Watched with the the youngest today when storms canceled our afternoon plans. What a nostalgia rush! This movie was my childhood dream scenario. Without a doubt! Kids today do not get films like this.
A couple random notes after my first complete viewing as an adult.
- I don’t know how John Williams was persuaded to score SpaceCamp, but the music is glorious.
- We absolutely do not give kids enough credit today nor trust them to grasp context. There…
West Side Story is the very best of Golden Age Hollywood transported into twenty-first century cinemas. I didn’t know a movie like this could exist today. Spielberg wields a power and vision behind the camera that flows from raw talent that has been honed over decades at the top of his craft. He and virtuoso DP Janusz Kamiński create and block scenes that are meticulously composed and mind bogglingly gorgeous. It’s easy to forget what actual masters with can accomplish…
25th Anniversary screening with a lifelong friend with whom I happened to see this on opening night back in 1999.
I miss the real midnight screenings like that back before the cheat of opening on Thursdays. The first time we watched this, we were in line at 8am (and it was already wrapped around the theater). A local radio station brought pizzas out for everyone. We got our tickets when the box office opened at 1PM and we returned at…
Terrific. Couldn’t have loved this film more. Instant favorite.
Also:
“Jimmy Fallon. Not funny at all. He breaks in every sketch, ruined the Weekend Update…I miss Norm.”
No truer words have ever been spoken on screen.
A visual wonder. I couldn’t dream up a better way to portray this world on screen. Barbieland here is a delightful spectacle and infinitely clever.
I have to say that if I never see Will Ferrell in another role like this again, it’ll be too soon - and I generally like him but here, he seemed to be playing a slightly more “grown up” version of Buddy the Elf. Huge misfire. He annoyed me every time he was on screen. Ferrell…
