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Got tickets for 2nd IMAX viewing in a couple weeks. Not missing chance while it’s still on the big screen.

My wife commented on the way out of the theater it felt like when we were kids watching the old Ray Harryhausen stuff but for real. Like actually real. Not CGI... real. This production was monumental IMO. It drew an ovation from the crowd which I have not seen in a theater since Godzilla Minus...

Probably will go back for another (IMAX) viewing of Odyssey. There were definitely some Nolan-ism's to unpack with his version of this classic tale. But there was so much visceral stuff happening on screen that it was hard to think about any of that while simply witnessing and absorbing the...

Odyssey was pretty epic. IMAX sound track was as LOUD as I have ever experienced in any theater.

Got Odyssey IMAX tickets for this weekend can't wait. They had me at 60ft (non CGI) puppet.

Another teaser dropped today. Doesn't reveal a whole lot but I'm fine with that. Staking out my parking space at local IMX theater for 11/03 release.

All I remember about it at the time was that it was somewhat controversial because it depicted what amounted to a grown man who appeared as a young boy (stunted growth from trauma of war, etc.) and there was I think a (not graphic) love scene with a grown woman so everyone freaked out about...

Deacon, Bar none the most intense and historically fascinating WWII film I have seen in years is Come and See (1985). It tells the story of a young wide eyed kid from Belarus enlisting with the Soviet army/resistance to fight Germans as they retreated and laid waste to entire Belarusian...

Found this list on IMDB... WWII Movies From A German Perspective... I have seen a number of them but not for many years. I remember Tin Drum being a big movie about a kid whose age and growth are (I think not sure) metaphorically stunted by the horrors of war. And I have seen several others...

This one is WWI and primarily shows the insanity of Western Front trench warfare from the view of some very young late arriving German recruits... very young... under trained... unprepared... etc. There is also a focus on the last six hours of fierce combat just prior to the surrender which is...

Watch this German remake of All Quiet on The Western Front this weekend streaming on Netflix it was pretty epic. Default soundtrack on Netflix was crappy dubbed English but it can be toggled back to original German thankfully. Brutal retelling of events as depicted in the original 1930 classic...

Watched Hail Mary on Amazon this weekend we enjoyed it. Kind of a comic relief Interstellar-Lite if that makes any sense. But well done and good sci-fi story in and around the comic relief.

Psyched for this one...

Watched Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die this weekend. Not particularly original AI doomsday scenario warning theme. It was like a hybrid of a dozen previous films and borrowed from all of them... but that's not a knock on it because to me it felt more like a tribute to them vs. a straight rip...

Counting the days until November 6th.