Let's Talk Movies #36 - 2020 - Yep it is a new decade

In the theater now to see House of Gucci.

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Note: Tom Ford's comments were not bad.

ETA: Post-Movie review-

It was entertaining, like watching a train wreck you can see coming from a mile away. I felt tension throughout the movie because I wanted to get caught up in the nostalgia of the fashion and music. However, certain things made me cringe, such as watching awkward social class issues and watching manipulation cause ironic outcomes.

Lady Gaga did a good job carrying the movie. Al Pacino was good, and I felt there was contrast between this character and his past characters. Jared Leto was unrecognizable as a person but did a good job as the character. I like Adam Driver in this movie, which is surprising because I dislike him in the recent Star Wars movies as Kylo Ren. I think Selma Hayek did a good job, although it was odd seeing her not trying to be hot or the center of attention. I think I knew the cast a little too much for me to totally suspend reality.

I did watch the direct comparison of Lady Gaga Vs Patrizia. I think she does a good job at being Patrizia herself but not a typical regional accent because she delivers a lot of smooth dialogue that omits "eh" and "ay" sounds and filler words (English speaker often use "um", "hmm", "well", "ah", "uh", "err" as their filler words). This point was not a distraction for me when watching the movie, and actually probably made the movie more watchable.


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Lady Gaga and Patrizia Gucci Accent Comparison (Part 3)

House of Gucci starring Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Al Pacino, and Salma Hayek is in theaters now! More Gaga: https://youtube.com/c/gag...
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Watched Tick Tick Boom last night and loved it. Garfield is simply fantastic in this! I wasn't familiar with the show or its connection to Stephen Sondheim and Sunday in the Park.... Seeing this right after his death made it seem like a tribute. I'm definitely going to go back and re-watch the diner scene now that I've read who all the cameos are. I had to be persuaded to watch this so I was surprised how much I enjoyed it.
 
Saw Ghostbusters: Afterlife this weekend. I was highly entertained -- and I admit, I even teared up a time or two. They did a good job of tying in the original Ghostbusters without overdoing the nostalgia, and I thought the tribute to Harold Ramis was particularly well done.
 
Has everybody seem on the news how mobs of people are storming into stores late at night and grabbing everything they can in a matter of seconds and then all storming back out of the store with their arms full of goods?

This is a sign. A sign of step one as we get closer and closer to these movies being documentaries:

8/10 - The Forever Purge is the fifth, and was to be the final film of The Purge series. But as this fifth installment made a healthy profit (and the TV spin-off was cancelled), the ideas for the TV show was decided to be a possibility for future storylines in the movie series. Which is fine by me as I find these movies deliciously subversive. I still can’t believe they are as successful as they are because the filmmakers are so unafraid to shine a light on problems within American society -- and call out the problem-makers on film. So radical…and I love it! :EVILLE: Josh Lucas is the only big-name star in The Forever Purge. He plays a rancher whose family and workers must deal with the violence of The Purge when…it doesn’t end. Racial supremists have declared the purge to continue until they have eliminated everyone from their country who they feel don’t belong. The Forever Purge has the same feel as it’s predecessors but adds new story elements to keep us thinking as well as entertained.

Trailer for The Forever Purge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMq0ys-Hyu0
 
I watched Rango on the weekend, with voice work by Johnny Depp and Isla Fisher. Depp was more animated than I expected, less so with Fisher. I wonder if they wanted her to tone it down so Depp could be the star of the show. Rango won the Oscar for best animated film where it won against Puss N Boots and Kung Fu Panda 2. Plus two other movies I've never heard of. :lol: A few days after watching it, I’m still unsure if it was actually made for kids or for adults only. There is lots of silly fun, but death awaits many characters at many turns. Plus it’s clear this movie was made before the Me Too movement as women are treated as objects, people who can be touched and kissed without their permission and even bartered for affection between men. So pretty yucky. Perhaps even moreso with Johnny Depp as the main star, but before all the accusations made against him by later wife Amber Heard. The animation is fantastic, holding up well against similar movies made ten years later. One to think twice about viewing, weighing out the quality animation versus the dark tone and disrespectful treatment of female characters.
 
