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

The Post

Gothic King Cobra

Phantom Thread

Punch-drunk love

Phantom thread

Call me by your name

The shape of water

I, Tonya (2017)

MoviePass movie #9*
@ AMC Empire 25

7/10

*#8 I didn't put on the blog because I fell asleep half way through it, so idk. Technically 9th.

Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

One of my favorites! Just the best. I love the blue lights. Such creative shots. I love that cut from the intro to the colorful title-less title sequence when he just says "I don't know" as the music crescendos. Relative to the movie as a whole it does slow down in the last half hour. It's hard to recall my first impression now but I am pretty sure the first time I saw it I was pretty disappointed that the pudding + harmonium didn't end up being more central to the story in the latter half. They basically become irrelevant.

9.5/10

Computer Chess (2013)

Almost perfect. One of my favorites. Gotta be Top 5.

9.5/10

Nacho Libre (2006)

Oof. Never really thought this movie would be that good. But yeah. Napoleon Dynamite must have been a fluke. I rly tried to like it. Big Wes Anderson rip off too with the cinematography and music.

3/10

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

I'm a sucker for stuff like this.

8/10

The Greatest Showman (2017)

Hey it's pretty fun! Not exactly my thaang.

5.5/10

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

7/10

MoviePass movie #7*
[saw at Williamsburg Cinemas]

Maybe I just don't love STAR WARS movies! I liked it. I liked seeing how the bombers function from the inside. I liked seeing Luke and Princess Leia get another movie. Had a couple of very cool sequences.

*Man I'm not using my MoviePass that much anymore O_o

The Disaster Artist (2017)

7.5/10

Did not use moviepass but saw in theaters.

Justice League (2017)

4/10

MoviePass movie #6
[saw at Williamsburg Cinemas]

Pretty much what I expected. So bland. Too serious. Some of the action stuff was definitely well done but I just didn't care. Laughable and not in a good way. Bad cast!