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Anarchist

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #550 on: October 18, 2021, 02:59:09 AM »
Watched this last night...





A fantastic slow-burn mystery. Taylor Sheridan is a talented storyteller. And Renner and Olsen are great, as usual. I've now watched it twice. I'll surely watch it again at some point.

Currently on Netflix.
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Jeff Tanyard

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #551 on: October 18, 2021, 03:28:15 PM »
I haven't seen any of the Hobbit movies, nor will I.  As soon as I heard it was going to be a trilogy, I knew it was going to wildly diverge from the book.  The internet confirmed my suspicions.
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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #552 on: October 18, 2021, 04:04:02 PM »
I haven't seen any of the Hobbit movies, nor will I.  As soon as I heard it was going to be a trilogy, I knew it was going to wildly diverge from the book.  The internet confirmed my suspicions.

Wise decision. It's mind-boggling that the same people who made so many smart decisions with LotR made so many awful ones with these.
 

Vijaya

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #553 on: October 19, 2021, 01:26:47 AM »
Wind River was hauntingly beautiful.


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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #554 on: October 21, 2021, 02:12:01 AM »
Watched this last night...





A fantastic slow-burn mystery. Taylor Sheridan is a talented storyteller. And Renner and Olsen are great, as usual. I've now watched it twice. I'll surely watch it again at some point.

Currently on Netflix.

That movie was a powerhouse of emotion. I couldn't forget it for days after watching. It was great.
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Maggie Ann

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #555 on: October 21, 2021, 07:51:28 AM »
The Song of Lunch, TV movie with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson.

AR narrates a poem about a jaded, middle-aged man, meeting his lost love for lunch after 15 years. His narration is brilliant as always and the few lines of dialogue they both have are brilliantly executed.

This is not normally the kind of thing I would watch because poetry puts me to sleep after only a few lines but Rickman and Thompson make the whole thing watchable.

My favorite performance of AR is Revolutionary Witness: The Preacher. This reminds me of that.



           
 

j tanner

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #556 on: October 21, 2021, 08:10:36 AM »
That’s a bummer. Casino Royale and Skyfall were so good, the sequence was one good one bad and repeat so i thought they might go out on a high note.

There's consensus that it's better than SPECTRE. I think it's marginally so, while many others think it's significant. So there's a reasonable chance it'll be worth a watch for you. For comparison, I think Casino Royale is the best overall even with a weakish ending while Skyfall is the best filmmaking, the best ending, and a strong start, but an exceptionally dumb second act that can't quite sink it. NTTD would be a distant third for me, but I'll avoid the why beyond what I've said already for spoilery reasons.
 

j tanner

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #557 on: October 21, 2021, 08:24:12 AM »
News of the World - Fairly routine Western but enjoyable. Pushes no boundaries, takes no chances.

Red River. Just showed up on Kanopy so I gave it a shot. It's revered as Howard Hawks masterpiece and one of the best westerns ever. Sadly, it didn't hold up for me. I can't even figure out what the appeal was at the time. All due to Wayne's somewhat unexpected character arc, perhaps? Not sure.
 

Maggie Ann

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #558 on: October 21, 2021, 09:33:04 AM »
News of the World - Fairly routine Western but enjoyable. Pushes no boundaries, takes no chances.

Red River. Just showed up on Kanopy so I gave it a shot. It's revered as Howard Hawks masterpiece and one of the best westerns ever. Sadly, it didn't hold up for me. I can't even figure out what the appeal was at the time. All due to Wayne's somewhat unexpected character arc, perhaps? Not sure.

Sorry you didn't like Red River. It was made in 1948 but I probably didn't see it until the late 50s early 60s. And I probably watched it with my dad who had most likely seen it on the big screen. It's been one of my favorites ever since.

           
 

j tanner

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #559 on: October 21, 2021, 10:17:07 AM »
Sorry you didn't like Red River. It was made in 1948 but I probably didn't see it until the late 50s early 60s. And I probably watched it with my dad who had most likely seen it on the big screen. It's been one of my favorites ever since.

