Movies seen in February '24
Feb. 29th, 2024 05:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessBecause I’m doing this (posting monthly about what movies I’ve seen) this year apparently:
For the first time in my life, I believe, I went to see a movie in the cinema that I’d already seen on the small screen, namely Dune part 1, which was being rereleased (for a short time?) to hype up Dune part 2. As my main thought on seeing Dune was that it was a film worthy of the big screen, I was really glad, because you can appreciate the scale, the design of the ships – well, of everything. But there was something weird going on with the bass (not a great film for that to happen, but it wasn’t just when Hans Zimmer was doing his thing, but when certain characters, especially Rebecca Ferguson, hit a certain pitch, and I’m not talking about The Voice.) While some things became clearer to me on the rewatch, some things were less impressive because it was a rewatch. There was a promotional teaser after the credits.
I knew it had got panned, but Mark Kermode said Argylle was entertaining, and I’d said I wanted to see it at the end of last year, expecting a popcorn movie. And it is entertaining spy nonsense, with a bit of Henry Cavill as the titular spy turning up like our heroine’s imaginary friend, but not quite. So, Cavill gets to play a Bond type, Bryce Dallas Howard plays the anxious spy thriller author who is told by Sam Rockwell’s scruffy spy that her books are forecasting what’s really happening in the ‘spy’ world. I chuckled along, the bits with the cat are truly daft, and there’s a spectacular fight as dance scenes and fight as skating scene, but they really could have cut about a third of the twists and reversals, because they were exhausting by the end and got in the way of rooting for the characters.
For the first time in my life, I believe, I went to see a movie in the cinema that I’d already seen on the small screen, namely Dune part 1, which was being rereleased (for a short time?) to hype up Dune part 2. As my main thought on seeing Dune was that it was a film worthy of the big screen, I was really glad, because you can appreciate the scale, the design of the ships – well, of everything. But there was something weird going on with the bass (not a great film for that to happen, but it wasn’t just when Hans Zimmer was doing his thing, but when certain characters, especially Rebecca Ferguson, hit a certain pitch, and I’m not talking about The Voice.) While some things became clearer to me on the rewatch, some things were less impressive because it was a rewatch. There was a promotional teaser after the credits.
I knew it had got panned, but Mark Kermode said Argylle was entertaining, and I’d said I wanted to see it at the end of last year, expecting a popcorn movie. And it is entertaining spy nonsense, with a bit of Henry Cavill as the titular spy turning up like our heroine’s imaginary friend, but not quite. So, Cavill gets to play a Bond type, Bryce Dallas Howard plays the anxious spy thriller author who is told by Sam Rockwell’s scruffy spy that her books are forecasting what’s really happening in the ‘spy’ world. I chuckled along, the bits with the cat are truly daft, and there’s a spectacular fight as dance scenes and fight as skating scene, but they really could have cut about a third of the twists and reversals, because they were exhausting by the end and got in the way of rooting for the characters.
