What Movies Are You Watching Lately

[King Calder]

I like tenet more every time I watch it. I’ve seen it 3 times just on cable. I don’t think about the plot, and I just let the movie wash over me. I do adore the bromance aspect, the Pattinson performance especially grows on me.

 

[Texasmade]

Wouldn’t everyone be blind in reverse? According to the movie, lungs don’t work in reverse so wouldn’t the photons be exiting their eyes and therefore there’s no sight because nothing is hitting their retina?

such a **** movie

Not if you live in a twilight world.

 

[beargonefishing]

IMO a complicated narrative is fine if the characters are dramatized. Tenet never dramatized the characters, and was a 2 hour exposition dump in between action sequences. It made the film completely joyless, for me, and I love action movies.

 

[King Calder]

Yeah look I don’t love it but I think it’s grown on me. Debicki’s character is genuinely awfully written, as is everything related to Sator. (His final monologue is actually inaudible in my opinion, the sound mixing in this movie is so so bad.) To the extent those characters serve a use to get Nolan to throw Pattinson/JDW up a wall with some type of bungy cords, and then crash a plane into an air hanger, and then engage in a high speed heist, I’ll tolerate it.

 

[Texasmade]

Yeah look I don’t love it but I think it’s grown on me. Debicki’s character is genuinely awfully written, as is everything related to Sator. (His final monologue is actually inaudible in my opinion, the sound mixing in this movie is so so bad.) To the extent those characters serve a use to get Nolan to throw Pattinson/JDW up a wall with some type of bungy cords, and then crash a plane into an air hanger, and then engage in a high speed heist, I’ll tolerate it.

Ngl every time I've watched TeneT, I fell asleep during Sator's final monologue.

 

[double00]

caught 2018 Tomb Raider, with alicia vikander. it's raiders of the lost ark on steroids with an appealing lead , good clean fun

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Raiders of the ark was so damn good. The first three indiana jones films were just about perfect

I remember going with my brother to see The Temple of Doom after we dropped some acid.....this was in 1984.

 

[Kaplan]

I saw Raiders in the cinema when it premiered in Denmark in '82 and wrote an essay for school, based on the glorious opening scene with the tomb, the rolling boulder and the escape by biplane.

As for the recent Tomb Raider, I found it rather boring and generic (despite the efforts by Vikander). Probably an unpopular opinion, but I quite liked the more breezy Angelina ones, from 20 years ago.

 

[hpreston]

I saw Raiders in the cinema when it premiered in Denmark in '82 and wrote an essay for school, based on the glorious opening scene with the tomb, the rolling boulder and the escape by biplane.

As for the recent Tomb Raider, I found it rather boring and generic (despite the efforts by Vikander). Probably an unpopular opinion, but I quite liked the more breezy Angelina ones, from 20 years ago.

Raiders is, for me, just about the perfect movie, action, adventure, a little fantasy, humor, its got it all.

Fun fact, I was about ten when it came out, and was more interested in knights, swords, castles etc. So opening weekend of Raiders was up against Clash of the Titans, I pleaded with my father to take me to see COTT, but he insisted we see Raiders that weekend. He said if I hated it, we could go see COTT immediately after, but if Raiders was good (and therefor my father was right about it) we would have to wait until the following weekend to see COTT. At the end of the prologue, as Indy is flying off with Jacques, my dad turns to me and says, OK, lets go, by then I was hooked, and we stayed.

 

[edinatlanta]

wrote an essay for school, based on the glorious opening scene with the tomb, the rolling boulder and the escape by biplane.

well what did you say?

 

[Kaplan]

This was around middle school, so nothing fancy. Basically just a retelling of the whole scene.

 

[edinatlanta]

This was around middle school, so nothing fancy. Basically just a retelling of the whole scene.

Your analysis is trite and unhelpful. I grade you........... 2/7.

 

[Kaplan]

My teacher was more generous, but then this was the 80s.

 

[Numbernine]

I remember going with my brother to see The Temple of Doom after we dropped some acid.....this was in 1984.

In the early 70s i dropped some acid by myself and the people I was with wanted to go see Catch 22 we got to the theater late and had to sit in the front row. Talk about electric kool aid acid tests particularly since I had just recently spent a year flying in helicopters in Vietnam. That'll clean the psychic tubes out

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

In the early 70s i dropped some acid by myself and the people I was with wanted to go see Catch 22 we got to the theater late and had to sit in the front row. Talk about electric kool aid acid tests particularly since I had just recently spent a year flying in helicopters in Vietnam. That'll clean the psychic tubes out

Side note saw Joseph Heller give a talk at Melbourne Uni in 1981 he explained how he worked out Catch 22 and advised aspiring writers to steer clear of the English department.

The adaption of a couple years back of Catch 22 is well worth watching.