Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
#9 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. I have a huge soft spot for movies that at least seem to attempt to take space travel seriously. Woman in the Moon is just that kind of film, except it was made in the 20s, more than thirty years before the Mercury missions or Yuri Gagarin.… Continue reading Woman in the Moon
#10 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. This is one of the titans of the silent era. If anyone knows any silent film, it's either this or a Charlie Chaplin movie. It's a monumental achievement of production design that wears its heart on its sleeve and has a wonderful emotional impact, giving it the… Continue reading Metropolis
This is one of those movies that I want to like more than I actually do. It addresses some of my issues with a movie monster, has some great individual sequences, but I don't think it actually comes together all that well. It's got a couple of ideas that it introduces and never explores with… Continue reading Prey
#4 in my ranking of The Matrix franchise. That was disappointing but not entirely unexpected. I like the original Matrix trilogy pretty evenly, finding its pretensions thin but the overall entertainment value of the hero's journey inverted fairly consistent. There was always room for the story to continue in some way, but when Lana Wachowski… Continue reading The Matrix Resurrections
Reminding me of the ending of The Fellowship of the Ring without the assured satisfaction that the next part is definitely coming, Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part One is a beautiful looking film that sets out to accomplish the impossible: telling the first half of a story. David Lynch managed an adaptation in the 80s that… Continue reading Dune (2021)
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