Watched 2001 for the first time in a long while. Geoffrey Unsworth and John Alcott’s cinematography is still pretty damn amazing. The tension and claustrophobia in the third part (Jupiter Mission) is palpable.
Oh, and i finally saw that new Star Wars movie last night and it sure is a Star Wars movie.
Ronin-gai was real boring so I switched to The League of Gentlemen which was still boring but in my native language so I could keep zoning out. It was still really boring (sorry Parker.)
My Criterion Hulu queue is down to 44 films. I am dissapointed to bored with the other Masahiro Shinoda films I have seen (Someone else on this forum watch A Flame At The Pier so I am not alone already.). I still have Silence which does not look like a good time.
There was some J-film that I might have already talked about in this thread that was 50 minutes of good mystery and then 45 minutes of super cumbersome over explaination of the mystery. Zero Focus (1960 version)! Man the first half of that is great. It moves like a modern film. Then it just decides to self destruct in explaining itself.
Personally I’m shocked they decided to remake TOMORROWLAND so soon. I mean, I know it did poorly but this has to be a record for flop-to-reboot!
(Glib jokes aside it was enjoyable and textured motion picture experience (?))
Christ almighty.
Didn’t you guys hear about it
It has a stinger at the end that sets up God’s Not Dead 3
Woof. Cant decide if this is worse than #1
http://www.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1204406 vicarious watching, as usual
I watched The Reverent. It was pretty good, but probably not for me because I was only marginally impressed by Glass’s ability to stay alive in the wilderness compared to everyone else in the movie. Maybe I just have a inflated idea of how hard living in the wilderness is. Pretty movie, tho!
It doesn’t come out until the end of the month here, but I also had a dream where I watched Green Room and Ollie from Repo Man was in it because my brain doesn’t have a lot of space for punk rock movies I guess.
I saw Captain America: Age of Avengers: Ultimate Super Hero Slam Jam: A Sony and Marvel and Disney Joint
It was OK. A better Avengers movie than Ultron, at least. In some ways probably a more exciting super people movie than Winter Soldier, but a worse Normal Movie movie than that. Better Community cast member cameo.
It is cool that the mcu movies finally feel like actual comic books, eg a bunch of people in costumes punching each other for very convoluted reasons, and saying quips and exchanging banter all the while.
This is in the trailers so not really a spoiler, but Panther Man and Spider Boy are both handled pretty well. Parker as a kid in a world full of grown up super bros almost justifies the re reboot.
I don’t know, everyone is always telling me I’m supposed to enjoy the DC tv shows for embracing the lunacy of comic books, but I actually cannot bear to look at how horrible the costumes are in those shows so I can never get very far. The Marvel movies are basically exactly the kind of pulp nonsense I enjoy. Actually, now that SHIELD has introduced weird elder gods, nazi mysticism, transhumanist cults and tons of marginal characters with only moderately useful super powers, it might actually be my favorite MCU thing out there.
Anyway, if you are hoping for anything of substance in Civil War it probably isn’t there. AFAIK they borrowed nothing other than the title and basic concept of iron man punching captain america. The drama in the movie is entirely spun out of the consequences from other Marvel movies so it is probably a totally horrible place to start if you want to get anything out of it other than watching CGI punch itself.
KEANU does a remarkable job of taking a sketch premise and making it work over an hour and a half. It’s the most consistently engaged I can recall being in a movie theater for a long time.
Nice balance of absurd lunacy and kind of lazy lampshaded character development tropes undercut by small realistic details. Also there’s a monologue where someone tries to establish how hard he is by claiming he cut off a couple of dicks for no established reason?
“So, yeah… I guess you could say I’m a motherfuckin’… dick… taker?”
Key and Peele are just so fucking good. Real damn good.
In the process of justifying why he has George Michael queued up on his phone Key convinces a bunch of initially incredulous gangsters that Michael is a Real O.G. who killed Andrew Ridgeley to end Wham and soon they’re opening up about their childhoods to Father Figure.