Well, Dune 2 opening weekend was double Dune 1. $81.5 mil, by far the best opening for a movie in months, I would guess the best of 2024 so far. Box office has mostly been anemic this year.
I think it's on Hulu.They disappeared off Prime before I had a chance to watch the other one. I have seen, but it was a long time ago.
This is what I considered watching and decided on X2 instead. Amber Heard will undoubtedly look good at least. I do generally like Momoa.Aquaman 2. Yeah, I watched it. Huge superhero movie making. They probably used the computing power of some countries to produce the visuals. Amber Heard is phenomenal (just kidding). No one is even close to great in this movie. But it doesn't pretend to anything it is not. They didn't take this effort too seriously and even poked fun at themselves. The thing is so crazy and over the top, you kind just get used to it. Sort of. If you like crab jokes about crabs losing a claw, you'll love this movie. Otherwise it's brainless, formula, CG fun. And, yeah, it's a bad movie. One star.
I enjoyed it. My take on JLD's character was more than she was very insecure, not rotten to the core. But you must've been happy watching her have to lug that mat up the stairs at least. Gandofini was fine, but for me, his best movie work remains "The Mexican".I watched Enough Said (2013) for the first time on Hulu. This movie got great reviews, and it was a good movie, not great. The acting carried a spotty plot. I really like Katherine Keener as an actress, and Gandolfini was decent, although the reviews were a bit overblown. There wasn't much to his part, so it was not deserving of awards despite what reviewers said right after he died. Despite the plot problems, it kept my attention. Although, it suffered from a common problem with romcoms, which is for the plot to work, one or both of the leads has to do things that are not nice, and I end up turning on the character when they do.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is really good at playing a very unpleasant narcissist, so that is what she does every time. And that was my problem with this movie. By the end, you don't want JLD's character to find happiness, because she is a rotten person at her core. I don't know if that was deliberate, or JLD played it that way which made me hate her by the end of the movie.
Already watched all the good ones.You guys watch some horrible movies.
That's when it's time for documentaries, long-form YT interviews, or a good book.Already watched all the good ones.
Napoleon. Joaquin Phoenix looking older and more worn than he is as the Corsican. Vanessa Kirby is enchanting and stunning as Josephine Bonapart. The scenery is nice. The battle scenes well orchestrated. It’s a personal look at the man who fought many wars that probably shouldn’t have been fought and the hubris that drive him to it. He comes across as someone who needed to get his kicked as a younger man. It’s not a bad film, but it’s boring in stretches and has no real story arc.
Also available on Max.I think it's on Hulu.
Napoleon. Joaquin Phoenix looking older and more worn than he is as the Corsican. Vanessa Kirby is enchanting and stunning as Josephine Bonapart. The scenery is nice. The battle scenes well orchestrated. It’s a personal look at the man who fought many wars that probably shouldn’t have been fought and the hubris that drive him to it. He comes across as someone who needed to get his kicked as a younger man. It’s not a bad film, but it’s boring in stretches and has no real story arc.
I think it was a bad movie. Austerlitz wasn’t even remotely historically accurate. It was just Ridley Scott providing a wild interpretation of Napoleon with a bunch of disconnected events from his life.
You could pretty much tell that Phoenix was mailing it in. He even said it as much in the interviews. He didn’t know how to play the role.
I’m about ready for the Jason Momoa era to go away.This is what I considered watching and decided on X2 instead. Amber Heard will undoubtedly look good at least. I do generally like Momoa.
Have you seen See? Liked him in that.I’m about ready for the Jason Momoa era to go away.
I didn't realize that battle was a great victory for the Austrians and Russians. Thank you for clearing that up.
If you are referring to the lake disaster, the events are disputed. There were reports of the French doing an analysis of the events of the battle immediately afterward that showed light casualties from drowning, although Napoleon had reason to downplay the magnitude of Allied casualties at the time since he was trying to make peace with Austria and Russia and slaughtering retreating troops during an era that still had the residual cultural norms of chivalry and where quarter to defeated foes was expected, would not play well across Europe. Czar Alexander himself claims to have witnessed 20,000 Russians die on some frozen body of water. While that number is likely wildly overstated, it is not likely the Czar would want to deliberately exaggerate what was a crushing and humiliating defeat for him. Some meaningful number of Russians drowned trying to escape from that battle.
The fact that Ridley Scott did not cover every possible aspect of the battle in a 10 minutes scene also does not make the scene not "remotely historically accurate". Thousands of Austrians getting lost in the fog until they were surrounded and had to surrender does not result in great movie making, even though that was a significant part of the Allied casualties.
You’re gonna need to sell it a little better than that.Have you seen See? Liked him in that.
You’re gonna need to sell it a little better than that.
Exactly. I went in with low expectations and was surprised how much I enjoyed it. Momoa is solid. Tom Mison and Silvia Hoeks are very good. The tall kid, Archie Madekwe is in freaking everything now. He's done very well with the lead in Gran Turismo and a big role in Saltburn. TV show, not a movie.It’s a post apocalyptic series. Momoa actually has to act instead of playing a bro.
Humanity has basically gone blind and has plunged into a dark age. The few people who are sighted are considered abominations.
It’s sort of like Game of Thrones, Mad Max, and the Postman all rolled together. And one of the interesting aspects is how humans adapted to life without sight.
It has some really good actors like Dave Bautista and Christian Camargo and was done well on what I bet was a smaller budget.
It’s a much better show that crap like Invasion and the poorly executed but improving Foundation.