I liked it a lot, but it was a bit too long and could have used a trim.
To steal a line from KRF:
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I liked it a lot, but it was a bit too long and could have used a trim.
You have learned well, grasshopper......To steal a line from KRF:
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One thing that I forgot to mention about Baby Driver is the Simon and Garfunkel song. When I first heard about the movie, I wondered if the song had anything to do with the movie title. The song Baby Driver is one of the lesser songs on the massively popular Bridge Over Troubled Water album. I always liked the song but with all of the massive hits on that album, Baby Driver is not one of the songs you think of when you mention that album. So anyway, if the song was going to be in the movie, I figured it would be in the opening credits. That didn't happen and I forgot about the song but when the closing credits started to roll, the song blasted over the closing credits.
Never saw the movie, the book was awesome.Last night I (re)watched Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. I had forgotten how raw this movie is, and cried through much of it. The kid did a fantastic job in this film, such an emotional role.
Hi Cappy! Inland Empire instills a sense of dread throughout, doesn't it? I've watched it a few times and still can't quite make sense of what really is going on, but that Lynch for ya!
To steal a line from KRF:
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Really? TWSS!!!!Absolutely, it was punishing. It felt to me like a pure distillation of what Lynch was getting at with Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive (I'd need to watch Mulholland Drive again to be sure, but I definitely liked Inland Empire more than Lost Highway), but this time he gave up on trying to tether the unsettling dream imagery to a normal narrative and let it stand on its own. I've got no clue what was going on either, but I really liked it as a mood piece.
I walked right into that one...
I agree! Casting and acting throughout was perfect.I do know I finished Godless (Jeff Daniels had better win an Emmy for this one)
There were some story elements that niggled at me (a few too many "telling a backstory" moments), but all in all I really liked it. One thing that does drive me nuts is that it's easy to spot which actors in Westerns are Brits by their riding. British-style riding (and American show riding, for that matter) is very different from American Western riding. Proper form isn't impossible and can be taught--Andrew Lincoln rides spot on American in The Walking Dead.I agree! Casting and acting throughout was perfect.
Dark Tower-Yeah, I know. You hated it. Whatever. I liked it a lot, and like it even more every time I see it
It is its own story, independent of the books. Another turn of the wheel, so to speak, taking place after the end of the 7th book. Seemed a clever way to handle it, to me, since seemingly no one was going to be happy with a straight adaptation (a failed thing, I suppose, since people gripe about this story, too--lol). I had read the books and loved it, because I could separate the two media. It was interesting to see how things could change from one attempt at the tower to the next, and made me wonder what was different in the version we're familiar with from the time before THAT one! I'm presuming you've read the series--hope I didn't spoil a book point for you. My husband, who has not read the books, also enjoyed the movie a lot, as did my kids who haven't read them either. It's a simple action story, and not hard to follow. Good luck finding a copy.They didn't even have the blu-ray, only the dvd in the (physical) store here. So I'll have to get it online. But it also seems that of the few extras it has, only three are on the disc here, so I'll have to get the UK one. I don't know if it's worth the full price, so I'm still inclined to wait til it drops or if it comes on tv.
My feeling from what I've seen of it is that I will like it or at least enjoy it, but find it too short. The notion of taking the first three books and, even with leaving out two main characters, putting it in 90 minutes is bizarre.
It's striking by the way that nearly every review I've read of it (professional or otherwise) presumes people who don't know the books will not understand it at all, while people who haven't read them all say they understand it perfectly.
I wasn't really impressed by Chronicle (which Landis wrote), to tell you the truth. A big problem, for me, was that it attempted to integrate a gritty, pseudo-documentary style with a plot that was essentially melodramatic in its structure, and it didn't quite work.Tried watching Bright (Will Smith/Joel Edgerton) last night on Netflix. It was garbage. Then I realised it was written by Max Landis so, that explains it.