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nycfan said:
Re-watched 12 Monkeys last night with my 19-y.o. son, who had never seen it. It always is amazing what a joy it is to re-experience something with someone you love experiencing it for the first time. He loved it and I really appreciated a lot of details I hadn't considered since I probably haven't seen it for a decade. The writing is really excellent in the attention to detail.

And the escaped zoo animals in Philadelphia rush hour is a gorgeous scene in what is mostly a visually downer movie.

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Like that film a lot, and the director is inspired and highly creative. You two might find the following video with him fun, as at 8:22 in he talks of that film and working with Willis and Pitt:

 
There are a bunch of top films I need to catch up with from this year.

The Brutalist is good, visually amazing, but the story did not captivate me the way it did many critics.

The Order has a fine performance by Jude Law, but again I did not think it was as good what critics have said. It has a lot of the "old lawman" after a group of bad guys clichés, and elements we have seen before in so many films. That it tells actual events of going after Neo Nazis makes it more interesting.
 
Perhaps I missed this one mentioned on the movie thread.
I made mention of it on another thread - but it’s a must see IMHO if you’re music lover. Even if you don’t like Dylan.
Heck, it’s a must see regardless.
Very well done. Great all the way around - Oscar stuff.
All of the actors learned to play and sing their parts and they all did a phenomenal job.
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Centerpiece said:
Perhaps I missed this one mentioned on the movie thread.
I made mention of it on another thread - but it’s a must see IMHO if you’re music lover. Even if you don’t like Dylan.
Heck, it’s a must see regardless.
Very well done. Great all the way around - Oscar stuff.
All of the actors learned to play and sing their parts and they all did a phenomenal job.
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We saw it last night. Couldn’t agree with you more.
 
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A lot to chew on and I love its spirit and intention, but it didn’t come all the way together for me. Clumsy and had problems with style and story.

Gascon deserves recognition for her role, I’m not sure the other two do. Maaaybe Saldaña. Not Gomez.
 
Golden Globes last night — Brutalist and Emilia Perez with momentum, along with Adrien Brody, Demi Moore, Zoe Saldaña, and Kieran Culkin in the acting categories.

If Anora, Conclave, Sing Sing are going to pick up any momentum it’ll have to start with the Critics Choice. Conclave won for screenplay last night, so that’s something.

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I watched Wicked last night. Had never read the book or seen the play, so came at it de novo.

It was visually ravishing and overall enjoyable, though you could feel that it was stretched thin by making two films out of a single play, I guess. Probably heretical, but I thought the songs, while extremely well performed by the two leads, are just solid Broadway fare. Like nothing stuck with me afterward.

But it did overall feel like a throwback in someways to old Hollywood entertainment for the senses, and I don't know if you can call something that obvious subversive, but at least it has some brains in its head.
 
It's too early to say a film is one of the best of 2025, but this is me saying A Real Pain will be one of the best of 2025. This is a high energy, quite unique character study of two people, and Kieran Culkin gives a sensational performance as, very much a lower class (meaning non-billionaire) version of his character Roman from Succession -- I don't think there is any reason to avoid that they are the same, and neither is it a bad thing in any way. Both have total confidence most of the time and "no filter" at any point in time. Culkin's performance in the masterpiece TV show is one of the best that medium has ever given us (that whole cast is), and he is not to be missed in this film as well. Jesse Eisenberg (who acted, wrote and directed, very well) is also superb. A small scale, but dynamic film.
 
^ I don’t know the exact release details of A Real Pain, but it’s being treated as a 2024 release by the awards circuit. Culkin already won a Golden Globe.

Either way I’ll probably be watching it sometime this week.

And it’s due to come out on Hulu on 1/16.
 
duluoz said:
^ I don’t know the exact release details of A Real Pain, but it’s being treated as a 2024 release by the awards circuit. Culkin already won a Golden Globe.

Either way I’ll probably be watching it sometime this week.