Certainly not your fault. It's been on my list to catch up with since well before you mentioned it. I figured you saw it fairly young. I'm mildly interested in what in particular stood out for you vs other westerns, but won't press. You don't need to defend it or anything. :)

Through today's lens, it portrays its female characters rather poorly, basically as insane props who exist only to lust for their chosen man who mostly couldn't care less about them. And the emotional resolution of the conflict was unintentionally rushed/funny which made it rather unsatisfying. (To be fair, the treatment of non-white characters was better than average for the time, the cattle drive setting is unique, and the Wayne character arc is atypical for him.)
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Maggie Ann

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #560 on: October 21, 2021, 12:11:07 PM »
Sorry you didn't like Red River. It was made in 1948 but I probably didn't see it until the late 50s early 60s. And I probably watched it with my dad who had most likely seen it on the big screen. It's been one of my favorites ever since.

Certainly not your fault. It's been on my list to catch up with since well before you mentioned it. I figured you saw it fairly young. I'm mildly interested in what in particular stood out for you vs other westerns, but won't press. You don't need to defend it or anything. :)

Through today's lens, it portrays its female characters rather poorly, basically as insane props who exist only to lust for their chosen man who mostly couldn't care less about them. And the emotional resolution of the conflict was unintentionally rushed/funny which made it rather unsatisfying. (To be fair, the treatment of non-white characters was better than average for the time, the cattle drive setting is unique, and the Wayne character arc is atypical for him.)

"The girl Dunson left behind" was quite strong. On the other hand, Joanne Dru's character (Millay) I could have done without. She thinks she's strong, but she's just jaded and cynical.

"Howard Hawks claimed the problem with the one scene that invites criticism, the ending, was not the scene itself but the way Joanne Dru played it. " I have to agree with that.

I would be hard put to pinpoint just what I like about the movie so much. I like the characters, although I agree with you that Dunson is an atypical character for Wayne. I like the vastness of the setting and the history of the Abilene Trail, even though we know that Hollywood has little regard for historical accuracy. I doubt that if it had been filmed in color I would have liked it so much. I think black-and-white adds to the drama.

I found it interesting that "Writer Borden Chase readily admitted that the storyline was Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) with saddles and stirrups."
           
 

j tanner

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #561 on: October 21, 2021, 12:29:26 PM »
I found it interesting that "Writer Borden Chase readily admitted that the storyline was Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) with saddles and stirrups."

Ah, interesting. When I explained the plot to someone I said Moby Dick as a cattle drive but MotB is a better fit.

I disagree with Hawks about blaming his actress. (Aside from the fact that as director, if he wasn't happy with how she played it, he's in a pretty good position to, you know, ask her to do something else.) I didn't buy character A, B, or C in that scene, particularly them ignoring what happened to character D moments before, and then wrapping it up in two seconds with a "whelp, folks, that's a happy ending for ya!" Still, that was my second biggest "I shouldn't be laughing" moment. A character getting shot with an arrow, and then continuing making goo-goo eyes at another character, while shot with an arrow! really took the cake.  :hehe

Anyway, thanks for sharing. Sometimes a movie just catches you in the right way. There are plenty of movies I love despite agreeing with much of the criticism lobbed at them.
 

Maggie Ann

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #562 on: October 21, 2021, 11:51:49 PM »
I wasn't in the mood to watch a whole movie last night but I remembered Galaxy Quest, 20th Anniversary Special: The Mockumentary. It's on YouTube and poor quality but I enjoyed it. The only disappointment was that Tony Shaloub was not on on it.

This is entirely different from the actual documentary on Amazon prime.
           
 

Jeff Tanyard

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #563 on: October 24, 2021, 06:40:22 PM »
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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #564 on: October 25, 2021, 12:32:59 AM »
My son went to see it with a bunch of friends and immediately told me that we must see it. I've never seen a Dune movie but read the book in high school... so I'm looking forward to it. We watched My Own Country--about Abraham Verghese's time as infectious disease chief at a small hospital in TN when AIDS was a death sentence. Well done.


