Yeah you definitely have to watch the movie to understand the true emotional impact of the best fights here… it is about the journey
All the characters are super ADRed in the Hindi version I watched obviously, including the British ones. Funnily enough this had the outcome of actually making them seem even more sinister and evil, which was pretty cool actually? Are they also that badly ADRed in the Telugu version?
I dunno, I was hoping to see the Telegu version in theaters on the first, but then I got COVID 
You can stream it with some app called Zee5 (?) in Telegu, but it’s a three month commitment for $15 and…nah, I’m good.
Honestly drives me nuts that none of these movies seem to be on physical media. Doomed to forever rent this and Baahubali via Netflix…
i didnt mind the dubbing or more obvious CGI moments. if the foundation of a movie is strong and it generates massive goodwill early on, most people wont care (especially with something like this which is pure melodrama and cartoony action).
i guess my one question with RRR is the historical and contemporary context (which I’m pretty ignorant of). the film is nationalistic, though gets away with it since thats driven by its anticolonialist politics, but the hindu aspects in the ending felt sort of weird (ram explicitly becoming a god, bheem his disciple)
2/3 through duelle (1976, dir. jacques rivette) gigi was like “this is exactly like kara no kyoukai”
I watched The Butcher Boy. Not bad for a, uh, 105 year old movie.
I am also 2/3 the way through a Rivette! Good stuff
Went and saw the worst person in the world yesterday, to support the independent cinema that takes on the small fry that multiplexes shun in favour of Marvel Movie #39. Turnout was lukewarm, reception similarly, with at least and older couple being fed up of me,me,me-Julia by chapter 9 and an aunt/mum? offloading her psychoanalysis onto her niece/daughter/student, all overheard while leaving the cinema.
And, that’s why we go there, isn’t it?
I missed having the firsthand experience of people formulating thoughts about what they saw without checking what X said about Y on Letterboxd, the unfiltered, raw impressions before kinks get ironed out by reading up on impressions and overthinking and adapting other aspects.
Hope these tiny cinemas manage to stay around longer, i’ve missed that dearly!
I seen The Northman, it was pretty groovy. Enjoyed the undifferentiated magic from reality
i was on a few very long flights over the past week, so you know what that means, i watched and hated a bunch of movies
spider-man: no way home: literally not a movie, just an excuse to bring back a bunch of legacy actors. i waited too long to watch this and instead of joy and nostalgia at seeing alfred molina’s lovingly cgi’d face i felt nothing. nothing that happens in this movie makes emotional or logical sense
ghostbusters: no way home: see above, but also, weirdly, not as bad as spider-man? i can’t believe i’m saying this. they keep the legacy actors to a deus ex machina “REVEAL” at the end, the moral of the story is “boomers will fix it” and “your absentee dad actually really loved you” and yet… it at least had scenes that sort of made sense and at least one child actor who didnt make me want to die instantly. also a guy getting ripped in half in a movie for 8 year old kids’ parents is pretty cool i guess.
james bond: no way home: i am not invested enough in the craig-bond mythos to give two shits about anything that happened in this movie. it was pretty, i guess, and ana de armas seems like she would do a pretty good job in those fast and furious movies. but so out of place in this very maudlin 3 hour perfume commercial
venom 2: no way home: this one sucked so much, on just, like, a technical level, but two things i really appreciate about it are tom hardy’s seemingly sincere devotion to the role and general concept of venom, and naomi harris really trying her best to bring back schumacher-era comic book villain mega acting. unfortunately the 30 year old fan casting wish fulfillment of getting woody harrelson to play carnage really tanks the whole movie. but yeah this has that feel these movies often do these days where so much shit has been cut out or rewritten the story of the movie just seems kind of random. i think for venom 3 tom hardy should basically just remake locke. call it brock. just eddie brock talking to himself/venom in a car for 90 minutes.
licorice pizza: no way home: this one kind of sucked too. but i guess it was at least not a total clusterfuck on a technical level. all the actors acted the hell out of their lines. the racist parts were stupid and i like instantly started thinking about all the ways a similar bit could have been made less cringe-inducing. once i realized the movie was basically just a series of vignettes about immature, emotionally abusive men i started to kind of get into it, and then at the end she ends up falling for the king twerp of them all? i mean i guess maybe the idea is that he’s just a dirtbag in training instead of an incurable nightmare. despite the surprisingly optimistic ending i still hold true to my original thesis before even watching the movie: this is a prequel to punch drunk love, and philip seymour hoffman’s kid plays philip seymour hoffman’s guy from that movie as a teenager. he even sells beds!
I did kinda want to die when Stranger Things kid belted out the comedy gold, “Remember the summer when we died under a table?” as they hid under a table during an earthquake. But Egon Girl did alright. And I guess sang the end credits song? Huh.
I did furiously scan the dates carved in the top of the monument for 1989. Granted, that wasn’t a Gozer event, but c’mon. C’mon. Throw Ghostbusters 2 a bone. Just once.
