{"id":13737,"date":"2024-07-28T12:18:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T16:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13737"},"modified":"2024-07-28T12:18:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T16:18:06","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13737","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0041998\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1-3-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Thirst\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1-3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1-3-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1-3-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1-3-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1-3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt12037194\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2-3-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2-3-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2-3-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2-3-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2-3-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2-3.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0115710\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3-3-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Blood and Wine\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3-3-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3-3-690x1024.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3-3-768x1139.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3-3.jpg 809w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0041998\/\">Thirst<\/a> feels like lesser Bergman, a little disjointed in its narrative, but there are compelling moments throughout.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt12037194\/\">Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga<\/a> is a high-octane thrill-ride with a lot of great set-pieces and performances&#8230;and yet it&#8217;s not altogether difficult to see why the film so badly underperformed at the box office. If you&#8217;ve seen <em>Fury Road<\/em>, a lot of this prequel can feel redundant, fleshing out Furiosa&#8217;s backstory, but not in any meaningful, much less necessary, way. <em>Fury Road<\/em> felt like a huge cultural moment, maybe the best movie of its type ever made, and this one, while thoroughly entertaining, can&#8217;t help but feel like <em>just another movie<\/em> made in that style.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0115710\/\">Blood and Wine<\/a> was almost certainly a re-watch, though I say that only because it felt so incredibly familiar, not because I actually remember watching it before. (But it feels like the kind of movie I would have gone to see in theaters in the late &#8217;90s, or rented on Netflix.) That said, there&#8217;s a lot to like here, from the committed performances to the way the movie takes its plot (and increasing desperation of its characters) seriously.<\/i>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30321146\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/4-2-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"In a Violent Nature\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/4-2-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/4-2-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/4-2-768x1134.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/4-2-1040x1536.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/4-2-1387x2048.jpg 1387w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/4-2-scaled.jpg 1733w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068762\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/5-2-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremiah Johnson\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/5-2-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/5-2.jpg 654w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0055894\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/6-1-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Day of the Triffids\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/6-1-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/6-1-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/6-1-768x1164.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/6-1-1013x1536.jpg 1013w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/6-1-1351x2048.jpg 1351w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/6-1-scaled.jpg 1689w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt20234774\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/7-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wicked Little Letters\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/7-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/7-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/7-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/7-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/7-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/7-scaled.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30321146\/\">In a Violent Nature<\/a> is such a weird inversion of the slasher movie\u2014fascinating as an experiment and intriguing as a meditation on violence, but not particularly entertaining as a film. It&#8217;s more upsettingly gross than scary, especially as the violence ratchets up to brutally cartoonish levels; and while I respect what the film is trying to do with horror movie tropes, by its (long-approaching) end, it was just kind of tedious.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068762\/\">Jeremiah Johnson<\/a> probably wouldn&#8217;t work half as well without Robert Redford&#8217;s performance, but it&#8217;s a nice, understated, and old-fashioned Western.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0055894\/\">The Day of the Triffids<\/a> is cheesy and dated, and often feels less interested in the triffid part of its apocalypse, but it&#8217;s also pretty good fun.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt20234774\/\">Wicked Little Letters<\/a> is a lot of fun, mostly because the cast is incredibly game, though it is pretty slight as a story.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also re-watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0139239\/\">Go<\/a>, which is a <em>very<\/em> 1999 movie but otherwise holds up pretty well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirst feels like lesser Bergman, a little disjointed in its narrative, but there are compelling moments throughout. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a high-octane thrill-ride with a lot of great set-pieces and performances&#8230;and yet it&#8217;s not altogether difficult to see why the film so badly underperformed at the box office. If you&#8217;ve seen Fury &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13737\">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-13737","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\/13737"}],"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=13737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13742,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13737\/revisions\/13742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}