The movie Gone Girl was on FX tonight and it kept me guessing to the very end. Not for kids to watch but it was definitely an original screenplay (think it was a book first).
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The movie Gone Girl was on FX tonight and it kept me guessing to the very end. Not for kids to watch but it was definitely an original screenplay (think it was a book first).
Phantasm Ravanger. Phantasm was kind of a cult following especially with Angus Scrimm being a local person originally. Sorry to say the last one was a letdown.
The Wicker Man. Enough said.
Original, or Nick Cage's version?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
I thought that book, and the film, were a lot of fun. I like the plot surprises and loved the ending.Quote:
Originally Posted by 19Sandy
"A Dogs Purpose"
It was the only thing showing I thought I could sit through. My better half was interested. I was totally unprepared for my reaction. It is certainly just a "cute" little movie about one dog being reincarnated and seeking meaning for his life. No great plot twists here and a simple screenplay.
There was a guy sitting in the dark with his blue handkerchief out blowing his nose and trying to pretend to clean his glasses and occasionally dabbing tears off his cheek. What a softy.
IL, it was the original, with Christopher Lee and Edward Woodard, 1973.
I am having a Oscar Wilde film festival at the moment. I loaned out a DVD by BBCAmerica. There's four films plus a bonus one hour documentary on Wilde.
I have seen The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray. I'll soon watch The Ideal Husband and Lady Windermere's Fan
Jeremy Brett, the actor who played Sherlock Holmes, appears in Dorian Gray as Basil the painter. Super acting and staging.
I've never seen Gone Girl........but I was ticked at Jeopardy the other night, when one of the questions required an answer that revealed the end of the show!! I'm going to have to have a talk with Alex!
Netflix finally made season 5 of Homeland available, so we got the first disc of that. But.........with our failing memories, we couldn't remember how season 4 went, so we got the last few episodes to that and watched that first. I had forgotten how full of violence it can be. Funny.......until recently I thought Quinn was quite a man...........but saw him in an interview, and he sort of acted like Pee Wee Herman. hahahaha So, he appears to do some real good 'acting' on Homeland.
haha, I saw that Jeopardy and thought the same thing, although I've seen Gone Girl and knew the ending.Quote:
Originally Posted by CathyA
I just started Zelda. So far so good! I love that period of American history, and I love the writers of that time, so it's right up my alley. But there's no intrigue, guns, and violence so DH is kind of suffering through it for me. But he owes me big time.
I cant imagine Quinn sounding like PeeWee,how weird! He is such a manly guy!Quote:
Originally Posted by CathyA
I havent seen season 5 but am looking forward to seeing Sebastian Koch, hubba hubba. He is a German actor who is a hunk! The season takess place in East germany, I believe,
I am surprised Homeland has maintained its momentum all these years.
La LA Land. Loved it!
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Originally Posted by Gardenarian
Agree!
You fans of LaLa Land are going to be so happy when it wins Best Picture from the Academy of Motion Picture Artists.
I thought it was nice and fun but basically retro, nothing new, just a rehash of song and dance films from decades ago. It jas ne song that is somewhat hummable.
I found Moonlight to be cinematic and strong, and Manchester by the Sea to be amazing. I cant imagine that Ryan Gosling would beat Denzil Washington in Fences, but Hollywood is crazy and they do love themselves so much, so that plot of LaLA Land will be thrilling for them and maybe Ryan will be caught up in the sweep of love (for themselves) that is LALa Land awards.
Dying to see LaLa Land, as DH and I are huge musical theatre buffs. I watched the movie version of Les Miz AGAIN just the other night. As always, DH cried through the whole thing.
I went and saw that by myself, DH was be a sobbing mess... As was I ... Pretty close to the bookQuote:
Originally Posted by Williamsmith
"Lion"
Often when I watch a movie based on a true life incident......I am underwhelmed. Not so with this story. I thought it was brilliantly filmed. I couldn't get the images out of my mind of abject poverty and overpopulation that India boasts. But it is a deeply moving film to me because it has an adoption theme and a satisfying ending. I have a niece that was adopted from Russia and I now have a better understanding of the challenges she went through early on in her journey. I highly recommend it.
