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Post by brutalis on Jul 1, 2019 7:59:44 GMT -5
Spent Sunday morning at the movies to see Rocketman, the Elton John story. What a visual and musical treat this is. More like a spectacular Broadway musical fantasy it plays out in showing the highlights and lows of Sir Elton's adventures. Credit where due: nothing is held back and some scenes will punch you right in the face with their intense yet honest portrayals. The entire cast is superb and Taron Egerton makes an incredible Elton from youth on into the 80's and uncannily captures the essence and looks of Elton in many scenes. Outside of Elton, none of the characters are really provided much depth other than as punchlines to his story
. Won't lie, actually teared up 3 times during the film.
There is a visual flair to the movie and the songs are used to tell the story in gorgeously staged musical numbers. A good, entertaining film which can't quite cover the vastness and magnitude of Elton John's life as a performer before the world but well worth the time to see. Memorable music we all know and the expected sex, drug and rock and roll. Just sit back and put up your heels and colored glasses and enjoy.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 6, 2019 18:17:13 GMT -5
It took a while but I finally caught War for the Planet of the Apes on Netflix. I am embarrassed to admit that I never saw the {spoiler}Nova Easter egg coming. For shame! It was a quite clever and respectful hommage to the original films, though, and I felt all teary eyed because of it! Ditto for {spoiler}Caesar’s son being named Cornelius. . I also appreciated the fact that the closest thing we got to a red-shirted ape {Spoiler}made it through the film without a scratch, as if he were a simian Wedge Antillies! |
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Post by brutalis on Jul 8, 2019 10:15:17 GMT -5
Really enjoyed Spider-Man: Far from Home, or as it should have been called Spidey's European Vacation. It was quite fun and creative in respects to Mysterio. Nice mix of the soap-opera/Peter Parker stuff versus the super heroic adventure. Lots of comic book Easter Eggs throughout for the nerds in the crowd to enjoy. The movie does provide some follow up and closure to the whole Infinity/Endgame story. The 2 ending credit scenes are wonderful and provide tease of things to come.
One of the few mistakes for me: Aunt May scenes for the most part were not really necessary and some of the "joke" scenes meant for comedic relief just makes her look so dumb. Think they were really struggling with finding things for Ned to do in this movie as well. Really did NOT need so much of the dumb teachers as the "Adult" supervision that are more childish than the kids they are chaperoning.
Another "hit" in that it continues for being a much better series than either of the prior Spider-Man's that came before.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 15, 2019 21:12:40 GMT -5
I went and saw the movie Yesterday with the wife and kidlet yesterday. It was mostly them who wanted to go though I didn't mind. Contrary to what Confessor would have you believe, I don't hate The Beatles. Overall it was a good, but not great film. The premise is that a struggling musician is about to give up and go back to teaching. He has an auto accident and glitches into a world where the Beatles never existed. So he starts passing off their music as his own and begins to make the big time. Overall the film is kind of a rom-com. But it does ask some questions about art and whether he should be passing the art off as his or not. Those questions are much more interesting than the bulk of the movie but at least it wasn't completely glossed over. I'd also have liked it to have asked and answered questions about where music would be today without the influence of the Beatles. But that's because that's the kind of thing that interests me rather than an audience for a mass appeal film. But it was certainly worth the time and the matinee price. So that was something. |
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Post by berkley on Jul 19, 2019 17:30:14 GMT -5
Saw Echo in the Canyon a few nights ago. It's a documentary about the music scene in Laurel Canyon (just outside LA, from what I gather?) in the late 60s, when everyone from the Byrds to the Mamas and the Papas seemed to be living in the area, visiting each others houses, having parties, and making music together, etc just for fun.
My only slight criticism would be that it's centred around a kind of anniversary concert with Jacob Dylan and some other younger musicians doing the music of the era - and they do it quite well, but of course I was much more interested in seeing the interviews with people like Roger McGuinn and Michelle Philips and so on than I was in the concert. Still, the was enough of that to keep me going and the concert clips were mostly enjoyable enough - with one stand-out performance by Jade Castrinos (whom I hadn't heard of before) covering the Mamas and the Papas' Go Where You Wanna Go.
