Chula Vista

#highexpectations

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

MicShazam

Watched 3 movies yesterday and this evening:

Apocalypse Now

I watched this years ago but couldn't remember much. Seeing it again, I was surprised at just how many scenes I'd completely forgotten. Most of the scenes I'd forgotten are really weird. Like that segment where Baldwin and his boat crew meet up with a rain soaked and muddy military outpost and pay two drums of boat fuel to fool around with a couple Playboy bunnies for a while. It's a strange way to make a war movie and I'm honestly not sure what to make of it. The long segment of the movie with the French land owners who protect their own little slice of family owned Vietnam was completely unexpected. Couldn't remember any of that at all. It was as if I was watching an entirely new movie at that point. The movie is frankly pretty surreal, right from the very beginning - not just when things get weird in Marlon Brando land.

Whiplash

Pretty entertaining movie, but I really have to admit that I think it is silly as hell. No way could or would a teacher behave like that and keep his job for even one day. It's completely nuts, plus his motivations are pretty damn hard to call plausible. It's a good movie, but it has to be taken with a few buckets of salt. I felt like it's narrative was more suitable for a sports movie than a music movie. The music loving side of me finds the movie's portrayal of the world of professional jazz drumming completely preposterous.

The Martian

Being a big fan of Ridley Scott's movies, I'm not sure why it took me so long to watch this one. It was actually pretty damn good. It was surprisingly nice to see a sci-fi movie with such an uplifting attitude for once. I liked the whole cast in this movie and it was both funny and exciting. Definitely a modern Scott classic in my book. It belongs next to several of his finest movies. There's really no other space movie quite like this.

The Batlord

Watching Matt Damon be funny is just the best.

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MicShazam

The bit about why he was technically a legit space pirate was great,

The Batlord

Oh god yes. And "I'm gonna science the **** out of" line was just perfect.

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Chula Vista

I read the novel before seeing the movie and was worried that they were going to hack it up. They nailed it.

Best line of the movie?

"They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially colonized it. So, technically, I colonized Mars.

In your face, Neil Armstrong!"

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Cuthbert

Watched Pulp Fiction last night. A shit film.

MicShazam

Not too big a Tarantino fan in general and I remember thinking Pulp Fiction was just sort of passable. Jackie Brown is his best movie since it's the only one where the characters don't feel cartoony.

Cuthbert

It's the second one I've attempted, after Reservoir Dogs. Got bored of both about an hour in.

MicShazam

I like Inglorious Basterds and Jackie Brown. That's about it of all the one's I've watched, which is most of them. His style just doesn't appeal to me at all. It's like he's trying way too hard to make the characters and dialogue edgy and cool. I can't get into the stories he tells - his style keeps me at an arms length so I usually don't care about the characters at all.