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Extraction (2020) (Netflix original)
I'm no movie-violence prude, but this flick from an MCU stunt coordinator and writer Joe Russo crossed the line from entertaining grisliness to pornographic excess, and then kept going, and going, and going. Which might have been tolerable, had it not had the gall to include a humanizing, tragic backstory for its mass murdering white hero tearing through the Bangladeshi capital, wasting untold everyday cops and soldiers along the way. The scene in which his young charge coaxes said haunting backstory out of him is downright embarrassing for the ease in which he coughs it up.
To be fair, the action is crisp, brutal, and spectacular, including a very impressive digitally stitched oner. (The thing about handheld camera oners assembled with whip-pan cuts, however, is that I sometimes find it hard to notice where they begin or end, or to really care.) Then again, Narcos S2 had a great oner in an hour-long episode that also had a real story, characters, and point. This two-hour movie feels like a very long video game mission adapted to live-action - not a video game as a whole, like Star Trek Beyond, just a single mission. And the endless mayhem eventually wore me down. For Netflix fun and murder in an exotic country, go with Triple Frontier first, and only move on to this if you must.
Grade: C-
I'm no movie-violence prude, but this flick from an MCU stunt coordinator and writer Joe Russo crossed the line from entertaining grisliness to pornographic excess, and then kept going, and going, and going. Which might have been tolerable, had it not had the gall to include a humanizing, tragic backstory for its mass murdering white hero tearing through the Bangladeshi capital, wasting untold everyday cops and soldiers along the way. The scene in which his young charge coaxes said haunting backstory out of him is downright embarrassing for the ease in which he coughs it up.
To be fair, the action is crisp, brutal, and spectacular, including a very impressive digitally stitched oner. (The thing about handheld camera oners assembled with whip-pan cuts, however, is that I sometimes find it hard to notice where they begin or end, or to really care.) Then again, Narcos S2 had a great oner in an hour-long episode that also had a real story, characters, and point. This two-hour movie feels like a very long video game mission adapted to live-action - not a video game as a whole, like Star Trek Beyond, just a single mission. And the endless mayhem eventually wore me down. For Netflix fun and murder in an exotic country, go with Triple Frontier first, and only move on to this if you must.
Grade: C-
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^ That Sputnik film does look intriguing.
This latest attempt to put the Nicola Tesla story on screen looks bold and imaginative. More trailers should open with the sentence "Is nature a gigantic cat?":
'Little Joe' has been getting some buzz and the trailer looks fascinating:
I was looking forward to Bill & Ted 3 but I'm lukewarm about this new trailer:
Cinematography in this looks amazing. Pattinson and Rylance look fab but Depp's performance looks iffy. Like it's from a different campier movie to the other actors:
This latest attempt to put the Nicola Tesla story on screen looks bold and imaginative. More trailers should open with the sentence "Is nature a gigantic cat?":
'Little Joe' has been getting some buzz and the trailer looks fascinating:
I was looking forward to Bill & Ted 3 but I'm lukewarm about this new trailer:
Cinematography in this looks amazing. Pattinson and Rylance look fab but Depp's performance looks iffy. Like it's from a different campier movie to the other actors:
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It's hard to tell if this latest spin of Sherlock Holmes looks good or bad from the trailer. The use of Hole's 'Celebrity Skin' makes it fun regardless:
I notice Sir Ken has toned down the distracting mustache in this sequel. Hopefully the rest of the film will be improved too:
This has quite the cast:
From the 'A Ghost Story' director:
I notice Sir Ken has toned down the distracting mustache in this sequel. Hopefully the rest of the film will be improved too:
This has quite the cast:
From the 'A Ghost Story' director:
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Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Sherlock Holmes....Yes Yes yes. I haven't smiled like that during a trailer in a long time 
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Spoiler free review, I discuss some general stuff but not specifics...
Tenet (2020)
This was the first time I've been out to a cinema in 6-months but a Nolan film is something special not to be missed. Feeling the seat shaking bass of the soundmix and hearing Ludwig Goransson's aggressive synthy score at full volume was such a total pleasure that I almost didn't mind that it drowned out lots of the dialogue. Every frame of Christopher Nolan and Hoyte van Hoytema's 70mm/IMAX visuals are gorgeous to look at on the big screen. It was a pleasant socially-distanced experience, well done Vue Cinemas UK.
If you think making a fast paced action thriller about inverted time, with characters moving forward in time, fighting others who are moving backwards in time, plus a full speed highway chase involving backwards people, driving vehicles in reverse, forwards in time, as other forwards people drive forwards but backwards in time and then vice versa, sounds too confusing... well it is. I didn't understand half of what was going on (the inaudible dialogue during key exposition scenes didn't help) but I felt sure Nolan did. It's not hard to understand because it's a mess, it's just hard to understand the concepts as they whizz past your head. I'd rather have a film straining my synapses to comprehend it, than a film that treats me like an idiot.
