I don’t think you can ask for a more appropriate 20:20. Look, it has “20” in it!
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CraigM
2046
It had that drawn look.
It was either that or something architectural, since the other thing it brings to mind is the renders my wife does for her interior design work.
A screenshot from Autodesk? More specifically, AutoDesk: Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection ?
Nope! And this is very much a movie. With very recognizable movie stars. From a very reputable director.
Okay… so which one of the Wes Anderson movies is that…
Heh. I was actually going to guess Bottle Rocket, but it’s been done.
Close - its Where’d You Go Bernadette, the latest Linklater disappointment. Except this one didn’t take “twelve years to make!!!”
It’s a misfire. Linklater, Blanchette, and a popular novel, yet it doesn’t gel.
40:40 Atop the Space Needle. The restaurant doesn’t exist anymore, they did a big remodel of the entire saucer and its got a glass floor now.
60:60
80:80
100:100
The characters literally offended me with this one. It’s like they were annoyingly quirky and purposefully unlikeable in a lazy way. I rage quit this one three times before I finished watching it, and wished I could refund the rental. It’s as if he was making an unintentional parody of a Wes Anderson film character-wise. I think Richard and I are parting ways permanently. No more second, third or fourth chances.
New frames in an hour or two.
It was a misstep, to be sure, mostly because they didn’t have a clear idea of what kind of movie they wanted to make. The cast was fairly strong (despite Blanchett’s iffy accent choice) though.
It’s a rare misstep for Linklater, though. He hits way more than he misses, so I just chalked it up to “studio interference” and let it go.
I was not part of the Boyhood coronation crowd, so I’ve been pretty disappointed for years.
l for one have been pretty disappointed since Dazed and Confused…
This Twenty isn’t going to be pushed around.
MrTibbs
2058
Is it The Founder, the McDonalds film?
You have indeed spotted John Carroll Lynch playing Maurice James “Mac” McDonald.
Another film made post-2010 that I have seen more than two times. Written off as the “McDonald’s movie” by the arty crowd, the film has grown on me more and more. The performances are suburb; Keaton is Ray Kroc, and early exudes the quiet desperation at the heart of the American Dream in an almost Willy Loman-esque way and earns our empathy.
As the film progresses we see the dark side of an America hell bound on a journey to instant, corporatized globalism through his transformation. An alternate Loman who is successful; ruthless and callous by turns, and who remembers what was denied him before his success. Themes of success, a post-war America ready to be conquered by megacorporations again are omnipresent in this one but presented organically as part of the story. Example - Keaton tracing his way across the map, westward from the Mississippi at St. Louis as he tracks the way West to coast on Route 66, eager to discover the mystery of riches present in California.
Nick Offerman, Laura Dern and Patrick Wilson also give magnificent performances. Frankly all performance are spectacular, and fitted perfectly to the production, as Cinematographer John Schwartzman (Benny and Joon) and relatively new director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side, Saving Mr. Banks) deliver an amazing period piece of 1950s and 1960s America. Its on Netflix and has been forever, I think and is really worth the watch.
The Forty:
The SIxty:
The Eighty:
The Hundred:
“It’s not just the system, @MrTibbs. It’s the name. That glorious name, McDonald’s. It could be, anything you want it to be… it’s limitless, it’s wide open… it sounds, uh… it sounds like… it sounds like America. That’s compared to Kroc. What a crock. What a load of crock. Would you eat at a place named Kroc’s? Kroc’s has that blunt, Slavic sound. Kroc’s. But McDonald’s, oh boy. That’s a beauty. A guy named McDonald? He’s never gonna get pushed around in life.”
aeneas
2060
Good pull @MrTibbs. I wouldnt have got that from that frame.
Djscman
2061
Aww. Everybody Wants Some!! didn’t knock me out, but I am fond of Bernie and the Before… movies. And I’m really hoping we’ll see a Before Noon in… let’s see, every nine years… 2022.
See, l was initially about to mention that l had also enjoyed Everybody Wants Some. And then, l realized that l don’t remember anything about it. l mean, anything at all. Other than it reminded me very much of Dazed and Confused.
As for the Before trilogy, l have only watched the first two, and cannot bring myself to watch the third one; l have seen 2min of it by accident, and what l saw was very much a cliché of a postcard Greece. lt was also the reason why l didn’t like the second one at all; it was basically the embodiment of an American cliché of Paris.
Boyhood was something like Avatar: a technical achievement that forgot to also be a movie.
