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“White Christmas” has become one of my sentimental favorites in recent years, but it’s definitely in the category of “incidental Christmas movies” along with Die Hard and other controversial titles. As much as Bing repeatedly tries with the eponymous song, this is blatantly not a “Christmas movie” - and yet I’ll still watch it every December.

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scarletmike said:
Go see West Side Story. Drop whatever you have planned and see it. Steven Spielberg just made an immediate modern masterpiece out of what was already a classic. My jaw was on the floor almost the entire time.
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Yeah, all the theatre people I know are raving about it.

As for my most recent?



A friend was the lighting designer for a new opera at the Met so (while on vacation) we went to a theatre in a near-abandoned shopping mall in Oveido, FL to watch it. Needless to say......we had the entire theatre to ourselves. :lol:
 
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Fungo Squiggly said:
Yeah, all the theatre people I know are raving about it.

As for my most recent?



A friend was the lighting designer for a new opera at the Met so (while on vacation) we went to a theatre in a near-abandoned shopping mall in Oveido, FL to watch it. Needless to say......we had the entire theatre to ourselves. :lol:
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Has Thump really not started a theatre and show tunes thread yet??

We just recently saw our first live show since the before-times, in a very packed Ohio Theatre for the return of Broadway In Columbus with "Hadestown" which also happens to be about Eurydice (and Orpheus and Hades and Persephone). One of the best shows I've ever seen.

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Bond-No Time To Die

A long wait for what was by far the worst of the Craig Bond movies in my opinion. Maybe one of the worst Bond movies period. I thought Rami didn’t cut it at all as the Villain.

Really wondering where the franchise goes from here.
 
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Buckeneye said:
Matrix Resurrections. I.... don't know how I feel about it. Which is funny because I remember thinking that exact same thing when I left the theatre as a kid after watching Revolutions.
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I thought it was better than Revolutions because it was smart enough to not take itself seriously and even worked "Warner Bros made us make a reboot" into the script. That they cast Chad Stahelski as Trinity/Tiffany's husband was fucking brilliant!

Reloaded will always be a hot mess because it made the questionable decision of having Neo's and Agent Smith's powers work outside of the Matrix and in 'the real world,' which I think is what setup Revolutions' failure. However, Reloaded will always have three things in its corner that make it a landmark achievement: The fight at the Merovingian's chateau, the highway chase, and Neo vs 100 Agent Smiths. Those three action pieces define the film, and are essentially the three reasons to ever watch it.

That said, my problem with Resurrections was the fight choreography... or maybe the editing. Frankly, I'm not sure which at this point, but it was a huge disappointment. We got some callbacks to the best parts of Reloaded, but in this one I couldn't keep track of which characters were fighting/shooting at each other, nor did I really care. It was just a blurry mess of uninspired quick-cuts edited together to the point where I just wanted the action to end and the movie to get back to the story/exposition. With a 2 hour and 30 minute runtime it really drags in places, and there aren't any action set-pieces that warrant a rewind/rewatch.
 
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Dryden said:
I thought it was better than Revolutions because it was smart enough to not take itself seriously and even worked "Warner Bros made us make a reboot" into the script. That they cast Chad Stahelski as Trinity/Tiffany's husband was fucking brilliant!

Reloaded will always be a hot mess because it made the questionable decision of having Neo's and Agent Smith's powers work outside of the Matrix and in 'the real world,' which I think is what setup Revolutions' failure. That said, Reloaded will always have three things in its corner that make it a landmark achievement: The fight at the Merovingian's chateau, the highway chase, and Neo vs 100 Agent Smiths. Those three action pieces define the film, and are essentially the three reasons to ever watch it.

That said, my problem with Resurrections was the fight choreography... or maybe the editing. Frankly, I'm not sure which at this point, but it was a huge disappointment. We got some callbacks to the best parts of Reloaded, but in this one I couldn't keep track of which characters were fighting/shooting at each other, nor did I really care. It was just a blurry mess of uninspired quick-cuts edited together to the point where I just wanted the action to end and the movie to get back to the story/exposition. With a 2 hour and 30 minute runtime it really drags in places, and there aren't any action set-pieces that warrant a rewind/rewatch.
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Mostly what you said, but not quite as unpleasant for me. Good enough for a single view on HBO Max. As to Reloaded and the fight with the “Smith army”, I couldn’t get past plastic Neo. Wanted enjoy the dynamics and choreography, but the cgi wasn’t yet up to what they wanted to do with it.
 
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Dryden said:
I thought it was better than Revolutions because it was smart enough to not take itself seriously and even worked "Warner Bros made us make a reboot" into the script. That they cast Chad Stahelski as Trinity/Tiffany's husband was fucking brilliant!

Reloaded will always be a hot mess because it made the questionable decision of having Neo's and Agent Smith's powers work outside of the Matrix and in 'the real world,' which I think is what setup Revolutions' failure. However, Reloaded will always have three things in its corner that make it a landmark achievement: The fight at the Merovingian's chateau, the highway chase, and Neo vs 100 Agent Smiths. Those three action pieces define the film, and are essentially the three reasons to ever watch it.

That said, my problem with Resurrections was the fight choreography... or maybe the editing. Frankly, I'm not sure which at this point, but it was a huge disappointment. We got some callbacks to the best parts of Reloaded, but in this one I couldn't keep track of which characters were fighting/shooting at each other, nor did I really care. It was just a blurry mess of uninspired quick-cuts edited together to the point where I just wanted the action to end and the movie to get back to the story/exposition. With a 2 hour and 30 minute runtime it really drags in places, and there aren't any action set-pieces that warrant a rewind/rewatch.
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Your first lines are not lost on me. Beyond the jab a WB, the social, media and political commentary (along with some nods to the human psyche) were all very spot on.

What saved the back half of the original 3 was, as you put, the fight choreography. Resurrections was a complete letdown in that regard. The problem is I can't tell if it's intentionally bad or was production just rushed after everyone returned to set when the CoVid surge slowed?

Either way, what began as a brilliant middle finger to sequels, reboots, big time studios and originality ended up fizzing out in the 2nd half that, IMHO, just gave way to some pretty mediocre material. Especially that ending, and don't get me started on a cover of Wake Up. That ending scene from The Matrix was what first introduced me to RATM.

In the end, I feel the movie fell flat because I think it's possible to have a self-aware film, but to also realize that like what was said in the movie - "The story doesn't really end". Something wholly original could have come out of that script and transformed into it's own film with just the first 45 minutes of content. The ground work is there for new material, new characters, new dialogue and new direction just with a classic foe - The Matrix. That in and of itself can be drawn as a parallel to how the world has become since 1999.
 
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