Watched Hawkings on YT. Not a great movie. BC was great, shades if Sherlock in his performance. I think its greatest downfall was the editing. So many plodding, boring scenes, like it was trying to be A Beautiful Mind but didn't have the score by James Howard to propel interest when the visuals lacked. But also visual failure of scenes not connecting, like a character being shown entering a house and greeting a character, and then next being shown outside on her own. It was like things were either edited out, or never even filmed, or severe incompetence. Not to mention the scenes that made me want to hyperventilate, like when he was dancing and a lot of other disability scenes. There's immersing your audience in how difficult life was, and sending them into a RL panic.
(I was also able to watch another BC show, The Last Enemy, that also sent me into fits, but that's another thread).
Watched part of "thoroughly Modern Millie" for tonight's workout. While I cannot recommend the movie as a whole, Julie Andrews singing "Mazeltov" at a Jewish wedding is one of the funniest scenes ever. She also looks like she was having a ball
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Why don't I rec the movie in spite of having some great numbers?
1) Horribly racist stereotypes of Chinese are too key a part of the plot to ignore. In 1967 there was no fucking excuse
2) Horribly padded. When I first saw the run time of the movie, I thought that time has to include commercials. Nope. It opens with an instrumental overture, played over a static title card of no great interest. I did not time it. But it feels like it lasts for ten minutes. Just about every scene was spoiled by running too long. Somebody refused to allow footage to land on the cutting room floor or save them for an outtakes reel where they belonged.
I admit, Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore worked wonderfully well together. And no, their interactions did not rise to a level of sweetness that would aggravate my diabetes.
There is a sickeningly sweet ending. But the fault for that lies with the writers, not the acting.
3) Gender roles are ummm not awesome. Though they do use the tangled plot as an excuse to get James Fox into drag.
As CA:TWS is leaving the last second run place, I have finalized my in-theatre total as of this afternoon, and my tally is 17.
(It would be 19, but I managed to miss two adult playdates to see it over the last month.)
A non-trivial number of those viewings have been since I had a perfectly cromulent digital copy.
That tweet was perfection.
GotG fans, check out Chris Pratt's first headshot:
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I am agog.
That is amazing. Even more so if you compare to Andy Dwyer from Parks & Rec -- the guy in that picture can grow up to be Starlord no problem. Andy? NSM.
I'm glad to see he was able to find someone who could exorcise the spirit of Leif Garrett after that photo was taken.
I finally got around to watching Winter Soldier (which was awesome!), but in reading the comments here from back in April, I saw this:
Didn't Ferris Bueller even have a post-credit scene? Where he peers out and says "Why are you people still here?"
So, I know this is five months late, but THE MUPPET MOVIE, PEOPLE! I always felt that Ferris was riffing on Animal.
