Not sure why some critics hated it for things I didn't really notice.
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Fred_Pirate_Roberts — 1 year ago(September 05, 2024 10:29 AM)
Blair Witch was best viewed in a crowded, dark theater on opening weekend.
Napoleon Dynamite was the same way.
The feeling one gets from these "lightning in a bottle" films is more like a concert than a movie. Very difficult to re-create that, especially after all the copycat films that inevitably followed.
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/. — 1 year ago(September 09, 2024 09:28 PM)
An example I noticed was that they were rather dismissive of the VERY important climate crisis event that the daughter thought was more important than her grandfather's funeral.
That kind of shows how kids have their wires crossed, but also that everyone uses climate crisis as a high-road excuse to just do whatever they feel like doing, rather than things they really need to be doing with respect to what actually has a constructive impact in their lives.
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gorgsharpy — 1 year ago(September 10, 2024 05:02 PM)
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That's also how I saw it. With the addition that the daughter actually ended up realising that in part and realising that there is more between heaven and earth than meets the eye.
That would be sort of anti-woke on the contrary, not wokeness.
Btw, Macarthur park melting could be a view from Tim on the park's denegenration into a dangerous place. The park now and then, as the movie itself is about now and then.