movies

[BottenFieldofDreams]

Wicked is fun. No excuse for it to be so long though, especially since no one told me in that inescapable deluge of marketing that it was Part 1. Literally learned in the opening credits.

I liked that it was a little weird—was expecting super dry and bland and neutral in today’s YouTube-driven world. The songs are meh, mostly. The leads are great, especially Ariana Grande, and I wasn’t expecting that either.

The songs in Moana 2 were worse than meh. Way worse than the original. Bad, even.


I liked Gladiator 2sical the best. It wasn’t nearly long enough. Need to see the non-musical version.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HC77saWLR ... ljYWwgc25s

[Jocephus]

here's another sale for you movie freaks, i guess amazon is doing 3 for $33 on select 4k/blu ray titles. dont know how long it lasts.

https://www.amazon.com/promotion/psp/A3 ... t_collapse

[heyzeus]

Just watched Oppenheimer for free on Amazon Prime. I liked it, obviously it has great performances, but it really misses what the spiritual heart of his story is. Nolan decides to focus on Strauss' senate confirmation hearing, and nested within that flashbacks to Oppenheimer's appeal of the denial of his security clearance. The story gets bogged down in a lot of the procedural aspects of both hearings and the orchestrations of the players. But the heart of the story is the moral dilemma of a genius tasked with creating a weapon that can wipe out humanity. That core gets lost in the shuffle, to me.

[ghostrunner]

Just watched Oppenheimer for free on Amazon Prime. I liked it, obviously it has great performances, but it really misses what the spiritual heart of his story is. Nolan decides to focus on Strauss' senate confirmation hearing, and nested within that flashbacks to Oppenheimer's appeal of the denial of his security clearance. The story gets bogged down in a lot of the procedural aspects of both hearings and the orchestrations of the players. But the heart of the story is the moral dilemma of a genius tasked with creating a weapon that can wipe out humanity. That core gets lost in the shuffle, to me.

Indy somehow has one of the few real IMAX theaters in the US and I saw it there but honestly I didn’t love the experience. Got seats a little ways back and it still just felt too close and big for what was mostly people talking in rooms. I’d like to see it again on a more normal screen so I might try to watch it soon.

Plus the sound design felt overwhelming, especially in that format. It seems like a mini-trend for movies to use this high pitched or loud droning sound. Poor Things, Oppenheimer, and Nosferatu all had some version of that. It reminds me of the long “eeeeeeeeeeh” during the later monolith sequence from 2001. It might also just be that I have a lot of good theaters available now, and if anything they’re generally too loud. Doesn’t help that I have tinnitus now and I’m a bit skittish about loud sounds.