{"id":13635,"date":"2024-05-26T14:09:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T18:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13635"},"modified":"2024-05-26T14:09:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T18:09:32","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13635","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2039338\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1-3-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Flatliners\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1-3-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1-3.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0114898\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2-3-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Waterworld\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2-3-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2-3.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0081383\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/3-3-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Prom Night\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/3-3-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/3-3-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/3-3-768x1167.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/3-3-1011x1536.jpg 1011w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/3-3-1347x2048.jpg 1347w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/3-3-scaled.jpg 1684w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>The remake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2039338\/\">Flatliners<\/a> somehow manages to be even worse than the original, which wasn&#8217;t a very movie good to begin with.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0114898\/\">Waterworld<\/a> is surprisingly not terrible. But I guess when you cost that much, at least in 1995, not terrible isn&#8217;t nearly good enough. It&#8217;s not a <em>great<\/em> movie\u2014it largely squanders its premise, and there&#8217;s limited <em>evidence<\/em> of that skyrocketed budget on the screen\u2014but it&#8217;s surprisingly entertaining.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0081383\/\">Prom Night<\/a> is surprisingly terrible, a mostly dull and confused plot with few if any scares or even tension. If it truly is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prom_Night_(1980_film)#Modern_assessment\">one of the most influential slasher films of the period<\/a>,&#8221; that may say some pretty terrible things about the genre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0051429\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/4-3-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bonjour Tristesse\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/4-3-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/4-3.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2278871\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/5-3-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Is the Warmest Colour\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/5-3-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/5-3-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/5-3-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/5-3-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/5-3.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt15239678\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/6-3-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dune: Part Two\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/6-3-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/6-3-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/6-3-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/6-3-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/6-3-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/6-3-scaled.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>There is some stunning use of color, as well as black and white, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0051429\/\">Bonjour Tristesse<\/a>, along with lovely performances all around.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>L\u00e9a Seydoux and Ad\u00e8le Exarchopoulos are both phenomenal in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2278871\/\">Blue Is the Warmest Colour<\/a>. The film is maybe best known for its very graphic (if simulated) sex scenes and its length, but it&#8217;s also a genuinely touching story about the awakening of desire and about how a love can fall apart.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt15239678\/\">Dune: Part Two<\/a> doesn&#8217;t hold together as a narrative quite as well as the first half, that might be Frank Herbert&#8217;s fault as much as Denis Villeneuve&#8217;s. The second half of the novel is a lot more complicated\u2014and also the part I don&#8217;t remember as well from decades ago when I last read it. But as compelling as the movie often is, even at three hours, and as stunning as a lot of its visuals undoubtedly would have been on a giant screen, it often felt oddly paced and a little padded. I enjoyed the movie a lot, and may do so even more when and if I revisit both halves as a single film, but the end felt less like a satisfying conclusion than the set-up for the sequel, which is reportedly already in the works.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also rewatched the (still delightful) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0381681\/\">Before Sunset<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The remake of Flatliners somehow manages to be even worse than the original, which wasn&#8217;t a very movie good to begin with. Waterworld is surprisingly not terrible. But I guess when you cost that much, at least in 1995, not terrible isn&#8217;t nearly good enough. It&#8217;s not a great movie\u2014it largely squanders its premise, and &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13635\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13639,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13635\/revisions\/13639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}