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Post by Nora on Jan 23, 2019 3:12:46 GMT
I do enjoy movies like this, I loved All is lost, enjoyed Kon Tiki, Alive, and similar stories. So when I read that Arctic is another survival movie from the mountains, with Mads Mikellsen in it, and another one that is completely minimalistic, I couldn't resist. Its beautifully shot, and superbly acted. If you enjoy really stressful and dire movies and don't mind watching someone struggle for life, this one is for you. Pretty great for a full feature debut, and not just that. 7.5/10 from me.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jan 24, 2019 18:55:40 GMT
I saw the trailer the other day and I will definitely be watching it on the big screen. The premise seems very similar to that of "The Snow Walker", a 2003 movie with Barry Pepper, and to a lesser extent to "The Mountain Between Us" with Kate Winslet and Idris Elba.
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Post by Nora on Jan 24, 2019 19:05:08 GMT
I saw the trailer the other day and I will definitely be watching it on the big screen. The premise seems very similar to that of "The Snow Walker", a 2003 movie with Barry Pepper, and to a lesser extent to "The Mountain Between Us" with Kate Winslet and Idris Elba.
yes its somewhat similar to mountain between us but MUCH MUCH better. especially when you consider there is no more than 10 sentences spoken in the entire film. really just a few words, its more like All is Lost.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2019 19:16:14 GMT
It had my attention. I generally like survival films. The polar bear was cool.
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Post by Nora on Jan 24, 2019 20:55:06 GMT
It had my attention. I generally like survival films. The polar bear was cool. where did you see it? Agreed, the polar bears part was cool. I was wondering how they shot it. He looked really angry and non cgi.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2019 21:02:50 GMT
It had my attention. I generally like survival films. The polar bear was cool. where did you see it? Agreed, the polar bears part was cool. I was wondering how they shot it. He looked really angry and non cgi. No, the trailer had my attention.
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Post by Nora on Jan 24, 2019 21:27:12 GMT
where did you see it? Agreed, the polar bears part was cool. I was wondering how they shot it. He looked really angry and non cgi. No, the trailer had my attention. oh I am so glad I didnt spoil it for you!
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Post by jeffersoncody on Jan 24, 2019 21:28:57 GMT
I saw the trailer the other day and I will definitely be watching it on the big screen. The premise seems very similar to that of "The Snow Walker", a 2003 movie with Barry Pepper, and to a lesser extent to "The Mountain Between Us" with Kate Winslet and Idris Elba.
My first thought as well Jep.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Jan 24, 2019 21:30:05 GMT
I do enjoy movies like this, I loved All is lost, enjoyed Kon Tiki, Alive, and similar stories. So when I read that Arctic is another survival movie from the mountains, with Mads Mikellsen in it, and another one that is completely minimalistic, I couldn't resist. Its beautifully shot, and superbly acted. If you enjoy really stressful and dire movies and don't mind watching someone struggle for life, this one is for you. Pretty great for a full feature debut, and not just that. 7.5/10 from me. Wow, looks excellent. Thanks for the head's up Nora.
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Post by Nora on Jan 24, 2019 21:47:11 GMT
I do enjoy movies like this, I loved All is lost, enjoyed Kon Tiki, Alive, and similar stories. So when I read that Arctic is another survival movie from the mountains, with Mads Mikellsen in it, and another one that is completely minimalistic, I couldn't resist. Its beautifully shot, and superbly acted. If you enjoy really stressful and dire movies and don't mind watching someone struggle for life, this one is for you. Pretty great for a full feature debut, and not just that. 7.5/10 from me. Wow, looks excellent. Thanks for the head's up Nora. once you see it if you figure out why his watch made that noise, please let me know.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Mar 23, 2019 7:33:27 GMT
It had my attention. I generally like survival films. The polar bear was cool. where did you see it? Agreed, the polar bears part was cool. I was wondering how they shot it. He looked really angry and non cgi. The polar bear is definitely real. What I am wondering is whether the filmmakers used two different polar bears, one from a zoo and one in the wild. For during the closing credits, the filmmakers give a credit to a "polar bear" (I believe that his or her name is "Agee") while later crediting a polar bear wildlife videographer. So perhaps they used "Agee" for some scenes and captured a wild, untrained polar bear in other shots.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Mar 23, 2019 7:40:00 GMT
where did you see it? Agreed, the polar bears part was cool. I was wondering how they shot it. He looked really angry and non cgi. The polar bear is definitely real. What I am wondering is whether the filmmakers used two different polar bears, one from a zoo and one in the wild. For during the closing credits, the filmmakers give a credit to a "polar bear" (I believe that his or her name is "Agee") while later crediting a polar bear wildlife videographer. So perhaps they used "Agee" for some scenes and captured a wild, untrained polar bear in other shots. I just found the following article: Either the filmmakers only featured Agee and used a special wildlife videographer for those shots, or they used the wildlife videographer for the long shot of a polar bear deep in the distance much earlier in the movie.
