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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by lester1/2jr - Today at 04:07:43 PMZodiac (2007) - I somehow didn't know about this or that David Fincher directed it. The first thing you notice is the real lack of Hollywood glamour. It's like he was making it for A and E or even PBS. There's even Wikipedia ish scenes where they make sure the audience gets certain facts "Here it is Christmas 1970 and we just got the second Zodiac letter. It sure is a crazy world." etc.
The Zodiac killer is loose in early 70's California and cops are having a hard time figuring out who he is. He does the thing where he writes taunting letters to the newspaper and sends them weird codes to decipher, but always stays a step ahead, somehow. Robert Downey Jr, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Chloe Sevigny are among the cops/ newspaper people whose lives would come to be defined by the whole thing.
Again, it's basically a 2 (and a half) parter A and E season opener, but where it's all re enactment and no talking heads or voiceover.
5/5 I'll be watching something a little more lively next, but I can't deny the formal integrity on display.
The Zodiac killer is loose in early 70's California and cops are having a hard time figuring out who he is. He does the thing where he writes taunting letters to the newspaper and sends them weird codes to decipher, but always stays a step ahead, somehow. Robert Downey Jr, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Chloe Sevigny are among the cops/ newspaper people whose lives would come to be defined by the whole thing.
Again, it's basically a 2 (and a half) parter A and E season opener, but where it's all re enactment and no talking heads or voiceover.
5/5 I'll be watching something a little more lively next, but I can't deny the formal integrity on display.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Bipolar
Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 02:22:55 PMQuote from: HappyGilmore on Today at 05:40:31 AMQuote from: LilCerberus on August 27, 2026, 02:56:53 PMI'm getting the impression that my councilor doesn't understand the concept of PTSD.....Can you find a new one?
I've been through several
I've told my case manager; I think I might.....
Yeah, good councilors tend to be difficult to find....
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 02:13:58 PMRIP Shelley Fabares
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 12:28:39 PM19) Willard
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 10:41:34 AM18. HARRY BROWN (2009)
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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:46:04 AMWhere would you like to retire?
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Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:29:50 AMKiss of the Damned
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 08:45:40 AMQuote from: chainsaw midget on July 15, 2026, 06:05:11 PMThe Bride (2026)
It only took me a few minutes in before I realizes ... damn. It is not looking good.
For some reason they do a big dance number to "Putting on the Ritz".
The detective that has been following them the whole time jumps out and shoots the Bride a bunch. Then other police show up and open fire on Frank and his Bride and the detective runs.
THE BRIDE! (2026):
I can't dispute anything Jim says in his review, except:
It isn't Detective Peter Skarsgard who shoots the Bride - he already relinquished his badge in Niagara Falls to secretary Penelope Cruz - which even in whatever year this movie takes place in, a police detective can't do. But anyway, it's the Bride's mobster ex-boyfriend who follows her and shoots her.
Like Jim, I was a bit worried in the early scenes. As the world's biggest living Elsa Lanchester fan, I wasn't interested in some Jessie Buckley bird trying to put her own grubby mitts on the Mary/Bride dual role. Fortunately, THE BRIDE! isn't a remake. I don't know what it is but it isn't a remake.
And, I started to cringe at the "Puttin' On The Ritz" number - as my admiration of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is inversely proportionate to my admiration of Elsa Lanchester....... but Buckley and Christian Bale dance so damn well (spasmodically, monstrously) I was really swept away in the frenzy.
Like Rev. Powell, I love a good trainwreck (as opposed to a bad trainwreck). There were a couple other moments in the screenplay that made me roll my eyes or bite my lip, but Maggie Gyllenhaal's tongue is in her cheek more often than her heart is on her sleeve here, and her direction (as well as the acting) is strong enough to put the material over. I don't actually require my films to make complete sense!
Everybody is good here, though Buckley doing Natasha Lyonne 2/3rds of the time made me kind of just want Natasha Lyonne. Great to see Annette Bening and always a pleasure to see weirdo Zlatko Buric (in everything nowadays). Bale is awesome in the moment after he confronts Jake Gyllenhaal and a great dancer generally (lest we forget SWING KIDS and NEWSIES). Cruz steals the show, however, as "Myrna Malloy".
3.5/5 Glad it exists. The bizarre "Ygor"-like maid who looks like Angelica Huston after a brutal bender fortunately isn't Angelica Huston but instead (more bizarrely) Mike Nichols and Elaine May's daughter Jeanie Berlin. Gyllenhaal dedicates the film "to [her] daughters", one of whom has a cameo in the theater playing WHITE ZOMBIE. A Bela Lugosi cameo in a Frankenstein movie - hilarious!
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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:36:22 AM
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Good Movies / Re: Movies that you never "got...
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 08:21:57 AMQuote from: lester1/2jr on Today at 12:43:41 AMMake a real dinosaur and film it and I'll watch that.
Since birds are technically dinosaurs, Hitchcock has got you covered