movie notes, rec for "Last Survivors"
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sasha_featherWatched:
Backdraft, 1991, dir. Ron Howard. Netflix.
A commercially successful drama about firefighters in Chicago. Although starring Billy Baldwin, this film is spiritually a Nicholas Cage film. To me it falls into the fun kind of bad, unintentionally hilarious. There are 2 women in the film who look almost exactly alike. The brothers have weird chemistry that feels un-brother-like. Baldwin tries to keep up with experienced actors like Donald Sutherland who plays a gleeful pyrophiliac. The mystery about an arsonist is very silly and the ending was just straight-up bad.
The text over the final shot says, "There are over 1,200,700 firefighters in the U.S." Thesis statement, "Firefighters: they exist."
Netflix suggested I watch Buried: the 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche.
This felt like a niche subject matter, but a very well done documentary. Kind of sad. I learned some things about avalanches and how people try to trigger smaller ones to prevent larger ones, and in this instance they were using explosives to do that, but with enough snow on the mountains a big avalanche happened anyway.
I mentioned tojesse_the_k that I've been watching a few episodes of MASH on Hulu. The appeal for me is that they use shenanigans to resist and undercut authority figures, institutions, and bullies. Jesse said, "I think that's what Joss Whedon *thought* he was doing with his TV shows."
I bounced off several things, aimlessly browsing, not finding much that caught my interest.
Eventually I found a movie that I loved, Last Survivors, on Hulu. Made in 2021 and starring Alicia Silverstone (most famous from Clueless), Stephen Moyer (True Blood) and Drew Van Acker, who I don't know from anything but enjoyed in this movie.
A man and his grown son have survived an apocalypse and are living in the woods on their own, hunting, fishing, and growing food, while keeping watch for roving Outsiders. The father gets injured so the son has to go looking for medicine, and he glimpses an Outsider woman that he's curious about.
This film hit a lot of my narrative kinks, I totally loved it, but don't want to give too much away, because part of the joy is watching it unfold. I think even the trailer goes too far ahead in the story.
You've heard me complain about lighting in almost everything I watch, well here I want to rave about the lighting. It's so beautiful and I think they used a lot of natural light.
I highly recommend this movie if you like thrillers. I liked seeing Alicia Silverstone again and I thought all the actors were great.
Backdraft, 1991, dir. Ron Howard. Netflix.
A commercially successful drama about firefighters in Chicago. Although starring Billy Baldwin, this film is spiritually a Nicholas Cage film. To me it falls into the fun kind of bad, unintentionally hilarious. There are 2 women in the film who look almost exactly alike. The brothers have weird chemistry that feels un-brother-like. Baldwin tries to keep up with experienced actors like Donald Sutherland who plays a gleeful pyrophiliac. The mystery about an arsonist is very silly and the ending was just straight-up bad.
The text over the final shot says, "There are over 1,200,700 firefighters in the U.S." Thesis statement, "Firefighters: they exist."
Netflix suggested I watch Buried: the 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche.
This felt like a niche subject matter, but a very well done documentary. Kind of sad. I learned some things about avalanches and how people try to trigger smaller ones to prevent larger ones, and in this instance they were using explosives to do that, but with enough snow on the mountains a big avalanche happened anyway.
I mentioned to
jesse_the_k that I've been watching a few episodes of MASH on Hulu. The appeal for me is that they use shenanigans to resist and undercut authority figures, institutions, and bullies. Jesse said, "I think that's what Joss Whedon *thought* he was doing with his TV shows." I bounced off several things, aimlessly browsing, not finding much that caught my interest.
Eventually I found a movie that I loved, Last Survivors, on Hulu. Made in 2021 and starring Alicia Silverstone (most famous from Clueless), Stephen Moyer (True Blood) and Drew Van Acker, who I don't know from anything but enjoyed in this movie.
A man and his grown son have survived an apocalypse and are living in the woods on their own, hunting, fishing, and growing food, while keeping watch for roving Outsiders. The father gets injured so the son has to go looking for medicine, and he glimpses an Outsider woman that he's curious about.
This film hit a lot of my narrative kinks, I totally loved it, but don't want to give too much away, because part of the joy is watching it unfold. I think even the trailer goes too far ahead in the story.
You've heard me complain about lighting in almost everything I watch, well here I want to rave about the lighting. It's so beautiful and I think they used a lot of natural light.
I highly recommend this movie if you like thrillers. I liked seeing Alicia Silverstone again and I thought all the actors were great.
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Date: 2023-12-06 04:25 pm (UTC)Great lighting! Super, is it accompanied by good sound design, or is it
JACRST
just another caption-reliant screen thingDoes it dwell on the causes of the apocalypse? (If so, behind my news wall).
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Date: 2023-12-06 07:13 pm (UTC)It does not dwell on the causes, no.
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Date: 2023-12-06 06:32 pm (UTC)Controversial!