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What a dark adventure into elderly situations! These people are bad …
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Watched Midnight Sky on Netflix.
So…they just never bother saying what the “event” is which REALLY irritated me. Oddly a lot of people thought it was some climate-type crisis when it’s made clear it’s a radiation event. It spreads out from major cities like it was a nuclear war, but nothing else adds up to it so it’s more like maybe there were worldwide nuke plants that all failed simultaneously?
You get snippets that it was “a mistake” but not an accident or a war.
Anyway, I spent such a large portion of the film obsessing about the technical elements such as that and the oddness of the ship’s trip (there’s space near Earth that hasn’t been “mapped” to be safe for travel? Really??) that it probably took away from the “human” elements you’re supposed to be paying attention to.
In other words, the science bits had enough shortcomings to make the intent of the film get largely missed for me. It’s about George Clooney’s character, but there are enough holes in the stuff external to him that it proved distracting. Haven’t read the book, of course, so I don’t know if the book did it better or it was faulty at that stage already.
Sadly another great actor passed - Rest in Peace Charles Grodin.
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Watched Boss Level, the other day.
Quite enjoyable flick.
Reminded me of the old fighting level-up games I played as a kid, where you played a level over and over again until you had memorized the moves. And then you read a review in a mag how you could cheat and finish everything in one go.
Silly plot, but totally in line with the atmosphere of the movie.
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If you like that - you’d love the book “All you need is kill”, it’s truly good, not just a PowerPlayer Fantasy™
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I enjoyed the movie while agreeing that the science was so bad that even I could recognize the ridiculousness of it all. But what bothered me the most was the endroll. We are left with a single camera shot watching the two in the bridge constantly pushing buttons, arms flying about the console. What on Earth (or off it) are they supposed to be doing? Is the ship so unsophisticated the every amp, psi, temperature and quantity must be constantly tweaked by humans who never sleep? This is something that torques me in nearly all space movies, even great ones like Interstellar. The Orville makes a running joke about this need for characters to be such busybodies at the helm.
I am so interested in this kerfuffle with The Box listserv! Homicide will be forever iconic and forever under-appreciated. Rest in peace, Y.
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My wife told me she didn’t want to watch Formula 1: Drive to Survive (EXCELLENT SERIES!!!) tonight because we’re watching the 2020 COVID Season 3 now LOL! Pretty depressing living COVID all over again. All of the normally thriving team headquarters are ghost towns. 
Watched 7500 instead … pretty good flick …
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Doesnt netflix have all of it as well, and in glorious HD?
So… I just watched ”Once upon a time in Hollywood”…
Can someone tell me what it was about…?
Friendship in the face of existential emptiness? Two aging actors having fun with a director with whom they have great chemistry? A fun look at a bygone era, “how the world used to be”?
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Like many Tarantino’s movies, at least for me, it’s less about the score and more about the crafts.
Which is not to say that every movie is pointless but arguably every one of his movies is Art.
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Arguably, every movie is art…
It’s just that it’s a great plot, that could’ve been a great story. But it’s almost as if ol’ Quentin asked himself where he was going with all this and decided to just end it with a clash of extreme violence, that made no sense.
Art? Yeah, it’s always art to someone. A good movie? Nah, not to me.
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That’s a perfectly acceptable way of putting things. 
Usually whenever I watch one of his movies for the first time I feel the same.
It’s after the second or third dozen of times I watch them I realise how much I actually love them.
“Jackie Brown” was like that for me, as was “Inglorious Bastards” or “Hateful Eight”.
Even “Pulp Fiction” made little sense to me the first time I watched it, not to mention “Death Proof” and yet - put up any of his movies in the DVD and I’m going to grin ear to ear, 100% of the times.
EDIT: a few are very different and I can see how people can like those more. “Django” and “Reservoir Dogs” above all .
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Jackie Brown is a great movie with a great ending.
Pulp Fiction is also one of the better. It ties everything together at the end.
Kill Bill is all about violence, but it runs like a red line through the two movies, and it has an ending.
With Once upon a time in Hollywood I kind of miss the wrap up…
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Again, absolutely not wrong. ^-^
Just subjective.
“Once Upon a Time…” is my favorite QT film. It was a visual ride through a fantasy Hollywood that probably never really existed except in folklore; and which now gets reshaped further with Tarantino’s alternate history. And, for me, this made for a very tight story gift-wrapped inside all that lush film-nerd goodness. But really it was about letting yourself go as a viewer and enjoy the ridiculousness of it all. And further still, there must be a dozen great performances to soak in enroute to the end: Brad, the dog, the kid, the hippie, that one dude hard-riding his horse like a boss—I’m ready to watch again now for the fifth time!
Also, my school-mates who were Bruce Lee fans were universally jack-a$$es. So seeing him reduced to a preening showoff was alone worth the $8.
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