Movies

Movies I watched on the plane:

The Roofman. Harmless, moderately entertaining, mildly interesting as it's actually a real story, but not a remarkable movie.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy. Much more entertaining than I expected, had me legitimately laughing out loud. Has a very good heart. If you like romcoms, and I do, it's well worth a watch.

Lady Bird. Been meaning to watch it for ages. Terrific.

The Break Up. Not very funny. Quite annoying. Utterly unbelievable, there's no way prime Jennifer Aniston is fawning and pining over Vince Vaughn like that IRL. GTFO with this stupidity.

Currently watching Tron: Arse. A friend of mine will not stop raving about how good it is. I have no idea why, it is atrocious on every level imaginable.

I couldn’t get through the last one (legacy). Just didn’t grab me at all. The trailer for this one hit all the right notes (looked a bit more complex, NIN soundtrack, etc) and then the reveal that Jared Leto was the lead and I was immediately off that bandwagon.

I thought Ares was absolutely fine. Leto is not good, but barely impacted the film beyond some deeply unnecessary extrapolation.
Easily the best Tron movie, although the competition isn't at all fierce. Clunky dialogue, fantastic music, empty characters, and great visuals.

The original Tron is magnificent. I even went to our fancy arthouse cinema a few years ago to see a 70mm print of it.

The NIN score for Arse is fabulous but the story is such hokum. I don't even hate Leto, it's just an awful film.

Watched Bugonia as part of my annual catch up of as many Oscar noms as possible before the event. I like Lanthimos and I know a lot of people don't, I thought it was typically bonkers and fun and the performances are terrific but the ending was predictable and I don't quite understand what he was going for with - and really don't click this spoiler if there's a chance you'll ever watch it because it will ruin the movie completely -

So I have now seen:

Bugonia
F1
One Battle After Another
Frankenstein
Sinners

I have lined up over the next couple of days (because they're on streaming):

The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Train Dreams

Which leaves me with Marty Supreme and Hamnet, both of which are still in theatres. I don't like the cinema, so if they don't come out on streaming before the awards then I won't see them in time. While I liked all the movies I've seen so far I hope the eventual winner is among the ones I haven't, because nothing so far has made me think it's quite worthy of the Best Picture award.

Of the movies nominated for other awards I'm keen to see Blue Moon (Linklater and Hawke is a proven combination) and Song Sung Blue (I'll watch pretty much anything with Hugh Jackman in).