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Movies seen in September '24
Oct. 2nd, 2024 08:23 amSticking with early nineteenth century France, but watching a French film made by French people, I went to see The Count of Monte Cristo at the start of the month. I haven’t read the book, I vaguely remember the Guy Pearce adaptation from years ago. I believe this is from the team who made the two The Musketeers films recently, and the desire to watch them has been reignited in me by this.
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I went to see Lee, a biopic of Lee Miller, starring and a passion project for Kate Winslet (who is very good). While it was interesting to watch it in the same year as I’d seen One Life and Civil War, I would emphasise that it’s about the impact of trauma (it has a 15 certificate in the UK), and even though I knew that going in, I was probably in too raw a state for it. Much is made of truth-telling in this movie (yes, especially in news!), but you are allowed to want your entertainment to provide you with bright, sparkly things on a Saturday too.
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I took the chance (like a lot of other people at the screening I was at) to see The Batman in the cinema a few days ago. (Though I rolled my eyes at the people who were so late they came in after it had started and they annoyingly had to switch the lights on on their cameras because the film had started because they were so late.) I’ve watched it before, but on Blu-Ray (and relied on audio description then. I could see it better now and on a big screen, and I think I followed some details better from having ‘watched’ it before, (although it was interesting that some things hadn’t left a deep impression on me.) I think it’s fairly well done, but definitely too long.
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So, a month topped and tailed with movies about the price of revenge/vengeance, (sandwiching a film about trauma from a female gaze.) Oh, and what they all had in common was that I didn't particularly want to see any of the upcoming films featured in the trailers section.
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I went to see Lee, a biopic of Lee Miller, starring and a passion project for Kate Winslet (who is very good). While it was interesting to watch it in the same year as I’d seen One Life and Civil War, I would emphasise that it’s about the impact of trauma (it has a 15 certificate in the UK), and even though I knew that going in, I was probably in too raw a state for it. Much is made of truth-telling in this movie (yes, especially in news!), but you are allowed to want your entertainment to provide you with bright, sparkly things on a Saturday too.
( Read more... )
I took the chance (like a lot of other people at the screening I was at) to see The Batman in the cinema a few days ago. (Though I rolled my eyes at the people who were so late they came in after it had started and they annoyingly had to switch the lights on on their cameras because the film had started because they were so late.) I’ve watched it before, but on Blu-Ray (and relied on audio description then. I could see it better now and on a big screen, and I think I followed some details better from having ‘watched’ it before, (although it was interesting that some things hadn’t left a deep impression on me.) I think it’s fairly well done, but definitely too long.
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So, a month topped and tailed with movies about the price of revenge/vengeance, (sandwiching a film about trauma from a female gaze.) Oh, and what they all had in common was that I didn't particularly want to see any of the upcoming films featured in the trailers section.
