Did you see it in theatre? I was thinking of going tonight but was worried about what you wrote.
It seems like it might be better to watch at home with the lights off.
Also, Iād say it qualifies as an elite gambling/addiction/degen movie. The chess player is essentially learning to HU4Rollz in a casino-paced tournament.
Itās based off a book by Walter Tevis, who also wrote the book for what I think is still considered in the top three gambling movies of all time.
And the sequel with our boy Tom.
Having said thatā¦
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I could have told you that without seeing it. It preys on the ideas of analogue horror, and that shit just doesnt play at feature length.
There is some great short form horror to be found in that genre, but it absolutely cannot hold for 90 minutes plus, even if some of it might be fear inducing
I think he was asking if there is like an intentional cut to black thats very effective and would be ruined if credits immediately started rolling.
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Canāt for the life of me think of an example of this, but no this isnāt what happened.
So here is The Kentucky Theatreās movie schedule for this month
The Kentucky Theatre is your old school movie theatre usually showing arthouse moviesā¦but there is one clear exception on that scheduleā¦
Cocaine Bear
OPENS THU, FEB 23
MEET THE REAL COCAINE BEAR IN OUR LOBBY ON FRI, FEB 24 AND SAT, FEB 25!
Hell yeah, Iām going to have to go
Iām trying to calculate how much cocaine Iād need to take for me to feel comfortable doing that
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Check out the ending of holy grail on YouTube. Another example would be an apocalyptic film that just ends with like the world blowing up and no credits. Surely Tar uses the no credits thing for some dramatic effect?
This is one of the rare movies that I actively hated to the point of thinking that the director was a horrible human being and never again wanting to see anything that he is involved with.
Just felt like pointless cruelty from beginning to end disguised as shitty pretentious art.
Search function shows Iām late to this but I really enjoyed Green room (2015). Tight claustrophobic thriller bordering on horror on a punk band that find themselves playing in a Nazi bar and bad shit starts to happen.
Took me a while to recognize Patrick Stewart as the main bad guy (not that heās in make-up or anything, just from not expecting him in this type of role). Rest of the cast is great too (always good to see Alia Shawkat).
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Well heās a natural fit to play a skinhead.
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Yeah way too much time is spent bombarding the audience with classical conductor facts then it seems to be bothsidesing MeToo/woke culture with confusing scenes of paranoia sprinkled in. Also if people are taking to the internet to try and figure out your convoluted mess of a movie that doesnāt count as it being ātalked aboutā.
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I think it was kind of the point of A Knock at the Cabin, but it was not a great feeling not knowing what the evil was, or why it happened. Or even just the motivations behind it. Just felt kinda shitty for no reason. I get thatās kind of the point, but it just doesnāt sit right.
Saw Missing this weekend, a follow-up (not a sequel) to Searching. An 18-year-oldās mom and boyfriend donāt return from vacation, so she frantically tries to figure out whatās going on. The point of view is entirely from webcams, security cams, phones, social media, computer screens, etc.
Itās pretty solid. Weāve certainly seen this filming style before, but itās done well. One review I read made a couple good points: 1) Searchingās advantage is that itās a scenario that we can relate to better (dad looking for missing daughter), so weāre more emotionally invested, but 2) Missing is from the point of view of a teenager, so the technology usage is slicker and faster, which is more interesting.
Overall, I enjoyed it. Lots of twists, some of which were good, one or two of which were a bit much, but it definitely kept me hooked, wanting to see how the girl was going to get to the bottom of things, all the time just using her laptop and phone.
Also, my kids went to see Puss n Boots (I didnāt feel like seeing another movie) and enjoyed it.
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Theater hopping?
Ha, no, two different days.
I only did that once when I was in high school, but it wasnāt really theater hopping. My two friends and I went to see Silence of the Lambs, but it was so packed that we couldnāt find three seats together. So we walked down the hall and saw a different movie.
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I was browsing HBOMaxās āBlack Voicesā collection, and ended up watching Along Came a Spider (2001) with my family this weekend.
Itās an absolutely mediocre movie, with totally cliched writing and direction. Watching it made me think about how they donāt really make that type of movie anymore. For one thing, the movie has an R-rating, but the only āadultā content is a few F-bombs. Today, studios definitely would have scrubbed those so they could have a PG-13 rating and potentially a wider audience. But more generally, I feel like these type of semi-high budget movies donāt really get made these days. Instead, production seems polarized into super expensive franchise movies and lower budget genre and indie movies. Maybe thatās partly because a lot of TV content now has the same or better quality as what used to be medium budget movies.
I suppose there is still a medium-budget space for āprestigeā projects, but that moniker by no means applies to this project.
Thatās what was weird about Nomadland.
Itās rated R, but thatās solely because of a single shot of Frances McDormand fully nude in a bath, a scene that easily could have been toned down or eliminated altogether.
Other than that one scene, itās a PG-13 movie, bordering on PG (moderately heavy themes, but no violence and very little profanity).
I (and a few others when we did the watch party here) were wondering why that scene was there.
A bit of history wonāt make this movie better, but it might make you appreciate it in a different way.
Along Came a Spider is the sequel to the mega hit Kiss the Girls, which has Morgan Freeman reprise the now occasionally recast role of Alex Cross.
The book was written by James Patterson, the monolithic mystery/thriller author who has built a literary empire like no other.
James Pattersonās career began not as a fiction author but as a copywriter. He came up with the Toys R Us jingle āI want to be a Toys R Us kid.ā
Along Came a Spider is part of Freemanās 90s era where he found instant success as a detective in gritty thrillers of varying quality, such as when he was also cast as the detective in David Fincherās Se7en.
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