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Who is planning to see 'West side Story' which will be released Dec 10? Steven Spielberg has recreated it. I didn't see the original, with Natalie Wood. I better see that first. Here is some info on who plays who.
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I plan on seeing it to see how they adapt the stage material to film this time. I’d love for the entire “Somewhere” song and ballet to be done as it wasn’t in the 1961 film. I’m a bit iffy about them moving away from the Jerome Robbins choreography with Justin Peck’s choreography. I didn’t like Peck’s previous work I’ve seen with the Carousel revival as it seemed deeper into ballet than even what Jerome head of the New York City Ballet Robbins did for the original and well-known moves in West Side Story and Peck’s choreography for Carousel seemed to not have the right sense of character or setting.
 
annie720 said:
Watched Tick Tick Boom last night and loved it. Garfield is simply fantastic in this! I wasn't familiar with the show or its connection to Stephen Sondheim and Sunday in the Park.... Seeing this right after his death made it seem like a tribute. I'm definitely going to go back and re-watch the diner scene now that I've read who all the cameos are. I had to be persuaded to watch this so I was surprised how much I enjoyed it.
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Totally agree. While I think there were some structural issues in the film, it was a moving tribute to Jonathan Larson and Andrew Garfield gave my favorite male lead performance I’ve seen in a while. He just fully embraces the role and balances having that artist’s conceit with a charismatic warmth. Great supporting cast too.
 
VGThuy said:
I plan on seeing it to see how they adapt the stage material to film this time. I’d love for the entire “Somewhere” song and ballet to be done as it wasn’t in the 1961 film. I’m a bit iffy about them moving away from the Jerome Robbins choreography with Justin Peck’s choreography. I didn’t like Peck’s previous work I’ve seen with the Carousel revival as it seemed deeper into ballet than even what Jerome head of the New York City Ballet Robbins did for the original and well-known moves in West Side Story and Peck’s choreography for Carousel seemed to not have the right sense of character or setting.
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I'm looking forward to seeing West Side Story soon after it's released but I'm a bit concerned about the choreography because that's what I feel made the original so special.
 
This past month I’ve seen No Time to Die (in mr millyskate’s words “a little over the top” but amazing music), the aforementioned House of Gucci, Spencer (which I really enjoyed) and on Friday I’m seeing King Richard which I’m surprised is only on a week with early screenings.


Just watched The Colour Room on Sky Movies which really held our attention but will be more appealing to a UK audience as it’s the Clarice Cliff story.
 
millyskate said:
This past month I’ve seen No Time to Die (in mr millyskate’s words “a little over the top” but amazing music), the aforementioned House of Gucci, Spencer (which I really enjoyed) and on Friday I’m seeing King Richard which I’m surprised is only on a week with early screenings.


Just watched The Colour Room on Sky Movies which really held our attention but will be more appealing to a UK audience as it’s the Clarice Cliff story.
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I enjoyed No Time to Die about as much as I normally enjoy Bond films. Actually, it is slightly more deep than early Bond films. But the technology is more ridiculous. So it balances itself out.

We watched King Richard on HBO Max and I really enjoyed it. It is definitely the father's story though. I'm sure there are other sides that paint him in a really unflattering light. (Vs. just a slightly assholic but for a good reason.)
 
Tonight I am going to see Wes Anderson's latest The French Dispatch. The trailer has me hooked. Some friends saw it at an opening here the other night (they are having a second opening tonight) and thought it was great. You get a souvenir "The French Dispatch" magazine when you go.

The other film I saw on Amazon was The Electrical Life of Louis Wain. Stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy. Based on the true story of the artist who developed pictures of whimsical cats. Not the best movie but I did enjoy it.
 
Watched the movie The Giver (2014) - starring Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges. Interesting idea about a future society. The movie was not as great as I had hoped but it was still good enough to watch. Some reviewers mentioned the book it is based on. In the book the hero is just 12 years old. I like it that the movie made him and his friends teenagers. That kind of story fits teenagers better than 11-12 year olds.
 
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"Misbehaviour", the film based on the disrupted 1970 Miss World contest, was a treat to watch with a sterling cast and multiple themes. And I loved that we were able to see the actual people involved at the end of the film. I was wistful at the end: I would like to travel back in time to be there. Here is the trailer: https://youtu.be/ZUa0Mtdv1HQ
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Thanks for the recommendation. I remember when Misbehaviour came out, but it seemed to disappear so quickly. I had forgotten about it, but decided to see it after you mentioned it. Glad I did. Great cast and nicely paced movie. Held my interest completely from start to finish. Lesley Manville as Dolores Hope had so little to do, but boy did she make the most of her screen time. I also really liked seeing the real women portrayed in this movie at the end of the film. Wish the DVD extras of their interview wasn’t so short, though. But a movie for everybody to see, regardless of your gender or age.
 
8/10 - Omar is a 2013 Palestinian drama about a young baker who routinely climbs the West Bank wall to visit his girlfriend who he has dated since high school. Omar and two friends plan attacks on soldiers and on a tip about these plans, he is captured, imprisoned, interrogated and ultimately tricked into incriminating himself. He is then asked to become a double agent against his friends (one of whom is the brother of his girlfriend). This movie is brilliantly directed, so it’s not a surprise that it was Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (along with The Hunt, an amazing movie starring Mads Mikkelsen). But the ending is confusing to me. I googled movie reviews for Omar to see if someone could explain his actions at the end of the movie. Nobody explained it, so I’m left confused. Has anyone else seen this movie? Along with the Oscar nomination, it also won an award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Trailer for Omar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuvO65EPWFo
 
I have seen Omar, and I do remember being unsure about the ending, but that was 8 or so years ago and at this point I don’t remember what happened. Can toy refresh my memory a bit?
 
