I like funny badass.
Saw the Big Sick. It’s sweet.
I saw Dunkirk last weekend. I don’t usually watch war movies–just too much for me. I also don’t like boat-sinking movies. I made it through this one and even enjoyed the movie. It’s the first time I’ve really had any mental picture at all of what it might have been like for my grandfather, who spent much of WWII on a PT boat in the Pacific. Wrong war, wrong ocean, but all those small boats and terrified sailors being shot at by planes. Wow.
So Atomic Blonde is almost like two movies in one – a badass spy story and an homage to 80s music and music videos. Good to see it on the big screen. Charlize Theron doesn’t disappoint. The story line (well, it IS from a graphic novel) is not without its problems 
but that’s not its main point anyway. A good summer flic.
I’ve just gotten so sensitive to too much digital added, mostly in fighting or battle scenes, but also unrealistic action- flying through the air or the like.
Dunkirk on Imax. Outstanding with an unceasing intensity that reminded me of Das Boot.
Saw Whiskey Foxtrot Tango on the plane. It was an intense view that stays with you awhile.
Hubby and I went to the movies alone together this weekend for the first time in 28 years. We saw The Big Sick and it was so funny and charming. It seemed like a chick movie, so I wasn’t sure what my husband would think, but when we left the theater, he said “I hope they do a sequel about the families and grandchildren.”
I really want to see The Big Sick, Dunkirk, Detroit, and now Wind River.
When I was watching The Big Sick my first impression was that it was going to bore me for two hours. But then Holly Hunter and Ray Romano appear and the movie took off. I’d also like to see Dunkirk.
I thought both sets of parents were treasures. It’s a great movie for being willing to reveal different emotions, frustrations, etc. None of it rammed, just unfolding.
Sweet, memorable. Different from Meet the Patels, which I also liked.
Saw Detroit and recommend it. I didn’t know anything really at all about the movie prior to seeing it besides that it was related to the Detroit riots in 1967, that it has received favorable critical reviews and that it is directed by Kathryn Bigelow who directed Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty.
It is a very intense movie - both in terms of subject matter and violence. It’s not a movie you go to for laughs or an escape. The one sentence Rotten Tomatoes description sums it up pretty well: “Detroit delivers a gut-wrenching – and essential – dramatization of a tragic chapter from America’s past that draws distressing parallels to the present.”
There are a few things that I could nitpick about the film but it is well-crafted overall. It is filmed in a gritty way - reminiscent of the style used in the other films she directed which adds to the intensity of the situation and times, the 1967 feel, and allows real video footage and stills from the actual riots to blend in well. Acting is superb across the board. The level of emotions portrayed and how the camera captured them are pretty powerful, down to some subtle stuff. Will Poulter’s character portrayal is Oscar worthy.
It’s pretty impressive to have movies like this and Dunkirk available during the summer.
Want to go see the Planet of the Apes movie next. Not sure if it is more lighthearted but might be a break to see monkeys run around on screen after two very heavy movies.
Interesting, short article/video on the use of sound and the “Shepard tone” to create intensity in Dunkirk:
https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/7/26/16033868/dunkirk-soundtrack-shepard-tone
The soundtrack was incredible, I was “gripped” with anxiety for sure
@doschicos – thanks for the info on Detroit. I like Kathryn Bigelow too. I must have watched Point Break (her directorial debut) three times. OK – the hot surfers were part of its appeal.
We watched Okja tonight. It was really interesting. I don’t want to say much until others have seen it.
Finally got to see Wind River. Gripping - great Jeremy Renner. Reminded me of Fargo. One scene I just couldn’t watch though. Realistic violence I guess is the way to describe it.
15 minutes of previews - 2 with Judi Dench!
I watched “Get Out” and “Lion” this week with one of my daughters. I liked them both but “Get Out” especially.
Interested in views on Menashe. My 2 friends liked it a lot more than I did.
I liked it a lot. I found it very moving and also revealing. Issues I didn’t know about in the culture. And I thought I did know.
D and I watched The Gifted this past week and enjoyed it. Story line is about a young math prodigy. Last night we watched The Hundred Foot Journey with Helen Mirren, also entertaining for what it was.