Hacksaw Ridge was based on a person, Desmond T. Doss, from my hometown. We have an expressway named after him.
I liked Under the Silver Lake a lot, in which he plays an actual creep, but somehow found Garfield even creepier in Hacksaw Ridge. I feel like I would have enjoyed the movie more with anyone else in the role. Was the real life person meant to be mentally diminished? Because the way Andrew Garfield played him, he came off as a borderline Forrest Gump combined with Gomer Pyle.I thought I would hate this one but ended up enjoying it quite a bit. Andrew Garfield is actually pretty good in the right roles. This, Under the Silver Lake and Silence prove that he's not just the that guy from the Facebook movie or the worst Spiderman.
Yes. I saw a short doc about him and the movie and they all but said that he was Forrest Gump level slow. It was more than heavily implied.Was the real life person meant to be mentally diminished? Because the way Andrew Garfield played him, he came off as a borderline Forrest Gump combined with Gomer Pyle.
Ah, well that helps the movie a lot. Although it's probably a lot easier to convince a dim person to go do something brave and stupid.Yes. I saw a short doc about him and the movie and they all but said that he was Forrest Gump level slow. It was more than heavily implied.
I got the Arrow Video 4k set and it looks amazing. It may not be as stylish as Suspiria or Inferno but it's a gorgeous movie, even the bland or annoying dialogue scenes are shot beautifully. Arrow really did a great job with this set, this is the kind of release that gives Criterion a run for their money.
Yeah I have several of their releases and they've all been great. I think most of them are region free as well which is nice as some of their stuff doesn't get released in the US since they have to share the rights. It also tends to have better cover art. Their release for The Burning in the UK uses the Mondo poster art which shits on the US Scream Factory art.Arrow is pretty badass. I have a blu-ray of The Burning and it includes a second disc full of extras.
For the kid in me I bought Arrow's Gamera the Showa Years and I'm looking forward to what the set includes. Off Amazon even though it's the wrong region.
haha I know what you mean. But I'd still rather watch a movie that's too Italian than one that's too French.First time watching this version and I can see why it was edited for international audiences. There's a lot of stuff that's quite frankly just too Italian.
Movie theaters are all but dead here for the past three years. Avatar 2 isn't coming out in China, which is a massive blow. Post-covid there haven't been many Hollywood movies coming here at all. I just checked the theater close to me and there are a whopping two movies total showing in the whole theater.It looks like Avatar 2 was the world's first $440 million box office opening weekend failure.
Movie theaters are all but dead here for the past three years. Avatar 2 isn't coming out in China, which is a massive blow. Post-covid there haven't been many Hollywood movies coming here at all. I just checked the theater close to me and there are a whopping two movies total showing in the whole theater.
For all of you, what is the general feeling of going to the movie theater nowadays?
Does anyone else feel the heyday of movie theaters is over? Movies will always be a popular form of entertainment but with so many factors - early/same day release on streaming, piracy, and a feeling of not wanting to leave home - it looks to me like going to the movies is not what it once was.
Sometimes I think how freaking lucky Marvel was to release Endgame in 2019.
That's the problem right there though. Those are the only movies most people are going to see. The big theaters are pretty much just Disney or equivalent junk now.Box office isn't really slowing down
Top Gun 2: 1.5B
Jurassic Park...6 I think? 1.0B
Doctor Strange 2 960M
Minions 940M
Black Panther 2 790M and counting
The Batman 771M
Thor 4 760M