Honestly wanted more of the deep lore stuff on Asgard. Odin’s sordid past didn’t get enough screen time.
Thor losing the eye was honestly the first time I’ve gone “oh man they’re really actually going to wrap some stuff up here aren’t they”. Beginning of the end and all that.
Valkyrie was awesome, hope we get more of her. And hopefully Sif will show up again, seeing as how we didn’t see her untimely demise.
i think what this movie really gets is a sense of that small town community becoming an ersatz family. ebbing is a place where people never visit, nor do they leave. everyone in this town has grown up with everyone else already being here. they all know each other. and so, what's driving the main conflict and where your sympathies lie isn't just in what you think of mildred or willowby, but it's being driven by mom and dad are fighting. and, from that lens, a lot of stuff just gets murky as hell. mcdonagh puts you into the heads of these people, and shit that should be objectively horrific just....slides off.
the family aspect is especially hammered home by new black chief and penelope. to the characters, they are just completely unthinkable for kind of ugly reasons. but, to the viewer, they are also off, too. they aren't bad people, by any stretch, but their dialogue, how they interact, everything: they feel like they are from a different movie. they're stepdad and stepmom
there is a lot to be said about grief and loss in this movie, but that shit is raw and the movie wears it completely on it's sleeve, no matter how painful it may be. there is some beauty in it, but it is fleeting. mildred is more concerned with righteous fury, and the movie really wants you to examine what the hell that means.
the easiest way to really get what this movie is doing (and it's a lot) is to examine:
dixon, the man no one should ever root for, but we wind up doing it anyway. he is a huge piece of shit, just awful. he's a racist. he's a homophobe. he's a goddamn bully. but he's also the biggest casualty in the war between mom and dad. he's your asshole idiot brother. deep down, he just wants to do one fucking thing right, and the fact he can't has lead him to lash out at everything. he's the guy you make excuses for. how couldn't mildred see something in that?
and, i could gush a lot more about so many individual bits. there is so much behind every scene, and the more i think about it, the more i love it.
like everything with mildred's ex husband still gets me
i actively hated inherent vice and i can't even tell you why. it just went straight to my lizard brain and angried up my blood.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Inherent Vice...
I like the book
I hated the movie.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
edited November 2017
So we don't have a general theater thread (to my knowledge) so let me tell you about the play I just saw.
To support the high school students I work with I went to their last showing of a A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Some take-aways:
* The play opened with Puck performing a gangster rap.
* Oberon was dressed like Elvis but spoke/acted in the style of William Shatner.
* Nick Bottom was dressed just like Gaston.
* Lysander and Demetrius, at one point, engaged in a lightsaber duel.
And it all worked, so my hat off to those teenagers.
Not really a JL comment but since Ben wants to stop playing the Bat Punisher I feel it's best to shelve Batman for a bit wait 5 or so years and do Batman Beyond.
Show Batman is too old for this and needs to find a replacement show the world has changed so it's no longer Gotham as a microcosm, TO show things in the world in general effect Gotham and have in the past.
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AtomicTofuShe's a straight-up supervillain, yoRegistered Userregular
So we don't have a general theater thread (to my knowledge) so let me tell you about the play I just saw.
To support the high school students I work with I went to their last showing of a A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Some take-aways:
* The play opened with Puck performing a gangster rap.
* Oberon was dressed like Elvis but spoke/acted in the style of William Shatner.
* Nick Bottom was dressed just like Gaston.
* Lysander and Demetrius, at one point, engaged in a lightsaber duel.
And it all worked, so my hat off to those teenagers.
I love school theatre. I have a true and deep fondness for it.
I once saw a middle school production of The Hobbit that was absolutely incredible.
I have to say, I have no idea if this movie is going to be good or not, but I think this trailer is absolutely terribly put together. It barely communicates the plot, and it just throws things at you incoherently.
Personally I would have started the trailer with the scene at the beginning of the novel with Meg and Charles Wallace's (who, by the way, has zero presence in the trailer for some reason) midnight snack and Mrs. Whatsit coming in, with the line "Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract." before launching into the otherworldly stuff.
What I remember of the book is that it was unbelievably hamfisted and sledgehammered every point it had, and took forever to get rolling.
That mostly sums up how I feel about that trailer.
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edited November 2017
I've never read the book or really even know the synopsis. But I think I got the gist of the plot? A girl's father gets lost due to his experiments in time and space and she and her friends go looking for him. Oprah is a Timelord.
