Recommend a Movie thread

[Lightspeed]

Originally Posted by Ab

Bumped because again holy fuck this is incredible. No words.

Good bump, I missed it earlier. Absolutely fantastic. Greatly enhanced by having first watched that video explaining the guidance computer and the nature of the error that kept popping up during landing. That first close up shot of the reticle Armstrong used to land was epic.

[Lightspeed]

Oh, and Armstrong's heart rate during the landing. Just dumping oxygen to his brain. Only one shot at that landing.

[Ab]

That shot of the lunar module ascending from the surface back up to dock with the command module and they just hold it, no cutting away, no voiceover, it's magic.

[Lightspeed]

Yeah, lots of magic going on. Thanks again for the bump!

[wazza]

The Roast of Tom Brady 2024

caught a bit of this via youtube, was farken savage. curious to check it out

[wazza]

civil war = dog shit

atlas 4/10

[Ab]

Really? Damn. I was gonna check Civil War out.

[wazza]

just got back from the theatre, furiosa is worth it. gg all day.

[Cyberbob]

Originally Posted by StN

Asteroid City is a bit weird.

From the trailers, I thought it was a 1950's sciencefair-in-the-desert thing.

It is, but it's a film of a play about a meeting of characters. Lots of stars, like Cranston the narrator, by very nature breaking the fourth wall. On a meta level when he looks to his left and asks the characters if he is in this scene, and when told no, slides out of shot.

Typical Wes Anderson. Not awesome, not complete shit. Just weird.

Jeff Goldblum as the actor playing the alien - only on screen as a background character!

Finally got around to watching Asteroid City. I love my dialogue heavy, stylized Wes Anderson flicks, but I still don't know if i love it or hate it.

I feel like it didn't have a point, but that's exactly how the actors in the "Asteroid City" play felt - Questioning their characters motives and not understanding the director's vision for the play - and I feel like that was the point and it's all very clever because you finish the movie immediately thinking "what was the point in that." Left feeling frustrated, demanding a deeper meaning - just like the actors in the play, in the tv special, in the movie.

[StN]

Ouch - I was considering getting The Abyss on 4K the other night, then choked on the price (~$65 I think?).

Mr Cameron has used Park Road to go full Lucas on his legacy, and AI has borked it.