Talk About Movies: Part 4
Somehow threads merged, so here's part 4 of our ongoing movie discussion.
I can't say I enjoyed Aftersun, but I was thinking about it for a few days afterwards, which I guess is the sign of a good movie. I don't have any desire to rewatch it tho.
Just knocked out the Hunt vs. Lauda documentary off Amazon, I liked it a lot. Total non-fan of motorsports too, but this drew me in.
Just knocked out the Hunt vs. Lauda documentary off Amazon, I liked it a lot. Total non-fan of motorsports too, but this drew me in.
While you still have Formula One fuel in your veins, you might want to track down the documentary Senna that came out in 2010. If I recall correctly it does a wonderful job documenting Ayrton Senna from an early age already racing all the way up to a Hunt vs. Lauda type rivalry of Senna versus Prost (which is a good book).
As I've said already, Aftersun might have been my favorite movie of 2022. It was slow, but it was one of those slow films that had me riveted. That ending dance scene, the whole ending, killed me.
There are times I want to feel the emotions, even pain, that film provided me. My favorite films are about time, memory, and love in all its forms. Aftersun captures all of those for me.
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Well said. I think if someone can get through the slowness, it's definitely a great watch. I really enjoyed it it.
My favorite part was what I'd consider the climax of the movie:
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When Sophie has the group sing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow". The flashback to the night before in the room was devastating. How important this moment was to him was perfectly built up by his telling his story about what his 11th birthday was like. I originally found it a little odd that the movie started with this "interview" and then was shown again, but it made sense after seeing all of the story.
It reminded me about this story Kurt Russell told:
Broken YouTube LinkI've started Killers Of the Flower Moon.
A half hour in and I'm wondering, is just a really good-looking but dour history lesson?
It's a good-looking history lesson that ignores much of the history according to some who wanted a different perspective.
Some great performances but ultimately forgettable.
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While you still have Formula One fuel in your veins, you might want to track down the documentary Senna that came out in 2010. If I recall correctly it does a wonderful job documenting Ayrton Senna from an early age already racing all the way up to a Hunt vs. Lauda type rivalry of Senna versus Prost (which is a good book).
Senna is fantastic.
Tried to watch a couple of movies on Hulu that looked interesting.
Life Upside Down Bob Odenkirk drew me to this one. I think we lasted 15 minutes. It looked like to me the director gave the actors a general premise and they ad-libbed the entire dialogue. Unwatchable for me.
Land Ho We made it just a slight bit longer on this one but got really bored listening to two old guys talk to each other. Not sure if there was any plot at all.
I rewatched Burn After Reading. I know it's not a favorite Coen Brothers film, but I it's hilarious. Clooney and Pitt are great goofballs.
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Btw, Aftersun is based on an event in the director's, Charlotte Wells, life. If you read her personal life bio you get what it is really about.
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LISA FRANKENSTEIN (2023): Takes place in 1989 and it involves an outcast teen who befriends a zombie who invades her house after an unusual storm strikes a lightning bolt on his grave.
This one was all over the place. It touches on unpopular teen angst, dark comedy & horror themes but doesn't do any of them particularly well. And the actions of the teen protagonist Lisa (Kathryn Newton), are inconsistent.
There are some funny moments and the depiction of high school life in 1989 is fun if you graduated from HS in the late 1980s (like I did). However, there isn't much to recommend other than that.
6/10 if u graduated from HS in the late 1980s
4/10 otherwise
The word masterpiece is being throw around quite frequently in the early reviews of Dune 2
Rewatched Dune p1 last night, at home, and it still wowed me. I agree Denis is the premiere director working rn.
It somehow escaped me that Dune will be a trilogy. I assumed that Part 2 will have a proper conclusion rather than a non-ending like Part 1. Am I completely wrong about that?
no other current filmmaker has the quality of body of work that Villenueve has. He's probably the best filmmaker on the planet.
I remember we talked about it briefly a couple of years back, but did you get to watch some of his Quebecois/pre-Hollywood films? I think you mentioned Polytechnique, right, which is absolutely great, but what about August 32nd on Earth (I wasn't such a big fan of Maelstrom, but the former is great 
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It somehow escaped me that Dune will be a trilogy. I assumed that Part 2 will have a proper conclusion rather than a non-ending like Part 1. Am I completely wrong about that?
It’s not a trilogy. Dune part 2 isn’t even a sequel. These two movies are one book split into two parts. There are more Dune books but I haven’t heard or seen an official announcement that more movies are coming.
I have my early access tickets for the 25th
Science Fiction Lawrence of Arabia.
It somehow escaped me that Dune will be a trilogy. I assumed that Part 2 will have a proper conclusion rather than a non-ending like Part 1. Am I completely wrong about that?
I loved the books (the first 4 not the later ones, I never read those), but if I remember correctly, the first book had a somewhat unsatisfying ending.
Even though it did come to some sort of a climax, it wasn't even the full story of the main guy (Paul / Muadib).
The second book, Dune Messiah, is the conclusion of the story about him.
It was much shorter than the first book though, so probably would only take one (third) film to cover the same level of detail as the two for the first book. In the Sci-fi channel's miniseries, both books were merged into one series just called Dune.
The third book, Children Of Dune, was actually my favorite, and I also really liked the miniseries Sci-fi did with that one.
I also enjoyed the fourth, God Emperor Of Dune, but I thought it was really unfilmable, and I guess Sci-fi did as well, because they didn't attempt another miniseries based on that one.
Spoiler for why I considered it unfilmable below.
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IIRC, the main character is a person who has basically turned into a giant sandworm hybrid who cannot move. A big part of the book was just him talking with another character, which wouldn't be that interesting on film. I also can't imagine someone/something that is described as being pretty disgusting to look at being on camera for most of a movie.
I remember we talked about it briefly a couple of years back, but did you get to watch some of his Quebecois/pre-Hollywood films? I think you mentioned Polytechnique, right, which is absolutely great, but what about August 32nd on Earth (I wasn't such a big fan of Maelstrom, but the former is great ).
I haven't seen any of them except Polytechnique, but do have Incendies and Maelstrom in my queue.
there is a Rebecca Miller (Daughter of Arthur Miller and former wife of Daniel Day-Lewis) artist appearance and book signing here in Las Vegas.
I am a big fan of Angela, though I do understand why it can be polarizing and hated.
If Sofia Coppola is hated, Rebecca is doubly so.
On my 2023 rankings:
3. The Holdovers
7. Past Lives
8. American Fiction
13. Anatomy of a Fall
I gave them all 8/10 though.
