It was a good way to break the cycle of pretty crappy summer movies.
They were pretty lackluster, huh. I don't think I liked any summer movie as much as I liked Civil War. I did enjoy Ghostbusters, though.
Well, then, this is a day I'll feel good to be me.
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Polter-Cow - Sep 07, 2016 5:23:48 pm PDT #254 of 3455
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 07, 2016 5:33:38 pm PDT #255 of 3455
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Kubo and the Two Strings is probably the best movie I've seen all year, but it's awash in a sea of meh.
megan walker - Sep 07, 2016 8:54:37 pm PDT #256 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
They were pretty lackluster, huh. I don't think I liked any summer movie as much as I liked Civil War. I did enjoy Ghostbusters, though.
I liked GB but that was about it. Last year spoiled me I think.
ETA: By summer movies I mean big action or otherwise geared towards a summer audience. I've seen good smaller stuff.
megan walker - Sep 07, 2016 8:59:09 pm PDT #257 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
In other news, I just got back from Mira Nair's Queen of Katwe and it is everything you might think a Disney sports movie directed by Mira Nair would be. Delightful. Heartwarming. Colorful. Solid performances by Lupita and David Oyelowo and the young lead was particularly good.
Consuela - Sep 08, 2016 1:48:02 pm PDT #258 of 3455
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yay, megan. I wanted that to be good, and I love David Oyelowo. (Danny! :sob:)
Vonnie K - Sep 08, 2016 6:25:11 pm PDT #259 of 3455
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I'm doing Toronto Film Festival this year -- took a whole week off and everything -- and will be seeing Queen of Katwe on Sat the 17th. Happy to hear that it is delightful!
Just got into town this AM and my first film was Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann this afternoon, which is a German comedy about a father-daughter relationship that's almost 3 hours long. Wow. Talk about setting the bar high for the rest of the festival. It was offbeat and lovely and often falling-off-the-chair funny, and contained what was probably the greatest onscreen rendition of a Whitney Houston song of all time.
Polter-Cow - Sep 09, 2016 10:30:14 pm PDT #260 of 3455
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh wait, Finding Dory was really good! So there's that.
Steph L. - Sep 10, 2016 5:39:27 am PDT #261 of 3455
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
They were pretty lackluster, huh. I don't think I liked any summer movie as much as I liked Civil War. I did enjoy Ghostbusters, though.
I thought Star Trek Beyond was entertaining. I didn't really expect much more out of it than to be entertaining, though.
Jessica - Sep 10, 2016 6:22:30 am PDT #262 of 3455
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
DH is at TFF right now, Vonnie, maybe you'll cross paths!
Vonnie K - Sep 11, 2016 6:59:19 am PDT #263 of 3455
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
It could totally happen! There are only like half a million people attending the festival!
Did he complain yet about the escalators at Scotiabanks venue being broken? It's kinda turned into a festival-wide joke. Having to climb up that ridiculous flight of stairs after standing in queue outside in the rain for an hour yesterday was... special.
Festival update: I've heard about Park Chan Wook's The Handmaiden (adapted liberally from Sarah Water's Fingersmith apparently) being gorgeous and lurid and kind of bonkers, but nobody told me how funny it was! I was in stitches throughout the film. It was like 2 1/2 hour-long Gothic lesbian comedy on drugs. A+++, will watch again! I haven't read the Waters novel but I assume the more... outre elements in the film were Park's invention.
Also watched yesterday: Terrence Malick's Voyage of Time, which purported to say profound things about Time, Universe, Life, and Everything. I found it visually splendid and also hilariously pretentious. In my defense, I had plenty of really excellent Thai food just an hour before and Cate Blanchett's Galadriel voice (slowed down to half the speed, if you can imagine it) proved to be extremely soporific to me in that state, so I was possibly not in the appropriate frame of mind to receive it favourably. Seriously though, there is just so much mournful choral music one can stomach in a single film, and I like mournful choral music! (I also had some issues with poverty- and misery-porn, especially in the film's use of brown and black bodies as a shorthand for human suffering.) Um. It seemed rapturously received by most people in the theater, so don't take my word for it.