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The movie recommendations thread, son (pg. 261)
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| Zoso |
You should buy that , son. After a bottle or two, you'll be able to fold gravity!
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My UHDs of LOTR might show up today. If they do, I am asking permission to drag out the Sony UHD player the wife got me for our anniversary in a few days. She got her Made In Cookeware blue carbon steel pans early, so I have leverage. :o |
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| planetaryplayer |
20g sugar/L i'd be kicked out of keto and on the fast track to expanding this gut. dropped 20 pounds in a month and a half.
today might be the day for tenet! |
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| planetaryplayer |
Got around to tenet last night. I enjoyed it. Some things about it are a bit clouded until the end but such is the nature of these type of films. I should of wrote about it before I went to bed to give more detail. I would watch it again though. I think after one watch I preferred inception. It kinda reminded me of a James Bond film, which is fine by me.
Being vague in case it’s on a to watch list and you guys didn’t read much into it. First impression is ~8-8.5/10 |
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| Zoso |
| quote: | Originally posted by planetaryplayer
Got around to tenet last night. I enjoyed it. Some things about it are a bit clouded until the end but such is the nature of these type of films. I should of wrote about it before I went to bed to give more detail. I would watch it again though. I think after one watch I preferred inception. It kinda reminded me of a James Bond film, which is fine by me.
Being vague in case it’s on a to watch list and you guys didn’t read much into it. First impression is ~8-8.5/10 |
I will pick it up. We got our Sony UHD player hooked up and got through disc 1 of Fellowship extended. Holy hell does it look good in Dolby Vision HDR. Like being in the theater 20 years ago. |
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| planetaryplayer |
Damn you!
You ‘should’ enjoy tenet!
In hindsight my 3D tv seemed to be a fad, my gf says I don’t need a 3rd TV so 4K + will have to wait until we get a house together |
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| Zoso |
| Just got my UHD/BD combo of Tenet. It's my week to work the late/split shift, though, and my weekend to work Saturday. So...I may have to wait a bit on this one. Turned 44 yesterday. Gawtdamn that's feeling old. |
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| Trance-M |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zoso
Just got my UHD/BD combo of Tenet. It's my week to work the late/split shift, though, and my weekend to work Saturday. So...I may have to wait a bit on this one. Turned 44 yesterday. Gawtdamn that's feeling old. |
Congrats, 44 is the new young!!
I also still have to watch Tenet, I was wondering if I should watch it backwards. |
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| Zoso |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trance-M
Congrats, 44 is the new young!!
I also still have to watch Tenet, I was wondering if I should watch it backwards. |
It's a mind , no matter the direction. IMAX/65mm footage is glorious on the UHD disc, though. |
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| Trance-M |
We all watched Midnight Sky, sort of. The good thing was my kids could see it too. My wife also, if she would have stayed awake.
Long movie, but I think it was okay. Some won't like the ending though. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Shall we talk about Dune, and how rubbish it is? |
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| Silky Johnson |
Oh yeah? So bad you had to post it twice huh?
Can you be specific? I haven't seen it yet but was planning on making it my first theatre going experience since the pandemic started. Dammit. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
I think that was just a glitch in my Wi-Fi.
To be fair, most of the response (critical and Regular Joe) has been pretty positive, so maybe you'll like it. And I don't like the director and I thought Arrival and Bladerunner 2049 were crap as well, so it was always going to be a hard sell.
In a nutshell, even though the thing is 150 minutes long and is only half of the book, they cut out basically everything that made Dune so rich, from the world building to the characters. Everything is rushed, nothing is explained properly, loads of important concepts are completely left out and none of the characters have any depth (and they were pretty thin even in the original book). Instead we are given two and a half hours of very impressive set design and slick cinematography. Lots of big visuals with absolutely no content to them.
And with the content that does survive, I disagree with so much about how it's presented. Denis Villeneuve is obsessed with grand, slightly sinister imagery that is supposed to be awe-inspiring and strange, but is completely detached from the human level of the story. Like, the Atreides are the good guys and Caladan is supposed to be a beautiful verdant world in opposition to the brutal conditions of Arrakis, right? So why in this film do the Atreides live in some dark, rainy gothic castle on top of a windswept mountain? I half expected them to have an undead butler. And these are supposed to be the heroes! Yeah, it probably looked fantastic in some concept artist's portfolio, but it's completely wrong for the story.
I always thought Dune the novel was a vividly realised universe but a bit of a cold read, with thinly sketched characters and a lack of emotion. I didn't have high hopes for an adaptation because Dune just has too much world building to do in movie form, but I thought a film version with good actors could at least bring some humanity to the character level of the story. Instead, the film has actually made me appreciate the characterisation in the book more, because there's so ing little of it on screen. |
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