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#MovieThread, 2021 edition!
In 2020 I watched 101 movies from very early into first lockdown until August 11, and the another 138 between then and last night.
I did not do a formal thread for the first 101, but I did do one for the next 138: https://beepboop.one/@Alexis/104677806709308567
Today's movie, #1 of 2021, or #240 since I started counting, 1995's "Johnny Mnemonic," because I think I saw someone say it's set in 2021? A topical affair!
Movie #2, 2002's "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones," because exasperated sigh.
Movie #3, 1933 Best Picture nominee "Lady for a Day."
I thiiiink this one is about a homeless woman who gets to be posh for a day? We'll, uhhh, see how that goes.
Movie #4, 2020's "Let Them All Talk," which I understand is about Meryl Streep as a snooty Author going to America on the RMS Queen Mary 2. In 2019, obviously.
Movie #5, the 1933 "Little Women."
I've seen the 2019 one -- these women had better be the absolute goddamn tiniest women you ever did see.
Movie #6, 1934 Best Picture nominee "It Happened One Night."
I'm pretty sure this is the one romcoms, like. Come from. This is The Romcom.
Movie #7, 1934 Best Picture nominee, "The House of Rothschild," which, sigh, I imagine is about the family of European bankers, because what other Rothschilds are there.
's got Boris Karloff in it, I guess.
Movie #8, 2008's "Star Wars: The Clone Wars." Extended cut again.
#9, "We Bought a Zoo," because I've been making fun of the title for nearly a full decade and it's on Disney+.
Movie #10, or #250 since I started counting, 2006's "The Prestige," or "Batman v. Wolverine: What if Stage Magic But Too Much."
Movie #11, 2011's "Zookeeper."
I do not know what this one is or is about.
Movie #12, 2017's "The Zookeeper's Wife."
I also don't know what this one is about, but from the Netflix thumbnail it looks like a WW2 movie.
(I think that's a reverse blarting.)
Movie #13, we move on from zoos to the jungle, where the animals are keeping a small human? Absolute madness.
It's 2016's live-action "The Jungle Book."
Expectations in the absolute shitter for this one, though I liked the Aladdin remake.
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this jungle must be where the talking animals from "Zookeeper" (2011) are from
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in this one they team up to fight the Tiger King
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"The rhinos sleep standing up. I don't think I'd be very good at that."
trying to sleep standing up would just turn into a lot of waking up falling
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There are definitely movies Scarlett Johansson is good in -- there /are/ -- but somehow I've watched three in the past four days where she's utterly forgettable.
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you know, these Disney live-action (slash photoreal animated) remakes, they're more like theme park rides than like-- well, i don't wanna say "they're not movies," they are, obviously, but what I mean is,
they're very Loud, there's a lot of Stuff Happening, and I'm not convinced they translate well to home viewing
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I'm not, honestly, really getting much outta this one
the kid is funny when he gets the chance, the voice cast is mostly somewhere between Fine and Good, but the animation -- a problem with these basically by definition -- is a bit lifeless, and if I put on the original, it would beat this one in every way
but, like, I can imagine it would have worked on me if I'd seen it in the cinema?
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it's also weirdly adherent to the original in its presentation? the Disney card at the start, the physical book at the end, having some of the songs, while on the actual inside of the film, it wants so desperately not be thought of as a cartoon
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@Alexis name one
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@The_T I mean. Lost in Translation.
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@Alexis haven't seen it
I guess my feelings about her in basically every role I see her in is "someone else could have played that role better"
and I also mostly just mean Black Widow.
well, and that one other role
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@The_T She's never /bad/ as Black Widow, and I think by Endgame she's actually pretty solid at, like, her version of that character.
But yeah, all three movies I've seen her in these past four days, very generic performances. There are definitely funnier or more dramatic actors who could get more out of the same material.
(She's also pretty good in Jojo Rabbit, though I wish she wasn't doing an accent there.)
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@Alexis I should get around to seeing Endgame...
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@Alexis made worthwhile, in my opinion, by Christopher Walken's King Louie.
Of the remakes, the only one I've thought really was worth the trouble was Aladdin. I miss Robin Williams, of course, but they actually made story and characterization-- and casting!-- improvements/updates.
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oh, I thought this one Wasn't A Musical, but they do have "The Bare Necessities" in here