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I have seen Omar, and I do remember being unsure about the ending, but that was 8 or so years ago and at this point I don’t remember what happened. Can toy refresh my memory a bit?
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Omar's friend Amjad says that Nadia is pregnant with his child (this is a lie, Nadia is not pregnant). Omar gives Amjad the money he has saved to buy a house for himself and Nadia. Omar distances himself and Amjad and Nadia get married and have a child, then another. After two years, Omar returns and find out that Amjad lied and that Nadia was not pregnant. Omar doesn't want to cause havoc for this new family. Even though Nadia tells Omar that Amjad never gave the letter to Nadia which Omar wrote to her before leaving.

Rami (the Israeli agent who tricked Omar into his "confession") re-visits Omar and once again makes more demands of him. Omar agrees to meet Rami to get a gun to do Rami's bidding. When Omar gets the gun, he uses it to kill Rami. Which is done in front of three other Israeli soldiers who we assume all have guns. So it was a suicide mission with Omar getting revenge against Rami and subsequently dying (or if not killed, Omar will surely spend the rest of his long life in jail).

What I don't understand is:

1. Why didn't Omar tell Nadia about Amjad's lie? And that Amjad withheld the letter Omar left for Nadia?
2. Why didn't Omar arrange to meet Rami somewhere privately where he could have gotten his revenge, but not be killed? Was Omar so despondent that he just wanted to die? And decided to take Rami with him to the grave?
 
Re: Omar, I had forgotten so much of this. I think a happy ending was never in the cards for Omar, and Omar thought this was the way out for himself. I may have to see if I can stream this and refresh my memory more.
 
WSS is currently sitting at 96% tomatometer reading. Wow, WSS seems like the most exciting and best reviewed movie thus far for 2021.

Andrew Lloyd Webber needs to have a dinner date with Spielberg. Maybe discuss about a remake of "Cats"?
 
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This article has been updated. The changes to the major categories are below.

Best picture new possibilities are Licorize Pizza and Nightmare Alley. Gone from the list are Being the Ricardos and Parallel Mothers (the Pedro Almodóvar movie).

Licorice Pizza (November 26th) is a coming-of-age comedy drama directed by Paul Thomas Anderson with newcomers in the lead roles, supported by Sean Penn, Maya Rudolph, Tom Waits, Christine Ebersole and Bradley Cooper.

Nightmare Alley is a psychological thriller which will be released on December 17th. It stars Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Clifton Collins Jr., Tim Blake Nelson, Mary Steenburgen and David Strathairn.

Best director: Added to the list are Guillermo del Toro for “Nightmare Alley” and Reinaldo Marcus Green for “King Richard”.
Gone from the list are Pedro Almodóvar for “Parallel Mothers” and Lin-Manuel Miranda for “Tick, Tick…Boom!”.

Best actor: Added to the list is Clifton Collins, Jr. for “Jockey”, a drama which co-stars Molly Parker. Gone from the list is Peter Dinklage for “Cyrano”.

Best actress: Added to the list is Frances McDormand for “The Tragedy of Macbeth”. Gone from the list is Lady Gaga for “House of Gucci”.

Best supporting actor

Added to the list are these four potential nominees:

Ben Affleck for “The Tender Bar”
Willem Dafoe for “Nightmare Alley”
Jamie Dornan for “Belfast”
Kodi Smit-McPhee for “The Power of the Dog”

And the four removed from the list are:

Andrew Garfield for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”
Corey Hawkins for “The Tragedy of Macbeth”
J.K. Simmons for “Being the Ricardos”
Jeffrey Wright for “The French Dispatch”

Best supporting actress: Added to the list is Aunjanue Ellis for “King Richard”. Removed from the list is Nina Arianda for “Being the Ricardos”.

Best Song:

Five new songs added as possible contenders:

“So May We Start” from the movie “Annette”
“Down to Joy” – Van Morrison from the movie “Belfast”
“Every Letter” from the movie “Cyrano”
“The Harder They Fall” from the film of the same name by Kid Cudi, Jay-Z, Jeymes Samuel
“Be Alive” – Beyonce Knowles-Carter, Darius Scott from the movie “King Richard”

Removed from the list are songs from Dear Evan Hansen, Encanto, House of Gucci, No Time to Die and Tick, Tick…Boom!
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2022 Oscars Predictions: The Collective (Top Contenders In All Categories)

