Saw Jonathan Demme's fantastic Talking Heads movie Stop Making Sense Sunday. I had forgotten how good it was, and how deeply embedded Talking Heads music is in my brain.
Saw Jonathan Demme's fantastic Talking Heads movie Stop Making Sense Sunday. I had forgotten how good it was, and how deeply embedded Talking Heads music is in my brain.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
I finally watched The Batman. I have thoughts.
Cons: Yeah, it was too damn long and ponderous in places. There was also at least two or three endings, one would have been enough. And just a few plot holes but nothing that made me want to shut it off.
Pros: Batman is a detective again. It seems like every Batman since the Tim Burton films have forgotten that. Of course, the Riddler was always a step or two ahead of Batman but it was the Riddler's game to play. Pattinson was fine as Bats/Bruce. A bit angsty but that goes with the territory. I like what they did with Selina. Zoe Kravitz can come by and feed my cats anytime. Gotham as a cesspool always works for me. Jeffrey Wright was a fine Gordon. I'm interested in where the series goes from here.
Regarding DC in general. I'm not a Snyder fan though his Justice League remix was a thousand times better than the Joss Whedon atrocity. But DC's decision to go all dark/grit led to a lot of bad movies. Now they've got James Gunn and he certainly knows how to have fun with superheroes. The guy had a manshark in Suicide Squad. A fucking manshark with Sly Stallone doing the voice for it! And Peacemaker was just over the top glorious, from the title sequence to the tiny judo boy to the references to Aquaman's sexual habits, this managed to have some weight behind its redemption story and yet have so much freaking fun.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
King Shark is awesome! And easy on the eyes THE Suicide Squad and Peacemaker were both a lot of fun!
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
Belfast--Kenneth Branagh film. It depicts a violent, tumultuous time in Northern Ireland, but it does so through the innocent, exuberant eyes of a nine-year-old boy. It goes into the boy's family life, school girl crush, etc. It was fine, but a bit dull for me too.
Guillermo del Toro--I liked Crimson Peak and The Shape of Water.
I stand by my original question.Cronos, Mimic, Blade II, the original Hellboy and its sequel. Crimson Peak, and Pacific Rim. Other than that I can't think of a whole lot. At least, that I've seen.
“From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.” – Philip Marlowe
“From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.” – Philip Marlowe
The Ice Road--Liam Neeson actioner tale cobbled together somewhat from The Wages of Fear or the remake of Sorcerer about trying to get rescue equipment to a collapsed diamond mine. For an action film, it's pretty flat with cardboard characters and dialogue. It's hard to tell why this one is so dull for an action film, but I guess it's a bit of everything: acting, hacked plots (evil corporation), unbelievable situations that aren't handled very well, a tough 100lb. 30 year old woman stereotype, the main evil guy has nine lives, and other things. It's was an okay watch, and even has a bit of emotion towards the ending, but some of Neeson's films have been much better like The Grey or Taken. This one skates on pretty thin ice. Netflix streaming
For A Few Dollars More--sequel to Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood "Dollars" trilogy.
Watched
The Power of the Dog - excellent slow dark modern western with good performance from Benedict
Venom Let there be Carnage - a joyfully silly romp
Moonfall - completely ridiculous bonkers Scifi 'comedy' kinda fun if you park your brain
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Don't you mean it's the second movie in the Dollars Trilogy? Yah.
We watched Death On The Nile last night, the second Poirot story Kenneth Branagh has attempted. I don't know, I really like Branagh but he makes a lot of changes to Poirot. He's given him a new back story in this film, as a soldier in WWI who gets part of his face blown off and therefore the huge mustache. That automatically makes him born at least 30-40 years later than every other Poirot I've seen. Also, the pacing was really dull. Nothing happens for the first hour, which is the kiss of death for a murder mystery that relies on intrigue to keep the viewer's attention. Then everything happens all at once in the second half and feels rushed. Also, I could really do without the four or five swing numbers played in full, with loud, brash vocals. I'm trying to watch a movie, not listen to a record from the 1930s.
Again, I like most of what Branagh does, and he's got a strong cast to work with here (although I loathe Russell Brand, at least he's subdued in this film), but ultimately he has failed with both of these Poirot adaptations. It shouldn't be hard to get them right... I'm not sure what he's thinking here.
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I'm not a huge Tarantino fan, he always acts high on speed or something in his interviews, but some may like this:
Everyone suffers in comparison to David Suchet.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
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