I liked this more than I thought since I tend to not care for tech startup movies. Glenn Howerton was the main character here, but not for out-acting Jay Baruchel or Matt Johnson (who I’ve come to really like in everything I’ve seen of his), just because his huge overexaggeration (so I read) of Jim Balsillie was hilarious. I also knew way less of the RIM story than I thought and I’m now inclined to check out the book this was based on. A good pairing with Air (2023) to the twin movies list.
Watched this because it has come up to me a few times recently as a movie that was a stinker when released and has been reassessed and found a cult following. Nope. One of Michael Mann’s poorest outputs.
I was really excited to watch this. Steamboy is Katsuhiro Otomo’s second film after directing one of the greatest animes of all time, Akira, but while Akira can hold your attention for 2+ hours, this cannot. It had the ingredients - excellent action sequences, incredible animation, and somewhat engaging but also sort of boring social commentary on capitalism - but just couldn’t come together for me in the end.
Super intense in-the-moment war movie with good performances and visual effects and excellent sound design. A lot of folks are criticizing this for being pro-America propaganda, I didn’t get that from it but that’s just me.
Al Pacino’s debut as a lead, written by Joan Didion and her husband, whose name I forget. Pacino was great, of course, but overall pretty underwhelming and unimaginative story of a drug addict whose charisma pulls another into an addiction of their own.
Excellent casting and performance from Judy Greer off type as well as Alexander Skarsgård. Michael Shannon’s directoral debut. Good story, executed just fine.