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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
I'm actually not even sure this applies but I feel like this is the closest place to post something like this! Last night I saw Hadestown in a West End Theatre in London and it was so incredible. I've never seen such a tightly written, layered piece of art ever and I'm really looking forwards to seeing it again.
Just the meta aspect of it was so incredible, but the story framing, the setting, the music, all ties together so well and made it so unforgettable. The set design was also so good, the coreography and the lighting made the experience so intense.
I don't have much experience watching musicals in general so maybe I'm way off base. I've been listening to the album on Spotify now.
Glad you enjoyed it! My wife and I went in NYC in December. An understudy played Orpheus that night, so that maybe contributed, but I didn't love it as much as everyone seems to. The music just... Didn't stick in my head.
Choreography/set design was very cool, and I loved the man who played Hades, though.
Ooof yeah I feel like Orpheus's part is so important especially in selling that he can actually charm literally everything with his music. I really liked the Broadway cast recording though so maybe that will help! I think the music layered itself really well especially with all the reprises building right onto to the story
It's a sad song, but we tell it anyway
Did anyone in the audience gasp out loud at the turn?
I'm not too sure honestly because I felt myself gasp and felt my heart skip 3 beats. I know how the story ended but I was like orpheus, had so much hope that the world could be different at that split second.
It's a love song
Hermes brings it home after that moment so so well.
I watched Heretic with Hugh Grant. It is a gripping psychological terror movie. Two young missionaries go to Hugh Grant's character's house to talk to him about religion, which he is eager and willing to discuss.
This is a great part for Grant, which he absolutely nails. He seems to be his normal befuddlingly charming English self, but the dark, steely, awfulness underneath is very believable. If you like dark psychologic horror movie, then I thought this one was pretty good. The movie raises some questions but answers all of them. The story is not particularly original, but the dialogue is good, and the acting is very good.
Warfare(2025) might be the fastest hour and a half movie i’ve ever watched. I’m not sure i liked it, but it’s a nice slice of life, in a way. maybe i should classify it as the loudest ‘quiet cinema’ i’ve ever seen.
I watched it at home, but i think it would be more impactful in the theatre.
I saw it in a theater a while back, and I agree. Unless you have a really nice sound system at home, the theater will be better at making the loud sounds loud and making the bass shake the entire room.
I didn't like Michael Gandolfini when he first showed up in the Sopranos prequel, but he was good on The Deuce and pretty much everything else since. I didn't recognize him at first in this with the haircut and moustache.
All in all, neat concept for a movie. It seems so simple on the surface / pitch, but the reality of it is a nightmare.
This is one of the few movies where I want bass so deep that I nearly vomit. :)