Last Movie You Watched

[DavidW]

I watched the latest Captain America movie. It is kind of bad, I'll just let the pitch meeting do the review.

[Karl Henning]

Revisiting Dune, Part 1

[Cato]

I watched the latest Captain America movie. It is kind of bad, I'll just let the pitch meeting do the review.

Oh, Ryan George's Pitch Meetings are TIGHT!

Not to mention this gem...

"Beating up senior citizens is TIGHT!"  😇

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Revisited The Post and loved it. Good story, nice cinematography and lovely 70s fashion. Interaction between the politics in the nation and the politics in the news business.
@Karl Henning I have a feeling that you will like the movie.

[SonicMan46]

Planet Earth II & Blue Planet II w/ David Attenborough (1926-Present) - bought this set when I purchased a 4K HDTV, about 4 years ago - only our second watch and enjoying - Dave

 

[Iota]

Planet Earth II & Blue Planet II w/ David Attenborough (1926-Present) - bought this set when I purchased a 4K HDTV, about 4 years ago - only our second watch and enjoying - Dave

 

Marvellous!

[Karl Henning]

Planet Earth II & Blue Planet II w/ David Attenborough (1926-Present) - bought this set when I purchased a 4K HDTV, about 4 years ago - only our second watch and enjoying - Dave

 

Superb! My wallet doesn't want to know that there are sequels.

[SonicMan46]

Superb! My wallet doesn't want to know that there are sequels.

Hey Karl - well, I'm looking at the one below - just $22 (4 discs) on Amazon - having Susan first review for her interest - looks like a nice follow-up to my other set.  Dave

ADDENDUM: For subscribers of PBS - this show is available on their website - will try on my 4K HDTV but not sure what streaming resolution may be used - I'd suspect as least BD HD but would hope for 4K.

 

[Cato]

For $5.00 each, we received a medium-sized bottle of pop, a medium-sized box of popcorn, and a ticket for...




Certainly the stunts are amazing, although there are some holes in the plot, and the first act is probably too long.

But a fun movie for $5.00!  Oh, yes, small-town Ohio does have prices from yesteryear*, not just the atmosphere!  😇


* To be sure, in 1959, a ticket for Ben-Hur was $1.50, which was a good amount back then, but did not include pop and popcorn!

[Karl Henning]

For $5.00 each, we received a medium-sized bottle of pop, a medium-sized box of popcorn, and a ticket for...




Certainly the stunts are amazing, although there are some holes in the plot, and the first act is probably too long.

But a fun movie for $5.00!  Oh, yes, small-town Ohio does have prices from yesteryear, not just the atmosphere!  😇

Nice!

[Karl Henning]

Designing Dune and Dune FX featurettes for the David Lynch movie 

[DavidW]

I watched Mountainhead, which is a smart satire of how tech billionaires will or are misusing AI at the cost of human lives for making money. Watching this right after Saltburn demonstrates the spectrum of antisocial personality disorder. The character in Saltburn is a high-functioning sociopath, while these tech bros are psychopaths. Anyway, this film feels like it could be a theatrical production since it is all set in one location.

[Madiel]

The Thing About Harry



In which I confirmed that I am a complete sucker for a decently made gay rom-com.

[Kalevala]

I watched Mountainhead, which is a smart satire of how tech billionaires will or are misusing AI at the cost of human lives for making money. Watching this right after Saltburn demonstrates the spectrum of antisocial personality disorder. The character in Saltburn is a high-functioning sociopath, while these tech bros are psychopaths. Anyway, this film feels like it could be a theatrical production since it is all set in one location.

I remember hearing a story on NPR [may it live forever!] some months ago(?) about actors and AI.  One of the parts that I particularly remembered was how extras (at least for one movie) were told to perform various reactions/feelings to be photographed and, from what I understood, to be used at will by the studio.  Well, guess how that went over?

K

[DavidW]

I remember hearing a story on NPR [may it live forever!] some months ago(?) about actors and AI.  One of the parts that I particularly remembered was how extras (at least for one movie) were told to perform various reactions/feelings to be photographed and, from what I understood, to be used at will by the studio.  Well, guess how that went over?

K

Disney, in particular, had been forcing actors to film those various parts for future AI use. They have been doing that for years, though, and that was a big part of the strike that happened a while back.

This is old news. That is not what the movie is about. The movie is about one of the tech billionaires launching an AI tool that people used to make fake news, which led to violence, the toppling of governments, deaths, and global chaos.