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Post by Jesse on Jul 22, 2019 16:27:17 GMT -5
Can't wait to see this  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 22, 2019 22:26:46 GMT -5
Can't wait to see this Yeah, I just saw the trailer. My wife and I had a discussion yesterday. She asked if I had seen still of Tom Hanks, as Mr Rogers. I said no and that I wasn't interested. I like Hanks, as an actor; but, he plays Tom Hanks. Most actors, these days, play themselves. it is a rare one who can do a character performance. Forrest Gump was a sort of character performance; but, it was more of a toned down Hanks, even though I love the film and like most of his films. However, I loved Mr Rogers. Mr Rogers is a huge part of my childhood, with Sesame Street and the Electric Company. You can't help but watch him and be in awe. I just didn't want to see an imitation of him. I watched the trailer and I saw an imitation; but, I was more intrigued by how the journalist saw things. I checked out some info on the film; it's based on an Esquire article, by Tom Junod. I found a link to the article and read it. Some of the things in the trailer (including the kids on the subway singing Mr Rogers' songs to him) are there. A lot of really touching stuff is. I read that Junod felt changed by his time with Mr Rogers. Now I want to see the film; not for Tom hank's impersonation of Mr Rogers (which looked fine, but his voice just doesn't capture Mr Rogers), but to see a story of the effect of Mr Rogers and the people who meet him and watch his show. Leave it to Mr Rogers to punch holes in my cynicism. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 23, 2019 9:49:25 GMT -5
^Couldn't agree with you more cody. While I'll probably never watch it, I can see where you are coming from. I am fine with Won't You Be My Neighbor, as a look into his life and effect on people.
My wife and I watched Creed 2. I don't watch boxing as a sport. Don't much watch movies about boxing. Personally it's barbaric, but whatever. Right before Creed came out my wife convinced me to watch the original Rocky movies as I had never seen any of them. Then we watched Creed. Personally I think Creed 2 is far better than it's predecessor. While the movie did play out as I figured it would, all the small things added up to big surprises. And while the very end of the film ultimately turned out predictably, again the small things didn't and really surprised me. I'd even say I enjoyed it more than the original Rocky films.
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 28, 2019 18:38:54 GMT -5
Did anyone else see Quentin Tarantino's newest, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ?"
G/f and I did last night. I saw it had gotten good scores and it has Brad Pitt and Leonardo Dicaprio directed by Q.T.
That's all I needed to know.
We were disappointed; not a bad movie, but not a good one either.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 30, 2019 12:00:11 GMT -5
I haven't been this excited to see a new movie in a long time but the Lighthouse looks amazing:
And if you're a horror fan and you haven't seen Robert Eggers' previous film The Witch than go see that too!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 25, 2019 18:22:52 GMT -5
Was flipping through Amazon Prime and saw they had Eye of the Beholder: The Art of Dungeons & Dragons, the 2019 documentary about the history of D&D art.  While it covers a lot of the same ground as the big coffee table book Art and Arcana  it does so in a different manner and consists mostly of interviews with the various artists who have worked on the D&D game since its inception 40 years ago, as well as with other game creators, art directors, gamers and art historians/critics, to give a different perspective on the subject matter, and a tighter focus than the book (the book uses art to tell the history of the game and spends a lot of time on the business aspects of D&D, something the movie only barely touches on, while the doc gives more time to the individual artists and their experience, humanizing them to more than their canvases. The documentary also gives a brief history of fantasy art pre-D&D including a few minutes on the impact of Frazetta on the scene. I really liked this documentary (I am probably going to go out and get a physical copy at some point soon to add to my library), and recommend it to anyone who likes D&D, fantasy art in general, or looking at the creative process of artists. On a side note, as I finished watching the doc, Prime recommended a doc called Rude Dude, a bio of Steve Rude done by Rude, that I will check out here soon. -M I had no idea that movie exists. Into the que it goes. Thanks! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2019 19:28:04 GMT -5
Did anyone else see Quentin Tarantino's newest, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ?" G/f and I did last night. I saw it had gotten good scores and it has Brad Pitt and Leonardo Dicaprio directed by Q.T. That's all I needed to know. We were disappointed; not a bad movie, but not a good one either. You save me money tomorrow night ... my girlfriend and wanted to see this and she told me that this movie disappointed her friends and therefore we decided to make it a long dinner instead. |
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Post by berkley on Aug 26, 2019 11:03:14 GMT -5
I really liked Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, myself - in fact, I'd say it's Tarantino's best in some years.
The Witch was interesting so I'll give The Lighthouse a g too, whenever it comes here.
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Post by Confessor on Sept 4, 2019 21:18:41 GMT -5
...it covers a lot of the same ground as the big coffee table book Art and Arcana I really want a copy of this book. It's been on my Amazon wishlist since it came out. Hopefully with my birthday and then Xmas coming up, I might get lucky and someone might buy it for me.  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 15, 2019 19:11:13 GMT -5
Robin Aubert’s The Ravenous finally made it on Netflix.
It’s a nice little zombie movie that, for me, gets major credibility points for having been shot RIGHT HERE where I live, with actors speaking my native language with the proper (or improper!) accent.
I suppose that New York residents get used to seeing fantastic stories set in their city, but to see zombies in my neck of the woods was something entirely new.
And it has Didier Lucien. Anything with Didier Lucien (even if for just a few minutes) is worth seeing for me.(As I understand it, for monetary reasons, many of the actors are members of the dorector!s fam8ly. I love it! Just as for the Lovecraft adaptations like The Call od C’thulluh or The wisperer in darkness, this must be a work of love.) One other notable exception is Micheline Lanctôt, a great actress who is more often associated with “serious” movies.
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