Movie Details
| Title: | A House of Dynamite | |
| Director: | Kathryn Bigelow | |
| Year: | 2025 | |
| Genre: | Apocalypse | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 10.31.25 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (6)
- Detroit
- The Hurt Locker
- Near Dark
- Point Break
- Strange Days
- Zero Dark Thirty
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 10.31.25 | Internet | Kathryn Bigelow's latest which exhaustively depicts our military's and government's response to a nuclear missile appearing in the sky. You know, I was initially surprised to see that this movie is just under two hours long. Both Zero Dark Thirty and Detroit were two and a half hours so I figured she was firmly in that it-runs-however-long-i-say-it-runs camp, especially considering this is on Netflix. So it wasn't until the end of the movie that I realized why the running time is what it is: the last half hour of the movie is FUCKING MISSING. Seriously, I don't know that I'm currently prepared to communicate how I feel about the ending I just watched. Perhaps the worst part about it was how on board I was until then. I think Bigelow's got a real talent for notching tension and showing process that is close enough to authentic to seem real, but bro... that tension's gotta aim at something. Rules of Hitchcock 101. Imagine watching Zero Dark Thirty but it ends before the Seal Team Six stuff. It's... it's... it's hard to wrap my head around. Like, drama is tension and release? lead up and pay off? conflict resolution? To quote Friday, this movie is kool-aid no sugar, peanut butter no jelly, ham no burger. Perhaps in time I will come to appreciate this ultimate blue ball cockblock son of a bitch move, but for me right now at this moment it's like they took a great movie and nullified it. It's nothing now. Why watch? Why think anything about this? I mean, is the message that nuclear war would be bad? Because if it is, NO FUCKING SHIT! I don't need a half a goddamn movie repeated three times to tell me that. We're on the fucking brink as it is... don't give me anxiety for two fucking hours then roll fucking credits. jesus christ, who thought this was a good idea? You know studio executives get a lot of shit but this form of creative freedom needed some notes. Big obnoxious studio notes that can't be ignored. If you're gonna make a movie like this do it on a shoestring budget so no one will watch it, don't put a stellar cast together! Don't make it seem like a real movie! So, I didn't care for the ending (if you can call it that). I would say I really liked everything until then but it doesn't really matter because this is not a finished film so it's a waste of time to watch. You know, I'm trying to look on the bright side with new movies. I know I don't go to the theater any more, I know this journal is a shell of what it used to be, but it seems like 9 out of 10 new movies that I watch are egregiously poor. Like not a real movie. Just scenes put together one after another or bizarre husks of old IP propped up by CGI and megacorp dollars. I think I need to watch an actual good movie. I have hopes for Weapons, One Battle After Another, the Naked Gun remake. Maybe those will, you know, have a beginning, middle, and end. |
