Tonight I felt special.
I saw the new West Side Story two days before its release (at an advance screening! Thanks to some complimentary tickets from my program!)
I really enjoyed it! I’d never seen the original or the stage play, so it was my first exposure to it.
Ooh, the set design, the choreography, and the music were fantastic. I’ve got some stuck in my head already.
The romance between Tony and Maria was so cute.
There is one issue I have with it, that makes a bit of sense if viewed from the right angle, but it still bothers me…
This show is essentially a modern American retelling of Romeo and Juliet, set in 1950s New York City. At one point in the plot, the Sharks and Jets have a big fight Bernardo kills the Jets leader. In a fit of rage, Tony kills Bernardo for revenge for his friend. Bernardo is Maria’s brother. And despite confronting him later with her grief, pounding on Tony’s chest, she forgives him and begins to make love to him in the span of a minute. I get how it relates to the events of R&J, but in that modern context it felt really messed up.
I think there wasn’t enough elaboration on Bernardo and Maria’s relationship, given her swift acceptance of his death and willingness to devote herself to her brother’s killer.
Apart from that, the rest of the film was a lot of great fun. Its well worth a watch if you’re a fan of musicals.
I don’t think it’s any different in 1950s New York or 1300s Verona. When kids are in love that is the end of all reason. I didn’t live in either of those two times obviously, but I was a kid once too, and the things my high school sweetheart and I did had little to no logic behind them other than we were in love and we thought that’s all that mattered.
Remember too that the original material was much funnier than any of us give it credit for. Shakespeare was down right raunchy. With all that laughter you get away with plot points that maybe not everyone would find easy to believe.
Really cool you got to see it early though! I’m glad you liked it!!!
I watched No Way Home at the cinema, I spent most of the day out but I’m finally back home.
I managed to get decent seats by the back, it was packed at the front.
As for the film, I’ll use a vague term - great.
Nobody wants spoilers so I’m not going to even go that way.
Regarding the recent name change to the thread: I feel it’s kinda long. Can’t it be just “Movies thread”, “Movie Discussion Thread”, something like that?
Movies that you have recently watched, movies that are about to arrive to cinemas and movies in general are three different subjects as I see it.
So from my perspective three separate threads should be created for these three corresponding subjects.
As far as we already have one, two left to create
Yeah, that’s fair. I wasn’t sure if making a separate thread for it would be useful (I’d think having all movie discussion in one place would be good) but separating Watched previously vs. Excited for upcoming makes sense.
Haven't watched the latest Spider Man yet, but as far as I'm not planning to see it in a cinema, reading some texts about it.
And man, what a rubbish and utter nonsense I’ve read about. Understood literally nothing, but thing that I understood they mixed there I guess absolutely everything. Parallel universes, Venom, Dr. Strange, etc etc etc.
Only Terminator, Superman and Batman are not there yet. I guess even Harry Potter is about to show up in one of the next movies…
Damn, what a crap Toby Maguire’s films risen into… I’m glad he’s not participating anymore.
Though I’ve read he will appear in this latest film as a Spider Man from that his own universe.
I feel my head will boil when I’ll watch the film in a few months at home
it’s pretty easy to follow, though it is very comic booky. i thought it was fun (and i’m saying that as someone tired of superhero movies. very tired.).
you do you, but i will say that i think reading a summarised plot to a movie isn’t really a good basis on which to make a judgement. like, it’d be an error to judge, say, the goonies on the basis that it’s a film about five children looking for willy.
obviously, i’m being deliberately flippant there, but the point stands. for example, you can try to describe a piece of music, but it doesn’t capture the experience of listening to it. i think the same principle stands for movies, books, art, etc. no matter how detailed the description. you’ll be carrying the impression you get from the summary when you finally do go in too.
