I’ve added it to my viewing queue. Thanks.
I also hated it. Scarlet Witch was one of my favorite characters. I thought the MCU did a good job with her. Then they did what you said. And it didn’t even make sense in its own shitty context. The kids were constructs to keep her in the illusion. Vision was her real love, her source of grief. The kids didn’t exist. I don’t buy her turning into a mas murderer and torturer because of an illusion.
It Follows. I’m not really a horror viewer but this one has been on my watch list for a while due to the raving of friends. I’d say it delivered. There is a lot of subtext and metaphor to the story, including some literary references and other things I probably missed. But fundamentally, the film is a coming of age tale about the uncertainties of adulthood and the inevitability of mortality.
And that’s what makes this movie so fucking creepy. It’s tolerable to watch for a scaredy-cat like myself, with only one notable moment of gore, but the message is hard to shake. One of the less wonderful aspects of adulthood is that we are painfully aware that our own death is on its way, whether that death comes suddenly, or clearly visible as it stalks ever closer.
And the ending was kind of beautiful.
Recommended.
My daughter’s on a Wes Anderson kick and so we watched The French Dispatch. I mean, it’s very Wes Anderson - a series of whimsical vignettes loosely tied together with a minimal framework, like most of his films. And fun to look at. I enjoyed it for what it was.
I like this movie, too, and it had a lot of hype that it might not live up to, but it works really well just going in.
Did you see they just announced a sequel? They Follow.
Them a lot of purty words to say ‘Suck’!
Thank ya, pardner! At least it passed the time.
Two nights ago I watched the Netflix movie, “The Killer” , starring Michael Fassbender. It is a different slant on your standard assassin movie because he narrates in first person explaining the entire thought process and life style necessary to be successful in his business. I really enjoyed it.
Went and saw The Holdovers at a theater last night. I’ve largely enjoyed all of Alexander Payne’s previous movies (even the critically-panned Downsizing but was unimpressed with this one for all sorts of small reasons. One thing that bothered me in particular was the free and frequent usage of f-bombs in a movie taking place in the early 70s, mostly by high school age kids. Call me pedantic but (almost) nobody spoke that way up until fairly recently.
I Confess (1953). A priest’s gardener confesses to him in the church confessional that he murdered a man, a local lawyer. As events unfold, the priest is bound by his vow of confidentiality, and soon become a suspect himself. One of Hitchcock’s better ones even if not the best known, but then, I’m partial to a good old-fashioned story line. Filmed on location in Quebec City
You very much grew up in a different place from me, I think.
I was also not bothered much by the use of f-bombs in the dialogue of The Holdovers. I’m a little younger than when the movie was set, graduating high school in 1984, and as I remember, lots of the cursing and such would have been homophobic nonsense, particularly at my public school. No idea if boarding school boys would have suggested that another boy was gay. Perhaps the screenwriter avoided that so as not to offend present-day audiences and perhaps the use of f-bombs was because that’s what present-day audiences might expect to hear. (Much as the story that in Deadwood, the profanity would have been sacrilegious phrases, which wouldn’t shock present-day audiences.)
That’s what I suspect. I just find such anachronisms (as I perceive them) very distracting.
It didn’t distract me, and I still enjoyed the movie. I was pleased that Chekhov’s gun paid off in the end.
So does passing a stone.
I’d rather romance one.
The Creator
Recommended.
I’m recommending the movie, but was hoping it would be a lot better. I can tell when they made it, they thought they had something really special, a classic scifi movie that would move thousands and be a huge hit, both commercially and critically.
Unfortunately, it’s just a good movie, not a great one. I was moved in some parts of it, but also kind of bored for sections of it.
I’d check it out, but go in with reasonable expectations. Worth your time, but I was hoping for a lot more.
The Marvels
Very recommended…with one condition.
The condition is that it helps a lot to have seen Ms. Marvel, the TV show that leads into this movie. My daughter and I have and we absolutely loved this movie. It was fun, funny, exciting, and surprising. Marvel still puts out fun movies and this and Guardians of the Galaxy 3 really showed they are still doing great stuff, Ant-Man 3, however, not so much.
This was a lot of fun.
Top Gun: Maverick This made $1.5 billion dollaridoos? It could have been worse, but I did enjoy spewing Star Wars dialogue during the big climactic sequence and pissing off my wife.
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Wow!! What a fine thriller of a movie! I thought I’d seen all the real Hitchcock gems in the course of my Hitchcock marathon and was working through some of the lesser productions, but I hadn’t realized how outstanding this one was. Stars James Stewart and Doris Day along with a fine cast of spies and bad guys. Notable for being a remake of one of Hitchcock’s own movies; originally made in 1934. Apparently Hitchcock thought he could do better, and he was right!
I wasn’t initially thrilled that Doris Day was in it as I tend to think of her as more of a musical comedy or romcom type, but she’s been cast in some serious movies and by golly, she actually can act. She does manage to get a couple of songs in, even in this thriller, but to be fair her performance at the end is cleverly intrinsic to the plot.