Indie Film Release Guide: February 24th [An ONTD Original]

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[picturemegone]

I did not like the last season of Luther but I'll probably watch anyways.

[drnilescrane]

OP (and everyone in these posts) KNOWS HOW EXCITED I AM TO SEE THE BEAR DO COCAINE TOMORROW

It's literally been the highlight of my week lets GOOOOO. Support women directors!!!

Also so weird that looking up the credits, Lord & Miller produced this ... I truly wonder what happened BTS of Solo for Alden to be cool working with them after Disney fucked them over.

[wwgrogudo]

Oooh interesting point re LandM and Alden. 🤔

Have a great time! 🤗🍿🥤🐻

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We’ve watched a couple more Oscar movies on vacay:

All Quiet on the Western Front: This was pretty good, though I liked it less than 1917 and I thought the end was dumb. I didn’t think it explored much new ground, tbh - we get it, war is hell! - and it felt a little underdeveloped from a character perspective, but it was interesting to see it from the German soldier POV and it looked amazing. I’ve never read the book so idk how it stacked up there. The one guy (Kropp?) looked like Andrew Garfield’s twin.

Blonde: Tried to go in with an open mind, but hot take, this was fucking terrible!!! I don’t even have any specific Marilyn Monroe opinions, but good god - the mostly fictionalized sexual encounters, the completely unmotivated switches between black and white and color, the terrible dialogue, the patchwork story structure, the talking aborted fetus, it was all just awful. So much crying! So many scenes lasted much longer than they needed to, and I still don’t know why. Ana was good, tbh, but the movie was so, so bad

[sherrilina]

It does not stack up to the book, lol. The reason the character is underdeveloped is that they sacrificed Chara ter development and key character moments to shoehorn in that peace Delegation storyline...the book is focused on the soldiers, not on the leaders.

And yes, the ending was super dumb and basically the exact opposite of how the character's end went in the book, since I guess they didn't think PTSD and soldiers feeling like they could never really return to civilian life wasn't considered a cool enough theme to include.

I would highly recommend reading the book if looking for a classic, it will do a better job re: showing the German POV if you find that intriguing.

[tillychar]

the only movie i watched this past week was mrs harris goes to paris, which was lovely!

this weekend i want to finally get to women talking. cocaine bear is on my list as well, because i love the americans reunion of it all, and i'm rooting for it to do well at the box office even though i don't have time to catch it this weekend (especially since it would be funny if it challenged quantumania, as unlikely as that is).

[maclou]

Oh Luther! It’s so long in between seasons and stuff that I forget everything and it’s not really a show I want to rewatch so I don’t. I don’t think I even knew he was in prison?

I’d like to go see Titanic this weekend but I’ve been saying that for two weeks.

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I absolutely do not remember him being in jail, glad it’s not just me!!!