'Underneath'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I kind of feel like I need to see that one if it's going to be Daniel Day Lewis' last movie, though I'm not particularly interested in it aside from that factor.
I'm definitely going to The Post soon, and I want to see The Darkest Hour and Lady Bird before the Oscars.
Joe Wright is fond of showy camera work - I still think of that continuous take of the beach of Dunkirk (geez, another one) in Atonement. Nothing quite as audacious as that in The Darkest Hour but I remember going oooh at that overhead shot of the squadron about to be bombed.
I think my favorite shot was how he made Parliament look the bowels of a troop ship in the opening. But it was mostly just little things that made me think "interesting" and "How much does he storyboard?" from time to time.
The scene of Churchill meeting up with the common folk in the tube though - I thought that was super cornball.
Agreed. While watching I was [insert Get Out "no no no" GIF here]. I was listening to the "Best of 2017" episode of Fighting in the War Room last night (Katey had put TDH in her top ten) and both Katey and Patches talked about how much they loved that scene. I was stunned. It was the one scene that screamed "historic bio-pic" to me. Not that historical bio-pic is bad, but I otherwise thought the movie felt very fresh.
Re: Phantom Thread. Not quite as bad as Three Billboards, but reactions to the movie are turning out to be quite divisive. I was listening to PCHH podcast this AM on the movie and and gang mostly did not care for it.
This does not surprise me at all. PCHH is not my favorite. They are what I call a back scratcher podcast. Lots of book podcasts are like that. I just don't I find them very discerning. I was glad when I finally discovered Slate's Culture Gabfest for that sort of thing.
ETA: I should note that I loved what Joe Wright did with Anna Karenina so it's not really surprising I would like his approach here. YKMV.
Just made up my Oscar spreadsheet. 44 feature length films.
I've seen 7. 7 I have no interest in seeing at all. 3 more that I won't pay any money to see,
That leaves me with 27 to prioritize.
Shape of Water is the top of the list by my interest, but I'll probably see Mudboubd first since it's on Netflix.
That leaves me with 27 to prioritize.
This reminds me: has anyone joined, MoviePass or Cinemark's version (called Movie Club)? They have somewhat different benefits.
I have just gotten moviepass. Don't have my card yet, but used it via e-ticket this weekend.
We did Cinemark's Movie Club, which is 8.99/mo for 1 ticket. You can purchase extra tickets at 8.99. The reason we picked Cinemark's plan was because we see about 1 movie a month, which is a slight savings over MoviePass ($1 per person, big deal). The biggest reason we picked Cinemark's plan, though, is that you can reserve your seat(s) online ahead of time, which you can't do with MoviePass. And there are no online ticketing fees.
Not huge differences, granted, but I like that I can get our seats guaranteed ahead of time. If we saw more than 1 movie a month, we might have gone with MoviePass, because that's a great deal for people who see a lot of movies.
I was listening to PCHH podcast this AM on the movie and and gang mostly did not care for it.
Yeah, what they didn't like is basically the same thing I feel bad about myself for not liking -- the characters as people! I understand that's a lowbrow way to experience art.
I did the Cinemark club thing because our local theater only does assigned seating now, which means if you don't want to get stuck in neck-craneville you need to purchase your tickets at least a few days ahead of time. So skipping the online fees made it worth it, especially since unused "free" tickets rollover.
Yeah, I don't do MoviePass because, among other reasons, I don't want to support Alamo Drafthouse, but signing up for AMC Stubs Premiere was the best $15 I ever spent. I have no love for AMC at all but they are the closest theater to me, and they also recently bought the next closest, my beloved Kabuki, so I've resigned myself to them.
What's the deal with Alamo? I only know them via Birth Movies Death, a site I love beyond all reason.