Vince Guaraldi. I have a couple of his CDs. Love to listen to his music. And Cast Your Fate etc has long been a fav of mine.
I always thought it was minor Hitchcock. Most of the focus was on the gimmick, and the movie itself was surprisingly static and, truthfully, boring. The sets were just so fake-looking. Not the best interpretation of the Leopold/Loeb killers’ story.
I recall reading somewhere that Jimmy Stewart subsequently complained that Hitchcock spent more time rehearsing the camera than the actors.
Also, if memory serves (and someone please correct me if I’m wrong), they had something like eight to ten minutes for each reel.
Hitchcock might have made that film as a challenge to himself, to see if he could do it. The story goes that Jimmy Stewart jokingly asked Hitch why he didn’t just set up bleachers and sell tickets. Stewart took the whole thing with his usual nonchalance but some of the actors, even those with stage experience, were terrified at the thought of blowing a take. There’s another story that because the view through the window changed to indicate the passage of time, some of the film had to be re-shot when Hitchcock didn’t like the how the backdrop looked when he watched the takes in Technicolor.
Same here. I saw it in the theater in 2015 with a dozen 5-year olds (birthday party). They thought I was strange.
Timecode is a quadruple-one-shot film 4 separate one shot takes spliced together in 4 panes playing simultaneously.
Despite having Jeanne Tripplehorn in it, it just didn’t work for me. Quite boring.
Thank you. I could not remember the title of Timecode despite looking for it.
It’s the most challenging long take movie I’ve heard of, though I think aside from its gimmick, it didn’t do much.
A recent Jeopardy! clue said something like “The characters in this Hitchcock film were based on Leopold and Loeb”, the intellectual thrill of killing someone and covering up the crime. No one was able to answer correctly.
My Favorite Year
Not recommended.
A very boring comedy and completely unfunny. 100% misfire from beginning to end.
It’s safe to say that you and I disagree on that.
My wife likes suspenseful movies, so did a search on them. A 1997 film called Breakdown showed up in my search. Sounded interesting, so we watched it tonight.
It was O.K., and reminded me a bit of Duel. I’m glad I watched it. It was good, but can’t say it was a “great” film.
The Wiki page for it says it has a “strong cult following.” Not sure why.
Finished Dune. Part 1.
Thoughts, in order of priority:
It’s visually stunning. As one of my friends put it, I want this movie on my coffee table.
A-.
For what it’s worth, I very much enjoyed Dune Part 1, but Dune Part 2 totally blew me away.
I’ve been watching Hit Man (2023) for the last hour and half and I’m debating whether I want to even finish it. I am up to here with “Why Didn’ts”.
Why would the cops send a civilian to do murder for hire stings in the first place - that’s A? Why didn’t he tell the girl he wasn’t a hit man immediately after he decided to meet her? Why didn’t he bail on the meeting with Ray the second he saw it was him? If he’s living all these double-triple-quadruple lives going around busting ersatz murders, why the hell is he still teaching at the university? I finally got to the scene where the girl admits she murdered her husband and he admits everything and I literally exclaimed aloud, “Now? Now you fucking tell her?”
So yeah, I guess I’ll stick it out - there’s only about a half an hour left, but holy shit what a lame effort this is.
I had those same questions, but I think we’re just expected to accept it all because it’s based on a true story and presumably happened much like that.
Just watched Godzilla minus one and I figured out why the English dub feels off
They wrote the dialogue like a anime…and even used several well-known anime voices even if you don’t know the names …great movie tho and I’m glad pilot and the woman survived …
Kid Cheesesteak bought the original Star Wars Trilogy on VHS. This was the 1995? version with George Lucas interviews leading into each movie.
We got to see Han shoot first, the correct cantina scene, and Old Anakin Force Ghost. Yay.
We also got to see George Lucas being the smuggest person in history, while lying his face off about having written the whole backstory of Luke and Vader and Leia before filming Star Wars. Truly, he is a person I would pay good money to see fall in a mud puddle.
Will - A Dutch film about two young police officers during the Nazi occupation of Antwerp. Very dark and very violent, it’s about the choices people were forced to make during that time. It won a bunch of awards. Available on Netflix.
My main memory of this (yet to watch Part 2), was “oh they’re landing a spaceship and opening the bay doors, that’s 20 minutes I have to go off and make something to eat. No hurry.”
Yes I thought the first one was fine but no more than that, definitely a case of more style than substance. But perhaps because I haven’t read the book (or seen the badly-received 1980s film), I don’t appreciate it like I would? It’s strange because I have really rated Villeneuve’s other blockbusters. Prisoners was one of the best films I have seen for years, and Blade Runner 2049 was really good too.
La Jetée - (1962) This was recommended above as the source film for 12 Monkeys so I thought I’d watch it. 20 or so minutes in French with English subtitles of a languid narration of Bruce Willis’ characters tale shown with a series of black and white photographs.
This film is more about a specific moment in time and I think La Jetee does a far better job of exploring that, but 12 Monkeys was able to explore so much more of this event and it all was a wild ride.
If you like one, you should see the other. They’re both worth watching, maybe La Jetée after. Unfortunately while I promise I saw it for free on YouTube I cannot find the English CC version to save my life now only in Spanish. Maybe it was another service???