Posted on 12/08/2014 1:15:59 PM PST by Zakeet
Liked Foxcatcher very much. wanted to know more about the story. The lead actors were outstanding. Worth the price.
Yes it’s slow and dark. No explosions, car chases, duper heroes, nudity. Just drama and acting.
Dumber and dumber is out there along with horrible bosses for normal Hollywood films.
I have thought I will die in a movie theatre being shot after telling some one to be quite or turn phone off
I watched the new Hunger Games. It sucked. Of course I didn’t care for the ones before it much either.
I am retired. Try to make it in the late mornings during the week. Mostly empty.
I remember seeing the gods must be crazy in an empty theatre. Didn’t laugh much. Took wife on a crowded night. The whole audience was roaring including me. Sometimes an audience has its own momentum
I agree. Lots of good shows on. I stream them on my iPad when and where I want. If I want it on the big screen I have a digital av adapter for my iPad to the tv. I stream movies that are still in the theaters the same way.
No reason to actually go anywhere to see anything.
All the GREAT MOVIES have already been made. I am now watching a FRITZ LANG movie WESTERN UNION with RANDOLPH SCOTT (angelic choir sings “A-H-H-H”)that I’ve never seen before.
Who needs modern trash.
The problem with modern “Made for the whole family” trash is the plot is ...A troubled teen who helps kids who are disadvantaged, blind, deaf,overcome their problems and all ends well. I have never been able to stomach such films, even when I was a kid!
Nonsense! What we need is scripts designed for adults that kids can go to. Look at all those great adult themed movies made before 1968, yet still safe for kids, when the movies decided to “police” themselves, threw off the Hays code and started turning out the most vile and blood soaked movies ever made.
“No explosions, car chases, duper heroes, nudity. Just drama and acting.”
It’s great that you enjoyed Foxcatcher, but my issues with the film were not the lack of “nudity, car chases or duper heroes.” I thought it was tedious and pretentious. The score sucked, there was no character development and I felt like an hour could have been edited out with no loss to what story there was.
2 1/2 hours of my life I’m never getting back. Of course that is just my opinion.
*portions of two books, appendices and author’s notes
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Zero Dark Thirty really stands up well. I have it dvr'd and watched the Abbottabad assault sequence at the end right after seeing the Fox News interview with the SeAL who killed bin Laden. The sequence of events is amazingly close to every detail he described, down to the brick false door and the way the chopper crashed.
Great movie by cinema's best female director.
They haven't made a good Civil War movie in a long time. If you haven't seen Cold Mountain, I would rent it immediately, but that was 2003. I heard Lincoln is good, but Tony Kushner wrote it, and I won't see anything he screen writes for after that awful travesty Munich.
There's a great little TV flick called The Crossing, starring Jeff Daniels as George Washington, which starts with Washington's early defeats and moves on through him crossing the Delaware to victory. You can watch the whole thing online for free:
There's the John Adams mini-series that came out on HBO a couple of years ago, with Paul Giamatti playing Adams that was directed by the same guy that did The King's Speech.
Maybe you would like The Artist, a nichey silent film made a couple of years ago that won Best Picture. Not exactly the Marx Brothers, but it has the feel of a throwback black and white silent film.
I said it was slow. I think one of the main points was that DuPont was pretentious. I thought the movie portrayed him realistically as well as the Schultz brothers.
Well, to each his own
I watched Judgment at Nuremberg today, what a great movie.
They don’t make them like that anymore.
Nice list. Many of those are my favorites.....with the MST3K robots!
I went to the live showing of rifftrax Santa. I thought they did a good job and it was funny. Mike actually said the director grew up around carneys and this was prob the type story that appealed to him - Santa, Pitch, Merlin, etc. I have not seen the original mst3k Santa in years, but I remember it as funny.
I really hated Thr Artist. It gives a completely simplified notion of silent cinema.
I have been to a movie theater once in 5 years to see a James Bond movie and it sucked. But movies are as big as ever, just that people are watching them at home.
And, as a bonus, here's Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
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