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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #565 on: October 25, 2021, 02:19:01 AM »


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Anarchist

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #566 on: October 25, 2021, 02:47:29 AM »


Great story. Good directing. A few scenes reminded me of Wes Anderson's work. I think the story stumbled a few times, including at the end. But overall, worth a watch.

Carey Mulligan was terrific. Nailed the part.

Currently on HBO Max.

"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” – Thomas Sowell

"The State is an institution run by gangs of murderers, plunderers and thieves, surrounded by willing executioners, propagandists, sycophants, crooks, liars, clowns, charlatans, dupes and useful idiots—an institution that dirties and taints everything it touches.” - Hans Hoppe

"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience." - Adam Smith

Nothing that requires the labor of others is a basic human right.

I keep a stiff upper lip and shoot from the hip. - AC/DC
 

Maggie Ann

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #567 on: October 25, 2021, 03:07:02 AM »
Undefeated     

Post-Civil War Western with John Wayne and Rock Hudson. There was something off about Wayne in this movie. It was almost like he had back problems while filming something about the way he sat a horse and even something about the way he walked. It was like he phoned in his performance. I skipped to the end.

I think I'll cleanse my palate with The Magnificent Seven, the original version.
           
 

Lynn

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #568 on: October 25, 2021, 04:35:42 AM »
Mission Possible. Korean, with subtitles on Viki. I liked it. Funny spy flick. :)
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LBL

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #569 on: November 03, 2021, 10:39:08 PM »
Blood Red Sky

A bunch of hijackers on an overseas flight don't realize one of the passengers also happens to be a vampire.

Love the premise. The movie doesn't quite live up to it, IMO.

It's on Netflix.
 
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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #570 on: November 05, 2021, 12:49:01 PM »
Blood Red Sky

A bunch of hijackers on an overseas flight don't realize one of the passengers also happens to be a vampire.

Love the premise. The movie doesn't quite live up to it, IMO.

It's on Netflix.

Was just about to watch this. Maybe I'll wait a bit and watch something else instead :D
Don't rush me.
 

Jeff Tanyard

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #571 on: January 21, 2022, 12:21:37 PM »
Watched Metropolis yesterday, the silent film from 1927.

Not my first time watching this movie, but it's my first time seeing the 2010 edit with the new (lost) footage added in and the modern recording of the Huppertz score.

There are still about five minutes of the original film missing, and there's an intertitle screen that describes the action that we don't get to see.

The Huppertz score is amazing.  Simply wonderful.  And the modern recording means no hisses, pops, or warbles like you get with old recordings.  The music really makes this film shine.

For you science fiction folks, this movie is an early example of robots, artificial intelligence, and video phones in cinema.  It's historically significant.

There are a number of different versions, but I really like this one.

Here it is:


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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #572 on: February 11, 2022, 03:21:51 PM »
Watched The Sting a few days ago.  I've seen it before a number of times, but only on television.  I recently bought the DVD, and this was my first time watching it on disk.

It's still a great movie.   Grin
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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #573 on: February 12, 2022, 02:40:50 AM »
Watched The Sting a few days ago.  I've seen it before a number of times, but only on television.  I recently bought the DVD, and this was my first time watching it on disk.

It's still a great movie.   Grin

Every time someone mentions The Sting, I regret that I never got around to seeing it. Maybe I'll remember this weekend.

Watched 12 Angry Men (Henry Fonda). Even though I've watched it several times, I can still feel the tension in that jury room. Should be required viewing in every high school in the country. A lesson in jumping to conclusions.

Also, my favorite film noir, Laura (1944 Gene Tierney). I first got hooked on the theme song and I have several different versions of it, one of them a spoof by Spike Jones.
           
 

Jeff Tanyard

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #574 on: February 12, 2022, 07:32:34 AM »
Every time someone mentions The Sting, I regret that I never got around to seeing it. Maybe I'll remember this weekend.


I hope you do.  And if you do, please come back to this thread and post your thoughts about it.

Newman and Redford put in great performances, but for my money, Robert Shaw takes the cake.

