movies

[BottenFieldofDreams]

Ah, sure.


Tickled is streaming on HBO. It's a very interesting documentary. But some of the (snuff-ish) footage goes on too long. Intriguing story about a sick son of a [expletive].

[Michael]

Tickled is streaming on HBO. It's a very interesting documentary. But some of the (snuff-ish) footage goes on too long. Intriguing story about a sick son of a [expletive].

This doc is weird, but I was entertained.

[cardinalkarp]

Watched "The Cure for Wellness", what a weird [expletive] movie.

[Jocephus]

[GeddyWrox]

Saw The Big Sick over the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Also, watched Sixth Sense with my 11 year old last night and she LOVED it

[mikechamp]

Watched Slumdog Millionaire a couple days ago. It was good.

I was also amused at the nod to Bollywood during the credits.

[cardinalkarp]

Watched Slumdog Millionaire a couple days ago. It was good.

I was also amused at the nod to Bollywood during the credits.

Oh yeah, that movie is great.....almost every time I see it on i'll at least flip to it for different bits and pieces.

[thrill]

Dunkirk was phenomenal. Beautiful, terrifying, and relentless. So well acted too. Nolan obviously can't play with the narrative on such an historical document like he does in his other films, but

[SHOW]

the things he does with the timeline to create a sense of disorientation and make you feel a modicum of the despair and frustration the characters do was very well done.

[CardsofSTL]

Dunkirk was a terrific movie.

Valerian had some great visuals but the storyline was weak. I still enjoyed it though but I was in that kind of mood.

[Famous Mortimer]

I'm not sure I follow, or perhaps I disagree. If I have to sit through another origin story that hits all the Marvel beats including the 'discovering his powers' montage (and they hardly ever play John Cafferty's 'Hears on Fire,' which compounds the problem), I might break into a seizure. I loved Fury Road, because I didn't have to watch Furiosa become Furiosa, she was just super interesting and the story grabbed me by the expletives and told me to hold on. Not knowing is more novel and interesting to me right now.

The idea that we want to know how villains became villains (the Star Wars prequels, that teen Hannibal movie, dozens of others) is one of the more curious and annoying trends of modern filmmaking. With that and the origin story, I just don't bother with swathes of movies that ought to be right in my wheelhouse these days.