[Karl Henning]

Designing Dune and Dune FX featurettes for the David Lynch movie

@LKB should you ever give the movie another try, I'd be interested in your thoughts. @krummholz I appreciate that a devotee of the books would have cause to look askance at the Lynch. For myself, it's quite an artifact of its era, and my enjoyment is largely in those terms. All the character actors I feel a fondness for, e.g. It seems, too, to be a very early role for Brad Dourif, and a toothsome character for a young pup of an actor to play. I love the moment when Patrick Stewart's Gurney and Kyle McLachlan meet back up near the end. After seeing the Villeneuve movies, I appreciate what a peculiar choice Sean Young was for Chani, even allowing for the fact that this character is much more fully developed in the recent movies. What I appreciated more than almost ever ("almost" because I've been reminded of the impression from the big screen) is: just as Ridley Scott is an expert draughtsman and was very hands-on with the art design of Blade Runner, Lynch was a talented and curious artist who took a similarly active interest in the art design of Dune. Not to call the Villeneuve movies anything other than beautiful in their own right, I find the Lynch movie wonderful to watch. Overall. There are also, of course, the very creepy bits. One of the easier contrasts between the two presentations, perhaps is that Villeneuve's Harkonnens are relatively coldly pathological, where Lynch's are almost more disgusting than they are a menace.

[Cato]

@LKB should you ever give the movie another try, I'd be interested in your thoughts. @krummholz I appreciate that a devotee of the books would have cause to look askance at the Lynch.

For myself, it's quite an artifact of its era, and my enjoyment is largely in those terms. All the character actors I feel a fondness for, e.g. It seems, too, to be a very early role for Brad Dourif, and a toothsome character for a young pup of an actor to play. I love the moment when Patrick Stewart's Gurney and Kyle McLachlan meet back up near the end. After seeing the Villeneuve movies, I appreciate what a peculiar choice Sean Young was for Chani, even allowing for the fact that this character is much more fully developed in the recent movies. What I appreciated more than almost ever ("almost" because I've been reminded of the impression from the big screen) is: just as Ridley Scott is an expert draughtsman and was very hands-on with the art design of Blade Runner, Lynch was a talented and curious artist who took a similarly active interest in the art design of Dune. Not to call the Villeneuve movies anything other than beautiful in their own right, I find the Lynch movie wonderful to watch. Overall. There are also, of course, the very creepy bits. One of the easier contrasts between the two presentations, perhaps is that Villeneuve's Harkonnens are relatively coldly pathological, where Lynch's are almost more disgusting than they are a menace.

Brad Dourif had a starring role in 1979 in Wise Blood, based on Flannery O'Connor's admittedlty strange novella.

John Huston was the director!

See if the local library has it!

[Karl Henning]

Brad Dourif had a starring role in 1979 in Wise Blood, based on Flannery O'Connor's admittedlty strange novella.

John Huston was the director!

See if the local library has it!

Most interesting! I have generally seen Dourif in, shall we say, peculiar roles:
Gríma Wormtongue (Saruman's plant in Medusel) in the Lord of the Rings
The Gemini Killer in Exorcist III
one of the main researchers for whom it does not end at all well in Alien Resurrection.

[Cato]

Most interesting! I have generally seen Dourif in, shall we say, peculiar roles:
Gríma Wormtongue (Saruman's plant in Medusel) in the Lord of the Rings
The Gemini Killer in Exorcist III
one of the main researchers for whom it does not end at all well in Alien Resurrection.

"Peculiar" would also describe his role in Wise Blood!   

But given that it is a Flannery O'Connor story, practically all the characters are peculiar! 


I have mentioned this before: somewhere she gave an interview or made a comment in her letters that if you write a story about the South that is realistic, the critics will call it "grotesque," and if you write a story about the South that is grotesque, the critics will call it "realistic."   

[JBS]

Most interesting! I have generally seen Dourif in, shall we say, peculiar roles:
Gríma Wormtongue (Saruman's plant in Medusel) in the Lord of the Rings
The Gemini Killer in Exorcist III
one of the main researchers for whom it does not end at all well in Alien Resurrection.

His most peculiar role is that of Chucky: he seems to have been Chucky or at least the voice of Chucky throughout the Chucky franchise.

But he won a Golden Globe for his first film role, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and he was nominated (for Best Supporting Actor) but did not win, an Oscar for that role--the only major category for which  that film was nominated but did not win the award.

[Above the result of checking to see what films I've seen him appear in. Turns out to be not that many.]