I never got that film, so odd. I should watch it again and see if I feel differently now
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I never got that film, so odd. I should watch it again and see if I feel differently now
I watched the new Jack Ryan movie over the weekend, and was very disappointed. I really liked the series and was hoping for something better. The plot was really thin bordering on nonsensical. Action was OK, but nothing we haven’t seen in every other action flick.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
The Big Lebowski not a great film but it IS a great vibe, great set pieces.
Let me see if I can come up with a list of better Coen Bros films. (I’m suddenly busy, will edit.)
I’m back! In no particular order, here are some Coen Bros movies which work better as films, are better put together than TBL.
Miller’s Crossing. Hard to find streaming, my favorite Coen Bros film.
No Country for Old Men.
True Grit.
Burn After Reading, a great comic film.
Hail, Caesar! (Minitory opinion, I get it.)
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A Serious Man, Blood Simple, Inside Llewyn Davis, etc etc etc. their films are typically interesting.
That's a great list! I recently re-watched No Country for Old Men and forgot how uncomfortable some of those scenes were. Javier Bardem is an incredible actor. I'm currently re-reading McCarthy's Blood Meridian because I guess I enjoy being uncomfortable
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Two things about Blood Meridian: One, Glanton and Judge Holden were real people. Two, don’t get bogged down into trying to figure out Holden, just say he’s the Devil and go from there.That's a great list! I recently re-watched No Country for Old Men and forgot how uncomfortable some of those scenes were. Javier Bardem is an incredible actor. I'm currently re-reading McCarthy's Blood Meridian because I guess I enjoy being uncomfortable
Yeah, they filmed The Road. Great book but that movie was bleak.
Fargo., O Brother Where Art Thou?....
Love this podcast; one of my favorites. Think they had Tarantino on as a guest once for three movies and he's just incredible when it comes to talking cinema. I think he did Dunkirk, Unstoppable, and King of New York. Really good stuff.
I enjoy almost all of their films. I always remember seeing Breaking Arizona in theaters, what a hoot!
I have an nyc black 60yo female friend coworker who never saw Raising Arizona. I told her she and her man had to watch. She said it just about killed them. Same with Tropic Thunder. Next up for them is the dude.
”what do YOU mean you people?”
Listen a bunch on the commute. My favorites are the 80’s ones - Risky Business, Mr. Mom, Breakfast Club, Legend of Billie Jean… some really cool insight/BTS stuff.
After the trip I rewatched Fargo with a head full of info from the pod so fun to listen then rewatch
Disclosure Day -- I thought it was beautiful
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Went to see Spielberg 's new film "Disclosure Day". I will disclose my short review.
In the immortal words of Joe Biden, "Don't"! Disappointing at best.
In the immortal words of Joe Biden, "Don't"! Disappointing at best.
That's a perfect review of this film. I saw it last night and the best I can say about it is it's disappointing.Disclosure Day:
Imitation Game with Benedict Cumberbatch playing Alan Turing during WWII about breaking German Enigma code, thought it was really good.
I’m glad you enjoyed it. Caveat: the Alan Turing in the movie wasn’t very much like the real-life Alan Turing. The actual Turing was much more socially adept than the movie makes him out to be.
And “A Beautiful Mind” whitewashes the personality of John Nash. Yes, Nash was mentally ill but he was legitimately an awful person, toxic. Great mathematician, though. The real hero of the story is John Milnor, the greatest American mathematician of Nash’s time, who worked to get Nash back into Princeton, got him a job. Milnor was a 200-pound gorilla, you didn’t say no to John Milnor.
Nash was a legitimate genius but Milnor was better, Nash had a hard time dealing with that. (They were graduate students together, at Princeton.) Plus Milnor was a nice guy, got along with everyone. Princeton hired him straight out of graduate school, that never happens. Nash had a habit of pissing people off.
Mathematicians come in all shapes and sizes. There are some who stood out as being truly nice guys, Milnor, Hartshorne, Zariski, Serre.
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And he didn't look anything like Russell Crowe.
Hartshorne ... my older granddaughter really liked him. ... when she was a little 5 or 6 year old, she started teaching him how to do some mathematics and he just went along with her.
And I might add, in the movie "Beautiful Mind", when Nash was writing mathematics the hand shown in the movie doing the writing was professor David Bayer from Columbia University, my daughter's doctoral advisor. Bayer was also a mathematical consultant for the movie.
Another Hartshorne story, courtesy of a high school classmate of mine who ended up in the mathematics department at Notre Dame. Hartshorne’s visiting and the hotel messes up his reservation and he ends up staying with my friend and his family. My friend had two young daughters and they invited Hartshorne to a tea party, the “tea” being peppermint sticks dunked in the teacups. He stayed with them for an hour.
Hartshorne is one of the great expositors we have, his books are classics. Milnor was like that too. Serre’s books in French are extremely easy to follow. All three are still with us, Hartshorne is 88, Milnor 95, Serre is on target to be 100 in September. If you ask me, Serre > Milnor > Hartshorne.
I just remembered that Hartshorne is an academic cousin of mine, nice. This is how the third-raters like me puff out their chests.
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