Ava DuVernay's Origin is quite good. I'd go and watch it if/when you have a chance. For myself it was super emotional and informative. The world and this country in particular is very, very bad. It's important to learn, dismantle, and have hope, but it's difficult to imagine freeing ourselves in our lifetime.

We Need to Talk About Kevin was a movie that kept eluding me until this week. This was my first encounter with Ezra Miller. Jon C Riley made me distressed.

Butcher's Crossing. It takes a few liberties with the book's plot, but Cage gives a great, understated performance as Miller.

Watched Poor Things. Might well be the same joke for two and a half hours, but the lead performance just about pulled it off.

watched The Graduate last night. can't think what took me so long. every moment in it looked so fucking incredible to these eyes.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 4:23 pm Watched Poor Things. Might well be the same joke for two and a half hours, but the lead performance just about pulled it off.

This the one with Emma Stone? I'll watch her.

Watched Leave the World Behind. So stupid.

American Fiction was really funny.

Way funnier than The Zone of Interest.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 4:23 pm Watched Poor Things. Might well be the same joke for two and a half hours, but the lead performance just about pulled it off.

I saw this in the theater with my parents and my niece on Christmas without knowing anything about it. I wish I'd read a little something about it so I would have known it was about Frankenstein jacking off for two hours. I might not have suggested it as they family Christmas movie.

I saw Poor Things last night in the theater and loved it, nice Valentine's date. The score was excellent, Jerskin Fendrix' first ever apparently, and the first time YL used an original score:

"Our composer Jerskin Fendrix has a cameo in this dancing scene as one of the musicians in the ballroom. This film was my first time working with a composer on an original score, and it was Jerskin’s first time scoring a film. This gave us a freedom to approach the music in an unconventional manner, untethered to the way scores are usually written after filming. Jerskin and I had all the music ready in advance of filming so that we could shoot and edit with his compositions in mind."

It had that feel honestly at times, like it was largely shaped and edited to the music and not necessarily the other way around.
Glad I managed to see it on the big screen with good sound.

Saw May December, enjoyed it a lot. Charles Melton's performance is incredible.

Nobody (2021).
it's basically John Wick but starring Bob Odenkirk, actually entertaining and very funny.
Those Wick films are over-choreographed and take themselves too seriously. They bore me to tears. This one really pokes fun at the whole concept and Odenkirk is enough of an actor to make it work.
A really fun 90 minutes.