🎬 Film Refs
🔗 I survived the Barbie-Oppenheimer double-bill and I don’t recommend it.
Over three hours for one of them. The double bill is out for me …
Reader, do not attempt Barbenheimer. Or at least, if you do decide to do Barbenheimer, please don’t do it in the order I went to see it. If you take anything from this, it’s that you should really go and see Barbie first. Because otherwise, and I’m talking from very recent first-hand experience, the effect is a little like having your mother’s funeral invaded by a flashmob of parking circus clowns. Which, you know, isn’t exactly ideal.
🎬 It would be around 1,315 days - cant be more exact, because I am not sure of the first date, since I last went to a Theater to watch a movie.
The movie back in late 2019 was Knives Out, yesterday’s was Asteroid City. (I only reviewed 🖇️ Knives Out 2) - 3 stars and flagged as better than 1 if that gives you a clue.
Both coincidentally featured an ‘ensemble cast’. (I don’t make a habit of those kinds of movies.)
But the funny thing is that we saw last night’s movie with the same couple that we saw Knives Out. That is the only time we have been to the movies with those friends and the only time we have been to that particular Theater.
Like pandemic bookends.
🎬 There’s a movie out there just released called the 🔗 Sound of Freedom
Good reviews on IMDB … serious subject … but it seems to this observer that it is being artificially promoted. I’ve also had some back chatter that all is not what it seems.
Any thoughts from those that read this post?
☢️ This Is Not America
🎵 This Is Not America was always a 🎵musical favorite in my world - as indeed was The Falcon and The Snowman, which featured the song … and then the movie came to mind this morning as I was catching up on my ‘piece of glass’.
To some, the meaning of the lyrics …
A little piece of you,
the little piece in me,
will die
(this is not a miracle)
For this is not America
… seem to be shrouded in mystery - but to me - not really. At the simplest level they seem to reference that the geography that the two characters found themselves in was definitely not America. Happy Days … you could leave wherever you are - come home to America - and all would be ‘well’ again.
Fast forward 35 years.
The lyrics remain relevant - except now you don’t need to leave America. And because of that, there is no longer that safe haven that our two ‘heroes’ wanted to return to.
(Yes - I am having a day - and it’s not even 11am)
Later - in the title, I really wanted to use the Americn Flag EMOJI - but for some reason, it wasn’t rendering correctly on the web site ….
So I changed it.
🎬 About Nicholas Cage
As @drewcastillo and I recently riffed - he really is very good. Sure he’s got some duds - don’t we all? Off the top of my head - some of my favorites (alphabetical - to avoid ‘ranking’) …
- Adaptation
- Conair
- Face/Off
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Pig
- Raising Arizona
- Wild at Heart
… and a few more that I have forgotten.
(and no - Unbearable Weight is not forgotten - just haven’t seen it yet.)
BIGGEST RIG I’VE EVER SEEN : Diaries of Note
Is this possibly a back story to 🎬 The Banger Sisters?
‘🎥 MyFilmReviews’ and ‘🎬 MyFilmReferences’ are now clearly delineated and once the MicroBlog category filter catches up and gets back into synch it will be a lot easier to find relevant posts.
PS - I am fully aware that only I care about (or even use) the categories.
🎵 This Is The End
I wrote an email this morning, responding to something that had been sent to me, announcing - and I paraphrase - that despite the longevity of the work that he had been personally driving for decades, he has decided that this was indeed - ‘the end’.
I guess it is one of those days, where every where you look, every page you turn emotion takes over and (at least for me), music takes hold.
Because I - and indeed he - are ‘of a certain age’, ‘The End’ came to mind. (If you aren’t of a certain age - I commend you to watch just one (if not all three) of the YouTubes below.) If you are of a certain age - you don’t need me to tell you.
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I’ll never look into your eyes again
“Every time I hear that song, it means something else to me. It started out as a simple good-bye song… Probably just to a girl, but I see how it could be a goodbye to a kind of childhood."
💬 Jim Morrison
If you want a really good cry, the images most certainly do nothing to distract from the pain of the song …
If you want to listen to the original recording of nearly 11 minutes that took just 30 minutes of studio time (think about that) …
If you are of the live music persuasion… in the US you had Woodstock. In the UK we had The Isle of Wight …
🎬 Logging For Triage
Seen them all and bit by bit will review and rate properly.
- In Bruges
- The Matrix Revolutions
- The Matrix Reloaded
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Inglourious Basterds
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- The Usual Suspects
- Reservoir Dogs
- Dead Poets Society
- The Princess Bride
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
🎬 It seems that if I adjust a Letterboxd post … it pushes it into the feed again … sorry about that.
🎬 I’m Going To Need Some Convincing Before I Watch These
Movies that seem to be popular … but something doesn’t sit right … for me at least.
Apologies for the mini timeline flooding with movies. Sorting out and categorizing - if I am not done - I am nearly done.
[My Film Category](https://john.philpin.com/categories/films/) now has two different emojis in the title
🎬 is just a comment on ...
🎥 is a movie ‘review’ that ties back to Lettrboxd - where I followed a few MicroBloggers just last night.
Probably not all of you - but if you are here and want a follow - reply to this thread.
🎵 🎬 Moonage Daydream (Apple Link) just added to my ‘watch later’ movie queue.
Just added 🎥 Blind Ambition to my watch list.
I recently watched 🎥 Uncorked .. which has nothing to do with Blind Ambition - but have you noticed how studios often release related / competitive movies at the same time?