^same here…since 1/1, I’ve seen 10 movies that I would have paid $94.50, so I’m ahead. The MP works for 10 different theaters in my county, including two that play foreign, artsy, independent movies. My H has one as well…which means the theaters have had an increase in popcorn sales. I hope MP succeeds as I’m now attending movies that I may have otherwise skipped…
DH and I thoroughly enjoyed The Post last night. Makes me want to re-watch All the President’s Men.
MoviePass’s business model is not to make money off contracts or pass sales. They hope to be the big data gather:
http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/31/media/moviepass-ceo-interview/index.html
We watched Victoria and Abdul tonight. We really enjoyed it.
I stayed up too late watching Wonder Woman last night. It was fantastic. I was concerned it had been over hyped, but it was worth my headache today.
Tonight I watched Mudbound on Netflix. I recommend it. It was hard to watch, but I liked that each character’s point of view was depicted.
Saw Black Panther on regular screen. Something for everyone. Long though at 2:15.
Saw unusual movie today, an Indian production titled Pad Man. It is based on the true story of a man from India who sought to improve women’s lives by coming up with a way to inexpensively produce sanitary pads. He persevered despite being ridiculed and shamed by his family and village (menstruating women had to separate themselves from their families for 5 days). Very moving. I doubt this will have very widespread distribution.
“The Dressmaker”, Liam Hemsworth, Kate Winset, Amazon Prime. Really good.
Finally saw Baby Driver. Agree with many of you about it. I thought the cinematography/film quality was unique and well done. Lots of violence, of course, but we enjoyed the movie in spite of it. Surprised by Jon Hamm’s character.
Black Panther. Excellent. I was expecting just another 14 year old boy movie I would only attend to make H happy. I enjoyed it thoroughly, to my surprise.
I saw 3 Billoards and I, Tonya last week. Both were excellent.
I saw Black Panther this weekend and it was ok but certainly not as wonderful as it is being made out to be. Wonder Woman was much more deserving of the hype but still not an amazing movie.
My wife and I have had MoviePass for a few months and have seen more movies recently than in the past 5 years added together.
I am interested in how many of you have been watching movies over the past week. In my house, we – like, I thought, almost everyone of our generation – have been addicted to the Olympics.
We finally got tired of watching people do impossible things on slippery surfaces with different sorts of equipment and watched a movie we had rented Saturday night. It was A Quiet Passion, an Emily Dickinson biopic starring Cynthia Nixon (Miranda from Sex And The City). I rented it because several critics put it on their top-10 lists for 2017. Ugh! Boring, slow, stilted, painfully reductive, overly literal relating Dickinson’s poetry to her life. Towards the end, my wife said, “I don’t think I can like Emily Dickinson’s poetry any more after this.”
@JHS - haven’t seen that one but have you seen Bright Star by Jane Campion with Abbie Cornish and Ben Wishaw?
I really enjoyed it. Maybe John Keats is more movie-adaption-friendly.
I really enjoyed Black Panther. It ranks as one of my favorite Marvel movies.
Well, John Keats had a love story of sorts, and died young and beautiful. Making a good movie about a woman with no known romantic attachments who lived as a recluse in her father’s house with her sister for over 30 years is a bit tougher. I think the movie tries to honor the facts that she was cranky, judgmental, and probably hard to live with, and that her poetry is full of ambiguity and subtlety. It just doesn’t do a very good job of it. And it doesn’t give any indication that she had a vibrant intellectual social life via copious letters. I also fault the movie for taking lots of inspiration from Bergman’s Cries and Whispers (also about middle-aged sisters living reclusively, and dying, in their ancestral home), but with only a fraction of the Swedish film’s art and beauty.
I remember basically liking Bright Star, but thinking it reduced Keats to a kind of romance-novel hero, and giving very little sense of what, other than his passion, made him special as a poet. He’s probably my absolute favorite poet, or , more precisely, the Keats of 1819, when he wrote almost the entire portion of his work that anyone reads, is my favorite poet. That’s the period during which most of the film takes place. Something magical and barely precedented was taking place for Keats during that time. Maybe it was Fanny Brawne who was his muse, but more likely the same imagination that was composing To a Nightingale, On a Grecian Urn, and To Autumn was also composing an idealized love. (But, yes, I really liked Abbie Cornish. Who wouldn’t? In the end, the film was mostly about showcasing her.) I also thought the film was probably too delicate about the class issues that affected Keats’ life. It addressed them all the time, but with the edges sanded off a lot.
Watching A Quiet Passion was like getting my brain shot with Novocaine so I went back to read the reviews because I couldn’t believe the reviewer and I saw the SAME movie.
Early Man will provide a handful of chuckles.
Not as good as Wallace and Gromit which you remember as being hilarious.
Black Panther had lots of fight scenes all well done.
Least favorite movie genre but it was entertaining enough…
Watched Every Day this evening. Lovely movie, endearing message
Also saw Black Panther and Three Billboards – both are great, the latter gets my votes for Academy Awards in the Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor…bumping out Lady Bird, which I also really liked