It’s just really funny how seriously the movie treats the Ghostbusters franchise, with an almost religious reverence and tone. Y’know. The movie where a ghost gives Dan Aykroyd a blowjob.
Also fucked up that Gregg Turkington didn’t voice Muncher…
I agree that the new spider-man was like almost unwatchable after people pretended it was good (I made it like 45 minutes in on a plane before calling it quits) but licorice pizza and venom were great!!!
I especially liked when the haim sisters all used the balus spell
I appreciated that licorice pizza did more to allow Alana to be the main character but found the continuing insistence that I find something relatable or sympathetic about the other guy to be really insulting
Spent some time researching this fact after the movie only to remember Yes I Do Remember Them Murdering Oh Well (Part 1) Live, Thanks YT Algorithm before admiring their stage energy
My local indie theater showed a single screening of RRR, and I attended. Amazing movie, gotta just echo what everyone else here has said. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a goofy spectacular action movie like this base itself on a foundation of anticolonialist agitprop. That aspect really electrified its big feel-good beats.
It was a fantastic theatrical experience. There was one small group who had clearly seen the movie before, and they sort of ignited the powderkeg by cheering and clapping at just the right moments early on. This gave everyone else permission, and soon the whole theater was going wild whenever something cool happened. Tons of respectful shouting and laughter and applause all throughout. It was really infectious! I’d say it was the most fun theatrical viewing experience I’ve had since before the pandemic.
I’ve had a couple of really good theatregoing experiences recently too which has been a nice surprise because I never used to see too many movies in theatres outside of festival season and Canadian crowds are usually a bit dull, but both jackass forever and top gun maverick really lit up the joint
Some memorable things about going to see Twop Gun
Waiting 45 minutes in the PACCAR and Boeing IMAX Theater lobby (only to enter 15 minutes after the time indicated on the ticket for some reason)
The out of breath projectionist-cum-hype man and rule layer-downer introducing our evening’s entertainment
My friend going to get us all snacks during the pre-show stuff and coming back with Swedish Fish instead of Skittles cuz they didn’t have Skittles (honestly Skittles would have made me feel just as gross on an empty stomach so whatever)
The awkward deer-in-the-headlights Boeing employee lady’s intro telling us about how much the original Top Gun inspired her to be a test pilot for what seemed to be commercial jets…just reading off a teleprompter, I felt sorry for her, she seemed nice but why make someone do this (her last name was Poon and I am a good person for not making any jokes even if it crossed my mind, I simply squirmed in my seat out of sheer impatience)
Won’t Get Fooled Again kicking in during one of the aerial scenes and thinking, “My dad would love this… I love this”
The split second shock of thinking Tom Cruise had flopped out a window, hit the ground and ragdolled (it was just his coat)
Rolling my eyes at the undoing of what would have been an impactful noble sacrificial death for Maverick (these boomers just will not loosen their grip and pass the torch!)
That sick ass maneuvering of the third faceless enemy pilot in the final showdown (holy hell the plane action rules)
That scene where Maverick and Rooster lay prone on a cliff and scheme how to steal an enemy F-14 to safety ('Yeah baby, we’re in Indiana Jones/Mission Impossible N64 territory now, I can turn off the parts of my brain that are also telling me Swedish Fish are no substitute for an actual meal")
Laughing with my friends more than anyone else seemed to? Or at least at the “wrong” parts but not really derisively, just because, c’mon this is some absurd shit! But a fine time in a theatre built to make CG dinosaurs rattle your viscera. The lady next to my friend was having a real emotional time though…
No Take My Breath Away :’(
Ultimately, a very average by-the-numbers action flick with amazing aerial action. Like, whole characters coulda/shoulda been cut (Jennifer Connelly (look I get that she’s supposed to be Tom’s “anima” or whatever but…a friend even pointed out that her character is mentioned by Goose in the first film which I’ve seen like 5 times over the years and don’t remember that (and was I meant to think of Labyrinth when Let’s Dance played in her character’s introduction scene cuz I did)). But the meta implications of America/Cinema/Tom Cruise in decline are the most interesting aspect.
i thought about how they make a single mention of “bosnia” and “iraq”, naming the enemy exactly once just for posterity and no other reason, and oh look! an american F-14, just like the one I used to fly back in the day! and how they get in the plane and start signalling to the enemy. they’re a thousand feet above the ground and tom cruise is throwing up random hand signs from the cockpit going “i have no idea what they’re saying hope they don’t shoot us xD”, and it cuts to the enemy and their plane, helmet and attire are all black, with their visor tinted out, it was basically screaming at me “this is like Star Wars!! the american military is just like Star Wars”
“Iraq. Both times.” LOL
Also the whole Tom Mothma briefing which is…the Death Star trench run. I wouldn’t be surprised if Tom Cruise has never seen a Star Wars in his life though.
Rogue State = Outer Heaven?
Hamlet
