Went and saw Dune 2 in 70mm today. Pretty unreal. I was a fan of the first (even though it skipped so much important detail). This was a massive improvement. Sound track and audio track were really impressive too.
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Finally got to see Zone of Interest and it’s such a sinister movie because every sound and every shot is an “Easter Egg” of the horrific shit that happening in the background.
At the one stage you can hear the sound of train coming into the camp and I had to hold back a scream of; “Oh fark”.
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So I watched Oppenheimer tonight. I honestly really liked it. It was disappointing at first, but then I guess I realized it was very much not about him leading the design on the atom bomb, but more about his treatment after. It was more so a hit piece of Strauss than specifically Oppenheimer. Once I came to that realization, it definitely become more interesting.
Still fabulous.
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Just saw Olivia Coleman’s latest, wicked little letters and she was incredible in that.
I agree, what a great picture.
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The sound design is phenomenal.
The brillance of Cohen’s, ‘Dance Me to the End of Love’ combined with the mastery of Ludmila Savelyeva’s facial acting in Sergei Bondarchuk’s 1967, ‘War and Peace’.
Paramount announcing they are going to make TMNT the Last Ronin into (probably r-rated) a movie is exciting and I had been hoping someone would do it at some point. Not sure if live action or animated though, for some reason I hope its live action but who knows. Got great potential, but also of course, they could mess it up big time.
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Looking forward to this
It’s Sham- a-llama Ding-dong, great premise lousy execution. 6th Sense was great, everything after was at best meh. I liked Unbreakable, but it wasn’t brilliant.
Surely he’s due another good one by now?
I watched the trailer up until dad said he was going for a piss.
Yay. An abduction movie.
except it isn’t
That’s how it’s set up. That’s when I stopped.
Anyone seen civil war yet? Mixed reviews, but I’ll take anything out of the US with a pinch of salt judging by the topic matter.
I saw it last night. I’d only seen a couple of short previews and hadn’t really read anything about it. Certainly wasn’t what I was expecting - but was going in mostly blind. It basically follows a group of journalists trying to get a scoop during a breakdown in the US. The details of the “civil war” itself are very vague and certainly not the focus of the film.
It wasn’t completely awful, but I wouldn’t say it was that good either. Visually it was pretty good until the last 15 or so. However the scoring and sound design/editing/foley were really poor for a major production. It really detracted from it overall. Some quality scenes and ideas, some poorly executed or just awkward. There were also a few scenes where I was just shaking my head in wonder at direction/writing. Those were mostly stupid military stuff that really annoys me. Either do it right or if you dont have the budget do something different.
Jesse Plemons… scary as fuck. Great performance.
Anyway this could easily have been set in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Myanmar, or other conflicts zones but clearly they saw a marketing opportunity with the escalating tensions in the US.
Apparently, they had cast someone else in that role but he had some issue come up on the day of the shoot for that scene. Jesse was on set as Kirsten Dunst’s husband looking after their kids and he basically did the film a favour.
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Yeah I would say I liked it but didn’t love it. The civil war isn’t particularly fleshed out and I think the film isn’t particularly interested in fleshing it out, but it’s mostly used as a backdrop to tell a story about the importance of war photography. There’s some absolutely stunning and tense action sequences in it which work really well, and it’s tremendously acted. It just feels a bit like it’s trying to say something but doesn’t quite make its point.
On the flip side I went to see I Used To Be Funny at the Inner West film festival last night. Rachel Sennot remains one of the best comedy actors out there and then layers an incredible dramatic performance on top of it in this movie.