On 4/29/2025 7:14 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
Fringe S1E09 'The Dreamscape'. Shenanigans at Massive Dynamic and
someone from Peter's past appears. The airline that crashed a plane in 'Lost' exists in 'Fringe'.
I forgot about that.
The glyphs spell "Voice".
Dr. Walter Bishop: There is little that makes me happier than taking
drugs. Perhaps administering them, designing and carrying out
experiments that bend the plane of what we consider reality. I'm rarely
if ever opposed to such things except now.
What Did You Watch?
I watched:
The Front Room (HBO) 2024 movie written and directed by the Eggers
Brothers and starring Brandy as a pregnant woman who along with her
husband (Andrew Burnap) agree to take care of her husband's recently
widowed stepmother (Kathryn Hunter from "Andor"). At first the husband
warns that his stepmother is evil, but Brandy ignores him until she
moves in and weird things start to happen. I went into this expecting a
horror movie similar to "Rosemary's Baby" or "The Skeleton Key" but was
very disappointed that when it was all said and done, and as far as I
can tell, there was zero supernatural events in this movie. I kept
waiting for something supernatural to happen, and it never did. I guess
the movie is OK even without a supernatural twist. Fans of "Andor" will
want to watch for Kathryn Hunter, pretty much playing the same role in
this movie that she plays in "Andor."
Sinners (theatrical) - I made the trip to the AMC Metreon in San
Francisco so I could watch the movie in 70mm IMAX. These are general observations on the second viewing experience at the Metreon. First, I
saw the movie on opening day at my local IMAX theater and it looked
great. But my local IMAX is fake IMAX and can't do 70mm prints. The
Metreon is a flagship IMAX theater, one of the biggest in the country
and one of only a handful even capable of showing a movie in 70mm IMAX.
Given that's how the movie was filmed, and I had the opportunity to see
it properly displayed in that format, I figured I owed it to myself to
make the trip. In the middle of the day on a Monday, the theater was
*packed* even in not-so-great seats, it was worth the trip to see
displayed on a massive screen in perfect clarity. And the shifting
aspect ratio during certain scenes had a serious wow factor. Two scenes
in particular. One scene everybody is already talking about, Fnzzvr
cynlf gur oyhrf naq pbawherf gur fcvevgf bs zhfvp sebz gur cnfg naq
shgher. But the other scene when gur inzcverf ner vaivgrq vagb gur pyho
naq gur fperra rkcnaqf nf gurl punetr va nf rirelbar cercnerf sbe gur
svtug bs gurve yvirf.
I liked the movie a bit more on second viewing. This time I was able to
sit back and take it all in. I was able to notice things I didn't
notice the first time around. I noticed Ludwig Göransson's score.
Which was pretty good. I was able to properly track Michael B. Jordan's characters, and unlike the first time I watched when I never knew which
twin was which, this time around I could easily follow who was on the
screen. I picked up on character details I missed the first time. And
even at the end of the movie, even though I knew how it ends, I was
still on the edge of my seat worried how were they going to survive.
There are only a few more days before "Thunderbolts" arrive and take all
the IMAX screens. If it is at all possible, see this movie in IMAX,
even if it's fake IMAX.
When you're making a movie set in 1930s Mississippi, who else are you
going to get to write the music but Ludwig Göransson. Actually Ludwig
has been scoring Ryan Coogler's movies since "Fruitvale Station."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALTR1WNk120
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZgtm6-EMEM
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