The End of the Tour : Hauntingly Beautiful

Hauntingly Beautiful

I watched it last night, and I'm still thinking about it even now.
It just lingers in your thoughts-- especially if you feel like you're a tortured soul yourself, I guess.
I had to restrain a lot of tears when it showed the older Lipsky listening to the recording of younger Wallace and himself then at around the same time they just looked out at the vastness of the snow field.
2014 was a wasteland for movies. This year so far we have been very blessed with this movie, Amy, the Chris Farley documentary and even the surprisingly great Mad Max film.
Any one of those movies are light years beyond whatever won the Academy Award last year (I don't even remember, and it was one of the few times when I didn't care).



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Good. I'm going tomorrow and I'm excited!

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What? In 2014 we had The Grand Budapest, Foxcatcher, Birdman, Boyhood, Kingsman, The Lego movie, Gone Girl- just to name a few.

How is that a wasteland for movies?

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The Grand Budapest,

hideously overrated, not funny

Foxcatcher,

farcically inaccurate, work of fiction

Birdman,

enjoyable, so-so movie

Boyhood,

Please. It's finally getting the raked-over-the-coals treatment.

Kingsman,

not even worth a word

The Lego movie

"OOOoOOOOoooOOOOoHHHH! A KID'S MOVIE THAT ADULTS CAN ALSO ENJOY! CINEMATIC GENIUS." Kill me.
A. Children's. Movie.

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I don't know why I'm even engaging in this, because you're just going to shoot back with smarmy predetermined retorts, but 2014 had plenty of wonderful films: Mr. Turner, Inherent Vice, Selma, Pride, Force Majeure, Interstellar, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, Into the Woods, Edge of Tomorrow, etc. And yes, Birdman and Boyhood and The Grand Budapest Hotel, among others.

Don't know why this is relevant to The End of the Tour, which I agree is great.

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