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brad efford's avatar

Currently on the train back from F1 The Movie in 4DX, my favorite movie format. It’s basically a Mario Kart amusement park ride (good) plus every time they spray celebratory champagne around you get water sprayed in your face (GREAT)

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Exa Moseley's avatar

Wow this sounds awesome

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brad efford's avatar

One thing I noticed though is that when Brad Pitt slams Condon against the wall they don’t slam the bars into your back. Cowards!

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

omg that would have been awesome

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Owen's avatar
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I struggled with The Adventures of Sonny Hayes- why is it so long! why do we need a scene where one guy goes to the hospital and then the other guy goes to the hospital!!! Brad so does not have it and whenever this attempts to be a movie about his monomania or whatever it does not actually answer any questions about what makes him tick in a satisfying way. Bardem, Condon, my guy Menzies all have it but when Condon has to project “I’m in love with you” it is very funny not her fault. People in my theater were hooting and hollering and yelled at the big crash, I kind of teared up at the end but that’s bc I imagined myself watching Speed Racer instead

Honestly, Megan 2 goes down a lot easier even though it was equally incoherent theme-wise (robots bad except when good). Was worried it would be just epic slay moments but it kind of has a better spy plot than Final Reckoning? Great Timm Sharp too for the Enlightened heads

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

"Great Timm Sharp" is how the critics should have been prefacing Megan 2, which I had yet had an interest in seeing til now (it will make a great plane watch one day).

It is crazy both guys go to the hospital............... Top Gun Maverick is a far more interesting exploration of an aging star's monomania, but I found the moving parts around Cruise pretty dull in that one. I think part of why F1 worked so well for me is that I'm a true neophyte about the sport and was happy to learn and absorb whenever it wasn't Pitt jogging around the track. The systems felt far more intriguing and slightly less nefarious (though still evil in a classic organized sports way). Reading after that F1 basically requires every team to constantly be sending 1000 people around the world every week... insane.

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Julieanne Smolinski's avatar

TBH I didn't care if the dinosaurs were like, fully scientifically accurate in the first JP because it's kind of all informed conjecture, and paleontologists love to be like "no this guy had feathers and would have been brown instead of black" (zzzzz who cares). But it's very JAWS-like in that not only has there ever been a good sequel, they are progressively worse.The hideously animated superdinosaurs who you can train with an ocarina are about as cool and fun as anti-smoking ads. Thank you for confirming, will never see one of these slop heaps willingly again!

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

The new hybrid dinosaur that is "inspired by H.R. Giger" literally looks like a French bulldog and in every other scene it's either 30 feet tall or 60 ft tall with no consistency. FLOP!!! The original works in part because of the notion of wonder, which sits counter to the science - when movies like this are good, I feel like they're good because they're all about the tension between being like "whoa wtf" and "we know why this happens." In the new one, Jonathan Bailey asks Scarlett Johansson's mercenary character if she's familiar with medicare for all and she's like "omg no"

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Maggie's avatar

pardon???

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Julieanne Smolinski's avatar

ahahahahahahahah oh NO. not gonna be our new pedro p that way, king!

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Exa Moseley's avatar

Sonny Hayes.

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

He's a man but his name is SON

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Exa Moseley's avatar

they said he was too old!

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Samuel's avatar

I thoroughly enjoyed watching, specifically looking at, F1 at the Lincoln Square IMAX screen. It did help crystallize, for me, how many recent Tom Cruise movies have been about a 60+-year-old everyone under 40 thinks must be past their prime, who is still the best, where the only reasonable option for the up-and-comers is to start imitating and worshipping him. Suffice to say when I mooted this theory with my groupchat after, I quoted that one tweet about Biden not having a Ph. D in foreign policy as the vibe I think these may reflect. Anyway with Pitt the set moves out to this greater gerontocratic read (Cruise alone can start to seem like it’s specifically about Tom Cruise the exclusive Best There Ever Was, To This Day)

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

The way the movie is just like, Brad Pitt propaganda is so funny and works really well. I felt obligated to look up how old Joseph Kosinski was, and I admire him doing this kind of commercial reputation laundering and liberation for old guys. And it looked like a fun movie to be in! I might try to see IMAX... or 4dx...

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Samuel's avatar

Yeah, YouTube started hitting me with the promotional stuff yesterday, I’m sure it was a blast to shoot

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Jack Riedy's avatar

took last Monday off for my birthday and had an unprecedented four movie day: new M:I in theatres (just okay, glad I was in an Alamo recliner for its length), History of the World Part 1 (pleasant or actively bad, come on Papa Mel), Mad God (now we're talking, like a bargain bin metal album cover come to life), and the remastered Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii (communing with the spirits of stoners past). Glad to hear McMurtry shines through in Brokeback! Never got around to it, may try to catch it this week in theatres.

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mary-kate blackwood's avatar

your blog on the Ramy show makes me want to cry <3 those men are the future and the system knows it that’s why they’re panicking

shocked to hear that rocky is good in highest 2 lowest…i will be eager to check it out

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

Rocky is maybe BETTER in the Mary Bronstein (it's shorter/quicker to type her name than the full title of the film, which is If I Had Legs I'd Kick You) - but he's also given much more to do in that one. Either way - he's a star.

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scarr's avatar

The movie theater I was working at had just completed a renovation when Brokeback Mountain came out. I got to see it in one of the fancy new auditoriums which adds to the specialness of remembering seeing this film - it has remained one of my all-time favorites.

I also very clearly recall where I was and what I was doing when I learned about Heath's death. My now-husband was the person who texted me when the news broke. What an unspeakable loss!

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

I can't imagine seeing it in theaters upon its initial release ... I would have like, fully lost my mind. I was driving to a friend's house and pulled up in the driveway when I learned about Heath's death and I was like, now how am I supposed to hang out with people with this information...

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