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Post by Reactionary Rage on Dec 9, 2021 16:32:37 GMT
35mm screening on the 30th.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Dec 10, 2021 17:44:41 GMT
I'll be intrigued to see how well they capture the era. I am not a super stickler for minutiae, but don't be careless. My rose colored glasses always see this time as summery, optimistic. Whereas I felt the 80s started that way and got dark through at least the middle if not all the way through, it seemed the glitzier more slick the times became the darker the real stuff actually was.
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Post by wobblie on Jan 1, 2022 7:45:46 GMT
I didn't know PSH had a son, and I don't care for Haim, or much of PTA's work. As mentioned previously, he never has topped 'Boogie Nights'.
There are lots of people moaning about the age difference between the leads, but I won't judge till seeing it for myself.
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Post by Sneelock on Jul 7, 2022 20:35:43 GMT
I'll be intrigued to see how well they capture the era. I am not a super stickler for minutiae, but don't be careless. My rose colored glasses always see this time as summery, optimistic. SPOILERS GALORE:I saw it recently. I spent a certain amount of time in the area at the time and I think they got an awful lot right. oddly, nothing perked up this part of my brain nearly as much as the "parking the truck" sequence. it seems preposterous but yes, the streets really were that abandoned much of the time.
I'm still working out how I feel about the film. I liked it. I don't for a minute think it would have been nominated for an Academy Award if it hadn't been PTA. but it WAS PTA, Blanche. what the fuck. He's sort of like Wes Anderson - he works his own side of the street.
as the movie turns into the 'volunteer for Joel Wachs' sub-plot, I was thinking that the main character had turned into a dick. by the time she said "I love you" without moving her lips I realized that SHE is the main character. it doesn't matter if he is a dick.
I don't think the movie was particularly summery or optimistic but I thought it had a 'make hay while the sun shines' sort of quality to it. if it weren't for the dick she'd still be stuck in a job that she wasn't enjoying. life is a trade. he might never be worthy of her loving him but she's in love for now. she's getting something out of it. this could change in the next ten minutes.
it sounds pretty slight but I thought it had some meat on it's bones.
My Dad loved American Graffiti because he liked seeing someone else dip his memories in bronze and polish them up. I'm not sure what PTA's infatuation with the valley in the 70's is but it's a funny sort of nostalgia for me to watch these things.
when I saw "Once upon a time in Hollywood" I punched my movie going companion when there was a fence that shouldn't have been there. freeway over passes had low fences - they came up around your waist. THIS movie got that part right but probably because they still haven't gotten around to building a fence yet.
IMO PTA like QT seems to have gotten his idea of what these areas were like in the 70's from watching 70's movies. I like 70's movies so I guess I don't really have a problem with that.
I'd give it three out of a possible 5 waterbeds.
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