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Post by teekoh on Aug 2, 2023 10:23:09 GMT -6
We watched Monsters University for the first time the other day and thought it was hilarious. Feels underrated.
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Post by wanny on Aug 2, 2023 10:59:05 GMT -6
Gosling is probably up there with my favorite comedy actors now. So dam funny
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Post by ultravisitor on Aug 2, 2023 20:22:53 GMT -6
I see what you guys mean by the editing in Oppenheimer. I was a bit grateful for that approach, though, as the first part of the movie is full of a lot of white men standing around and sounding science-y without the drama of the actual project taking place yet. Watching people talk about that stuff is really not that exciting otherwise.
I don't know how good that was. I just know I wasn't in the mood for it. Seemed more like a fall or winter film.
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Post by dij22 on Aug 8, 2023 13:22:14 GMT -6
Finally watched Les Mis.
I remember that it got a lot of shit when it came out, but I really liked it. Anne Hathaway was phenomenal.
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Post by dij22 on Aug 10, 2023 22:21:39 GMT -6
Barbie was really good. Laugh out loud funny throughout.
Margot Robbie is fantastic and Ryan Gosling should win Best Actor
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Post by munkivelli on Aug 10, 2023 22:28:10 GMT -6
Barbie was really good. Laugh out loud funny throughout. Margot Robbie is fantastic and Ryan Gosling should win Best Actor My guess is they will submit him for Supporting Actor, which should better his chances. |
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Post by Javo on Aug 11, 2023 12:41:46 GMT -6
Oppenheimer!!!! wow!
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Post by claypoolfan on Aug 12, 2023 20:30:47 GMT -6
Oh snap Asteroid City is up on Peacock
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Post by ultravisitor on Aug 12, 2023 21:49:57 GMT -6
So this movie is all sorts of fun.
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Post by nanatod on Aug 12, 2023 22:29:35 GMT -6
our one month peacock subscription ends in around 48 hours, so we plan to watch asteroid city tomorrow.
in response to claypoolfan.
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Post by munkivelli on Aug 12, 2023 22:54:32 GMT -6
our one month peacock subscription ends in around 48 hours, so we plan to watch asteroid city tomorrow. in response to claypoolfan. If you haven't, you should also check out Polite Society before your 48 hours are up. |
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Post by nanatod on Aug 12, 2023 23:20:12 GMT -6
we saw polite society at the evanston theater a couple of months ago, munkivelli.
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Post by Kamera on Aug 15, 2023 11:45:09 GMT -6
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Post by scoots on Aug 16, 2023 8:26:30 GMT -6
 This was pretty good - fell apart a bit at the end, and they should have just killed off Quill, but the Rocket element was actually incredibly moving/sad. |
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Post by venom on Aug 16, 2023 8:54:53 GMT -6
i watched Amadeus for the first time two nights ago. i knew going in that it was not supposed to be totally historically accurate. i thought it was pretty good and my attention never waned over its 3 hours.
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Post by ultravisitor on Aug 16, 2023 15:52:21 GMT -6
Amadeus is great. Salieri used to scare me when I was little.
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Post by kb on Aug 18, 2023 12:29:38 GMT -6
finally saw barbie, was awesome, made me cry. and i love that there are three "sex education" stars in it, including my babby's namesake. <3
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Post by Tweet on Aug 20, 2023 12:12:25 GMT -6
Oppenheimer was like a half hour too long but was generally good- it helped that pretty much every actor was good/great. Seemed pretty historically accurate too which I always appreciate
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Post by alady on Aug 20, 2023 13:21:30 GMT -6
Barbie was v v good. Also cried.
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Post by sthubbins on Aug 25, 2023 9:44:48 GMT -6
last night I got redacted and was going to watch Burden of Dreams, the doc about the making of Fitzcarraldo. When it ended after 6 minutes I realized I'd put on the deleted scenes bonus feature on Criterion. It's worth watching, like half of it is Klaus Kinski playing with a butterfly (it seems Werner later used this sequence in My Best Friend)
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Post by nanatod on Aug 26, 2023 18:32:01 GMT -6
Just now we watched "You are so not invited to my Bat Mitzvah" on netflix. it had a little too much adam sandler's children, and not enough adam sandler. I guess it was okay, but maybe someone who wasn't bar mitzvahed would appreciate it more.
