No. I can't do 3 hour plus movies. Especially from a director I don't really like.
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No. I can't do 3 hour plus movies. Especially from a director I don't really like.
I'm a Nolan fan, but Oppenheimer was too talky (and I'm a big fan of dialogue) and the talking was often too low-volume relative to the rest of the sound. We streamed it and I was very active with the volume level, trying to catch everything without getting my ears blown out in the few loud scenes.
I dug Oppenheimer. One of the things I dug about Oppenheimer was the roles the women in his life played, Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh were excellent in those roles.
No doubt, but it also said aloud what no one would dare say when it was happening. Oppy became a sacrificial lamb to salve our collective conscience for what we did to Japan. To make that point with maximum impact, the storyteller needed to lay the extensive and complicated groundwork required for their audience to appreciate mankind's tendency to crucify our saviors.
It's not unlike handing down the death penalty, and then spending decades revisiting that decision. we want the visceral rush of revenge, but we also want to sleep at night. Strictly a personal opinion, but life without parole is a much harsher penalty than being put to death. I understand there are innocents on death row, but it is the system we labor under so we must be pragmatic enough to accept the imperfect judgment of imperfect human beings, or we need to be courageous enough to admit revenge may feel good (at least for a minute), but it never really solves anything so maybe we should admit that fact and move beyond the desire to seek it.
On Prime, been watching The Musketeers series (BBC production). My wife and I both enjoyed it. It respects the Dumas book, adds some believable side trips, and has a young core of musketeers. The Cardinal role is especially good - played by Peter Capaldi.
So far Prime has released only one season, but it aired for 30 episodes on BBC 2014-2016 and I hope they'll release the other seasons.
If you like swashing and buckling at ALL, it's well worth your time. I understand it may be on HULU, too, so I'll check it.
The Musketeers (TV Series 2014–2016)
7.8 | Adventure, Drama
So far Prime has released only one season, but it aired for 30 episodes on BBC 2014-2016 and I hope they'll release the other seasons.
If you like swashing and buckling at ALL, it's well worth your time. I understand it may be on HULU, too, so I'll check it.
The Musketeers (TV Series 2014–2016)
7.8 | Adventure, Drama
I'll admit it could have used some ruthless editing. I feel that way about a lot of movies lately.
Agreed. Movies are either too packed, or they're so smash-bang there is nothing to sink your teeth into.
It gets much better after the pilot. I was ready to bail out then, but I decided to stick with it and it gets really good.
The story and it's implications are fascinating. What really happened should be known and told and remembered. But this was a movie. Movies should entertain first and foremost. Documentaries should inform more than entertain. This should have been a documentary. As a movie, it was boooooring.
I wasn't board for a second, some of the best actors working today at the top of their game.IMHO
No argument here. I watched it and was fascinated by the turn of events, but it did get a little into the tall weeds with a lot of detail that could have been skipped.
Top notch performances. Absolutely. Still boooooring. The best actors in the world can still bore.I wasn't board for a second, some of the best actors working today at the top of their game.IMHO
Found Triangle (2009) on Amazon Prime, the movie I asked about 2 pages ago. Enjoyed it alot. Thanks for the help ID'ing it, y'all. Been a few years on and off looking for it LOL
On Tubi today, I watched two spaghetti western comedies, They Call Me Trinity (1971) and Trinity is Still My Name (1972). Just easy fun to watch.
On Tubi today, I watched two spaghetti western comedies, They Call Me Trinity (1971) and Trinity is Still My Name (1972). Just easy fun to watch.
Very reductive vision of art IMO. As an example, one of the best things I've seen is Kieslowski's Dekalog/Decalogue (parts from the same source material as A Short Film About Love and A Short Film About Killing). I wouldn't call it entertaining but engaging, fascinating, disturbing, highly effective and thought provoking. I could say the same for Klimov's Come and See - one of the most disturbing AND influential movies ever (not least clearly influencing Spielberg with Saving Pvt Ryan, Band of Brothers and many other films since with hand held camera 1st person POV, etc). I was never bored by these films.
I can certainly see that argument on the commercial/box office side though.
