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Date Posted: 23:01:39 01/29/23 Sun
Author: LAwoman
Subject: Movie Monday! What did you see this weekend? I saw

three movies. The first one was Tár, an Academy Award best picture, screenplay, director and actress nominee. It stars Cate Blanchett as an orchestra conductor on the verge of a career milestone, while her life falls apart. Blanchett is a powerhouse as usual.
The second one was Triangle of Sadness, an Academy Award nominee for best picture, director and screenplay. It is a bonkers satire pitting working class vs. wealthy on an ill-fated yacht cruise. It's very entertaining (and gross at times) with an awesome and bizarre small role by Woody Harrelson as the drunk socialist ship captain. A very unique
film experience.
The third was Aftersun, a British film starring Oscar nominee Paul Mescal, a wonderful Irish actor. It mainly takes place during an 11-year-old girl's trip with her dad to a cheap resort in Turkey. It's a memory of the adult daughter while going through video taken during the trip. It's very naturalistic and beautiful.

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[> We saw two Oscar noms too. -- skw123, 09:30:40 01/30/23 Mon [1]

All 3 of those sound good!
First was Narvik, a WWII true story of the only battle ever fought on Norwegian land, as home troops and allied forces tried to repel a Nazii invasion. It was an epic story, and an intimate story of a family as well. Really good.
Second, we tried to watch RRR, an Indian film about two heroes trying to rescue a young Indian girl from British colonials in pre-independent India. It's an over-the-top almost cartoon style film with crazy fight scenes, and it's 3 hours long! We've only gotten thru the first 2 hours. Don't know it we'll try to finish it.


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[> [> Narvik sounds good and I'd give RRR a try. I still want to see a few more films before the Oscars, but not all are available to stream yet. -- LAwoman, 18:16:51 01/30/23 Mon [1]


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[> [> [> Do you think people will ever get back to the theaters again? -- skw123, 21:59:57 01/30/23 Mon [1]

Maybe the teens are, because the Avatar movie is still #1 after 7 weeks, but I don't know about other movie goers like families and adults. The UA Theater in Long Beach closed during the pandemic and never re-opened. The AMC and Pike are operating, but never full. Streaming may be changing the movie world?


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[> [> [> [> A combination of the pandemic and movies being release quickly to streaming have -- LAwoman, 09:26:22 01/31/23 Tue [1]

really impacted theaters. Our local theaters are all still running, thankfully, and we do go to them. But definitely not as much. Avatar is doing well because of the 3-D experience that makes it pretty much a required theater experience. Some of the films are produced by streaming companies like Netflix so their theater runs are short.


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