I watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets today.
What's the last movie you've seen?
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I watched The Mask a few days ago, it's pretty good though there are other Jim Carrey movies I enjoy more like Bruce Almighty and Dumb & Dumber.
Today I watched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. It was my favorite book in the series and, so far, my favorite movie in the series too.
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Yesterday, I watched writer/director Brandon Christensen's 2021 movie Superhost, starring Sara Canning, Osric Chau, Gracie Gillam, and Barbara Crampton. I'd seen a few reviews of it on some YouTube channels I watch and decided to give it a shot. I was sufficiently entertained; it's not the best thing ever but I also didn't dislike it. It has some quirks but overall I'd say it's good.
Tonight, I rewatched director William Friedkin's 1973 classic The Exorcist, starring Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, and Jason Miller. I'd previously seen it a few times years ago but never really featured it in my October horror movie marathons because, while it's certainly a great movie, I'm not a particularly religious person so it doesn't hit me as hard as it does other people. Granted, horror movies don't scare me in general so that's not saying too much, but I watch horror movies and am fond of them for other reasons. Glad I rewatched it, as it felt overdue for a revisit.
Tonight, I rewatched director William Friedkin's 1973 classic The Exorcist, starring Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, and Jason Miller. I'd previously seen it a few times years ago but never really featured it in my October horror movie marathons because, while it's certainly a great movie, I'm not a particularly religious person so it doesn't hit me as hard as it does other people. Granted, horror movies don't scare me in general so that's not saying too much, but I watch horror movies and am fond of them for other reasons. Glad I rewatched it, as it felt overdue for a revisit.
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Hustlers after hearing a couple of strippers on YouTube talk about it.
Orius
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No Time to Die (2021) ★★★½
Spoilers for a 50 year old movie.
It was 1969. After five films, Sir Sean Connery left the burden of playing the world's most sexist secret agent in the hands of another, one George Robert Lazenby, an Australian actor and former model, in a little flick you might have known as On Her Majesty's Secret Service. In that film's most iconic moment, which was the end, James Bond and his most renowned love interest of the entire franchise, Countess Tracy di Vicenzo, were having a pleasant drive down the road very much like the one pictured above when they were attacked by Bond's nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld in a drive-by shooting. Tracy didn't survive.
While cradling her corpse, Bond said the following iconic line, "We'll be going on soon. There's no hurry, you see. We have all the time in the world."
The latter part of the quote would reoccur at least twice in No Time to Die, used in a very meaningful way that I personally appreciated. In fact, there are tons of throwbacks to older Bond films, particularly the very first one, Dr. No. Even the colorful circles popping up in the first seconds of the film's title sequence bears reminiscence of Dr. No's title sequence.
I've never seen OHMSS, but I've certainly read enough written about the film and Lazenby's underrated performance to be impressed by the direction the film took as early as that point of the 007 franchise. The Daniel Craig Era certainly has ambitions in spades, though it's met by more than a few detractors. Even a fan such as myself could see the flaws that has riddled these five films over the years, and how the series' continuity is starting to become self-parody.
I never really cared much for those cheesy James Bond films, even Goldeneye which I grew up with, until Casino Royale came along and injected some grounded drama into the series. Perhaps I take myself too seriously - I've certainly been accused of such - but it's only at that point that I started paying attention to these films. But, by the time Spectre came along, a film which tried the very cliched (and impractical) story technique of connecting all the plot-points to a single man, I knew that this Era's expiry date has long passed. It's always just something, something Spectre again like how Spider-Man's entire fate revolved around Oscorp at one point in film history.
And yet, when I sat down at the theater tonight for the first time in years, I didn't really care about any of that. Movies have always been a passion of mine, and I view them (and stories) as this journey one takes, meeting characters through that window of silver screen as we share emotions together. Perhaps it's an unpopular and pretentious mentality, but I feel like some movies are best experienced like that, as a journey, rather than just a series of video clips that you nitpick apart after viewing. I enjoyed the fact that the Craig Era has a beginning and an end to it, as a journey should have. When Daniel Craig uttered that line, "We have all the time in the world," my immediate thought wasn't, "Oh no, not this post-modernist self-referential crap again." Rather, I liked the character growth of Bond, how he gets a second chance at love.
This line, along with what happens at the end of the film, probably wouldn't have as much emotional impact if you didn't know the plot of that one specific Bond film in '69. The way they pulled it off in No Time to Die wasn't revolutionary by any means, and god knows that certain other films in recent years have performed similar stunts in subverting audience expectations (which was nothing new back then either). But there's just something about the way it hearkens back to that one important moment in the Bond franchise, that one moment when Bond had a shot at happiness and lost it. Well, I lost it at that moment. My shirt was drenched. I was still barely holding it together after leaving the theater.
I just love continuity. I love character growth. And I love meaningful callbacks that add to that growth. Even if it's going to be reset by the next Bond film, what occurs during the journey of a movie-viewing experience stays within that experience and the memory of it.
Sure, Safin was a weak villain that's barely memorable, a waste of Rami Malek's nuanced acting talent. And sure, the film was a little too long, just a little bit, a little bit too, too long. But god, I love how they dragged out the final scene. When I saw how they dragged it out, I knew that this was it, and there are no takebacks for this scene. This was the real deal. It wasn't a joke, it wasn't a cop-out. They were actually going to do it. Pooof.
I'm just going to inline spoiler that part because it hints way too much on what happened.
