Let It Ride is not on that list.

+1

Riders of Justice is great. Deserves the 94% rotten tomatoes.

Saw In the Heights yesterday. Thought it was OK. I do think the praise it is getting seems a little over the top based on what it is. Some very cool cinematography and a couple of big musical numbers that were done very well. Some of the other smaller-scale songs seemed kind of ho-hum and Disney-esque to me. Story, such as it is, is very slight and nowhere near enough to carry a movie that's almost 2 and a half hours.

I have a deeeeep love of Hamilton and as much as I wanted to like In The Heights, I really only liked the opening number of the Broadway show. The rest was too..... musical.

That said, Hadestown takes a massive **** all over Hamilton. They need to film the stage show and release that ASAP!! Has to be OBC though. I’d argue it’s the most brilliant music ever made.

Nakadai is one of my favorite actors. He always seems to land in these iconic roles.

^ Wonderful!

37°2 le matin

I found this ^ wonderful french film by accident... and it stars Béatrice Dalle of Jim Jarmusch's film 'Night on Earth' where her vignette co stars the great Isaach De Bankolé

what did you think? I was the film that got me into foreign films...I even had this poster on my wall:

wow... look at that. That is awesome.

Personally, I LOVE French film... the french simply real me in and deliver the microscopic interpersonal moments in life that I want in my cinematic universe experiences.

I never got Betty Blue, but perhaps I was spoiled by Diva.

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I was hoping for more from it. It lacked a plot, or maybe it just needed a movie script. The lead actor seemed a little lackadaisical, but he might not have had much to work with. Also, it was operatic in that the actors often sang their lines rather than speaking them. Some may like that but I didn't--I just found it annoying. The musical numbers were too few and far between. I'd probably see it again if it were edited down to 75 minutes.

Betty Blue 1986
Just watched it (3 hours) for the first time on Criterion. Much better film than I expected. Roger Ebert hated it but I think he missed the point. It reminds you of the love affair adventures of youth (18-22 yo). The couple is foolish and naive, but feeling very alive, carefree. The girl is openly sexy and volatile. The original French title is "37° 2 le matin", meaning "37.2°C (98.6°F) in the morning", also apparently the female body temperature at ovulation. The film has vibrant colors, blue especially, and wonderful lighting. It has nudity and explicit sex that seemed appropriate because of the age group. It helped that I own a white/pink cat just like the one in the film. Last but not least, the film shows you how to make a Tequila Rapido.

I checked JustWatch to see if Hard Boiled was streaming anywhere. Alas, no. After 45 seconds, I knew I'd love the movie.

Yes that's the drink!
Love Justwatch, but sometimes it misses. Hard-boiled is on youtube.

(just realized that there are clues in the film that Betty Blue story may have been what was in the novel that Zorg wrote and so that the movie's story could mostly be in his imagination)

lolllllll

It's a good thing that reviewer didn't understand the movie is an allegory. Can't imagine they'd think too kindly of the theme that the USA might be slow, but it always does the right thing in the end. (Or at least it did in the 20th century.)

lol I never got Diva

this is as good of a review as I've ever seen...do more, please

Hard Boiled is just one of the many masterpieces of John Woo/Chow Yun Fat...my favorite, tho, is probably The Killer.

GF and I watched Bacarau on Criterion Channel last night...

Meh. I was expecting some weird, supernatural ****, not a revenge flick.

I don't like ranking films, but I have to say that The Killer is in a class by itself.

I'd also like to add that Tony Leung is more watchable in Hard Boiled than he is in Wong Kar Wai flicks. Well worth checking out.

Bo Burnham: Inside - One man, one room performance piece that captured the mood and atmosphere of the pandemic. Brutally honest, biting commentary on social media and Jeff Bezos. He writes and performs a bunch of songs, is deeply honest about the state of his mental health. If you're in a fragile place, this may comfort you or make you feel more upset with your situation. It helped a lot to watch with my wife. Great film. Will be shocked if it's not in my Top 10 this year.

No idea what I was going for here, but pretty much the opposite of what came out. I found that review funny, and it largely reflects my own feelings of the movie when looking at it as an allegory for America in the 20th century.

I originally loved this movie; thought it was amazing. I don't really know when its place in my mind started changing, but it definitely did. (I'm sure that things like Tropic Thunder helped shape that opinion.) Now I consider the film to be pretty weak overall. I have no idea if my taste in movies changed, or if what is considered a good movie has drastically changed over time and I now view the movie in that new (unfair) lens. Either way, completely changing my stance on this film makes me pretty certain that I've got a pretty serious case of the olds.



My Octopus Teacher
The 90 minutes flew by. As someone who really has no desire to explore the ocean, movies like this are fascinating and it's interesting to see people who are the complete opposite of myself. The octopus was really an amazing character, and it's intriguing to see her display emotions which I would have never imagined an octopus could feel. Would recommend this to just about anyone.

Mama always said, "Sometimes a story is just a story."

Trying to assign meaning to everything that happens to you or that you see isn't going to end well.

Sometimes, **** happens.

This was one of my sons favorite movies, we always watched it together somehow every year, now i doubt I'll ever watch it again.

**** happened.

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I honestly think this is a lot of it. Whether or not that's "unfair" though, is another discussion. Plenty of films have withstood the scrutiny of the changing times.