Is it just me or is #DePalma's Hi Mom! truly unwatchable? The thing's giving me the 70s therapy creeps. #film

MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I’m not an outsider. I’m a cop.”
Dennis Franz in Dressed to Kill
#dressedtokill #depalma #briandepalma #dennisfranz
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday

I watched #Scarface from #DePalma and tried to put by feelings into words. Calling it #moviereviews would be a stretch. #cinemastodon #movies #filmhistory #FilmMastodon #film #mastomovies #filmbubble #moviestuff #FilmMastodon #cinema #letterboxd https://boxd.it/3MXuKn

IL MUSICISTA-LOGGIONISTA: NICOLAS CAGE https://il-musicista-loggionista.blogspot.com/2022/01/nicolas-cage.html?spref=tw
#Cage #NicolasCage #USA #Movie #Tv #FordCoppola #DePalma #Lynch #Scorsese #Stone #Oscar #Scott

I'm too tired to come up with any witty commentary about this. Just sad and disgusted.

Brief summary: paleontologist Robert #DePalma, who shares his cousin Brian's cinematic instincts, made a big spash a few years ago with the discovery of the "Tanis" site, which appears to preserve the day of the #Chicxulub impact. Since then he's milked it in the media for all it's worth. Well, as much as most scientists dislike that kind of behavior, it's how you keep the grant money rolling in. #Dinosaurs are maybe more popular than ever, but they're lousy at paying their own bills.

He's made many dubious claims before about the site, many carefully hedged so he could retract them later. It's a dangerous game. This time, it very much looks like he's done something much worse.

#Tanis is real, and it's a remarkable discovery. DePalma's inability to distinguish between flashy PR and outright fraud will accomplish nothing but tarnishing all the real #paleontology work done at the site, by anyone, for years to come. Good scientists like #During will suffer the consequences.

Yeah. Don't do that.

https://www.science.org/content/article/paleontologist-accused-faking-data-dino-killing-asteroid-paper

IL MUSICISTA-LOGGIONISTA: DARYL HANNAH https://il-musicista-loggionista.blogspot.com/2022/12/daryl-hannah.html?spref=tw
#Hannah #DarylHannah #USA #Fashion #Movie #Allen #Depalma #Stone #Tarantino #Howard #Scott #Altman

#horror #art #comparison #StephenKing #DePalma

IL MUSICISTA-LOGGIONISTA: SCARLETT JOHANSSON https://il-musicista-loggionista.blogspot.com/2022/11/scarlett-johansson.html?spref=tw #ScarlettJohansson #Johansson #Movie #USA #DePalma #Redford #Allen #Besson

Still new to this platform but I’ll jump on the #comfortfilms trend. I bury myself in #indie & #horrorfilm (can’t get enough #folkhorror !) *BIG hello to my #horrorcommunity *

My random list of gems:

#DavidLynch :
-Mulholland Drive
-Fire Walk With Me
-#twinpeaks (TV 🤫)
Luca #Guadagnino :
-Suspiria 2018
Charles Laughton :
-Night of the Hunter
Stanley #kubrick :
-Eyes Wide Shut
#TiWest :
-Pearl (fucking blast)
William Peter Blatty:
-Exorcist III
#DePalma :
-Carrie ‘76 (ages like fine wine)

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #film #movie #mars #space #spaceship #mission #zeroG #gravity #earth #alien #meteorite #FX #GarySinise #TimRobbins #DonCheadle #ConnieNielsen #JerryOConnell #DePalma

Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Mission to Mars (2000)

This film got great reviews in Europe but lousy reviews in the US. I suspect the lousy reviews were due to something other than the quality of the film because this is a well-made film. The sets and props are about the best I’ve seen, and the CG (computer graphics) are also well done.

The writing is a little weak, especially the dialogue, but these seasoned actors were able to bring those words to life. The plot is nothing special and the narrative is just a straight, linear story throughout – no flashbacks or flash-forwards. It’s a very easy film to watch and doesn’t demand much from the audience, but it’s still entertaining and realistic for the most part. There are a lot of lines of exposition in this film, but I think the filmmakers wanted to make sure anyone could watch this one and easily follow the plot.

Gary Sinise (Lt. Dan from Forrest Gump) gets the most screen time of the main characters, while Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda) got the least, and Cheadle was also given the majority of the clumsy exposition lines. (I wonder why?) The women were also slighted in this film, but sadly that’s typical for 20th century Hollywood.

Visually the film was fantastic with realistic scenes on Mars and in space which was somewhat reminiscent of 2001: A Space Odyssey. They didn’t get the science right all the time, and some of the situations and problems they faced were kind of unrealistic, but that’s par for Hollywood.

This is a great film for a family, or a group of people that may include those who might struggle with a more complex plot line or who prefer a temporally linear presentation but it’s entertaining for science geeks, too.

(image from film, fair use)