Manohla Dargis
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28 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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I am never in over my head. It would be disrespectful to my hairdresser.
I feel so ashamed for saying this, but being a mother, it's not enough for me.
Sure. Easy enough to do. Inside Out 2, which is a charming sequel from Pixar. Deadpool and Wolverine, which I could not stand. Despicable Me 4, which I will never see unless I'm forced by gunpoint. Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, which was fine, fine. Dune Part 2, Wicked, Twisters, Moana 2, Godzilla, Kong, The New Empire, Kung Fu Panda 4.
Well, it's very familiar. Sequelitis, this is the current model for the, you know, the big companies.
They're looking for safe bets. If you're in charge of a multi-million dollar, you know, outfit, much less a multi-billion dollar conglomerate, you're not really going to be one to take big chances like Hollywood. oh, let's bankroll this tiny little movie from Noah. And that whole mentality is really, that's been part of the mainstream entertainment business for some time.
And when you start introducing things like algorithms, at a certain point, it's just going to start suggesting things that you've already, you know, that are like what you just saw. It's kind of depressing. And we should say that not all sequels are bad.
Oh, I liked the Gladiators sequel very much.
First of all, sharks versus gladiators, what's not to like? And also, there's a fantastic performance from Denzel Washington. It's one of the great performances of the year.
He's wildly entertaining, so don't, please, people, do not tell me that there's nothing to see. There are things to see.
I would say that most people have not seen this movie. It's quite a small movie. It is made by Payal Kapadia. And it is a deeply touching movie that even when I start talking about it, I get a little misty. So forgive me. It's set in Mumbai, and it focuses on one woman, but mainly three women, who all work at a hospital, two nurses and a cook.
And it is about both their individual lives, but also their relationships with one another. Padia's worked in documentary before, and she inserts these documentary scenes of people just milling about, celebrating, walking in streets, and you get the sense from the movie that she could have picked another three people and told, you know, their stories.
And what she's saying is each of us has a story that is there.
It is something I have never seen and that I was delighted to see. It's an independent film and it's glorious.
George Miller, great director from Australia. He makes these incredibly, they're just pure cinema, I think. And I love the stories. This one did move me. It's about a woman's empowerment, you know, and can I say I'm a sucker for female empowerment?
One of the things I really love about it is George Miller uses practical effects rather than relying on just computer-generated imagery. And so you are really watching people doing these crazy things. And it's beautifully choreographed the way, let's say, a 1930s or 40s Fred Astaire number would be beautifully choreographed. We are talking about, you know, visual pleasure, you know, maximum.
It's just so wonderful.
Listen, man, I'm going down on this ship. I don't care. This is a wildly ambitious movie. ungainly, imperfect movie. But you are going to see things much like with a George Miller movie that you have never seen before. This is a movie that Coppola has been thinking about for decades. He's been working on it. And it's a very optimistic movie filled with beautiful imagery. And it is...
Kind of nuts, but in a glorious way. I mean, it's not Despicable Me 234. It's not. It's something different. It is funny. It is strange. It is unexpected. And why do you go to the movies? Do you just want to see the same thing over and over and over again? No. Maybe see something that you have never seen before, and I guarantee you that you have never seen this before.
Resist the algorithm. Seek out movies that... Resist the algorithm. This is going to be my new T-shirt. All right, sister, I think we're ready for a revolution now, right? To the barricades. To the barricades.
There are some really interesting movies that I highly recommend that people can look at. One of those, I really like September 5th.
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