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Post by EdoBosnar on May 19, 2023 2:52:44 GMT -5
Trailer for Killers of the Flower Moon dropped. The book was absolutely fantastic. And Scorsese, De Niro and DiCaprio. This will be a must see even at 3 hours and 26 minutes. I really need to read that book; you might be interested in a novel from the early 1990s on the same theme called Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan. It's been a while since I read it, but I remember quite liking it. Otherwise, yeah, the movie looks like it should be pretty good.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jul 30, 2023 6:30:57 GMT -5
I watched Alita: Battle Angel (2019) last night...
This is a solidly entertaining dystopian SF-action film; the liberal use of CGI and motion capture for the many cyborg characters is put to good use here so that it isn't overly distracting, although it took me a bit to get used to the portrayal of Alita (actress Rosa Salazar in motion capture). My main criticisms would be a few shaky plot points, and also the fact that it's apparently meant to be the first in a series of films - something that should have been clear to me right away, since it's based on a manga series Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita by Yukito Kishiro, but only dawned on me when the movie was about over and I realized that certain story elements hadn't been resolved. Apparently a sequel is in development, but it doesn't look like anything will be released any time soon.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 30, 2023 20:29:22 GMT -5
Came across this trailer, a few days bac, for The Great Escaper.....
Based on the true story of Bernard Jordan, a veteran of the Normandy landings, who was going to be unable to attend the 70th anniversary celebrations, in 2014, with the Royal British Legion. There was an attempt made to have him go with that delegation, but something prevented it. he took it upon himself to go and slipped out of the retirement home he and his wife lived in, slipped to the coast and crossed the channel and avoided alerts that he was missing, from the home, after he didn't turn up. They then received notification from a veteran that he was fine and staying at a hotel in Ouistreham.
The film stars Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson, in her final role, plus Wolf Kahler (Raiders of the Lost Ark) as a German veteran, who Caine meets, in Normandy. Also features flashbacks to the landing and the young courtship of the Jordans. The film seems to show him as a sailor, but Jordan was an officer and a politician, who had been mayor of Hove. I suspect any alteration (if that is correct, that he is made an enlisted man) is to match up with Caine's background, in the East End.
Looks terrific.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 5, 2023 8:52:56 GMT -5
I saw Meg 2: The Trench yesterday. It’s not any smarter than you’d expect it to be.
But it’s not the stupidest movie I’ve seen lately because I’ve been watching a lot of Fast and Furious movies. Is The Fate of the Furious officially the stupidest movie in the franchise?
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 7, 2023 3:03:47 GMT -5
Watched Color Out of Space (2019) last night...
Despite some big names in the cast, like Joely Richardson, Nick Cage and Tommy Chong, a rather well-regarded director (at least for horror films), Richard Stanley, and a pretty decent production budget (with very good special effects), it often seems like an arthouse or indie film. I have mixed feelings about it, mainly because I'm just not the biggest fan of horror (esp. body horror, of which there are few scenes here), but I have to admit that it is a rather good, updated adaptation of Lovecraft's story. You come away from it with the same unsettling state of mind that you get after reading that or any of his other stories.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 13, 2023 20:54:13 GMT -5
Zombie movies come in different varieties trying to set themselves apart from the competition, and I think that Blood Quantum really hits a home run in its approach.
In this retro-futuristic film (it's set in the early '80s), a zombie plague suddenly manifests itself and people must deal with its repercussion on a local basis. The gimmick here is that people of Miqmaq descent are immune to the plague, in a brilliant reversal of what happened with smallpox in earlier centuries. A Miqmaq reservation is where the action occurs, even if many of the scenes were shot in western Quebec. So you have immune Miqmaqs having to deal with hordes of zombies, and with lots of non-immune refugees who want to find shelter on the reservation.I don't think I ever saw that concept being exploited, and it is extremely effective.
There are many details I loved in this film. For example, in a practically unique demonstration of common sense, one of the main protagonists immediately reasons that if some animals return to life after they've been killed and gutted, then the dead dog in the trunk of his car might do the same. Most ordinary movie characters would have been taken unawares by the zombie dog, of course. This type of common sense, manifested by all the protagonists, is immensely refreshing!
An added bonus is that the cast does not consist of very famous actors; seeing new faces in such a story always adds a massive amount of verisimilitude to a story. The same goes for the frequent use of the Miqmaq language (which I understand not at all, alas).
In the zombie flick genre, this low-budget effort is a very laudable success.
