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A decent thrill ride of sorts, and better than most Stephen King adaptations, but I don't think I'll care to see the sequel.
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I saw It as well and I pretty much agree with what's here. I thought it was somewhat entertaining but not really scary ("It Follows" which I saw recently was much more horrific). It is MUCH better than the miniseries though. I rewatched that last week in preparation - well, just the first half that parallels this new movie - and it was actually pretty bad. Tim Curry was solid, but it was very dated and felt cheesy.
I rewatched All the President's Men for like the 10th time this weekend, that's really one of my favorite films of all time. It's Hoffman and Redford at the top of their game, excellent writing, and fantastic direction. I wish the ending was a little less abrupt, but otherwise it's perfect.
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It wasn't my usual Midnight Madness fare but well worth attending. Director and cast Q & A was nice.
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Watched this HBO movie last night and was pretty impressed and entertained. It's the story of a Russian man who works in an outdated and crumbling nuclear enrichment facility sometime in the late 80's and what happens to him after he is exposed to a massive dose of radiation when one of the ill maintained pieces of equipment fails.
It was directed by Scott Burns who has more writing credits to his name than directorial but does a great job of evoking the gritty and rundown feel of Moscow in the age when the Soviets were waning and the gangsters were waxing in power. He also lets in some moments of humor to lighten the mood from time to time which help to enhance the movie.
All the performances are solid. I was impressed with Rahda Mitchell as the wife of the doomed man. I think she did a very good job of conveying her love for her husband without it being overly sappy. The best performance though was by Oscar Isaac as the bumbling small time hood, Shiv. You may remember him from The Force Awakens where he played Po Dameron the X-wing jockey.
The movie certainly didn't end the way I expected.
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I find that although Aronofsky's movies are impeccably made, as I get older I am less and less curious to unravel a director's elaborate metaphors, even when they're reasonably straightforward. By 1/3 of the way through the movie I found myself thinking that I wish he'd just get to the part where he wraps up and gives us some clues about what the whole thing meant so I could get to repiecing the film together in my head.
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It felt disturbingly relevant, and supposedly influenced Star Wars: Rogue One. It felt surprisingly modern and held our continuous attention. I guess the bleakness and futility of the resistance is what Rogue One drew upon.
"The Battle of Algiers" is "a training film for urban guerrillas," Jimmy Breslin declared on TV in 1968. Certainly it was shown by the Black Panthers and the IRA to their members, and in September 2003 the New York Times reported that the movie was being shown in the Pentagon to military and civilian experts. Times reporter Michael Kaufman wrote that Pentagon audiences were "urged to consider and discuss the implicit issues at the core of the film -- the problematic but alluring efficacy of brutal and repressive means in fighting clandestine terrorists in places like Algeria and Iraq." In short, the possibilities of torture.
www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-t...ttle-of-algiers-1967
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What we saw, in order of good to bad:
1. I, Tonya: The Tonya Harding story. Wildly inventive and entertaining. Definitely the highlight of the festival for us.
2. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women: About the origins of Wonder Women. Smart, sexy, and fun.
3. Shape of Water: Del Toro's latest is a fantastical mash-up of movie refs. Been waiting for the erotic version of ET? Here ya go. I liked this, but wasn't as in love as many others seemed to be.
4. One of Us: Documentary about people leaving Hasidic Satmar community in Brooklyn. Really well done and powerful. Coming to Netflix in October
5. Disobedience: Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weitz. Woman returns to Orthodox Jewish community after her father the Rabbi dies. Very good, but needed a bit more.
6. Mudbound: Share croppers in '40's Mississippi. well acted, but bleak, bleak, bleak. Felt long, and several scenes could have been easily cut. But the other folks we were with liked it better than me, so YMMV.
7. Scotty and the Secrety History of Hollywood: A gonzo documentary about the now 94 year old Scotty Bowman who was the center of setting up homosexual hookups for stars in the 1940's - 1970's. He's an interesting guy, but there was only about 45 minutes of material here stretched out to 90.
8. Downizing: Matt Damon gets shrunk. Wildly inventive, fun, and thought-provoking for the first half. But the second half throws it all away in a frustratingly lazy way. If the whole movie had been as good as the first half it would have easily been my #2 - maybe even #1. But I got so angered by the second half throwing away all the rules for the universe they carefully established, that I dropped it all the way down the 8th.
9. Kings: The LA riots after the Rodney King acquittals, with Halle Berry and Daniel Craig. Incredibly disjointed and a hot mess. I'm not sure why someone didn't step in and stop this train wreck from being released.
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OMG this is just right on the mark. I've liked his work, appreciated his work...but yeah, I don't think I've seen any of them more than once.
I do really like that he's very much gone off in his own direction, there were a few times when he was on the verge of becoming more mainstream.
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