Tocky on 9/3/2024 at 01:53
I just watched "Poor Things" with Emma Stone. She was in La La Land which was a love letter to LA. But the main thing is that she is excellent in everything she does and this was carried by her. I'm not sure what I can say without giving away key points which may figure in the early denouement of this film. I will say this was one of the most strange movies I've ever seen. Never once was I tempted to stop watching. It just got weirder and weirder. But it had a logic to it that was undeniable given it's strange premise.
I want so much to give it away but I feel I would be robbing you. It was award winning and well worth watching. Honestly I tend to shy away from the award winners as foo foo drivel. I'm always afraid they are going to be like The Piano and not worth a damn with it's obvious ham fisted forcing of theme but this was so very strange. I've not only not seen anything like it but it is original in a way I could not have imagined. Very odd in device but wholly logical, fully step following step in development. Was it a drug induced nightmare weird? No. Nothing of the kind. It was a thinking mans weird. It was a suppose this then what would follow weird. I think it thrills me a bit to think that even Mary Shelly would be horrified by it. The one thing I would change would be the very ending. I would have taken Frankenstein's monsters brain and placed it in the husband. I mean, why not a totally happy ending?
And thanks Sulphur. Soothing tune.
rachel on 10/3/2024 at 01:08
Poor Things is a masterpiece. It's everything, funny, disturbing, colorful, dark, weird, queer, liberating, subversive, the list could go on. Emma Stone gives a stellar performance (as do her castmates to be fair, with props to Mark Ruffalo playing against type), the cinematography varies brilliantly from gothic to psychedelic. I know it was adapted from a book but it's a gem of a story that cinema was made to tell like no other medium could.
Tocky on 10/3/2024 at 01:48
It was also very very wrong in the treatment of the main character. Don't read this part those who haven't seen. The woman had a child's brain for gods sake. The men all used her- yes she was willing but that makes it no better- that was the disturbing part. They may have done what she wanted with her woman's body but she was still a child. Even the man she was due to marry was a villain for taking advantage of that knowing what he knew. And her real husband/daddy horrified me with his possible incest. It was bizarrely disturbing. The one character I could forgive was God who had himself had to adjust and learn to fit in with a fresh childlike brain at one time and thus looked at the situation from that perspective. If you read the original Mary Shelly work then you know what I mean. A shame the Max character was only mediocre and could not install Gods brain in Blessington. Well, it's not like there could ever be a sequel to that movie anyway.
Sulphur on 11/3/2024 at 03:06
Quote Posted by Tocky
And thanks Sulphur. Soothing tune.
You're welcome. It's a song that more people need to hear, and I hope they do.
And you're right about Emma Stone. She's great in everything I've seen her so far, with the only quibble being that she had a terrible English accent in Maniac. But I hear she levelled that up a notch in Cruella, which is... not a movie I might get to any time soon. Poor Things is on the list though.
henke on 14/3/2024 at 08:39
I watched the Twisted Metal show, and lemme tell ya, it starts off with a bang!
[video=youtube;cpc2z5fQ14M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpc2z5fQ14M[/video]
A cool sequence made out of mostly practical stunts. Pretty cool right? Well don't get used to it! The show's a quite low-budget production with barely any car combat sequences. Just a few scattered through the 10-episode season. The whole story is about Anthony Mackie's "milk man" doing a cross-country run for a chance to settle down within the walled city of San Fran, but of course along the way he learns that the real Twisted Metal were the friends we made along the way or something. It's not bad, really. The cast is good, the writing is... ok? Honestly it gets too dark at times. The finale is good tho and a nice set up for season 2.
Harvester on 18/3/2024 at 22:26
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https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240318/145909e6a9e534bff48da5aa90bc6808.jpgBecause of this movie about the real French legal concept of restorative justice, Anatomy Of A Fall is now my second favorite French movie of last year. Anatomy is more clever and artsy but kept me at more of an emotional distance than this movie. If you’re going to pirate this, make sure you get actually good subtitles because the dialogue is razor sharp.
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Sulphur on 24/3/2024 at 04:51
I thought that using a Billie Eilish song for True Detective S4's opening credits was a weirdly superficial choice, but it turned out that it was perfectly in line with everything that happens in the season. What a hatchet job. It's like the writers decided to reprise character beats from better stories they've seen and forgot that the most important part isn't the swell of emotion when a character makes a big decision, but the meaningfulness of what happened to lead them there. There's a bunch of stuff in S4 that make logical sense in terms of mapping out the story from point A to point B, but there's simply no understanding of what makes people really tick, just a rattling off of character attributes. I couldn't help but notice that it was also borderline soapy in its execution, and there was a very subtle disconnect between the writing and the character delivery - can't blame the performers here, I think the direction was off.
All in all, a waste of a great setting (Reykjavik standing in for a small Alaskan town) and talent. Jodie Foster's always fantastic to see, and she does what she can with this (especially in the final episode, where I couldn't help but care what happened despite disliking her character), but for the most part it's an almost bewildering misuse of her prowess.
henke on 27/4/2024 at 16:20
Finally watched Deadwood! All 3 seasons, then the movie. Great cast. Compelling right from the very first scene of the first episode. A rootin' tootin' good time!
vurt on 27/4/2024 at 16:24
I really should rewatch deadwood. absolute classic tv series up there with breaking bad, rome and sopranos... didn't watch the movie either yet.
Started watching The Gentlemen. I don't know. It feels too much like a computer game (GTA-like) including characters that i don't really care for. 4 episodes in i would rate it 6.5/10, there are just too many shows to watch that i think i'll stop here and watch Shogun or Deadwood instead. Deadwood i know is WAY better and Shogun i'm pretty certain is incredible too from what i've heard.
demagogue on 27/4/2024 at 18:39
Deadwood was great. I only wish it didn't have that big hiatus after S2, like a few other shows like that (Arrested Development after S3, Twin Peaks although its S3 was brilliant & worthwhile in its own way). Deadwood really could have used the continuity. For what it had, it was great.
Shogun looks overloaded with visual bling from the trailers, but I'll withhold any opinion until I've seen it.