I watched Wild for the 3rd time. I would give it 5/5. Also, I have that Simon & Garfunkel song stuck in my head.
I watched Wild for the 3rd time. I would give it 5/5. Also, I have that Simon & Garfunkel song stuck in my head.
"Sometimes dead is better." ~ Jud Crandall
Oh and this is really good:
Thin Red Line is Malicks most accessible film as it's basically just a Malicky war film.
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I just saw Collateral Beauty, which is mainly about grief but covers other parts of life as well. The cast includes Will Smith, Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet, Naomie Harris, Edward Norton (it seems I dislike every character he plays...), Michael Pena, and Keira Knightley (has her head always been that strangely shaped?). I quite liked this.
This is the second Helen Mirren movie I've recently seen (the other being The Good Liar). I'll just say this once and then move on: she gives me certain...conflicting feelings.
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Just watched An American Werewolf In London for the first time since the mid-80s.
A few takeaways:
1) David Naughton is...not a good actor.
2) Hey! Rik from The Young Ones!
3) The number of songs referencing moons etc. in the soundtrack is embarrassing - we get it, we get it - especially Van Morrison's Moondance when David and Nurse Price were getting familiar, which was downright uncomfortable.
4) The dream sequence still holds up.
5) I enjoyed this movie a hell of a lot more when I was 15.
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Thin Red Line kicks ass. It should've won Best Picture. I wish I could see the original like 6 hour cut.
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Amazon Prime, had to rent it for $3.99. Not sure if it was worth it though... I mean I guess it was alright. That ending is fucking bananas.
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So I was (fortunate) enough to get to seen Bruce McDonald's new film, Dreamland, early, and "attend" a livestream Q and A with the filmmakers and cast, which was an infinitely better experience than watching the film was. I have no idea what this movie was supposed to be. For those who have seen McDonald's earlier film, Pontypool, and watched the post credits Coda, this film was basically a Pontypool sequel based on that. And I was excited for that idea because I loved that Coda...but the film is just an incoherent mess. Stephen McHattie, who I really like, is genuinely quite awful in this movie. There's not of his usual fire or menace to his performance. Lisa Houle from Pontypool gets like nothing to do. Henry Rollins was okay. His character was pretty dumb, so it's hard to judge. The two best performances in the film were Juliette Lewis and whoever plays her vampire brother and the entertainment quality of the movie immensely picked up whenever they were on screen. Shame they're in the movie so little.
But as for what the movie is, I don't even know. It's tough to follow what's happening and not in that its subtle and ambiguous way that I like, but in that incoherent mess kind of way. Like I get that it's all supposed to be like a dreamworld, but it's all so forced and not really executed that well...other films have pulled of that kind of atmosphere far better like Marc Fosters Stay and Richard Ayoade's The Double. There was some entertaining stuff in the last few minutes because it's like they really had no idea how to end it, so they just went crazy. Visually, it wasn't even that interesting yet it seemed like McDonald was trying to be really visually interesting and none of it landed for me.
The worst crime this movie commits is that's it's boring. I didn't find it engaging at all, especially with McHattie's sluglike performance filling most of the runtime. It's a shame too because of how much I love Pontypool that I was hoping for something totally different yet still entertaining. Instead I got 90 minutes of general boredom. A few people in the chat for the Live Q+A were saying it was better than Pontypool. I think those people were on the dope.
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Just watched "Arkansas" which was a decent flick. Lots of "Star Power" in this. Vince Vaughn, The "Other" Hemsworth brother and John Malkovich. Crime drama centered around drug dealing by the "Dixie Mafia". I suppose I'd give it a 3.5 of 5 rating. It's a $5.99 rental on DTV
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
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The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
Watched Arkansas also. Worth seeing because of the actors but a forgettable movie. It needed the story to go somewhere if that makes any sense.
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I can't conceive of you not loving (if the word is applicable) A Hidden Life or Days of Heaven.
Yes. And I am planning to write one of those endlessly long reviews bears are notorious for.
But so far here's the shortest review I've ever written:
Now bears officially have one more favorite director.
The end.
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bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
do you guys remember that feeling... when you're hungry and finally come to a big dinner, with the table all set will all kinds of fantastic dishes? And you sit down, put a napkin on your lap, get a fork and a knife, and there's that smile of anticipation and bliss on your face? That's what bears look like now.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
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bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!