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Post by Morgana on Mar 23, 2019 8:22:24 GMT
I do enjoy movies like this, I loved All is lost, enjoyed Kon Tiki, Alive, and similar stories. So when I read that Arctic is another survival movie from the mountains, with Mads Mikellsen in it, and another one that is completely minimalistic, I couldn't resist. Its beautifully shot, and superbly acted. If you enjoy really stressful and dire movies and don't mind watching someone struggle for life, this one is for you. Pretty great for a full feature debut, and not just that. 7.5/10 from me. I like watching films such as this too, so I'm looking forward to seeing Arctic. I've seen Kon Tiki and Alive, but I haven't seen All is Lost so I might try it though I'm not a fan of Robert Redford. Have you seen Into the Void? It's a true story about a man's struggle for survival after his climbing partner cut his rope and left him for dead. It's a great film/documentary. Another great survival film is The Way Back, also based on a true story.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Mar 23, 2019 9:16:22 GMT
I viewed Arctic twice. On the first occasion, I deemed it "pretty good" (meaning above-average), and after my second screening, I considered the film "good," meaning that I liked it somewhat better. On neither occasion did I find Arctic especially engrossing, but I always appreciated it, and on my second viewing, I thought that it certainly built momentum over its second half. As Nora indicated, the film is almost akin to a silent movie in terms of dialogue, and the nearly wordless performances by Mads Mikkelsen and a largely comatose Maria Thelma Smáradóttir feel real and sincere. Arctic prospers from its realistic visual detail, its Icelandic location shooting, its long shots and still frames, and also its oblique themes: the paper-thin margin between life and death, the random reversals of fortune, and the sheer, unsentimental human will that the film chronicles. It is an existential story of resilience and perseverance, of human loyalty and self-doubt, of determination and helplessness, of control and its absence.
While a good film, the question might be why Arctic is not the classic or "very good" movie that it could have been given its strengths in cinematography, editing, acting, theme, and visceral realism. After my second viewing, I felt that the answer may be that the film fails to create an especially strong sense of real time. At a running length of 97 minutes, Arctic perhaps should have been longer, allowing for a greater sense of real time and reflection. Such a decision may have seemed counterintuitive given the movie's relative dearth of action, conventional narrative contours, and dialogue, and I certainly cannot say that a longer duration would have worked. But it is a film that should feel more like an epic saga, a resonance that All Is Lost (J.C. Chandor, 2013) and The Revenant (Alejandro Iñárritu, 2015) manage to achieve. Those movies featured longer running lengths (much longer in the case of The Revenant) and more reflection, and Arctic seems to come up a little short in comparison. But it does offer a pure, honest, and unvarnished kind of filmmaking that is deeply appreciable even if it is not always engrossing.
By the way, the writer-director, Joe Penna, is ironically from Brazil ...
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Mar 23, 2019 9:21:52 GMT
Nora, when Overgård eventually (and, as matters turn out, temporarily) abandons the badly injured woman, did you feel that he thought that she had died, or in a moment of personal weakness, had he decided that the burden of dragging her around had become too great? I am thinking the former, which was definitely my thought upon my initial viewing. But after my second screening, I thought that I noticed slight movement and eye movements on her part shortly before he abandoned her, and he is later overcome with apologies and remorse upon returning to her and recognizing her continued life.
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Post by Nora on Mar 25, 2019 2:34:19 GMT
Nora, when Overgård eventually (and, as matters turn out, temporarily) abandons the badly injured woman, did you feel that he thought that she had died, or in a moment of personal weakness, had he decided that the burden of dragging her around had become too great? I am thinking the former, which was definitely my thought upon my initial viewing. But after my second screening, I thought that I noticed slight movement and eye movements on her part shortly before he abandoned her, and he is later overcome with apologies and remorse upon returning to her and recognizing her continued life. i felt it was the latter... very moving scene.
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Post by hi224 on Mar 25, 2019 4:06:45 GMT
I do enjoy movies like this, I loved All is lost, enjoyed Kon Tiki, Alive, and similar stories. So when I read that Arctic is another survival movie from the mountains, with Mads Mikellsen in it, and another one that is completely minimalistic, I couldn't resist. Its beautifully shot, and superbly acted. If you enjoy really stressful and dire movies and don't mind watching someone struggle for life, this one is for you. Pretty great for a full feature debut, and not just that. 7.5/10 from me. look forward to watching.
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