Went to see the new Springsteen movie, Deliver Me From Nowhere. This isn't your typical rock biopic. Instead of the usual life story stuff, this one focuses on the two year period (1980-1982) during Springsteen's career where he was dealing with an increasing level of fame, while also struggling with depression, anxiety, and childhood trauma. All of this led to the writing and recording of his 1982 acoustic masterpiece Nebraska. Jeremy Allen White's performance is very good, and he does a great job capturing Springsteen's mannerisms and voice, both speaking and singing. He also kinda looks like a young Bruce and even holds and strums the guitar like him. It was uncanny.
Jeremy Strong is also excellent as Springsteen's longtime manager Jon Landau.
Saw the Springsteen film this weekend, I'm a huge fan having seen him live about a dozen times and really liked it. But it is not going to be for everyone, as honestly it is a little self indulgent with respect to his personal challenges.
I think you liked Jeremy Allen White in the role more than i did, I didn't buy the mannerisms especially when performing. But he was still good.
For me Jeremy Strong and the relationship between Springsteen and Landau was the highlight.
I thought it was worth it alone for the scene of Born in the USA being recorded in the studio. I knew a few of those songs were shelved for a few years but didn't know so many of them were demoed at the same time as Nebraska. Will absolutely not be for everyone, true. Music fans will love it.
Anyone else recognize the Greta Van Fleet guitarist in the Stone Pony band? Singer was Jay Buchanan from Rival Sons.
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Was in kingston over the weekend and went to an independent theatre called 'the screening room'. Nice place!
Watched The Haunting (1963) which I'd had never seen it before. Excellent acting, terrific cinematography, good humour and serious enough subplots that make it a bit of a psychological thriller as well. Highly recommend
No it wasn't. It was the worst, most boring, pointless, do-nothing, waste-of-time, terrible-ending, POS movie I've ever seen.
That's why I called it a movie of the week. It looks like they put all their effort into making the roles of the people involved factually accurate but didn't give us a compelling story.
Frankenstein was spectacular. A perfect blend of gothic sci‑fi, fantasy, and horror, with deep philosophical undertones. It manages to bring a striking sense of humanity to the monster tale, thanks large in part to Jacob Elordi. Visually, it is stunning in every respect.
It is long, but the pacing is solid and doesn't drag. Highly recommend hitting the theatre this week to see it.
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Frankenstein was spectacular. A perfect blend of gothic sci‑fi, fantasy, and horror, with deep philosophical undertones. It manages to bring a striking sense of humanity to the monster tale, thanks large in part to Jacob Elordi. Visually, it is stunning in every respect.
It is long, but the pacing is solid and doesn't drag. Highly recommend hitting the theatre this week to see it.
It was definitely beautiful and Guillermo is worth the price for sure.
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I felt it dragged a bit. Frank went from can only say one word to this incredibly eloquent speaker at some point I had trouble getting past. Like my pubes could use some trimming as well. Frank became this enlightened empathetic character just suddenly at some point. Didn’t really explain the wanting to murder victor at the beginning.
Black Phone 2 had a surprisingly strong plot for a sequel. Really builds and expands on the first. I was skeptical but it was worthwhile.
I love the whole concept of a dream realm having potentially fatal consequences.
Like he did with Sinister, Scott Derrickson does well at creeping you out with those silent but gruesome visual sequences.
My only gripe is the mountain lake where it takes place clearly is mostly green/blue screen in a studio and used snow machines to simulate a very sad looking blizzard. You would think it would be one of the easiest location shoots to do... why not just.. go and shoot at a lake? Could even be in Colorado where the story takes place. Anything beats soulless studio backdrops.
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It was definitely beautiful and Guillermo is worth the price for sure.
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I felt it dragged a bit. Frank went from can only say one word to this incredibly eloquent speaker at some point I had trouble getting past. Like my pubes could use some trimming as well. Frank became this enlightened empathetic character just suddenly at some point. Didn’t really explain the wanting to murder victor at the beginning.
Ha, yeah, that part absolutely took some effort to suppress my disbelief.
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I didn't buy the eavesdropping on the old blind guy teaching his granddaughter what letters are with cards. From A/Eye to reading Milton [?] in a few weeks. Okay. I actually wondered if I missed something.
I was kinda into A House of Dynamite, but it suffered a complete third act collapse.
Yeah, me too. Had so much potential and then just absolutely fizzled out into nothing, thus making the entire investment you had in the story and characters a waste of time.
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Frankenstein was spectacular. A perfect blend of gothic sci‑fi, fantasy, and horror, with deep philosophical undertones. It manages to bring a striking sense of humanity to the monster tale, thanks large in part to Jacob Elordi. Visually, it is stunning in every respect.
It is long, but the pacing is solid and doesn't drag. Highly recommend hitting the theatre this week to see it.
I'm looking forward to watching this when it's on Netflix. I genuinely believe that Frankenstein is one of the best novels ever written. If anyone hasn't read it, please do. The sheer number of themes it explores is overwhelming and the vast majority of Frankenstein media come nowhere close to capturing it.
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Yeah, me too. Had so much potential and then just absolutely fizzled out into nothing, thus making the entire investment you had in the story and characters a waste of time.
Literally watch the first 30 min, and then turn off the TV.
It's a fantastic set up with fantastic actors in a deeply disturbing and realistic situation that is well researched, accurate, and cut together beautifully.
