Timothy Olyphant has now played a Marshall in 4 series: Deadwood, Justified, Fargo, and The Mandalorian.
That’s an awesome career approach to managing typecasting
He is just simply excellent. His slow burn, crazy eyed performance in Deadwood was amazing. When Swearengen was indicating it was Bullock that was the guy people should be concerned about, it was marvellous. Then to build on that. Every time a Marshall appears, I look for no less than Timothy Olyphant. As Locke correctly notes, the man is a treasure
He did half the music, the IRL scenes. It's pretty standard stuff but I enjoyed it.
Trent Reznor did the other half, which was OK.
Just saw it. Loved it !
The jazz stuff Jon Batiste did balanced accessible and improvisational, plus hinting at what he would have listened to, which is impressive
As for the Trent Reznor and co-composer, that’s a really challenging thing to do, composing music for that situation, a soul leaving its body and finding itself in its next location. The music has to be ethereal, and how it is coloured additionally has to support something that everyone watching basically has to imagine and visualize, and feel correct emotionally
I have loved movies that in my view co-star music - loved Sweet and Lowdown , that is a great example where Howard Alden created for the character a Django Reinhardt era gypsy jazz guitarist with a unique sound
Soul is a tremendous achievement. Music aside, they created a narrative for creation, development and maturation, and progression of souls, which involves some embracing of imagination on the part of the viewer.
I wonder how many people will appreciate it for what it is. It is one of those movies that can inspire conversation, and where music that simply seems to fit actually checks a lot of boxes
Snuck in under the wire for 2020 and was one of the better films of the year I'd say.
I saw a neat review that pointed out: "The casting against type was one of the film's many coups or strategic maneuvers - it reinforced the theme of the normalization of rape culture." All the men were prototypical goofy/loveable/dorky actors.
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A group of 4 office workers bet a month's salary on who can stay in the 15+ the longest without going outside. A dark comedy all filmed in Calgary. Enjoyed it again just as much as I remember.
A group of 4 office workers bet a month's salary on who can stay in the 15+ the longest without going outside. A dark comedy all filmed in Calgary. Enjoyed it again just as much as I remember.
The quality in what regards? The animation is only getting better which each release, and the stories are not being rushed or mass-produced.
This is a personal preference but my only knock on the movie is the great before was visually pretty meh. They went for a simple style but I thought it was bland. The visuals in the real world were amazing. The lighting especially was outstanding.
Watched Sound of Metal last night, great movie. Amazing job by the lead actor Riz Ahmed, who is on screen for almost every second of the movie. The sound design of the movie is really well done as well. Really made it feel like you are in his head.
A couple movies that surprised me that are both on Prime:
The Winning Season (2009):
I was expecting some run-of-the-mill underdog story, but with Sam Rockwell in it, I thought 'what the hell'. Basically, a burned out a-hole coach takes a job coaching girls high school basketball. You can write the rest.
I still can't tell if this is supposed to comedy or drama, but it's an odd mix that doesn't really work. However, when it does work there's a pretty good film that's trying to do something beyond another Remember the Titans.
The Water Diviner (2015):
This seemed like VOD fodder, but with Russell Crowe in it and directing I thought 'what the hell'.
It's one of those films where you expected a 1/5 but got a 3/5. A burned out father goes and look for his presumed dead sons after WWI.
Maybe it's because I'm now a father and am a sucker for sentimentality, but the tone of this movie is really great. It doesn't glorify war, there's no good guy in war, very few 'hoo-rah' moments, but still, the film feels like a sweeping adventure piece... albeit with a pretty meandering/pointless romantic subplot. There are not nearly enough true adventure movies made anymore so kudos to Crowe for trying.
This is a personal preference but my only knock on the movie is the great before was visually pretty meh. They went for a simple style but I thought it was bland. The visuals in the real world were amazing. The lighting especially was outstanding.
As an aside, if you thought Soul was kind of blah check out "Over the Moon" on Netflix. While obviously not as technically impressive as a Pixar flick, the art design is colorful and really pops, it's got great songs like a Disney movie, and it held my boys' attention much better as it's more exciting and visually interesting. It also has a pretty good message attached to it about love and letting go.
(I also liked it more than Soul too)
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Soul is the most un-Disney Pixar movie. It loses a star for poor pacing, but overall a terrific message on a serious topic done with whimsy as only Pixar can. Quite surprised to learn in the credits that it was scored by Reznor and Ross; the music was subtle and brought an understated energy to the film, really lifting the whole thing
Loved it. Tense, but not in a brutal way like a lot of prison centric films. Mainly focused the slow, methodical, frustrating process of planning escape without arousing suspicion.
A nail chomper at times, as the consequences of getting caught are always back of mind.
Say what you want about Radcliffe, but the guy can act his face off, as well as his cast mates in this.
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