What movies have you seen recently?

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Last night I watched:

The Monolith Monsters [1957]
<=>"Mammoth skyscrapers of stone thundering across the earth!"



This movie has a beautifully elegant concept: the "monster" is a chemical reaction.

A meteor hits the southwest U.S. and it has a strange crystalline structure. When exposed to water the crystals absorb silicone from whatever they are touching and grow larger. Eventually the crystal will grow to a towering height and fall over...shattering into multiple crystalline rocks that each do the same thing over again. One small crystalline rock can grow into a large number of enormous crystalline towers that destroy whatever is in their path.

The crystals are just rocks. They are "monsters" in the same sense a large wave in the ocean might be called a "monster" wave. They are not intelligent, alive, or mechanical. They are rocks. And they are monstrous.

I think this movie is one of the better 1950's Science Fiction movies.

"Them!" made in 1954. Great movie with great special effects!

Quiz Lady (2023)

Mr. Zoo: The Missing VIP (2018) Streamed on KOCOWA+

In a nutshell, a Korean NIS agent gets hit on the head and suddenly becomes Doctor Doolittle. He and a German Shepard must track down a stolen Panda, an envoy from China to South Korea.
The villain in this film is very despicable. More than once he picks up animals and throws them.

This despite the villain being a heartless sociopath, and the daughter of the NIS agent calling him a "dick", this is a film for kids. I was not the intended audience. It was like Disney Korea made film. Is there a Disneyland in Korea? I looked it up. No. There is Lotte World. Anyway, the story has a familiar formula wrapped in Korean culture. The film was okay. There were a few times I realized how weird it was that an animal is talking in Korean and I'm reading the English translation, and like all Korean drama I watch, what I read is in the actor's voice. Doesn't matter...

I had this in my queue to watch because actor Lee Sun-kyun is in it. He is the voice for a goat, and was in the series My Mister.

Here at the theater
A film by Robert Zemeckis, with actors Tom Hank and Robin Wright.

I know there will be people that don't care for it, but I did. I enjoyed it very much.

We were deciding what movie to watch last night and, after having just posted about possible climate change due to possible current change in the Atlantic, the first movie that came to my mind was The Day After Tomorrow [2004] followed quickly by Waterworld [1995] but then we ultimately decided to watch:

Split Second [1992]
<=>"2008. The future has never looked more dangerous."



OK, of the three movies, Split Second was the least about climate change. I don't know if it even mentioned climate change. It was about chasing a science fictiony monster in London but...here comes the tie-in to climate change...it seemed that just about all of London had a few inches of standing water on the ground.

Wait a second, a few centimeters of standing water on the ground.

They really didn't address the standing water, though. They were more concerned with the monster!

Saw Here, again.

I really like this film. I like that it is about what happens in on place over millions of years, and there are so many stories that occur in on place over time. I like how people and things move directly into and behind the point of view. I like how occasionally we get a glimpse outside, beyond walls through "windows." Like photos to a different time, windows overlay the scene with a scene from a different time. Sometimes it is the past. Sometimes it is the future.

I may go see it a third time tomorrow. I do not look forward to the previews.

Not really a spoiler. I'm hiding my opinions of the previews. Hiding them makes it easier for you to to skip over and ignore.

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The first preview is for a film called Babygirl. Based on the preview, I find it annoying. In a word, I find it looks STUPID.

This is followed by a Disney preview of Moana 2. It does not look stupid. (<sarcasm>I'm regular prose master, with my command of the words "good" and "stupid."</sarcasm>)

The last preview, I remember, is for Wicked. One second it looks like it is interesting, then it shows something that's stupid. Then interesting. Then stupid. I am betting the film is going to be decent. The trailer hints that is actually good once I get past the parts I thought were stupid. In this case, what I think is stupid is a knee jerk reaction.

Babygirl I have no reservation saying I think it looks STUPID.
If the preview reflects the film at all, I'm sticking with my harsh judgement.
The New York Times says "Delicious. Spiky, Sexy and Daring" I'm adding "Titillating." It tries to look titillating.
Hmm. I'm pretty sure you can pull S.T.U.P.I.D. from that. Now you know what kinds of films I am not drawn too.
If you read this, and you see the preview, and you think "I don't think it looks stupid at all," then you are correct. It's "stupid" to me, but that actually does not mean IT is stupid. It's all subjective. For instance, I just learned it is directed by a female, Halina Reijn. Suddenly, that makes it less "stupid" to me because it is also written by the director. This is a woman's point of view. It still might be stupid though.

Ah! I remember the film preview I forgot. The Room Next Door. Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. I have no idea what this film is about. This is what Sony Pictures description says -

Quote:

Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation

I swear, I don't remember getting that from the preview. From the preview, I got the impression that Tilda might be ill. It might be good.

Deadpool And Wolverine.

Absolutely hilarious! Deadpool and Wolverine end up in a multiverse limbo where they must join with Marvel characters of franchises past against Professor Xavier's evil twin sister while trying to save the universe.
Highly recommended!

"The Substance" (2024) about Hollywood's obsession with youthful appearances and an aging star's radical decision to embrace a strange new medicine that results in a brand new body.

Baby Doll, 1956

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048973

Written by Tennessee Williams, so, of course, it is set in the South, and has a lot of intense drama and sexual tension.

If remade 20-30 years later, I'm sure there would have been some T&A.

I highly recommend this one. Very well done.

Last night we watched:

AFRAID [2024]
<=>"Meet AIA. She's here to help."



AIA is a virtual assistant like Alexa and Siri, though more proactive.
*#And more protective. And more assertive. And more intrusive.!
*#*#And less timid. And less restricted.!
*#*#*#And AIA is something of a control-freak.!
*#*#*#*#She's here to help.!


Maybe not a great movie but <=>\o/G O O D\o/

"Here" was sad.

I watched “her” for the first time, it was pretty good.