Which movie did you watch today and how would you rate it?

[excreationist]

Good Fortune
Keanu Reeves is an angel who makes a guy living in his car and a rich guy switch lives. I liked how the characters discover how bleak life can be for the working poor - yet the main character had to truly want to live his old life. I really enjoyed it and the social commentary and some humour.
9/10

 

[Shadowy Man]

Saw a Cohen Bros. movie I had missed, A Serious Man. Seems a retelling of the Book of Job, and it jumps from dybukks to quantum mechanics.

I liked it but my friend didn’t. He thought it was too slow. It started slow for me too but then went to zany Cohen overdrive in the second half. 6/10.

Hadn’t heard of this one. I have found the Cohen brothers really hit or miss with me.

 

[pood]

Saw a Cohen Bros. movie I had missed, A Serious Man. Seems a retelling of the Book of Job, and it jumps from dybukks to quantum mechanics.

I liked it but my friend didn’t. He thought it was too slow. It started slow for me too but then went to zany Cohen overdrive in the second half. 6/10.

Hadn’t heard of this one. I have found the Cohen brothers really hit or miss with me.

Yup. It hit with me but missed with my friend. But it wasn’t hitting with me either until the second half of the movie when it went batshit crazy.

 

[pood]

There is a lovely scene in which the protagonist, a Jewish physics professor haunted by dybukks, is explaining the quantum uncertainty principle to a seminar of bored college students. As they walk out on him his nemesis walks down and, against a gigantic blackboard of mathematical equations, grabs him and beats his his head against the blackboard and yells, “I’ve been fucking your wife!”

Talk about your uncertainty principle!

 

[Swammerdami]

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Once again, I have to say They don't make 'em like they used to.

Just in case you don't know, the story is about a baby born as a decrepit old man who then proceeds to get younger as the years go by.
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9/10

Interesting. I looked this up and says it was based on a short story by Fitzgerald.

I am not familiar with that story, but I am with Time of Passage by J.G. Ballard, which explores exactly the same topic.

I will put this on my to-watch list.

There's an interesting novel by Martin Amis -- Time's Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence -- which uses a different but related(?) trick. The trick is revealed right away, so I'm not spoiling the novel: A powerless narrator inside protagonist's brain perceives and narrates with time reversed. Has anyone else here read this novel?

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BTW: My memory was never too good and in late middle age (or does 76 finally push me over to "old"?) it's gotten worse. I had to watch the trailer to realize I'd already seen A Serious Man.