Dune 2

there's was a trailer for something like ""KING KONG AND THE LEDGEND OF GODZILLA" before Dune 2, and one of the first shots of the trailer was some giant thing smashing through 3 bridges in a row, and it's just like totally meaningless. the cgi possibilities make it so some movies are happening in a universe where everything is a video game and anything can happen and it's all meaningless. there's no weight or reality or groundedness. and then by comparison, the movie of Dune shows all of these machines and battles in this way that feels like real people dealing with giant machines and it's so cool! i don't remember the first movie that much but i thought this one was a blast. and it was cool to see a full theater for a movie at 2pm on a monday. movie theaters won't go away right?

8.5/10

Bottoms

 

liked this quite a bit yeah 

9/10

Oppenheimer

 

followed by q&a w/ chris nolan & emma thomas & matt damon

7.5/10

The Holdovers

 SIDEWAYS was the first movie I listed here on my Movie-Reviewings Blog way back in May of 2008. I don't really remember the particulars about SIDEWAYS, just that it was Paul Giamatti, it was about wine, and a foggy visual imprint of the color and look and environment from the film. Until I looked at a photo just now I couldn't recall what the second lead looked like.

This movie will probably suffer the same fate! Like, I'll vaguely recall it.

It was a really gentle movie and very well done. There's a lot of effort put into the period production design of the 70s, but there was one weird shot where they are driving down a street beside a building and there's a small parking lot in frame that is modern cars, I was surprised they kept that shot in or didnt find a way to digitally hide it given how careful they seemed to be about making the decade look right.

I don't know what to say without really getting into the weeds and looking like i CARE! Can I just give it a score and be done with it? 

It was pretty funny! I have good feelings about having seen the film. A good time. A good screening. There was free food because I went to a special screening.

7.5/10

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