juneebuggy

Not a nice movie, yeah its super well done; beautiful cinematography, the barren winter landscape, the bear attack is amazing but it's a brutal movie. I wouldn't put myself through watching this again.

Limited dialogue with what felt like hours of Leo rolling around grunting and spitting. I just don't think there is any way he would have survived this. Okay maybe the bear attack but all that time on the land freezing, no food, in the icy water, hypothermia, infection etc would have taken him down, there's just no way. Plus Leo is in pretty good shape by the end, as in not skinny. He would have lost like 30 pounds during this ordeal.

Random...Leonardo goes full Empire Strikes Back Ton-ton "And I thought they smelled bad on the outside."

One of my favourite disaster movies, here an ambitious journalist investigating what she believes is a Washington sex scandal discovers that an extinction level comet is going to hit earth. We follow multiple story arcs and characters as the comet edges closer; a teen couple who discover the asteroid, and are entered into a "survivor lottery" doomed astronauts, Tea Leoni's family drama with her aging parents.

I like how everything they are trying to do to stop the asteroid keeps failing. Morgan Freeman telling the people again and again 'we have failed' speaking of which, Morgan Freeman should be the president in all movies that require a president. I liked how the reporter accidentally finds out about "Ela" And have thought many times over the years about the scene with Téa and her father on the beach as the giant tsunami wave looms; scared, hugging.

Interestingly sections of this movie played out differently for me watching it again post Covid, as president Freeman explains to his tv audience what's happening and that martial law will go into effect, there will be no hoarding, (toilet paper came to mind,) prices will be fixed. It was a different experience now that I'm living in a pandemic.

After being released from a mental intuition, an irrational man tries to reclaim the life he had before he was committed 10 years earlier (he thinks it's only 3 months) despite the fact that his wife has divorced him, married John Travolta and moved on in his absence.

Didn't much care for this at all. Good performances from Robin Wright and Sean Penn but the script and characters are all over the place. For the first 20 min Penn is normal, no sign of mental illness, sure he's a thug but he doesn't appear unhinged, then he goes a bit crazy because his pregnant wife is raped -who wouldn't- and wakes up in the morning a changed man who needs to be committed... for 10 years, there was no progression. The scene upon his release in the hair salon was silly. I enjoyed Harry Dean Stanton, got a couple laughs, the ending was ridiculous, mostly this was uneven.