"La La Land"
As a kid I was raised in a family that hosted Missionaries to Africa and South America, attended Wednesday night prayer meeting, Sunday school, Sunday morning worship, Sunday evening youth meeting, Sunday evening worship and special evangelical revival meetings complete with alter call, baptisms and corrections for backsliders called recommitment. Everybody carried a KJV Bible and it was taken literally and frequently discected verse by verse. I have read the Bible through countless times. So what's that got to do with La La Land?
Until I left home for college, I had not played a game with common playing cards, had not rolled a set of dice, got my ass kicked once when my father caught me flipping pennies at the baseball field, and never set foot in a movie theatre. My first movie was in 1978 when I took a girl to see "Grease", the musical. To be sure, I was not in the least interested in a musical. I was pretty excited, though, to get in a dark theatre with my arm around a buxom girl.
When the movie ended, I still didn't appreciate a musical but I did appreciate that girl. Since then I have not only played cards but I made a part time living for a while in a poker room at a local casino. I have also sampled all of life's prohibited vices and so I thought I might try again to develop an appreciation for the finer points of movie musicals.
La La Land seems to have won me over. The opening scene had me a little worried but it shortly began to develop a decent plot. I liked the jazz theme set against the struggling actress. For some reason the following line from Sebastian made me stop and think, " That's LA. They worship everything and value nothing."
It was a nice movie as musicals go. For sure, better than Grease.
Since one was in the hospital and the other became sick, I have been sitting. Used Redbox the last several days, Jason Bourne, The Accountant, Jack Reacher and Inferno. All entertaining, but certainly not theater price worth.
Debating about Lion and Hidden Figures in book form or movie form. And other parent out of the hospital, still weak, so staying with sibling, while the other parent is sick.
Hmmm....I thought I posted this, but can't find it anywhere.
Spoiler alert.......maybe.
We watched "The Account". I didn't realize it was going to be so violent. I thought it was a bit unbelievable. And it was curious at the end, where they sort of reminded people of how austistic people can be really smart too. So......can we assume that an autistic person can hope to be a really good hit man?? So.......I didn't care for it much.
I think the real spoiler here is there is an 'ant' at the end of that 'Account'. Maybe the hit man is an entomologist? No, that would be an exterminator. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by CathyA
I thought the lesson was that a really good accountant can also be an excellent hitman, the apptitude and skillset overlap. They can also collect cool art.Quote:
Originally Posted by CathyA
Ldahl? You got a comment here?
oops.......typo alert! hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by Alan
Aspergers is in the Autism spectrum and those with it, do function in society. As said by probably the most famous Autism speaker, it is a spectrum....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qPFAT4p8LcQuote:
Originally Posted by CathyA
Yes, I know about Temple Grandin.......very intelligent. But I thought it inappropriate to try to have a serious conversation about autism after this type of show.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToomuchStuff
I could put on the rant thread or on this thread. The I MDB discussion boards are closing in a few days. This is bad. those boards are where I get good insight into films. I don't know another discussion board that is like them.
hoping to go see Jackie this weekend.
Saw that two days ago. While I never signed up for it, I certainly used it (found most things I needed answered, without asking).Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
The way I read it, makes it sound as if it is disappearing completely (no future searching).
All of my wonderfully thoightful.and deep IMdB posts will disappear, never to be rad again.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToomuchStuff
Haha, not,that big of a deal, but I,WILL miss the film discussions. Our local arwa film chat board is pretty much useless. There are 3-4 people,who like film and quality tv shows, and the rest want to discuss The same things over and over.
I just saw the movie Room. Wow. Very moving; I felt just about every emotion you can feel watching a movie. The young boy in it was amazing.
