Talk About Movies: Part 4
Somehow threads merged, so here's part 4 of our ongoing movie discussion.
In accordance with the US Halloween season I'm trying to find some suspenseful , scary movies that I've never seen before. Like many here I've seen a lot of the famous ones, so this is not so easy a task.
First up was The Empty Man (2020) . To my surprise I enjoyed this quite a bit. What kept my interest over the long story was the excellent sound and excellent cinematography and editing. Somebody put a lot of effort into those aspects and it showed. It kept up the suspense. The first 20 minute segment of the movie is an exciting story about a group of hikers in Nepal (I think) is worth watching on its own since it is almost a separate film. The second story has completely different characters and is set in a Midwest US town near St. Louis. That is one of the reasons the movie got heavily criticized. The tie in with the opening story is not made until the last 15 minutes of the film. It is not gory or bloody much and is mostly psychological horror. An ex-cop tries to find and rescue a missing teenager who was connected with a spooky supernatural cult. The ending has a bit of a twist. Grade B+.
next up may be Lake Mungo. Happy(?) Halloween.
why did the Clooney/Pitt movie Wolfs get such bad notices? It was perfectly fine, breezy fun. I enjoyed it.
yeah, he was
Name the film. Easy for a few of you
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great practical On location stunts using really flying vehicles and pilots...
I think it's the first one
It's getting near that time of year. I always watch Thin Man movies over the holidays.
Movie Saturday...
I just watched Rosemary's Baby once again. I read somewhere (maybe from Stanley Cavell) that the movie is about women's fear of what they will bring into the world. I like that interpretation. And that scene where she's getting raped by Satan and says, "This isn't a dream. It's really happening" is kinda terrifying.
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Farrow's reaction when she sees her baby for the first time is probably the biggest scare I ever had in the movies. Just her reaction. I still get chills every time I see it.
I just watched Rosemary's Baby once again. I read somewhere (maybe from Stanley Cavell) that the movie is about women's fear of what they will bring into the world. I like that interpretation. And that scene where she's getting raped by Satan and says, "This isn't a dream. It's really happening" is kinda terrifying.
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There's now a prequel out called Apartment 7A . I haven't seen yet but plan to catch over the next couple of weeks
Man on Wire. Single-minded guy does something which cannot be undone. It's okay. I didn't know he was out on that wire for 45 minutes, backwards and forwards eight times, lying down on it, teasing the cops on it.
Man on Wire. Single-minded guy does something which cannot be undone. It's okay. I didn't know he was out on that wire for 45 minutes, backwards and forwards eight times, lying down on it, teasing the cops on it.
Just watching this scared the hell out of me.
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Every time I hear "Under Pressure" and the "This is our last dance" refrain I think of Aftersun, a film that left me devastated.
A few years ago, I had a seizure while driving from New Hampshire to RI. I never made it out of NH. My daughter arrived and the nurse asked who she was. She just said, "I'm his daughter."
They are, in fact, my step-daughter and step-son, but we have been part of each other's lives since they were 5 and 3. When my wife died twenty years ago, they stuck with me and, I guess, I with them for nearly forty years now.
You get a bit depressed after a seizure, but when Kristin said, "I'm his daughter," tears came.
I know why I find Aftersun so devastating. I have children and grandchildren who will remember me. Maybe not in the same way as the daughter remembers her father in Aftersun, but remember still.
This isn't much of a movie review, and I'm sorry for being a little maudlin, but I don't think it's a bad thing to get a bit sentimental from time to time. After all, don't some movies affect us in ways we can't always comprehend?
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Long before someone decided singing songs, aka Joker deux, was a good idea...