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Post by berkley on Aug 13, 2023 23:21:07 GMT -5
Zombie movies come in different varieties trying to set themselves apart from the competition, and I think that Blood Quantum really hits a home run in its approach. In this retro-futuristic film (it's set in the early '80s), a zombie plague suddenly manifests itself and people must deal with its repercussion on a local basis. The gimmick here is that people of Miqmaq descent are immune to the plague, in a brilliant reversal of what happened with smallpox in earlier centuries. A Miqmaq reservation is where the action occurs, even if many of the scenes were shot in western Quebec. So you have immune Miqmaqs having to deal with hordes of zombies, and with lots of non-immune refugees who want to find shelter on the reservation.I don't think I ever saw that concept being exploited, and it is extremely effective. There are many details I loved in this film. For example, in a practically unique demonstration of common sense, one of the main protagonists immediately reasons that if some animals return to life after they've been killed and gutted, then the dead dog in the trunk of his car might do the same. Most ordinary movie characters would have been taken unawares by the zombie dog, of course. This type of common sense, manifested by all the protagonists, is immensely refreshing! An added bonus is that the cast does not consist of very famous actors; seeing new faces in such a story always adds a massive amount of verisimilitude to a story. The same goes for the frequent use of the Miqmaq language (which I understand not at all, alas). In the zombie flick genre, this low-budget effort is a very laudable success.
Thanks for mentioning this, I might not have heard about it otherwise. I don't think it's played here yet but one of the independent cinemas I have access to should get it, hopefully.
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Post by berkley on Aug 15, 2023 20:16:30 GMT -5
I saw Asteroid City today, the first Wes Anderson movie I've seen. I found it pretty entertaining, though at times it felt like Anderson was trying a bit too hard to be quirky and cute, which is one of the things that have kept me away from his films up to now. But maybe that's a matter of taste. I found it worked better for me as the movie went on, so perhaps I just needed to adjust to his style. Visually it's always nice to look at. Good cast, with Bryan Cranston particularly enjoyable, though in a smallish part. So not a complete success for me but I saw enough that I liked that I'm more likely now to try something else of Anderson's than I was before seeing this one.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 15, 2023 20:38:02 GMT -5
I saw Asteroid City today, the first Wes Anderson movie I've seen. I found it pretty entertaining, though at times it felt like Anderson was trying a bit too hard to be quirky and cute, which is one of the things that have kept me away from his films up to now. But maybe that's a matter of taste. I found it worked better for me as the movie went on, so perhaps I just needed to adjust to his style. Visually it's always nice to look at. Good cast, with Bryan Cranston particularly enjoyable, though in a smallish part. So not a complete success for me but I saw enough that I liked that I'm more likely now to try something else of Anderson's than I was before seeing this one. That’s just Wes Anderson. That’s his thing. I’m a fan, though I haven’t seen this one yet. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 16, 2023 5:37:07 GMT -5
My favorite Wes Anderson is The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. I had it on dvd and watched it a bunch of times. I think I still have the soundtrack around here somewhere. I used to listen to that a lot as well.
I saw Asteroid City when it opened. I liked it while I was watching it but it didn’t leave much of an impression.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 4, 2023 9:07:25 GMT -5
I like the idea of setting this movie in the past. The idea of post-war Japan immediately having to deal with a giant monster on top of everything else is a neat concept.
At this point, Godzilla films are a bit like James Bond ones. I don't expect to be surprised, but familiar things like Big G's roar still make me smile.
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Post by berkley on Sept 4, 2023 14:59:25 GMT -5
My favorite Wes Anderson is The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. I had it on dvd and watched it a bunch of times. I think I still have the soundtrack around here somewhere. I used to listen to that a lot as well. I saw Asteroid City when it opened. I liked it while I was watching it but it didn’t leave much of an impression.
I've avoided that one because I didn't like the way Bowie's music was used in it, from the previews I saw.
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Post by berkley on Sept 4, 2023 15:05:00 GMT -5
I like the idea of setting this movie in the past. The idea of post-war Japan immediately having to deal with a giant monster on top of everything else is a neat concept. At this point, Godzilla films are a bit like James Bond ones. I don't expect to be surprised, but familiar things like Big G's roar still make me smile.
I haven't seen many of the later Godzillas, just the the first two, then the first Godzilla vs King Kong from the 1960s, and then the US one with Matthew Broderick from the early 2000s, I think it was. I'm not sure I agree about the idea of setting it right after WWII in the aftermath of two nuclear bombs: to me that feels a little like setting a Dracula movie in Germany in the aftermath of Auschwitz.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 4, 2023 15:26:02 GMT -5
I like the idea of setting this movie in the past. The idea of post-war Japan immediately having to deal with a giant monster on top of everything else is a neat concept. At this point, Godzilla films are a bit like James Bond ones. I don't expect to be surprised, but familiar things like Big G's roar still make me smile.
I haven't seen many of the later Godzillas, just the the first two, then the first Godzilla vs King Kong from the 1960s, and then the US one with Matthew Broderick from the early 2000s, I think it was. I'm not sure I agree about the idea of setting it right after WWII in the aftermath of two nuclear bombs: to me that feels a little like setting a Dracula movie in Germany in the aftermath of Auschwitz.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 4, 2023 16:47:21 GMT -5
My favorite Wes Anderson is The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. I had it on dvd and watched it a bunch of times. I think I still have the soundtrack around here somewhere. I used to listen to that a lot as well. I saw Asteroid City when it opened. I liked it while I was watching it but it didn’t leave much of an impression.
I've avoided that one because I didn't like the way Bowie's music was used in it, from the previews I saw.
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