Just saw Snowpiercer at home, cuddled on the couch with Hec, and am so glad I didn't see it in a theater (due to low gore tolerance I had my eyes covered for so much of it that if I'd paid for a full-price movie ticket I'd have felt seriously cheated). Such a uniformly terrific cast; between this, Only Lovers Left Alive and Grand Budapest Hotel it feels like this year has been a glorious decadent embarrassment of riches -- from the biggest names down to those I had never seen before and wouldn't know from Adam out of costume, endlessly amazing performances.
As soon as the end credits rolled I ran right here to read everyone else's long-ago whitefont, and then to Rotten Tomatoes to see what the rest of the world thought. The first review I clicked on was so satisfying I almost don't need to read any others -- the reviewer called it "bonkers in the absolute best way possible" and described Swinton's character as apparently having escaped from a Wes Anderson remake of The Hunger Games, possibly the best movie review line of the entire year.
Now I want to see Wes Anderson's version of The Hunger Games.
I also adored Grand Budapest Hotel. I adored Ralph Fiennes through and through, and I loved seeing Willem Dafoe having so much fun playing the villain.
Just saw Snowpiercer at home, cuddled on the couch with Hec, and am so glad I didn't see it in a theater (due to low gore tolerance I had my eyes covered for so much of it that if I'd paid for a full-price movie ticket I'd have felt seriously cheated). Such a uniformly terrific cast; between this, Only Lovers Left Alive and Grand Budapest Hotel it feels like this year has been a glorious decadent embarrassment of riches -- from the biggest names down to those I had never seen before and wouldn't know from Adam out of costume, endlessly amazing performances.
And all three of them had Swinton in them!
So there's supposedly a debate over whether the ending of The Dark Knight Rises is real or a dream, because Nolan, with Bale coming out in favor of the real side. I thought it was pretty clearly meant to be real and the idea that folks thought otherwise perplexes me.
Yeah, I saw something about that and was confused. It was clearly real. This isn't fucking
Inception,
people.
The whole movie or just the end?
I think I could actually see that. It was certainly
out of character with the brutality of the rest of the trilogy.
There are two scenes
referring to the autopilot being broken and fixed. And a scene noting the missing pearls from the Wayne estate.
Those scenes are pointless if the ending is a dream, and no one spends studio money on scenes that have no point in the story.
I can't say that I remember the film all too well, but I was just referring to
Alfred seeing Bruce and Selina at the cafe. I could see that part being a dream of Alfred's.