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A thing I really liked about this episode was how they showed Vasily deteriorating *before* we got the explanation from Legasov about what radiation poisoning does to you. I feel like a lot of shows would have have that scene with Legasov and Shcherbina and then cut to Vasily and Lyudmilla, but instead we got an explanation of what we had already seen and building up the dread that it was going to get worse. And boy, did it get worse. I understand why that effects-and-make-up guy said that the research he had to do for this show was the worst he'd ever done. I was also frustrated with Lyudmilla, but looking back I agree with what was said above - it shows how little *everyone* probably understood about this. No one explained to her WHY she couldn't touch him, or WHY it mattered whether she was pregnant.

I love that she's gone from Sookie St James to performances like this. It's like the absolute opposite end of the spectrum.

"Amanda. [serene smile] You're in my way."

I finally got around to watching Into the Spider-Verse and I laughed so hard at Peter Noir's intro - "Sometimes I let matches burn down to my finger tips just to feel something, anything." Cut to the flame flickering out before it reaches his finger tips and he groans at his failure. It was just perfect.

Oh, I'm happy to find a thread for this! I saw this back when it was in cinemas and really, really enjoyed it. And yes, I bawled - I think it was partly the music, because the soundtrack is wonderful, but the film just hit those emotional notes really well. The one thing that bugged me later on was that wouldn't either of them have realised - spoiler, for anyone who hasn't seen it - that they were in a different time? Did neither of them see a newspaper with a date at any point, or anything like that? Wouldn't their phones show the correct date? But even so, I was okay with handwaving that because it made their realisation all the more a gut punch.

I really, really enjoyed this, but as others have said there were things that required suspension of disbelief. (You know, other than sound sensitive monsters invading the Earth.) My main one came right at the beginning - in a world overrun by sound sensitive monsters, would you not as parents want to keep your kids where you can see them when you're out walking? Why on Earth would you let the smallest kid walk at the back where no one could keep an eye on him, toy or no toy? One parent at the the front and one bringing up the rear, that's just plain sense. C'mon, guys.

I really, really loved this movie. It doesn't quite knock Winter Soldier off its perch as my favourite MCU movie, but it's right up there. The worldbuilding was beautiful, I absolutely loved the beginning and the imagery showing how Wakanda came into being. Great touch having it be Erik and his dad and not T'Challa and his - in hindsight it's heartbreaking to imagine Erik wanting to hear the story about 'home' again. Interesting discussion above about how it was made to seem a bit as if the depletion of Africa was just something that *happened* to it - it wasn't something I noticed when I watched it, but you're right, that chafes now that I think about it. A lot more focus was placed on how Wakanda could've intervened than how the rest of the world could've seen what they/we were doing and put a stop to it. It shouldn't have been up to Wakanda to begin with. Out of everything I think the South Korea sequence was my favourite part. It was brilliantly shot and played - the reason Winter Soldier is my favourite MCU movie is that it's sort of a spy thriller with superheroes, and this sequence felt like that, too. Andy Serkis was clearly having the time of his life in this role (almost a shame to lose him), Okoye fighting, Nakia fighting... All brilliant. And the crowd roared at the end when Nakia came gliding down the street still sitting in the driver's seat. (And speaking of which, the women in this movie. I adored them all.) Michael B Jordan was brilliant (I still can't believe he's Wallace from the Wire all grown up) and his delivery of his last line was poignant, but... At the same time I was like, buddy, you're comparing the plight and fate of innocent people sent to slavery with yourself being sent to prison (presumably) for attempting to become a dictator and kill a whole lot of people.

Yes! That's exactly the kind of little thing I tend to notice and enjoy, too. Another favourite of mine is at the end of Wreck-It Ralph, during the wedding scene, when they cut to all the guys from Calhoun's game pointing their guns at the ceiling? On the other side of the isle you can see the bad guy Zangief sitting there (wearing only his red thong, of course) and he's wiping away a tear. Always makes me giggle.

I was watching The Full Monty and ended up stopping, rewinding and pausing to watch a tiny moment again: the men are rehearsing their striptease dance when a security guard walks in on them. A couple of them flee, but one of the guys just stops dead still looking scandalised, with one hand covering his right nipple. It's just a tiny moment, but that 2-second shot gave me one of the the biggest laughs of the film. So I thought I'd ask, do you have any small moments in films that stand out to you? Something that's funny, touching, scary? A joke, a movement, even just a facial expression? One of my other favourite things is the wandering mole on Prince John's face in Men in Tights. From scene to scene it's in different places, and I love how no attention is drawn to that except for once towards the end of the film, because up until then I was just sitting there like, "Wait, has his mole -- moved?" And then in the next scene, "Okay, I KNOW it's moved this time!"

So much to love about the confessing scene - the delivery of "The t-shirts were my idea" was perfection - but my favourite thing may have been that Charles had started crying by the time it was his turn.

I was thinking that as well. In a way Michael is teaching her, too, through her being able to/having to teach *him* - teaching someone else is really one of the best ways to learn something, because to do that you have to understand it yourself.

