Movies (and occasionally face slaps) (Part 2)

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@LKJ

Finally caught up to Malcolm X. I’ve known it’s a must for a while, but the 3:20 length has a way of getting a movie pushed off for longer, not because I’m opposed to longer movies (I’m not at all), but just because there are any number of circumstances where you have the space to throw on a two-hour movie and don’t have the same space for the long epic. I try to avoid breaking up movies over multiple days.

Anyway, obviously I’m only posting about it because I agree with the masses that it’s awesome. Surely should have gotten Denzel his first Best Actor trophy instead of being the moment where they gave it to Al Pacino for one of his dumbest performances (Scent of a Woman). Not only did it earn the length, but I was convinced by the end that trimming it down to a normal length would have weakened the movie.

@eyebooger Since you were head over heels about One Night in Miami, you are committing a crime against yourself if you don’t make the time for this. It’s on Prime for the rest of the month.

Watched this late last night about a half hour before it left. (More accurately, finished it then. I don’t have any issue splitting movies up into three days.)

And, yeah, this was great. I was surprised that no punches were pulled about how he was not such a great guy in his early life. I agree that trimming it down would have hurt the movie. There were basically two redemption arcs in the story that needed time to develop.

I’ve got this slightly below One Night in Miami, but only barely, and possibly because my expectations going into One Night in Miami were extremely low (honestly thought the premise sounded horrible) whereas here, I would have been disappointed by something that didn’t reach greatness.

I was not disappointed.

9/10

While I can say that it was an Oscar worthy performance by Denzel, I can’t compare it to Al Pacino’s Scent of a Woman since I’ve never seen it, or almost anything from that year. The only movie I had seen that got nominated for any award was Batman Returns. There are a few weird ones in there that I probably should have seen by now (most notably A Few Good Men and Aladdin), but there isn’t much there that jumps out at me. Was 1992 a very below average year for movies or am I missing something?