ok, Gen-X Boomer...

It is 1970. The Beatles have just released their final song.

You’re recommending the 2003 Italian Job starring charisma-vacuum Mark Wahlberg? I thought the U.S. and U.K. were supposed to be allies but you’ve just declared war.

It’s pretty. Maybe I wouldn’t notice without knowing about the production but it seems like there are some nasty audio artifacts in the chorus, like there was some vibrato that the AI didn’t know how to handle.

I loved how often in Get Back we would see John mimic vomiting during an especially cheesy song rehearsal

It depends on the show. This format is perfect for the types of shows HBO does for the most part, but a lot is lost when all shows just drop 10 episodes once a year. I miss holiday episodes. I miss the silly experimental episodes. I LOVED shows like X-Files and Buffy that ran for LONG seasons back in the day, but so…

Anytime someone says “John Lennon would’ve liked it,” I’m like, “Oh, John Lennon would’ve hated it.”

That is sounds better than the Traveling Wilburys trying to keep time to a crappy demo is not a high standard, but it is a relief. Just on its own merits, it’s a good song melodically, with real emotional resonance and backing that sounds inevitably like Beatles pastiche but still pretty good. I’m not really honing in …

It depends on what you dislike about the original. The darkness and sexual violence is still there. I actually liked Fincher’s movie better, because I felt that the original got bogged down in the minutiae of the book’s overly detailed magazine publishing world. You could tell that Blomkvist was a total wish…

Fair point - not lagging is not the same thing as tight. Scorsese always takes time to let his stories feel lived-in, so I’m not surprised Departed takes its time relative to the original.

At this point does anyone still wear rose colored glasses about what kind of person Elvis was, or at least what he became? This sounds good but I’m not expecting to learn anything new about his appetites and behaviors. So I’ll leave everyone with my favorite take on the man (‘scuse me)...

you’re not serious about the italian job? really?

Huh? I’m all for shitting on Barsanti but he didn’t write this review. Also, it sounds to me like the movie is pretty critical of their age gap.

Doesn’t really sound like a Beatles song.

Funny Games is a fucked up movie.  I don’t like learning that there are two of them.

Sounds like John and Paul on vocals but not a Beatles song. It’s got neither the raw early rock and roll energy nor the later more experimental angst. Sounds more Wings or modern pop music to my ear. Also: kind of a dirge. Listened to it once, don’t need it in my collection.

Taken on its on merits, it’s not a very good song. Vocally thin, lyrically weak. And the production has a very artificial sheen to it. That said, of course outside this vacuum, they had a very rough demo to work with, a song that was even less complete than Free as a Bird and Real Love.

The only time it drags for me is the scenes with Farmiga. I don’t feel her involvement or storyline added anything much to the proceedings, and it frankly felt off that a police therapist with a live-in boyfriend would start sleeping with a patient she barely knows.

A list of remakes that includes shot-for-shot nonentities like “Ring” which were basically rushed into production because American audiences don’t like to read, but ignores “Victor/Victoria”, a brilliant director’s last great work which was nominated for seven Oscars as well as a Cesar, multiple Golden Globes and a…

I’ve assumed this would be a spiritual sister film to Sofia’s Marie Antoinette (barely legal young girl swept up in arranged marriage to royalty, and its discontents). I’m pretty excited to see Sofia’s take.