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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
Still, it is a fine farewell to Ford (and seeing the abysmal box office, a farewell to all things Indy) so as a capstone of 40 years of films it's worth a watch.
Then there is Transformers...Way of the Beast? Beast Wars? whatever which is a BLAST. They take all the Bay stuff, run it through a normal person filter to slow down the CGI and the action edits, and slap an OG transformers skin on all of it. It's silly fun and actually feels more like an Indy film than Dial of Destony in parts. Not all the great OG transformers are in this, but enough of them are to make it sing. Plus it heralds a crossover event that would make Godzilla vs Kong feel quaint.
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dysjunct wrote: That’s too bad about Indy. It would be ideal to give him the James Bond treatment; recast with a new Indy every 10 years, tell new stories.
Possibly , but if they do, I hope they keep it rooted in the interwar era - that 1930s time period is perfect for this sort of character and would pay homage to the original.
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THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979). Palette cleanser. The kid has no knowledge of muppets so this was pretty great. This is a fantastic movie that 100% holds up. What a treat, although I appreciated the Steve Martin cameo more than she did. The verbal jokes are great, the visual jokes are great (Kermit riding a bike e.g.) and the plot rolls along without a dull moment. I have an extremely vague memory of seeing this in a drive-in with my parents, I would have been about 5yo, and when Animal swallowed the mega-gro pills and popped through the roof I was absolutely terrified.
The muppets are one of the most criminally underused properties in Hollywood. I saw some wag online positing a muppets Beauty and the Beast remake, where everyone is a muppet but the “beast” is a conventionally attractive human man, who everyone thinks is hideous, and when Belle kisses him, he turns into a muppet. How is this not a thing already?
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The cinematography was great, and I got to see all these actors in amazing makeup, so that I didn't know who they were at first. I didn't realize that was Emily Blunt until I went to IMDB later. Also, wait--that was Florence Pugh playing the super naked commie mistress. The IMAX was impeccable, but it was mostly talking heads and the Trinity test. There is some good plotting, and many, many scenes of Oppenheimer looking anguished.
I would say it is a fantastic movie for folks that like this kind of movie, but the theater today felt like it was filled with folks who, I think, wanted Inception or Batman and were cruelly denied.
But good for Nolan for using IMAX to get people into theaters.
I had to pee so bad for the last five intense minutes, I stood up and walked from the middle of the row to the entrance ramp, but standing alleviated the agony enough that I could watch from the sidelines. I was really tired and only dozed off very briefly, so I'd say it was pretty engaging, but still three hours long. I was in the theater from 2:30 to 6:00.
It was an important movie because I had totally forgotten that the nuclear arms race was terrible.
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Last Podcast on the Left just wrapped a five-/six-episode run about the Manhattan Project, so I'll be finishing that instead of seeing the Oppenheimer flick. The only things I know about Greta Gerwig are that she voiced Pony in the Adult Swim show "China, IL" and that she apparently recorded a sketch for Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio that wound up too racy for the station to air. If I ever see him at an event of some sort, I want to ask him about that, but I'm not going to watch Barbie for clues.
*"chorfs" = Chaos Dwarfs
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The concept of Battle Royalle is that an entire high school class from Japan has been selected for a brutal competition on an island where there will be only one survivor. Each contestant gets a duffle bag of food, water, and a random weapon or other convenient item (like a bulletproof vest or binoculars). Everybody wears a collar with small explosive device and tracking unit. The device will explode if it gets removed, or if the contestant is in a danger zone at the wrong time. There is an extensive PA system on the island, so that the military unit running the game can periodically broadcast announcements about who has died recently, and which zones will be danger zones at specific upcoming times. If nobody has won within three days, all of the collars will detonate. This is a good premise for a board game or a one-shot rpg, and very definitely the inspiration for The Hunger Games franchise.
So how was the movie? I liked it. I am too jaded to be disturbed by the extensive carnage in this movie, but I'm sure it was a bit shocking for audiences in 2000. There were more than a few flashbacks, in an effort to make the deaths of various supporting characters more meaningful, but flashbacks could only do so much when there are over three dozen deaths onscreen. Certain characters have traumatic backgrounds that tend to make them more resilient in the game. At the end of the movie, there is a flashback showing many of the young contestants at a high school basketball game, with everybody happy and excited, plus a shot of a class picture in sepia tone. Battle Royalle is a bold movie that really swung for the fences, and it's possibly a very good movie that just didn't quite overcome my cynicism. I think I saw a version that was dubbed in English (really, all non-silent movies are dubbed, if you think about it), and it was done so well that I barely noticed.
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Shellhead wrote: Finally saw Battle Royalle (2000)
It is also, of course, the inspiration for battle royale video games, of which there are many. And features Beat Takeshi, of Takeshi's Castle (here, Most Extreme Elimination Challenge) fame.
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