We saw Star Trek Beyond today. It was the fist movie I have seen in the theater in over a year, and it was just so much fun and perfectly what I needed.
Gwen: Demon, OK? The whole nine—cloven feet and horns and teeth. He wasn't wearing lamé though. Lorne: Yeah, the evil ones can't pull it off. It gets camp.
'Harm's Way'
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sj - Jul 24, 2016 3:33:14 pm PDT #154 of 3455
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Scrappy - Jul 24, 2016 9:27:02 pm PDT #155 of 3455
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I saw it too. We went with our pal Andy, who was the prop master on it, so that made it extra cool. I really enjoyed it--it just flew along, didn't it?
megan walker - Jul 25, 2016 8:33:55 pm PDT #156 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Saw
Les Innocentes
(which was called
Agnus Dei
at Sundance but is now
The Innocents
for some reason). It really just blew me away. Serious themes and complex characters, but also humor at times. It's especially interesting on faith. The cast is mostly women who give incredible performances. Beautiful cinematography. I will not be surprised if this shows up in the foreign-language category at the Oscars.
tl;dr: Like Bresson, but good.
megan walker - Jul 26, 2016 8:17:14 pm PDT #157 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Just got back from Jason Bourne. Very disappointing. Perhaps it was a mistake to watch the first three back to back last week because this one just doesn't compare. It took itself way too seriously and (even for a Bourne film) it strains credulity in so many places I lost count. Oh how I hate the soft bummerness of high expectations.
Zenkitty - Jul 27, 2016 9:48:14 am PDT #158 of 3455
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Aw, shoot, I was thinking of going to see Jason Bourne.
megan walker - Jul 27, 2016 9:58:39 am PDT #159 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Aw, shoot, I was thinking of going to see Jason Bourne.
It really depends on your tolerance for action sequences. I could cut them down radically in almost any movie. Here they are just not believable and go on forever. My favorite thing about the Bourne films is him outsmarting his opponents and/or the puzzle of it all. That just isn't what this film is.
Also, more serious potential spoiler: the first thing my critic friend said to me after it was over was "Does that count as fridging?"
Tom Scola - Jul 27, 2016 10:08:50 am PDT #160 of 3455
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
How bad is the shakicam?
megan walker - Jul 27, 2016 10:53:33 am PDT #161 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
How bad is the shakicam?
It's not as bad as #3 I don't think. (Though it starts that way so my friend just laughed because I had just been complaining about the flashback scenes in #3 before the movie started.)
Honestly, IMO, the action scenes were such a shit show overall that I can't say shakicam was a big problem, because there were SO MANY others.
megan walker - Jul 27, 2016 10:59:25 am PDT #162 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Tom,
I think the treatment of the tech stuff in this movie will kill you before the shakicam does.
Honestly, the more my friend and I talked about this movie, and the more I think about it now, the more ridiculous it gets.
I just went to check the Tomatometer, which is already many points lower than last night and I think this reviewer sums it up best: "Simultaneously pretentious, mind-numbingly tedious, and dizzyingly incoherent from scene to scene, Jason Bourne is the definition of diminishing returns." Preach.
Zenkitty - Jul 27, 2016 11:01:02 am PDT #163 of 3455
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I really just wanna know what happens to Bourne and Nicky. I'll wait for the DVD.