I didn't think star John David Washington was a particularly good actor on the evidence of Spike Lee's 'BlacKkKlansman' and unfortunately it's confirmed here. He's given several action-man zinger one liners (e.g. "I ordered my hot sauce an hour ago!") which fall totally flat due to his wooden delivery. Thankfully, his role doesn't ask that much of him beyond looking like he can physically handle the action, which he sells 100% and Robert Pattinson is on hand most of the time to deliver shed loads of charisma. Why did he sign up for Batman and not James Bond? I could see all of the plot twists coming but then I could appreciate seeing how the story built toward them. I very much enjoyed watching 'Tenet' but I'd need to see it a couple more times to get my head round it and decide if it's actually a great film, or a daring failure. It might be one of Nolan's lesser works but it could be an endlessly fascinating puzzle that rewards you more and more on repeat viewings.
Time to listen to some reviews and watch some "Tenet explained" videos ...
Tenet (2020)
This was the first time I've been out to a cinema in 6-months but a Nolan film is something special not to be missed. Feeling the seat shaking bass of the soundmix and hearing Ludwig Goransson's aggressive synthy score at full volume was such a total pleasure that I almost didn't mind that it drowned out lots of the dialogue. Every frame of Christopher Nolan and Hoyte van Hoytema's 70mm/IMAX visuals are gorgeous to look at on the big screen. It was a pleasant socially-distanced experience, well done Vue Cinemas UK.
If you think making a fast paced action thriller about inverted time, with characters moving forward in time, fighting others who are moving backwards in time, plus a full speed highway chase involving backwards people, driving vehicles in reverse, forwards in time, as other forwards people drive forwards but backwards in time and then vice versa, sounds too confusing... well it is. I didn't understand half of what was going on (the inaudible dialogue during key exposition scenes didn't help) but I felt sure Nolan did. It's not hard to understand because it's a mess, it's just hard to understand the concepts as they whizz past your head. I'd rather have a film straining my synapses to comprehend it, than a film that treats me like an idiot.
I didn't think star John David Washington was a particularly good actor on the evidence of Spike Lee's 'BlacKkKlansman' and unfortunately it's confirmed here. He's given several action-man zinger one liners (e.g. "I ordered my hot sauce an hour ago!") which fall totally flat due to his wooden delivery. Thankfully, his role doesn't ask that much of him beyond looking like he can physically handle the action, which he sells 100% and Robert Pattinson is on hand most of the time to deliver shed loads of charisma. Why did he sign up for Batman and not James Bond? I could see all of the plot twists coming but then I could appreciate seeing how the story built toward them. I very much enjoyed watching 'Tenet' but I'd need to see it a couple more times to get my head round it and decide if it's actually a great film, or a daring failure. It might be one of Nolan's lesser works but it could be an endlessly fascinating puzzle that rewards you more and more on repeat viewings.
Time to listen to some reviews and watch some "Tenet explained" videos
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We hosted our kids’ eighth birthday party today so the wife and I felt we deserved a date night, so we’re going to dinner and a movie (Tenet). The only OV showing near us starts at 8:45. I hope I can stay awake. The only other movie I’ve seen in the cinema this year is Rise of Skywalker.
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The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone.
That’s the new title of the upcoming director’s cut for the film, which is being released for the first time this December on Blu-ray and Digital. According to the press release, The Godfather Coda — full official title Mario Puzo’s The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone — was made from a “ 4K scan of the original negative” and involved finding “50 original takes to replace lower resolution opticals in the original negative” over the course of six months.
Francis Ford Coppola: "Mario Puzo’s THE GODFATHER, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone’ is an acknowledgement of Mario’s and my preferred title and our original intentions for what became ‘The Godfather: Part III. For this version of the finale, I created a new beginning and ending, and rearranged some scenes, shots, and music cues. With these changes and the restored footage and sound, to me, it is a more appropriate conclusion to ‘The Godfather’ and ‘The Godfather: Part II’ and I’m thankful to Jim Gianopulos and Paramount for allowing me to revisit it."
Wow! I'm waiting for it!
More info here: https://screencrush.com/the-godfath...ajYCB0CNKzntiOMwsU8hLauC6j0bw6uqA8lSSsaMRKk2M
That’s the new title of the upcoming director’s cut for the film, which is being released for the first time this December on Blu-ray and Digital. According to the press release, The Godfather Coda — full official title Mario Puzo’s The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone — was made from a “ 4K scan of the original negative” and involved finding “50 original takes to replace lower resolution opticals in the original negative” over the course of six months.
