The Grand Budapest Hotel

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First time viewed: No
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Michael, Tyler

Write Up.

Good fun :)

The Lego Movie

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Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Ryan

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This time in 2D. I noticed all these amazing texture details I never saw before. Great!

Transcendence

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes

Wally Pfister jumps from behind the camera to the director chair. He has made a damn fine looking film, got a great cast and has a script with some really interesting ideas, even if we have seen them all done before.

The film is just limp though. A nice sci-fi idea and good visuals do not an interesting film make. 

Captain America: The Winter Solider

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First time viewed: No
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Michael

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Fading Gigolo

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First time viewed: Yes

Current Release: Yes

John Turturro's latest film see him casting himself as a gigolo. Not a bad idea. And he's got himself an interesting supporting cast too lead by non other than Woody Allen in a rare onscreen performance that not one of his own films. 

I quite enjoyed this one, it's funny, it's got the romance stuff, I learnt about the Shomrim, some kind of Jewish Police that Liev Schreiber plays. It's a little long and I'm not sure I believe the main romantic thread but it was still enjoyable. 

Only Lovers Left Alive

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Beaumont

I've never really been able to get into Jim Jarmusch's films. Slow and ponderous and never really go anywhere. I love the cast and I do like the idea as well. The film certainly has a really indy hipster style. The style, the music, I don't really care for though. Which is not so great for this film because that's pretty much what it's relying on. The plot is an afterthought. So I really didn't get much out of this.

The Visitor

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First time viewed: Yes

Current Release: No

Watched With: Tyler, Jordan

Where the hell did this come from. I don't even know where to begin. I know there's an uncut version coming out soon too, which is why I heard of it in the first place. Apparently the uncut version is supposed to help make sense of some of the various strange goings on but even then, this is still pretty far out there. 

There's a cast that just doesn't quite make sense me. What an odd bunch of people. And they do their best to make the crazy material work, which just makes everything even better at how serious it all is. 

I do love a good evil child story. This one throws in diminutional alien beings with a whole universal good evil battle thing going on. And there's some cool visuals too.

But that's also coupled with a pretty slow moving story that was at times a little too esoteric for its own good. 

But I am glad I've seen it. There was some gold buried in there. Some truly ridiculous lines, line readings, great old school edits and fx. The music! My lord, the music. I might just have to give the uncut version a go around...