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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
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The shadow cast had better props and more nudity than we we did back in the 90s, but I felt that we had more heart and fun with it. I thought that the Janet was particularly poor, but then it is hard not to be biased when you married a Janet impersonator.
I won the award for the audience member best dressed as Magenta. That is always a competitive category as it is a fairly easy costume to recreate that is sexy but not too revealing. My friend said that there were a couple of Magentas posing and sticking their tits out trying to be sexy and then they saw a six foot guy in a dress shorter than theirs and their faces just dropped.
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The broad strokes are the same: parent goes off to live the super life, the other maintains the mundane, a secret is discovered, everyone comes together for the big punch up at the end. It feels like a rehash but could have worked, turning Mr. Incredible into the dad and Elastigirl into the hero, but there were problems. Elastigirl was too competent. Her conflict was all external, and it never felt like anything was underpinning it. I enjoyed Mr. Incredible’s story more though it was more boilerplate working-father-struggles-to-be-a-good-dad. It didn’t feel either like that theme peaked at the climax either. He just got better at parenting and then went on an adventure.
It’s fine, but I feel kind of bad saying I enjoyed Ant-man and the Wasp more when we get there plus Marvel movies a year and one Pixar.
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I rewatched Call Me By Your Name a couple of nights ago. My uncle walked out, « what’s the point to this movie? » but both my aunts liked it. Maybe it’s a chick flick and I didn’t realize it. That final scene with the dad still hits me like a freight train.
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A tremendously subtle and moving film.
The father/son sofa talk is such a stunningly written piece of dialogue.
What also impressed me aside from the level of acting presented here is the incredible detail in the sounddesign of the film.
In each scene there is a well above average attention to the texture of sound...creating a living and breathing enviroment.
While "Nebraska" is still my favorite film of recent years, this definitly hits my top5.
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*stirs the pot* The King Diamond scene was better than any John Mayer scene could ever hope to be.Ancient_of_MuMu wrote: I watched Clerks 2 for the first time last night.
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I'm sure that COULD be the setup for a good movie, but that's not what happened here at all. Avoid.
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I wasn't totally sure how I felt about it while watching it, but it really grew in my mind in the days that followed. The end had a powerful message: Sometimes the only way to reconcile despair and hope is by acceptance.
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I don't remember when was the first time I saw the film. It was probably in High School, in history class, though I think I had already seen it on TV before that. I must have seen it several times, over the years, and each time with a little more perspective and life experience. And after watching other, perhaps not as well-known films.
And while it remains a great film, I find myself increasingly agreeing with its critics. It is very much a film that exists inside the standard Hollywood "WWII as the good war" (And America the good guys) paradigm, even when it intends to oppose it. It's still a film in which the good guys kills dozens of dudes and enemy tanks, even if some of these good dudes die during the film.
I'm thinking of the "modern day" scenes and the waving American flag at the end but also of the unrealistic, higher-purporse way some characters talk about the natura of war and the mission they are involved. Ryan refuses to be saved, and he's ahistorically meant to be saved, after the very upright and Super General Guy reads a letter by Abraham Lincoln. He reads it, after peeking out of the window, with the US Flag by its right. When the film is almost reaching its end and aerial support comes, the Captain compares them to angels and dies an honourable, proud death. And all German soldiers wear ahistorical shaved head.
These scenes and momemnts exist in the film and form a great thematic part of it. They are presented alongside critical and gruesome scenes, scenes which are the best of the film. But these scenes do not make the nationalistic or Hollywoodian aspects go away, they are still a part of the work itself and cannot be ignored. That the film shows up a guy being blow up by his own self-made explosive does not change the fact that the mission is presented as commendable, not so much because it's righteous but because it's in line with American values.
Just a quick thought. If the Reddit guys caught me, they would use it as proof my Terraforming Mars list is wrong and I'm a blistering idiot. AND WE CAN'T HAVE THAT, CAN WE?
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Erik Twice wrote: I saw Saving Private Ryan again after a few years.
And while it remains a great film, I find myself increasingly agreeing with its critics. It is very much a film that exists inside the standard Hollywood "WWII as the good war" (And America the good guys) paradigm, even when it intends to oppose it.
Ah. You have discovered the problem with every Spielberg film, post-Schindler's List. He's so conscious of the message he's trying to convey (GOOD triumphs over evil! Even when it's a guy lost in an airport.) that they all descend into this sappy, treacly mess that makes you feel like "...and they all lived happily ever after." is embossed at the end of every screenplay.
Take Bridge of Spies, for example. Decent retelling of the Gary Powers story, good atmosphere in much of the film, wonderful performances by Mark Rylance and Sebastian Koch, passable performance by Hanks... spoiled by utter melodrama at the key moment of the film (the exchange of the, y'know, SPIES on the, y'know, BRIDGE) and at the end, Donovan comes home to his wife and kids, the sun is out, they have a white picket fence and they all lived happily ever after! Save me, jeebus. It's like he decided that he was done doing realistic or grim endings with List and the only undercurrent of emotion allowed at the end was the main characters wondering how big that stack of pancakes was going to be the next day. Ugh. What happened to the storyteller who left you thinking EVEN AFTER happy endings, like in Close Encounters? If he did that film today, Neary would come home after a couple years with the aliens to be reunited with his wife and kids before taking them back with him to the second star to the right.
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