little incel, nobody cares about your white supremacist dog whistles
This isn't Planet of the Apes of the Idiocracy world either
No--I was one of the people above who mentioned the line was poor and seemed tacked on, while describing exactly what should have been done instead.
Turns out you can enjoy a movie and still be able to point out flaws.
That's what being free and rational means, some leftist sheep seem to assume they have to fall in line and stay quiet but that's not how life works, it's more nuanced.
The other conservative ppl in this thread, such as this guy
also did what leftist midwits seem incapable of: noticing the movie's brief woke faux pas while acknowledging that this was an exception in an otherwise good, creative movie that has nothing to do with sjw dreck
i love it when pol pretends to be normal so they can trick people into being racist
here’s a hint, it never works
Here's an even better hint: if you're that triggered by pol's opinion, you might subconsciously think they have a point
that's why you're so triggered by that line in a movie?
>writers should go out their way to not offend chuds on /misc/.
You're just an anti-White piece of shit. Then you think that makes you virtuous. What a joke. You're not a good person.
>if you're not racist towards non-white people that means you're racist towards white people
pure chud logic
Why are racist so filled with hate and spite?
Why are there so many fricking brown people around now? Why are there so many fricking israelites telling me what I can and cannot do?
it was so fricking boring
also
>dude let's just talk fast, and in meme tier oldies lingo, that will appeal to young people
and then zero payoff at the end lol
Zero payoff? The film has a better payoff than any movie I can think of in recent years. It's a film totally building and dependent on that last scene as a payoff. Your criticism is stupid. If you found it boring, that's one thing, but to say it has no payoff is denying the basic structure.
>on that last scene
lol
Good post
you first, waiting for you to make an argument in favor of that abysmal ending
I admired that they had the balls to actually show the ayy lmao ship. Again, the film is building to this ominous appearance of the aliens and then the tension finally lets off when they meet the ship. Your turn.
>and then zero payoff at the end lol
Better payoff than X-Files.
i like how all the replies are just
>no! that’s wrong!
yes! that's right!
because it is wrong. How is literally getting taken by ayylmaos not a payoff?
That no-cut track shot was amazing.
Patterson described in an interview how he did it with minimal equipment and crew. It was just sheer vision and talent, it looks very beautiful and works like a smooth transition that places the viewer right there in that city on that night
oh now i gotta track down that interview
>He grabs audience attention with a bravura tracking shot.
>In this sequence, the camera crosses the geography of the town at high speed in one uninterrupted take. “We scale the entire distance of the town and connect three locations,” said Patterson. “It was written into the script. Fay is at the switchboard, then we’re sucked into the basketball game, and then the DJ at the radio station.”
>The extended shot is used to shock the viewer into attention. “It doesn’t matter what movie it is,” he said. “If a left-field curveball thing is thrown at me 20 minutes or an hour into the movie, I’m at the mercy of the filmmaker. I’m trying rhythmic ways to change the pacing when people are not expecting it.”
>Patterson’s production team built three locations for the camera to traverse. “It’s a long shot, a practical run-the-camera-down-a-fricking-street, around the back of houses, through backyards,” he said. “We had to literally drive down on a Go Kart with a 3-1/2-foot-wide piece of gear. I walked out of the switchboard running down the road with the camera for at a 7-or-8 mph fast sprint for 40 to 50 feet. I’m in good shape. I was okay. The camera is mounted on a gimbal with a motion-isolating piece of gear that makes it not look shaky and unwatchable. It hooks up with another pair of individuals who dovetail into the shot and cut away using bungee cords. The driver is an 18-year-old with a Go Kart deputized as a dolly grip. He then takes that short first eighth of a mile, and crashes into a green screen. We then blend two more shots from the Go Kart.”
(continued below)
>Patterson was inspired by a nifty shot from 2009 Argentinian movie “The Secret in Their Eyes,” he said, “which starts as a helicopter approaches a stadium, and then the shot drops into the stadium where we find the lead character in a melee of fans and follow him as he’s looking for the killer.”
>Patterson created four practical shots for a visual effects house to blend and stitch together, much like “1917.” “You can’t see a cut,” he said. “The effects change the geography, tighten up how our four shots played out in the real world when we filmed them. It was lot of work.”
