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Excellent suspense thriller rendered in humanist terms amidst a self-imposed cataclysm.
Good irony; good pathos.
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John Williams should be up for the oscar...not because RISE is the best of 2019 but it's the conclusion of an outstanding serie and just like Jackson received his Best Picture for the really cheesy and mediocre RETURN OF THE KING as an appreciation for the whole series...John Williams should receive his as an honor of this incredible ouvre called Star Wars.
Here, here. They won't tho.
So we're just giving out consolation prices for the Oscars now. What a millennial thing to say.
You really think Return of the King deserved that Best Picture statue?
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John Williams should be up for the oscar...not because RISE is the best of 2019 but it's the conclusion of an outstanding serie and just like Jackson received his Best Picture for the really cheesy and mediocre RETURN OF THE KING as an appreciation for the whole series...John Williams should receive his as an honor of this incredible ouvre called Star Wars.
Here, here. They won't tho.
So we're just giving out consolation prices for the Oscars now. What a millennial thing to say.
You really think Return of the King deserved that Best Picture statue?
I don't recall what else was up that year. But ROTK was an excellent film even if it was a little long and a little "cheesy".
The other noms were:
Lost in Translation
Mystic River
Seabiscuit
Master and Commander
So...yeah I guess ROTK did deserve it that year lol
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I was a little underwhelmed by this at a Christmas-time screening, then saw it again in another theater yesterday.
Wow! What a difference! The first theater had cropped the sides of the image; there wasn't the resolution needed; the HDR was almost non-existent. The second theater (theater 11, Regal LA Live, DTLA) had the needed wide screen, for this movie is as wide as any I've seen since Ben-Hur.
I'd suspected, since learning this movie was captured with a new digi-mini (the Arri Alexa Mini LF (large format)), that I'd been missing something in the first theater. Was I ever!
Go see it in the best theater available to you!
joan hue, you might make a special trip to your nearest super high quality theater to see this one. A real humanist piece of stuff, made to the highest technical standards.
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Hey Born, I did see this movie in a superb theater, and I liked it very much. I thought the two relatively unknown main actors were excellent. I liked the “one shot” method of filming. It made the audience an actual part of these soldiers’ complete journey. We were there right with them.
Amazing cinematography and superb locations, and of course the story had real heart. I kind of didn’t want to post this because most of the people in this thread loved Newman’s score, and I did not. I find his music cold which fit American Beauty but not some of the more serious films he scored since American Beauty. I wanted a score that provided more emotional gravitas to this movie, and his didn’t provide that for me. Turning up the volume very loud on rather non thematic random notes is not musical emotional architecture for me. But I’m glad others here liked the score.
It is a fine film and should be viewed in a new, excellent theater. It would be diminished on the small screen.
Hi Joan. Many of us have felt about Newman's work in the past several years and it continues to be strangely upsetting. Speaking of volume, one of the highlights of the score, that "Night Window" cue, is so quiet you can barely hear it for the first half, and even when it gets more pronounced it's still puzzlingly low in volume.
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joan hue: Hey Born, I did see this movie in a superb theater, and I liked it very much. I thought the two relatively unknown main actors were excellent.
joan, did you notice that 1917's Lance Corporal Blake (the one who was killed after the rescue of the German pilot) was played by Game of Thrones actor Dean-Charles Chapman? Remember who he played? Like so many noble Game of Thrones characters, he met an ignominious end.
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joan hue: Yes, I thought the actor who played Blake looked familiar, so I looked him up on IMBD. He was younger and blonde in GOT and played the new king. Sadly he committed suicide. All the nasty queen's children were then gone. It is interesting to see actors from GOT play in other movies.
Yes joan, young King Tommen was by fate denied the counsel of his wise uncle Tyrion. Otherwise, we might have been spared much blood and death in the aftermath of Tommen's tragic suicide.
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