I did break down and check out the trailer after my comment, and there do seem to be elements of the original novel in there which didn’t make the first movie. But, unless I misremember, its tone looks quite similar to the first film, not so much the book.
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I’m on my lunch break and just saw it. It looks decent and I like that it’s not going overly serious and dark which was I feared it might be. Glad it’s not, and honestly I wasn’t against a remake because the OG movie is so campy nothing can really compete with it and judging by the trailer this movie is doing something somewhat different which I like so far.
Hope it does well
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I liked TWBB, but didn’t think it was as great as so many others. One problem was I kept asking myself, Why is John Huston in this film? That impression was too needlessly spot-on.
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It was a well-made film but IMHO wasn’t the very best film of the last 25 years. Opinions will differ, of course.
I can think of several other films that I think are worthy of that list. Amélie, for example. But it’s good to see a Miyazaki film there.
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I enjoyed There Will Be Blood. Kind of. Yes, i definitely did… Maybe?
It’s a hard movie for me to recommend to others because it’s such a specific movie watching experience. It’s slow, painfully so and i was really damn bored for most of it but i really wanted to see what the big deal about the movie was so i stuck it out. I feel like the movie could be condensed into a 30-45 minute cut, but the movie really takes its time to show you how the main character is a two faced piece of shit, and how others are lured by the siren song of money and abandon their morals.
What does the movie do well in my opinion is that is that i highly enjoyed the sound track, and it’s shot beautifully. Also the last 10 minutes of the movie is really what turns the movie from meh to a wild ride. At least for me the end of the movie really made the slowness of the rest of it worth it but its still hard for me to recommend it to others.
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Please no 
some movies could possibly get away with a reboot/remake, but with Indiana Jones Harrison Ford is just irreplaceable.
I loathe to say that maybe focus on a new character in the same world, but really just make a new IP. Stop beating that dead horse. But something tells me perhaps this may have to do with refreshing the IP/copyright?
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Me and my hubby will still yell “I ABANDONED MY BOY” randomly in reference to our daughter sometimes…
But yeah… I mean, that opening scene in the oil well just goes on and on, doesn’t it?
I have not seen either The Social Network or Eternal Sunshine, but I enjoyed all the rest of these. TWBB is just okay…
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Ugh… NO!
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This movie is pretty good, artsy and weird but i loved it
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Yep. I’d go further and say Eternal Sunshine was really great!
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I might be inclined to say so as well, i just don’t want to oversell it to someone that’s never seen it. It’s def worth watching, and on the off chance Mindy sees it i hope she enjoys it 
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Thank you for the recommendation, which also came earlier in this thread by several other posters. I watched “Polite Society” last night (DVD from the library) and it was an enjoyable romp! Fun choreography, too.
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Just watched 28 years later and… well I enjoyed it. I’m currently in “I’ll watch anything with Ralph Fiennes in it” phase and this didn’t end it.
Somebody watch it so we can talk about the bonkers ending!
Shout out to the Young Fathers soundtrack which really worked (though one bit totally sounded like Godspeed!)
Which reminds me. I saw Godspeed last year for the first time since their first international tour and they were even better. Also the four projector thing was great with them.
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Agreed there, i saw it again for the first time in yearrrrrrs and really connected with it a lot more.
Wasn’t it just… anyone outside the UK will see it as a weird tonal shift but for a lot of people of a certain vintage within the UK it has a whole other level of horror attached and i’m still not happy they used it for entertainment purposes.
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Given that the whole thing was a kind of grim Brexit movie I think that it was a kind of grotesque horror. Fiennes character and setting were I felt a big echo of apocalypse now (I can’t speak to the novel as I only read it recently and it’s fucking unreadably shit to me) whereas the end was for me a riff on Clockwork Orange. But Brexit.
I actually wasn’t that familiar with the person in question, like I’d seen them on top of the pops but Louis Theroux was more my introduction to them. That and a BBCNI producer talking about them as an adult.
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Wait- Mindy hasn’t seen Eternal Sunshine?!?!?!?
I can understand if you just avoid Jim Carrey - I don’t find him amusing myself. Don’t care for his oeuvre at all. But ESotSM is not a Jim Carrey movie. It’s a Michel Gondry / Charlie Kaufman movie. It’s absolutely brilliant and sad and hilarious and lovely.
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