Francis Ford Coppola: "Mario Puzo’s THE GODFATHER, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone’ is an acknowledgement of Mario’s and my preferred title and our original intentions for what became ‘The Godfather: Part III. For this version of the finale, I created a new beginning and ending, and rearranged some scenes, shots, and music cues. With these changes and the restored footage and sound, to me, it is a more appropriate conclusion to ‘The Godfather’ and ‘The Godfather: Part II’ and I’m thankful to Jim Gianopulos and Paramount for allowing me to revisit it."
Wow! I'm waiting for it!
More info here: https://screencrush.com/the-godfath...ajYCB0CNKzntiOMwsU8hLauC6j0bw6uqA8lSSsaMRKk2M
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^^ Yeeesssss! GF3 isn't up to the first two but it's a fine film and better with deleted scenes like this one:
Hopefully he's going to put stuff like that back in. His recent re-cut of 'The Cotton Club' shows he's still got good taste as an editor and isn't gonna go all crazy George Lucas on it . I hope they give it a cinema release too. They've got so little to exhibit, I bet they'd snap it up. The artwork is nice:
Hopefully he's going to put stuff like that back in. His recent re-cut of 'The Cotton Club' shows he's still got good taste as an editor and isn't gonna go all crazy George Lucas on it
. I hope they give it a cinema release too. They've got so little to exhibit, I bet they'd snap it up. The artwork is nice:
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I agree GF3 isn’t as bad as it’s made out to be. I like the title acknowledging that this chapter really isn’t necessary though. I’ll definitely watch and I hope it’s an improvement (unlike @"TM2YC" Im not as confident; his Apocalypse Now Redux is not a better movie). I’d treat it like the El Camino movie for Breaking Bad, a nice something extra for those that can’t get enough, but not really a part of the core narrative arc.
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Moe_Syzlak said:
IIRC 'The Death of..." was the title originally but the studio insisted on GFpart3 for marketing reasons, just like when the studio was adamant that Coppolla should not call the second film GFpart2 but he had more clout then and won that battle.
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Yeah you're right! I completely forgot about that one. It was a waste of time.
I'm hoping it will be like an official HD release for @"spicediver" 's excellent fanedit: The Godfather Epilogue
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TM2YC said:Spoiler free review, I discuss some general stuff but not specifics...
Tenet (2020)
This was the first time I've been out to a cinema in 6-months but a Nolan film is something special not to be missed. Feeling the seat shaking bass of the soundmix and hearing Ludwig Goransson's aggressive synthy score at full volume was such a total pleasure that I almost didn't mind that it drowned out lots of the dialogue. Every frame of Christopher Nolan and Hoyte van Hoytema's 70mm/IMAX visuals are gorgeous to look at on the big screen. It was a pleasant socially-distanced experience, well done Vue Cinemas UK.
If you think making a fast paced action thriller about inverted time, with characters moving forward in time, fighting others who are moving backwards in time, plus a full speed highway chase involving backwards people, driving vehicles in reverse, forwards in time, as other forwards people drive forwards but backwards in time and then vice versa, sounds too confusing... well it is. I didn't understand half of what was going on (the inaudible dialogue during key exposition scenes didn't help) but I felt sure Nolan did. It's not hard to understand because it's a mess, it's just hard to understand the concepts as they whizz past your head. I'd rather have a film straining my synapses to comprehend it, than a film that treats me like an idiot.
I didn't think star John David Washington was a particularly good actor on the evidence of Spike Lee's 'BlacKkKlansman' and unfortunately it's confirmed here. He's given several action-man zinger one liners (e.g. "I ordered my hot sauce an hour ago!") which fall totally flat due to his wooden delivery. Thankfully, his role doesn't ask that much of him beyond looking like he can physically handle the action, which he sells 100% and Robert Pattinson is on hand most of the time to deliver shed loads of charisma. Why did he sign up for Batman and not James Bond? I could see all of the plot twists coming but then I could appreciate seeing how the story built toward them. I very much enjoyed watching 'Tenet' but I'd need to see it a couple more times to get my head round it and decide if it's actually a great film, or a daring failure. It might be one of Nolan's lesser works but it could be an endlessly fascinating puzzle that rewards you more and more on repeat viewings.
Time to listen to some reviews and watch some "Tenet explained" videos
Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts. The only reason why I have not seen this film yet is due to the negative reviews I heard about the dialogue, which was apparently really difficult to decipher at times throughout the movie.
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Ugh. With Tenet’s inability to recoup its budget and every other major release being pushed back, I think it’s safe to say we won’t see a normal release until things go back to normal. I’m very frightened as to what that means for local independent theaters. The only theaters we go to here are independent and I know they’re already struggling to survive. And all of my favorite theaters in the States are independent. I had hoped Tenet, the proverbial canary in the coal mine, would do better.