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billyweeds
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 4:49 pm Reply with quote
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gromit wrote:
I have so little interest in Joker, I don't even want to know what it's about. How's that for hardcore non-particpation?


Totally agree.
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 2:25 pm Reply with quote
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bartist wrote:
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Ad Astra is that rare gem in the sci-fi genre that succeeds as a psychological drama and doesn't get lost in its tech gadgets. Minor science gaffes didn't hurt it much, though the antimatter jabber reminded me of the fake science jabber on those old Next Gen episodes.


Hated it a lot. Like a meditation with Brad Pitt as the facilitator. "Picture yourself on a beach...." I had a nice snooze.


So I'm thinking the Frequency plot (son finds father) was also not your cup of tea. Generally, I think I'm more receptive to the "meditation" approach in movies. As far as plot goes, I wasn't sure if I was missing something or if the narrative just failed to really explain Tommy Lee Jones's misanthropy. It's all so driven by Pitt's POV that it seems to blot out any glimpse of dad's.


I'm still 100% on Team Brad for the Oscar in "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood," in which he reaches his screen peak. Rumor has it they're trying for the supporting Oscar, which is inaccurate and disgraceful, but I guess better than nothing.
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Pitt was great in Once Upon. Did his best in Ad Astra, but that bit about his heart rate never going over 80 bpm sort of spills over onto the viewing audience. And, as Bart says, the crazy dad never really makes sense - especially given the premise that the psychological screening of astronauts (already pretty exhaustive ca. 1970) is so very thorough. "Hmm, secretly he was a misanthrope who wanted to kill anyone disagreeing with him - how did we miss that?"
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Befade
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I thought Ad Astra was worth seeing. Brad Pitt doesn’t interest me but I like his new laid back style. I certainly thought he was perfect in Once Upon a Time. The movie jarred me into thinking about how scary it would be to be an astronaut. Why would anyone be comfortable traveling into the unknown like that?

And the update: stations on the moon and on Mars.....would that really be commonplace? It all seemed real to me.

I guess the simplistic moral of the story was: Look to the people who surround you for love. Don’t go off looking for them on other planets. How interested are we in discovering if there is life on another planet?

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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 11:05 am Reply with quote
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I'm interested, provided they liked that Chuck Berry record we sent them.

Tommy Lee Jones has to be grumpiest astronaut in the history of space travel. I wonder if the director talked with actual astronauts or read any astronaut memoirs beforehand.

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How has Syd not weighed in on Ad Astra here?

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That would make a good SNL sketch: grumpy, aging astronauts stuck on a space station.

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Too bad Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau aren't available--it could be a whole movie.
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bartist wrote:
How has Syd not weighed in on Ad Astra here?


Haven't seen it.

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Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 11:55 pm Reply with quote
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"Parasite" is a unique film, starting as a high comedy and transmogrifying into several different genres before ending powerfully and momorably. I thought it was the first Bong Joon-ho movie I'd ever seen until I realized I'd already seen two others, "Snowpiercer" and "Okja," neither of which I liked in the least. So this is the first Bong I've admired. But admire it I did.
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bartist
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Move over, Chinatown.

Motherless Brooklyn. Wow.

I mean, damn!

Will post a bit more when I become coherent.

Later: noir, usually served hard-boiled, is of a more tender-hearted variety in MB, and results in an emotionally engaging story with fine perfs from Norton, Baldwin, Mbatha-Raw, Dafoe, et al. Some critics seem to give mixed reviews, saying it's overlong and bogged down in places, or that it was hard to follow, and I really can't agree. And no, NPR, Norton's rendition of the Tourette's afflicted hero is NOT a knockoff of Dustin Hoffman's "Rainman" and is an acting master class AFAIC. Maybe it helped this viewer that he hadn't read Lethem's novel, which I can imagine as showing us more of what's going on inside Lionel's head (based on the four Lethem novels I have read). Film doesn't give you interiors of the human head the way books can. Which makes sense of the way that film adaptation often starts with throwing this kind of book away.

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Motherless Brooklyn seems to be very polarizing.
Some folks think it's great, other label it a disaster.

I never cared for Chinatown.
And generally find neo-noir wanting.
I'd give it a chance if/when I find where to buy dvd's.

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