Did you see Jackie? I saw it a couple of weeks ago. I'd like to hear your thoughts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
Ok, youndidnt ask me, but--Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
I saw it on New Year's Eve. Overall, I thoght it was a snoozer compared to several of the other films pushed out at the last minute for the Oscar rush.
The sets and clothng were meticulous in representing the period. It is only about
jack Kennedy's assasination and the days immediately following.
Now of course this is a dramatic producton, not a documentary, but I would think they tried to get the timeline of who said what reasonably right. Just about every minute of that time was documented.
It was interesting to see the various plans of President Kennedy's funeral and how Jackie Kennedy had a very firm idea of what should take place, and why that didnt happen.
Natalie Portman did a fine job copying Jackie Kennedy's speech and demeanor, but films that are essentially renactments when I know about the topic aren't very interesting to me.
I saw John Wick: Chp 2 last week. Tonight I'm seeing The Great Wall and have plans to see Lion this week as well. I finally saw La La Land a couple weeks ago and I even ordered the sheet music to play on my piano. First time I've actually bought sheet music in years, it's nice to learn something new.
Watched Arrival earlier today on DVD (from the library). Interesting but slightly confusing. Reminded me of the confusion I felt after watching Contact (Jodi Foster).
I was so confused at Arrival, too, Sandy.
Catherine, I'm so sorry--did not see your question about Jackie. We never did get out to see it, but thank you for reminding me--shouldn't it be showing up on Netflix pretty soon? I will look for it.
Got a Man Called Ove from the library and boy, we found it depressing, although appealing. Kitchen Stories was really depressing, too, and that's what it reminded me of. The part at the end of Kitchen Stories where he holds the horse's head and says, "why can't you get better" and they take horse away--agh--says it all about old age and end of life.
Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 is fun to watch!
I can't believe it is has 15 years since the first one and the movie is set at about 18 to 20 years later.
It has the original cast plus more actors.
You will love it!
DH and I watched "Arrival" this weekend. I had fairly high hopes for it. But when it was over, we looked at each other with a look of "What he heck??" I thought it was too confusing. Plus, I'm always needing things to be logical, and they weren't. (Like when the 2 were allowed to visit the alien without protection). Plus, the way they were trying to communicate with them with words was, well, kinda stupid.
So......2 thumbs down here.
I watched "The Sea Inside" with Javier Bardem. Definitely not a feel-good movie, but it was pretty great. It's based on a true story about a guy in Spain who became a quadriplegic in a diving accident and lived for almost 28 years afterwards without being able to move anything but his head. He could breath on his own and talk. It's his struggle to be allowed to die with dignity. It's a beautifully filmed movie, with wonderful music and great acting. It's a tear-jerker, at least for me. If you're into beautiful, but sad movies, I would highly recommend this one. The only down side was that it had subtitles and they moved pretty quickly, so I couldn't always enjoy the cinematography, since I couldn't read that fast. Javier Bardem is one of my favorites.
A family member knew that the first time I tried Redbox, the disc I rented was screwed up. So they recorded it and I finally saw Unbroken.
Sorry to say, the book was so much better. Makes me happy that I saw a Heartbreak Ridge story, where he and some of the actual survivors were interviewed, taken to locations and telling their stories, rather then Eastwood's movie.
I am hoping to see Going in Style, but afraid they will screw that up, like they did the In-laws as told to me by every family member that saw it, watch only the original).
OMG, just saw Fences last night after my son said it was his favorite out of all the Oscar nominated movies.. Genius. That script was pure genius. I was so moved, and Williamsmith, you are right--so refreshing. In my mind it was a refreshing break from the mindset that unless your relationships match the glossy photoshopped images in a magazine you should consider it a failure, blame the other person, and just walk away. Yeah, life is tough. Relationships are tough. Families are tough. But as Tom Hanks' character in A League of Their Own says: "The hard is what makes it great."Quote:
Originally Posted by Williamsmith
When I asked my son what it was about he said, "Life." I consider it a success that I raised a child who recognizes that in life "You have to take the crookeds with the straights."
Awesome. Awesome.