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mohan

Both trailers are a bit meh for me.

MistaT

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
Dunkirk was really good, incredibly intense. Probably Zimmer's best score in ages. As others have pointed out, this was a good fit for Nolan as he didn't have the opportunity to make the movie seem more clever than it is.

I thought it was good, though far from great.

Will agree that it was a very intense movie and it was refreshing that for a "war" movie it wasn't intense based on extreme violence/gore. There were some great scenes without an enemy in sight that had me riveted.

Where I was disappointed though was with the audio with a lot of inaudible dialogue and an overboard score from Hans Zimmer. I'm a huge fan of Hans Zimmer but the score was repetitive and lacked any distinct pieces/moments. Sounded like a watered down song from Inception.

Final though - I've always envisioned 70mm as being utilized for wider, panoramic shots. In Dunkirk <spoiler in white below>it seemed to forgo that to favor "submersive" shots that pulled you into dark, wet, and cramped environments. I'm struggling with whether that was good use of 70mm as the movie didn't focus on large battle scenes in which it could have shown a wider view, but it was also nice that the lack of battle scenes/enemy kept the movie about character(s).</spoiler>

QuincyAbeyie

I feel like the composers who make distinct pieces (Hans Zimmer usually does) are praised much more than the ones who make audio that just sets the mood. Zimmer more often than not seems to want his score to be talked about and listened to afterwards, while I like him much better when he takes the backseat and just concentrates on what's the best fit for the movie.

MistaT

Interesting - I feel quite differently....and as a result I'm going to see Hans Zimmer (and full orchestra) in a few weeks 🙂

The Interstellar OST is fantastic and it's made even more interesting when you learn that Christopher Nolan asked Hans Zimmer to write the music without knowing exactly what the movie was about.

banduan

Qwiss! wrote:
Anyway speaking of spectacular visual design I watched the live action Ghost in the Shell last night. Its been very harshly reviewed IMO. Sure they tone down some elements of the original story for Hollywood but apart from that its pretty great. Scarjo actually does something interesting with her performance that seperates Major from Lucy. The action is good throughout. Most of all though the production design is amazing. The detail to every scene is unreal. I really enjoyed the whole thing.

I've often looked back and thought if I was too harsh on this show. But nah.
Yeah the sets are groovy but it never really absorbed me.

Scarjo is a better actor than the shite we see in Lucy, that's not a tall order. For GitS she watched and deliberately channelled the anime version of the character. But still doesn't save the movie.

QuincyAbeyie

Watched War for the Planet of the Apes the other night. The CGI is amazing, good action and drama as well. I agree with most of the things it's praised for in reviews, but for some reason I can't get into it. By all accounts it's a really good movie, and I don't know why I found myself bored at times.

flobaba

There weren't any super heroes in it?

tiptoes out

QuincyAbeyie

Actually at the end of the movie
[spoiler]the drug that made the apes smarter also gives some of them different kind of abilities that are pretty much super powers. For example, one monkey can read minds and another can disguise himself as a human.[/spoiler]

goon

Finally got around to watching The Martian. It's a little cliche but regardless really well done I thought.

Mirth

Dunkirk was quite good. I liked it more than Inception or Interstellar anyway.

Asterix

Re-watched High Fidelity on the weekend as we like John Cusack and Jack Black, and the soundtrack is great. It's a decent little movie about a bloke growing up.

Klaus

I watched Certain Women yesterday. It's another Kelly Reichardt treasure.

arsedocmd

Detroit is a difficult and a must watch. Very moving.

banduan

My review of Dark Tower.

tl;dr Everything that this movie tries falls short. Don't bother.

Burnwinter

It looks terrible from the trailer.

I really liked The Gunslinger as a kid as well, though the series' later novels drove me away.

banduan

Burnwinter wrote:
It looks terrible from the trailer.

I really liked The Gunslinger as a kid as well, though the series' later novels drove me away.

It had its ups and downs. Final book good. Overall though the books were a highly memorable piece of world-building and genre mashing.

Burnwinter

I really enjoyed (what seemed to me at the time as) the terse symbolism of The Gunslinger, and it also introduced me to The Waste Land, and to Child Roland … both of which are so wonderful.

The big problem after that was that I was given it the year of its publication and all the others took years to come out. The lesser problem was that I got tired of King whose deeper worldview I find pretty cloying.

goon

Watched a couple of movies this past week. The Magnificent 7 was pretty poor. Doesn't make any sense, completely unbelievable. Denzel is a crappy choice for that sort of role too.

Sicario on the other hand was great. I was waiting for the predictable turn of events but it never came. Blunts role is particular was nothing like I was expecting.

goon

Just watched The Talented Mr Ripley. MATT Damon is creepy as fuck.

y va marquer

Brilliantly, hilariously, creepy.
That used to be one of our favourite movies for girls night films.

"Tom is tender... Tom is beautiful... Tom is a mystery. .
Tom is crushing me 🙂 Tom is crushing me :gape: ...........Tom.... you're crushing me :boris: ....."

We got some laugh out of that ending.

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