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Emilia Pérez, streaming on Netflix. Not at all how I thought it would be and much better than I had imagined.
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Captain America- The First Avenger (2011)- When I first heard about this movie, I was not impressed with the idea. I thought it was an overly patriotic theme, and that the world had no interest in being entertained by such a super hero. Well, it turned out that I was wrong, Marvel pulled this off in 2011. Captain America is a favorite character. And on a side note although I remember a Captain America in my youth, I was ignorant of the publishing history of Captain America which started in 1940 during WWII.
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Captain Marvel (2019)- Top 10 Marvel Story.
Carol Danvers memory is jogged to remember her past as a USAF pilot. The story does a good job of misdirection, even though most Marvel watchers should generally recognize the Kree as not the good guys.
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Iron Man (2008)- The first major marvel movie that put Marvel and Robert Downey Jr on their incredible trajectory. I was sad that this was the only appearance of Terrance Howard as Rhodey.
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Thor (2011)- Great performances, the first and most serious, grounded Thor, establishes Loki as an authentically conflicted evil villain, even if it’s not entirely his fault. Natalie Portman’s on screen presence, her character’s romantic fascination with Thor is palpable. Idris Elba as Heimdal is amazing. The entire town where Thor confronts The Destroyer is a damned good set, wonderfullness all around.
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Beetlejuice (1988)- Watching in prep for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Boy was Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, and Winona Ryder young! Wait, we were all young! 🙃
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It’s been a long time, but cranked up X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)- A top ten Marvel story. This ranks up there with the first two X-Men movies that prominently featured a Wolverine searching for his mysterious forgotten past and a driven, manipulative Colonel Striker. This story fills in the blank. Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber are amazing along with a top notch, all star cast. A sad ending. 😔
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L’ Incroyable Hulk (2008)- Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Willian Hurt, Tim Roth. Maybe because I’ve had a crush on Liv Tyler, since Armageddon (1998), but this is a worthy Marvel Hulk entry near the beginning of the Infinity Stone Saga. Not the first Hulk (2003), a sequel. I like Ed Norton, loved him in The Illusionist and was sad he got himself basically banned in Hollywood, my understanding over creative differences, but what do I know? It’s a shame Tyler did not move forward as The Hulk’s love interest. 🤔
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Here's Why Edward Norton Has Not Appeared In More Films In Recent Years
He's had a few hard-hitting films, but Edward Norton doesn't seem to be getting big roles, or being cast in many movies, lately.
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Watched Climax from Gaspar Noé a few days ago. One of the few directors who can still make movies that disturb me for days on. It's also probably the best dance movie I've ever seen. Also, definitely super mature content.
dancers gather in an abandoned school building to shoot a dance video and then celebrate the end of season with Sangria. But somebody drops acid in the sangria and everybody unravels.
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That is an amazing master shot, on a par for complexity with "Another Day of Sun" from "La La Land", except that while "Another Day of Sun" looks like a master shot, I'm convinced there are a few hidden cuts in it.
Edit: not particularly brilliant on my part, but of course there are cuts in it.
The main difference between the two is that in "Climax", the camera sticks to a handful of traditional pans, zooms and cranes, whereas in "Another Day of Sun" the camera is obviously programmed and computer-controlled and is just flying all over the freaking place. It would have been impossible to do that scene in one continuous take.
Both dance sequences obviously required tons and tons of rehearsal! You have to appreciate the incredible amount of work that went into them.
Edit: not particularly brilliant on my part, but of course there are cuts in it.
The main difference between the two is that in "Climax", the camera sticks to a handful of traditional pans, zooms and cranes, whereas in "Another Day of Sun" the camera is obviously programmed and computer-controlled and is just flying all over the freaking place. It would have been impossible to do that scene in one continuous take.
Both dance sequences obviously required tons and tons of rehearsal! You have to appreciate the incredible amount of work that went into them.
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Beatlejuice Beatlejuice (2024)- When the scream writers sat down to flesh out this story, they asked a question, “How crazy and silly stupid can we get?” 🤮
Not worthy, kind of awful. Michael Keaton goes through the motions, his heart does not seem to be in it. A lot of lame attempts to kindle fond feelings about the original story to provide cover for a lame, inconsistent, beyond my limits, silly, at times grusome, nonsensical waste of time.
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My second favorite Michael Bay movie is Armageddon (1998)- incredible energy, enthusiast performances, incredible eye candy, and bordering on over the top action. 🙂 Then I caught an article regarding Bruce Willis and got a little depressed.
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We finally watched "Conclave" earlier this week. I made a few guesses as to the surprise hinted at by others on social media -- as well as a few predictable acts by a couple characters. Just like you, I was thrown off by the plot twist at the very end (even though I partially guessed it).
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X-Men (2000)- Not the first Marvel movie, but it establishes X-Men in the MCU and in the overall story, devotes a great deal of time to Wolverine. At some point, viewing X-Men 2 and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, is a must. I have mixed feelings about X-Men 3, although it’s worthy enough, although they seriously short change the equivalent of the Dark Pheonix Saga. Although a later movie addresses the Dark Pheonix, I’ve not yet seen it because it got bad reviews. These are the actors I imprinted on, and I although I gave the later X-Men movies that portray the younger X-Men a chance, I don’t like any I’ve seen.
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Not part of the MCU but certainly what made the MCU possible IMHO.
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So. Much. Leather.
There are very few movies that get better on every single rewatch. And there's only one I rewatch every 5-10 years since 1998 just to be disturbed by how it had gotten more and more relevant. The news of Le Pen's passing reminded me of it once again. Ironically the english subtitle didn't translate the "poem" about Le Pen's pen from the movie. Still, here it is:
A masterpiece.
A masterpiece.
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“At least we’re not wearing yellow spandex…” 😊 (a reference to the comic source material).