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Best picture

“Belfast” (Focus Features)
NEW “Don’t Look Up” (Netflix)
“Dune” (Warner Bros.)
“King Richard” (Warner Bros.)
“Licorice Pizza” (MGM/United Artists Releasing)
“The Power of the Dog” (Netflix)
“Tick, Tick…Boom!” (Netflix)
“The Tragedy of Macbeth”
NEW “West Side Story” (20th Century Studios)

Previous potential nominees (but no longer, apparently):

“Being the Ricardos” (Amazon Studios)
REMOVED “C’mon C’mon” (A24)
REMOVED “CODA” (Apple TV Plus)
Nightmare Alley
“Parallel Mothers”


Best director:

Kenneth Branagh “Belfast”
Jane Campion “The Power of the Dog”
Denis Villeneuve “Dune”
NEW Aaron Sorkin “Being the Ricardos”
Reinaldo Marcus Green for “King Richard”

Previous potential nominees (but no longer, apparently):

Pedro Almodóvar “Parallel Mothers”
Lin-Manuel Miranda “Tick, Tick…Boom!”
REMOVED Guillermo del Toro for “Nightmare Alley”

Interesting that West Side Story is being considered for best picture as a nominee...but not the director, any of the cast. And they didn't have a new song written for the movie for radio airplay and to get a possible additional award nomination? Or if there is a new song (or more) are they not good?


Best actor:

Benedict Cumberbatch - “The Power of the Dog”
NEW Leonardo DiCaprio “Don’t Look Up”
Andrew Garfield “Tick, Tick…Boom!”
Will Smith “King Richard”
Denzel Washington “The Tragedy of Macbeth”

Previous potential nominees (but no longer, apparently):

Peter Dinklage “Cyrano”
REMOVED Clifton Collins, Jr. for “Jockey”

Two African-American actors remain as possible nominees, but Hispanic actor Collins, Jr. has been moved off the potential nominee list.

Best actress:

Penélope Cruz “Parallel Mothers”
Olivia Colman “The Lost Daughter”
NEW Nicole Kidman “Being the Ricardos”
RE-ADDED Lady Gaga “House of Gucci”
Kristen Stewart “Spencer”

Previous potential nominees (but no longer, apparently):

REMOVED Frances McDormand for “The Tragedy of Macbeth”.
REMOVED Jessica Chastain “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”

#OscarSoWhiteStill? Was there no quality work of women this year? (Cruz notwithstanding.)

Best supporting actor:

Jamie Dornan for “Belfast”
NEW Jared Leto “House of Gucci”
NEW Ciarán Hinds “Belfast”
RE-ADDED J.K. Simmons “Being the Ricardos”
Jesse Plemons “The Power of the Dog”

Previous potential nominees (but no longer, apparently):

Andrew Garfield “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”
Corey Hawkins “The Tragedy of Macbeth”
Jeffrey Wright “The French Dispatch”
REMOVED Ben Affleck for “The Tender Bar”
REMOVED Willem Dafoe for “Nightmare Alley”
REMOVED Kodi Smit-McPhee for “The Power of the Dog”

Would be interesting if Dornan becomes a nominee after being in the Razzie-world of the 50 Shades of Grey movies. Plus the little I have seen of Leto's work in House Of Gucci, it looks very over-the-top and charicature-ish. Anyone who has seen this movie, what did you think of Leto's performance?

Best supporting actress:

Aunjanue Ellis for “King Richard"
Caitriona Balfe “Belfast”
Judi Dench “Belfast”
Kirsten Dunst “The Power of the Dog”
NEW Ruth Negga “Passing”

Previous potential nominees (but no longer, apparently):

Nina Arianda “Being the Ricardos”
REMOVED Ann Dowd “Mass”

I think if Ann Dowd remains as an also-run it might be like best actor nominee Clifton Collins Jr. who both appear in movies where their performances are getting buzz...but nothing else about the movie is.


Best Song:

“Down to Joy” – Van Morrison from the movie “Belfast”
“Every Letter” from the movie “Cyrano”
NEW “Don’t Look Up” (from the Netflix film of the same name, Arian Grande is one of the writers)
“The Harder They Fall” from the film of the same name by Kid Cudi, Jay-Z, Jeymes Samuel
“Be Alive” – Beyonce Knowles-Carter, Darius Scott from the movie “King Richard”

Previous potential nominees (but no longer, apparently):

“Unknown possible song” from “Dear Evan Hansen” (Universal Pictures)
“Unknown possible song” from “Encanto” (Walt Disney Pictures)
“Unknown possible song” from “House of Gucci” (MGM/United Artists Releasing)
“No Time to Die” from “No Time to Die” (United Artists Releasing)
“Unknown possible song” from “Tick, Tick…Boom!” (Netflix)
REMOVED “So May We Start” from the movie “Annette”

Nothing here has received any radio airplay/chart action. Did no movies this year have a hit song? (Was Billie Eilish's "No Time To Die" a hit...at one time??)
 
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