{"id":13832,"date":"2024-09-22T13:55:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T17:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13832"},"modified":"2025-04-20T12:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T16:06:13","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13832","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 10 movies last week:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt28642260\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1-3-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sorry\/Not Sorry\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1-3-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1-3-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1-3-768x1134.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1-3-1040x1536.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1-3-1387x2048.jpg 1387w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1-3-scaled.jpg 1733w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0065086\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2-3-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"That Cold Day in the Park\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2-3-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2-3-667x1024.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2-3-768x1179.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2-3-1000x1536.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2-3-1334x2048.jpg 1334w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2-3.jpg 1472w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0067803\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/3-3-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Summer of &#039;42\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/3-3-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/3-3-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/3-3-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/3-3-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/3-3-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/3-3-scaled.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3447590\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/4-3-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Matilda: The Musical\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/4-3-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/4-3-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/4-3-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/4-3-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/4-3-1383x2048.jpg 1383w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/4-3.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s no one you wish would watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt28642260\/\">Sorry\/Not Sorry<\/a> so much as Louis CK himself. Such a wasted opportunity, to have such a genuinely phenomenal comedic talent, be undone by your own inexcusable abusive behavior, and then not only refuse to own up to that behavior in any meaningful way, but to frame your return to stand-up as some kind of vindictive &#8220;fuck you&#8221; to your accusers, and to frame what you did as just some embarrassing kink rather than years of systematic abuse. It&#8217;s great to see his victims actually get a say, and to see others in his orbit talk openly and honestly about what he did, but it also feels like such a waste. He could have chosen to grow as a comedian and a person, to at least <em>try<\/em> to atone for what he did, and instead he chose to just dig in and be an asshole about it. And they gave him a fucking Grammy for it.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>There are a few moments when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0065086\/\">That Cold Day in the Park<\/a> seems to be doing genuinely interesting things, but it also doesn&#8217;t even seem <em>aware<\/em> that it&#8217;s doing them, much less doing them intentionally.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0067803\/\">Summer of &#8217;42<\/a> isn&#8217;t a very good movie, but you can see how movie audiences at the time were waylaid by nostalgia\u2014even if the movie isn&#8217;t even a particularly good delivery mechanism for that. It&#8217;s is too lazily plotted, its characters get such little development\u2014or even just flat-out disappear\u2014and the central conceit is a kind of icky boyish fantasy.<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve never read Dahl&#8217;s original book, or seen either the 1996 movie adaptation or the later stage musical, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3447590\">Matilda: The Musical<\/a> is delightful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3623726\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/5-3-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ricki and the Flash\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/5-3-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/5-3-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/5-3-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/5-3-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/5-3.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0069398\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/6-2-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tout va bien\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/6-2-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/6-2-804x1024.jpg 804w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/6-2-768x979.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/6-2.jpg 868w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0040974\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/7-1-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Woman in White\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/7-1-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/7-1-657x1024.jpg 657w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/7-1-768x1197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/7-1-985x1536.jpg 985w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/7-1-1314x2048.jpg 1314w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/7-1-scaled.jpg 1642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060980\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/8-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Silencers\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/8-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/8.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s the warmth and empathy that the cast and director bring to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3623726\">Ricki and the Flash<\/a> that make the otherwise slightly unwieldy thing work.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m not entirely sure why, but Jean-Luc Godard movies tend to leave me a little cold. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0069398\/\">Tout va bien<\/a> was <em>not<\/em> going to be the movie to change that.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0040974\">The Woman in White<\/a> may be a little overly complicated as a mystery, but there are some really great performances in it.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060980\/\">The Silencers<\/a> is very silly, probably a little too much for its own good, but it&#8217;s charming enough that it doesn&#8217;t just feel like a dated spy movie parody.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0044954\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/9-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Narrow Margin\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/9-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/9-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/9-768x1165.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/9-1012x1536.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/9-1350x2048.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/9-scaled.jpg 1687w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7917178\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/10-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Caveat\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/10-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/10-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/10-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/10-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/10-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/10-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-704x1024.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-768x1117.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-704x1024.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-768x1117.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0044954\/\">The Narrow Margin<\/a> is a fun and tense noir.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7917178\/\">Caveat<\/a> has some creepy moments\u2014the rabbit toy, chief among them\u2014but they don&#8217;t really add up to much of anything in the end.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also re-watched <a href=\"\">Luz<\/a>, which does such interesting things with lighting and sound design to create a remarkably creepy horror movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 10 movies last week: There&#8217;s no one you wish would watch Sorry\/Not Sorry so much as Louis CK himself. Such a wasted opportunity, to have such a genuinely phenomenal comedic talent, be undone by your own inexcusable abusive behavior, and then not only refuse to own up to that behavior in any meaningful &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13832\">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-13832","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\/13832"}],"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=13832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14156,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13832\/revisions\/14156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}