Not enough movies these days rip off George Roy Hill
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Elvis 2022
I'm so glad Luhrmann keeps getting to do his thing on big budgets with massive actors, but man this still isn't my cup of tea. The first act is cool, but as all of Baz's films I've seen, it eventually loses me. In my view Marty's approach works best for 3-hour biopics that capture the chaotic, drug-fueled energy of a guy's career and their eventual fall from grace.
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The Magnificent Seven 1960
Definitely fun to see Seven Samurai with cowboys, but I feel like there's potential here that's missed by opting of the approach of just giving the characters from Seven Samurai cowboy hats and revolvers instead of graphing the same character dynamic onto Western hero archetypes. This is most jarring with Chico, where it genuinely feels like Horst Buchholz is doing a Toshiro Mifune impression. Also, idk, maybe you shouldn't do a scene-for-scene remake of one of the greatest films ever and just cut an hour from the story?
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The Quiet Girl 2022
This has populated cinemas for weeks at this point, so it's really heartwarming that I still got to see it with a packed audience. It seems it's being marketed as a film it's every Irish person's national duty to watch. Regardless of what I think of the movie, it's just fucking cool that an Irish-language family drama is receiving this treatment. Maybe that's the one thing the Oscars are still good for. Thankfully the film is genuinely pretty great, which is a nice bonus. Really understated, as the title suggests, up until the final moments that had me forcefully holding back tears.
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Pickpocket 1959
The sexagenarian seated beside me at the screening loudly rubbed her hands together at several points throughout the film, and I don't know if she was just cold or she was that excited about Pickpocket, but either way it was pretty endearing.
I had already seen like four of Paul Schrader's Pickpocket remakes, but I was still immediately into what the film is doing. It's clear now that this is the template for every genre film about lost souls wandering…
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