Me pretty much only interested in Marvels for Iman Vellani, so me at least glad she get to be her bubbly, delightful self. And me not understand why it not drilled into every single person working in Hollywood how crucial timing is to both comedy and action, to point where middle-aged Bob Odenkirk beating people up on city bus infinitely more watchable than buff, attractive movie stars throwing CGI globs at each other.
Anyway, Dirt Roads sound fascinating — movies have way of playing with time that not really exist in any other medium. In fact, if me had to pick favorite moment in cinema from last ten years, it would be on small screen. There scene in Station Eleven where actress is performing as Hamlet on stage, and is drawing on emotional well of traumatic moment from childhood, and — in brilliant bit of direction me have never seen anywhere else — picture fade between two moments in her life, but soundtrack for both moments overlap through whole scene. She — and we — are in both moments at once, and line between past and present effectively not exist. She is simultaneously scared child, confident adult, and melancholy Dane, all in that same moment.
So if this movie can be quarter as effective as that, it sound like it worth seeing.
The STATION ELEVEN series is excellent and makes quite a few departures from the book. For the first few episodes I thought, "Is this the best TV show I've ever seen?" I came back down to earth on it after a while, but I still think it's first-rate.
It’s really good. I read the book 5 years prior to watching but from what I can remember it seemed to follow the themes of the book while also being its own (very good) thing. I bought a physical copy just a few weeks ago, in light of HBO’s recent fuckery with their shows. Looking forward to a rewatch.
I should have mentioned this in the review. There's a TON of cat content. Really leans into that in a big way.
There's a cat sequence that is easily the best part of the movie
Me pretty much only interested in Marvels for Iman Vellani, so me at least glad she get to be her bubbly, delightful self. And me not understand why it not drilled into every single person working in Hollywood how crucial timing is to both comedy and action, to point where middle-aged Bob Odenkirk beating people up on city bus infinitely more watchable than buff, attractive movie stars throwing CGI globs at each other.
Anyway, Dirt Roads sound fascinating — movies have way of playing with time that not really exist in any other medium. In fact, if me had to pick favorite moment in cinema from last ten years, it would be on small screen. There scene in Station Eleven where actress is performing as Hamlet on stage, and is drawing on emotional well of traumatic moment from childhood, and — in brilliant bit of direction me have never seen anywhere else — picture fade between two moments in her life, but soundtrack for both moments overlap through whole scene. She — and we — are in both moments at once, and line between past and present effectively not exist. She is simultaneously scared child, confident adult, and melancholy Dane, all in that same moment.
So if this movie can be quarter as effective as that, it sound like it worth seeing.
I read Station Eleven, really enjoyed it, but didn’t see anything that compelled me to watch the show. I think you just talked me into it.
The STATION ELEVEN series is excellent and makes quite a few departures from the book. For the first few episodes I thought, "Is this the best TV show I've ever seen?" I came back down to earth on it after a while, but I still think it's first-rate.
It’s really good. I read the book 5 years prior to watching but from what I can remember it seemed to follow the themes of the book while also being its own (very good) thing. I bought a physical copy just a few weeks ago, in light of HBO’s recent fuckery with their shows. Looking forward to a rewatch.