For those who still have cable, I just saw that Run Silent, Run Deep is on KSPS this evening (9:00 pm Calgary time). This is a great movie! World War II submarine warfare with Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster, you really can't go wrong.
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I LOVE this type of stuff(huge fan of the actual mechanics of the bomb) as the movie has come closer, I've watched a boatload of stuff on Oppenheimer. That said, is it worth it to watch it on the big screen, or wait unit streaming?
A lot of political stuff but wow what a great movie.
I enjoyed barbie, and I also immediately knew when Ben Shapiro started hating the movie. It actually gives me a lot of schadenfreude to know that he hated the movie, I wish I could have seen his dumb face when they talked about the patriarchy. I don't think it was heavy-handed I think it was a fairly reasonable take on the world and was a fun couple hours. Ryan gosling stole the show imo
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Watched 1970s Airport, this movie was a huge success at the box office making over $100 mill and was nominated for 10 Oscars. It was the first disaster movie that set the rules for disaster movies that are still followed today, and started the craze of 70s disaster movies like Earthquake or Posiden Adventure. It's a very melodramatic movie and at times can feel like a soap opera but it's a great movie with a fantastic script that all comes together. The craziest part of the movie IMO was seeing just how luxurious air travel was 50 years ago. What the hell happened to flying.
Also, people are probably more familiar with the hilarious Airplane movie with Leslie Nielsen which spoofs it perfectly.
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Barbie is fun, but I didn't love love it, more strongly liked it.
I dunno, for someone who loves Lady Bird and Frances Ha, I think I may have to adjust my expectations for Gerwig. Little Women I respected more than I enjoyed and her next project is Narnia so...
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Barbie is a ####ed-up fever dream of a movie, and by god the opening scene hooked me. I felt like the only person in the theatre who even knew it was a spoof of 2001 though...
The first half hour or so had me grinning ear to ear, but the more it went on the more I felt things were falling flat. Everyone who sees it will have their own opinion and interpretation of the film's central tenets and the moral of the story, but for me it just... didn't land well. Or at least not as well as it should have, or could have. I think in that first hour or so I had already built it up to be something far cleverer than it ended up being, and my dashed expectations left me feeling conflicted.
I really liked it, but I wanted to love it.
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The entire idea that Ryan Gosling's "Stereotypical Ken" would end up brainwashing all the Barbies into domestic servitude after seeing how "great" the "patriarchy" in the "real world" was was handled in a very facile way that just didn't "hit" for me at all. The solution to the problem being America Ferrara's character just explaining to all the Barbies how ####ty it is to be a woman in the real world and tricking the Kens back into their subservient roles was just like, "Huh? Doesn't this run counter to the point you're trying to make?"
It fell back so hard on negative tropes and stereotypes of men that it was like... a satire of a satire, if that makes any sense? The Kens' entirely selfless existences in Barbieland with absolutely no agency for themselves was a horrendous dystopia. Maybe even more dystopian than Barbie's experience as a woman in the real world. It felt like a point they were trying to make but couldn't bring themselves to say.
But hey, it's a goofy movie about plastic dolls. Like I said, I think I was building it up to be something more profound than the makers intended.
Y'know what the worst part of this movie is? It's going to be a raucous success and the same sort of hapless "suits" the film satirizes—the very same idiotic Mattel execs—are going to think that making movies about all of Mattel's toy lines is a great idea. These dumb mother####ers are, without a hint of irony, going to try to make a "Mattel Cinematic Universe" out of this and it's going to fail miserably because they're too stupid, arrogant and greedy to "get it".
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Saw MI:7 over the weekend and I really enjoyed it. The run time may be long, but it certainly didn't feel like it as the movie kept me engaged throughout the entire thing. That was some top notch kick-ass entertainment IMO.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a beautiful documentary. I can't imagine loving my job that much, but I can definitely relate to loving the art of something.
One of my favorite docs. So notable, in fact, that Bill Hader and Fred Armisen did a satire of it call "Juan Likes Chicken and Rice" on their show Documentary Now! Enjoy!