And, of course, I love that Scott Joplin music.   :band:
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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #575 on: February 12, 2022, 09:12:19 AM »
Every time someone mentions The Sting, I regret that I never got around to seeing it. Maybe I'll remember this weekend.


I hope you do.  And if you do, please come back to this thread and post your thoughts about it.

Newman and Redford put in great performances, but for my money, Robert Shaw takes the cake.

And, of course, I love that Scott Joplin music.   :band:

Thanks for the reminder, because of course I'd already forgotten about it. I set my Amazon page to rent the movie.
           
 

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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #576 on: February 12, 2022, 10:26:59 AM »
Jungle Cruise - nice to see that someone made an adventure movie

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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #577 on: February 12, 2022, 10:41:05 AM »



Solid film. 7/10. It won't win Oscars (does anyone care about Oscars anymore?), but it's good entertainment if you like the John Wick films.

With a 90-minute runtime, there's minimal fluff.

Currently on HBO Max.

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"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” – Thomas Sowell

"The State is an institution run by gangs of murderers, plunderers and thieves, surrounded by willing executioners, propagandists, sycophants, crooks, liars, clowns, charlatans, dupes and useful idiots—an institution that dirties and taints everything it touches.” - Hans Hoppe

"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience." - Adam Smith

Nothing that requires the labor of others is a basic human right.

I keep a stiff upper lip and shoot from the hip. - AC/DC
 

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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #578 on: February 12, 2022, 10:50:21 PM »


+1


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Was a fun, feel-good, low-impact aerobics kind of movie.

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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #579 on: February 13, 2022, 01:10:22 AM »



Solid film. 7/10. It won't win Oscars (does anyone care about Oscars anymore?), but it's good entertainment if you like the John Wick films.

With a 90-minute runtime, there's minimal fluff.

Currently on HBO Max.

RT page.

I used to watch the Oscars for the fashion on the red carpet. And Billy Crystal. I don't even know who is hosting it now. I lost interest when I cut the cable but I'm sure many people still watch. It's a big, expensive production and I'm sure they wouldn't be doing it (or at least cutting back) if they couldn't cover it.

Speaking of which, and I apologize for going off topic, I am currently rereading a nine book series revolving around three characters set against the history of Hollywood movie makers and stars from the 1920s to the 1960s called The Garden of Allah by Martin Turnbull. If you are interested in old Hollywood, I highly recommend this series.


           
 
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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #580 on: February 13, 2022, 05:44:38 AM »
Watched The Sting a few days ago.  I've seen it before a number of times, but only on television.  I recently bought the DVD, and this was my first time watching it on disk.

It's still a great movie.   Grin

 :heart: I have the album and a book with all the music! Can hardly play it anymore.


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Jeff Tanyard

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #581 on: February 13, 2022, 07:09:31 AM »
Watched The Sting a few days ago.  I've seen it before a number of times, but only on television.  I recently bought the DVD, and this was my first time watching it on disk.

It's still a great movie.   Grin

 :heart: I have the album and a book with all the music! Can hardly play it anymore.


YouTube to the rescue.   :cool:


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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #582 on: February 15, 2022, 12:50:48 AM »
I was a child when the movie came out but I remember my parents loved the ending (Like everybody who saw it). Then years later my parents explained to me that what made the movie ending so good for everybody at the time was that Redford and Newman had just been in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and they had died at the end of that movie. Thus, the surprise ending to "The Sting" was made more enjoyable and happily cathartic. I want my own children to watch it but I may have them watch Butch Cassidy first so they see it in the same light.
 

Maggie Ann

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #583 on: February 15, 2022, 05:10:26 AM »
The Sting. That was one classy movie.

I did see a few things coming
Spoiler: ShowHide
(Loretta and that the FBI guys were part of the sting)
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I think what made the movie for me was Hooker's storyline apart from the con. He was a small-time grifter
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and always would be
given how many times he lost his hat.

I watched it once, but I have the feeling there are a lot more nuances that I missed, so I'll be watching it again.
           
 
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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #584 on: February 17, 2022, 02:23:22 AM »
Thank you, Jeff. I just turned in a ms that was due so will take out my book to at least give Solace a go.


