{"id":14038,"date":"2025-02-09T12:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T17:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14038"},"modified":"2025-02-09T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T17:05:15","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14038","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I watched 6 movies:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Brigadoon\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2-1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Down with Love\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2-1.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/3-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Conclave\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/3-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/3-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/3-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/3-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0046807\/\">Brigadoon<\/a> is fine. The leads are good together, and I like the weirdly curmudgeonly turn by Van Johnson, but the whole thing does feel a little flat.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0309530\/\">Down with Love<\/a> is fun enough. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/down-with-love-2003\">Roger Ebert said<\/a> it was &#8220;no better or worse than the movies that inspired it, but that is a compliment, I think.&#8221; And I think he was probably right.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt20215234\/\">Conclave<\/a> is a lot of fun, with a collection of really strong performances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Notebook\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"We Live in Time\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/6-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cimarron\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/6-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/6-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0332280\/\">The Notebook<\/a> rests mostly on the shoulders of the performances, particularly from Rachel McAdams. The love story itself isn&#8217;t much to write home about, as much as the framing story and attempts at period details try to lend it some gravitas.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27131358\/\">We Live in Time<\/a> is another example of how great performances can lend so much weight to an otherwise incredibly shallow story. I&#8217;m not sure the story here is all that compelling, and the decision to tell it nonlinearly often feels like just a gimmick, but Garfield and Pugh keep you engaged.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>1931&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0021746\/\">Cimarron<\/a> is often cited on lists of the most undeserving Academy Award winners, and I Wish I could say that claim was untrue. But the movie is badly dated, full of offensive racist stereotypes, poorly straddling the silent and sound era, and moreover exceptionally boring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also rewatched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0172495\/\">Gladiator<\/a>, which I enjoyed, but which I probably won&#8217;t feel a need to watch again for another twenty-five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I watched 6 movies: Brigadoon is fine. The leads are good together, and I like the weirdly curmudgeonly turn by Van Johnson, but the whole thing does feel a little flat. Down with Love is fun enough. Roger Ebert said it was &#8220;no better or worse than the movies that inspired it, but &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14038\">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-14038","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\/14038"}],"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=14038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14040,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038\/revisions\/14040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}