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I loved barbie and Oppenheimer. They were both really good movies, but I'm mostly just really happy that there are finally good movies to see in the theater. I missed going to the movies.
I hope they both kill it in the box office numbers so that we can finally start to see the end of the superhero movie era.
Oppenheimer didn't feel like a three-hour movie to me. I was worried that it was going to drag on, but it did not feel like it had a dull moment. He packed in a lot of great content into that three hours.
I would recommend Robert J Sawyer's book on openheimer. He put in a sci-fi twist to the story, but he did his research on him.
Y'know what the worst part of this movie is? It's going to be a raucous success and the same sort of hapless "suits" the film satirizes—the very same idiotic Mattel execs—are going to think that making movies about all of Mattel's toy lines is a great idea. These dumb mother####ers are, without a hint of irony, going to try to make a "Mattel Cinematic Universe" out of this and it's going to fail miserably because they're too stupid, arrogant and greedy to "get it".
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I loved barbie and Oppenheimer. They were both really good movies, but I'm mostly just really happy that there are finally good movies to see in the theater. I missed going to the movies.
I hope they both kill it in the box office numbers so that we can finally start to see the end of the superhero movie era.
Oppenheimer didn't feel like a three-hour movie to me. I was worried that it was going to drag on, but it did not feel like it had a dull moment. He packed in a lot of great content into that three hours.
I would recommend Robert J Sawyer's book on openheimer. He put in a sci-fi twist to the story, but he did his research on him.
I thought Oppenheimer presented a very interesting take on the "great man" archetype thats been ubiquitous throughout all of American film history. Think Citizen Kane, The Godfather or There Will Be Blood. The more the men in those films thirst for and accumulate power and wealth, the more corrupt and depraved and robotic they become. Oppenheimer reaches the pinnacle of his field, but instead of pushing for never ending growth in it, pushing for the creation he helped steward into reality to more readily available for warfare. To be pushing for more powerful atomic bombs, or to his later misfortune, a hydrogen bomb. Instead, he speaks his conscience, whatever it may have been at that moment and of his guilt. In a sense, Nolan has taken a story about the 20th century and made it about the 21st- about a man without strong convictions or beliefs, who pushes the technological envelope to its breaking point and is forced to deal with the fall out by attempting to mitigate the completely foreseeable consequences of his creation after its too late. Essentially, Oppenheimer does the opposite of the characters in those other movies but the end result is the same. He he won, but at what cost?
I thought it was very engaging, quickest three hours I can remember in a theatre. What is with the music in these films though? So loud. The musical cues in All Quiet last year almost ruined the movie for me, and that was at home.
What is with the music in these films though? So loud. The musical cues in All Quiet last year almost ruined the movie for me, and that was at home.
Nolan was the real originator of this issue, I think. Others have unfortunately followed suit.
I thought it was a real problem in Dune - Villeneuve has certainly used oppressive sound (including music) to create an atmosphere but in previous movies (the border scene in Sicario, arriving in Las Vegas in Blade Runner 2049 for example) it just helps the weight of the scene without making the movie harder to watch. There's a fine line and it often involves what's going on on screen at the time, and obviously it's going to vary by audience where that line is.
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I hope they both kill it in the box office numbers so that we can finally start to see the end of the superhero movie era.
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They are both, in fact, killing it at the box office.
Barbie with $155M, best opening weekend of the year.
Oppenheimer with $80M, which is an extremely solid take for a three hour long, R-rated biopic / drama.
With superheroes and franchise movies floundering this year, I wonder if it is finally indicative of an audience shift away from those movies towards more original content.
With superheroes and franchise movies floundering this year, I wonder if it is finally indicative of an audience shift away from those movies towards more original content.
We can only hope.
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Finally got around to watching a trifecta of Mia Goth films over the weekend: Infinity Pool, X, Pearl. Pretty sure she is my favorite actress right now. Incredible performances in pretty much everything she partakes in. Really enjoyed X and Pearl in particular. Can't wait to see part 3 when it comes out.
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