Movie Thread

[NTP66]

I really enjoyed The Midnight Sky on Netflix.

[eddy]

Synchronic was very cool. These guys continue to make gnarly movies and I'm here for it

[blackjack68]

Watched One Night in Miami on Prime last night.

Decent movie that didn’t really go anywhere. It’s a fictional account of Malcolm X, Cassius Clay/Ali, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke gathered in a hotel room the night Clay beats Liston to talk about their roles as leaders in the Black community.

[eddy]

Caught up on movie room art

[NTP66]

[PFiDC]

That Lambda Lambda Lambda poster is amazing

[skullman80]

Good stuff.

[tifosi77]

Oo-de-lally!

[skullman80]

Finally watched WW84. That was a mess. Good Lord. Cgi bad. Plot bad. Acting bad minus the crazy overacting of Pedro Pascal. The first one was much better.

Gal Gadot though yeaaahh.....I could watch her do just about anything for any amount of time.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Evidently she has an action movie with the Rock coming to Netflix at some point. Sold lol.

[skullman80]

Evidently she has an action movie with the Rock coming to Netflix at some point. Sold lol.

I'm in.

[blackjack68]

The Midnight Sky is a bloated, self-indulgent, preachy piece of crap. Zzzzzz.

[NTP66]

You're drunk on butt juice, it wasn't that bad.

[NTP66]

I don't disagree about it being a little preachy, though.

[eddy]

I did not like the book, but thought the movie looked better

[meecrofilm]

I just found out HBOMax has a bunch of top-tier international films available, which is good news for me as it allows me the opportunity to take myself to school and catch up on some classics. First on the list is the The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. No spoilers in the review, but it is fairly lengthy, hence the tag.

Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a damn fun viewing experience. While the plot and proceedings are fairly standard stuff, the film is both visually and aurally a scrumptious treat to take in. The art direction is exquisite, and the score even moreso: these are the real stars of the film, and they serve to elevate what would be fairly rudimentary (though in some cases, surprisingly funny) dialogue into something special and unique, especially in cases where the music doesn't quite match the mood you'd typically apply to the content of the dialogue, a juxtaposition I will almost always have time for.

The singing is uniformly excellent, as dialogue-through-song is no easy feat to deliver well (I in particular enjoyed the voices for Madame Emery and Roland Cassard). The music, combined with the lithe delivery of the singers (as well as the beauty of the French language), creates an effect in which the words themselves almost threaten to fly away offscreen they float so effortlessly.

Back to that lush score. Although the main "lover's theme" was laid on a bit too thick for my tastes (I even may have exclaimed out-loud "another key change?!" at one point) make no mistake, this is ear-candy of the highest order, equal parts innocent, enchanting, and mysterious. I particularly enjoyed the use of music to inform signature character cues. For example, when Roland first introduces himself, he says his name in a simple ascending-descending chromatic progression. This progression often works itself back into the music whenever Roland is onscreen. So, later in the film when transition music between scenes employed an ascending chromaticism, I thought to myself "Ah, I guess we're about to see Roland!" and sure enough to my delight, there he was in the next scene.

While not exactly revolutionary, I still very much appreciated the use of blue and pink colors to indicate whether or not a principle character was "in the mood for love," for lack of a less derivative phrase. This was usually illustrated through shirts. The blast of colors throughout the film ensured that this technique blended in quite nicely, and as such, was subtle enough never to feel heavy-handed, and we are rewarded with a great payoff at the end.

Umbrellas of Cherbourg may not be an all-time great film, but it's not too far off either, and I'm hard-pressed to think of many more entertaining ways you could spend 90 minutes.

[Gaucho]

[NTP66]

Didn't these cucks learn the first time around?

[meow]

I don’t get it. How can you improve upon a perfect performance in a perfect movie? Hint: you cannot. So why try?

Yeah yeah yeah, money, amirite?

[meecrofilm]

Gotta get that origin story bro!!

[eddy]

This guy did paddington 1 and 2 and passed on the 3rd for Wonka? I should give him a pass because paddington movies are perfect, but come on.

[nocera]

I thought we already got the origin story in the terrible Burton version? Remember his dad was a dentist who didn't allow Willy to eat candy?

[dodint]

Yeah, he went to the rain forest to set up the Oompa Loompa slave trade.

[DigitalGypsy66]

I needed more out of the Midnight Sky. It was fine, I guess. So many questions.

[iamjs]

nobody asked for this prequel.