|RELEASE DATE|RUNTIME|IMDB|ROTTENTOMATOES|METACRITIC| |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| |Nov 10th, 2023|2hr 13m|8.3|96%|81|

Premise:

A cranky history teacher at a remote prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a troubled student who has no place to go.

Director(s):

Alexander Payne

Writer(s):

David Hemingson

|CAST||| |---|:---:|---| | Paul Giamatti |...| Paul Hunham | | Dominic Sessa |...| Angus Tully | | Da'Vine Joy Randolph |...| Mary Lamb | | Carrie Preston |...| Miss Lydia Crane | | Brady Hepner |...| Teddy Kountze | | Ian Dolley |...| Alex Ollerman | | Jim Kaplan |...| Ye-Joon Park |

Did anyone else scream laugh out loud when they unzipped the pod and out popped Matt Damon like we did? Watching the rest tonight.

UPDATE: OK finished this movie now. Not really recommending it.

. The White, The Yellow And The Black (1975)

AKA 'Samurai' and 'Shoot first... Ask Questions Later'. A pretty funny and well written spaghetti western. Worth a watch if your looking for some light entertainment and a few laughs.

. Get Him To The Greek (2010)

Don't understand why films like 'Superbad' (2007) and '21 Jump Street' (2010) become beloved classics while this was forgotten. It's got the comedy of a raunchy late-2000's Seth Rogan like film and the action of a James Bond movie. The inclusion of Pedo Diddy didn't age well but that can be forgiven.

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It is a tender and intimate look at the lives of young people in the 60s in Paris. The film follows two characters, male and female as they navigate love and the changing, ever turbulent landscape of life. The film explores the two of them through 15 interconnected but separate parts and every part has a monologue or introductory text on screen. These don't often talk about the film but also outside of it as well, most of them are for us the audience even when they relate to the plot.

The film is a drama about youth and their struggles to live and react and adjust in a world that is uncertain and cruel and things that are happening in such a wide scale that we have no control over them. It feels like a glimpse into that era, as if we're seeing how people must have lived, thought, loved and died in that time. This is pronounced more through the use of shots of people wandering in the streets going to and fro in between the 15 parts.The themes that are talked about here resemble the ones found in Alphaville even though genre-wise these both movies are very different. Love and it's need in human life, violence and power and using that to decide things in other people's lives, the word "tenderness" and it's importance in the narrative, poetry and the attitude different characters have to it.

This was so refreshing and different and bolder than most modern movies being made today, it isn't afraid to talk about things it wants to yet there is a tenderness to it though it's less romantic than Alphaville

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Good-looking design

The script is nothing to write home about, largely adapted from the meeting transcripts.

The setting is fixed and fairly limited, painting a backdrop but only just, powerful men desiring comfort besieged by winter.

The acting is art beyond anything I've seen elsewhere, each character responds to the next, you see and are absorbed by the mundanity of the interactions, the basic dynamics of a corporate meeting, while the underlying impact screams in your brain.

They took the dry meeting notes (https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/news/uploads/WanseeProtocols.pdf) and made a drama that shocks you with the ultimate banality of evil, exactly as imagined by Hannah Arendt.

This just came to me today, we all write our own narratives for what we do, and watching Heydrich, the ambitious patriot trying to clear the way for his country's deserved greatness, the bureaucrats trying to slither amongst the politics, the soldiers merely looking for leadership, and the diplomats and lawyers merely trying to keep the blood off their cuffs.

Meanwhile, Eichmann takes his orders and follows them with the obedience and competence of a well-disciplined soldier...

SPOILERS for all ahead:

Can the Joker universe (Joker and Joker: Folie a Deux) and The Batman universe (The Batman, its upcoming sequels, and The Penguin TV series) be considered the same continuity in headcanon, even if not in reality?

The way they're structured seems like they almost could be in the same universe, and many people questioned if they were at some point before it was confirmed they weren't. Joker kind of acts as an origin story for the Batman mythos and his "Rogues Gallery" generally, not for any specific version of Batman, but it seems to connect quite well with Matt Reeves' The Batman: Bruce Wayne is a child in Joker, Harvey Dent is quite young in Folie a Deux and just had his villain arc set up, and the new version of the Joker we see in Arkham at the end of the second movie was also not much older than Bruce at the time, so that they could serve as villains for him once he grew up. And we seemingly saw a version of the Joker in Arkham at the end of The Batman; maybe that's him, or yet another person who carried on the mantle of the Joker that was established in the 2 Joker films.

I want to make clear that I'm not asking if they are in the same universe, I know they're not (officially)... nor am I asking if they should cross over in some way, I don't think they should. Just whether they could be compatible in theory.

Also, I'm aware that the tone is different, though very similar. I don't think The Batman's depicition of Gotham, Arkham and society in general are quite as bleak/cynical or the people in it are quite as horrible as in Joker's version, but Joker is seemingly set a long time before The Batman so that could explain the differences there as the society progressed and became a bit less harsh by the time of The Batman. They share a gritty, slightly mature style focused on Gotham's underworld and the grounded nature of only showing criminals and people that could exist in reality.

