The main
aspect of the preceding week: viewing some movies theatrically.
Monday evening, I went to CityWalk at Universal Studios; it was at
the Cinemark, which was an AMC Theatres until September of last year.
It largely looked the same as before although the auditoriums were
remodeled and now have the “luxury recliners” that have been in
vogue for a few years now, and in general are very nice. This
Halloween season they have had “Fright Nights”, which is showings
of old horror movies; if only 1985's Fright Night would have been one
of them. Anyhow, it is a nice lineup of such classics as The
Exorcist, Psycho and A Nightmare on Elm Street. Well, on this night I
saw The Thing theatrically. I am talking about the movie from John
Carpenter starring my (non) relative Kurt Russell. It's a tremendous
movie so I was happy to see it that way and plenty of people were in
the auditorium; thankfully there were no issues or bad/rude behavior.
Tuesday I did
nothing but Wednesday was one of those days which wasn't good overall
but did have one positive stretch. I went and saw another movie, this
time one from India. Indian movies aren't hard to see in Florida, but
picking one is the thing... the fact that all of them are over 2
hours long is the big thing. However, I heard that War was an insane
action film in the best of ways, so even though it was 156 minutes in
length I went and took a chance on it. Well, it was gleefully absurd
so it was a good time... even if there was a screaming child in the
audience and the auditorium was freezing cold... I suppose it was at
times a 4D experience as part of the movie takes place in the Arctic
Circle; but, freezing cold would have been better for The Thing
screening. Anyhow, the traffic there and back was full of A-holes
behind the wheel and my dinner wasn't as good as expected so other
than the movie I'd rather forget about Wednesday.
Oh yeah, I
should mention that War was about a super Indian agent who has to go
against his mentor after he seemingly went rogue. The movie was
amazingly homoerotic, to be perfectly frank here. Thursday I went and
saw another movie about a great agent: Gemini Man. For a nerd like me
the big draw was not director Ang Lee or even star Will Smith but
rather the unique way the movie was shot: a higher than usual frame
rate. I could write paragraphs about the whole process but I imagine
many don't particularly care plus there are sites which can explain
it better than me... the picture is for certain clearer, although the
action does move differently so I know people whose brain just
rejects high frame rate and it does not work for them. I imagine that
is a big problem to HFR becoming a common thing. Anyhow, I saw it in
HFR 3D+ (simply, that format in 3D) and on a Dolby Cinema screen,
which was huge and had dual laser projection.
The movie
itself, it was more about its appearance and the digital creation
that was Young Will Smith rather than its story and dialogue, which
typically was either OK or pretty bad. That digital creation usually
looked fine, although the one time it was fully lit, its appearance
was shockingly awful. If you can see it in HFR 3D+, do so: that
picture blew me away due to its clarity and it was the best 3D I've
ever seen. Aside from that Gemini Man is a rather generic movie which
kind of wastes its unique clone premise. I saw this at Disney Springs
so Thursday night when I wasn't at the movie I walked around the
area, and enjoyed it dressed up for the fall season.
Friday
through Sunday the only things I did was either go into town for food
or relax at home. One night was Domino's Pizza, because there was a
coupon in the mail for a large pizza and bread bites; to be frank, it
was a deal which was more about quantity than quality. The next time,
I'll talk about the sporting event I saw some games of on TV as of
late... and other things, which are not set in stone as of now.
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