Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-28 (Monday)

On 4/29/2025 7:14 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

Fringe S1E09 'The Dreamscape'.  Shenanigans at Massive Dynamic and someone from Peter's past appears.  The airline that crashed a plane in 'Lost' exists in 'Fringe'. 

I forgot about that.
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 Dr. Walter Bishop: There is little that makes me happier than taking drugs. Perhaps administering them, designing and carrying out experiments that bend the plane of what we consider reality. I'm rarely if ever opposed to such things except now.
  What Did You Watch?
 

I watched:
The Front Room (HBO) 2024 movie written and directed by the Eggers Brothers and starring Brandy as a pregnant woman who along with her husband (Andrew Burnap) agree to take care of her husband's recently widowed stepmother (Kathryn Hunter from "Andor").  At first the husband warns that his stepmother is evil, but Brandy ignores him until she moves in and weird things start to happen.  I went into this expecting a horror movie similar to "Rosemary's Baby" or "The Skeleton Key" but was very disappointed that when it was all said and done, and as far as I can tell, there was zero supernatural events in this movie.  I kept waiting for something supernatural to happen, and it never did.  I guess the movie is OK even without a supernatural twist.  Fans of "Andor" will want to watch for Kathryn Hunter, pretty much playing the same role in this movie that she plays in "Andor."
Sinners (theatrical) - I made the trip to the AMC Metreon in San Francisco so I could watch the movie in 70mm IMAX.  These are general observations on the second viewing experience at the Metreon.  First, I saw the movie on opening day at my local IMAX theater and it looked great.  But my local IMAX is fake IMAX and can't do 70mm prints.  The Metreon is a flagship IMAX theater, one of the biggest in the country and one of only a handful even capable of showing a movie in 70mm IMAX. Given that's how the movie was filmed, and I had the opportunity to see it properly displayed in that format, I figured I owed it to myself to make the trip.  In the middle of the day on a Monday, the theater was *packed* even in not-so-great seats, it was worth the trip to see displayed on a massive screen in perfect clarity.  And the shifting aspect ratio during certain scenes had a serious wow factor.  Two scenes in particular.  One scene everybody is already talking about, Fnzzvr cynlf gur oyhrf naq pbawherf gur fcvevgf bs zhfvp sebz gur cnfg naq shgher.  But the other scene when gur inzcverf ner vaivgrq vagb gur pyho naq gur fperra rkcnaqf nf gurl punetr va nf rirelbar cercnerf sbe gur svtug bs gurve yvirf.
I liked the movie a bit more on second viewing.  This time I was able to sit back and take it all in.  I was able to notice things I didn't notice the first time around.  I noticed Ludwig Göransson's score. Which was pretty good.  I was able to properly track Michael B. Jordan's characters, and unlike the first time I watched when I never knew which twin was which, this time around I could easily follow who was on the screen.  I picked up on character details I missed the first time.  And even at the end of the movie, even though I knew how it ends, I was still on the edge of my seat worried how were they going to survive.
There are only a few more days before "Thunderbolts" arrive and take all the IMAX screens.  If it is at all possible, see this movie in IMAX, even if it's fake IMAX.
When you're making a movie set in 1930s Mississippi, who else are you going to get to write the music but Ludwig Göransson.  Actually Ludwig has been scoring Ryan Coogler's movies since "Fruitvale Station."
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