Heh heh.

There’s a lot of awesome shots here, but the movie also looks just really weird.

Like… it’s been overly smoothed or something? I’ve watching the 4K bluray, and it’s just odd-looking.

Heh heh.

Heh.

Oh, it’s Thor!

I’m 40 minutes in, and I’m really bored. And there’s almos two hours to go? Oh deer.

The digital compositing is really bad — perhaps that’s what makes so many scenes look so awkward?

Yeah, nobody would ever guess that that’s a girl!

This movie, so far, would have been better as a two paragraph Wikipedia recap. That’s what it feels like watching this — somebody making a movie from a recap.

OK, that’s good stunt…

But then the next shot, they have the worst digital explosion ever. It’s just… eh.

That’s an oddly CGI-looking crane thing.

OMG! SHE”S A GIRL WITH GIRLY HAIR

*sigh*

But it was a fun action scene.

This should have had a Charli XCX soundtrack.

The charm of Fury Road was how real much of it looked (because quite a lot was real). This does not have that feel at all. Which makes me wonder abour the budget.

Oh man. I didn’t know that this bombed. Anyway, the Fury Road budget was:

So this had a larger budget than Fury Road, but looks so much worse. Some of the scenes here are just cringe-worthy — they’ve composited Thor into a car and do digital zooms to emulate him driving towards the camera and stuff.

There are entertaining scenes in here, but this is barely a movie. I was bored witless most of the time. And I was disappointed that it looked this bad.

Furiosa. George Miller. 2024. ⚂

Hey! It’s not a Walkman, but it’s a Schlepman!

This starts off as a 30s screwball comedy, but then…

Suddenly it’s a horror movie!

Oo, that’s a nice balcony. I want one of those.

This has some great lines, but I don’t think it’s quite gelling? The tone is just off.

I love matte paintings like this. It’s better than the real thing.

Well, I don’t agree. Myrna Loy and William Powell are indeed perfection, but the movie isn’t. And it’s so weird — it’s got some really, really funny gags, and really good performances, but it just doesn’t quite cohere. There’s bits that are more nightmarish than funny, and things don’t zip as they should. It’s like… they needed to turn the zany up 20%? But this is a 1941 movie, so this is like a holdover from a previous era, and they’ve made things more serious and less frantic than it would have been in 1935.

In 1935 they would have made this movie perfectly.

Love Crazy. Jack Conway. 1941. ⚃

CGI!!!

I wonder where this is going — it’s about three German friends after The Great War. It could either go pacifist or a warning against Hitler’s Germany, I guess? Or some other way!

OK, I was totally wrong about what this was going to be about. I think.

Borzage does a lot of fun little visual things… But the story is a bit confused, because one of the three friends are apparently mixed up with a Communist cell or something, but of course they can’t say that, so instead there are demonstrations where the head guy says non-specific things, and then they get beat up by other people who are carrying non-specific banners.

This is from 1938, though, so Germany-related politics were Verboten in Hollywood, I guess.

The performances are great, and the movie looks really nice (and this 2K restoration has been done very sensitively). But… the movie doesn’t quite work for me. The storylines are very moving and stuff, but it just feels a bit mannered.

Oh, they haven’t actually said the word “tuberculosis” either — or any other diagnosis, really. Was that another taboo? They couldn’t use the word “pregnant” in Hollywood for a while, but instead go through the “‘I have something to tell you darling!’ ‘You mean…?’ ‘Yes!!’ ‘Oh darling!'” thing instead. But tuberculosis!?

Three Comrades. Frank Borzage. 1938. ⚃