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HA ha ha. What a story Mark.
I still feel Michelle Pfeiffer is deserving of a supporting nomination. It’ll also be interesting to see if any technical aspects are nominated by AMPAS since the HFPA doesn’t recognize those. The house was amazing but I don’t know if that’ll get it a production design nod. I could see its editing being recognized.
I felt the exact same way. I think I had begun to actually like him in spite of myself when he assaulted the guard. From then on I hoped he’d fail, though I suppose getting away with it all was never a possibility. I think though that however much we like him is because of Pattinson’s acting.
Is it just a day though? I had thought he definitely returned to the money at the convenience store the same day his brother was arrested, but at least twice that anchorman (a real life NYC newscaster, evidently) referred to last week’s bank robbery.
How/where did you see Secrets & Lies? I’ve had it on my Netflix queue for I think ten years now and it’s never become available. (I still get DVDs, and I get them precisely because there aren’t as many titles available to stream. But when I can’t even get a DVD I don’t know what to do.)
Should I just buy it? I love Another Year and Happy-Go-Lucky and I can’t say I love Vera Drake but I was very glad I watched it. I assume Secrets & Lies is amazing.
The whole Rotten Tomatoes thing is always relative. I still don't understand exactly how Tomato scores work, since I know no critic rates a movie on a 0-100 scale. When you read reviews in places like Variety and the Guardian you don't even see a grade; they usually just summarize the film and mention 1 or 2 things they like and don't like about it. Inevitably there will be a critic who brings the score done to 99%--this happened to Toy Story 3 in 2010--unless there's a time at which reviewing locks or something. Ultimately though it shouldn't be too much about that anyway.
It was definitely like vignettes, but I agree with Jes Sayin; I think this was Gerwig's vision and goal. She did write the film after all; what we see was obviously a screenplay shot. For me it worked. I liked following a high school student through her final year of high school.
What do you think of Mike Leigh movies? I think Another Year was one of the very first slice of life films I ever saw--there really aren't too many--and I really appreciated simply seeing people live ordinary lives on screen. Sometimes the cinematic is great--American Beauty--and sometimes it's too tidy and artificial. Lady Bird works for me, but it may be more because of the acting than anything else. At the end of the day, this was sort of The Edge of Seventeen for adults. Or Mean Girls for that matter.
So you don't think Juno was better?
I suppose a lot of teens, not having finished being teens yet, might not appreciate it as much as adults who've completed adolescence yet. I don't know about twenty somethings; maybe it depends if they're more on the 22 side or more on the 28 side. In my early 20's I may not have been as removed from high school as necessary to have the perspective I had even by my late 20's. I'm 31 though which isn't terribly old overall and I thought it was a great film.
I just saw the movie and I can't even place her in it. I looked her up after reading your post because I'd never heard of her. I have no idea who Diana is. She must've had 2 lines.
Great eye. I didn't catch that but when I watch it again I'm going to look for it. Your hypothesis is a good one.