A friend invited to go book shopping at Amazon and while there suggested seeing Mama Mia. It is fluffy, cute, clever choreography but fun. I love Mama Mia's music and the spontaneous part of the outing so totally enjoyable.
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A friend invited to go book shopping at Amazon and while there suggested seeing Mama Mia. It is fluffy, cute, clever choreography but fun. I love Mama Mia's music and the spontaneous part of the outing so totally enjoyable.
It is a fun movie! DH and I went to the 2nd-run movie theatre Saturday afternoon and saw Deadpool 2. It was crass and funny, just like the first one. Ryan Reynolds is a fave.Quote:
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I have posted on my FB page several times through out the years... " A little bit of ABBA never hurt anyone " !Splat!
I watched Shrek 3 yesterday. Cute.
Husband wanted to see the latest Mission Impossible movie. Not my kind of thing but went with him. Surprised it was so entertaining.
Tom Cruise was good and Henry Cavill was also impressive. Non-stop action.
This past month I saw the latest Mission Impossible (1.5 times), Pooh (1.5 times), MEG, Skyscraper, The Equalizer, Jurissac World, Mama Mia and I can't even remember what else. My son that works at a theater and I have been sharing rides this summer so I go early to wait for him. I come up with all sorts of excuses but truth be told I kind of enjoy free movies and watching by myself (my husband is one of those movie talkers always asking questions and drives me nuts).
I enjoyed Leave no Trace. I only recently watched last years Glass Castle.
Watching The Discovery. It is different.
Going to mission impossible tomorrow.
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I saw bits of Glass Castle but wasnt really interested in it. The book was very good.
Tentative plans to go see "Crazy Rich Asians" on Sunday. Not much else out there that I'm even interested in seeing.
Film selection is shit this year. Two more months and it will improve, the Oscar contenders come out.Quote:
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Art house releases were crap this year.
Well, I loved "Whisky Galore" from Britain. Movie came out in 2016, but I don't go to theaters,
spending buckets of money to sit in a concrete bunker like we have for theaters around here
does not appeal to me.
But Whisky Galore has been on Comcast, Comcast being a cheap internet provider
that I can bundle cable TV and some of the cell phone stuff into.
During the horrible shortages of food and Booze during World War 2, a ship full
of high-class Scotch Whiskey founders off a remote Scottish Island, and a comedy
ensues as the thrifty and alcohol-loving Scots locals hide the Whiskey
from the English authorities.
The comedy element provides a sugar coating on a deeper discussion of small-town
personal loyalties and caring, tight-knit culture versus cold Officialdom;
and on the domination of Scotland by England.
Reminiscent of the "Englishman who went up a hill..." movie with Hugh Grant.
Even the original 1949 version of Whisky Galore was a comedy masterpiece of
clever contrasts between the small town people and the Establishment.
Operation Finale.
Took my daughter and niece to see it Saturday afternoon. I've read or listened to all 3 books by Kevin Kwan and enjoyed looking into a world I'll never see up close and personal (not that I really want to). Talk about anti-Simple Living!! The movie followed the first book closely, but of course, a lot of background was missing. The views of Singapore were amazing.Quote:
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Agree - on top of the storyline and characters, it's a visual treat. I understand the next book in the series is also being made into a movie.Quote:
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Sounds good! Did you ever see Waking Ned Devine? Another of that ilk.Quote:
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I watched HBO’s The Tale about a journalist who recovered her memories of sexual abuse as a 13 year old girl. Laura Dern stars in it. It is very interesting, well done, with interesting characters and reactions.
Took my 14 year-old grandson to see his first rom-com, Crazy Rich Asians, and we both loved it. It was over the top in so many consumerist ways but the photos of Singapore were really amazing.
My wife and I went to see “Crazy Rich Asians”. While the movie was entertaining and the cinematography of the City Of Singapore made us want to visit there......I think one downside was that for a movie that included all Asian actors.....it seemed very American.
I wonder what Asians will think of the movie if and when they get to see it. I’m not talking about American Born Chinese (ABCs). I’m talking about native Chinese. I can’t help but think the movie might leave them feeling a little disrespected, although, the scene with the MahJong challenge does have its subtlties. But still, it was a movie targeting American consumers with the expected gratuitous stereotypes. Because of this I couldn’t take it seriously as either a romantic story or a groundbreaking flick. It was simply entertaining and it might generate profit mostly because of that.
I guess I shouldn’t expect to learn more about real Chinese culture from Hollywood. But hey, there should be some kind of statue given out even if I think the acting itself was less than technically proficient.
Active Measures, a documentary laying out the Russia-Trump connection in fairly excruciating detail, featuring a prominent appearance by John McCain.
Fahrenheit 11/9
We (my DH, 19 yo DD) and I saw A Star is Born Saturday evening. The theatre was full. The movie was 2+ hours long, but held everyone's attention the entire time. Lady Gaga is so talented and Bradley Cooper did a great job both acting and directing. Sam Elliott seemed a bit old for his role, but they seemed to explain it well enough. I enjoyed it very much. I remember watching the 1976 version with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristopherson - will have to rewatch it.
