Phone posting at lunch, very hacky. Have the new Captain America: Civil War trailer ( Read more... )

In Christian Petzold's Phoenix (2014), a Holocaust survivor, unrecognizable after reconstructive surgery, is recruited by her unknowing husband to impersonate herself so he can claim her inheritance. You can tell by the plot why Phoenix is being called film noir, but the classification doesn't seem quite right to me. Partly this is because of the ( Read more... )

Hey, so I finally saw that movie, and it was adorable. Then I finally saw Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith in hopes that they would explain some of the world-building that puzzled me. (Spoilers: They didn't.) I feel fully justified in my decision never to see them before, although Revenge of the Sith was less shockingly terrible than ( Read more... )

I'll have more to say later, but just for now, this was noticeable:

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( Spoilers for the Hunger Games books by Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay Part 1, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier )

I've always suspected that when people say that they hate the shaky cam in The Hunger Games, part of what they mean isn't shaky-cam shots, but the editing. Because the editing of The Hunger Games is weird. Cuts come a little sooner or a little later than you expect. You get wide landscape shots when you expect close-ups. The rhythm is odd, off- ( Read more... )

Link me your Catching Fire discussions. Or your favorite discussions of the movie, I don't care. Spoilers for all the books are fine.


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I don't know when I'll see Catching Fire, because work is hectic just now, but I am very impatient. The soundtrack isn't as amazing as The Hunger Game's, but it's still pretty good.

Entertainment Weekly:

Only three films have ever opened higher than Catching Fire: The Avengers ($207.4 million), Iron Man 3 ($174.1 million), and Harry Potter and ( Read more... )

I don't know when I'll see Catching Fire, because work is hectic just now, but I am very impatient. The soundtrack isn't as amazing as The Hunger Game's, but it's still pretty good.

Entertainment Weekly:

Only three films have ever opened higher than Catching Fire: The Avengers ($207.4 million), Iron Man 3 ($174.1 million), and Harry Potter and ( Read more... )

Like the first Thor movie, that was fun and also a mess. Spoilery thoughts below:

( Spoilers existed before the universe began )