No spoilers please. I'm going to watch this in about 2039.
I can't wait to see it but unfortunately will not get the chance until it comes out on physical media.
I quite liked this by Matt Zolller Seitz on that kind of moviemaking
https://www.rogerebert.com/features/megalopolis-and-joker-folie-a-deux-or-the-virtue-of-burning-money
That's a fun review. I hadn't read Brammer before, but now I want to see the movie. And I followed a link to the review of Madame Web, and now I want to see that one, too.
It's such a silly movie!
That already almost forgotten meme (?) that men spend a lot of time thinking about the Roman Empire -- it seems that even for a man, FFC spent a whole whole lot of time thinking about the Roman Empire. Could you imagine a movie that for the most part appears to be set in contemporary NYC with vestal virgins and chariot races? Francis did!
Cesar Catilina, played by Adam Driver, whose ambition is to build a shiny utopia out of Megalon, a magic synthetic material he discovered in his dead wife.
Yes, in. Not "discovered with his dead wife" as in they were working on it in the lab together before she died. IN.
3 I don't know but even if it does come here it will be heavily censored and I won't watch a censored film
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10128846/parentalguide/nudity
I now want to see this film very, very much.
At the moment, however, we are enjoying "Inspector Rishi" which has nothing to do with the last prime minister, but is a sort of Tamil-language procedural/X-Files/Blair Witch thing with lots of very nice wildlife etc. I'm also fascinated by the characters switching from (I guess) Tamil to English mid-sentence; not just for phrases like "toxicology report" which I guess there might not be a Tamil phrase for, but for perfectly ordinary sentences. I keep wondering if this is significant to a Tamil audience; like, if the policeman says this particular sentence in English, is that meant to imply "I am being official and serious now" or "I am reminding you of my place in the hierarchy" or what?
Here is a review from The Hindu which includes spoilers but also uses the word "thereof" in the first sentence. https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/inspector-rishi-series-review-naveen-chandra-headlines-a-mostly-engaging-but-predictable-investigative-horror/article68005822.ece
it seems that even for a man, FFC spent a whole whole lot of time thinking about the Roman Empire.
Characters called Cicero, Catiline and Clodius are not references to the Roman Empire!
Yeah, who wants to see a movie without nudity?
Used to be, the internet spent a lot of time thinking about Alison Roman.
10: People watching a movie with their kids or parents.
The censors heard someone say "Catalina dressing" and misunderstood.
Since the is the movie thread, I'm on topic to say I'm having a Philip Seymour Hoffman movie night. Starting with Twister.
Bill Pullman is getting more screen time though.
I assume Helen Hunt won her Oscar for her delivery of the word "cow".
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I wonder how many of the old people with their dogs in strollers do it so they'll have something to lean on without getting a cane.
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They could just steal shopping carts.
How quickly did your kids get a little more relaxed about driving? I've been taking Hawaii out weekly for about six weeks, and we are not yet driving near other cars. She is extremely tense and anxious about the idea of other cars. I'm trying to figure out when to hand it off to a driving school (but I'm loathe to add more scheduled crap to our lives) or what. Like, I do not feel panicked in the car with her at all, so I don't think I'm feeding into it, but this is a kid with OCD and anxiety who is prone to getting stuck mentally.
It's probably kind of good for her to be unrelaxed about driving, right? To some extent it seems like it would be better than the opposite in a teen, at least until she gains experience and develops good intuitions about vehicle handling and the relative speeds of other vehicles, etc.
A beer or two will help take the edge off.
I'll probably never watch Megalopolis, but this review kind of made me want to. I watched two movies on the plane: Anatomy of a Fall and A League of Their Own. AoaF was good, but if it's at all a realistic depiction, the French legal system is pure bananas -- witnesses don't have to speak to their own percipient knowledge but can just go up and wax on about their own opinions, including their interpretations of literary works and what those works might say about the author's propensity to commit murder?
ALoTO was not good, but I was impressed that the cosmetic technology for aging up the actors was so sophisticated in the early 90s, and then when I looked up the film I was even more impressed that it wasn't cosmetics at all, but genius-level casting.
I just finished The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman, and I recommend it so much. I can't remember the last time I got so much pure enjoyment out of reading a novel.
Oh yay!! Literally I think it was you who recommended The Magicians to me when I pleaded for distractions, post 2016 election. I was thinking about that because I've been wondering how to cope if this November goes south.
She was actually more relaxed today, so we are making progress. And I figured out how to introduce her to traffic: we're going to go driving at like 8 am on a Sunday.
Apparently, in Texas cheerleader coaches now just torture their students. So keep her out of that too.
I was very worried that link was going to go to a different, semi-local cheerleading coach who was fired in nearby Sadtown.
"Lubbock" just sounds like a sad place.
A different town near here - Luling - has the most mockable name possible, because it's hard to say without sounding like you're putting on a fake-dumb-Southern accent. It's practically Wharf-ian. You'll be shocked that they're renowned for having a yearly Watermelon Thump festival, where they crown the Watermelon Thump Queen.
It sounds like a pain fetish thing.
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I feel the need to drop this somewhere in comments because it's an excellent piece of reporting by the much-derided NYT on the Trumpists whose support for him is based in part on the fact that they trust him to lie.
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31 knocked loose the memory that in middle school our class went to what must have been the Judge Roy Bean Visitor Center in Langtry - "Law West of the Pecos". The story I came away, as passed down in legend-based movies with was that he named the town after star actress Lily Langtry and tried to get her to visit. Either I was misinformed or I did not retain the boring part, that the town was named after someone else coincidentally named Langtry. He did have a thing for her though. I think they did say she didn't visit though (at least in his lifetime).
Joker Deux is ok but not great, and very little fun. A MAGA parable, basically. Which is fine, but the first movie did it much better.
OT: I think I just caught something. I hope it's the ground hog that ate my siding.
If you inhaled it you should probably see a doctor.