Bite your tongue, "Hot Fuzz" was hilarious.heyzeus wrote:I finally saw Hot Fuzz last night. It was...eh.
They're almost done filming The World's End. It releases in October in the US, September in the UK.Vidor wrote:Bite your tongue, "Hot Fuzz" was hilarious.heyzeus wrote:I finally saw Hot Fuzz last night. It was...eh.
"The greater good."
"SHUT IT!"
Pegg, Frost, and director Edward Wright are supposed to be reuniting for a third film, "At World's End", this year. Somehow a pub crawl becomes a battle to stop the end of the world.
Everything's in 3D these days and I don't see a lot of movies, but so far only Avatar and Life of Pi used it effectively or made it, I feel, worth it. I agree about 3D in The Hobbit. Also, regarding the Hobbit, I think we've found the point of diminishing returns with high def.lukethedrifter wrote:Saw it in 3D- not on purpose- last night. Really enjoyed it. Don't think the extra I paid for the 3d experience was worth the cost.
Went to see Lincoln, and jim's description of his nephew's reaction resonated with me. I read the links Arthur Dent posted, and I felt that maybe the authors were disappointed that Spielberg didn't include more African-American voices, but I thought that the movie worked for what it was. I must say the last scene made me sit bolt upright and thinkArthur Dent wrote:The movie is fairly meticulous about details including that letter which was interesting as I'd never read about efforts at negotiations to end the war. In fact, one thing watching the movie reminded me is how exclusively discussion of the Civil War in school focused on battles. We learned almost nothing about the politics, which I think are a lot more helpful in understanding ourselves and our past than troop movements.jim wrote:Here is a tidbit I will share about the movie Lincoln. My nephew has a M.A. in History, and being born in raised Springfield he had a special interest in Lincoln and made it his specialty in his studies. He loved the movie, and was very impressed with the attention to detail and historical accuracy. He said some of those folksy type of stories that Lincoln told in the movies were exactly the same renditions he had heard. I thought maybe that was just some creative writing, but apparently these were stories Lincoln was known to tell. There were a couple of things he wasn't sure about - the letter he sent to congress saying he knew of no efforts by the South for resolving the war - but he said that if they got other details so right that he did know about that he'd almost be surprised that it was made up.
So apparently if you are a history buff and need historical accuracy you will get it with this movie. I need to see it again.
That said, there's been some good commentaries on the movie's narrow focus allowing it to portray emancipation as a gift given by great white men, and on theme of compromise versus principled radicalism. See, for example this New York Times op-ed and this essay for Jacobin.
