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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
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I mean, time-travel is a notoriously hard idea to implement without plot holes. To make this even MORE difficult by utilizing "reverse time" instead? Well, it's no wonder that the idea and execution fail if you give it any thought at all. But that's the key -- you shouldn't be giving this any thought, just accepting it and enjoying the ride. This would be easier to do if the film had a lighter tone. I don't think many people are viewing Tenet as a summer-time "popcorn" film, but it works better if you do.
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I'll catch it again sometime when I can watch with subtitles, I expect it will clarify much.
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These extended versions are really long, clocking in at an average of four hours each. So I watched The Fellowship of the Ring over the course of Saturday, in breaks from a couple of outdoor projects plus during meals. Same with The Two Towers on Sunday. As the longest of the trilogy, The Return of the King will need to wait until next weekend.
The extended time seems to primarily to fill in some additional characterization, at the cost of some slow, melodramatic pacing. The various attempts at humor fail to get a laugh from me. The casting of all the principal characters is impressive, and the acting is solid. Some of the effects fall slightly flat, including somewhat variable sizing of the hobbits, but overall these are visually impressive movies. Aside from the slowed pace of the additional and extended scenes, the results are still epic and a great translation from book to film.
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But also, why does she still want to make a coat out of dalmatians? She has two other dogs that she likes so she doesn't just hate dogs. Dalmatians in the movie only ever do what they're told and she learned they weren't responsible for killing her guardian. So again she wants it because she's evil for the sake of being evil.
I feel like 101 Dalmatians told us all we needed to know about her character. But the sequel's already been greenlit so others clearly got more out of this than I did.
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The biggest problem was in the tone. The kind of problem where a girl goes from finding out here father is dead and standing over the body to reminding someone she’s “eight and three-quarters” literally minutes later in film time. There’s a goofy decapitation, and an earnest reconciliation between estranged mother and daughter. Pick a lane Milkshake. Be an earnest film about the violence men do to women and how they have to fight back or be Commando. I’m fine with either, but you can’t have Arnold take a break from puns and slaughter to seriously question whether he’s been a good father to Alyssa Milano.
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hotseatgames wrote: If Matrix was here, he'd laugh too.
That chain mail wife beater was an inspired wardrobe choice,
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.. Alyssa Milano saves herself
And now that I think about it, RDC saves Arnie like twice!
Sorry, reading too many comments about the new he-man show.
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Also watched Centurion (2010), which was more or less The Warriors (1979) in Roman Britain. As a Wire fan, I was looking forward to seeing Dominic West in a movie, but he was just okay and Michael Fassbender was the real star. Since it was a Neil Marshall movie, it was a disappointment riddled with plot weaknesses (not quite plot holes) and anachronisms. However, it steered clear of the usual action movie good/evil axis, with a scary villain who was also an orphan and a rape survivor. One of the supposed good guys was absurdly treacherous, and a couple of others were also less than admirable. The action scenes were decent, so Centurion works as a normal quality action movie if that is all you require.
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