Saw "Three Identical Strangers" the documentary about the triplet boys who were separated at birth and discovered each other by chance at age 19.
I don't think an adoption agency would be allowed to do that today, but in the 60s and 70s things were a lot looser.
I can't wait to see that movie. My first recollection of it was when my father allowed me to stay up past 7:30pm to watch it with him on TV. (The Judy Garland/James Mason version) I don't know how old I was at the time--maybe 9 or 10. But I've watched it several times since.Quote:
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I've heard really good things about Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, so it sounds like they did the story justice.
Lady Gaga is a talent. Quite classy when she wants to be. As Tony Bennett can attest.
https://youtu.be/O1OdWOLWeCM
Lots of F-Bombs, just fyi.Quote:
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Yeah, well, I'm old-fashioned, but I've gotten well past the F-bomb. But thanks for the heads-up! As long as there isn't a derogatory word for female anatomy in every line of dialogue like there is in Quentin Tarantino movies, I think I can survive it without flinching. :)Quote:
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Since I have been laid up with this nasty man cold all weekend I watched some movies.
I watched The Face of Love with Annette Bening and Robin Williams. Good flick! Sad though.
I also watched a 1980s "brat pack" movie called St. Elmo's Fire. It was okay, perhaps even "good" if you put it in context.
Then I watched one called The Overnight. It was hilarious but also risque!
Ordinary People is heartbreaking. It's hard for me to watch.Quote:
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"Collette" starring Keira Knightley as the young French woman who wrote the popular Claudine novels although her then-husband published them under his name. But their open marriage in the 1900 time frame would probably be the most surprising for viewers. Another visually lovely movie.
I saw “A Star is Born”, Bradley Cooper & Lady Gaga. No doubt Lady Gaga will win an award for her performance, Bradley Cooper probably worked too hard in this movie and I could have done with half as much time with him on the screen. Overall it was a huge disappointment for me. I was expecting a love story and an underdog comes out on top kind of flick. Instead, I got a drone performing abusive relationships to people and substances....over and over and over.
Bradley Cooper needed to be a supporting actor but instead he took over the movie and turned it into a male dominated example of turning a needless backstory into the main theme. Lady Gaga could have easily carried this movie to its greater potential but Cooper got in the way. The love story never developed like several other possible plot avenues. Instead every interesting part of the movie was glossed over in exchange for Cooper showing how he could act like a drunken drug addict and an abusive partner. Lots of unfinished opportunity and an ending that underwhelmed me. But still it will get much praise from the media because that’s the way they want it.
5/10 for me.
Thanks for the review. I'm going to suspend judgement, because I think the story IS the one about how sometimes we love people that are substance-fueled jerks, and its tragic theme is that love does not always conquer all. When my alcoholic father broke a house rule so that I could stay up and watch the movie with him, I think it was a silent plea for compassion and love.Quote:
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Please do get back and post a review. I am aware my response to the movie is not the majority opinion. Perhaps I have seen enough of the tragic theme. And I am probably a minority among that subset. Please enjoy the movie....Quote:
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A Ghost Story (on Amazon Prime)
I disliked this movie. It was made by the same guy who did the terrible "Pete's Dragon" remake. "A Ghost Story" is prententious slop.
From Vulture.com: Your response to A Ghost Story might depend on your capacity to reconcile its arty ellipses with its high sentimentality quotient.
I found A Ghost Story to be moving. I kept watching it thinking “this is kind of stupid” but damn, if it didnt get to me! When it was over, I had been drawn into that ghost guy’s mindset. Thinking back on it, I loved it. How the world aged after his corporeal presence, watching his wife and his house change while he stayed stuck, that was powerful.Quote:
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But yeah, I also can see how it could be considered pretentious slop.
I didn't see Tree of Life because I was never in the right mood to appreciate it, but I think someday I need to watch that film because I suspect it requires the same viewing ability to allow the filmmaker to take you on an emotional journey.
DH and I saw First Man Friday evening - Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong and the NASA space race to get to the moon. We both remember the Gemini and Apollo missions (him more than me, since he's 7.5 years older, lol). We both thought it was wonderful. It's based on a book which I haven't read, but I may now. The movie goes into the Armstrongs' private life and how it affected their marriage, etc. It's amazing to think about how primitive the computers and equipment were back in the 1960's. One scene shows Armstrong using his engineering background to paper-and-pencil calculate how to dock the Gemini to a station while in space because the original ones didn't work. I held back tears when he said, "The Eagle has landed." Not sure why that still gets to me almost 50 years later.
I will have to see First Man. My father was one of the physicians who tended to the early astronauts before and after their returns. When he passed away, there was a lot of interesting (and somewhat private) memorabilia to go through. It was an exciting time.
I liked the original star is born movie. Don’t care to see the new one.
"lovely, still" a 2007 movie I picked up in the bargain bin. Stars Ellen Burstyn and Martin Landau as older lovers. A Hallmark movie with a twist ending.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1150947/?ref_=nv_sr_1