My 14 year old daughter and I saw it on Wednesday. We both enjoyed it, neither of us have heard of the director before.
Off to see Digger tonight.
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lol, we’re going to do another Morbius
Daughter and I going to see Pan’s Labyrinth tonight. I was a little annoyed that I can’t use my A-List for this.
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Yeah, the Fathom Events are like that. Well worth seeing that movie on the big screen though I’d think. I was considering doing the same.
By the way: be prepared for there to be no previews. Don’t be late.
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For ours it’s just Leonard Maltin doing a 2-3 minute intro
Good tip. I saw that in the app when I was getting the tickets, but I already forgot about that. I saw the movie in the theater when it first came out but my daughter has never seen it.
Full Metal Jacket popped up on my Hulu start page
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Do yourself a favor an check out his HBO show. Its fantastic
Thanks for this. Ive been waiting for this to hit streaming for a while now.
First time watching. Excellent movie. What an insane cast.
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Holy crap, you only just got to A Few Good Men?
Glad you loved it.
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I’m like a reverse Sorkin fan and that movie is undeniable
Saw Digger. We really, really dug it.. But I can certainly see why some people wouldn’t.
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I understand why people hate Sorkin but I do feel like it’s mostly a category error in the critique. His work is usually based on real events or very adjacent to them. This leads people to erroneously get mad at him for being naive, too kind to the other side, or simply wrong about the facts. He is not a documentarian. He isn’t trying to be. He is basically doing what Tarantino does with Bastards or Once Upon a Time. It’s a sort of wish fulfillment, a view of how the world should work, not how it does work. This is where I think so much of the critique misses the point. People act like he is trying to explain how its does work and being wrong. I think he is being intentionally “wrong” in the same way Tarantino knows Hitler didn’t die in a theatre fire.
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I’m guessing there’s overlap between the fact that I always push back against the notion that Frank Capra was some overly optimistic nincompoop and the fact that Sorkin doesn’t bother me the way he does others.
Capra was, to my mind, clearly mad as hell about any number of things, and is able to make me as a viewer feel likewise while putting me through the experience of some of his protagonists. The fact that most of his movies don’t end bleakly shouldn’t obscure that there’s quite a bit of substance that comes before he puts a cathartic happy ending on it.
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He tells historical stories like he already knows the outcome. It’s the most smug form of storytelling ever and he does it in the most condescending way possible. He’s extremely easy to despise and it has nothing to do with naïveté.
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That’s a good analogy. He is very Capra like.
He does in fact know the outcome. That’s sort of my whole point.
Do you understand how weak it is as a storyteller to know the outcome and then tell it is as if you knew what was going to happen the whole time?
That’s writing like you think you’re smarter than everyone else. All the best historical telling makes you feel like the outcome is in doubt even though you know what happened.
All of his historical stuff comes off as ‘I told you so’, when he didn’t. It’s smug and insufferable to me. Watch The Newsroom as a great example of this.
I love the newsroom.
Therein lies the rub
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