You will really enjoy the first 30 min. It's the makings of a wonderful movie.
Then turn it off. For real, not as a joke.
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They just reshoot the first 30 3 more times from different perspectives that add nothing.
No plot twist.
No learning new things.
No resolution.
When others have said "3rd act collapse" what they mean is... they never created a 3rd act. You're just left deeply unsatisfied that after such an excellent setup, there is zero payoff.
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I'm looking forward to watching this when it's on Netflix. I genuinely believe that Frankenstein is one of the best novels ever written. If anyone hasn't read it, please do. The sheer number of themes it explores is overwhelming and the vast majority of Frankenstein media come nowhere close to capturing it.
It's still amazing to me that at a party during a thunderstorm in 1816 Mary Shelly came up with Frankenstein, and Lordy Byron created the basis for Dracula.
As the wind beat against the windows and the rain churned up waves on the lake, the group spent the evening discussing the French translation of a German collection of ghost stories aptly titled Fantasmagoriana. Likely inspired by the sinister ambiance, Byron challenged each of his guests to craft his or her own tale of terror.
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I'm looking forward to watching this when it's on Netflix. I genuinely believe that Frankenstein is one of the best novels ever written. If anyone hasn't read it, please do. The sheer number of themes it explores is overwhelming and the vast majority of Frankenstein media come nowhere close to capturing it.
Go watch it in the theatre you cheap fata. It's quite beautiful on the big screen.
I thought it was worth it alone for the scene of Born in the USA being recorded in the studio. I knew a few of those songs were shelved for a few years but didn't know so many of them were demoed at the same time as Nebraska. Will absolutely not be for everyone, true. Music fans will love it.
Anyone else recognize the Greta Van Fleet guitarist in the Stone Pony band? Singer was Jay Buchanan from Rival Sons.
Jeremy Allen White did a spectacular version with Born in the USA, which is on the soundtrack, but they still decided to use Springsteen's voice in this scene.
Alright, finally saw Jurassic World Rebirth. I know I'm late to the party, but I hate going to theatres so waited.
Had a ton of fun. It's not a great movie, for every part I really enjoyed there was an equal amount of parts that made me figuratively roll my eyes. I'd call it a solid 6/10.
Middle of the pack for the series imo. Million miles ahead of Fallen Kingdom and Dominion, Million miles behind the first two, kind of in there with JP3 and the first World.
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Opening scene was alright. It's the usual Jurassic opening, some sort of incident gets someone killed/seriously injured/put in serious danger, but we don't get to fully see what.
Other than of course, the whole thing was caused by a goddamn snickers bar wrapper. Obvious product placement aside, come on, a ####ing wrapper takes down a facility like this? That's just lazy. At least dump coffee on a control panel if you just straight don't give a #### about writing, lol. But whatever, ignoring the cause, the scene was fun.
Totally glossed over the rest of the set up. Gotta get live samples from big dinos because of some corporate greed reason. Characters aren't set up great, but who cares we haven't gotten that outside of the first JP anyway. Let's go see some dinos.
Highlight of the movie was the ocean scenes. Awesome to see Spinosaurus again, and Mosasaur is neat. That whole sequence was good. Yeah, there's the usual JP 'innocent family stuck in the middle of it' but at least these ones weren't doing anything incredibly stupid to put themselves there, just out sailing. Daughters boyfriend didn't need to be in the movie at all though, I wish the Mosasaur got him when the boat capsized, his character arc of '####head is annoying, does one decent thing then is just kind of there for the rest of it' wasn't needed. But getting chomped would have added even more weight to the scene.
Whole middle part of the movie was meh. Titanosaurs were just kind of there, bad CGI in this part, and there were way too many of them so it just looked lame. Come on, that valley would be stripped bare like The Land Before Time if there were that many of those beasts living on that island. The sequence of the angry flying dinos was alright, seeing that guy get swallowed whole stayed with me for a few hours unlike any other death in the series, no idea why. That was cool, even though you knew from the second they were on screen that he and the short haired girl were just in the movie so nobody you care about dies.
Raft scene was fun, homage to a part of the first book that was never used yet. Really loved this part, aside from the fact that the whole scene felt way too 'safe.' If you've ever scene a Jurassic movie, you know nothing was ever going to happen to this family (Another reason I wish the boyfriend died earlier, to make me second guess that)
Not many thoughts on the Raptor+Pteradon scenes. Just some action, not bad not great.
Weakest part of the movie by a mile, the stupid D-Rex. WTF was that thing? Dinos are cool enough, we never needed to do this whole genetic mutant thing at all. It was fine with the I-Rex but that should have been it for that. But even worse, this thing looks so dumb. Like the Cloverfield monster bred with Godzilla. And it just spent most of its time standing there being really big, it was never really that threatening despite being a monstrosity. Oh and the CGI of it holding the helicopter was pretty bad.
Anywho, those long rambling thoughts and criticisms aside, I had a lot of fun with that one. I'm sure it doesn't sound like I was singing it's praises there but despite it's many, many failings, the scenes that did work for me, worked really well.
Jurassic Park is easily one of my top 3 favourite movies, but I know it'll never be touched by anything else in the franchise so I'm just happy we're still going despite how horrible the previous two movies were. Glad it went a different direction again. I'm a simple man, that movie wasn't great but I loved it. And they made Scarlett Johansson wear tight shirts most of the movie, which I appreciated.
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