biggest shock of the thread.
good one!!!
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You really need a system if youāre gonna make it work
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Oppenheimer was fine . I was impressed how many people were at the cinema early on a Sunday morning to see a science movie - though itās not really a Science movie thankfully.
Itāsa Biography of the bloke who Is credited with the bomb but also a look at how politics and the spectre communism, americas paranoia/ political manoeuvres .
Sound seemed ok (was in modern imax Cineworld ) ā¦ lots of rumbling bass
Good performance from main bloke and Robert downy junior
Itāll win some awards but that doesnāt mean itās good.
Shawshank redemption is better.
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I havenāt seen Oppenheimer but I have several common complaints with movies in recent years. I like a lot of Nolan stuff e.g. Memento, Insomnia, Inception etc and I liked his Batman but there didnāt need to be three Batman movies. Everything doesnāt need to be 2-3 hours long and you donāt need to make a franchise out of every idea. They milk every IP to death until whatever was good about it is long forgotten.
Tenet was a mess, heās badly overplayed his hand with all this time-bending stuff. Even Dunkirk (which was basically a good film) didnāt need the time-shifting stuff but he couldnāt help himself. Itās like M Night Shyamalan, everyone is now just waiting for the āthey all live inside a snow globeā twist at the end. Enough already!
I recently saw the latest Mission Impossible at the cinema and it was pretty entertaining, great action etc but too long at about 2:45. Top Gun Maverick was about 2:10 (still pushing it a bit) but it was an incredibly fun and entertaining popcorn movie and never boring.
I havenāt gone to see any recent Marvel films because Iām sick to death of the whole thing and I donāt need to see another movie that ends with something massive falling from the sky. The carnage is on such a grand scale it loses any sense of threat or jeopardy, itās not a good sign when I couldnāt care less which characters live or die.
And yes, they really need to stop mixing the dialogue so low you canāt hear it. Theyāre doing it on the telly as well, you keep having to rewind to work out what theyāre saying!!
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Ha ha. Right after I read this I thought to myself āIām so glad Tom Hanks wasnāt in Shawshank Redemption to ruin itā.
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ā¦the last time i went for big screen, was duneā¦
ā¦the next time iāll go for big screen will be dune part 2ā¦
all other hollywood blockbusting attempts have left me totally unimpressed since agesā¦
oppenheimer seems like a nice try and a story totally worth to be told in great visualsā¦
but nothing that would make me go to experience it on a big screenā¦
no matter if itās popcorn cinema or notā¦iām done with popcornā¦either wayā¦
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Does popcorn give you IBS as well?
ibs?
Is Batman Shit?
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Interesting Bomb Shenanigans
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Mine is a reply by a man who struggled to make a joke involving Samuel L. Jackson and quicky gave up.
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Honestly, Christopher Nolan should have made the Barbie movie, and Greta Gerwig the Oppenheimer movie. I might have seen both. Instead, I will see them sometime on a plane (though I tend to watch other peopleās screens with no sound or subtitles, just for the challenge) or on some streaming service I get for free with my Internet/mobile package.
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thereās a word for this, but thereās too many snakes on this plane for me fully articulate it to you.
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While Gerwig started her career staring in mumblecore films, Nolan ended up inadvertently defining the genre without anyone knowing it, including himself.
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I saw this video some time ago. Seems relevant here still. Havenāt seen Oppenheimer yet.
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I almost minored in film at university, so planes are not my favourite place to see anything. Thereās a very narrow window. Thereās crap Iād never see under any circumstances, and there are movies that if Iām going to watch, Iād want to do so on at least my recent Macbook or iPad. Sometimes if I remind myself that Iām oxygen-deprived (theyāve probably gone back to fewer air exchanges now that they think COVID is over, right?) and Iām bound to waste the time anyway, I can broaden that window a bit. But also, my noise-cancelling headphones are pretty good at music reproduction, and I have some amazing music on my iPhone, and when I listen, I seriously listen, itās not wallpaper. Not much can compete with that.
I like the big-screen experience, but the last film I saw in a theatre was in February 2020, and I donāt know when Iāll go back. (It was āPortrait of a Lady on Fireā, which is an amazing film, so as with my last major travel, at least I went out on a high note.)
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A few years ago I managed to get teary eyed on a plane watching Fletch with Chevy Chase for the first time. It was a bit perplexing but I embraced it and feel like I even grew a bit.
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You know you cry more easily on planes, right? Oxygen deprivation again.
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Itās dependably the favourite film of people who arenāt really into film.
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I always attributed to those little bottles of Sutter Home Cabernet.
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