In conclusion, No Time to Die was very far from a perfect film, but much like many movies I've came to love, there's just enough emotions in it that I really appreciated the experience, right from the beginning of that Billie Eilish theme I've played it on loop countless times prior to viewing this film. I know much like Craig-Bond, Billie too had her own detractors calling her music out, but it's just one of those unpopular things which I enjoy, like melancholic music that foreshadowed the tragedy that would unfold in a film literally titled "No Time to Die".
Spoilers for a 50 year old movie.
It was 1969. After five films, Sir Sean Connery left the burden of playing the world's most sexist secret agent in the hands of another, one George Robert Lazenby, an Australian actor and former model, in a little flick you might have known as On Her Majesty's Secret Service. In that film's most iconic moment, which was the end, James Bond and his most renowned love interest of the entire franchise, Countess Tracy di Vicenzo, were having a pleasant drive down the road very much like the one pictured above when they were attacked by Bond's nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld in a drive-by shooting. Tracy didn't survive.
While cradling her corpse, Bond said the following iconic line, "We'll be going on soon. There's no hurry, you see. We have all the time in the world."
The latter part of the quote would reoccur at least twice in No Time to Die, used in a very meaningful way that I personally appreciated. In fact, there are tons of throwbacks to older Bond films, particularly the very first one, Dr. No. Even the colorful circles popping up in the first seconds of the film's title sequence bears reminiscence of Dr. No's title sequence.
I've never seen OHMSS, but I've certainly read enough written about the film and Lazenby's underrated performance to be impressed by the direction the film took as early as that point of the 007 franchise. The Daniel Craig Era certainly has ambitions in spades, though it's met by more than a few detractors. Even a fan such as myself could see the flaws that has riddled these five films over the years, and how the series' continuity is starting to become self-parody.
I never really cared much for those cheesy James Bond films, even Goldeneye which I grew up with, until Casino Royale came along and injected some grounded drama into the series. Perhaps I take myself too seriously - I've certainly been accused of such - but it's only at that point that I started paying attention to these films. But, by the time Spectre came along, a film which tried the very cliched (and impractical) story technique of connecting all the plot-points to a single man, I knew that this Era's expiry date has long passed. It's always just something, something Spectre again like how Spider-Man's entire fate revolved around Oscorp at one point in film history.
And yet, when I sat down at the theater tonight for the first time in years, I didn't really care about any of that. Movies have always been a passion of mine, and I view them (and stories) as this journey one takes, meeting characters through that window of silver screen as we share emotions together. Perhaps it's an unpopular and pretentious mentality, but I feel like some movies are best experienced like that, as a journey, rather than just a series of video clips that you nitpick apart after viewing. I enjoyed the fact that the Craig Era has a beginning and an end to it, as a journey should have. When Daniel Craig uttered that line, "We have all the time in the world," my immediate thought wasn't, "Oh no, not this post-modernist self-referential crap again." Rather, I liked the character growth of Bond, how he gets a second chance at love.
This line, along with what happens at the end of the film, probably wouldn't have as much emotional impact if you didn't know the plot of that one specific Bond film in '69. The way they pulled it off in No Time to Die wasn't revolutionary by any means, and god knows that certain other films in recent years have performed similar stunts in subverting audience expectations (which was nothing new back then either). But there's just something about the way it hearkens back to that one important moment in the Bond franchise, that one moment when Bond had a shot at happiness and lost it. Well, I lost it at that moment. My shirt was drenched. I was still barely holding it together after leaving the theater.
I just love continuity. I love character growth. And I love meaningful callbacks that add to that growth. Even if it's going to be reset by the next Bond film, what occurs during the journey of a movie-viewing experience stays within that experience and the memory of it.
Sure, Safin was a weak villain that's barely memorable, a waste of Rami Malek's nuanced acting talent. And sure, the film was a little too long, just a little bit, a little bit too, too long. But god, I love how they dragged out the final scene. When I saw how they dragged it out, I knew that this was it, and there are no takebacks for this scene. This was the real deal. It wasn't a joke, it wasn't a cop-out. They were actually going to do it. Pooof.
I'm just going to inline spoiler that part because it hints way too much on what happened.
In conclusion, No Time to Die was very far from a perfect film, but much like many movies I've came to love, there's just enough emotions in it that I really appreciated the experience, right from the beginning of that Billie Eilish theme I've played it on loop countless times prior to viewing this film. I know much like Craig-Bond, Billie too had her own detractors calling her music out, but it's just one of those unpopular things which I enjoy, like melancholic music that foreshadowed the tragedy that would unfold in a film literally titled "No Time to Die".
The Sopranos prequel, The Many Saints of Newark.
I liked it! It felt like an episode of the Sopranos. I enjoyed getting to experience those characters again, and it included lots of funny references to specific stories and scenes from the show. Good casting, too.
I liked it! It felt like an episode of the Sopranos. I enjoyed getting to experience those characters again, and it included lots of funny references to specific stories and scenes from the show. Good casting, too.
Orius
The People's Champion
THIS. So much this. Especially the Editor's Cut which features never-before-seen footage that was cut and so, so important to the Sandman character development. lmaoSpiderman 3 the most powerful movie of all time❤
Also, this scene!
Spider-Man 3 is underrated, yo.
Lots of people hate on the cheesy dancing scene, but that's EXACTLY what a nerd like Peter would think is cool: dress up like an emo and cringe-dance.
BULLY MAGUIRE I adore him so muchTHIS. So much this. Especially the Editor's Cut which features never-before-seen footage that was cut and so, so important to the Sandman character development. lmao
Also, this scene!
Spider-Man 3 is underrated, yo.
Lots of people hate on the cheesy dancing scene, but that's EXACTLY what a nerd like Peter would think is cool: dress up like an emo and cringe-dance.
He’s gonna put some dirt In your eye
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