This Movie
Gets 10 stars from me purely for the 80s nostalgia in the opening scene.
shareI haven''t seen it yet but have heard the 80's nostalgia is perfect
shareIT IS, it was very accurate (I believe as I wasn't an 80s kid.)
share
MovieChat Forums > Air (2023) Discussion > This Movie
I watched it a few nights ago. I enjoy movies about the 80s and I also enjoy business stories, and this film was both. Very solid watch that deserved more attention when it was in the theater.
The recreation of the 80s was quite good. Seeing Matt Damon's character have to find a pay phone after his pager went off brought back memories of seeing a lot of professionals running around with pagers at that time.
Well if it's free to stream on prime, it's likely to be widely ignored in theaters since most people will just be browsing, stumble upon the movie, and watch it.
share"Free to stream" if you are paying for Prime. And it's only on Prime now after it's had a theatrical run
And yeah, I believe it was widely ignored in theaters, which is kind of a shame since I think it's one of the best films of the year. It seems largely that if a film isn't a big, grandiose blockbuster, people don't want to go to the theater to see it.
I feel like if Driving Miss Daisy were made today, it would either just do the indie circuit it or it would go straight to streaming. It was a huge theatrical hit in 1989, though.
I can agree that it's one of the best films this year. Although I don't watch a lot of the "big" movies each year.
I watched some of Driving Miss Daisy and it was.... eh. Good acting and I like the concept, but something felt missing. Morgan Freeman and Dan Akroyd did well, but I don't know if I felt the connection that Miss Daisy was supposed to have with the driver.
I'm surprised you didn't like Driving Miss Daisy more than that. When I was a kid my grandmother loved that movie. I even remember going with her to see it multiple times in the theater when it first came out.
A few years ago I revisited it for the first time since childhood and found it to be a damn good film. As for Miss Daisy's relationship with Hoke, as I see it she had isolated herself largely via her own attitudes and led a lonely life. She spent a lot of time with Hoke--more time with him than with any other person it seems--and she grew to rely on him and to trust him and eventually to regard him as her best friend. It makes sense to me.
I lived in Oregon in the 80's. This brought back a lot of memories.
But nobody wanted the Blazers to draft Sam Bowie, and everyone knew Michael Jordan was the best player in the draft. But Portland already had Clyde Drexler, a Hall of Fame level guard, and the theory back then was that you needed a big man to win.