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The only thing that stuck with me from this movie was the intro music for Fisk, "Lapdance" by N*E*R*D (with a pre-megafame Pharrell Williams)
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 12:08 PM on May 4, 2024

Just wanted to drop on and say thanks for this thread, and especially Carillon for pointing out it was in theaters. This is a friend's favorite movie (something like 30 viewings), and she had no idea it was playing. She took her 13 year old, and they had a great time.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 10:26 PM on April 30, 2024

I saw it this weekend, and liked it a great deal. I loved the first three books as well. I don't have much to add to what's been discussed, but the scene at the start of the final battle, with the Sardukar watching the storm approach, and then three worms appear...took my breath away.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 7:15 AM on March 25, 2024

I love this movie. I liked the book as well. I was a little frustrated with the tense movie ending, because in the book Crichton explicitly gave the character more time to abort the explosion, but of course Hollywood needs it to be more sexy.

I used to repeatedly quote the little security passphrase exchange (Howdy, Howdy Doody) to my friends in high school, much to their chagrin.

And 2nding mediareport, I need to watch this again.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 12:19 PM on March 18, 2024

I liked this a lot, except for the torture scene near the end, a little much for me. But I loved the whole sniper/cabin scene.

I'll tell you what, though. I'm pretty sure most contestants on Great British Bake Off didn't see this, cuz otherwise they'd have been way more deferential to Matt Lucas.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 11:18 AM on January 23, 2024

Man, that first punch that Ayo Edebiri throws at the first club. I mean, I knew what it was going to be like from the previews, but just a great way to set the tone.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 8:17 PM on January 1, 2024

I liked this a great deal. The two monster setpieces, chasing the small boat and the attack on Ginza, were legit terrifying. And the scene in Ginza when Godzilla first (well, second) unleashes the heatray was heartstopping. Both for the devastation, and the very clear parallels with a nuclear blast and everything that goes along with that in Japan in 1947.

Some of the drama didn't sit quite right with me, but most of it worked, and went well with the story.… [more]
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 8:05 PM on December 1, 2023

It's definitely not as over the top as Joy Ride, but it was very funny and very kind, in the final analysis. A lot of the reviews I read were pretty down on Awkwafina, but I thought she was good.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 1:27 PM on November 6, 2023

It's a great movie, and Dominic Sessa is the standout for me. That it's his first time on film and he holds his own with Giamattti and Randolph is impressive.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 8:07 AM on November 1, 2023

Steve Martin doing Martin Short's nasally snort killed me.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 10:18 PM on October 3, 2023

I think this might be my favorite episode of the series. The two leads are so subtle, and the relationship opens up so slowly and deftly.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 9:24 AM on September 23, 2023

Asante Blackk was the standout in this for me. It felt similar in some ways to "Sorry to Bother You", with themes about race, class and capitalism. I am also a sucker for aliens that are, well, alien, at least, more than a prosthetic mask, and I thought these were pretty interesting.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 9:51 PM on August 22, 2023

I wish there was a behind the scenes video of writing Bender's song. And John Dimaggio recording it.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 8:08 PM on August 7, 2023

I liked this one, but don't remember it well. I especially don't remember Daniel Craig (!)
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 2:54 PM on August 3, 2023

[Favorite part - spoiler]

The wig! Especially that two white scientist dudes wouldn't consider it.

posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 8:49 AM on July 25, 2023

Saw this Saturday and really enjoyed it. Very funny, and I liked the sentimental bits. And killer soundtrack.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 12:18 PM on July 10, 2023

It's two scenes fairly close together, and it's Audrey throwing up on someone else. They are both short, although after the second time you see the other person getting cleaned off, so you see them covered with goo. Although honestly it doesn't look that bad. If you want to avoid it, both happen in the drinking scene with the client.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 2:46 PM on July 13, 2023

How did you approach creating unique themes for each universe?
[They] did a presentation of all the different art-style approaches in the movie, which was phenomenal, talking about all the different techniques, from the sort of Syd Mead-inspired concept design that 2099’s world is very inspired by, to the watercolor drips of Gwen’s world. For me doing the music, I’m also trying to approach each world with a different palette and a different technique and a different approach. In this… [more]
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 2:26 PM on June 3, 2023

"... and Beard’s horrifying thong"

When he jumps up on the counter there's this little 'flesh on marble' squeak, and Rebecca looks extra horrified. Such a subtle add to a very not subtle costume.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 7:51 AM on May 31, 2023

"..did anyone get weepy at this ep?" Mrs Gorgik got demonstrably emotional twice. Once when Colin got to kiss his fella at the end of the match, and again when Rebecca helped up the child at the airport and then it turns out it's Dutch guy's progeny.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 10:32 AM on May 31, 2023

The least realistic thing to me was the idea that a parent finally apologizing *once* after years of being shitty would have any impact on a child's mood or mental health *whatsoever*.

