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I thought The Family by Besson was great. I am perfectly fine with films that could be deemed 'dumb'. Waiting for masterpieces to fill up my free time would be trudge to say the very least.
This movie was great!Movie about the Crackberry. I never knew their story. Good movie!
FWIW, I prefer Besson's early French films such as La Femme Nikita and Subway to his Sci Fi.
Once I got used to subtitles there are many, many more masterpieces to choose from. Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Krzystov Kieslowsky, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, Sergio Leone, Kurasawa, Kobayashi...
I haven't watched La Reine Margot or the Three Colors movies in some time. Nothing much being released in the Anglosphere interests me - I may try House of the Dragon but still feel burned by the last couple of seasons of Game of Thrones.
Godzilla Minus One was a pleasant little surprise, as is One Piece so far.
Watched Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One. It's a surprisingly decent, action packed little film. Yes, it has a lot of Tom Cruise running as fast as he can. Interested enough to watch Part Two whenever it comes out.
I need to figure out some TV shows I want to watch. I've been holding off on a lot of stuff (Fargo, Tokyo Vice, True Detective, Shogun...) because I want to watch them with my spouse when she comes back home in a few months, and many of the things I want to watch are on streaming services that inexplicably aren't available in Japan.
So I just signed up for Criterion for a trial. The collection on hand looks extensive and quality content. I will say it'd be nice to have more descriptive text as you browse the listing's for things I'm not familiar with. That quibble aside; I'm excited to dig in a bit!Last night we watched Postcards From The Edge, from 1990, to help make up for suffering through Lucy. Man, I'm always blown away by Meryl Streep, and I love Shirley MacLaine. The thing about Streep is that she's almost hyper present. Every nuance and subtlety of what's going on around her registers in her face.
This was based on Carrie Fisher's account of her own addictions and how they demolished her career, but somehow it was told as part comedy. I really liked it.
In addition, I learned that Meryl Streep, in addition to being one of the greatest screen actors, is one hell of a singer.
Kind of polarizing, but The Big Blue is a good one, if only for the cinematography.Besson's only worthwhile works are Leon and Fifth Element.
So I just signed up for Criterion for a trial. The collection on hand looks extensive and quality content. I will say it'd be nice to have more descriptive text as you browse the listing's for things I'm not familiar with. That quibble aside; I'm excited to dig in a bit!
Doctor Who has never seen ratings like this in all its 60 years!Good to have Russell T. Davies and Steven Moffat back
Sorcerer is pure anxiety in film formHey, cool, Man! One thing that's unique about them is that it's totally "human curated," a douche term, but a cool thing. From what I've gleaned other services are algorithmically controlled. I love the fact that Criterion actually has special features for some films, and a ton of shorts that analyze filmmaking, including the Adventures in Movie Going section, where some director or actor talks about why they love their favorite films.
Even though they're the best in my eyes, they still have crap, like Cynthia Rothrock movies haha, but still, especially if you're at all interested in an analytical look at movies, to be it's the most fun, too.
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Thanks! Modern technology like FaceTIme has made it much easier to communicate to the other side of the world, but is of course not the same as chilling together on the sofa.Sorry you guys have to be apart for so long.
I finished it up late last night. Brutal indeed. Those bridge scenes are tense af! It was definitely as I remembered it and watching on a valid stream vs. , um; an alternate source really didn't do much for the first 20 minutes of all non-English dialogBut I do love how he did create a backstory for the guys who were thrown together in their circumstance. That was a huge thing that I thought The Wages of Fear was missing. But I'm sure it could be argued the other way too. Friedkin, from everything I've read and seen, seems like he was just a d******d, just a terrible person. But he really did have some incredible films, (The Exorcist, To Live and Die in LA), so I always hold out hope that something made by him will at least be interesting. I know a lot of people like The French Connection too, but that one just never hit me, even though it has maybe the most famous chase scene in film history! I still think the chase scene in To Live and Die in LA is the best one I've ever seen. Again, just sheer brutality.