Oh yeah Bridget Fonda was the ultimate “sleeper” woman, not glamorous but oh so gorgeous when you actually look.
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Deskgrunt50
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Fonda’s also great and hot in Singles.
I remember going to see Jackie Brown on Christmas Day with my sisters as a respite from spending time with some annoying relatives.
I’m a fan of the flick. But I can pretty much say that for all Tarintino’s stuff.
The Invite, hilarious, even better if you’re married and older than 30. Penelope Cruz, just wow. Entrancing.
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I hadn't seen a movie in theaters since sometime last fall (IIRC). Ventured out and watched Mandorlian, Obsession and Backrooms in June.
Mandorlian was fun, perfectly sufficient popcorn blockbuster. A good return to the big screen for Star Wars after seven years.
Obsession was excellent. Those young filmmakers knocked it out of the park.
I didn't care for Backrooms. Interesting premise, but I thought they did too little with it. Too slow in parts. And the term "creepypasta" irritates me for reasons I can't fully explain.
Mandorlian was fun, perfectly sufficient popcorn blockbuster. A good return to the big screen for Star Wars after seven years.
Obsession was excellent. Those young filmmakers knocked it out of the park.
I didn't care for Backrooms. Interesting premise, but I thought they did too little with it. Too slow in parts. And the term "creepypasta" irritates me for reasons I can't fully explain.
Saw Evil Dead Burn. Obviously meant as a gore-filled thrill ride and succeeds. While there is some subtext (the family at the heast of the movie was obviously an emotional nightmare way before the dead showed up) but not enough to slow it down.
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The Odyssey. Very disappointing. Great cast with largely unmemorable set pieces, a dull score and unconvincing fx.
Huge comedown from Oppenheimer.
Huge comedown from Oppenheimer.
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I saw "Train Dreams" on Netflix last night. Loved it.
I also watched "RIPD." Normally I hate movies with animation, special effects. But Jeff Bridges is so darn good. Yeah, sometimes I'm behind the curve, but about 13 years.
I also watched "RIPD." Normally I hate movies with animation, special effects. But Jeff Bridges is so darn good. Yeah, sometimes I'm behind the curve, but about 13 years.
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RIPD was fun.
Can you elaborate?
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The Cyclops and the Scylla (only partially seen) looked low budget/fake.
Going to go see it tomorrow night but read that all the effects were practical, no CGI.
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I'm sure you'll enjoy it more than I did.
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I keep trying to convince myself the FX on the previews are just that, previews on TV, but the only people I see raving about it are Hollywood types who need it to succeed.
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"The Odyssey". I'm reminded of my James Brown.
Are you ready for this, audience? INTENSITY! LOTS OF IT! We WILL mainline adrenalized scenes into your cerebral cortex!
Actual earned emotional moments? **** that. Why add depth when you crank the volume up to 143, add some moody, shadowy lighting, and have lot of repetitive action featuring mostly undefined or unidentifiable characters! TO THE EXTREME!
Tired of movies like this. An assault on the senses is not profound. A few "reflective scenes" where the main character questions themselves in a mumbling tone does not suddenly give the character or the movie depth. One character we know almost nothing about being sacrificed for the greater good does not mean I care about that character for the rest of the film. I don't care how many flashbacks/callbacks you do in the movie to try to make it so. You can't make me care about a character retroactively.
Let's also talk about Matt Damon. Generally, I don't have a problem with him. He's a good actor and has had a solid, versatile career. I also know Odysseus is supposed to be at least old enough to have a young adult child.
Cool, but Damon is older than I am and I am old as ****. An actor in their 40s would have worked fine. The sad truth is the scenes where Odysseus is aged are a lot closer to Damon's reality than we're comfortable thinking about.
While this movie was visually appealing at times, it is dragged down with cliched music, the aforementioned unearned reflective scenes and is just dark. I don't mean thematically dark (though it is for most of its running), I mean it is just dark. It's another trope, for at least 20 years now, for movies to get shadowy when trying to build to something serious. I blame Ridley Scott for this.
Let me also take this opportunity to **** all over the modern movie-going experience too.
I don't go to many first-run movies. Mainly because most of the choices are complete horse****, but also, because the movie experience keeps dropping in quality.
Popcorn ... let's discuss it. Even though it's always been priced as if we're living in inflationary Weimar Germany in 1922, I usually don't mind it because the popcorn is usually hot, fresh and you can get hot butter to augment it to your hearts content.
My wife and son and I were waiting in line to get some popcorn. One of the theater workers comes out with, I **** you not, an industrial sized trash can full of popcorn that they dumped into the popcorn trough for our consumption.
Now, intellectually, I know they were popping it in the back because I could see them doing it. Still, I can't think of a less appealing way to present popcorn to the consumer. I told my wife, "We're eating that?" She told me to simmer down and the popcorn would be fine.
No. It was not fine. Not for damn sight. If you've ever had a box of popcorn at a high school basketball game, that was about the quality of it. Perfectly fine at a high school basketball game because you calibrate expectations and you're usually paying a buck or two for it, but for popcorn priced at the rapacious rate they charge, I expect ****ing standards. Throw a brother a heat lamp to keep it warm. How about this new thing they invented that augments the popcorn experience called salt?
