Nixon_Carmichael

I know nothing about Formula 1 nor any other racing. I thought the movie was cool, that being said I DID see it at an AMC Prime Dolby theatre, so it was like being at an imax movie and heavy metal concert at the same time, which I'm sure didn't hurt.

As a narrative, it's your basic sports movie. Old dude gets dragged back into the mix for one more big chance. Younger cocky rookie hates him. Blah blah blah.

That being said, the camera work and editing and sound design are insane. That was worth price of admission alone.

Brad Pitt carried the movie and was perfectly functional. A weird thing with Brad Pitt to me is that I often had a hard time buying him as a leading man. Even though he's got all the leading man charm and looks I never though he was all that good of a lead actor, BUT I've always felt that Brad Pitt's wheelhouse was playing weirdo supporting characters. Brad Pitt is a character actor and pretty good one, but always was looked at as a leading man. Probably just the celebrity of it all.

At the end of the day F1 was fun. Great camera and a bizarre but fun score from Hans Zimmer.

If you can see it in a giant theatre with great sound, that's the way to do it.

I have no idea how or why Apple thinks is going to work on their stupid ass streaming service.

One last thing to note is that as far as I could tell, the movie is completely devoid of any CGI whatsoever, so everything in the movie seems to have been done practically, with the small exception of maybe a quick flash back shot to a young Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem.

40 Acres is a new Canadian, post apocalyptic......farm thriller?

The basic plot follows a family living on an isolated farm in the middle of rural Canada, several years after a mushroom pandemic, civil war and other weird stuff.

Society has fallen, and there are cannibals and raiders everywhere. A family of mixed ethnicity are now surviving, growing food on their farm, which is super important, all animals are now wiped out and farmland is a super hot commodity.

The movie is handsomely shot but it bounces around from dark humour, horror, a military movie, a family religious movie and a coming of age movie, oh and kidnapping movie.

It's almost like the director said to the writers "Hey you have all of this stuff in here. What kind of movie should this actually be?" And then they all said "Yes."

This is a textbook example of throwing everything but the kitchen sink at the wall, but what sticks actually does kind of work.

The movie is unique in that when it's the turn...things get worse for the characters....and then it gets worse......and then it gets worse...before being tied up in a nice little bow at the end.

At the end of the day, if you gave me this film's budget and actors and told me to go with god, this isn't the movie that I would necessarily come up with, but I'm glad that someone took a stab at it. The result is a low to mid budget thriller that actually pulls it off. I saw this movie at a surprise screening, but I'm glad that I did.

As certified, bored, Not A Doctor, this show rings pretty true, having worked in some gnarly places myself.

The Pitt is a spiritual sequel in the vein of ER. There is also a little bit of 24 in here as each episode is one hour of an ER shift in real. Also absent is any corny music, which is nice.

Noah Wyle is back as an ER doc who is seasoned and has seen every possible scenario, from dead kids, to the working through then pandemic (as seen through a couple of brief flashbacks). In the Pitt, Noah's Dr. Robby isn't a mad scientist like House or an over emotional mess like ER or Scrubs, but rather plays the character with a solemn cool.

HBO/Max would do well to make more of this. Like yesterday.