So it looks like this is going to be a bunch of short bits from movies and news reports with extremely high contrast and offbeat chroma?
Which I’m on board for.
Eh… the subtitles in this movie are kinda random.
Murder?!
There’s a sentence you don’t see every day.
The English subtitles on this one are weird. But I quite liked the movie? Especially towards the end? I kinda wanna go with a ⚄, but let’s be realistic.
Anyway, is this the movie that ends with the guy telling people to scream out the window? Or… is that something else?
It’s a satire? I.e., not actually funny?
Oh, I think I was thinking of Network (which was from the 70s). This is from 1987! I was thinking “wow, William Hurt looks old to be like 27”.
Oh, right.
Oh, that’s her!
I’m having some problems getting into this, and I’m not sure at all why. The base mood is basically… Hill Street Blues? But with a plot line that’s all satirical and critical of the news business and how fake (*gasp*) it is and stuff.
It’s refreshing to see actors without fillers and botox again. We used to think of the 80s as being so over-the-top glamorous, but then the trend just continued and now nobody protests at the otherworldly faces on the screens.
Button down shirts! I’ve been reading the menswear guy lately… I didn’t know what that expression referred to before.
I’m not sure whether we have those in Europe? A Brooks Brothers invention, I think he said.
See those buttons?
Oh oh I’ve seen this before! Probably at the time? I remember this sweaty scene!
Yes, it’s him.
I really liked the ending. (SPOILERS!) The movie kind of sets up Holly Hunter to choose between Hurt (who’s very nice, but fake) and Brooks (who’s a bit of a dick, but serious), and goes for the unusual solution of: How about none of them?
Which is the only right solution.
But it’s not that the movie aged badly, but more like it’s… I dunno. For large stretches of this movie, I just didn’t really connect. Is it just that it’s too long for the material? (It’s 2h10m.)
OK, not loving this so far… The colour grading isn’t overpowering, but they’ve grayified a lot (except certain colours), and there’s shakycam. Which I just loathe.
OK, we’ve got a sad kid who gets bullied… so is he gonna go all Harry Potter all of a sudden?
Oh, it’s Liam!
Oh yeah! That’s why I bought this bluray — it has Sigourney Weaver. I was starting to wonder how I ended up with this…
Nice decor. I mean, I mean it — if they hadn’t colour graded this into sadness, it would be a comfy kitchen.
They found the one child actor in the UK that looks like a jaundiced 40s child. Which is confusing, since it’s contemporary (I think). Nobody’s got a mobile phone… perhaps it’s meant to be set in the 90s? (They have a DVD player.)
Stern! Very stern!
So Liam Neeson plays an ent?
Oh, there’s animated bits, too.
I like the style. It’s very computerish, but somebody has apparently invented an algorithm to make everything seem all watercolourley. It’s pretty.
But it looks like we’re going to get Liam Treeson telling the poor kid three of these fairytales? And I hate fairytales sooo much.
Oh god
This is very confusing. She’s got thick, luscious hair, but cropped short. So her mother is trying to get her to wear wigs!? But why? This isn’t how cancer treatments work — chemo doesn’t result in having shorter, luscious hair!
Did she just refuse to shave her head for this role? Which I can totally understand, if so.
This movie didn’t bomb exactly, but didn’t do well either.
Still not shaved her head.
Bandana is growing bigger, though.
This movie is even worse than the Jurassic World thing Bayona did.
