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Did not know what to expect from this movie but is was nice and enjoyable,a feel good fun film.
Did not know what to expect from this movie but is was nice and enjoyable,a feel good fun film.
Civil War (2024) Directed by Alex Garland 3A
Three photojournalists and a young rookie who idolizes the profession take off from the south to try to get to Washington before rebel forces can attempt to overthrow an illegitimate president. What a disappointment this movie is. Virtually nothing happens in the first hour--we don't even get to know the motivation of the characters that well. Though we do get a lot of yapping, nothing is ventured about the political causes of the war. It's not until we pass the hour mark that we get to the movie's one great, terrifying scene with Jesse Plemons playing a rebel soldier with a real simple way of deciding things. Then we finally get to Washington and more aimless wankering around follows leading to an ending that seems rushed and under-explained. Civil War has two huge problems--a small budget that limits the actions sequences to isolated scenes with a minimum of extras and a script that refuses to take any chances whatsoever lest someone somewhere might be offended. This is a movie about civil war utterly devoid of ideology, politics or context. As entertainment, Gerard Butler's Olympus Has Fallen runs circles around this movie. I can't even say that Civil War is without the courage of its convictions as it never hints at having any convictions in the first place.
That's disappointing. Garland's stuff, in general, feels like under-realized potential.
Civil War (2024) Directed by Alex Garland 3A
Three photojournalists and a young rookie who idolizes the profession take off from the south to try to get to Washington before rebel forces can attempt to overthrow an illegitimate president. What a disappointment this movie is. Virtually nothing happens in the first hour--we don't even get to know the motivation of the characters that well. Though we do get a lot of yapping, nothing is ventured about the political causes of the war. It's not until we pass the hour mark that we get to the movie's one great, terrifying scene with Jesse Plemons playing a rebel soldier with a real simple way of deciding things. Then we finally get to Washington and more aimless wankering around follows leading to an ending that seems rushed and under-explained. Civil War has two huge problems--a small budget that limits the actions sequences to isolated scenes with a minimum of extras and a script that refuses to take any chances whatsoever lest someone somewhere might be offended. This is a movie about civil war utterly devoid of ideology, politics or contemporary relevance. As entertainment, Gerard Butler's Olympus Has Fallen runs circles around this movie. I can't even say that Civil War is without the courage of its convictions as it never hints at having any convictions in the first place.
Spot on. Murphy seems so sinister early on and then it's like it is Keystone Cops time once they leave the airport.My wife picked the movie last night and we ended up watching Red Eye. She has a thing for horror and a crush on Cillian Murphy so it fit.
This plot needed to go back to the drawing board. Like theres potentially something that isn't absurd here, but maybe its the post 9/11 terrorism fear that ends up with the plot being what it is?
Anyway the airplane stuff is fairly compelling. Loses steam after that. Murphy is fairly good, and Rachel McAdams was absolutely excellent. The "rape victim who won't take it anymore" trope is terrible but Craven isn't one for subtlety. It clocking in under 90 minutes keeps this from turning hair pullingly bad so the main thing that sticks with you is the plane stuff.
4/10
I wonder if it is possible for a legal team representing the families to be able to gain access to his business' books? If his business is making a profit, and I'm sure it is with all the dupes out there, you would think they would somehow be able to gain a cut going forward.
The Truth vs Alex Jones (2024) Directed by Dan Reed 8A (documentary)
In 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and shot and killed twenty children and six adults. The children were mostly 6-year-olds, though a few were 7. Within a day, Alex Jones was on his Info Wars show claiming it was all a hoax. He didn't just broadcast this nonsense. Info Wars sent "experts" to Sandy Hook to confront and harass the parents, one of the reporters even managing to get a meeting with the the local school board where he informed them that they were all actors in an tragedy that never happened. The parents had to suffer not only the trauma of losing a child to gun violence but also the harassment that followed as Jones kept claiming with disgusting bravado that the massacre was a hoax and his followers kept threatening the families. Subsequently two different trials took place that accused Jones of deliberately spreading lies for profits, damaging people's reputations in the process. How powerful were these lies? At one of the trials, it is noted that at that time 24% of Americans, roughly 75 million people, either believed outright that Sandy Hook never happened or seriously doubted the veracity of the official reports.
Both trials ended in verdicts of massive damages, close to a billion dollars in all, against Jones. He has yet to pay a penny and has declared bankruptcy. Info Wars is still going strong. Jones comes across as a creature who lives at the bottom of a cesspool. Ultimately he is kind of irrelevant--even after a nuclear war, there will always be cockroaches still scurrying about. The real surprise is that one in four American adults bought into this conspiracy theory. That is a percentage that leaves me gobsmacked. In a way this documentary chronicles a compendium of fault lines running through American society. Not just the merciless gun violence, this time perpetrated on first and second graders, nor the hoax conspiracy theories of Jones, but why does the school board agree to hear a nutso spouting self-evident lies to begin with, and why are so many Americans so gullible to conspiracy theories in the first place? The Truth vs Alex Jones presents quite dispassionately American society at its lowest and most dangerous ebb.
On HBO
That Doors film was not enjoyable and made Morrison look terrible. They exaggerated the time when on the Ed Sullivan show where in reality it was performed as normal, no belligerent gesturing as you can see.View attachment 851390
The Doors-1991
Jim Morrison: 'I think of myself as a sensitive, intelligent human being but with the soul of a clown that always forces me to blow it at the most crucial moments. I'm a fake hero.'
Biopic of the rock band, worth watching for fans of the music alone. Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer) was like the Lenny Bruce of rock music, pushing the boundaries of the era. Like The Buddy Holly Story (with Gary Busey), the actors for the group formed a band for real and played some of the music. Reliving these songs there is a great depth to the lyrics and still sound fine. The End is hauntingly beautiful 'death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws'.
The story gets kind of weird at times but believe it's a worthy film of a legendary band and it was great to relive the music.
'Keep your eyes on the road and your hands upon the wheel'
f***in AI also watched The Doors recently. I feel like it captures Morrison and the band pretty well in the sense that I found the movie to be as tedious and irritating as I find him and their music. I may have some unfair biases that I can't shake, but I also was in high school when this came out and had two friends adopt Morrison personas for at least a year. The next person who tries to read me one of his poems is getting punched.
Kilmer is undeniable though.
That Doors film was not enjoyable and made Morrison look terrible. They exaggerated the time when on the Ed Sullivan show where in reality it was performed as normal, no belligerent gesturing as you can see.
Oh, you underrate him. It is damn hard being a poet if you can't write poetry for beans.I also watched The Doors recently. I feel like it captures Morrison and the band pretty well in the sense that I found the movie to be as tedious and irritating as I find him and their music. I may have some unfair biases that I can't shake, but I also was in high school when this came out and had two friends adopt Morrison personas for at least a year. The next person who tries to read me one of his poems is getting punched.
Kilmer is undeniable though.