25th Hour is Lee’s best.
You obviously haven’t seen Inside Man.
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I’ve seen it, it’s pretty good.
This perfectly nails my problem with Nolan.
Looking forward to the very polarized reviews for Tenet which should start rolling in soon.
Good point. This video has serious tenet spoilers.
I lost track that it released on VOD today.
Anyone who wants to discuss the film without worrying about spoilers, please use the already dedicated thread.
Zikzak, there will be spoilers. I will adjust the title to reflect this.
Doesn’t matter, I’ve already seen it.
“tenet” is a palindrome
They added: “Everyone was wearing masks. It was purely that these people were standing under a metre away from each other."
Damn, he really commits to memorizing his lines. That was a two and a half minute monologue.
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Yeah I just assume this was a viral marketing campaign for both for this movie and for coronavirus precaution compliance.
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Found out about Kanopy yesterday, which is a free streaming app with a lot of good movies and documentaries. Saw it mentioned upthread a few times, but worth mentioning again in case people haven’t heard about it.
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In Meyers’s films, there is an overwhelming sense of coziness and fairness and an understanding that nothing will go wrong that cannot be corrected. Nobody looks for love, but everyone stumbles upon it. The protagonist appears at least once in a pale, monochromatic outfit (often all white), a sly indicator of feminine strength. There is at least one hospital visit — often as a by-product of sex — and at least one hot doctor. The protagonist gets a little too drunk or stoned for the first time in years, and while everyone is surprised, they agree this is good for her. Children, when they appear, are precocious and wry. There is at least one beautifully roasted chicken and a lot of white wine.
In the Platonically ideal Nancy Meyers film, the protagonist is a woman either approaching 40 or significantly over, played by one of the most famous people in the universe: a Meryl, a Diane, a Goldie. She lives in or around New York City, California, or possibly in the U.K. She is well-off, white, and struggles with control issues. She is career focused, independent, and a little bit lonely. She loves to cook, but nobody is making her cook, and she’s grappling with some stage of divorce from a man who is a cad, but not irrevocably so. She lives in a house that is impossibly clean and well landscaped, wherein 70 percent of the film will take place. Mid-movie, she shops for gourmet groceries. An older man who has not been cast as a straight-up love interest in years is transformed into an unlikely sex object for our protagonist. Sex itself is rendered comic.
This is not meant to reduce Meyers’s filmography to a series of qualifiers but rather to argue that she should be discussed, much like the Werner Herzogs and the Terrence Malicks of fimmaking, as an auteur in her own right.
https://twitter.com/madelesque/status/1339333563825709060?s=20
“Mission: Impossible 7” was forced to pause shooting in Venice, Italy, back in February after multiple crew members tested positive for COVID-19. After production resumed in Norway, it was reported that the 58-year-old actor rented two cruise ships so all 200 crew and production members could self-isolate safely.
Parts of Cruise’s rant—“I will deal with your reason, and if you can’t be reasonable and I can’t deal with your logic, you’re fired”—are eerily reminiscent of Scientology-speak, which is guided by what’s known as the three pillars of logic.
- Logic 1
- Knowledge is a whole group or subdivision of a group of data or speculations or conclusions on data or methods of gaining data.
- Logic 2
- A body of knowledge is a body of data, aligned or unaligned, or methods of gaining data.
- Logic 3
- Any knowledge which can be sensed, measured or experienced by any entity is capable of influencing that entity.
- COROLLARY: That knowledge which cannot be sensed, measured or experienced by any entity or type of entity cannot influence that entity or type of entity.
Cruise is a top-ranking Scientologist. His organization has allegedly implemented forced abortions and widespread abuses, both corporal and psychological. He is reportedly estranged from his young daughter, Suri, for leaving the so-called cult with her mother, Katie Holmes, and was once implicated in a wiretapping conspiracy involving his then-wife, Nicole Kidman.
“Their big thing is ‘good works,’ or trying to make a show that Scientology helps society,” Ortega told me.
[And yet back on] March 24, top Scientology reporter Tony Ortega published a March 13 letter from Miscavige branding COVID “the current hysteria” and “planetary bullbait.”
[It’s] odd to position Cruise as some COVID crusader when in late August, as the pandemic raged across the U.K., he made a very public display of seeing Tenet in a London movie theater—filming himself for a video he posted to his social media accounts—as a way of encouraging his millions of followers to return to the cinema, against the advice of infectious disease experts.
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“Er’ve Gert Yer Ernder Mer Skern Yerrhh”
Hard pass.
Finally got around to watching Shawshank after decades of avoiding it because it sounded so cheesy.
Wish I hadn’t bothered. Yuk. One of the most overrated films I can think of.
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what in the…….mods ban plz
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Don’t ban jal. The title of “forum’s most cantankerous sourpuss” might land on me if he’s gone.
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