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Has anyone seen Lamb? I have thoughts...
Fucking amaaaaaaaazing. Saw it on IMAX. It could be recency bias, but it's one of my favorite filmgoing experiences I can remember.Dune.
What a movie.
Makes me wish No Broken Cocks was here to discuss.
NO TIME TO DIE
Holy fucking shit.
Shit indeed. Marginally better than Quantum, weaker than the other CraigBond movies.
blofeld and spectre again ? Pass and more airtime for Rami Malek and comedic timing of Paloma, but pass on her shooting around - Michelle Yeoh kicked butt way back in Tomorrow never dies. Wanted to be as deep as Skyfall and as emotional as Casino Royal but failed. Also that chick and Craig dont have the chemistry that Bond and Vesper had. And whatever you do in a Bond movie...you dont do THAT.
Dune.
What a movie.
Makes me wish No Broken Cocks was here to discuss.
Fucking amaaaaaaaazing. Saw it on IMAX. It could be recency bias, but it's one of my favorite filmgoing experiences I can remember.
To me, practically every single scene/moment felt big and powerful and important. The sound was incredible (anytime a character used "The Voice" it scared the shit out of the entire theater). Just a fucking great movie.
I've relocated so unlike Los Angeles, where IMAX theaters are everywhere, I had to drive about an hour to get to a proper IMAX theater. .
I have seen Throne of Blood. Excellent. And we were actually shown Branagh's Hamlet in high school. But I haven't seen any of the others. Thanks for the recs.Coen's version is very much indebted to the Orson Welles adaptation from 1948, which has similar striking visuals taken from German Expressionism.
Welles also did a fantastic Othello, and his film Chimes at Midnight looks at the character of Falstaff and draws from several plays, including Henry V. It has one of the greatest battle scenes ever constructed, the editing decades ahead of its time (Scorsese payed homage to it in the opening of Gangs of New York).
Other adaptations I enjoyed:
Titus (1999, fantastic visuals + Anthony Hopkins)
Akira Kurosawa's Ran (King Lear adaptation)
Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood (Macbeth adaptation)
Laurence Olivier's Henry V
Kenneth Branagh's Henry V
Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing (w Denzel and Keanu!)
Richard III starring Ian McKellen (1930s fascist setting)
Polanksi's Macbeth (very violent and bloody)
Julius Caesar (1953, with John Gielgud and Marlon Brando)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935, beautiful classic Hollywood fantasy)
and if you're up for it, Kenneth Branagh's full-text version of Hamlet, which runs 4 hours but has an insane cast of stars and a lot of style.