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#MovieThread VII: The Kino Awakens, Chapter Three — March Edition
From 2020 to 2025 I watched 2370 movies.
In 2026 so far I've watched another 70, for a total of 2440 movies.
This month:
* John McTiernan.
* Ninja Turtles, probably.
Previous thread:
Starting John McTiernan, it's the movie "Nomadland" is not a sequel to, it's —
#71, or #2441, 1986's "Nomads."
"Jesus Christ, he's dead!"
that's a wrap on Le Pierce Brosnan, I guess
Before promptly dying, Le Pierce Brosnan threw his whole hospital bed around, injured Dr Flax (Lesley-Anne Down) and whispered something French into her ear.
I'm sure that'll be the last we see, hear, or otherwise detect of Le Brosnan, who is, of course, the main figure on the poster.
She's now speaking French in her sleep.
Frenchness? Infectious?
When I say "punks," please understand that they're all wearing black leather and chains and could just as easily be from "Mad Max" as from "Return of the Living Dead."
anyway, Monsieur Brosnan is now stalking them and their van, and wondering when they sleep.
He's shaken them off. Going back for the body, he finds no body, then immediately finds them again.
I would simply not refind the murder punks?
I guess they've let him go, because he's back home with Le Girlfriend, who is not happy about him having disappeared for 30 hours.
He explains what's weird about the punks:
"I spent 30 hours following people who do not live any place! Ècoute moi? Do not work anyplace! I called the government, the state, their vehicle, it is not registered!"
murder, arson, AND jaywalking?
Fleeing from the punks, he's run into a nun, who's sensibly telling him to run the fucking fuck away from these fucks.
He's not gonna do it, of course. He's drawn to them.
It's the movie today best remembered for the "Seinfeld" episode of the same title where Elaine is the only person in town who hates it, leaving now for a screening of —
#72, or #2442, 1996's "The English Patient."
It’s handsomely made, though, and if somebody told me they loved this, that’s another perspective on it I’d get.
If you dragged me to this a third time, though, yeah, I would absolutely be yelling “Just die already!” at the screen.
With this one I'm 8/10 for seeing this year's Best Picture nominees in the cinema, leaving now to go see —
#73, or #2443, 2026's "Sentimental Value."
Beautiful, very moving. Not got that much to say about it. Liked it, it's very good.
I've seen some interpretations of the ending that vary pretty wildly, but I'm choosing the happy interpretation — that despite everything, he gets to do it his way. (What happens to that house is a /murder/, though.)
(Wildest moment is when he holds a full roll of kitchen paper under the tap to then go clean with. A whole roll?? You made the whole roll single use???)
With and after dinner, watched —
#74, or #2443, 2026 Netflix doc “Queen of Chess.”
Interesting story about a woman I knew nothing about. But it’s a shame it has to tell her story by focusing on her rivalry with a man. Do enjoy watching her crush these dudes, though, obviously.
As I understand it, this Brazilian Best Picture nominee is not about a secret agent, leaving now to go see —
#75, or #2445, 2026's "O Agente Secreto," or, "The Secret Agent."
Takes quite a while to put down exactly what's happening and why, until he literally tells you he's been telling the story in the wrong order, which is wonderfully disorienting. Captures a time and a place and a feeling very well, I thought.
The ending is horrible, upsetting. What do you become when you're gone? History? Not even that?
A Good Movie.
On multiple occasions watching TNG I went "ah, the final time I'll see this TOS cast member," fully forgetting that there were some in this one.
I did mean "for the first time," and I /have/ seen this, but do I remember it? No, not really, outside of the ending.
"You left spacedock without a tractor beam?"
"It won't be installed until Tuesday."
who leaves home without their tractor beam, I mean, come on
hey, it's Guinan
and there's Tim Russ.
90s Star Trek actively intruding on the last ride of Those Old Scientists
"Soran. Dr Tolian Soran."
McDowell looks good for 78 years older— Oh, wait, right, El-Aurians, Guinan's people.
The only one of this year's slate of Best Picture nominees I have to watch at home instead of in the cinema, it's —
#77, or #2447, 2025's "Train Dreams."
"I was thinking we oughta get married."
[she chuckles]
"What?"
"We already are married. Now we just need a ceremony to prove it."
this is: already very soothing, charming, nice
In "The Secret Agent," a movie that also has a homophobic hairy leg in it, the two-faced cat is both part of the surreality of the world it presents as well as a reflection of everyone in it having multiple aspects of their personality they selectively let out.
In "Train Dreams" the brief shot of the calf with two faces I think is more like, well, life in places like this (late 1800s US railway country) be like that sometimes, that type of thing.
The cat, you understand, is two cats, just like how the Wagner Moura character is both Marcelo and Armando — the cat and the man both still have to walk around in the world in the one body they each have.
Anyway, "Train Dreams" so far is mostly Joel Edgerton having a nice time.
ah jeez
I would simply return to my log cabin to find my wife and child alive instead of to find it on fire with them nowhere to be found.
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