It started too slowly, and I couldn't get along with it after that. They seemed more concerned with getting the 1960s right than telling the story.

However, I watched it again this evening, without distractions, and enjoyed it more.

and infinity

Maybe Philip Seymour Hoffman's breakout movie?

Instead of a cartoon or a cameo, try Anatomy Of A Murder, Convicts 4 or Saint Jack.

Caught Godzilla vs Kong. Cool fights. Horrible everything else. The comic relief features a few actors I appreciate, but they were handcuffed by awful material. Wish I could have seen this in a theater.

The Father (2020)
If a viewer didn’t know what type of movie this was beforehand, he could think it was a spooky “twilight zone” movie. There are many abrupt changes of people’s identities, changes of places, and changes in the history of events surrounding an elderly man, Anthony, who is played masterfully by 82-year old Anthony Hopkins. Of course, the movie is really intended to allow viewers to experience the effects of dementia from the point of view of Anthony, the demented father of Anne and Lucy. Taken this way, it is pretty downbeat and frightening since we should know that each of us are at risk to someday be in this state of severe memory loss. I tried solve the movie like a mysterious puzzle. You can try to figure out which events really had happened as shown, what was currently really happening, and who each character in any scene really was. At the end it can be put together into a fairly coherent story. A possible flaw in the movie is that it is not clear whether a few of the scenes were totally imaginary or real. Also, some scenes were unclear to me as to whose memory I was viewing. For instance, there was a scene where Anne goes into her sleeping father’s bedroom and does something (don’t want to spoil too much) and it wasn’t clear to me whether that happened for real or not and also whose vision it was. Also, Anne never seems to acknowledge Lucy, her supposed sister. It was easy to miss clues, so I won’t complain too much. The movie is stagy since it is based on a successful play and Hopkins could easily get the Academy Award for this. Grade A-.

i am a sucker for this format but this one is particularly good

i decided to watch a few youtube clips as a reminder of how great this movie is, and what did i find but the entire thing uploaded to youtube:



enjoy

Not that this belongs in a thread mostly dedicated to good movies, but I found this article about Randall Emmett and his sh*tty movies to be completely incredible:

https://www.vulture.com/article/rand...tt-movies.html

thanks for the yt link, just watched it

very painful to watch, perhaps one of the more difficult movies to get through watching someone without any personality nor charisma just deconstruct

good film, but not surprised at all it was never successful at the box office

Going to the Kentucky Derby three weeks from today. Realized that I need Trotter's bets from Let It Ride so I can follow that. Can't find it on hulu, can't find anything online which lays out his bets, something like:

1st: #5 to win
2nd: #4 to win
3rd: #6 to show
4th: shutout at the window

etc.

Found a listing that mentions the horses' names, but not their numbers so I can play along.

Promising Young Woman I enjoyed it. Dark comedy about a gal whose med school friend commits suicide due to rape, and she takes revenge on all predators out there. Very much a film born out of the MeToo movement. Carey Mulligan was very good. Some will scoff at calling anything "Oscar worthy" with what they sometimes award, but this isn't really a film that will resonate with the Academy. 3.5/5

I didn't like Promising Young Woman. It was kind of hard to believe that med school was some kind of hard partying environment. It was a decent movie, but with all the accolades, it makes me wonder if that's only because there don't seem to be any good movies any more. I think the last time I liked a new movie it was the last Tarantino.

So that concludes my viewing of all the BP nominees. I would rank them in this order, from best to worst:

The Father
Sound of Metal
Mank
Promising Young Woman
Nomadland
Minari
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Judas & The Black Messiah

Having said that, The Father won't win, but it was the most impactful while watching. Very emotional.

I am a bit surprised to see Nomadland so heavily favoured.

lol at this hot take.

some decent movies available for free on youtube, one of them is secret of nimh, which is deeply underated - doesn't hold up much as an adult but it's the nuts for children's scifi

still looking for Song of the South

https://www.wdrb.com/sports/kentucky...f3ab59ef4.html

golddog check this out they may not have general admission seats.if that applies to you.

Thanks, Ray! I bought a package in 2019 which includes a grandstand ticket (plus lodging and transfers). As of a couple months ago, they supposedly had a spot for me.

I'm going to contact my travel agent the Monday before I leave and ask her to confirm, of course. Flying SWA, so easy to change if it goes sideways.

So look for me. I'll be somewhere in the top of the stretch, IIRC.

Watched Owning Mahowny last night. Thanks for posting that YouTube video. I wasn't impressed by it. I'd say it's clearly the worst PSH performance I've seen, which isn't to say he was bad, just that there wasn't much to the character, and the accent lacked some consistency.

solid review somi, i agree with all of it

Going through the channels last night, Bill and Ted Face the Music was going to start in just a few minutes.

Enjoyed the first one. The second was dumb, but had a few laughs, as I recall.

This was just bad. I'm not sure I even got up to a chuckle during the whole thing.

The most interesting part was trying to figure out why Bill's daughter looked kind of familiar. Turns out she's Samara Weaving, Hugo Weaving's niece; thought I noticed a little family resemblance.

Godzilla vs Kong - My 6 and 7 year olds liked it since there is pretty much nonstop action but it seems they left a lot of setup out. I also don't remember any of the actors scenes. My kids liked it so thats all that matters for this. I figured Kong would be able to kick Godzillas ass too.

Synonymes on Criterion. An Israeli moves to France, buys a dictionary, and vows only to speak perfect, idiomatic, French and disavow, reject, vilify, castigate, and renunciate his country of birth and Hebrew. I liked it, but I didn't see the point, quite. Strong lead performance.

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Showed The Last Starfighter to my GF...hadn't seen in since the 80s.

It is still worth watching - mostly because of the concept and the performances, but holy cow are the CGI effects bad....I know it was the first film to go that route and show space and spaceships and space battles completely through a computer program, but it's not even good by 90s era video game quality.
Still fun, tho.

Just watched Floating Weeds (浮草, Ukikusa) 1959 Criterion channel . I was surprised how much I liked this film. It was directed by Yasujirō Ozu who directed Tokyo Story (1953), which is considered by critics to be one of the best films of all time. It matches that one for me. It is about the relationships among close co-workers and family members in post WW2 Japan ,but especially about the psychology of the lead character who is an aging actor and leader of a close knit traveling acting group that is barely surviving. It is about self-esteem and social class. No thriller or mystery here just perfect camera angles and top acting and raw emotions and no wasted scenes. Grade A.