Last movie you watched......

I agree with you about many things, but we disagree strongly on the farm scene. I think that's one of the most incredible opening scenes in cinematic history. It's so fucking tense, and it reveals so much about Landa. It's hard to imagine beating it as a set piece.

 

I can imagine something beating it.

 

When we go back home to MN and the theater near my hometown, I'm always startled and delighted when we go to a movie and it's 7.50.

 

$10 for a Sunday matinee in Richmond. Not exactly cheap. Not New York crazy though.

 

I saw Once Upon a Time Saturday morning at 10:45. Ticket was 11 bucks. I was telling my wife, hey, we need to start going to movies in the morning. Apparently they're half-price. Amazing! It was only when I got to the theater and looked at my ticket that I realized I'd bought the senior's ticket. The worker just waved me through, which makes me think this could be a whole new way of going to the movies, until I can get it legitimately in 16 years (or is it 55 for most senior discounts?)

 

There are plenty of better movies from the last 20 years, but there aren't many better movie scenes than that opening sequence.

 

Here’s what I heard:

QT worked in video store and was recommending “At Revior Les Enfants” (great French movie BTW) and haughty lady says to QT “ I don’t want to see any Reservoir Dogs”. Makes sense.

 

Put me down for being meh about basterds, but I had very high expectations going in based on comments from coworkers. I just get felt that it was so uneven that not even waltz’s abilities could save it.

 

Just watched First Man. Ryan Gosling is perfectly cast if you want an actor with the range of emotions from A to B.

 

I think they're both great, obviously. In no small part because they both tell you so much about the main character by letting us see how others act around him.

NAME DROP. Javier Bardem once told me that the reason Anton is so scary in No Country for Old Men is that everyone around him acts scared. Think of Woody Harrelson in the hotel or even the accountant in the office building. They're wetting themselves, and fear is infectious.

It's a good lesson.

 

But how was his wife?

 

Watched an Austrian horror film called Goodnight Mommy last night. Was disturbing, if not a little too torture porn-y.