I saw The Lighthouse last night and I can’t stop thinking about it... definitely isn’t gonna be for everyone but I absolutely loved it. Highly recommend
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The Lighthouse was incredible top to bottom.
Gotta be my favourite of the year.
Planned to go see The Lighthouse this weekend but no showtimes.
Ford vs Ferrari was excellent. Damon and Bale were both in fine form. I was a bit worried they’d make it a movie about US overcoming odds to defeat the evil and overconfident Italians but they portray Enzo and Ferrari as a tough but fair competitor, even if they take a few humorous shots at them.
Really it’s about Shelby and Ken Miles overcoming the vast overconfidence and incompetence of Ford, their red tape and bureaucracy, for the sake of building a pure racing car. Quite long at a full 2.5 hours but never felt like it was dragging.
As with any “based on truth” film I’m sure they took liberties but it was entertaining and heartfelt. Some of the best racing scenes I’ve ever seen in a theatre. Better than Rush for sure and I thought that film did a great job.
A movie that isn’t a tent pole blockbuster that truly needed to be seen on the big screen. And it was friggin loud in the theatre I saw it in. It felt like you were there. They portrayed the rush of being in a supercar so well.
Now if you’ll excuse me I have this strange desire to play some project cars 2.
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Doctor Sleep is great and I can't fathom why it is flopping. It will be a word of mouth cult classic at some point though, guaranteed.
For a story that started as someone asking Stephen King "what happened to Danny after The Shining?" at a Q&A, they really put together something that stands on it's own. I really liked the dynamic between the good guys and the bad guys, made for a very tense watch.
It's unfortunate they made the villian look like a patchouli vendor at a music festival. I blame the stupid hat for the box office returns.
I'm probably going to torture myself by reading the book and letting the blue lady back into my mind....
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I’ll do my worst movies next.
I think we will need to start a separate thread for these. Maybe 2 or 3 weeks from now?
I'm normally have a tough time with my own recency bias for decade-long lists, but this decade the films have been progressively worse over time, so I don't imagine it will be a factor.
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I flew transatlantic yesterday (or 2 days ago?) and watched Parasite and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Two great films that killed about 5 hours of the flight, and felt like time was flying.
I probably preferred the Tarantino flick because I enjoyed the era and the actors. But both excellent.
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Can't have a best movies of this decade list without Spotlight.
I watched it when it first came out because of the hype, and while well done from a topic perspective, it's no Shawshank. Personally I wouldn't put it in my top 100 movies of all time. No special story telling, acting, script, action, so it really comes across to me as just an important topic movie.
It Chapter 2 was rather disappointing. Out of place jokes and felt it like it focused more on lame jump scares.
Didn't feel at all like the It Chapter 1 uncomfortably terrifying scenes.
Felt the same way, but still enjoyed it.
I think for Chapter 1, a killer alien clown hell bent on tormenting children is much scarier than tormenting adults. They needed to find a way to translate that terror to adulthood without shifting the tone of the movie. They didn't suceed, but that seems like a very difficult thing to do.
Went to see Knives Out this afternoon, and it's excellent. Fun and unpredictable with solid writing and a stellar cast. It's basically a modern Agatha Christie style whodunit. Reminded me a bit of 1985's Clue, but not nearly as silly.
You can tell that the cast clearly had a lot of fun making it. Daniel Craig steals every scene he's in.
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