My opinion isn't based on personal experience or anything.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 12:25 PM on May 17, 2023

We just saw it, so great. At first I thought my favorite part was the "spa women change into henchmen", but in retrospect I really really liked the scene of Ria and Lena dancing while there mother talks about them with the group of women, short as it was.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 5:22 PM on April 29, 2023

Oh man, a friend from high school and I could reliably bring each other to hysterics by shaking our hand and going "sh sh sh sh sh sh sh", evoking this scene. I started laughing while finding the clip for this comment.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 10:47 PM on March 25, 2023

I really liked that Charlie didn't use her truth-o-meter to solve anything. She figured out Cliff because of randomly coming across the glow in the dark chips. Not because he lied about anything. That was a cool way to subvert expectations.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 5:08 PM on March 10, 2023

What I love about the show is that I never feel jerked around by plot twists.

I felt that was about this show until this episode. Like, ok, she's not dead after being hit, that's great. But we see him stick a knife in her chest. Everything else we've seen (and even in other Rian Johnson work) is that you see what you see. There's no explanation for why that knife didn't kill her. Nothing about a necklace, or a flask, or anything. It's filmed… [more]
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 6:25 PM on March 3, 2023

I loved this movie. I think now, though, the misogyny (at least, I think I remember it being pretty bad) would make it unwatchable for me.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 12:27 PM on January 10, 2023

I also hadn't heard about Carruth's abuse.

I really liked this, although confess to not totally getting the thread. Similarly his followup, Upstream Color, which I think wasn't so much a movie as an aesthetic.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 12:28 PM on January 9, 2023

Oh man I loved everything about this movie. I loved the acting, I loved the story, I loved (LOVED) the music. I mean, The Cramps?!?! And I still watch the last scene (at the grave) on YouTube every now and then.

I especially liked the subverted expectations about what happens in the hotel room, and the way they used flashbacks to heighten the expectations.

AAA+++++
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 12:05 PM on January 9, 2023

This was the first movie I ever saw Eric Roberts in. Every time I saw him after, I was repelled. I remember a few years later he was in something where he was supposed to be acomic romantic lead, and I kept wanting to yell at the woman "Run! Run away now!"
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 5:06 PM on December 1, 2022

My favorite thing was
[Click for spoiler]After Duke "threatens" Miles, Miles makes a drink and go over to Duke.
I noticed that he handed Duke the glass, and I thought "Well that's odd". Then everything unfolds, and as Miles retells things, Duke picks the glass up from the table. That "retold" scene is shown twice and I started thinking "Maybe I am remembering it incorrectly". Then of course everything comes out, and we're shown… [more]
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 7:30 PM on November 25, 2022

"You mean inexpensive, don't you? Isn't that what you meant?"

Every.single.time. I hear the word "cheap"
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 8:02 PM on November 18, 2022

I loved this book, and others by the pair, when I was younger. I didn't understand all the shittiness at the time, and have no desire to revisit them.

My primary memory of the book, though, is that I started reading it while we were on a family road trip. And my mother started reading it, and then my father, and they couldn't figure out a good way to share the paperback so they TORE IT INTO SEVERAL PIECES so we could each read it at the same time. It was horrifying to… [more]
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 8:16 PM on November 6, 2022

So, Gorgik... one started reading halfway through

I was halfway through, then someone else started (can't remember which one). After something...75-100 pages, they tore the book apart so I had my section, they had theirs, and the next person could start theirs.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 7:55 PM on November 7, 2022

What does it do anyway?
It causes your brain to die last.
I don't mind.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 7:37 PM on November 1, 2022

I loved this movie. I remember, after seeing it, thinking "that was nothing like the trailer", and it was so, so much more interesting than the promos made it seem ("First, they send the drones, then they send the Queen"). Like, not science fiction horror, but an intimate look at two people descending into extreme paranoia.

