I feel like the answer is right there?
The “Abandon ship!” courtroom sequence is taken almost verbatim from a sovcit YouTube vid that made the rounds a while back.
Yeah, I should have read more closely. I can see your point, but those “setup” things didn’t really bother me. FWIW, 95% positive critics’ ratings on RT. To me it’s even more affecting when you realize it’s based on real-life events.
The Legend Of Boggy Creek.
The MST3K send up of Boggy Creek II is one of my favorites, but I’ve never seen the original. I had low expectations going in it met them. Still, I’m glad I finally got around to seeing it.
I saw Send Help today. The first hour was fun. I didn’t like the second half.
I saw that in the theater when I was nine years old and it gave me fucking nightmares for years.
I would say the final 20-25 minutes was, well, unexpected and odd.
It was really fun seeing it in a crowded theater. The shared audience reactions to certain scenes were great.
I just watched this. I don’t get it. Admittedly I mostly wanted to see how Conan O’Brien did as a dramatic actor. The verdict is in. The man can’t act for shit. My god, was he bad. But … Rosy Byrne was fantastic. As was A$AP Rocky, unbelievably. That all being said, I reiterate: I don’t get it.
Maybe it’s just another bitch about performance, but the way you never see the daughter’s face and the way her lines are way over the top, both in content and delivery, that I thought she didn’t really exist for most of the film. Truth be told … I’m still not sure. Yeah … I don’t get this movie.
I can’t tell you why you should like it, but I can tell you why I did.
Your quote gets at part of the heart of the film, that her daughter doesn’t exist for her except as a responsibility and a burden, all the way until the end of the film when you do actually see her face (when Byrne has maybe given up, maybe not). As the character says midway through the film, maybe some people just shouldn’t be parents, or just can’t be, and the film is her squirming to realize that and not want to deal with it. Did you notice that she almost literally doesn’t get a moment to herself? Every brief moment of rest is interrupted by her kid or by her phone or by a patient. She’s unraveling, with the help of the world and her own selfishness.
She’s not at all a likeable character.
This film is a cousin to the Babadook which has a similar theme, but which is more unremitting (this film had some very brief breaks of dark humor, like where the hamster gets flattened and then we cut to a scene of pasta and sauce). It’s also, really, a horror film. And I enjoyed it for the reason I enjoy a lot of good horror films, because it took me for an intense ride with a lot of unexpected turns.
Also, I think Conan O’Brien was exactly right for the role he played.
Ditto, though I was a couple of years older. It was one of the first films that I went to with just friends my own age, and no parents around.
I saw Boggy Creek on TV as a kid and it bored the Hell out of me. I wonder if they cut all the scary bits. I haven’t seen it since; not even the MST3K version.
Hamnet (in a theater). Excellent. Jessie Buckley is an Oscar shoo-in.
Sentimental Value
Norwegian film, directed and co-written by Joachim Trier, starring Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, and Elle Fanning. In Norwegian and English.
The story is about the relationships between Nora (Reinsve), her father Gustav (Skarsgård), and her sister Agnes (Lilleaas). Nora is a stage actress who is estranged from her father, who divorced her mother years earlier and did little to maintain a relationship with his daughters. They are brought back together when the mother dies. The father has written a film script and wants Nora to play a lead role in it, but she doesn’t want to have anything to do with either him or the movie he wants to make. The father then hires Rachel Kemp, an American movie star played by Elle Fanning, to play the role he wrote for his daughter.
This is an emotional film, with details of the family history revealed slowly over time. The performances are restrained and sensitive. All of the characters feel like real people.
I really liked this one.
Stranger Than Fiction 2006 Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah and Emma Thompson
I have never seen such an unusual premise for a story. Will Ferrell dead-pan performance is completely different from his typical physical comedy roles.
I can’t begin to explain what this movie is about. Except to say it’s fantastic.
10 out of 10 from me.
Watch the 2 min official preview.
It’s on Peacock
Best movie of the 21st century so far, at least of the ones I’ve seen.
Definitely my favorite Will Farrell role and film. I enjoyed his change of style, but also the story was plain fun.
One of my favorite lines in all of movies is when his character brings a gift to Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is playing a baker: “I brought you flours.”
(Don’t unblur if you haven’t seen the film yet.)
Will talks about the challenges of pushing his limits in a emotional scene.
No spoilers. What he mentions is the premise of the entire film. Harold Click has to die. A strange, outside voice says so. 
I usually am not a fan of Will Ferrell’s movies. This performance is very different from his broad, physical comedic work. This role is totally opposite from Elf.
3 mins
Link https://youtu.be/bKvHx7z2ZPs?si=bWWClfmvW1GSBymx
Went and saw Mercy last night. Wife’s pick.
It’s alright but not worth the 50 bucks it costs to sit in the theater. Wait for streaming or Netflix. It won’t be long. Movie has been out only a week and the theater had 10 people in it including us. And it was Saturday night.