Films I Saw
Sep. 24th, 2024 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiggymalvern
Flying to see my sister for her birthday meant time in airports and in the air, which means time with nothing to do but watch stuff!
Killers of the Flower Moon. I've been meaning to watch this since its release, but it's well over three hours long. Quite the time commitment. Unless you're on a nine hour flight, when it's perfect! It never felt slow and I was never bored. It is good. In a painful way. Well filmed, well acted, but damn - the subject matter isn't easy. People can be truly, truly evil. A film that needed to be made, though - I had certainly never heard this story until the film was released and people started talking about it.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. An excellent follow-up to Killers of the Flower Moon! No brain required, and an antidote to the depression. This was exactly what I was expecting from a Guy Ritchie film about Nazi-killing SOE shenanigans. Trashy entertaining fun.
Rebel Ridge. This one just out. Aaron Pierre is fantastic and the film as a whole is solid. An interesting one because the opening premise is very similar to Rambo - white small town cops hassling strangers just because they can, with everything escalating from there. This guy plays it smarter than Rambo and tries very hard to avoid the escalation, but the sad truth is that in the forty years since Rambo was released, absolutely nothing about those kind of cops has changed. It was especially interesting explaining to my friend in England that however ridiculous it seems, American police are allowed to steal your money and demand you prove it wasn't obtained illegally before they give it back. She was utterly gobsmacked. Because gobsmacking is what it is. This was an entertaining combination of action and social justice activism.
The Talk of the Town (1942). A comedy with underlying points to make about injustice and mob mentality. I've heard about this film for a while and kept meaning to watch it and I finally did. The reports were in no way wrong - this is absolutely a polyamory film. Two men falling in love with the same woman, who enjoys kissing both of them, and through all of this the guys are becoming BFFs without the slightest hint of jealousy. And saying things like, "Now that I know Leopold, it's obvious why you feel that way about him." (Yes, it's obvious because you feel that way about him too ::cough::) It's very clear the solution at the end is for all three of them to continue living together as they have been through the whole film, and to continue getting more and more into each another as they have been through the whole film... What have they got to lose, when the film's already called The Talk of the Town? 🤣
Killers of the Flower Moon. I've been meaning to watch this since its release, but it's well over three hours long. Quite the time commitment. Unless you're on a nine hour flight, when it's perfect! It never felt slow and I was never bored. It is good. In a painful way. Well filmed, well acted, but damn - the subject matter isn't easy. People can be truly, truly evil. A film that needed to be made, though - I had certainly never heard this story until the film was released and people started talking about it.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. An excellent follow-up to Killers of the Flower Moon! No brain required, and an antidote to the depression. This was exactly what I was expecting from a Guy Ritchie film about Nazi-killing SOE shenanigans. Trashy entertaining fun.
Rebel Ridge. This one just out. Aaron Pierre is fantastic and the film as a whole is solid. An interesting one because the opening premise is very similar to Rambo - white small town cops hassling strangers just because they can, with everything escalating from there. This guy plays it smarter than Rambo and tries very hard to avoid the escalation, but the sad truth is that in the forty years since Rambo was released, absolutely nothing about those kind of cops has changed. It was especially interesting explaining to my friend in England that however ridiculous it seems, American police are allowed to steal your money and demand you prove it wasn't obtained illegally before they give it back. She was utterly gobsmacked. Because gobsmacking is what it is. This was an entertaining combination of action and social justice activism.
The Talk of the Town (1942). A comedy with underlying points to make about injustice and mob mentality. I've heard about this film for a while and kept meaning to watch it and I finally did. The reports were in no way wrong - this is absolutely a polyamory film. Two men falling in love with the same woman, who enjoys kissing both of them, and through all of this the guys are becoming BFFs without the slightest hint of jealousy. And saying things like, "Now that I know Leopold, it's obvious why you feel that way about him." (Yes, it's obvious because you feel that way about him too ::cough::) It's very clear the solution at the end is for all three of them to continue living together as they have been through the whole film, and to continue getting more and more into each another as they have been through the whole film... What have they got to lose, when the film's already called The Talk of the Town? 🤣
