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Indymisanthrope said:
How is there finally a new Michael Mann movie again and no one, um, cares? I had no idea it was out — have not even seen an ad, much less a full trailer.
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It's distributed by Neon, an indie distributor not great at advertising or timed releases (much as I love their work). It premiered at Venice and just got a wide release a couple days ago. Reviews are good, but not amazing enough to get me to rush to see it, though. His one film of the last decade was pretty disposable.
 
ayayrawn said:
It's distributed by Neon, an indie distributor not great at advertising or timed releases (much as I love their work). It premiered at Venice and just got a wide release a couple days ago. Reviews are good, but not amazing enough to get me to rush to see it, though. His one film of the last decade was pretty disposable.
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Disposable is an apt description. It didn’t deserve to bomb as hard as it did. If more disposable films were made with that level of craft, we’d be in a true golden age.
 
Watched Killers of the Flower Moon a second time. With my folks who have a very low tolerance for violence and / or films about bad people. They loved it and it was even better on rewatch.

Also, the longer I sit with the Iron Claw, the more it grows on me.

I also rewatched Thunder Road with them last night for the first time since 2018 when it came out. Highly recommend checking that out if you haven't seen it. Great dramedy and character study in the vein of that festival indie that used to be popular but now rarely gets made.
 
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kvetcha said:
I need to rewatch this. The only time I’ve seen it was a shit quality Amazon Prime rental the year it released. It looked like garbage and was probably not a great way to view a movie the main draw of which is lush gothic visual design.
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I think this may have been my first watch of it since I saw it in the theater back in 2015. I can see why watching a poor quality version would give you a bad impression of it because this is not a movie that really works when divorced from its visual style. It's one of GDT's most gorgeous and atmospheric films and that's enough for it to earn a passing grade from me, but the story isn't especially strong.
 
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