G K (OldVermonter)

I finally got around to watching this and I wish I hadn't. What isn't disturbing in this movie is boring. The final scene sums it up. As the survivors escape they go through a group of pregnant women who have their eyes plugged with pegs and the limbs removed. The scene has nothing to do with the plot and adds nothing to the movie except to hand us one more gross scene. The movie is unnecessarily graphic and when you take those scenes out it becomes the same old overdone "rescue some poor white folks from those nasty savages" western movie. I'm so glad I didn't have to pay to watch this trash.

So we are asked to believe that there is a super secret "Table" that is in charge of a world wide network of sociopathic contract killers. John Wick has run afoul of these people and the price is his life. So a world wide chase ensues that includes a mind numbing number of murders. Through it all, including a death defying walk in the north African desert, Wick never even changes his clothes and gets around despite some serious wounds. The suspension of disbelief required to watch this mess is just too much. Don't waste your time.

I’ve watched two 3+ hour movies recently. Killers of the Flower Moon was excellent and worth every minute. Oppenheimer was a disappointment. The performances are excellent. And I value the attempt to show Oppenheimers moral struggle. But it just doesn’t work. Here was the most monumental development of our generation, morally and technologically but it’s just a long slog through much of the 180+ minutes.

I just watched the movie over a streaming service. I should note that I have an MDiv and a separate MA in psychology with a particular interest in Freud. So I was hoping this would be a great movie and I have to say, it is. In this day of action packed block busters from Hollywood, I'm impressed that this movie was even made. I think Hopkins, from what I know anyway, nails Freud in all his demanding, overbearing but witty and terrified (of the pain of cancer and his impending death) self. Goode does a great turn at portraying a relatively young Lewis. The film is not a white wash. Lewis, who penned the Chronicles of Narnia and Screw Tape Letters, is there with his rather problematic relationship with his war friend's mother is there. Freud's odd and challenging relationship with his daughter, Anna who was lesbian and a leading psychoanalyst herself, is front and center. But the questions of faith and atheism and the sometimes heated debate are so well done. But through it all there is a respect and a bit of affection between these two well known men. If you are not into the subject matter, watch something else. But otherwise this is a great film. The movie ends with my favorite quote from Freud, "From error to error, one discovers the entire truth." There has never been a greater quote about human nature and theology than that one!