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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #336 on: February 25, 2024, 12:59:02 PM »
Watched The Color Purple and Zone of Interest.  Unimpressed with both.

I've never actually seen the musical The Color Purple, so maybe that's how it is, but it felt like they didn't actually include the entire songs.  It's like watching a musician biopic, except it actually was a move, and actually was a musical.  This felt like they did a worse remake of the movie, and included a little bit of music.  What music there was, was good enough.  But this felt 100% like a musical/movie that did not need to be made.

Zone of Interest is apparently "based" on a book, in the loosest of definitions.  I thought it would be this interesting look at the dual nature of a war criminal with a home life.  Instead, it was just mostly about his home life.  If you were going to do that, the whole movie should have been about the wife, then the Holocaust of it all simply being the background, would have been different.


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  • Barbie
  • Maestro
  • Past Lives
  • Zone of Interest

BEST ACTOR
  • Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
  • Colman Domingo, Rustin
  • Bradley Cooper, Maestro

BEST ACTRESS
  • Annette Bening, Nyad
  • Carey Mulligan, Maestro

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
  • Ryan Gosling, Barbie

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
  • Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
  • Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
  • America Ferrera, Barbie
  • Jodie Foster, Nyad

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« Reply #337 on: February 25, 2024, 04:23:39 PM »
Watched The Color Purple and Zone of Interest.  Unimpressed with both.
Feel like Hollywood doesn’t really make anything worth seeing anymore. I saw Matt Damon talk about this, he was basically saying the studios used to take big chances and risks and swing for the fences all the time, because even if a movie didn’t hit and perform like gangbusters at the box office, the revenue from the home sales of VHS in 80s and 90s and then DVD/BluRay in 2000’s and 2010’s would make up for that.

Lot of movies would just do OK at the box office and still make hundreds of millions more for the studios through the home sales, and unlike at the box office they didn’t have to split the take with theater chains. They got to keep that all money for themselves. 

Well obviously that entire industry is dead now because of subscription streaming services, and if a movie doesn’t crush it at the box office today then the studio is pretty much guaranteed to lose money on that movie. 

You get a better product now in tv. Instead of spending $100-$150 million to make a single movie, studios are better off spending that kind of scratch doing an 8-10 part series. They’ll have a better product and they’ll be able to own it on their own streaming services to keep/attract subscribers or license it for shitloads of money forever to other streaming services. 

Movies are a shitty business with way too much risk to be in now, which is probably why all we get coming down the pike from Hollywood these days is pretty much trash.

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« Reply #338 on: February 25, 2024, 10:45:57 PM »
95% of movies are either cashing in on existing IP, or just art house films trying to make money after being included on awards list.

That's not to say either one has to be bad.  I enjoyed almost all of the Marvel movies pre Disney+.

I also actually loved both Star Wars spin off movies (Rogue One and Solo), as bad as the entire sequel trilogy was.

And some of the Oscar bait movies (Holdovers), are phenomenal.  I just think there are almost no movies that exist in between anymore.  It might just be Tom Cruise saving us all.  I know MI and Top Gun are existing IP, but even the other movies he's made over past decade have all been good.  And even the slight misses have at least existed in the rare gap of just fun movies that are neither.

People lost their minds over Barbenheimer.  And now both are nominated for Best Picture.  Can't we just have a fun summer movie with characters we don't know?

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« Reply #339 on: February 26, 2024, 11:59:04 AM »
Rogue One is actually my favorite Star Wars movie. I love that they embraced a darker, more gritty tone and that the "good guys" aren't always good. 

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« Reply #340 on: February 26, 2024, 12:04:26 PM »

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« Reply #341 on: February 26, 2024, 12:05:01 PM »
What is the most recent movie you personally would put in your top 50 all time?  

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« Reply #342 on: February 26, 2024, 12:13:13 PM »
What is the most recent movie you personally would put in your top 50 all time? 
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« Reply #343 on: February 28, 2024, 08:02:39 AM »

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« Reply #344 on: February 28, 2024, 08:20:47 AM »
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

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« Reply #345 on: February 29, 2024, 01:25:19 PM »


Shazaam.

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« Reply #346 on: March 01, 2024, 03:32:51 PM »

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« Reply #347 on: March 01, 2024, 03:44:43 PM »
Going to see Dune part 2 on Sunday, I'm pumped.

Also, I've watched the first two episodes of Shogun and so far it's really good.

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« Reply #348 on: March 01, 2024, 04:04:10 PM »
Watched The Color Purple and Zone of Interest.  Unimpressed with both.

I've never actually seen the musical The Color Purple, so maybe that's how it is, but it felt like they didn't actually include the entire songs.  It's like watching a musician biopic, except it actually was a move, and actually was a musical.  This felt like they did a worse remake of the movie, and included a little bit of music.  What music there was, was good enough.  But this felt 100% like a musical/movie that did not need to be made.

Zone of Interest is apparently "based" on a book, in the loosest of definitions.  I thought it would be this interesting look at the dual nature of a war criminal with a home life.  Instead, it was just mostly about his home life.  If you were going to do that, the whole movie should have been about the wife, then the Holocaust of it all simply being the background, would have been different.


BEST PICTURE
  • The Holdovers
  • Barbie
  • Maestro
  • Past Lives
  • Zone of Interest

BEST ACTOR
  • Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
  • Colman Domingo, Rustin
  • Bradley Cooper, Maestro

BEST ACTRESS
  • Annette Bening, Nyad
  • Carey Mulligan, Maestro

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
  • Ryan Gosling, Barbie

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
  • Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
  • Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
  • America Ferrera, Barbie
  • Jodie Foster, Nyad

I'm assuming you didn't see Oppenheimer, because your order of several of these lists would be very different. Oppy's going to win Best Picture, Robert Downey Jr. is going to win Supporting Actor in a ridiculously loaded field.

Since we moved to where a movie theater is a mile down the road from us, we've seen more of the Academy Award nominees this year than we ever have.

Said theater also has the worst popcorn I've ever eaten under any pretenses. Even worse than some of the awful bar popcorn I've eaten at the Big Ten and Newt's over the years, and that's saying something.

I thought Barbie was a perfect airplane movie. We watched it on the way down to Florida back in January.

Saw the Holdovers on a whim. Loved it. Randolph is going to win Supporting Actress and deservedly so. If anyone is going to beat Cilian Murphy, it's going to be Giamatti. 

As Oscar bait goes, Maestro is egregiously so to the point it made Green Book look like chicken scratch. Bradley Cooper is trying too hard. He should take the same advice cardinals get when running for pope.

We saw Wonka back in January, and while I didn't think it was anything to write home about, it got us interested in Timothy Chalamet, which got us through Dune, and now we're looking forward to seeing Dune 2 soon.

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« Reply #349 on: March 01, 2024, 04:21:54 PM »
We saw Wonka back in January, and while I didn't think it was anything to write home about, it got us interested in Timothy Chalamet, which got us through Dune, and now we're looking forward to seeing Dune 2 soon.
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