I agree that Killers of the Flower Moon was a “serious” movie. I do go to most of the Marvel and DC superhero movies and some other of the “popcorn” films but it’s good sometimes to see a serious one aimed at grown-ups. (And if I sound like a movie snob, I’ll volunteer that I saw the Entourage movie in the theaters as well, because I found the TV series amusing.)
And regarding Killers of the Flower Moon, I noticed that the colors seems subdued for much of the film. In this article from Variety, the cinematographer explains why.
We watched the one-off Oscar’s Handmade Halloween on Max. When it comes to media, my son is generally disinterested in anything that’s not a) music b) numbers or c) numbers set to music. It’s very hard to get him to pay attention to anything.
He was rapt with Oscar’s Handmade Halloween, which featured people making Halloween costumes out of garbage (yes) for shelter dogs. I was impressed by Oscar’s unyielding negativity in the face of both cute kids and cute dogs. As an adult, I found it tolerable except for the 30 seconds that featured Elmo. Elmo has taken over and ruined all of Sesame Street, but I digress. The kid loved it.
I read the book, and I don’t think you could do the history justice in less time. It might have been better as an HBO series? Terribly sad, disturbing story.
I recently watched The Uninvited for about the fourth time. It still holds up. Good ghost story. But it was so funny – both my sister and I remembered Gale Sondergaard in one role, but it was actually Cornelia Otis Skinner. Also, the ingenue (Gail Russell) was my dad’s next door neighbor when he was in high school. He always told us she was stuck up, but reading her history, she was just very shy and had tremendous “stage” fright. She was only 36 when she died. Interestingly, she looked a lot like my mom’s 18th birthday photograph, and my mom said when my dad first met her he thought she was stuck up. Wonder if that triggered a memory for him.
I read some reviews of the movie. They said that a good chunk of the book was the early history of the FBI so in part the movie managed by skipping that, for the most part.
In my ongoing quest to become a Star Trek completist, I screened Star Trek V: The Final Frontier this evening. I’d seen it a single time upon its initial release 34 years ago and had long since forgotten almost every frame.
I attempted to ignore its reputation and watch it with an open mind, hoping to find something to enjoy about it. But this is simply not a good movie. The plot makes no sense, the pace is plodding, the few attempts at humor don’t land, and the special effects are terrible. The whole thing plays like bad fan fiction.
@Wheelz I personally think Star Trek V gets a bum rap. I mean, yes, it’s obviously a bad movie, and yes, it’s one of the two that I skip when I watch the Original Series movies, but it does have some redeeming value.
(Nichelle’s fine legs notwithstanding.)
Plus there’s a Vulcan who doesn’t act like a Vulcan (Spock’s never-before-mentioned brother, no less!), a Romulan who doesn’t act like a Romulan, and a Klingon who doesn’t act like a Klingon. At times I wondered if the writers had ever even seenStar Trek - even though one of them was Shatner himself!
Still more like its original than Highlander 2, which was made by mainly the same people as the original but looks like it was made by people who read an inaccurate, online, one-paragraph description of the first movie…that left off the ending.
With my Disney+ subscription about to expire in a couple of days, I’m watching a lot of random nonsense. Just now it was “Werewolf by Night in Color”, a lightweight 55 minute film that features Gabriel Garcia Bernal, and from the Nevers, Laura Donnelly. Enjoyable at that length.
For whatever reason they also offer it in color. Why? The B&W was half the enjoyment!
As my last Netlfix DVD I got Shadow Whip, starring Yueh Hua, Cheng Pei-Pei (who I’ll admit to developing a crush on over the course of these films), and Ku Feng. A treasure gets stolen, and a famous martial artist named the Shadow Whip is suspected to be the culprit. Many people are on the hunt for the missing man, but is he guilty or innocent?
He’s innocent, and the thief framed him in order to frame him for the theft and murder of the family who held the jewelry. You’ll probably guess the answer, and perhaps be sick of the sound of a whip cracking by the end, but all in all, you can do a lot worse as far as kung-fu films from the Shaw Brothers.
Last night I watched Magic, with Anthony Hopkins and Ann-Margret. Really good! I don’t want to tell you it involves a ventriloquist’s dummy, because then you’ll know the whole plot. Only one thing happens when those guys are involved…
I just saw “Ballerina” starring one of my favs, Jeon Jong-seo - (“Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon”) It’s about a girl who had absolutely nothing in her heart until a great beauty entered her life. How it was cruelly taken away and the karma she made them face warmed my heart.
