Jiggafini19Deux
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I didn't like Napoleon. I didn't hate it either. It was over two hours of just ok.
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I agree, I think his story is too big for one movie. There is a mini series being made about him by Steven Spielberg which is hopefully good.
Jiggafini19Deux
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Exactly.
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Riders of justice Danish movie from 2020. Interesting, well told and a bit quirky 4/5 worth a watch
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Watched Ricky Stanicky on Prime. Not as good as the great comedies of the 2000s, but had some pretty good laughs in it and would recommend.
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I thought the cinematography in Dune 2 was amazing. D2>D1.
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I think Dune 2 will wind up being considered the more rewatchable movie because there are more visually "iconic" movie moments.
Dune is a tricky IP to make into a movie for a lot of reasons, and I feel like this is as good (or better) than anyone could have reasonably hoped for. It's a book that's more obsessed with the ecology of Arrakis than the story it's telling. It's also told in omniscient third-person, where you are always aware what everyone is thinking at all times. Dr. Yueh walks into a room and you read him thinking "Wow too bad I'm going to betray all these people" while also reading that Paul is thinking "Wow, Yueh looks weird today." The story relies on the audience having perfect information. In a book, a reader watching a chess match where they already know what both sides are thinking can be fun (and also gives the reader a taste of Paul's prescience because they can know the future just like Paul does). In a blockbuster movie this is just anticlimactic. I think the movie did what it could to sidestep those issues while being visually stunning.
I wish it had talked more about the Spice Guild though.
Dune is a tricky IP to make into a movie for a lot of reasons, and I feel like this is as good (or better) than anyone could have reasonably hoped for. It's a book that's more obsessed with the ecology of Arrakis than the story it's telling. It's also told in omniscient third-person, where you are always aware what everyone is thinking at all times. Dr. Yueh walks into a room and you read him thinking "Wow too bad I'm going to betray all these people" while also reading that Paul is thinking "Wow, Yueh looks weird today." The story relies on the audience having perfect information. In a book, a reader watching a chess match where they already know what both sides are thinking can be fun (and also gives the reader a taste of Paul's prescience because they can know the future just like Paul does). In a blockbuster movie this is just anticlimactic. I think the movie did what it could to sidestep those issues while being visually stunning.
I wish it had talked more about the Spice Guild though.
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Is that the movie where Mike Tyson narrates the Titanic disaster?
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Is it as good as Brave?
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It's twice as long and has more heart
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More dong as well
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The Zone of Interest. Probably should've won best picture IMO. Horrifying movie.
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I thought it was hysterical. Cena was great in this movie. Very, very funny movie.
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The Economist nailed it on the movie (a few snippets from the article)
Ever watched a film about how important bureaucratic reforms are devised? Ever wanted to? Hopes were high among a certain type of nerd that a Hollywood blockbuster out this week would provide just those thrills. Alas, “Napoleon”, a big-budget biopic, serves up rather more predictable fare: the manner in which a Corsican upstart seized absolute power as French emperor, fought endless battles and bonked a slew of mistresses. Thrilling as blood, sweat and courtship can be, it misses the point of Napoleon. For whereas many tyrants over the course of European history have fought wars and ruled impetuously, not to mention imperiously, few have marked modern Europe—and the world beyond—so enduringly. Forget Bonaparte the general, the Napoleon that really matters was the fellow who held dozens of administrative gatherings from which emanated the laws and institutions that hundreds of millions of people still live by today.
Europeans are unsure about where to place Napoleon, who ruled France from 1799 to 1814 (a bit less long than Angela Merkel ran Germany two centuries later) before a brief return in 1815. To many he is one of those figures from distant history, a latter-day Julius Caesar or Charlemagne, who came to rule vast swathes of the continent. Detractors paint him as a tyrant whose personal ambition led to ruin and death, a prelude to the madmen who came to wield totalitarian power in the 20th century. Indeed, Napoleon and his Grande Armée killed millions. Adjusted for population, that is perhaps no less murderous than an Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin. But, unlike them, his reign also bequeathed institutions, laws and reforms that left Europe more free and better run.
