Movie Thread/Now Watching

[markm]

Jon, I got you, Babe.

[JonoBlade]

Picking up a thread from a few weeks back, somewhat unexpectedly my daughter wanted to see Avatar after we watched a making-of documentary. So we saw 1 on Friday night and then went to see 2 at IMAX on Saturday. Now it's her favourite film. 

I mean, it's a spectacle on a scale you don't see that much these days. I'd read that it drags a bit, which is inevitable in a 3 hour film, but reckoned it did a decent job of keeping the pace up.

Purely from a technical perspective it is astounding. There's plot holes you can drive a space cruiser through but, visually, you gotta hand it to Cameron.

Not for grumpy goats, though. It is the cinematic equivalent of the most noodly space prog concept album with minimum 12 minute songs imaginable.

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

19 hours ago, JonoBlade said:

Picking up a thread from a few weeks back, somewhat unexpectedly my daughter wanted to see Avatar after we watched a making-of documentary. So we saw 1 on Friday night and then went to see 2 at IMAX on Saturday. Now it's her favourite film. 

I mean, it's a spectacle on a scale you don't see that much these days. I'd read that it drags a bit, which is inevitable in a 3 hour film, but reckoned it did a decent job of keeping the pace up.

Purely from a technical perspective it is astounding. There's plot holes you can drive a space cruiser through but, visually, you gotta hand it to Cameron.

Not for grumpy goats, though. It is the cinematic equivalent of the most noodly space prog concept album with minimum 12 minute songs imaginable.

 

Disclaimer not neccessary Jon-boy! As the king of the contrarian counterculture malcontents (according to Marky Mark) I don't pay any attention at all to what might be playing at the movies and particularly not to any of these big budget Hollywood blockbuster debacles which seem to be basically interchangeable with one another. Especially nowadays when they've gone full OTT fantasy superhero nonsense, I have less than zero interest in any of it. I would honestly be willing to pay for the privilege of not having to sit through them.

I'm also the proud father of a 9 yo who couldn't possibly be expected to sit still or stay quiet for even a relatively short movie, so I've never once taken him out to the movies and he's never once asked me to. He generally can't even be persuaded to watch movies with me on the tellie (yes, I feel stupid as saying "tellie") he only barely has enough attention span for 10 minute Youtube videos. I did manage to get him to sit and watch that Christmas Chronicles (Kurt Russell playing Santa) movie with me on Netflix one December (2021?) and he said he liked it, but that was the last time.

But I'm not grumpy my crunchy vegan friend, it's really not my fault that your modern mainstream Gen-X/Millennial pop culture sucks so hard and I have no use for it.

[Parker]

Recently watched the movie Stalker on blu ray by Criterion Collection, and loved it. This was my second time viewing the film, and my wife's first, and we were both blown away. It was made in the soviet union, so the idea is not to make a great sci-fi movie with flashy visuals and special effects, but rather to make a great sci-fi movie with a lot of philosophical content and engrossing atmosphere. A top notch movie that was actually recommended by Varg Vikernes. Unfortunately, many involved with making the movie died of cancer because it was filmed in a toxic waste dump.