I still had to get up to piss during it, though. I shouldn’t buy concessions.
I’ve definitely taken up the mid-previews strategic piss break at the theater to optimize my chances of never needing to do that. There’s always a trailer I’ve seen several times and definitely don’t need to see again. But I still default to an aisle seat closer to the exit almost every time so that I can be as little of an annoyance as possible if I do have to slip out.
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You still go to real movies? With covid, Apple Vision, and crappy theaters around here I have no desire to go back.
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I dont think most of us have sprung for the $3500 personal movie projector yet
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I go a ton. It certainly helps that my theater is non-crappy. I had fallen entirely out of the habit of going, then bought the AMC A-List to get premium screenings of both halves of Barbenheimer at a discount back in 2023, and I got fully hooked back into the theater habit as a result.
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Mistakes may have been made…
Do you have anyone over to join the viewing? The thing that makes a theater experience so amazing for me is that I’m sharing it with so many people. There’s something grand about everyone being focused on the same thing.
That is the biggest problem with the Apple Vision, it is currently very isolating. If they can figure that out it could be a killer app for it, but I don’t know if they’ll have enough runway to do so.
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Blasphemy. Somewhere a sound person is crying because of you. That person is here. It is me.
Im not sure how much “doesnt have 3500 of expendable income available” counts as a mistake.
I’m implying I made the mistakes… :) Not buying one of these things is so far the better choice.
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For not sitting in the center? At least I’m seeing The Brutalist in IMAX in a primo center seat in a few days, so I should get the optimal auditory experience for that one.
Ohhhhh, well in that case, ok.
Honestly, if I had the expendable money I may have considered it. I enjoyed the quest and it looked a ton better than that, but Ive really tried to stay away from bleeding edge technology lately. Its too easy for companies to just turn and burn with that shit.
Yes
It’s probably worth scheduling a demo at an Apple store to see what it can do if your curious, but if you don’t need convincing to spend that kind of money steer clear.
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Nickel Boys (2024)
I regret to report that this didn’t work for me. All I really knew going into it was its filmmaking gimmick - the whole thing is exclusively shot from one character’s POV or another’s - and given how well-reviewed the movie has been, I guessed that gimmick would work just fine for me. I was wrong. Despite best efforts to acclimate, I never really did, nor did I necessarily think the execution of the idea was all that great. And the substance of the film didn’t really draw me in that much otherwise, though I hate to say that given that the source novel was apparently based on real events that certainly deserve to see the light of day, whether through literature or film or otherwise.
I seem to be a negative outlier on this, so don’t take my word for it.
2.5/5
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A Real Pain
I knew nothing about this going in, except that Kieran Culkin won a Golden Globe for it and that it routinely appears around #9 on Best Picture prediction articles.
Maybe this is my inner Frank Grimes coming out, but I just found the Culkin character annoying. Him becoming the one beloved by many in the tour group and not ostracized instantly stretched reality a little too far (as did a few other things like mailing weed to Poland, wtf?).
Eisenberg gives a strong performance and is easily the most well-written character, so I don’t really get why Culkin is getting all of the accolades.
It’s a short movie (about 90 minutes), but it felt longer than that, though it does have a strong finish.
My review is sounding pretty negative, but it’s not a bad film. I’d just call it closer to “disposable” than “mandatory viewing”.
6/10
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Another LKJ review where I get to the end and see a number at least a full point higher than I’d have expected given what was written in the review.
What does the overall distribution of all your reviews look like, out of curiosity? I’m sure you’ve posted it before, but I forget.
Yeah, I understand where sometimes what I write is framed in a way that doesn’t match my final rating as well as it could. Here’s what my distribution looks like:
So going below three stars is something that only happens ~20% of the time. My goal is always to rate to a normal distribution while still taking into account the fact that I strongly lean toward shunning movies that appear to have almost no merit of all (of which there are many floating around unseen by me - obviously I’m assuming based on a variety of factors without verifying in most cases), so going too far down the scale just doesn’t happen very often.
Basically, I don’t think Nickel Boys is a bad movie. I like what they tried with it; it just didn’t ultimately work for me. But I do tend to give an objective bump to a fairly big swing. And I have a tendency to be pretty precious about what I give the most extreme ratings to (on both ends of the scale). If I give something two stars, I’m indicating that it’s in the bottom 8% of all movies I’ve seen, and for that matter it probably reflects a movie that I’m not going to be very motivated to put the effort into writing about unless it’s a soulless husk of a movie like Deadpool 3 that actively pisses me off.
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