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Post by munkivelli on Aug 26, 2023 23:14:08 GMT -6
Just now we watched "You are so not invited to my Bat Mitzvah" on netflix. it had a little too much adam sandler's children, and not enough adam sandler. I guess it was okay, but maybe someone who wasn't bar mitzvahed would appreciate it more. I watched this tonight and surprisingly enjoyed it. The one thing that struck me as odd was the actual mother of the lead/wife of Adam Sandler playing the mother of the best friend in the film. |
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Post by claypoolfan on Aug 28, 2023 9:54:39 GMT -6
Saw Barbie yesterday finally. Great overall, the last ten minutes were amazing but man the 20 minutes or so before that were pretty rough.
I've had conversations with my five year old niece and eight year old nephew about this movie, they both said they loved it and I just don't see how a child could wrap their heads around any part of this movie other than the visuals.
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Post by munkivelli on Aug 28, 2023 10:32:27 GMT -6
Saw Barbie yesterday finally. Great overall, the last ten minutes were amazing but man the 20 minutes or so before that were pretty rough. I've had conversations with my five year old niece and eight year old nephew about this movie, they both said they loved it and I just don't see how a child could wrap their heads around any part of this movie other than the visuals. It's a PG-13 rated film, so I don't think those ages are the target audience. |
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Post by alady on Aug 28, 2023 11:08:32 GMT -6
When I saw it there were a lot of very young children (let's say under age 7) there. Truly don't understand why but they sat through it pretty well.
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Post by ultravisitor on Sept 18, 2023 11:28:53 GMT -6
The lineup and schedule are out for the film festival. Some of the tickets are on sale already, too. Just got one for All of Us Strangers. Sadly, the screening for the new Miyazaki is the same day as open house here at school.  |
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Post by Kamera on Sept 22, 2023 19:01:15 GMT -6
 Thank you, Criterion Channel. |
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Post by thebosma on Sept 29, 2023 8:23:28 GMT -6
If there’s a chance you can make it to a theater to see Stop Making Sense, you should for sure prioritize it
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Sept 29, 2023 8:39:30 GMT -6
Do you not care how impossible it seems
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Post by llamaoftime on Oct 2, 2023 7:11:47 GMT -6
I had some long plane rides this last week and watched a few movies
Ant-Man and The Wasp Quantamania- Oh man this one was so bad. The world was not very interesting nor did it make much sense to be basically a weirder Star Wars rip-off, constant CGI was a lot, and the art direction wasn't good either. The side characters got no development and yet they tried to have emotional and funny moments with them at the end without earning them that annoyed me. Jokes didn't work. The villain had weird power levels that were all over the place and constantly monologued instead of just killing the heroes which gave them time to do what they wanted to do, a trope I thought we left way in the past or were at least self aware of and this film was not at all. Just a mess, not good!
Weird The Weird Al Yankovic Story: I don't know why I thought this was going to be more of a played straight biopic but I was caught off guard almost immediately and I loved it. I've been wishing we had more fun, dumb comedies being made nowadays and this absolutely nailed exactly what I wanted. It just kept escalating too. I laughed a lot and thought the tone was great and all around enjoyed it a lot. It maybe feels like just an extended higher budget funny or die/youtube sketch but it still worked and was very entertaining.
You Hurt My Feelings: Very good! I loved the general idea and themes behind this one, something I don't feel like I've seen explored much despite that it's kind of a universal thing. I'll say that they ended up having little subplots that also tried to reinforce the theme and having those all happen at the same time as the main inciting incident was maybe a bit much (not all of them, some of it made sense), but overall I really really liked this one. Also fantastic Julia Louis-Dreyfus performance.
Knock at the Cabin: I had heard a few people I know say they liked this one way more than they thought they would, but overall reception seemed pretty mixed so I wasn't sure what to expect. Count me in the camp that liked it. I liked the general idea behind it, performances were great, and while I could maybe understand why someone might dislike the ending I actually did like it, though I didn't really want to spoilers in this post so I won't delve too deep into that. It wasn't amazing or anything, I have a few thoughts on things that could make it better on the margins, but I enjoyed watching it.
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