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This is a good summer movie. A great deal of well done CG. A little action. Some social questions about whether it is the nature of all organized power structures to subdue/subsume "others". Good times.
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This is a good summer movie. A great deal of well done CG. A little action. Some social questions about whether it is the nature of all organized power structures to subdue/subsume "others". Good times.
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Messy. Too energized. You rarely get a moment to connect with any of the characters. Also, minor quibble, but the Nazi's in this film must have been prescribed Valium or something. They just stand around and stare as they are shot at! Over and over! It is hard to bill yourself as an action movie when your opponents seem to be barely conscious NPCs?
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I really enjoyed this. So many ideas. So much cool tech. It kind of made me want to watch Aeon Flux.
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That was a pretty damn good movie. I was charmed by Joan Fontaine at the beginning, there were some shots of her that really captured her beauty. Only real complaint was that it was more of a "uncover the truth" type movie than a "take agency" type of film. So many genuinely great scenes (so Hitchcock), was genuinely surprised after walking out of the theater to realize it was a 130 minute movie.
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Honestly, I enjoyed it more than you would expect. I think it started quite strong and I liked the idea a lot, but it overstayed it's runtime a little and lost the thread towards the last 1/3 of the film.
This movie definitely played towards the more comedic elements, and I think that was the right call for the cast and skill they had. But it would have been interesting to watch if Abigail was more defined as an actual 300 year old vampire, rather than sort of the caricature of one.
Tonally, I would say this one was actually orbiting around "Cabin in the Woods", another movie I quite enjoyed.
Lots of dumb scenes where people split up for seemingly no reason at all, but whatever, it is a horror film.
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Another immaculate Wes Anderson movie. I probably didn't necessarily get it, but just watching the interaction and set pieces was enough for me. I really liked the camera work where they seemed to have the ability to pane across the entire "lot" of the film, providing a sort of parallax effect as they did so.
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I saw this at the theater but walked in about 5 minutes late because the popcorn line was running slow. I am wondering if I missed certain queues at the beginning that this is basically a comedy? Until I sort of figured this out I felt that the film was tonally off.
Once I realized that it was supposed to be more funny than serious I began enjoying it a good deal more. The idea of having two romantic leads handcuffed together seems kind of lazy by modern standards, but this was 1935 and I wonder if it was one of the first to do this bit?
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The most notable thing is how bad Matthew Mcconaughey's character is. Both in terms of the writing and the acting. I really liked him in later films so this comes as a bit of a surprise.
I recently watched a few episodes of "True Detective" and had Jodie Foster on my mind. She was still a great actress even this long ago. I also like her character, just completely consumed by this one goal.
I felt it's heart was in the right place, and I guess I am behind the idea of doing science purely for the purposes of discovery... But I'm not sure this movie made a very good case for that.
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I think this is a good movie, it just isn't entirely my thing. I wish the romance between Fred & Ginger was a little more... something. Felt like two people who honestly wanted to dance more than romance. I know these movies are really more about dance numbers somewhat linked by plot, but I still kinda want more in terms of substance.
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I should preface this by saying that I play a board game called Dune: Imperium (and now Uprising). So I was primed to like this film. Truthfully I have twice failed to finish this book a long time ago as a teenager. Like the book, I am medium warm on the characters and medium on the plot.
With that said, I love the world of Dune. I like the set pieces, I like the scenery, I like the scenes as people come and go. The camerawork is fantastic. I love the ships and the buildings. I'm trying to communicate that the plot may be
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I think I last watched this like 25+ years ago. I think a lot of people have a vague memory of how weird this movie was, it is a core memory for a lot of childhoods.
This movie plays a bit like a fever dream. Sometimes transitions between scenes occur without there being a clear transition between one and the next. Sometimes characters seem to change without it being entirely clear what the cause was.
The buddy I saw it with fell asleep in the last battle (in the goblin town) and I have to admit that that part drags on a bit.
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The dance number at the end was pretty fun. I was especially impressed when the gents were (acrobatically) throwing the girls down the stairs.
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Watching this film, what I really found myself wishing was that the internet had been active 20 years earlier so I could read 1989 man on the street opinions on this film. I'd love to contrast what I thought of the film to what others thought of it at the time.
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The most interesting thing I can say is that, due to technical issues, I watched this through my sound system but without 5.1 sound or bass (just stereo). So basically I just had the dialog and very very light music. It's interesting to see how odd the pacing on films is when you take out the the music and parts of the audio. Like watching a sitcom without the laugh track.
Anyway, movie was fine.
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Why PG-13 violence?
Also, the editing, scene transitions, lighting, green screens, cg... Not the greatest work here guys.
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It felt kind of odd to watch everyone be competent at their job. I'm not sure what the point of the film really was, but it was interesting to watch them get wherever they were going with it. Was it a study of character, processes, society? Was it just a story, with no moral purpose at all really? Like I said, odd, but strangely intriguing.
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I was thinking it was enjoyable if not great right until the scene of him "handyman'ing" the fence. I don't know what it was about the shot of him holding the bottle of Elmer's, but it just immediately captured the humor of the movie. Just made the whole thing click for me. From that point onward everything was quite funny. It is such a good natured stupid kind of humor, like some of the better Steve Martin films but with dryer punchlines.
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Honestly, I had way to big a meal (+ dessert) while watching this film. I think I may have dozed off in the center. Still, from what I saw it was pretty good.
I think it falls in that line of being pretty funny but of limited romantic appeal. I think the real pleasure is in having a gradually sillier and sillier plot that rises to a crescendo at the end. Kinda reminds me a little of midsummer nights dream.
Also, I did like the Aunt a whole lot. She was a hoot.
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The film itself is not particularly interesting. However, I have a real soft spot for films that capture the ethos of a time or the mannerism of a people. I would love to know how accurate this one was at either of these? I was particularly struck how casual they were about sexuality whilst being much more serious about domestic violence. I also simultaneously felt very bad for the girls environment while also recognizing the mechanisms they had for dealing with it.
The whole thing seems weird, but then I start thinking that maybe I am the weird on for thinking that it is weird.
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I think I watched half of this film before. I don't quite remember why, but I just wasn't in the mood for it last time. I think my dropping it had to do with relying on the premise of souls being real being somewhat of the reason that life makes sense.
This time through I enjoyed for some reason. There were some genuinely touching moments and great scenes. I loved the flashback of the people in his life as he is playing the piano. Sitting at the piano stool with his father listening to him play.
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Solidly enjoyable if unchallenging film. SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEONK.
I was genuinely annoyed that the mechanic told our pilot that he could pull the handle to live (told as a flashback after the event in question). I kind of think it would have made better thematic sense to tell him "you need to pull this handle one second before collision in order to arm the bomb." Unbeknownst to the pilot, it is not to "set" the bomb, but instead will cause his seat to eject. Pilot thinks he is finally Kamikaziing, breaking his curse of cowardice. Mechanic can now respect the pilot, knowing that he would sacrificed (atoned) himself. Mechanic and pilot end film in outrage > anger > warm manly hug. Pilot then finds reason to live when he discovers his live in girlfriend is still alive.
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A solidly warm film. Kind of a combination of "Catcher in the Rye" meets "Dead Poet's Society".
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A little more fun than Frankenstein, but still basically pretty dull.
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I get that this is a classic, but I didn't enjoy it that much.
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The amount of plot armor and or fortuitous circumstances our protagonist gets is just absurd. I enjoyed certain aspects of the film, but I was just continuously distracted by the above.