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Geisterfahrer said:
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Bare Beams and Steel: A Look Inside the Planned Renovation of the UWS’s Former Metro Theater

A hard hat tour on Saturday of the former Metro theater. Photos by Noëlle de Leeuw By Noëlle de Leeuw
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That’s very cool. Nice to see one coming back up instead of another going down. I won’t question the business side of it, and just hope it all works out.

There was talk of the Lincoln Plaza 6 reopening in some capacity, not sure what happened with that.
 
GoHeelsweeeehoooo said:
We just saw Project Hail Mary today - I had read the book and really enjoyed it - stayed very faithful to the book - saw it with my wife and son and they hadn't read the book and they both enjoyed it as well - really hope that Ryan Gosling gets some serious award consideration because he was phenomenal in this movie
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This is the best film of the year so far, and a thoroughly remarkable accomplishment, in delivering a complex story with two superb performances. It's that exceedingly rare example of an actual science fiction film--meaning to me, hard science fiction that gets the foundational science right as it explores speculative ideas. It works entirely on its own merit, but as one who loved the superb novel, it also realizes the best elements of the source, and all indications are it succeeds with general audiences who would never read hard science fiction.

The crossover elements of the novel that are so great, the science, the excitement of the story as it unfolds, and the emotion and humor are all present in the film, with perhaps rightly being lighter on the science, and greater on the emotion and humor. One flaw: the thing the film does not capture well enough is the sense of the danger to Earth that creates the need for the mission. Visually, it is brilliant and continuously astonishing. Highest recommendation to see it in IMAX if you can.

Gosling and Sandra Hüller are early frontrunners for many acting awards, and the film may capture many more categories, but what I love is it will make a good profit, thus encouraging more legit science film projects to get financed amid all the routine, garbage Star Wars and comic book Hollywood product.
 
Just finished “Sisu” road to revenge. Pretty predictable but satisfying! Good guy movie I’m thinking! I like that his dog made it!
 
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Finally watched Bone Temple. I liked it quite a bit but not quite as much as 28 Years. Some of the writing was iffy and the Alfie Williams kid can’t act worth a shit, but I liked the direction the story went and some of the scenes were very memorable.

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meaning to me, hard science fiction that gets the foundational science right as it explores speculative ideas.
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This is the one about alien single celled organisms that live in space, leech energy out of the sun and breed with CO2 from Venus? Then they use this alien thing as rocket fuel, to travel many light years at relativistic speeds to get to a system where there are rival microorganisms that prey on the first alien organisms? Along the way, they encounter some sort of alien beings that can somehow achieve space travel and indeed galactic survival without understanding relativity; they also encounter an alien supermaterial that they use to interact with the microbes?

This is what you call getting the foundational science right? Really? I haven't read or seen it but it sure seems like a bunch of stacked magic wands.
 
Project Hail Mary is competency porn, not because it's "hard" SF (whatever the fuck that means), but because it projects the fantasy of improvisatory scientists doo-bee-doo-dahing their way through space and its challenges.
 
Posted this by mistake on the streaming series thread. I recall reading some reviews of this film in here and now looking forward to rereading them...

I watched Marty Supreme this weekend. It had its moments and I'd say I enjoyed it overall but I wasn't blown away by it. The end seemed bit contrived. Or something. I guess contrived isn't a good word to use since all art is contrived in a sense, but I didn't find it terribly satisfying.

Also (stop reading if you haven't seen the movie, although this isn't really any kind of big spoiler) was Kevin O'Leary's character really a vampire? My ears perked up when he told Marty that he was a vampire and had been born in 1601, but I didn't really take it seriously at first, then I started thinking hmmm, was he really a vampire? I asked Gemini about it and it said the way it was presented probably meant that it was metaphorical, but that the director (and O'Leary) were really pushing for him to be a real vampire, to the point that the last scene was to be Marty (in old age makeup) in the 1980's at a concert with his granddaughter, and O'Leary appears, unaged, and bites him on the neck.

Evidently the studio didn't go for that (they thought the director was trolling them with that whole story line (well, it wouldn't have actually been a storyline, but a plot point, albeit a very dramatic and out of left field plot point) and nixed the whole idea. I think I would've liked that ending better than the one they ended up with...
 
hedge said:
Posted this by mistake on the streaming series thread. I recall reading some reviews of this film in here and now looking forward to rereading them...

I watched Marty Supreme this weekend. It had its moments and I'd say I enjoyed it overall but I wasn't blown away by it. The end seemed bit contrived. Or something. I guess contrived isn't a good word to use since all art is contrived in a sense, but I didn't find it terribly satisfying.

Also (stop reading if you haven't seen the movie, although this isn't really any kind of big spoiler) was Kevin O'Leary's character really a vampire? My ears perked up when he told Marty that he was a vampire and had been born in 1601, but I didn't really take it seriously at first, then I started thinking hmmm, was he really a vampire? I asked Gemini about it and it said the way it was presented probably meant that it was metaphorical, but that the director (and O'Leary) were really pushing for him to be a real vampire, to the point that the last scene was to be Marty (in old age makeup) in the 1980's at a concert with his granddaughter, and O'Leary appears, unaged, and bites him on the neck.

Evidently the studio didn't go for that (they thought the director was trolling them with that whole story line (well, it wouldn't have actually been a storyline, but a plot point, albeit a very dramatic and out of left field plot point) and nixed the whole idea. I think I would've liked that ending better than the one they ended up with...
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Wholeheartedly agree with your non-vampire assessment. It was hyper-stylized to the point where the dramatic tension to me felt like a retread of Uncut Gems but way less compelling. Maybe because it was, or maybe I just didn’t have the tolerance for it due to my Chalamet aversion among other things. Well done movie, but the style and essence just totally missed me.


*Spoilers I guess?*


As to the vampire stuff, no I don’t see it. Super rich people like to think they’re superhuman or want to be superhuman. Look at the mess that was Michael Jackson at the end. I’m sure in his cryo chamber at night he wondered about his vampireness at various points. And many other examples including Putin and Xi shooting the shit about immortality a few months back.

But no I don’t see it.Though I’d at least have given it some points for creativity.

 
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Yeah, I usually don't go for a gimmicky plot device that doesn't really have anything to do with the movie, like the toadstorm in Magnolia (first one that comes to mind), but generally little moments like that don't really detract from the rest of the movie and it's just something you have to put in your pocket and go "Hmmm" or "WTF?" and move on. In this case, particularly as the reveal of Rockwell really being a vampire would've been at the very end of the movie, there wouldn't be any time to contemplate what it meant for the rest of the movie b/c the movie would be over (although I guess that would leave things open for a sequel, LOL). At the very least, it would've perplexed and perhaps enraged some viewers and for some perverse reason the thought of that pleases me...
 
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