Talk About Movies: Part 4
Somehow threads merged, so here's part 4 of our ongoing movie discussion.
it was the always the bad noodle that was the problem on that ship
"Big wind takes girl and toto dog to colorful world with short people. She makes scarecrow, metal man and cat man friends."
A week after the movie came out I'm listening to the radio and the DJ comes back with his sidekick. They're yappin about upcoming concerts and new music etc then without warning the DJ says "Bruce Willis was dead the whole time." His sidekick was like DUDE! SSHHHHHHH and he was all, "What? Hasn't everyone seen The Sixth Sense?" Completely robbed me of the experience. I was a broke student and couldn't always see movies during opening weekend. So by the time I saw it, I knew the twist going in. ='(
Juror #2 Solid courtroom thriller with Nicholas Hoult in the lead. Perfect movie for people into true crime content. I appreciate the moral dilemma and examination of that. Thought the ending fell a tiny bit flat but overall glad I caught up with it. Is this it for Eastwood? Saw some people online talking about how it's his last film. Was surprised at how good it turned out considering his recent films haven't been that good.
For All Mankind
Watch it. Great NASA footage of the first trip to the moon, most of which you have never seen before. There's two versions on YouTube. I recommend watching the one posted by National Geographic first.
Reminder that something mattered for all mankind. And they meant it. As Browning said, "A man's reach must exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"
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For All Mankind
Watch it. Great NASA footage of the first trip to the moon, most of which you have never seen before.
Indeed...
This is a Great Website that broadcasts the
... it's an amazing watch.
fun fact about chinese people, before watching a movie, they'll read a very detailed synopsis on it to see if it's the kind of thing they want to watch
no concept at all of spoilers or just enjoying the twists and turns
reminds me of the time i dvr'd the usa/canada gold medal olympic hockey game in 2010 while i was at work
You didn’t just call in that morning and say “Lost grandma homework sick dog”?
I've watched so many movies lately that I'm having trouble keeping track.
Tonight was Poetry by Lee Chang-dong, the director of Burning and Secret Sunshine.
Poetry is about a grandmother who, for some reason that's a bit unclear, has her grandson living with her. She has early stage dementia and also attends a poetry class at the local cultural center where she attempts to learn how to write poetry.
The film begins with a group of young boys finding the body of a young girl who has committed suicide. We quickly learn that the girl is a student in the grandson's class and had been repeatedly raped by boys in the class. There's no real mystery about all of this. The fathers of the boys agree to pay off the girl's mother so she doesn't go to the police , but the grandmother does not have the money to pay her share of the bribe.
But the film is so much more than that. The real focus of the film is the grandmother who finally comes up with the money and writes a poem.
If you're only going to see one of Chang-dong's films, see Burning, but Poetry is well worth it.
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I've watched so many movies lately that I'm having trouble keeping track. Tonight was Poetry by Lee Chang-dong, the director of Burning and Secret Sunshine. Poetry is about a grandmother who, for some reason that's a bit unclear, has her grandson living with her. She has early stage dementia and also attends a poetry class at the local cultural center where she attempts to lear
I love this movie but have never been able to grasp what makes it such great storytelling. Check it out.
Great Storytelling, that's why.
Very few American Films have this ability any longer so there is an inherent thirst... there are some 'Humanistic' IP's, but they are exceedingly rare in the US Film industry and only seem to exist in independent film making.
I have a fondness of seeing other cultures Humanity or perspectives.
The F1 trailer looks fun, but aside from requiring the biggest suspension of disbelief in movie history, doesn’t it look like the type of movie that was made 15-20 years ago?
LOL at The Chain remake, but at least they updated the age regression software from The Irishman.
I've watched it twice and Perfect Days three times.
So many great Asian films in the past ten or so years. I believed at one time that if people would see films such as Yi-Yi or Shoplifters they would like them. Don't believe that any more.
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Bleak Saturday, so I watched two movies.
The Descendants by Alexander Payne.
I don't think we pay enough attention to Payne. He does men maybe better than anyone. Nebraska, Election, Sideways, About Schmidt, The Holdovers, and The Descendants, which affected me greatly.
George Clooney plays a father with two daughters whose wife is in a coma after a boating accident. She will never recover. He learns his wife has cheated on him, and he searches for her lover.
He is also the executor of a huge tract of land in Hawaii, ready to sell the land for the benefit of his many cousins.
The wife's lover is also the real estate agent, so he stands to make a couple million from the sale.
He can't sign off on the sale, not because of the lover, but because of his family who has had the land for generations. But it's clear that he won't sign off because of his two daughters.
The emotions the film conjures up are real. You feel the pain the characters feel. Payne alleviates the pain with doses of humor throughout.
In so many of his films he captures the emotions men feel, those emotions we often deny and hide. I recognize myself in his films and consider how I have kept my own emotions in check. It's what men do, I guess. But we have those private moments in which our stoicism breaks down.
And I also watched Amadeus, a film I saw over forty years ago.
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The guy posts some thoughtful paragraphs and you simply retort, “whaddabout THIS one tho??”
Thanks for your musings, John. You’re spot on with sheltered feelings of the masculine.
Bleak Saturday, so I watched two movies.
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And I also watched Amadeus, a film I saw over forty years ago.
Vivid memory of my parents taking me to see this in the theater long ago. Cultural education? Teen me not exactly the target audience. Recall Old Menacing Salieri, ridiculous Tom Hulce. Won a bunch of Awards. Long run time iirc
