One of my students has to watch this, so I figured I’d watch it as well.
Pretty nice movie. Was especially pleased by the French actors: too often French acting in American movies is painfully bad, as if the director’s orders went through three translators before being passed on to amateur actors. Here, every character is 100% believable, from the ex-cop to the defiant students who refuse to snitch to the racist bar owner to the ghetto kids. I could see some American viewers be confused by the differences tho, and think like “that’s not what an ex-cop looks like!”
Also loved how down to Earth the movie’s characters are.
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Paddington 2
Recently hearing this is one of the best movies ever and don’t even need to watch the first one. For me it was just bright and happy.
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Willow
Disney+
Sometimes it’s fun to watch older stuff. Was surprised at how bad the special effects were. Definitely didn’t age well, but still fun to watch.
Disney+ also has a teaser for the upcoming sequel.
I wouldn’t call it one of the best movies ever made but it is absolutely brilliant and is one of the best of the year.
Encanto - It was mediocre.
Man, I’m so tired of sequels coming out 20-40 years after a standalone movie (or one that was intended to be). Except for the Bladerunner sequel (and maybe the third Bill&Ted film) they’re mostly soulless cash grabs.
Dune - I think it would’ve worked a lot better as a tv series as it literally felt like 3 tv episodes taped together. Visually it was flawless.
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Rewatched Identity for the nth time. Good stuff.
Groundbreaking special effects for the time, but yeah, looks dated now. One of my favorite Val Kilmer movies. It’s like they took his character from Top Gun and handed him a sword. Warwick Davis is always good too.
Trying to remember what I watched…
Killdozer (1974). A bulldozer comes to life and starts killing its operators after coming into contact with a meteor. I believe it was the first of the “possessed vehicle movies.”
The Naughty Stewardesses (1975). Unsurprisingly turned out to be softcore porn. Three of the four women in that movie are smokin’ hot.
World on a Wire Part 2 (1973). Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s science fiction TV movie. It’s pretty good, even if you can’t help but smirk at a “future” that involves typewriters and rotary phones. I was reading that the same novel was adapted a second time as 1989’s The Thirteenth Floor.
Scream, Blacula, Scream (1973). Not bad, aside from the fact that Pam Grier has almost nothing to do in that movie. Neither do we get the chance to see her naked.
I might have watched another movie but I can’t remember what it was.
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The French Dispatch
Very nice perfectly Wes Anderson, nearly every scene is like a beautiful piece of visual art with vignettes that make up the story, only wish is that there was more Bill Murray.
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but there’s a little bit, right!?
No love for Spider-Man?
Watched it last night with my boys.
Really good and emotional as well as fun.
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I plan to see it this week. My schedule really sucks nowadays (“nowadays” being the last 3 or 4 years more or less). I have a large split shift in my uni classes on Wednesday so I might sneak off to see it during that 4 hour gap when most other people will be in the office and I can see it in a relatively uncrowded environment.
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Christmas time movie Diehard despite what Bruce Willis says.
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The Power of the Dog, Benedict Cumberbatch, a WOW WTF happened I’m a bit speechless and no way anyone could see any of this coming. Award winner.
Also Kirsten Dunst and Kodi Smit-McPhee who is also good.
I’m not saying anything except nothing in the movie is expected and this article explains it but DON’T read it or anything about the movie until after the movie or at least until reaching the very end of the movie The Power Of The Dog: Ending Explained! Who Killed Phil? Why Rose Sells The Cowhide? | FilmyHype
The whole set up, advertising, everything seems so nonchalant, but the movie is not.
I will see this one soon. I love Jane Campion.
Well, the book’s been around since the 1960s, so not really expecting any surprises.
Huh? Everyone’s read the what book?
Hell the Bible’s been around like 2000 years and people still get surprised at movie versions, those that haven’t read the book and even those that have read the book.
Anyway it’s a good movie
Are you saying the story departs significantly from the book? 