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Now You See Me
2013 · Film · 116 min
Directed by Louis Leterrier
An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.
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For me the critic score is a 'is this valuable as a cultural enrichment of movies' vs 'do people like it'.
What you do with information is than your decision.
Best case you know and trust your critics because you align to a certain degree with their experience and movie taste.
For example "now you see me" is a shit movie. Magic in a movie doesn't work and the main hidden character basically breaks the whole movie but apparently the audience loved it.
Let me change your mind.
Ocean's 12 is one of the greatest movies ever made.
It is a reality TV-esque take on the lives of master thieves. This begs the question, what does the life of a master thief look like? Is it that of the Night Fox? A wealthy, sophisticated French aristocrat, well-educated and very serious about his craft. Someone who has mastered the art of capoeira to evade security laser beams for example, and goes to such great lengths to be the best?
The second question is that of why? Why do you do what you do? What is the Night Fox's motivation for being a master thief? The relentless pursuit of perfection and pulling off the greatest heist ever? Just becoming the best for being the best sake?
I would like to present a real life example to you: the ongoing Messi versus Ronaldo debate. Is the greatest football player an inimitable, natural-born artist or a perfection obsessed workaholic who probably owns a cryogenic chamber in which he sleeps every night to maintain peek physical fitness?
With these questions in mind, a second and third viewing of the Ocean's 12 movie will help you decide the debate of who is the greatest thief of them all.
If you were disappointed because you were looking for a heist movie with cool gadgets and mind-freak tricks, you can google "heist movie" and watch whatever pops up first (Now You See Me).
Ocean's 12 is for philosophical rumination.
The opening to the film “now you see me” did the forced-choice-of-card gag well.
Interesting story. Liked reading it.
Parts of it remind me of both movies "Now You See Me" and "Now You Don't". They are quite goofy and unrealistic but have a really good spirit and message.
Annihilation, Dark City, Riddick Chronicles, Babylon A.D., Guardians of The Galaxy, Fast and Furious, Hummingbird, Transporter, Crank, Hardcore Henry, Revolver, Lucy, Ghost in The Shell, Now you see me, Passengers, Transcendence, Maze Runner, Limitless...
I think we've had a good run; I also think it's easy to be biased and not see it because of some nostalgia-effect of sorts. If you are f.e. 30+ you might more easily dismiss a movie as Limitless or Lucy as uncredible; both are based on a common myth that we only utilize a low percentage of our brains capacity, as an example, so they are that: unrealistic. But I think that's an unfair comparison because of an inherent bias that when you think about a movie like The Matrix you don't see it with the same critical lens because you perhaps had less knowledge of the world in your earlier years. #JustAFewThoughts
Wild. I think some of the best tv of the past couple of years is on Netflix. Dark, Haunting of Hill House, Glitch, American Vandal, Sex Education, just off the top of my head as top shows in recent history. Solid shows like Now You See Me just having come out. Solid movies like Always Be My Maybe just come out. Then guilty pleasure shows that are good too like Sabrina. And shows on networks that likely aren’t going to pull content for their own service like BBC shows with top notch content like The Fall are on Netflix too.
If I was stuck with one companies original new content. I don’t see how I wouldn’t pick Netflix for now.
Google has been doing this for ages, not only with Books results but web search results. If the query is associated with some Entity, it will return various (hopefully useful) about that entity even if they do not contain text involved at all.
This is how, for example the query "that movie where there are two magicians" returns varied results about The Prestige, whereas "that movie where there are four magicians" returns various results about Now You See Me.
A pure text search would likely return very similar results, but the entity mapping heavily impacts the search results.