Roma (Netflix Film) - Alfonso Cuarón

[grounded_dreams]

Yeah, its the 14th December, shows the date at the end of this trailer

 

 

 

[multi]

Ah ha, of course. I never watched the trailer - My bad.

[grounded_dreams]

Roma is now on Netflix

[Shoes]

On 14/12/2018 at 08:42, grounded_dreams said:

Roma is now on Netflix

 

And it's spectacular. Wow.  

[Capwn]

Watched Roma last night, looks great but nothing really happens in it.

[Fierce Poodle]

Yes, it really needed more explosions and women with their tits out.

[g wings]

Game of Romes, etc

[Majora]

At the risk of sounding like a luddite - does anything much happen in Roma after the first 30 minutes? I made the mistake of putting it on last night with my friend who has quite a short attention span and it didn't go down at all well with him, but if I'm honest I wasn't particularly compelled to continue either.

 

Please don't give me the whole tits and violence thing because that isn't me at all but I don't think I've felt so detached from a movie in a long time. It's beautiful but I felt like I was watching someone's boring life from the corner of the room without so much as a hint of a plot. Obviously it's a deliberate stylistic choice to frame the action that way but everything felt so distant and impersonal. 

 

Should I stick with it (watching it alone next time) or is the rest of the movie just more of the same? I'm kind of gutted as I was really looking forward to it and on paper it looked right up my street.

[Pete]

Watching a film like that with someone who isn't so open minded is impossible. It makes me really tense anyway. I've not seen it yet but I'll sit down with some wine and watch it on my own. 

 

 

[noizu]

Roma does build to a very strong scene but it takes its time getting there and the main character is pretty reserved so there’s not much in the way of dramatic fireworks. I loved it but you really do need to be in the right mood for it 

[sandman]

4 hours ago, Majora said:

At the risk of sounding like a luddite - does anything much happen in Roma after the first 30 minutes? I made the mistake of putting it on last night with my friend who has quite a short attention span and it didn't go down at all well with him, but if I'm honest I wasn't particularly compelled to continue either.

 

Please don't give me the whole tits and violence thing because that isn't me at all but I don't think I've felt so detached from a movie in a long time. It's beautiful but I felt like I was watching someone's boring life from the corner of the room without so much as a hint of a plot. Obviously it's a deliberate stylistic choice to frame the action that way but everything felt so distant and impersonal. 

 

Should I stick with it (watching it alone next time) or is the rest of the movie just more of the same? I'm kind of gutted as I was really looking forward to it and on paper it looked right up my street.

I haven't seen it, but for me Cuaron  is perhaps the most over rated director of his era. COM is pretty decent, but that's it.

[Bazjam]

6 hours ago, Majora said:

At the risk of sounding like a luddite - does anything much happen in Roma after the first 30 minutes? I made the mistake of putting it on last night with my friend who has quite a short attention span and it didn't go down at all well with him, but if I'm honest I wasn't particularly compelled to continue either.

 

Please don't give me the whole tits and violence thing because that isn't me at all but I don't think I've felt so detached from a movie in a long time. It's beautiful but I felt like I was watching someone's boring life from the corner of the room without so much as a hint of a plot. Obviously it's a deliberate stylistic choice to frame the action that way but everything felt so distant and impersonal. 

 

Should I stick with it (watching it alone next time) or is the rest of the movie just more of the same? I'm kind of gutted as I was really looking forward to it and on paper it looked right up my street.

Definitely give it another go, it’s an excellent movie. It’s fairly low on things happening as your basically getting a snap shot of one family’s life over a year. But the more you watch the more you are hooked on all the details and emotions that you witness. It’s slow, yet beautifully paced.

[gospvg]

New thread created - discussion moved from the Netflix megathread

[Majora]

On 24/12/2018 at 15:59, Pete said:

Watching a film like that with someone who isn't so open minded is impossible. It makes me really tense anyway. 

 

Yeah this definitely affected me, he was kind of fidgety and I couldn't really focus on the movie because I was so anxious he hated it. I'll give it another shot at some point.

[Shoes]

On 24/12/2018 at 15:30, Majora said:

everything felt so distant and impersonal. 

 

 

I felt the exact opposite, everything hit me like a tonne of bricks.

[NecroMorrius]

I'm not a big Cuaron fan typically but I loved this.

 

The sound design is phenomenal, making most other films sound flatly dead in comparison. Some of the Atmos stuff borders on gimmicky, with the planes flying overheard etc. But it's magic, really.

 

There's a lot of gentle scene-setting which provides a foundation to some of the grit later on. One scene in particular (you know the one) left me completely ruined. The pace is certainly slow but it pays off. 

[Pete]

That was completely stunning, definitely one to watch on your own. Well I cried a lot anyway! 

[sir stiff_one]

Unbelievable looking, very slow to build, had me and the other half absolutely bawling. I felt like had been in 1970s Mexico for 2 hours. 

 

 

[Capwn]

I didn't cry once.

[AK Bell]

11 hours ago, Capwn said:

I didn't cry once.

 

Neither did I.

 

I didn't rate the film like average rainfall though. Still a great film.