Grout seeing three films in the theater today. The first was Hidden Blade, a drama about Manchuria in the events leading up to World War II and the aftermath during starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai. Great acting, although I felt we missed quite a lot by not being terribly familiar with the history of China and Japan. Incredibly complicated and shifting alliances. We tried to see this a week ago, but the digital print had the wrong aspect ratio information, and had the English subtitles cut off. The projectionist figured it out, and the second showing had the subtitles, but we weren't able to see it that day, fortunately it's stayed around for a week.
Knock At The Cabin Very intense, gripping and disturbing psychological thriller that plays like an old Twilight Zone episode similar to The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street. It also raises questions concerning being careful from where we establish fact from conspiracy in the era of deep fake on a Jim Jones cult level of dread and terror. Very smart movie in my opinion.
We just saw our second of three films in the theater, a Bollywood movie Shehzada. Nothing special, but enjoyable enough.
We went to see the latest Jurassic Park back last year in the faint hope that Jeff Goldblum got eaten by a velociraptor . No such luck, maybe the next one.....
Here's this incredibly weird part, we see three the five movies in the theater a week, and this never happens in our experience. Can we please not use this thread to trash the theatrical experience? This is for those of us who love it.
Our third film of the day was Marlowe. We saw it mainly because it was a Neil Jordan film, and he's done great stuff before. Unfortunately this wasn't great stuff. Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and and Jessica Lange in a Chandler story by somebody who's definitely not Chandler. I would have liked to have seen Neeson play the lead in a real Philip Marlowe story.
A bit of advice. Avoid 4D theaters where I saw Ant-Man; I felt like I was on a roller coaster ride and it made it difficult to just enjoy the film. Stationary seats are fine for me. I swear whomever programs the ‘ride’ has no idea what they are doing. Back to your regularly scheduled program.
We saw Puss In Boots: The Last Wish in a theatre. It was entertaining and funny, and even though in a way it would be fine to see at home, it's just not the same to see anything at home. I really want to see The Quiet Girl though it is not playing too near here, and some other Irish films if they come nearby. (Why? Because we vacationed in Ireland during the pandemic and it was just wonderful! Highly recommended, especially the Blarney Castle and the pollinator garden/cafe/castle in Dublin's Phoenix Park).
La chatte à deux têtes (English title: Porn Theatre) in a little cinema in Aubenas during the couple of years I lived there. I distinctly remember thinking to go because I heard a Stereolab song where Laetitia sang "Why don't you ring friends up, go for a few drinks and then go see a movie?" and I thought okay, Laetitia, you're on.
This is what I saw over the weekend as well. My first movie in a theater since last summer. Without talking about the obvious faith-based aspect of it, I thought it was very good and everyone in the cast was great.
Last movie I saw in a theater was a screening of Jaws, in a 35mm print, on Saturday. The audience looked like hip people who knew the movie very well. Just like me, in other words. We all jumped and laughed at the right moments that we've probably watched a thousand times already, anyway. Also, hearing the sound (not just John Williams's score, but all of the soundtrack) in a theater was a great experience. Especially the krill(?) you hear even before the first shot of the film. So was seeing that shooting star (twice). Last new movie I've seen in a theater was M3gan (loved it).
Cocaine Bear It was a good time. Nice to see Ray Liotta on the big screen again. Hella violent, kinda funny, not great, but definitely worth the price of admission.
I remember that Jesus movement, or revolution, very well. It was happening up here at the same time. I met several people then that had moved up here from Eureka Cal. and were planting churches. What did you think of the movie?
Funny I'm a huge fan of Christian movies, but for some reason that movie just doesn't interest me in the least. Seems about as dull as that Jesus music documentary that came out last year.
It got a great review from both critics on Filmweek. FilmWeek: ‘Cocaine Bear,’ ‘Jesus Revolution,’ ‘We Have A Ghost’ and More - FilmWeek The gist was that it would please the intended audience, but also be enjoyable to people who were outside of the intended audience. My wife and I are non-believers, but the review was good enough that we are interested in seeing it.
Hmm, I really liked the documentary and I really liked the new movie too. The original movement was before my time so a lot of this is new to me.
