Which films have you seen lately? Vol. 21: Now in CinemaScope!

[EvaDK]

Based on a novel by the author behind Let The Right One In. Looks very intriguing.

 

[Birdjaguar]

It looks interesting except they cut the lighting budget and my poor old eyes can't see &$%#

 

[Smellincoffee]

Manhattan, with Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, and Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter. Despite its setting, the still-very new WTC towers did not appear, which annoyed me. I liked Annie Hall much more.

 

[Clubber Lang]

Ryan O’Neal R.i.P (1941 - 2023)

 

[Smellincoffee]

Written on the Wind, 1956. Rock Hudson and Lauren Bacall. Very much the melodrama but Bacall is always worth watching.

 

[BenitoChavez]

Leave The World Behind - It's a relatively recent release on Netflix with lots of big name actors. Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Mahershala Ali, and Kevin Bacon. I've always viewed the disaster movie genre as a bit of a corny but decent way to kill a couple of hours. But between this movie and Greenland from a few years ago, I might have to start rethinking that. This movie has interesting but realistic characters and also makes you take a hard look at how dependent we are, both as individuals and society in general, on technology in our daily lives. And it's somehow is scarier than most horror movies without most of the horror movie tropes. Might be my favorite movie of the year.

 

[Kyriakos]

The third trailer for Dune part 2 is out.

Say what you want about the Lynch film and the tv adaptation, but at least there the Harkonnens were closer to the books. This director's claim that he would be more faithful to the original material than any previous attempt is baffling.
The guy in the black latex half-suit just looks cheap and even comical, as if it is all a meme.

 

[Clubber Lang]

Foley's back in Beverly Hills -

Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is back on the beat in Beverly Hills. After his daughter’s life is threatened, she (Taylour Paige) and Foley team up with a new partner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and old pals Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton) to turn up the heat and uncover a conspiracy.

 

[Kyriakos]

Eddie Murphy is cool
Trading Places, a Christmas classic.

 

[Clubber Lang]

Murphy got a new Xmas flick out too -

A man is determined to win the neighborhood's annual Christmas decorating contest. He makes a pact with an elf to help him win--and the elf casts a spell that brings the 12 days of Christmas to life, which brings unexpected chaos to town.
This is gonna be one elfed up Christmas movie

 

[lymond]

Rebel Moon appears to be getting panned. However, the user reviews seem to be more forgiving, although Snyder has his fans. I will wait for the R-rated 3-hour director's cut on Netflix next April before the 2nd part is released. (I read the movie was original meant to be part of the Star Wars universe, but Snyder decided to make it original)

Wonka is surprisingly getting good reviews. The first trailer I saw looked meh, but I saw a different trailer later that looked more promising. I believe it is meant to be more of a prequel Chocolate Factory.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Not sure what to make of this. Based on Garland's previous work - Ex Machina; Annihilation; Devs; and Men, which I haven't seen - I don't think this is some sort of Don't Look Up-style satire. Decent trailer. Seems like a good cast.

 

[Kyriakos]

Texas and California? That's a bit of a strange alliance, no? ^^
Maybe they were trying to avoid the obvious CSA repeat.

The trailer sort of gives away the turn in the war. Though maybe the east uses nukes.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Texas and California? That's a bit of a strange alliance, no? ^^

It seems like Nick Offerman's President of the U.S. is the villain, too. In the trailer, we hear that he's in his third term and that "they" shoot journalists in the capitol.

Maybe they were trying to avoid the obvious CSA repeat.

That's probably what it is, yeah. As for whether it's a 'strange' alliance, I actually don't think so, if the villain is an authoritarian state in the Northeast and Upper Midwest, and Texas and California are a couple of the U.S. states that could probably go it alone, irl. Anyway, the trailer refers to "the Western Forces" of Texas and California and "the Florida Alliance", it doesn't actually say that Texas and California are in some kind of union. And we get a brief glimpse of a map, reversed and kind of blurry, maybe as reflected in a window or something. I take it to mean that they're allies in the usual sense, that they're separate political entities who have a common enemy (and Offerman's character uses the phrase "the so-called Western Forces", whereas the "Florida Alliance" sounds like the name of some kind of formal union). The USA/UK and USSR in the 1940s were far stranger allies than Texas and California would be today.

 

[Sommerswerd]

It seems like Nick Offerman's President of the U.S. is the villain, too. In the trailer, we hear that he's in his third term and that "they" shoot journalists in the capitol.

That's probably what it is, yeah. As for whether it's a 'strange' alliance, I actually don't think so, if the villain is an authoritarian state in the Northeast and Upper Midwest, and Texas and California are a couple of the U.S. states that could probably go it alone, irl. Anyway, the trailer refers to "the Western Forces" of Texas and California and "the Florida Alliance", it doesn't actually say that Texas and California are in some kind of union. And we get a brief glimpse of a map, reversed and kind of blurry, maybe as reflected in a window or something. I take it to mean that they're allies in the usual sense, that they're separate political entities who have a common enemy (and Offerman's character uses the phrase "the so-called Western Forces", whereas the "Florida Alliance" sounds like the name of some kind of formal union). The USA/UK and USSR in the 1940s were far stranger allies than Texas and California would be today.

The brief glimpse of the map seems to show the rest of the Southwestern states in a different color (light green) compared to the rest of the map. So maybe its a "Shattered Union" situation where there are multiple factions that the US has broken up into.

 

[Kyriakos]

Where is the map?
The flag with the two stars wasn't a flag of Texas-California? (doesn't Texas have one star on its state flag?)

 

[EgonSpengler]

Where is the map?

Pause the trailer at 0:41 or 0:42.

The flag with the two stars wasn't a flag of Texas-California? (doesn't Texas have one star on its state flag?)

I was wondering about that, too. The flag in the trailer looks like a US flag, but with only two stars. It could be a Texifornia flag, or a new flag of the US. I suppose a new nation coming out of the formerly-United States might fashion its flag on the US one, and retain the 13 horizontal stripes (which represent the 13 original colonies).

 

[Kyriakos]

Imagine the CSA existing but not even being formally at war ^^

 

[Sommerswerd]

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Imagine the CSA existing but not even being formally at war ^^

Its a little hard to make out precisely, but besides the Texas/California faction, the map seems to have Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Utah as another faction, and then Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma as a different faction. It looks like Florida might be its own faction and the rest of the states are still united. So I was wrong that the Southwestern states broke away. It seems that they are still united with the Northeastern and Midwestern ones, along with Alaska and Hawaii.

Pause the trailer at 0:41 or 0:42.

I was wondering about that, too. The flag in the trailer looks like a US flag, but with only two stars. It could be a Texifornia flag, or a new flag of the US. I suppose a new nation coming out of the formerly-United States might fashion its flag on the US one, and retain the 13 horizontal stripes (which represent the 13 original colonies).

I think that the chances that a seceding state passes up on the chance to use the Confederate battle flag (or some version of it) is zero... particularly Texas, or any state that was part of the original Confederacy.

 

[lymond]

Cali and Texas are generally considered polar opposites on the political spectum, but they are the two states we mostly think about that could be their own country - still in the top GDP range - and have thought about independence. I assume they are in some kind of unholy alliance just to gain independence.

Not quite understanding the other factions, although generally divided among blue/red states with the exception of the very center which is always red. (the little blue being blue status for the most part)