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diff --git a/film/2021.page b/film/2021.page new file mode 100644 index 0000000..533816e --- /dev/null +++ b/film/2021.page @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ + +Blade Runner 2049 +================= + +Re-watched, held up well. Robin Wright and Jared Leto are great. + + +Serenity +========= + +Re-watched, meh. + + +John Wick (1 and 2) +==================== + +A tiny bit cheeky, but mostly just high-budget, well-made, generic action. +Entertaining if you like watching fight scenes. Airplane films. + + +Some Kind of Heaven +====================== + +The documentary about "The Villages", a city-sized retirement community in +Florida. I expected to be a more direct documentary about the place, but this +ended up being mostly a series of character studies. Some of the scenes and +interviews were somewhat unbelievable; were they staged? Especially the +unremorseful and blunt psychonaut husband. + + +Tokyo Story +============ + +Watched with L, B, and C on a trip to the Olympic Penninsula. Many classic +shots. Slow, thoughtful. Apparently the creators didn't think it +would get much international reception because it was "too Japanese", but I was +surprised how universal it felt. Also surprised it was able to be produced at +all in the near post-war period. + + +Sherpa and Fourteen Peaks +=========================== + +Two separate documentaries about Himalayan mountaineering, both pretty good. +The 14 peaks story is almost unbelievable, and feels borderline foolhardy, he +just climbs so fast and hard and takes risks to meet an arbitrary time limit. + + +Dune (2021) +============ + +Very pretty, some nice scenes, characters, costumes, and world-building. In the +end felt like just eye candy and "entertainment" though, did not add anything +special or new to the story telling. This is a finely executed and polished +film, but David Lynch's version brought a lot more to the table. + + +Incendies +========== + +This was very good, though parts of it were so brutal they felt like a stab in +the back by the directory/screenwriter. + + +No Time to Die +=============== + +Bond, not particularly memorable. Airplane film. + + +The Grandmaster +================= + +Will watch Tony Leung in anything. The early scenes were fun. Some characters +were confusingly just pasted in to the film with no other context. Airplane +film. + + +Suicide Squad +=============== + +L liked this so I gave it a try. Was surprisingly enjoyable, especially the +first 10-15 minutes. |