I've never read the book or really even know the synopsis. But I think I got the gist of the plot? A girl's father gets lost due to his experiments in time and space and she and her friends go looking for him. Oprah is a Timelord.
my extremely vague child-recollections of what I grasped of the plot was something like this but more trippy
The plot is not really that important, it's a real impressionistic book that spends a lot of time in the heads of the children who are a very very small part of a larger conflict that they don't really understand
All the "be a warrior" stuff makes me nervous that meg et all are going to be recruited into a bigger thing instead of just briefly brushing against it to save their dad from a great evil with the help of a few angels and then tap out
Gonna see the Killing of a sacred Deer tonight. Girlfriend is a huge Lanthimos fan and I like the first half of the lobster. We’ll see how this one goes.
Gonna see the Killing of a sacred Deer tonight. Girlfriend is a huge Lanthimos fan and I like the first half of the lobster. We’ll see how this one goes.
Maybe if it's over quickly enough you'll have time to watch a movie too.
Gonna see the Killing of a sacred Deer tonight. Girlfriend is a huge Lanthimos fan and I like the first half of the lobster. We’ll see how this one goes.
Maybe if it's over quickly enough you'll have time to watch a movie too.
Depends. I'm hoping there's also the Roasting of a sacred Deer and the Eating of a sacred Deer.
Pretty late to the conversation but I realized that I've never seen Suchet Poirot before watching the Branagh Version, only Ustinov. That was the version that was on TV a lot when I was young.
Yeah they spent money with the assumption that they had an Avengers/star wars level property on their hands.
DC? they do but there are too many hands at the wheel and no one a proper navigator
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
I feel like part of the problem is that they just assume that Marvel has already laid the foundation by making comic book movies a big deal again, and that their characters have such an assumed automatic level of cultural penetration that they're already all set. I don't think either of those things is true.
I feel like the problem is that Warner/DC isn't really interested in making... good movies? And that nobody involved, aside from sometimes the actors, has any love for the characters.
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I feel like Ben Affleck was probably more excited to play Batman than anyone who's done it (possibly excepting Adam West) and they made him want to stop after two movies soooooo yeah I feel comfortable saying the main problem is probably Warner Bros.
especially since they're literally always the problem, every time, forever
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That was fucking great.
Can it be about finding a ripe avocado?
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Thor losing the eye was honestly the first time I’ve gone “oh man they’re really actually going to wrap some stuff up here aren’t they”. Beginning of the end and all that.
Valkyrie was awesome, hope we get more of her. And hopefully Sif will show up again, seeing as how we didn’t see her untimely demise.
like everything with mildred's ex husband still gets me
there is just so much to unpack
god
i think i am seeing this again wednesday
what, just lying on the sidewalk or something?
it is...worth seeing in that I am happier for having seen it than having not seen it
I think it's a very complex and variotous failure
I like the book
I hated the movie.
To support the high school students I work with I went to their last showing of a A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Some take-aways:
* The play opened with Puck performing a gangster rap.
* Oberon was dressed like Elvis but spoke/acted in the style of William Shatner.
* Nick Bottom was dressed just like Gaston.
* Lysander and Demetrius, at one point, engaged in a lightsaber duel.
And it all worked, so my hat off to those teenagers.
Show Batman is too old for this and needs to find a replacement show the world has changed so it's no longer Gotham as a microcosm, TO show things in the world in general effect Gotham and have in the past.
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I love school theatre. I have a true and deep fondness for it.
I once saw a middle school production of The Hobbit that was absolutely incredible.
People say this about Harrison Ford constantly but I don’t really see it there either.
The rest of those points are pretty on, though.
Writers felt like they kinda didn’t know what to do with Batman outside of making him Q... except that Alfred was already Q.
I have to say, I have no idea if this movie is going to be good or not, but I think this trailer is absolutely terribly put together. It barely communicates the plot, and it just throws things at you incoherently.
Personally I would have started the trailer with the scene at the beginning of the novel with Meg and Charles Wallace's (who, by the way, has zero presence in the trailer for some reason) midnight snack and Mrs. Whatsit coming in, with the line "Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract." before launching into the otherworldly stuff.
That mostly sums up how I feel about that trailer.
my extremely vague child-recollections of what I grasped of the plot was something like this but more trippy
Maybe if it's over quickly enough you'll have time to watch a movie too.
Depends. I'm hoping there's also the Roasting of a sacred Deer and the Eating of a sacred Deer.
Yes, especially on the big screen.
It's not for everybody, and I think it worked better for me the second time around, but it's got a very unique feeling/tone that really worked for me.
Some movies feel like they're high. Inherent Vice is a very specific kind of trip.
Also, it's gorgeous.
I mean for most movies it isnt
But they spent 350 million on just the movie
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DC? they do but there are too many hands at the wheel and no one a proper navigator
Armie Hammer is...good??
especially since they're literally always the problem, every time, forever