Short version, if you want to see Charlize Theron beating people up while wearing sleek clothes and high heels, you will not be disappointed.
If you like your movies to have plots, however, you probably will be. I recommend going in with the assumption that none of the spy shit matters.
The fight scenes are AWESOME, and I really appreciated that Theron looked like an adult. It's rare to see women allowed to look grown up without looking Old, you know?
Question - does this movie still get to pass the Bechdel test
if the conversation not-about-a-man happens in the middle of one of the male-gaze-iest lesbian sex scenes in film history, with the possible exception of actual pornography?
Even when I thought it didn't need a second ending, it turned out it DID need the third ending!
Bwah, so true. I wonder if it was always in the script, or if it was
an afterthought due to Theron's godawful British accent.
All of the Christopher Nolan movie rankings, ranked
It's a ranking of the rankings! Like, an inception of rankings! My mind is blown!
I'm so glad that exists in the world.
Vox has a run-down of all the big trailers at San Diego Comic Con this week:
[link]
Finally caught Rogue One on my laptop. Probably would have been better in the theater but I still liked it. Wasn't too spoiled, so a few nice surprises, and sad ones.
Just came back from watching Dunkirk. I don't think I breathed for the entire running time. Goddamn that was some amazing film-making and I speak as someone dubious about most of Nolan features, even the acclaimed ones.
Just saw
Dunkirk
also. One review said it does the best job of any movie in letting you know what it feels like to be a sitting duck. I think that's really true.
This is one movie that you really want to see on a big screen.
Some preliminary lineup for Toronto International Film Festival 2017 is out: [link]
I had such a great time doing this last year, I'll probably do it again this year (it helps to have family in town). Right now, I can't see anything past Guillermo del Toro's genderflipped mermaid fairy tale, The Shape of Water, which I have been dying to see ever since I knew such a thing existed. PLZ BE AS AMAZING AS I HAVE IMAGINED YOU TO BE
Edited to add a link to the trailer: [link]
I keep meaning to set aside time/money to go to TIFF and keep forgetting. Next year.
I loved Dunkirk. I was tense for the entire film, and overwhelmed by the visuals. One thing I liked was that Tom Hardy basically just...flew a plane. He did it skillfully and excitingly, but he had no dialogue that was not him doing his job. he was wonderful at that part, but the thing that makes him a great actor is that
when he decides to go ahead and shoot down those fighters, even though he doesn't have the gas and will likely die when he has to land, he conveys his whole thought process with just his eyes showing behind goggles.