The one continuity issue I see is regarding what happened to Bruce Wayne's parents, but if that one element was removed could they otherwise be conciliated? Also, couldn't we just argue that the criminals that killed his parents in The Batman were actually Joker's followers just presented differently (and with different actors playing his parents of course)? We didn't see much of that time period when Bruce was a kid in The Batman, so it's possible there was an Arthur Fleck that had started a riot at the time?

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Babylon is one of the most mediocre moments I have ever felt watching a movie. And yet I would have loved to experience it in the cinemas. I would have liked to know how so many people reacted to the sheer chaos on the screen. I would have liked to see how many got teary eyed like me in the finale. I would have loved to talk to people afterwards to see if they were willing to share more about what they thought about the early days of cinema.

I didn't think Damien Chazzelle could create an informative and telling tale about the early cinema that was R rated and ran for 3 hours long and had a stupendously roaring loud screenplay to go with it but that's exactly what he did with Babylon.

Margot Robbie plays a triumphant Harley Quinn-like character who never stops ****ING up things in her life, Diego Calva in the first movie I have ever seen him in, stands out as a capable leading man who's entertaining to watch and Brad Pitt plays a established Hollywood star who's ready to be replaced much like DiCaprio's character in Once Upon a Time in...Hollywood.

8.5/10 an often times cartoonish attempt to capture the wild roaring essence of the well, roaring '20s that falls flat in trying to be scary and nuanced at so many turns but when it works, it's magic.

Similar movies: I saw a bit of "Moulin Rouge" in the movie's first party scene and the narrative setup feels carried on or atleast inspired from Once Upon a Time in.... Hollywood.

Leaving question: What is your fav Damien Chazzelle ending?

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/11/5/juror-2-ends-theatrical-run-on-thursday

> Clint Eastwood's 'Juror #2' is now confirmed to end its theatrical run this Thursday after just one week in theaters. It’s supposed to hit VOD by the end of the month. Despite the vocal backlash, Warner Bros couldn’t care less, and they’ve decided one week was enough for this film in theaters.

"Desert power."

Dune review

Fair warning, this is a rewatch. When I first watched the movie with a friend, I thought of it as a beautiful, visually immersive experience that I felt would be much better experienced If i knew more about the book. And that was sadly, all I thought about it at that moment.

Whenever a movie starts with a Part One in it's title, I get a hesitation. And Dune's only covering one half of the FIRST book. This was going to be slow, this was going to have a lot of filler, this was going to have information and scenes that are not at any point integral to the main story and it won't be very pretty because they would save most of the budget for the second film. These were my initial thoughts when I set down to watch it again, having long forgotten most of the plot of the movie from before.

Dune was nothing like that. Dune is probably the best science-fiction movie I have seen this year. It is beautiful first of all, the movie somehow manages to balance shots of nature and shots of sci-fi tech and really mixes them well together to create a very immersive setting. I was in awe when Paul walks away from the beach with a ship in the background rising from the water.

It's also a really fucking compelling movie. Even though this is all serious hard science fiction stuff, there is no point in the movie where you feel lost or confused. It just works and you immediately know what each character thinks and feels. The transition from the novel to film feels very smooth in that regard though I have never read the book haha

Dune sounds really cool too, the soundtrack has this rhythmic thumping to it that just sounds so good and the soundtrack is appropiately quite, kicking in only at intense moments. The ships sound cool as hell

This is a pretty long movie, probably the longest I have seen in a while at 2h 35m but I wasn't bored for a single second because it has a very engaging pace and you get treated to a piece of lore or a beautiful shot of landscape in-between some really exciting fight and action sequences.

Overall, I would give this movie a highly recommended even if you have never seen a science movie 9/10

P/S: What's with the fight scenes? They were the only distracting bits to me and why I don't give it a perfect score. They just feel....forcefully quiet.

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"The world of love had no place for monsters in it."

Bones & All review

This is the second Luca Guadagnino movie I have seen and I watched it right after Challengers. I enjoyed Bones & All more.

It feels romantic to me because it also captures the scenic rurality of America so well. There are a lot of shots of just the skies as the two main characters drive across states, from Ohio to Kentucky to Missouri and Minnesota. The beautiful green fields, the forests, a small town here and there, s carnival it's all there. I have never seen a more beautiful and aesthetically pleasing America as it is.

Bones & All is a moving coming-of-age tale about the innocence of age and shows the struggle with accepting who we are when nobody else does. Everything looks like a memory of an innocent age, in a contrast to "Challengers", Bones & All has a softer aesthetic to it. There are no lavishly executed shots of one character in the frame to make them look like super models as in "Challengers", everything just feels more natural.

The thesis of this movie as I see it is, do you deserve love and other good things even if you are so unwanted by society?

7/10