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I loved "The Lobster". And this looks as if it might be every bit as good...
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Another film I downloaded onto the phone for the trip, it got generally favorable reviews, the tale of an old high-school romance briefly revisited when the couple by accident run into one another. Good cinematography, OK story, but somehow or another it just didn't click with me. Not quality, perhaps, so much as a lack of personal relevance.
Links: Wiki on "Blue Jay", Trailer.
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Which I downloaded onto my phone to pass the time, interesting, unpredictable - in a good way, and generally delightful in that "Glad this got made it proves the system isn't entirely broken" kinda way. Not great, merely good.
Links: Wiki on Colossal, Reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, Trailer
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In Castlegar, catching up on some films. "Atomic Blonde" with Charlize Theron. Some amazing visuals, period sets, products - the high end of period luxury products, great attention to detail. Fight scenes, amazing, Charlize Theron is a goddess. The music, stylings - recall my youth In jokes - more than I caught, I'm sure - the cinema in East Berlin showing "Stalker", there are others. But overall - the narrative is shaky, uneven, and the characters fail to engage. That said, worth seeing for the set design and Charlize Theron. She kicks ass.
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I finally got around to watching "The Room". As bad as that. Worse. If you haven't seen it, you can't imagine. And despite Tommy Wiseau's good natured pretending that it was maybe - possibly intentional, it wasn't. It just looks better to pretend you were being ironic when really you were being heart-stoppingly incompetent and inept.
Nonetheless there's value - everything that you take for granted - even in a bad film - is laid bare and overturned in this, there's the continuity errors, random characters, questionable set choices, contradictory, over-explanatory dialogue, incredibly bad acting and embarrassing love scenes - it's a how-to avoid doing anything right in cinema. Most arts demand a long apprenticeship, wherein the artist learns his or her craft, but in this Wiseau started out - with a 6 Million Dollar budget - as if he'd never seen a film in his life...
Now Seth Rogen and the Franco brothers have made a movie about it entitled "The Disaster Artist", which documents the making of it as recalled by Greg Sestero- trailer below:
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