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It opened last year just for Oscar qualification like Close did.

I honestly don't understand your critiques of how it looked. I thought it looked fine for it's budget. The only bits that looked a little wonky were the nighttime shots of the exterior of the plane flying and crashing. It looked like a budgetary constraint thing and directorial choice thing to make it look more stylized than realistic. But even then those shots were short and they were fine for the budget.

And going forward I feel like a better comparison for Butler movies are the Liam Neeson movies he did for a decade. They're dad movies, usually low budget with the appropriate action and cgi to reflect that, are surprisingly sincere, fun in a good guy saving the day way as opposed to shlocky or 'cool' way, and are just an easy watch with broad appeal. He's not making John Wick movies nor do I think he wants to. He's right in his preferred pocket of the 90's B-tier action movie. And personally I love that he's making these movies that kind of died in the 90's.

White men aren't allowed to feel angst now? White men aren't allowed to chafe against the monotony and emptiness of modern life?

You're one of those gatekeepers I hear about, aren't you? Because white guys have it sooooo easy.

You asked a question about a rose and then posted a long discussion of the plastic bag. I’m confused. Which one do you want to talk about?

Simple but nearly perfect for what it tries to be.

Are you asking this question or showing how smart you are?

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Polar Express. First movie in a theater with my son.

Runner-up: driving 60 miles to the midnight show on opening day of Fellowship of the Ring.

We liked the first one a lot more than the second

28 days later

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Go read a bunch of film reviews and take notes of the things they discuss the most?

prolly pick up the etire movie for a few bucks somewhere

this?

I still can't believe*

This is a great idea, based on this concept, it would be a fantastic film

The kind of camera work that makes you feel as though you're with the character living in the moment. The build up to the event, the psychological state of the character cracking until the event occurs, much like the film Mother

I still believe it happened to one of the biggest movie stars in the world, the whole event was surreal

Thanks, I'll check it out!

Kung fu panda 2

Or How to train your dragon 3

I haven't yet watched puss in boots so that may sneak in.

I haven’t seen the movie in 20 years, but I really don’t think it was giving a message about pollution and consumerism.

The Dark Knight, saw it in IMAX, the whole theater collectively went "wooah" when batman blasts out of the broken down tumbler in the new batpod.

After that my favorite movie going experiences in the last 10 years....Top Gun Maverick after that training run scene.

The docking scene in Interstellar was amazing in theaters.

Having read the comics and tried watching these i feel the charm doesn't really translate into the films well. (i haven't watched this one but i have seen others in the series).

The ChatGPT invasion of /movies has begun!

Transformers

American Beauty is the name of a rose. It's also probably sexual.

Really beautiful film. Really hope it wins the Oscar and really hope that more prestige Irish language movies follow.

Also, Claire Keegan, who wrote the story "Foster" that this is adapted from, is one of Ireland's absolute best contemporary writers. Her latest book, "Small Things Like These" deals with the mother and baby homes in Ireland and is just absolutely stunning.