I remember sometime after I saw it, hearing Tracy Letts during an interview say "Yeah, it was probably the most misleading… [more]
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 12:07 PM on October 11, 2022

"Because if I wear it anywhere else, it chafes."
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 12:11 PM on August 5, 2022

But what if then it's too late?
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 5:57 AM on June 17, 2022

I don't think anyone pointed this out, but I'm pretty sure that when Grogu jumps into Mando's arms during the chase, it's a force-jump, since all he could muster before are tiny little hops.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 9:25 PM on March 7, 2022

"And we turn him into an anecdote, with no teeth, and a punchline you'll tell for years to come: "Oh, that reminds me of the time the imposter came into our house." "Oh! Tell the one about that boy." And we become these human jukeboxes spitting out these anecdotes to dine out on like we're doing right now. Well I will not turn him into an anecdote, it was an experience. How do we hold onto the experience?"

I think about those lines a lot, as… [more]
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 7:41 PM on February 28, 2022

Just won the 2021 Hugo for best dramatic presentation long form
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 7:29 PM on December 18, 2021

At the end, when we see Bronwyn in the gas station, and the two women are saying "I think it's her", etc, etc, one of them says "Stark", and Bronywyn corrects her, "Lark", and then the woman says "no, it's Stark".

That's gotta be the writers riffing on Paltrow being in Iron Man/Avengers, right?
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 8:08 PM on October 16, 2021

(Spoilers)This was mostly breezy, with a few twists on the genre that I appreciated, that there wasn't a lot of build up to the trope, neither was there a lot of science talk to try to explain what was going on. I really liked Margaret, and wish we had gotten more of her. My wife and I discussed it after, and I think the choice about focusing on Mark and putting the audience in his shoes was the only real way for the reveal, that the story is really about Margaret, to work.… [more]
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 9:23 PM on March 7, 2021

[Groundhog Dog]

Uh, what now?

Lol, didn't even see that. I don't suppose the editor of The Hollywood Reporter needs to check the names of movies they mention.....
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 6:48 PM on March 8, 2021

I watched this with no expectations other than a woman-fronted "spy" movie, and while I don't think it was great, I liked Blake Lively and thought she did a good job as a haphazard fish-out-of-water. And thought her transformation in the first third was compelling, if not a little cliched.

There was stuff that was problematic, particularly yet another middle-eastern terrorist. And a mostly dull plot. But the character was interesting, and some of the action… [more]
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 8:26 PM on January 31, 2021

I've been reading this slowly, to be able to savor it for a while. Until this morning, I'd have said that "Bananas" was my favorite chapter.

"You've never been this far before. You know you shouldn't say it. You know it's stupid and you'll regret it later. But it's too late. The sentence has formed. It's on deck, ready to launch. You're going to say it.
[pic]

The words start coming out.… [more]
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 11:08 AM on October 11, 2020

"Sensing the pressure to lead, my first instinct was to give up."
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 8:06 AM on October 17, 2020

I loved this movie. It was low stakes but interesting, and I thought the chemistry between the leads was great.

I do have a question, though. Why did Roy and Niles go into the cave after Roy shoots him with arrows that first time (well, first time on screen)? Was it just a convenient way to end the day and start again?
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 9:36 PM on August 1, 2020

I watched this back-to-back this weekend with a bunch of other action movies, notably The Man From Nowhere, which has a similar plot. But I liked this one more, for a bunch of reasons. I thought Ngô Thanh Vân was a better actor, and her character more compelling in motivation. I liked all the establishing scenes, both in the village market and in downtown Saigon, and thought they rooted the movie, and provided a good background for what Hai Phượng was going through during her search.… [more]
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 9:48 AM on February 17, 2020

*...my husband the high chemistry teacher tonight."

I would audit the hell out of this class.
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 3:35 PM on December 28, 2019

I kept wondering if Marta and Meg were a couple, in fact I'm still wondering.

That scene near the end where they hug, and then Meg smiles...I though "Ok, now kiss!"
posted to FanFare by Gorgik at 3:20 AM on November 30, 2019