Had tickets to a Secret Screening (where you only learn what film you’re about to see when the BBFC rating certificate appears on screen as the opening titles start) at Cineworld tonight, but I couldn’t make it.
Based on this comment I decided to watch it today. Found it pretty bland mostly. The story was aimless and there wasnt anything relevant going on. What kept it entertaining were indeed the performances.
If you forgive the physics in the action, the movie is good, you get a lot of unexpected surprises, it is similar to Inglorious Bastard - fictional history.
It is available on English audio in Netflix.
There are not too many films of his where this isn’t the case. Maybe the Irishman and the Score? He’s still fantastic in those, but Ed Norton certainly steals the show in the Score. In Irishmen all three of the big names have their moments (as do a lot of the other actors).
Yea . One has Dustin Hoffman as Ben Stillers Dad. I think that’s the Fokkers one and the first was Meet the Parents where it’s just Ben Stiller meeting her parents? Maybe I have the names backwards but the first was really funny; much better than the second.
Cocaine Bear
It’s a half scary, half funny dumb summer movie loosely based on real events (yes, the part about a bear doing an absolute mountain of cocaine is true).
It was a bit more gore than I wanted but it was fun, also Ray Liotta is in it in one of his final performances. We love him. Isiah Whitlock Jr, Alden Eisenreich, and Kerri Russel are the other actors you might recognise.
Saw Shazam! 2. Enjoyed it, thought it was a fun movie. Probably the only bit of the the current DC Cinematic Universe I have any investment in, so will be sad if this little corner of the franchise is wiped with the new James Gunn slate.
Favourite part of the movie was Wonder Woman’s cameo, that was fun, even if also a borderline Deus ex Machina.
Watched this Science Fiction Action movie (Academy Award for Best Film)
It is an out of the box quite different movie and deserves the award, however I was wishing for “All Quiet on the Western Front”.
It is quite confusing movie and I had to rewatch it in hindi again.
Here are the non spoiler concepts used in the movie:
For the sake of understanding, there is no Uni-Verse, it is just Verse kept as (uni)Verse.
It is a concept of Multiverse/Parallel Universe - Multiple (Uni)Verse.
It has a concept of Verse-Jumping where one can connect in (uni)Verse A with the brain of its human body on (uni)Verse B (only via brain/mind)
The verse jumping is done via routing of (uni)verse (like a router in internet)
eg.
We can connect Universe A to B via C,D,E so A → C → D → E → B
So if the person as Businessman in A wants to connect to B as a Singer, that person may get a uncontrolled reflex on its bodies/uni(Verse) path.
A - Businessman
C - Footballer
D - Chef
E - Professor
B - Singer
So, the Footballer, Chef and Professor may sing a beautiful song out of uncontrolled reflex while connecting for a short duration of time.
On connecting the brain of (uni)Verse B - Singer from (uni)Verse A - Businessman, the person gets all the past memory and skills (which is the reflex).
For example, you as a gamer play hitman and you have acquired the gaming skills on joystick/keypad (which is the reflex).
And you might have a parallel body in a parallel universe which doesnot have any game concept and is a real hitman, so on connecting you get both the skills as a gamer and real assassin (along with two past memories as a gamer and assassin).
To switch the mind/brain and connect to a different body in a different (uni)Verse, the person needs a device, made by an advanced (uni)Verse and the person needs to do a weird action and think something weird.
Too much of (uni)Verse jumping can overload the person with more memories and skills. And with that the person gets additional power of changing particles, you see the universe is made of particles - atoms and can be changed to recreate a hamburger to a handgun.
I believe the above 6 points will suffice for a basic concept shown by the director duo - Daniels.
It’s definitely a movie that gets better each time you watch it! Probably because the movie is pretty fast-paced, with lots of unexpected turns. I’ve seen it twice and the second time around was better than the first!
I finallly understood that from the beginning of Act 2, Evelyn’s mind is fractured across all universes, and everything that we see happening in these different universes is happening simultaneously.
She has ascended to nearly match the power level of Jobu Tupaki, and is able to freely switch perspectives at will.
It’s another really cool parallel of the film – where the villain and the hero both use the same omniscient power, one to destroy the world, and the other to save it.