That kind of confident swagger is exactly what I’d expect from elite soldiers. After all, you can’t be good if you don’t know you’re good. The more experienced and well-trained soldiers are, the more they try to push boundaries - and their officer showed just how green he was by not pushing back.
Finished it. Sorry, but it was a triumph of style over substance - loved Isaac and Elordi’s performances (and David Bradley, of course), loved all the design shit, but it just felt empty and stupid, especially when it suddenly jumped straight from the wedding to the Arctic because the film had already gone on way too long.
Actually there’s a perfect example there - the Creature is wandering through the horrified crowd amid clouds of rose petals carrying the bloody body of the bride, and all I could think was “YO! DUDES IN THE BALCONY! YOU CAN STOP THROWING THE FUCKING PETALS NOW!”. But hey, it looked cool. Sheesh.
And also: the “creature” is dynamite-proof? As are his clothes? Seriously?
I don’t know who if anyone has access to the “National Theatre at Home” shows (some of them used to be included on the Amazon Prime UK site without further subscription) but if you are able to watch the Benedict Cumberbatch/Jonny Lee Miller performances of Frankenstein, they are excellent and truer to the book in a lot of ways. And there are two versions, as the two leads traded roles (I watched Cumberbatch as Victor/Miller as the Creature). The design is a lot more minimalist than del Toro’s Goth rococo excesses but damn it’s a good show.
Random thought: I’ve always liked Michael Biehn’s work and he’s had key roles in some memorable movies, Aliens, Terminator, Tombstone. Is he underrated?
I just looked up his Wikipedia entry because I was also curious if it mentioned his decline after the 80s. While not amazing, he was always good and consistent and obviously James Cameron liked him quite a bit.
Sounds like it just didn’t happen and then he began drinking heavily. I hope he’s doing well.
Michael Biehn had a recent appearance as a bad guy in an episode of The Mandalorian a few years back; the one in which Mando teams up with Ahsoka and busts some heads.
In honor of June Lockhart’s recent death (and because I haven’t watched any Universal horror films this fall), I put on The She Wolf of London, a very rarely-seen entry in the Universal cycle. (I never saw it on TV. The first time I saw it was when I purchased the Universal “Legacy Collection” Wolf Man set.). June Lockhart plays the titular She Wolf, but she doesn’t get top billing in the on-screen credits (despite what her Wikipedia entry says), which looks like blatant sexism. It’s a slow-paced ilm with the isappointment that you never get to see anybody change into a wolman or wolfwoman. Only for completists.
After that I put on Young Frankenstein as we prepared Thanksgiving dinner (because we knew it s weoll we coud mostly listen to it.)
Rewatched The Vvitch tonight. Man, that is a lot of intensity for less than 90 minutes.
He was also typecast, playing a Navy Seals officer in three unrelated movies (The Abyss, Navy Seals and the Rock), in addition to his Seal-like role in Alien. Being typecast like that is not good for your career.
He also had a stroke about 20 years ago.
(Wicked for Good)
How can it have a happy ending? She melts in the end. Doesn’t she.? (not a spoiler, anyone watching Wicked must have see TWoO)
We watched Harriet on NFLX last night. A biopic about Harriet Tubman. Well acted and was nominated for several awards. Some awkward scenes for dramatic effect, but well-edited overall.
See the movie, because we can’t give you a spoiler.
It was based on the musical “The Rocky Horror Show,” so not a complete fluke.
What do you mean, you “can’t”? Why the fuck not?
If you want a plot summary of Wicked: For Good, including the ending, read the Wikipedia entry.
The only possible answer is a spoiler.
So?
Stop being so coy, like you’re some secret gatekeeper.
That’s why they invented spoiler tags.
See?
Thanks, I didn’t think they’d have a plot summary up yet.
How does that plot-point-that-shall-not-be-named agree with the original novels?
No idea, though note that the film Wicked: For Good and the previous film were based on a thirty-year-old novel that reimagines the story told by L Frank Baum’s original novels.
Big spoiler, just to cut off this hijack.
It doesn’t. In the original “Wicked” novel she melts away just like in the WoO. But then in the novel she’s also already had a child with Fiyero and the book ends in massive political unrest.
In the stage musical and film there’s some hokey trapdoor shit and everyone thinks she’s dead but she secretly leaves Oz to run off with the handsome prince. Sort of.
Ok thanks.
back to the subject, we watched 1940’s Hitchcock film Foreign Correspondent. It’s about a US reporter in mid 1939 (pre war) Europe, chasing a story about an influential peacenick who was assassinated (or was he?).It ends with said reporter back in England, reporting back to America from the Blitz, accurately predicting the similar Edward R Murrow’s broadcasts.