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j tanner

Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #585 on: February 17, 2022, 06:48:24 AM »


Solid film. 7/10.

Saw this recently as well. On the action movie scale I'd rank it a little higher. It's elevated action, but still too actiony to cross-over to non-action fans.

Adding to the thread...

Zola
It's intentionally offensive. It covers fairly triggering topics of sex trafficking with dark humor. So it's not for everyone. But if you're in for that kind of thing, it's pretty good. Riley Keough's performance was nomination worthy, but comedy just don't sell to snobs. Colman Domingo and Taylour Paige are both good too. Nick Braun is just Nick Braun so if you can't get enough cousin-Greg in Succession you can get a refill here.

Encanto
Exactly what you expect. But Disney's better films are now surpassing middling Pixar stuff, so progress?

The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Jessica Chastain is fantastic. Andrew Garfield give it a shot but I think he's ultimately miscast here. The story choices are meh about how they present what must've been a rich vein of possible content. But Chastain could win the Oscar for this so if you're up to see stellar performance in an okay film you could do worse.

Copshop
For action fans only. It's a minor spin on Assault on Precinct 13. It's pretty grimy in a good way and contains an over-the-top hilarious supporting performance from character-actor Toby Huss. I really liked it.
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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #586 on: March 21, 2022, 03:13:07 PM »
The Protégé.  It's a "La Femme Nikita" type of story.

Man, what a waste of time.

  :Down:

Most of the movie takes place in the dark, so expect to miss a lot of details simply because of that.  (I really hate this trend, by the way.  Movies are made for human viewers, not cats or owls or some other critter that can see well in the dark, and the lighting should reflect that.)

The plot doesn't make much sense.  Characters are killed or resurrected on a whim, relationships between characters are murky, dialog is clunky and cringey in places, and it's all just confusing.  I never really cared about any of them.

The flirtation between Michael Keaton and Maggie Q just didn't work for me at all.

Plenty of close-range machine gun fire that manages to completely miss the target.  I think all the baddies must have trained at the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy.  Even if they're the worst shots in the galaxy, though, they should have accidentally killed Anna at least a few times.  You can't have multiple guys shooting machine guns at a woman who's only ten or fifteen feet away and expect every single shot to miss.

Oh, and who needs magazine changes?  Not anyone in this movie, apparently.  They can spray an uninterrupted stream of bullets 'til the cows come home.

Anna has major plot armor.  She's hit by a car, tossed into the air by the impact, hit by another car, captured by baddies, waterboarded, and strangled by hanging.  While being strangled, she manages to escape from the multiple baddies in the cell with her.  She then gets dressed up and has dinner at a nice restaurant without displaying so much as a bruise.  No sign at all of the physical trauma she had just gone through.

Ending was dumb and abrupt.

Robert Patrick was in it as a biker, and I was sort of hoping he'd turn into the T-1000 and slaughter everyone.

The grown-up kid in the orphanage was introduced and then promptly ignored.  I guess our heroes will just leave him there?

The baddies destroyed a rare book store with machine gun fire.  Bad enough that they shot up a bunch of rare books, but they weren't even smart about it.  If the baddies can get machine guns in London, a place where even modest pocket knives are looked at askance by the government, then they should be able to get grenades or rocket launchers.  That would have been a better way to attack a book store for the purpose of killing an employee.  Instead, it was just "spray and pray," and the predictable result was predictable.

There's probably an awesome "female assassin" movie out there somewhere, but this ain't it.

This movie has a 6.1 rating at IMDB, and I think that's generous.
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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #587 on: March 22, 2022, 04:00:41 AM »
Thanks for the heads up, Jeff. Not that I would watch anything like The Protege anyway.

Give me something that I can laugh at like Cat Ballou. Funny from beginning to end. Lee Marvin won an Oscar and he said the horse deserved half of it.

           
 
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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #588 on: March 22, 2022, 04:11:50 AM »
The other evening I watched 'Three Days of the Condor' - it reminded me how much I liked Robert Redford, and that I'd like to watch 'All the Presidents' Men' again too.
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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #589 on: March 22, 2022, 04:45:58 AM »
Thanks for the heads up, Jeff. Not that I would watch anything like The Protege anyway.

