last movie you watched

[maf-me-quick]

I have seen either the Shining or Schindler’s list but I always forget which one is which

I saw the one that had Jacks nicholson in it

[Maryokutai]

If you had seen both you wouldn't mix them up, Schinder's List is a really intense WWII drama.

The Shining is a book-gone-movie by Kubrick and features, indeed, a crazy Nicholson.

[maf-me-quick]

I remember the Shining being shit but it’s been a while

[One-armed dwarf]

There's a theory that Kubrick had a hidden subtext in the film to do with the Holocaust. Remember reading a good article on it before.

[maf-me-quick]

This is probably why I get them confused

[One-armed dwarf]

Unless you're into try hard literary symbolism I doubt it

The Times highlights the prevalence of the number 42 in the film—Danny, Jack and Wendy’s son, wears a t-shirt with the number on it; Wendy takes 42 swings of her baseball bat at Jack—and notes that since the early ‘70s, that number was seen as an ominous metonym for the Final Solution, which was launched in 1942. (The number was prominent in the ‘70s also as the answer to Douglas Adams’ question.) But there’s more.

For example: Jack’s typewriter. Cocks explained to me that it’s an Adler Eagle typewriter—“a German machine, pictured almost to make it a character, a clear representation of the bureaucratic killing machine.” (It’s also the model typewriter Kubrick himself used.) When Jack awakes from a dream in which he has killed his wife and his son, he is slumped over his desk, next to his typewriter, which has changed color. It is now light blue: a color that, according to Cocks, invariably signifies “a system of cold, mighty hierarchical power” in Kubrick’s films. And of course he is in the Overlook Hotel’s magnificent, gargantuan main room: and, as Cocks put it, “Big institutions in big rooms in big buildings in Kubrick movies almost always means malevolent power.”

But some of this is interesting
https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/89719/ ... caust-film

Kubrick was fascinated by Raul Hilberg’s 1961 book The Destruction of the European Jews, and once said that the subject he most wanted to make a movie about was the Holocaust, but feared, “that he couldn’t approach that subject directly

I also like the theory that the movie is all about Kubrick helping the US fake the Moon landings. A documentary on that came out last year

All of this is probably bullshit but some of it is interesting

[maf-me-quick]

What do you mean I’m all about literally symbolism have you seen my posts. Very subversive very subtextive.

[One-armed dwarf]

I saw Mission Impossible Fallout. It was fine, perfectly serviceable one of those films.

Tom Cruise does the Tom Cruise run and all his own stunts. In IMAX.

Tom Cruise is the most bland lead i can think of but that run and doing all his own stunts stuff sure is coolio.

[sleepery jeem]

meh he's just a punk compared to Jackie Chan.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLcTrr3wGtY

Not a CGI'd out rope in sight.

[maf-me-quick]

I know this is old but this is pretty good

https://youtu.be/Bl5UH6EZXIM

[One-armed dwarf]

Watch their review of the Star Wars holiday special.

[Bilge Rat]

Just watched Solo. No, though.

I really disliked the performances of Donald Glover and Emilia Clarke, although I was surprised that Han's actor was not so bad. A competently made movie but ultimately pointless and not that interesting.

[Maryokutai]

Emilia Clarke is never good, she's just really popular for her looks and being naked in GoT.

Han's actor was indeed a surprise. I also liked how he mimicked a few of Harrison's old idiosyncrasies like the finger pointing and such.

[Pious the chosen]

Watched it a couple of hours ago at a friend's house. The Disney Machine really knows how to churn out almost duplicated films don't they? That's four films they've made now with more or less identical tone, characterisation and production values. A Star Wars film is a Star Wars film is a Star Wars film, after all. Disney spent a lot of money to buy Star Wars, so of course they are going to secure a Formulaic structure to get the quickest return on their investment ala the MCU.

[maf-me-quick]

I liked the ‘gravity’ sequence in Solo and obviously the film looks and sounds great. It just doesn’t have a lot of soul.