Current Events > I finally got around to watching Drive My Car, 2021's best movie

(+) Yeah! (+)

Typically I am skeptical of the foreign arthouse movie du jour that critics start stumbling over themselves to praise at the end of the year.

However I must say that this one lived up to and then surpassed any expectations I had. Very dense in a character sense - there are at least six, maybe seven characters who get what I would describe as "Major Scenes." You know, like what would be in an Oscar reel for an actor when the nominees are being announced at the ceremony. Except instead of people shouting in fat suits during some boring Oscar bait period piece, it's actors who give themselves over completely to the material and their scene partners, who seem like real, three dimensional people.

Don't really wanna go into detail about what it's about since I feel like it would give away what happens in the final hour when things hit a crescendo. Sorry.

Anyway it is three hours long and subtitled, of course. You should suck it up and seek it out tho...

Hard pass there, pork chop.

2021's best movie

Thunder Force came out that year, so this is objectively wrong.

Kitt posted...

Thunder Force came out that year, so this is objectively wrong.

don't know what that is, sorry

Thunder Force was high quality cinema, like the MCU.

People might be more interested in watching it if you didn't speak so condescending explaining what major scenes are and rambling about your skepticism.

But yeah, it's an amazing movie

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Yeah, people might be more willing to take his advice if his reputation wasn't also garbage here

I thought that you said Licorice Pizza was 2021's best movie.

how can I even trust you right now?

Wish it was getting more buzz so a theater would play it here.

Dang, tc getting no respect

WallStreetWolf posted...

People might be more interested in watching it if you didn't speak so condescending explaining what major scenes are and rambling about your skepticism.

But yeah, it's an amazing movie

nobody likes those movies. everyone in the world agrees with me on this.

also "rambling about you skepticism" = one sentence

all the condescension is in your post it seems

g0ldie posted...

I thought that you said Licorice Pizza was 2021's best movie.

how can I even trust you right now?

sorry for betraying your trust. i hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me. licorice pizza is still a solid second place though. alana haim still the GOA2021 acting.

daytime bump

Zithers posted...

nobody likes those movies. everyone in the world agrees with me on this.

Imagine calling someone condescending after saying this

WallStreetWolf posted...

Imagine calling someone condescending after saying this

dont you know what hyperbole is mr professional film critic

btw @WallStreetWolf did you see you know who's site is back up

interesting development

noticed this last night by chance while clicking on his page of past QCW winners which i linked in an old topic. looks like it went back up about a month ago. is he still going to press screenings or something?

Zithers posted...

btw @WallStreetWolf did you see you know who's site is back up

interesting development

noticed this last night by chance while clicking on his page of past QCW winners which i linked in an old topic. looks like it went back up about a month ago. is he still going to press screenings or something?

I'm going to DM because I would rather talk about this in private