This is Connie's spoiler post for the opening scene of Guardians of the Galaxy (which, seriously, is like something from a goddamn Pixar movie): it's a flashback scene to when the main character is maybe 10 or 11, and
he's waiting in a hospital because his mom is dying, presumably from cancer. And it's emotional and moving and she dies and he wails
and it's like someone took the beginning of Finding Nemo and the flashbacks from Up and smashed them together into one big Let-Us-Punch-You-In-The-Feels-REALLY-HARD scene.
I don't think it's gratuitously emotionally manipulative, though, because it sets stuff up and pays off later, but Jesus God, it's a rough scene. I love love LOVE the soundtrack and can't stop playing it, but I always skip the song from that scene because it gets me right in the feels.
Ah. Yes. Thanks for the warning. I'll grab lots of napkins with my popcorn. And possibly study my fingernails a lot.
But, seriously, after that scene, it's flat-out fun straight through to the end.
So I want to go to the movies this weekend, but there's nothing I want to see! Has anyone here seen A Most Wanted Man? There is also GotG again, obviously....
I don't remember anyone talking about it here, but I saw Linklater's latest film, "Boyhood", last weekend and loved it a tremendous amount. It's almost three hours long, and kept me engrossed the entire time.
For no good reason, I have no interest in that. I plan to watch it on TV some day.....
It's one of the best films I've seen all year.
I was less enamoured of it. I felt like it was way too long and once it got into the teenage years, it felt like Linklater-speak, not how a teenager speaks.
A Most Wanted Man is wonderful, but incredibly bleak.
