Captain Nemo wrote on Jul 29^th, 2023 at 10:26pm:

A hideous load of shyte, not worthy of Blanchett.

Its only redeeming feature would have been if it were a true story - but, no. Just a 'women-can-be c~ntz, too', feminazi crap.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 30^th, 2023 at 5:15pm:

Yeah, that accented á was a dead giveaway. And Blanket as a conductor. And the kind of people who praised it when it came out. 

I haven't  been tempted to look at it. Looks like you guys went against your better judgements.

Has anyone watched Oppenheimer?

I've read so much and seen a few documentaries about him, I'm wondering if there's much else to learn.

One little factoid makes me laugh - that famous clip of him referring to the Bhagavad Gita, he says:

A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, Vishnu was trying to persuade the prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds'. I suppose we all thought that one way or another

From his biographers who interviewed those who witnessed the explosion with Oppenheimer all claim he did not say anything but did what they all did - threw their arms up and cheered; the reason being: the enriching of the Uranium and Plutonium required to make the bombs had almost stripped the US war budget. Had it not worked, all the seniors on the Manhattan Project would have had to explain to the US Congress where the hell all the billions they were given went.

They also commented that Oppenheimer didn't lie in that clip - he said he 'remembered' the line, he did not claim he said it!

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Today's movie viewing at the local Village Cinema.

The CGI of Indi as a younger man was incredibly well done. 

The rest of the movie was a bit of a disappointment. A mishmash of other movies. The similarity to the Mission Impossible train sequence came to mind.

It was OK but I wouldn't bother seeing it again.



p.s.

There was a person checking tickets today.

I could have held off for another couple of months and just watched "Barbie" online. I had to whisper to the ticket vendor that I wanted to watch "Barbie". Then I looked around to see if there were any witnesses hearing what I said. I paid cash so that there was no record of my ticket purchase. I was one of 5 men aged over 20 years old that saw the movie at that session time.

It was such a girls movie (particularly if you are under 18 years of age) that it is hard to fathom how the movie managed to make so much money.

Meg 2: The Trench

A B-grade monster movie with a big budget. Somewhat about as enjoyable as the first movie, "Meg 2" continues the story about the fascination of a limited number of people seemingly knowing about the megalodons of the ocean trench. Evidently, there seems to be no real sense of jeopardy for beachside attendees that the potential for megalodon attacks are possible, even with the Chinese resort being attacked 4 years prior.

The movie opens with scenes of prehistoric times with small-ish lizards feasting on the carcass of a dead dinosaur. Along come a few larger amphibious lizards to feast on the smaller lizards. Out of nowhere, a T-rex runs after the amphibians in an attempt to eat them. The amphibians rush into the water to escape. However, the amphibians turn and head back to the beach, where the T-rex picks off one of them and turns to feast on the beach. However, a 30-metre-long megalodon erupts out of the ocean and  grabs the T-rex and drags the dinosaur into the water.

Cutting to the modern times, 4 years have passed since Jonas (Jason Statham) had encountered the last megalodon. He is on a quest to prevent the dumping of toxic substances into the water. Somehow, and I managed to zone out during the reasoning, Jonas gets recruited to work back at Manna One (the research station where they first encountered the original megalodon. Meiying (Sophia Cai) is now a 14 year old girl and rebelling against anyone who does not give her respect. However, it is not difficult to side with her, as she has an idiot of an uncle looking after her. Meiying's uncle, Jiuming, is in charge of looking after a juvenile megalodon in captivity. Jiuming's stunt includes going diving with the megalodon in order to prove that he could train the meg. When things go wrong, it is assumed that Jiuming was eaten by the meg. However, Jiuming manages to Houdini his way out of the water and miraculously appear back at the observatory within 30 seconds. I was expecting him to have a twin brother or something to explain the teleportation-type movement.

The research facility is again conducting exploration of the trench, for some reason. Upon the dive, it is discovered that there are three other megalodons in existence. Another discovery is that of a research station underwater. Further discoveries are those of underwater mining for rare Earth metals. Or, it could have been, had not one of the antagonists inexplicably decided to cause an underwater landslide and killing most of his crew to cover up this seemingly harmless mining operation. Later, the protagonists of the Manna One crew discover that they have a spy in their organisation. Having to shelter in the underwater research station, the spy and the main antagonist seem to have this idea that they just have to kill any witnesses.

I never understood the motivation of the antagonists.

Anyhoo... much like the first movie, the three megalodons escape the trench and start making their trek towards a beachside tourist area. This time around, there is a lot more snacking on the locals -- which included an inside-the-mouth shot of people getting swallowed whole by the megalodon.

FFS, I am just beyond this rubbish. I think the studios think that people have a fascination with fish eating people. The conclusion of this movie showed no real pay off. There seems to be no real direction for either protagonist or antagonist alike. More akin to "Ohh, you found me. Now, you must die" type storylines.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66424359

UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 7^th, 2023 at 9:59am: