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Amelie , delightful.
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121 Pacific Rim: Uprising 2018 Directed by Steven S. DeKnight 4/5
122 She’s Gotta Have It 1986 Directed by Spike Lee 3/5
123 Basquiat: Rage to Riches 2017 Directed by David Shulman 5/5
124 Basquiat 1996 Directed by Julian Schnabel 5/5
125 Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child 2010 Directed by Tamra Davis 5/5
126 A Wrinkle in Time 2018 Directed by Ava DuVernay 3/5
127 Unsane 2018 Directed by Steven Soderbergh 5/5
128 Tomb Raider 2018 Directed by Roar Uthaug 3/5
That is remarkably generous, IMHO. This movie was one of the worst adaptations I have seen in a while.Quote:
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well since I didn't read the book I don't have any background to say anything bad about the adaptation. And to be honest, when a movie is only 3/5 to me I feel more like I just wasted two hours of my life.Quote:
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so what happens if a movie is a 2 or a 1? do you want to punch a kitten? That's how I felt after watching the last jedi. no pussy was safe!Quote:
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Ha! I love The Last Jedi.Quote:
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About 1/5 and 2/5 movies: We can kind of feel/tell when a movie is going to be so bad that we don't even need to finish it. When
that happens I quit the movie right after realizing how shitty it will be.
A current example: Ibiza (that new netflix movie). like, I know that normally (with a few exceptions: Mudbound, Okja, Meyerowitz Stories, First They Killed My Father) netflix's original movies are always a piece of crap, so I was not even expecting much. I just wanted a cool movie for a Friday night. And besides, I really like the three female protagonists.
But that movie was so so bad that I knew I would not need to watch the whole thing to find out. And that is a bad thing too because I just lost 30 or 40 minutes of my life when I could be watching a good movie.
Box busting is very funny. Do u have any links?Quote:
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129 The Love Witch 2016 Directed by Anna Biller 3/5
130 Viva 2007 Directed by Anna Biller 5/5
131 Love, Simon 2018 Directed by Greg Berlanti 5/5
Ben-Hur (William Wyler, 1959)
Lights, camera, Action! Drama! Romance! Spectacle! A cast of thousands! In the days when Epics were marketed as 'Blockbusters' are today, even though the word blockbuster has no relation to film, the film was a major event, very expensive, very grand, and very long. Hollywood has been pumping out fascist or crypto-fascist garbage since cinema started, from Birth of a Nation to Black Panther, but the Epics which were so lauded in their time -Gone with the Wind, The Ten Commandments, Cleopatra, Ben-Hur now look dated, their set pieces hard to compare to contemporary CGi. The scripts were poor, the acting wooden, the tedium to be endured now hard to take.
I had not seen the 1959 Ben-Hur for more years than I care to count, and wonder how I managed to sit through nearly 4 hours of this tosh. I agree the 10 minute chariot race still looks good, and doubt even Tom Cruise would do it in today's environment, and it is one of the best 10 minutes in 4 hours if only because we are spared the garish audio misery of Miklos Rosza's horrible score. As a vehicle for Christian propaganda, in which the Jew who became the Son of God is eventually admired by the Jew who rebelled against Rome -the Jews are an ambiguous bunch in this movie- the film fails. It fails at just about everything.
Compare those old biblical and classical Epics to the long form film with outstanding scripts, superb acting, fabulous photogaphy and a director capable of creating the architecture for a 3 or 4 hour film where every scene has meaning -I refer to David Lean and his trio of masterpieces, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Dr Zhivago (1965).
If you are going to spend 4 hours of your life watching a film, make it Lean rather than epic.