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/06/the-vast-of-night-oklahoma-indie-andrew-patterson-dazzling-debut-amazon-1202232583/
honest filmmaking
What a fricking chad
Didn't they post a cameraman on a go-kart and drive it through the town?
All atmosphere and not much plot or climax. But it did the atmosphere well at least.
Get this boring shit outta here
>Movie where basically nothing happens
>Gripping and nerve-wracking the entire time
Yeah, I'm thinking it's kino, love all the long single shots
the first two acts are solid 10/10 kino but that final act is schlock. everything after the old later interview felt thrown together.
This movie was made with a budget of 700k
It's impressive what some people can accomplish with smaller budgets
yea, was kino
maybe if you’re a gay moron with bad taste and a small dick, yeah i’d say it was kino
I liked it but I guess I'd like it more if I was american feeling nostalgic for that kind of life.
>this movie is polarizing to Cinemaphile
>half say it's boring
>half say it's best film of recent years
>makes /misc/ seethe
uh, yeah, I'm thinking it might be kino. should I watch it?
Doesn't make "pol seethe", you should just go for something dumb such as Lovecraft Country, The Vast of Night isn't that type of "progressive" dreck
lol ok
>a lot of people say something is shit for different reasons so that means i’m gonna cope somehow
I don't even know what you're trying to say here
>shills say good! /misc/ say frick Black folk! Movie must be good!
Don't trust either side. The movie is good and not woke at all, but it's boring and it doesn't have anything going for it other than cinematography and atmosphere.
If you like movies like Stalker then go for it.
>The movie is good
>but it’s boring
Yes.
It was a competently shot film with an ok, if done-to-death premise that's nowhere near worthy of this much discussion.
I don't see it being about the plot-- it's about how the spoken word travels across space and how that mystery becomes more vivid on the eve of TV and other mass media overtaking the cultural landscape-- it starts by semantic saturation (the guy yapping), then the message becomes more precise, than it's replaced by sheer physicality (running around, going to the field)-- the beautiful tracking shot was meant to foreshadow the kinetic aspects of the ending
Yeah, so as I said, it’s competently shot, but overdone, and you are just apparently talking to hear yourself speak.
No-- I'm telling you to look beyond the surface.
>done to death premise
Name two movies with a similar presence. Hell, name ten since it's apparently so overdone
Keep seething, drone. I'm sure you don't even know what you're mad about anymore. Too bad /misc/ has its claws in you this deep.
dude where’s my argument
Hello, underaged newhomosexual.
For a no budget movie, yes -- it most certainly was.
Damn I really like this movie and yes the woke moment was distracting and bad but I didn't even remember it until this thread. Whole thread is derailed now though. Here's an hour loop of the music from the ending scene: https://youtu.be/-_eIxZffUIw
I liked it. Give it a watch.
Mass repliers get the rope first
I agree OP. For me, it's right up there with The Witch and Uncut Gems.
>The Witch and Uncut Gems
Funny, I prefer The Lighthouse and Good Times to both of those movies. To each their own.
Dynomite!
Just watched it. It was a fricking piece of shit.
What didn't you like about it?
I found the dialogue charming and was on the edge of my seat during the audio only parts. It reminded me of Pontypool in that way, but I was way more tense during Vast of Night than that movie
Not one point of that film did I feel tense. In pontypool there was actual danger and immanent doom which drove the story. In this, it just fell flat.
Sorry man. Don't like it.
Huh, weird that we respond differently to the movies. Pontypool made me feel like I was watching a low-budget film where the tension and acting was manufactured. Which is weird because I suspect it was more naturally scripted and acted than this film, which is highly constructed but somehow sucked me in more.
It is honestly a hard 5 out 10. The main character is uninteresting, the radio scenes grow old after 10 minutes. The dialogue has a rushed rhythm wit a million words spoken and not one thing said that would engage the viewer. The continuous shot was good but then again, shows fricking nothing of worth.
Stay away from this if you're looking for kino. Watch it if you want to learn how cheap movies are made.
Heh, figuratively every point you made here is wrong.
Your movie fricking sucks.
Your mom fricking sucks
Stop shilling your movie here.
Objectively incorrect.
>small town boredom
>only two people “good enough” to be taken away by aliens
>everyone else is dumb
Typical israeli fantasy
The why's take people every so often.
Meant to say ayys damnit