We took the lukewarm popcorn to the hot butter machine off to the side. I told my wife that this lukewarm and dry sub-Orville Redenbacher abomination would not taste very good with the liquid butter, but like lemmings in shiny metal boxes, we poured away.
In the theater, I had a few handfuls and it was the mucky wet, yet somehow still dry experience I thought it would be. I told my fam I was going to get some salt to at least make it somewhat palatable.
I go to find the salt. Now, mind you, this wasn't my first salt-and-butter station rodeo. Those stations can be gross because you get rubes who cannot butter their popcorn and/or salt it without getting their **** all over the place. I'm sure it's a pain in the ass to clean these areas.
Fine, but this theater took it to a stupid extreme. There was no salt out at all. People, it's ****ing popcorn. I expect to put coronary levels of salt on my kernels. To not have it would be like not having coronary levels of mustard for my coronary producing hot dog.
I ask the theater worker where the salt was. Clearly having fielded this question from other annoyed moviegoers, he starts in with what sounded like a corporate script kindly instructing me that I could use the salt packets that were in the condiment tray. Salt packets? Christ, have we fallen this far?
Anyway, "The Odyessy" gets a big meh. It didn't even have a shiny robotic owl in it.
Are you ready for this, audience? INTENSITY! LOTS OF IT! We WILL mainline adrenalized scenes into your cerebral cortex!
Actual earned emotional moments? **** that. Why add depth when you crank the volume up to 143, add some moody, shadowy lighting, and have lot of repetitive action featuring mostly undefined or unidentifiable characters! TO THE EXTREME!
Tired of movies like this. An assault on the senses is not profound. A few "reflective scenes" where the main character questions themselves in a mumbling tone does not suddenly give the character or the movie depth. One character we know almost nothing about being sacrificed for the greater good does not mean I care about that character for the rest of the film. I don't care how many flashbacks/callbacks you do in the movie to try to make it so. You can't make me care about a character retroactively.
Let's also talk about Matt Damon. Generally, I don't have a problem with him. He's a good actor and has had a solid, versatile career. I also know Odysseus is supposed to be at least old enough to have a young adult child.
Cool, but Damon is older than I am and I am old as ****. An actor in their 40s would have worked fine. The sad truth is the scenes where Odysseus is aged are a lot closer to Damon's reality than we're comfortable thinking about.
While this movie was visually appealing at times, it is dragged down with cliched music, the aforementioned unearned reflective scenes and is just dark. I don't mean thematically dark (though it is for most of its running), I mean it is just dark. It's another trope, for at least 20 years now, for movies to get shadowy when trying to build to something serious. I blame Ridley Scott for this.
Let me also take this opportunity to **** all over the modern movie-going experience too.
I don't go to many first-run movies. Mainly because most of the choices are complete horse****, but also, because the movie experience keeps dropping in quality.
Popcorn ... let's discuss it. Even though it's always been priced as if we're living in inflationary Weimar Germany in 1922, I usually don't mind it because the popcorn is usually hot, fresh and you can get hot butter to augment it to your hearts content.
My wife and son and I were waiting in line to get some popcorn. One of the theater workers comes out with, I **** you not, an industrial sized trash can full of popcorn that they dumped into the popcorn trough for our consumption.
Now, intellectually, I know they were popping it in the back because I could see them doing it. Still, I can't think of a less appealing way to present popcorn to the consumer. I told my wife, "We're eating that?" She told me to simmer down and the popcorn would be fine.
No. It was not fine. Not for damn sight. If you've ever had a box of popcorn at a high school basketball game, that was about the quality of it. Perfectly fine at a high school basketball game because you calibrate expectations and you're usually paying a buck or two for it, but for popcorn priced at the rapacious rate they charge, I expect ****ing standards. Throw a brother a heat lamp to keep it warm. How about this new thing they invented that augments the popcorn experience called salt?
We took the lukewarm popcorn to the hot butter machine off to the side. I told my wife that this lukewarm and dry sub-Orville Redenbacher abomination would not taste very good with the liquid butter, but like lemmings in shiny metal boxes, we poured away.
In the theater, I had a few handfuls and it was the mucky wet, yet somehow still dry experience I thought it would be. I told my fam I was going to get some salt to at least make it somewhat palatable.
I go to find the salt. Now, mind you, this wasn't my first salt-and-butter station rodeo. Those stations can be gross because you get rubes who cannot butter their popcorn and/or salt it without getting their **** all over the place. I'm sure it's a pain in the ass to clean these areas.
Fine, but this theater took it to a stupid extreme. There was no salt out at all. People, it's ****ing popcorn. I expect to put coronary levels of salt on my kernels. To not have it would be like not having coronary levels of mustard for my coronary producing hot dog.
I ask the theater worker where the salt was. Clearly having fielded this question from other annoyed moviegoers, he starts in with what sounded like a corporate script kindly instructing me that I could use the salt packets that were in the condiment tray. Salt packets? Christ, have we fallen this far?
Anyway, "The Odyessy" gets a big meh. It didn't even have a shiny robotic owl in it.
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