Give me something that I can laugh at like Cat Ballou. Funny from beginning to end. Lee Marvin won an Oscar and he said the horse deserved half of it.


I might know something you'd like.  The Best of Times, starring Kurt Russell and Robin Williams, only has a 6.0 rating on IMDB, but I have it on DVD because it's a guilty pleasure of mine.  It's a sports comedy, but it's sentimental--it's a redemption story--and I truly love it in spite of its mediocre rating.  It's free on YouTube.


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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #590 on: March 22, 2022, 09:41:39 AM »
No, I haven't watched a movie recently, but I'm surprised that I didn't mention finally seeing the original Manchurian Candidate over a year ago. It was fantastic, especially the garden club scenes. Just brilliant.
 
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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #591 on: March 22, 2022, 12:08:42 PM »
There's probably an awesome "female assassin" movie out there somewhere, but this ain't it.

I'm not sure there is, at least not a modern one. La Femme Nikita and Kill Bill are great but 30 and 20 years old respectively.

Atomic Blond and Hanna have their moments but fall short of greatness.

All the rest, probably 10-15 of them (Ava, Anna, Jolt, etc), aren't much better than The Protege.
 
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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #592 on: March 22, 2022, 12:27:55 PM »
The 1945 Detour.  Noir at its grimmest and Tom Neal as the appealing/appalling hapless/hopeless hero.  I'm drawn back to see it at least once a year.  But only in the orig b&w.
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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #593 on: March 22, 2022, 03:28:52 PM »
There's probably an awesome "female assassin" movie out there somewhere, but this ain't it.

I'm not sure there is, at least not a modern one. La Femme Nikita and Kill Bill are great but 30 and 20 years old respectively.


I totally forgot about Kill Bill.   :dizzy  Yeah, I guess it's been a while.

The Kill Bill movies have a lot of great scenes, and I consider the movies on the whole to be "almost great," but they could have been edited down a bit, in my opinion.  I'm especially not a fan of the animated flashback stuff.

One of my favorite sequences in any movie ever is the two "buried alive" scenes bookending the "cruel tutelage of Pai Mei" scene.  It's a whole hero's journey in and of itself.  It's just fantastic.

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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #594 on: March 22, 2022, 04:37:09 PM »
The Kill Bill movies have a lot of great scenes, and I consider the movies on the whole to be "almost great," but they could have been edited down a bit, in my opinion.  I'm especially not a fan of the animated flashback stuff.

One of my favorite sequences in any movie ever is the two "buried alive" scenes bookending the "cruel tutelage of Pai Mei" scene.  It's a whole hero's journey in and of itself.  It's just fantastic.

Agreed. It's a gem.

Pretty much all Tarantino films come with some bloat. Great != Perfect.
 
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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #595 on: April 10, 2022, 03:20:30 PM »
The Ten Commandments.  Yeah, it's that time of year again.

It's still epic and visually spectacular.  Yul Brynner still looks like the baddest dude on the block.   :cool:


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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #596 on: April 10, 2022, 11:51:53 PM »
"So it is written; so it shall be done!" I love both Ten Commandments and Ben Hur. And of the newer, Passion of the Christ.


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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #597 on: April 11, 2022, 01:04:43 AM »
Watching Severance (S1) on Apple TV - It is shockingly close to the corporate BS I experienced for all those decades.  Work-Life Balance taken to the extreme. 

Oddly paced. Interesting acting choices. Overload of symbolism. I can't stop watching.

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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #598 on: April 11, 2022, 02:25:00 AM »
Watched this last night...





Great cast. Clever story. Solid storytelling.

It's currently on HBO Max.





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Re: What movie did you recently watch?
« Reply #599 on: April 11, 2022, 03:42:54 AM »
The Ten Commandments.  Yeah, it's that time of year again.

It's still epic and visually spectacular.  Yul Brynner still looks like the baddest dude on the block.   :cool:




Good one! I'll put it on my rewatch list.