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Don't know how I ended up watching this, I suspect largely due to it's soundtrack.
Anyways, a depressed young "Largeman" returns home to attend his mother's funeral, only to confront the unresolved reasons he left in the first place and reunite with old school friends. Looking for all the world like a young David Duchovny, it's got a sort of Millennial Rom-Com feel to it, reminding me of John Cusack's "High Fidelity", or any of a number of similar films from a generation before.
Not bad, not great, merely amusing.
Starring Natalie Portman, Ian Holm and a young Zach Braff (who wrote and directed the film. He later died of Covid Complications in 2020!!!).
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This was a curious movie. Set in 1950, it seeks to (from the wiki):
The film's inspirations were varied: it was partly inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, by early drafts of Anderson's There Will Be Blood, the novel V. by Thomas Pynchon, drunken Navy stories that Jason Robards had told to Anderson while filming Magnolia, and the life story of author John Steinbeck.
Starring Joquin Phoenix & Philip Seymour Hoffman - who turn in amazing performances (the acting & cinematography are first rate) - well, no spoilers. A curious film, about a relationship between two unlikely friends. Different from most of my other watching this has some weight.
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Found this downloaded on my phone, my repository of videos I have on my list.
So, this was fine, a character study of the eccentrics that make up the independent booksellers of New York. The bookstores, while I've never been, are after a pattern of places similar I've been, the proprietors, after my own heart, collectors and readers, watching them being interviewed I find it curious how people so different from myself can reveal themselves to be so similar, there's a point about 10 minutes and thirty seconds in I find one of them living in virtually the same squalor that I frequently (when landed) find myself in, you could swap me in and I wouldn't change a thing; the curios, maps, art...
And this, again and again, and you can see how people - however different they may appear in personality, the mind does shape the world without in a pattern that reflects itself.
Anyways, greatly enjoyed this, it was like spending time with people you know but simply haven't had the opportunity to meet.
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Clearly this is well outside my normal film tastes, but I had to see.
It was good - FOR WHAT IT WAS!!!.
By which I mean that everyone did a fine job, the Hong Kong Actor who played "Cane" was excellent, a humorous nod to "The Blind Samurai", the fight-scenes, choreography, settings, all amazing. Keanu Reeves trains very well and is in excellent shape to realize the role.
So, temper your expectations to moderate or reasonable and you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Now, 4 chapters in and I'm hoping this lays the franchise to rest. Although I doubt it, when has Hollywood ever let a good thing rest?
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Saw this on NetFlix, gave it a try and was pleasantly surprised. Hindi/Bollywood, India under the British Raj and and the British are portrayed much as they like to portray the Nazis, basically the same, and - really, English Colonialism was every bit as savage as French, Belgian, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish Colonialism. So they're not far off.
It's about 10 X better written than any American film, with a lot more depth, nuance and complexities to the plot. That's not to say it has a lot, just more. And it's nice to see cultures represent their own history - as opposed to us doing it. Even if it's clearly a ridiculously over-the-top fiction. The dancing was fun, the jumping with the tigers and torches, brilliant, I mean - Hollywood's problem is that they feed us utter rubbish - Marvel Movies, for example - and they try to keep it a bit "Grounded" by slight attention to the laws of gravity and such, this - they don't fucking care. Turn it up to 11...no, no, 12...fuck it, all the way up to 100!!!! Nobodies supposed to believe it, just be amused.
Anyways, I've had a few Bollywood movies on my list and now I'm inspired to try and see a few more...