The continued import of Napoleon to France is visible across daily life there: teenagers study for the baccalauréat he devised in lycées he introduced, tourists stream to his imposing mausoleum, lawyers study the thick Code Civil of rules he brought in. Unsurprisingly, Napoleon is less often feted in the places he came to control by dint of his cavalry and artillery. And yet it is those areas, stretching from Amsterdam to Naples, Warsaw and Madrid, where he perhaps counts most of all...
Napoleon did not invent the European state, but he showed how it could be cast forward to the modern era. Even a brief invasion by France often resulted in rapid reforms that were never entirely undone after its troops were booted out. In many bits of Germany controlled by France, the old elites only partly regained their grip. Clearing the cobwebs of feudalism and imposing predictable laws allowed those places that had been visited by French troops to grow faster, economists have found: the parts of Europe that fell under Napoleon’s spell went on to industrialise more rapidly, come 1850. And Napoleonism’s reach extends beyond his home continent: the legal systems in much of Latin America and the Middle East are variations of the code he created.
...History buffs remember him as the destroyer of the Holy Roman Empire, that 1,000-year-old continental endeavour. But what replaced it was one step closer to today’s quasi-federalism. The pan-European military coalitions devised to counter Napoleon later morphed into recurring diplomatic gatherings, held to maintain a balance of power in Europe. In a precursor to today’s eu summits, national leaders and their emissaries started meeting regularly from 1814 to 1825 (with varying degrees of British interest, another constant). The end result, after a few more wars, was a variant of the United States of Europe that Napoleon himself had in mind, with its unified laws and currency...
...The man himself said: “My true glory is not the 40 battles I won…what will live for ever is my civil code.” People turn out to have remembered the wrong lessons from the Napoleonic era...
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Tyrant, liberator, warmonger, bureaucrat: the meaning of Napoleon
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I watched "The Warriors." It's interesting what you pick up on a movie throughout the years. When I first saw it, I was probably in high school or grade school. Then it was just about seeing guys kick each others' faces in. On recent viewings, I wonder if the plan Cyrus proposed about all the gangs coming together could have worked? Probably not completely, but in that time and place when crime was rampant and the NYC cops were overwhelmed could a strong, organized push have led to warlord rule in significant parts of the 5 boroughs? An interesting thought experiment. Can you dig it!?
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Southern Comfort, 1979. Great film with a lot going on. So much better than modern movies where it's all flash and bang.
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I thought "Southern Comfort" was about a squad of National Guardsmen getting lost in the backwoods of the deep south and getting hunted down by murderous rednecks. Maybe I missed the third act with the trans reveal.Southern Comfort, 1979. Great film with a lot going on. So much better than modern movies where it's all flash and bang.
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Lol whoops. But yes your recollection is correct.
Southern Comfort
During the Vietnam War, a squad of National Guardsmen -- including Hardin (Powers Boothe), a no-nonsense Texan; Reece (Fred Ward), a hunter; and Spencer (Keith Carradine), a sensible private -- take part in a military training exercise in the swamps of Louisiana. After attempting to steal...
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That’s the one I remember. Starred Powers Boothe & Keith Carradine. Cinematic masterpiece. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll kiss 5 bucks goodbye.
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The new Road House. Completely ridiculous with near zero plot, yet I couldn't look away. A completely mindless, extremely entertaining watch
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I will hate myself for watching it but I am sure I will watch it. People, including me, complain about Hollywood's constant unimaginative churn of sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots, etc. But hey, it works. If this movie was named something besides "Road House" and just featured dudes punching each other, the chance that I watch go down markedly. But call it "Road House" and I will bitch and moan about studios not being able to leave a good thing alone, but I will still tune in. I guess I'm part of the problem. Sigh, and I thought I wasn't going to drink today.
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Which had to be the incentive for them to “remake” such a bad movie. Granted, the original was popular & i enjoyed it back in the day but it’s not something I’d ever expect to be remade.
I agree w/ your assessment. It was actually worse than the original but I watched the whole damn thing…LOL
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I had to rewatch the original when I finished the new one just to erase what my eyes had witnessed.