henke on 21/8/2023 at 07:49
Quote Posted by demagogue
Oh that reminds me I was gonna organize a TTLG movie day/night and our first movie was supposed to be Stalker.
Ah sorry, I missed this when you posted it. Yes, I'd be up for that, and that time is 7PM in Finland so it works great!
Sulphur on 30/8/2023 at 09:30
Saw Oppenheimer. Random frivolous take: if you're going to get Robert Downey Jr. to play someone who looks like Bob Odenkirk, and give him a very Bob Odenkirk character to play, you could have just given the role to Bob Odenkirk instead.
Thirith on 30/8/2023 at 09:42
I dunno, I rather like it when stars are used against their conventional image - at least when it works out well, which IMO it did with RDJ in Oppenheimer.
Though I now want to see Bob Odenkirk as Tony Stark.
Sulphur on 30/8/2023 at 09:53
Oh, RDJ crushed it, especially because he was playing against type. I wasn't complaining about the performance, just that I couldn't not see Odenkirk in the same place where RDJ was any given minute of the film. Part of that is I definitely caught some Saul vibes from his performance, which struck me as somewhat uncanny.
And yeah, I'd see that Iron Man Nobody too.
mxleader on 30/8/2023 at 20:54
I'm re-watching the first season of Cheers because the library has all the seasons and it's free!
I didn't get all the jokes when I watched it in the 80's but now I get pretty much everything and it's much funnier.
Thirith on 3/9/2023 at 17:38
My wife's been learning Swedish for a few years now, so we take any opportunity we can to see Swedish films at the cinema. Today a local cinema showed the Swedish comedy Jalla! Jalla! - which wasn't particularly good, but its director Josef Fares directed the games Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, A Way Out and It Takes Two... and the film's lead, Fares Fares (he's the director's brother), looked familiar... I thought I'd seen his gargantuan shnoz before, and indeed, he played one of the leads in A Way Out, and obviously the character is closely modelled on him, visually as well.
Jalla! Jalla! nonetheless isn't a film I'd recommend, unless you really like ethnic stereotypes and penis jokes.
Anarchic Fox on 3/9/2023 at 23:54
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Oh, RDJ crushed it, especially because he was playing against type. I wasn't complaining about the performance, just that I couldn't
not see Odenkirk in the same place where RDJ was any given minute of the film. Part of that is I definitely caught some Saul vibes from his performance, which struck me as somewhat uncanny.
I think Odenkirk would've spoiled the heel turn. That being said, I'm bewildered by the fact that a movie
about the atomic bomb saw a need for a villain.
Also, I find it funny how hard the movie tried to portray him as a top physicist. He did not compare to his advisor Max Born, and Born himself was one of the lesser stars in that constellation.
demagogue on 4/9/2023 at 02:14
Sure he wasn't one of the handful of titans, but he wasn't a slouch either. I just watched a nice (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py8k1tn8yw4) video walking through his contributions to physics. There were two big things that he jumped the gun on, just without connecting the last piece, Dirac's prediction of positrons and the theoretical discovery of the mechanism for the creation of black holes. Anyway, I think it's fair for a movie like this to thumb the scale a bit just out of literary license since it's ultimately a story for the public, sort of like they also did with Steven Hawking because the public adores him so much.
henke on 4/9/2023 at 05:48
Quote Posted by Thirith
My wife's been learning Swedish for a few years now, so we take any opportunity we can to see Swedish films at the cinema. Today a local cinema showed the Swedish comedy
Jalla! Jalla! - which wasn't particularly good, but its director Josef Fares directed the games
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons,
A Way Out and
It Takes Two... and the film's lead, Fares Fares (he's the director's brother), looked familiar... I thought I'd seen his gargantuan shnoz before, and indeed, he played one of the leads in
A Way Out, and obviously the character is closely modelled on him, visually as well.
Jalla! Jalla! nonetheless isn't a film I'd recommend, unless you really like ethnic stereotypes and penis jokes.
Oh as it happens I rewatched another one of his movies "Kopps", with some family and friends who hadn't seen it, this weekend. Story of a small town police station which is threatened with shutdown because they don't have enough crimes in the town, so the cops take it on themselves to get up the statistics. Still funny, but yeah, very low brow. Haven't seen Jalla Jalla in ages but I think I mostly liked it.
SD on 4/9/2023 at 22:58
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Saw Oppenheimer. Random frivolous take: if you're going to get Robert Downey Jr. to play someone who looks like Bob Odenkirk, and give him a very Bob Odenkirk character to play, you could have just given the role to Bob Odenkirk instead.
They probably felt like they should at least cast
some Jews in a movie about Jews.