I liked it a whole when I first came out, but the more I think about it, the less I do, kind of. The kids were all great, and I found it scary as hell, but I felt like some of the heart was missing. And maybe it's just that It requires more time with the characters for that to really be there - I think think it'd be awesome as a TV series - because the kids did well with what there was time for. But I never really felt that connection that they all have, because there wasn't enough time with them as a group outside of actually facing It. There was only really that scene where they were swimming, and Mike hadn't even joined the group then. And them getting into a fight and only going back to face It together because It took Beverly misses the point, as other have said, that they were all terrified but felt/knew they were the only ones who could stop it, together. It was a great cinema experience and a good horror movie, but for me I think it didn't quite capture the essence of the book on the whole. I did really like how it was clear that It affected the adults as well, though, with that awful television show constantly in the background when any of them had the TV on. Beverly's father was super creepy. And I was unsure about the change that all the kids were going missing instead of being found dead, but it did work as being Bill's driving force, wanting to find Georgie.

Just remembered how much I love the "Come on, Dover" scene in My Fair Lady. I especially love it because Eliza in that moment is me when I watch football with others who don't yet know the extent of my fanaticism and I'm trying to keep a cool exterior. I had new friend gasp at me like that the first time we went to a game and I let out some expletives he wasn't prepared for, heh.

If Audition is the one I think it is, I've actually never dared to watch it, heh! Is it the one where there's a -- bag on the floor?

Agreed. The big climax scene doesn't quite work for me (but then I feel that way about a lot of horror movies) but everything up to that is just immensely creepy and like you say, unsettling. It's the slow inevitability of the 'it' that creeps me out - it doesn't need to run after you, it's gonna catch up with you eventually anyway. It's patient. Which reminds me - I looked back and saw I hadn't mentioned one of my other favourites that I saw relatively recently: Shutter. The original Thai version from 2004, not the American remake with Joshua Jackson. That was one of the very few horror movies where the ending doesn't let the movie down or take away from it for me. Really, really good. It does use the "crawling ghost with hair covering its face" trope, but hey, it became a trope for a reason - it's creepy.

Con Air is bloody awesome. It's a ridiculous premise, but the whole (awesome) cast just completely commit. Tangent about language barriers - I think I was about twelve when it came out and only started learning English in school a couple of years before, and I hadn't learnt the word 'convict' so didn't make the connection with the word 'Con'. I had, however, *just* started learning Spanish where 'con' means 'with' and was a very common word during classes, and my brain just assumed that's what the Con in the title stood for. So for many many years I thought that for whatever reason it was a Mexican/Spanish airline and that the name just meant "with air". Then one day a few years ago when it came on, I suddenly exclaimed "Oh my god, the 'con' stands for convict! It's a pun!" and everyone was like, uh, yeah, is this meant to be news?

Heh. Man, I hate it when that happens. Like, the only thing I hate more than knowing they're attempting to emotionally manipulate me is when it actually works. It's not often that it does, but goddamn did A Dog's Purpose do it. I was rolling my eyes at myself even while I sobbed.

I always well up when sister Mary Robert finds her voice. Every time. I'm not sure whether this technically belongs here, but I think it's been judged to be pretty bad overall, so maybe it does - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. I know Kevin Costner's accent is all wrong, I know "Because our father loved you more than me!" is kinda ridiculous, but I will always watch it if I come across it on the telly. "Why a spoon, cousin?"

I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere that it was indeed. I'm guessing they decided to stick with 'based on' because they wanted to add some extra drama and tension (picking up the stranded soldier, George dying, etc) and didn't feel right adding things if they kept the real names. Would've been nice to have the Sundowner in the film, though!

I went to see both parts the last couple of Thursdays and came here to see if anyone else had, too. Millennium Approaches was good, but I thought Perestroika absolutely blew it out of the water - if they do encore screenings over here I'm definitely going again. Just stunning. Interestingly the only weak-ish link I actually thought was Russell Tovey, who didn't feel quite right as Joe to me. The stage design was amazing; it made all the scenes feel so fluent. Having Andrew Garfield climb up that ladder and then what felt like seconds later climb through the floor from below was brilliant.

I didn't like that part of the film at all, actually. To me it felt like they went, "Hey, not enough people we follow have actually died, how can we fix that?" and decided on George dying to add some extra drama. But for the bolded - he wasn't actually part of their family, he was a -- deckhand, is that the word? He just worked on the boat with them and decided to come along to show his dad at home he could do something big. But for the rest, I really, really enjoyed the film, if you can call being incredibly stressed out and closing your eyes whenever there was a drowning scene "enjoy". Fantastically well edited, but I wish I hadn't known about the timeline thing before going in, because it made me constantly look for clues as to when as stories were taking place and intersecting. Not having any character backstories certainly didn't stop me from being emotionally invested; I was crying harder than I think I ever have during a war movie.

Has Dunkirk really been out long enough for the above to not be a spoiler outside of the film's own thread? I really would've preferred going into it not having seen that.

Ha, yeah, Dave Franco looks sort of ridiculous as Greg to me - too short, and that hair/beard... I guess we shouldn't be too hung up on looks, but it's hard not to for me, especially when it comes to Greg and Tommy. Josh Hutchinson seems really well cast to me, though.

James Franco is still too handsome to be Tommy, but I'm still so very excited! That very last bit actually sounded like the real thing.

I've liked Orlando Bloom ever since he played "himself" on Extras, as a self-obsessed diva constantly trying to assert that he was actually better and more popular than Johnny Depp. I think he's definitely got comedy chops, and I'd like to see him get to use them more - not just playing the straight man, like he did most of the time in Pirates (from what I can remember, it's been a while). Pretty much every actor who guested as themselves on that show got major bonus points from me. (I mean, not that Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart needed them to begin with, but still.) I think it was the first thing I saw Daniel Radcliffe in outside Harry Potter, and he also completely won me over.