And it’s due to come out on Hulu on 1/16.
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My mistake, it did come out last year. Another from last year I just caught up with is Lake George. Another smaller film, way too under the radar, also with fine performances. Two tragic-comic figures gradually work together against a major crime boss. Sounds ordinary, but it's creative, gains your emotional sympathy properly, and very much worth seeing.
 
Centerpiece said:
Perhaps I missed this one mentioned on the movie thread.
I made mention of it on another thread - but it’s a must see IMHO if you’re music lover. Even if you don’t like Dylan.
Heck, it’s a must see regardless.
Very well done. Great all the way around - Oscar stuff.
All of the actors learned to play and sing their parts and they all did a phenomenal job.
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How does it compare to Bohemian Rhapsody?
 
duluoz said:
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A lot to chew on and I love its spirit and intention, but it didn’t come all the way together for me. Clumsy and had problems with style and story.

Gascon deserves recognition for her role, I’m not sure the other two do. Maaaybe Saldaña. Not Gomez.
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It's hugely insulting to trans people, based on conversations I've had with trans people, articles I've read written by trans people, and plain common sense. It does not sound to me like something worth watching. It sounds like a piece of garbage, to be honest.
 
ZenMode said:
How does it compare to Bohemian Rhapsody?
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Favorably for most, I’m sure.
Even better for me as I’m much more a Dylan fan than Queen or Freddie Mercury… but that’s just musically speaking, not in terms of the films, or the acting job.
I think it can win and Oscar or two.
I think Chalamet did as good a job in “becoming” Dylan as not.
Not sure there is another actor in 2024 more deserving, but there could be, I haven’t seen a ton of films this year.

But here’s the difference between the two. Malek did not do all the singing in the Freddie Mercury movie. Whereas Chalamet not only did all the singing, he did all the guitar playing and all the harmonica playing as well. And he did a phenomenal job at all 3. Plus a phenomenal job of acting, and channeling Dylan’s voice and his mannerisms. So in those instances, Chalamet blows it out of the water, and there’s really no comparison.
 
Centerpiece said:
But here’s the difference between the two. Malek did not do all the singing in the Freddie Mercury movie. Whereas Chalamet not only did all the singing, he did all the guitar playing and all the harmonica playing as well. And he did a phenomenal job at all 3. Plus a phenomenal job of acting, and channeling Dylan’s voice and his mannerisms. So in those instances, Chalamet blows it out of the water, and there’s really no comparison.
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In fairness, it is much easier to sing like Dylan than like Freddie Mercury.
 
superrific said:
It's hugely insulting to trans people, based on conversations I've had with trans people, articles I've read written by trans people, and plain common sense. It does not sound to me like something worth watching. It sounds like a piece of garbage, to be honest.
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Reasonable minds are going to differ on this one. It’s messy in a lot of ways, given the French director, and not being shot in Mexico, and without native Mexicans for the three main female leads, etc. Although the story does explain away two of them being non-native. But the story is also messy. For me it did enough beyond all that to be worthwhile. Especially given that it was originally intended to be an opera, so what they ended up with is some blend of musical and telenovela.

But to the trans issues, there will be trans people and non-trans people who have different takeaways. The lead herself is a trans woman who has vocally dedicated her awards wins to the trans community. Cannes and Golden Globes, pretty big platform for representation and awareness.

Given your predisposition, I wouldn’t bother with it. It’ll just confirm your bias since you sound pretty outraged (for someone who’s never seen it). But please don’t make it seem as though you have established a consensus because you had a conversation and read some articles. Anyone could do the same and come away with the polar opposite sentiment.

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superrific said:
In fairness, it is much easier to sing like Dylan than like Freddie Mercury.
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Perhaps. But that’s still not fair.
Try learning how to play finger style guitar as well as singing at the same time. Also, the actor playing Freddie didn’t actually sing any at all. I gave him more credit than was due in my comment.
He won best actor. So there is that.
 
Watched “The Substance” last night. The one Demi Moore won Golden Globe for best actress.
I am admittedly not their target audience, but I did not like this movie at all.
 
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