see now... That's why I didn't go see it.
that is very similar impression I had via the trailer.

The Lost City had all these great reviews and I love Sandra Bullock being silly, so....

it sucked. The writer of Romancing the Stone should sue. It's a direct rip-off of that movie. But not as charming or funny.

Watch teasers, avoid trailers. This will vastly improve your moviegoing experience overall.

I don’t know who decided to start making trailers two and a half minutes long, but I hate it. You basically see all three acts of any film.

Brad Pitt was great though in The Lost City

The Rider - I guess Chloe Zhao's films just aren't for me. I couldn't make it through Nomadland or this one. I think that films, even more than books, should have plots. Zhao prefers to meander through uniquely American lives which I frankly don't care about. The Rider's about a cowboy who had a rodeo accident. He and his friends sit around a campfire swapping stories of their rodeo misfortunes (yawn). He almost gets into a bar fight with a a guy hitting on his sister who has a mental disability (yawn). He doesn't get along with his father (yawn). I made it through the much lauded scene where he tames a horse, found it as yawn-worthy as everything else, and switched off.

I haven't seen Eternals, but it's not surprising that it flopped given that a Marvel movie is diametrically opposed to the sort of movies Zhao likes to make.

Pitt was great and the scene with leeches was hilarious but yeah, it was pretty bad. But I still mostly enjoyed it.

tatum really is quite charming and has good comedic chops.

yeah, I like everyone involved with the movie, just not the actual script. It was lazy and a complete rip-off of other, better movies.

Anyone see Men yet? Loved Ex Machina and Annihilation, so quite fascinated by this. Sounds like the kind of film that takes a bit of time to process after viewing.

^still waiting...

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Is this really Gene Hackman these days?

he's 92 lol

in 1 hour... I will let you know.

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On a side note, I FINALLY broke down and watched Licorice Pizza on BD... I absolutely loved it.

Surely I get that it's not a film for 'everybody' but I found it completely rewarding and really quite edgy in terms of making a piece like that in this modern cinema market.

The only car chase better than the one in Licorice Pizza is perhaps the car chase in Bullitt... it was an amazing set piece, wonderfully filmed and given complete respect.

As someone that actually grew up as a teenager in the 1970's, the Art direction and the period 'look' was spot on and 100% accurate and made a film like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood's art direction look like a 'Stylized' cartoonish version of what the 1970's were actually like to live thru.

NO ONE is here... LOL

That’s the dream, right there.

WOW!

movie just finished... amazing. More later

I have to say this, Alex Garland is a Master film maker... this entire film is an absolute master class in film making. Technically Brilliant with superb control and application of what an elevated film can be.

Camera movement, continuity of motion, framing, long take, art direction and color specification... it's a story told in pictures, just superb.

Acting is great and story is pure garland... original and macabre with shades of Cronenberg.

See it on a BIG screen if you can... and make sure the theater has a good sound system because the sound and soundtrack are blended in a fantastic manner... where score and film elements are integrated down to birds at times chirping in rhythm to the music..

This is why we go to the movies...

For some reason I remember it blew me away when I heard he was 90 a couple years back. Thought it was really cool that he just called it quits, focused on painting, etc. After going back and watching some of his noir films on Criterion I’d like to learn more about him IRL.

Hell yeah. Seeing this tomorrow then!

For some reason, I thought Hackman had passed away. Looks amazing for 92 though. Apparently he bikes everyday and hangs out with his buddies in New Mexico. Living the life.

Just happened to see a relatively unknown movie on TCM TV with Gene Hackman called Gypsy Moths 1969. Famous director John Frankenheimer said it was one of his favorite two films. It is about a traveling stunt show of three skydivers doing a show in a small town in Kansas. The movie is kind of a mess mostly due to a poor editing job by the film studio who took the movie away from director. Hackman does the best acting in the film ,imo, as a religious , stripper-loving, skydiver. For film buffs you do get to see the only time the demure Deborah Kerr appeared in a nude sex scene with Burt Lancaster. Also see a magazine page blurred out for unknown reasons. The Burt Lancaster character does a 200 mph skydiving winged cape stunt. The stunts look dangerous even by today's standards.

I have a lot of thoughts on MEN, but I think I will reserve spewing right now because folks should go into this with fresh eyes... but suffice to say that the film is DEFINITELY saying something well beyond a linear storytelling... both VISUALLY and with messaging.

At Star Trek: The Motion Picture... directors cut.

Hopefully the remaster is worthy of a theater visit.

cool

Yep, agree with basically all of this...I hated it.

I also found the father particularly grating, and when I looked him up it made total sense...

Gotta say, the giant bagel sex toys talk has piqued my interest.

But in general, 1 thing 1 place 1 time >>> everything everywhere all at once.

Good review, I really dug this one too. I'm surprised the critics were generally lukewarm on it, it was their kind of movie. Only thing I'd add is that it was genuinely scary which I'm finding a rare thing in film these days.