kvetcha
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Fly Away Home is such a strange movie. It’s 70% lusciously shot family drama and 30% treacly 90s kid movie, in kind of a bad way. I liked it on the balance, but it’s weird how discordant those two facets feel.
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siremobunny
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Stargirl was Disney+'s Manic Pixie Girl film. It was fun, but, good lawd, there were some serious plot issues.
Gavaxeman
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So as can’t go to the cinema , getting round to watching a few Blu-Rays that I brought in sales ... Shazam was pretty good , better than the average super hero flick.
TenderLovingKiller®
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I miss Baseball. I am gonna watch The Sandlot on Disney+ to alleviate that some.
EDIT: Well, FML it is now longer streaming on Disney+
EDIT: Well, FML it is now longer streaming on Disney+
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kvetcha
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Moneyball!
TenderLovingKiller®
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That’s always a great one but I was thinking maybe Bull Durham or Major League next. I gotta find The Sandlot first.
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Ugly Dolls.
It warranted it's 27% rotten tomato score
It warranted it's 27% rotten tomato score
Loved it. I can understand those that dont but I loved it. Great movie
Max Sterling
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And I never saw it
but I am sipping on grandpas old medicine right now
High Rant District
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Just watched The Conversation from 1974, starring Gene Hackman and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Had never heard of it but it came up as a recommended movie on Amz Prime. Hackman's character played sax along to records. His gear caught my eye - interesting angle on the tonearm. The movie was fine; it was very of-its-time.
Bennnnn
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A couple of weeks back I watched the PBS American Experience on Walt Disney and really enjoyed it. And it had me itching to go back and watch those super early Disney films cause I hadn't seen them since I was a kid. Also it would make me use my Disney+ more. So last weekend we watched Snow White, the first animated film from Disney. On a technical level, there's a lot to like about it. Even sometimes on a storytelling level cause it really stretches scenes out where not a lot is actively happening just to (partly fill the time) and show off their animation skills. That said, it's a thin plot with a rushed, weird ending but I get why it's a landmark in animation.
Yesterday we did Bambi. I barely even remember this movie, so it was almost like watching it for the first time. And I loved it. There are animated sequences in here that are still to this day beautiful. And in terms of just riding on the beauty of animation, telling a small story, and letting scenes play out - Bambi does it better than Snow White. There's an extended sequence of a rain storm. That's it. Just music corresponding to animation of rain - watching animals hiding from it. There's something so pure about it that I like. No animated films make stories like this anymore. The plot of Bambi is barely there, but it almost doesn't matter because you feel for these characters and you can easily get wrapped up in the animation just as an art form.
Miyazaki has sometimes been compared to Disney in how they made movies and I never quite got it until watching these early films. That's where the comparison is, cause in a movie like Kiki's Delivery Service, which I find just a simple delightful film - the plot is so small. It's basically just you watching a young witch live in a small town. That's almost it. Bambi is just you watching a deer grow up sort of. But both can hit you on a enjoyable level with, well, everything I said above.
Now I still prefer Miyazaki overall cause come on. But there's a lot to love about the art of those early Disney films. Haven't watched the problematic ones again yet though, so we'll see what happens when I tackle those. But next up I'm thinking about veering into the bad part of Disney - the pointless direct-to-video sequel territory. I think it's time to watch Bambi 2. I didn't even know this existed until it was recommended after Bambi finished. But it sounds so dumb and useless, I want to see what it's all about.
Yesterday we did Bambi. I barely even remember this movie, so it was almost like watching it for the first time. And I loved it. There are animated sequences in here that are still to this day beautiful. And in terms of just riding on the beauty of animation, telling a small story, and letting scenes play out - Bambi does it better than Snow White. There's an extended sequence of a rain storm. That's it. Just music corresponding to animation of rain - watching animals hiding from it. There's something so pure about it that I like. No animated films make stories like this anymore. The plot of Bambi is barely there, but it almost doesn't matter because you feel for these characters and you can easily get wrapped up in the animation just as an art form.
Miyazaki has sometimes been compared to Disney in how they made movies and I never quite got it until watching these early films. That's where the comparison is, cause in a movie like Kiki's Delivery Service, which I find just a simple delightful film - the plot is so small. It's basically just you watching a young witch live in a small town. That's almost it. Bambi is just you watching a deer grow up sort of. But both can hit you on a enjoyable level with, well, everything I said above.
Now I still prefer Miyazaki overall cause come on. But there's a lot to love about the art of those early Disney films. Haven't watched the problematic ones again yet though, so we'll see what happens when I tackle those. But next up I'm thinking about veering into the bad part of Disney - the pointless direct-to-video sequel territory. I think it's time to watch Bambi 2. I didn't even know this existed until it was recommended after Bambi finished. But it sounds so dumb and useless, I want to see what it's all about.
Mr Moore
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I love this film. There's a fun story about it causing uproar at Cannes too. It won and none of the French viewers got it. The mystery hangs on the emphasis one character gives to the word 'us' and the subtitles didn't convey this well so the French viewers were left wondering what the hell had happened! Glorious period in cinema though, Hollywood's finest hour.
Indymisanthrope
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Wow, it's a little shocking to me for someone to have never even heard of The Conversation. It's maybe the best representation of a strong vein of paranoia/conspiracy in 70s film, alongside Three Days of the Condor, The Parallax View, All the President's Men, Capricorn One, Klute, Chinatown, and more.
Bull Shannon
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I love this movie; if it's not my #1, it's in the top 5. Fun fact: Walter Murch did both editing and sound editing for this movie, which was/is rare, but I think it's crucial to the movie's success.
Bummer is, there's a restoration coming out this year; it was scheduled at my local repertory theater the first week of April. Not sure if I should just stream it or hope they reschedule once we're allowed back into crowded places.
chris_d_cole
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to anyone that still has cable... TCM is going HARD tomorrow
kvetcha
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Yeah, I was blown away watching it for the first time last year. It is madness that Coppola released this and The Godfather Part II within twelve months of one another.
The soundtrack is fabulous, too.
