Movies (and occasionally face slaps) (Part 2)

Your mileage may vary, but I went in with the modest expectation that I would like it pretty well and that the IMAX would be pretty unnecessary, and came away absolutely loving it and being glad I saw it in IMAX.

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Love Chamalet.

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I think a big draw of the movies Nolan makes is the score and sound editing.

Dunkirk in theaters added a ton.

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Dialogue that you can’t hear half the time is a big draw for people? As someone with hearing issues i basically refuse to go see a Nolan movie in the theater, need those subtitles.

I enjoyed Oppenheimer in the theater, but I probably don’t make it through it at home. I’m too easily distracted and it is definitely not action-packed.

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I think the appeal of Timothy Chalamet is that he’s hot as fuck.

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Oh good, I’m not the only one. I always feel crazy when I look at him and think ā€œmehhhhhhh, probably not.ā€

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I tried watching Interstellar again and boy was that a tough watch. I turned it off when a wild Matt Damon appears and I understood not even he was going to save a repeat viewing.

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Idk either I think he was wildly miscast in Dune. Should have given the lead to Bautista.

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He’s no @clovis8 , but he’s sexy enough.

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Listen here Wade


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Adding this to my mental bank of comments ITT that have left me afraid to give Interstellar a second watch after loving it the first time.

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The dialogue is so bad that I suddenly reconsidered why the music mix makes it so hard to hear what anyone is saying.

It’s got SO MUCH that works for it. The cast and performances are great and it LOOKS amazing. But never before have I felt Nolan’s flaws as a storyteller be more plainly apparent than when rewatching Interstellar.

Eh I loved it every time I’ve watched it

It was good, but if the implication is that it was better than In Bruges then my snap-reaction on first watch is that I don’t think I agree. Very different movies obviously, so not an easy comparison regardless of the obvious overlap.

She was wonderful and I’m pretty sure I want to marry her now. Farrell was great too.

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No no, not better than In Bruges. Obviously different, but I would be surprised to find an In Bruges fan who didnt enjoy Banshees

Okay yeah, definitely agree with that. And I do immediately feel committed to giving this a second watch before too terribly long, so I don’t even completely rule out the possibility of flipping my preference between the two in the future.

So I don’t like to use the word ā€œmasterpieceā€ lightly, but I’ve just seen two masterpieces: Friedkin’s Sorcerer (1977) and Godfrey Ho’s Ninja: The Violent Sorcerer (1982). 10/10 genre-defying masterpieces, nothing more to say, really.

https://tubitv.com/movies/659216/ninja-the-violent-sorcerer

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I got some delightful discussion of that very film for ya

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