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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
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Colorcrayons wrote: "The Wreck of the Unbelievable" on Netflix.
Pretty awesome treasure hunt show, by the truest definition. Very very cool. As a person who has a strong love for art and archaeology, this was right up my wheelhouse.
But before you research this, you must first watch it.
Once you have done all of the above, I want to go on record to say that I think Damien Hirst is a genius.
Ok, I watched it. We are big Hirst fans in our house after seeing his show in Doha, although I told my son he should watch this "documentary" and he said, "I don't want to see any more cows sliced in half."
It's pretty cool. I guess he started taking down the show in Venice in December, and he has multiple copies of many of the pieces. It took him ten years. From a review:
And he recounted a conversation he had once with David Hockney. “He said, ‘Do people often ask you how long your art works last?’ ” Hirst recalled. “And I said, ‘Yes.’ Because he’s a painter, he doesn’t get asked that. So then he said, ‘Do you know what you should tell them?’ and I said, ‘What?’
“And he said, ‘Longer than you.’ ”
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Why why why did this get such bad press when it came out? I rented it off Amazon Prime for $4 and fully expected it to be garbage based on what I had heard. But you know what?
It was really good.
First, it looked and felt like Blade Runner. Not for an instant did I doubt I was in the same universe as the first film.
Second, it is its own story. Not a rehash of the original. But still there are notes from the first movie that run through out. How the replicants are in many ways children. How they desperately want to have meaning and be loved. Granted, geriatric Harrison Ford is here but he fits and works much better with the story in this film than with the Star Wars movie.
Third, I really dig how they mention certain ideas but don't need to spell out everything in heavy handed exposition. The blackout. What the world outside L A is like. Why are there so many orphans. What is water meant to represent in a metaphoric sense? Life? Change? Renewal? All three?
Ignore what you might have heard and watch this movie. I really dug it.
I have to admit Barnes was right about this. And you know how I hate to admit it when he's right.
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Special shout out to Mother, though, which wasn't super good but was the most disturbing thing I saw.
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If you watch the films back to back, it is AMAZING how cohesive they are in terms of themes, visuals, acting and writing. 2049 really feels like a logical extrapolation of BR’s futurism.
One of my very favorite moments is when Deckard walks through a door but K, walking abreast, busts through the wall. It totally captures how different they are as replicants.
That poster, good grief. I’m going all Tex Avery wolf dude over here.
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It's pretty, and loud, but basically empty inside.
It's also got an ugly current of misogyny running throughout it (inherited from the first film, but the 1980s were a little different time) that sure doesn't play well, especially for a movie that's based around motherhood. I really wanted to like it as much as I did Fury Road, but there just wasn't enough there.
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The problem is that it’s an easy movie to pick on for internet muckrakers. And the internet fosters a pile-on mentality.
I can’t wait to go to the new Avatar area at Disney World, the ride is supposed to be incredible.
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I love me some Cameron so if he’s making more sci fi movies, I've got a front row seat with a big tub of buttered popcorn and a greasy half-live chicken leg
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I just got back from the 3rd Maze Runner film. I will start by saying two positive things. First, it was better than the second film. This is not high praise. Second, they somehow got Walton Goggins to play a small part in this film. In the brief time he is on-screen, he out-acts everyone else in the whole film. Not surprising.
I can accept some suspension of disbelief. But this film bends the laws of physics to a degree I haven't encountered in a long, long time. It's astonishing, really.
In short, don't see this film unless you are making a sacrifice for your children.
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The 2nd one is beyond stupid. Little finger playing basically little finger?
The first one had the most interesting premise and it was still really stupid
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Nope. Still sucks.
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Black Barney wrote: Rewatched most of Avatar the other night. That movie has aged really well. I liked it more than I expected. It’s as simple as it gets on paper but even on my mid sized tv, it is gorgeous. Really beautiful and pretty fun.
I like it and the transformative visual experience it offers. But, it's nothing more than a derivative Scfi version of Dances with Wolves, isn't it? However, it has one of my favorite bad guys of all time too: Colonel Miles Quaritch.
I hope that they clone him and bring him back to life for the Avatar 2 sequel. Maybe, he'll bring some small-pox blankets with him to wipe out the "Na'vi?"
How come there isn't an Avatar board game?
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