The lawyer in Dark Waters (forgotten his name) had an op Ed in yesterday’s Guardian.
Watched Backkklansman last night. Really enjoyed it, funny but with a very serious point. Some thinly veiled digs at Trump.
The Midnight Sky. Précis: Netflix new feature film starring Clooney. Sci fi where the 2049 world is being overcome by a radiation cloud (source unknown - but self inflicted) and Clooney is a dying physicist stationed in the Arctic circle. Everyone else is evacuated but he stays as he’s only got weeks left to live. Meanwhile - space craft returning from exploring an inhabitable (recently discovered - conveniently) moon of Jupiter is unaware of earths peril and having just come out of some sort of radio black spot can’t figure out wtf is going on. Clooney makes it his final act to try and warn them not to try and land on earth and to turn back to their newly discovered inhabitable world. Review: slow. But nicely shot. Liked the sci fi ideas (spacecraft and features were cool). Not the best set of performances in the world - and some were awkward and wooden. Bits of it felt as tense and as well shot/cgi’d as Gravity - but then it would stop and be a bit err meh. Also some nice scenes on earth as George makes a crazy dash to a different base (but really should die of hypo). It probably gets 3/5 stars. But it’s an alright watch - not full of holes, just not as good as it could have been with some better characterisation. Perfect Xmas fodder if you’ve seen all the usual films.
Quote from: tomtom on December 27, 2020, 06:34:46 pmThe Midnight Sky. Précis: Netflix new feature film starring Clooney. Sci fi where the 2049 world is being overcome by a radiation cloud (source unknown - but self inflicted) and Clooney is a dying physicist stationed in the Arctic circle. Everyone else is evacuated but he stays as he’s only got weeks left to live. Meanwhile - space craft returning from exploring an inhabitable (recently discovered - conveniently) moon of Jupiter is unaware of earths peril and having just come out of some sort of radio black spot can’t figure out wtf is going on. Clooney makes it his final act to try and warn them not to try and land on earth and to turn back to their newly discovered inhabitable world. Review: slow. But nicely shot. Liked the sci fi ideas (spacecraft and features were cool). Not the best set of performances in the world - and some were awkward and wooden. Bits of it felt as tense and as well shot/cgi’d as Gravity - but then it would stop and be a bit err meh. Also some nice scenes on earth as George makes a crazy dash to a different base (but really should die of hypo). It probably gets 3/5 stars. But it’s an alright watch - not full of holes, just not as good as it could have been with some better characterisation. Perfect Xmas fodder if you’ve seen all the usual films.What? This was absolutely dreadful. Summed up as Clooney tries to mash two films into one (the Road and Gravity/ The Martian) with no beginning or ending and a drawn out middle, the sole purpose of which was to get a nice visual effects scene during a space walk. We all grudgingly finished it.
There Billboards outside Ebbing, MissouriReally brilliant film. Very Coen brothers esq, so if you're a fan of their style you'll enjoy this. Given the starting subject matter I thought it was going to be quite a harrowing watch, so had put it off for a long time. Instead it's a darkly comic and strangely warm and uplifting film, full of memorable moments and great dialogue. Frances McDormand is her usual brilliant self but there are loads of other good performances. Solid 8 or 9/10 for me.
Worst film I’ve seen in a long time. Just dreadful. The bit where he swims under the ice, soaked through in an arctic storm and simply zips his parka back up . Presumably I fell asleep when they actually explained why earth was fuct? Clooney should stick to advertising disposable coffee pods.
