Article talks about Apple cutting back on theater release projects. Also mentions how movie theaters have been counting on streamers to release movies so they have more content but Netflix and Apple cutting back, Amazon targeting smaller budget projects.
The movie market is so fucked right now. All these companies, like Apple, who got rich from monopolistic situations decided to enter into a business with tons of fair competition and high costs. Itās a bad business for business people, but a nice hobby for rich people and execs.
The Wild Robot (2024)
I went into this movie blinder than I usually do, basically only knowing what the poster and title give me, and honestly: after a fun opening sequence where we meet the title character, when the movieās plot began to unfold, I internally groaned with some skepticism that it was going to really connect for me.
Thankfully, that was wrong. While this movie doesnāt reinvent the wheel, its execution is pristine and the emotions absolutely hit. Add that to strong animation and a really solid score, and this turned out to be a great experience that justified the positive buzz.
With the caveat that this is only the second 2024 animated movie Iāve seen, I definitely expect this to be in the running for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars, and for my money itās easily better than the very solid Inside Out 2.
4/5
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Saw a positive YouTube review of Megalopolis that referred to it as a stoner movieānot a movie for stoners, but a movie by a stoner. That seemed apt, disjointed and a bit shallow, but also often insightful, original, and well intentioned.
the lord of the rings the fellowship of the ring extended edition (2001, 3h49m)
sure why not. havenāt seen the non-extended edition. havenāt seen the theatrical version in maybe 20 years. so much of it is familiar, itās such a foundational text. neat to see ned stark and lydia tar before they were famous. 5 bags of popcorn i donāt even know what they could have cut, it all seemed necessary to me.
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Merry and Pippin.
But I share your love for the movie. Five stars for me too.
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What about replacing Barry Lyndon with The Shining?
how do you people have the attention span for this stuff
yeah sure Iāll sit down and watch such and such directorās movie, Foo (1953, 3:23). You all know him from Bar (1971, :98), of course, where he expertly and briefly deconstructed the life and times of Hollyhock Manheim-Manheim-Guerrero-Robinson-Zilberschlug-Zhung-Fonzerelli-McQuack, but Foo really strikes a different chord.
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Bodies Bodies Bodies was decent.
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itās a lifestyleā¦you spend decades like this, and then through a beetlejuice post you find out about āon cinema at the cinemaā and realize the more you talk about movies the closer you get to becoming Gregg Turkingtonā¦then the only remaining hope is to achieve ātranscendenceā on the chart below
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God damn that chart is hilarious
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The Verdict benefits quite a bit from David Mametās screenplay as well, IMO, I would consider it as much his work as Lumetās.
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Chart is pretty good but there needs to a middle step where they claim Tarantinoās best film is Jackie. Brown.
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fixed
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Disliking challengers is a sign of mental illness. 
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Rewatchables for The Verdict alerted me to something that I surely should have realized, that the juror I hate so much from 12 Angry Men is played by Jack Warden. The younger him just looked too much different for me to clock that at all.
Definitely spent my whole life to this point not realizing that the baseball juror
was also Artieās dad from Dirty Work.
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First time Iāve stumped in these tourneys. Good, Bad, and Uglyās GOAT theme needs your help in the tourney
richard iii (1995)
iāve never seen a shakespeare movie that i liked, and from what i can tell, the closer the adaptation gets to actual shakespeare, the less i like it. but i was high on ian mackellen after watching the first extended-edition lord of the rings movie so i gave it a go for him.
the language is incomprehensible. it was like watching a foreign film without subtitles. but foreign in a language that you kind of know, like if you took 4 semesters of it 20 years ago, so i somewhat understood the broad strokes of what was happening most of the time. it wasnāt completely unenjoyable. but you want to know what WAS completely enjoyable? The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers Extended Edition (2002, 3h56m) and The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King Extended edition (2003, 4h24m).
itās going to sound like iām being sarcastic or doing a comedy bit but iām telling you on my word i breezed through these back-to-back. i wouldnāt even trim the long goodbye ending, i remember it being too long, but as an ending to 13 hours of film you can give the audience 15 minutes to wind down. and i spent most of that part of the movie standing and applauding at my television anyway. wilhelm scream at 2:51:03. 5 bags of popcorn
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On Golden Pond (1981)
Iāve heard this film be panned as boring on a number of occasions. But it doesnāt seem like any slow and contemplative drama can ever fully avoid those charges, and I disagree often enough that I clearly had to see for myself. The verdict on the āboringā charge? Mixed, to some extent; this film does have some kind of boring sequences, and it isnāt firing on all cylinders for the full run time. The verdict on the film itself doesnāt feel mixed really at all: the Henry Fonda performance is so good that it basically makes the movie a worthy endeavor on its own, and Katharine Hepburn is really strong as well. Without having seen every nominee, it does not seem out of line at all that they both won Oscars for this.
The family dynamics are a bit of a weak spot for me; I was expecting more from the on-screen Henry and Jane Fonda relationship. At best, those beats in this story are hit-or-miss, as they do seem kind of underdeveloped. But watching Henry Fondaās character deal with the deterioration of old age really tugs at the heartstrings, and especially feels poignant given the knowledge that this was his last movie and that he would die a year later.
If youāve watched his big works and enjoyed him as I expect that most anyone would, this is absolutely worth taking in as a fitting cap to a legendary career.
3.5/5
iām not gonna reveal what movie iām watching rn because itās embarrassing but The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has a wilhelm scream at 2:14:18
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