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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
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Dredd is like watching a jacked up, grimdark dudebro version of a comedy.
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I second both Ikiru and High and Low.Erik Twice wrote: I didn't like Ran. It felt the excesses of previous films were all much stronger in it, like Mifune's overacting.
I should watch some of Kurosawa's non-Samurai movies. Any recommendations?
I'll also throw in Throne of Blood. It's samurai, but it's actually MacBeth told with samurai, so not quite the same.
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Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse is amazing. I enjoyed seeing it in the theater the first time, but I somehow remembered it as a long movie and I'm not often in the mood for a movie that goes over two hours. But this one actually clocks in at just 1:45 hours, and only seems longer because the fast pace allows the movie to cover more story. The animation is great. The voice acting is great. The music all falls outside my usual preferences, but works great in this movie. There is considerable humor, plenty of action, actual character development, and the whole range of human emotion.
I like to laugh, and some people even consider me to be a witty guy, with darkly funny observations about whatever is happening around me. But I have largely avoided modern comedy movies because they often strike me as rarely funny and mostly just awkward. And that is all probably just a rationalization for why I would rather watch other genres. Anyway, I finally saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and it was better than I expected. I avoided it for a long time because I am ambivalent about both Jason Segel and Russell Brand. They both strike me as equal parts annoying and funny, though Segel was generally fine in How I Met Your Mother. I'm a big fan of Kristen Bell, but she generally didn't get to be funny in this movie because she's kind of the bad guy. Mila Kunis surpassed my expectations, mostly based on her work on The '70s Show. The whole vampire musical thing was awful and daring and yet somehow just barely managed to work for me. The melody even reminded me in a good way of the Chan Poling song I Don't Want to Kill Anymore. Anyway, the whole movie was highly relatable, because most of us have been through a tough breakup. I even have a close friend who fled to Hawaii after a breakup and ended up living there for over a decade.
I Love You, Man was also enjoyable to watch. I didn't actually find it very funny, but it made me smile a lot. The gay subtext was played for obvious laughs, over and over. But the Jason Segel/Paul Rudd bromance had real friendship chemistry, as did the relationship between Rudd's character and his fiance. Speaking of said fiance, it was personally eerie watching Rashida Jones in this movie, because she had the same hairstyle as my girlfriend did when we first started dating, and there is a general strong resemblance to my girlfriend, right down to exact skin color. Rudd's sunny but awkward performance anchors the entire movie, but the supporting cast was loaded with talent as well: Jane Curtin, Jon Favreau, Jaime Pressly, JK Simmons, and even Lou Ferrigno playing himself.
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It's a good movie. Ron Howard and the cast do a good job, and the movie is straightforward but entertaining. I seem to recall reading that they did a blue million zero-gee trajectory airplane rides to film the zero-gee right. I also recall reading that none of the effects were stock footage.
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I'm very curious whether Tom Cruise's "shot on the ISS" space movie will be comparatively cheaper and better looking than A13. If he actually pulls it off anyway, it would be an amazing display of method acting
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RobertB wrote: The early-evening after-supper cinema, suitable for my mother-in-law, settled on Apollo 13.
If you want more on the subject catch the podcast 13 Minutes to the Moon which covers Apollo 11 in season 1, Apollo 13 in season 2. Very well done, particularly if you're an engineer as it gets into (in particular) a big part of the process engineering that allowed such a grand project to occur with very limited toolsets. Interviews with "bit" players that were thrust into key positions on short notice.
Also, apolloinrealtime.org/ has a complete recording of the entire Apollo 13 mission, that you can listen to in pieces or over one entire week if you're completely crazy. It is running live right now, 42 hours into the mission. But you can start it wherever you like. It's coming up on the part where someone says "we're bored to tears down here."
The film takes some liberties for the obvious reason, but it does make for a pretty solid rendition of what happened in the big picture. Hearing it running in realtime on the web site is pretty damn cool. I was commuting with it in the car radio for a bit last year before the pandemic hit.
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It still holds up nicely, and should be fertile ground for him to dig in a little deeper on film vs reality. I'll have to check out that recording, that's the primariest of sources.
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Not Sure wrote: my son has a school project of "compare a US History event with a film version of it"
Oof. I'll bet that comes up with some terrifying disparities. Here's hoping someone chooses Blackhawk Down.
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