Jimmy Higgins
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One exhaust port.
Obviously, there were many jail cells, trash compactors, and hanger bays scattered around the DS. And there were probably multiple areas where the tractor beam (and many other devices) could be messed with.
Cambridge Dictionary said:epic
adjective
/ˈep.ɪk/
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used to describe events that happen over a long period and involve a lot of action and difficulty
The Brutalist is a masterpiece with stunning cinematography, incredible performances, and a thought-provoking story about architecture, immigration, and artistic vision.
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An immigrant architect clashes with a captain of industry in this remarkable film about the soul of America.
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Reviewers say 'The Brutalist' is a visually stunning film with ambitious themes of immigration and artistic integrity. Adrien Brody's performance is highly praised, though the slow pacing and emotionally detached storytelling receive criticism.
I didn't watch it because I find Timothy Chalamet so thoroughly annoying.I've been a Bob Dylan fan for 60 years, so of course I watched A Complete Unknown, a mini-bio of this fabulous songwriter. It gets 7.3 IMDB but I'll give it no more than 6.5.
I found myself comparing it to Walk the Line, a bio of Johnny Cash which gets 7.8 IMDB but deserves 8.2. Walk the Line is a genuine epic. We see the teen-age troubles with his father, the difficulty getting his music career started, and the early days when he's just warm-up for stars like June Carter or Elvis Presley. We see his two marriages unfold. We see him at the depths of methedrine addiction. A highlight for me was when Columbia Records turns down his request to record live albums in prison, but Cash insists that's his plan with or without Columbia's help. The lead song from Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison hit #1 on the chart. The next year, an entire album At San Quentin hit #1.
Contrast this EPIC view of Johnny Cash's life story, with the brief glimpse of Dylan we get in A Complete Unknown. Very early in the film an album titled Bob Dyan is released, in contrast to Cash's ordeals. Perhaps the rapidity of success is a key fact of Dylan's bio, but surely some build-up would have helped. There's only 3 years from that 1962 album to the 1965 Newport Folk Festival but if you want more than those three years you're out of luck -- that's the whole movie! Dylan had two wives. He met Sara Lownds -- the "love of his life" -- in early 1964 but she is never mentioned in the movie. Of course his after-1965 2nd wife is never mentioned. The movie hints at his love affair with Joan Baez but never really explains why they came together or why they parted.
Pete Seeger played folk music on a banjo, while Dylan showed off his electric guitar at the 1965 Festival. "Like a Rolling Stone" was booed at the 1965 Festival and Columbia Records didn't want to release it! This controversy was before my time. The movie dwells on that rather than the long interesting life of this great poet. Watch a re-run of Walk the Line instead!
I just watched it yesterday on your recommendation. Pretty good. Thanks for that.Starry Eyes
A young girl is trying to make it as an actress in Hollywood. She lives with a group of thoroughly unlikeable young people in a rundown apartment complex in L.A. and works a shitty job as a waitress in a 3rd rate Hooters type of restaurant.
If this plot sounds typical, it's execution isn't.
It's a grimy, intense horror flick that pulls the viewer in right away with its sense of dread and oppressive atmosphere. It's violent and gory, but also heartbreaking. You really feel for the protagonist because she's so earnest, hopeful, and vulnerable. The movie then takes those sympathetic elements and crushes her by using them against her. It's brutal, unrelenting, disgusting, and really sad.
This is a damn good movie, but clearly it's not for everyone. Only watch it if you're into serious horror e.g. The Substance, which this movie likely paved the way for.
The one problem I had with it is that they failed to stick the landing. It's ambiguous, which is sometimes good, but more often than not it's because they couldn't think of something better, which seems to be the case here. There also may have been budget issues that didn't allow for what needed to happen in order for the movie to get the special ending it deserved.
Horor Scale: 8.75/10
Non-Horror Scale: Unclear
Das Boot (director's cut), Gandhi, Metropolis (that film has roughly 726 runtime lengths, at least one of which must be an epic).I like many epic movies. But first: What IS an epic movie?
Cambridge Dictionary said:epic
adjective
/ˈep.ɪk/
...
used to describe events that happen over a long period and involve a lot of action and difficulty
IMDB's list of 50 greatest epic movies includes The Thin Red Line, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, LOTR: Return of the King, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (OK but only 2 hours), but NONE of the other 46 on the list get rave reviews from me. (Several I've barely heard of.)
A user-submitted list of 50 Must-See epics (actually 91, but I ignored the bottom 41) includes The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Lawrence of Arabia, Godfather, Godfather Part II, Schindler's List. The Right Stuff, Saving Private Ryan, The Deer Hunter, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Amadeus. That's more like it!
Some other top epics which help define the genre are Titanic, Doctor Zhivago, Gone with the Wind, Spartacus
Must be genetic. His mom, Judith Love Cohen, helped design the Abort-Guidance System that brought the Apollo 13 astronauts home. She also danced with the New York Metropolitan Opera Ballet and wrote children’s books.Jack Black was better than he had any right to be, given the material he was working with.