Review the Last Movie You Saw
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Saw it last night and enjoyed most of it. Thought Tim Marchman summed it up well.
Hard movie to discuss without legitimate spoilers but it’s tight, logical, and minimalist, if absurdly brooding and goth, for quite a while and then takes quite the dive down a series of ludicrous bottomless plot holes.
Hard movie to discuss without legitimate spoilers but it’s tight, logical, and minimalist, if absurdly brooding and goth, for quite a while and then takes quite the dive down a series of ludicrous bottomless plot holes.
Two brief reviews of completely different movies. The Outfit is a little gem of a crime thriller. Mark Rylance plays an unassuming tailor whose shop is used by mobsters, but his seemingly meek character manages to stay one step ahead of the crooks.
If you're in the mood for something totally campy, check out The Lost City, with Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, and Daniel Radcliffe. It borrows from Romancing The Stone, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and (towards the end) Trading Places. I'm not saying it's as well made as any of those (the use of a green screen was incredibly obvious in at least one scene), but there are plenty of cheap laughs and high jinks. Warning: There is one sequence that cannot be unseen, even though it's played for laughs.
If you're in the mood for something totally campy, check out The Lost City, with Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, and Daniel Radcliffe. It borrows from Romancing The Stone, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and (towards the end) Trading Places. I'm not saying it's as well made as any of those (the use of a green screen was incredibly obvious in at least one scene), but there are plenty of cheap laughs and high jinks. Warning: There is one sequence that cannot be unseen, even though it's played for laughs.
Two movies in the past two days that both happened to be multiverse related:
Everything Everywhere All At Once is absolutely magical. I wish I'd seen it a month ago so that I could encourage *everyone* to go see it in the theater. I ended up going yesterday because I saw that it was going to be out of most theaters today. So, so, SO jaw-droppingly inventive and brave and beautiful. You might not be able to see it in a theater, but if you can, please do so. If you can't, still absolutely see it when it shows up somewhere to stream.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is not magical, but still very good. I honestly think I'd have liked it even more if I hadn't watched EEAAO yesterday. I'm a fan of Sam Raimi, and while I was disappointed that Scott Derrickson (who directed the first Strange movie) dropped out of this one early on in the process, Raimi did a fine job. It did feel like action action action action action from jump, which took me a second to settle into. I'll probably go see it a second time to see how much more I enjoy it when I know what to expect.
Everything Everywhere All At Once is absolutely magical. I wish I'd seen it a month ago so that I could encourage *everyone* to go see it in the theater. I ended up going yesterday because I saw that it was going to be out of most theaters today. So, so, SO jaw-droppingly inventive and brave and beautiful. You might not be able to see it in a theater, but if you can, please do so. If you can't, still absolutely see it when it shows up somewhere to stream.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is not magical, but still very good. I honestly think I'd have liked it even more if I hadn't watched EEAAO yesterday. I'm a fan of Sam Raimi, and while I was disappointed that Scott Derrickson (who directed the first Strange movie) dropped out of this one early on in the process, Raimi did a fine job. It did feel like action action action action action from jump, which took me a second to settle into. I'll probably go see it a second time to see how much more I enjoy it when I know what to expect.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. Cute concept and touching, although Marcel is a little too talky at times. The one moment that stuck with me, which came out of nowhere and was played for chuckles, was when Marcel told the documentary dude -- paraphrasing here -- that he needed to meet more people and get a life.