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I just watched Star Wars – The Rise of Skywalker in the movie theatre. Here’s some first impressions. Some of the things I say may be considered spoilers.
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🎞 Watched: Black Panther (2018)
The MCU movies keeps on delivering. This was another really good one.
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🎞 Watched: Interstellar
Me and Linn watched Interstellar last week and we both really liked it.
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🎞 Watched: Lyckligare kan ingen vara (2018)
I watched this one yesterday with Linn. Seems like it was quite some time ago that we actually managed to get the kids to bed on time and watch something together. So the experience of watching the movie was great. The movie as a movie, was not.
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🎞 Earlier this week I watched Mulholland Drive and now I can’t stop thinking about it. What was it that I saw? What did it mean? And why was I so moved by it?
I’m planning to watch it again soon. Also, I read this great analysis of the movie by Film Crit Hulk Smash.
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🎞 Watched: Thor: Ragnarok
I totally forgot to write about it when I watched Ragnarok some time ago. Anyway, I loved it. My favourite movie in the MCU so far.
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🎞 Watched: Spider-Man: Homecoming
This was exactly the kind of movie that I needed to watch right now. Light-hearted and very entertaining. I’d probably say it’s my favourite MCU movie so far. I loved the acting, the way Peter was characterised, the way the classical characters where changed and modernised. I loved the whole thing. Also, the sort-of twist with the identity of The Vulture took me completely by surprise.
My only complaint is that the action scenes themselves where sometimes hard to follow. It seemed like the director was inexperienced when it came to directing action.
I was surprised by the music, which seemed a step up from a lot of other MCU movies.
On a side-note, after the first scenes where we see the lead up to the fight between the heroes in the airport in Civil War, I had to paus this movie and go watch that fight once again. That’s quite amazing considering the fact that before I started watching the MCU movies from start to finish, in sort-of correct story order, that was the scene that I dreaded the most. I was absolutely certain that a scene where our heroes beat the crap out of each other would be just ridiculous in the Batman v Superman kind of way. I was very wrong.
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🎞 Watched: Guardians of the Galaxy
My watching of this one was stretched over way to long time. It was only two sittings but almost two months apart. Why? Well, life got in the way in the most mundane ways.
Anyway, I liked this one. I don’t necessarily think it’s as great as some people seem to think it is but I like it. No, it’s not ”The Star Wars of this generation”.
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I recently had a reason to revisit my workflow for dealing with dvds and turning them into mp4-files. Here’s the new workflow that results in a video file that’s playable in QuickTime, on iDevices and a bunch of other devices and that has subtitles that can be turned on or in QuickTIme and iDevices.
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🎞 Watched: Captain America: Civil War
Before getting into the MCU, this was probably the movie that I thought would be the very worst one. Super heroes fighting each other over issues that could be solved be talking is just so boring. Turns out, I was wrong about the movie. I really liked this one!
I think we all can agree that this is an Avengers movie, just as much as a Cap movie. And as such it is the Avengers movie, at least in the sense that this is how I would like more of them to be. The world is not going to end if the heroes fail, but instead there are real personal stakes here. I can understand motivations, I can get invested.
As for the fighting, the Avengers movies have the problem that you have a demigod, an almost invincible rage monster, some really powerful metahumans and a spy/assassin and a guy with a bow and arrow. This imbalance of power amongst them gets more or less silly in both Avengers and Age of Ultron (and I assume in Infinity War as well). In this one, it is much better managed. The airstrip scene, which I kind of dreaded, was really exciting. Everybody had an important role and I could understand the abilities of every character and why the could, or couldn’t, match each other.
It was also interesting that I still don’t really know if I’m on team Tony or team Cap. Philosophically speaking I would like to agree with Steve, but I can also totally see myself acting just like Tony does in the final battle, if I were in his shoes.
Right, I almost forgot. Spider-Man! (I’m looking forward to seeing Homecoming.)
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macgenie
10 augusti, 2019 16:40@MrHenko This film blew me away. I saw it first at a second run theater with smallish screens, so I jumped at the chance to see it at the science museum’s jumbo theater, then later in one of the few theaters outfitted with 70mm equipment. Stunning.
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11 augusti, 2019 11:57@macgenie That sounds like a lot cooler circumstances than we watched it in. For us it was a 37″ television at home, with the kids literately sleeping on the other side of the wall that the tv hangs on. So the audio and visuals didn’t quite give the impact that I think Nolan was going for. Probably why the music, that everybody seems to think is brilliant, sort of underwhelmed me.