Posted on 02/23/2015 4:54:28 AM PST by Biggirl
I have seen three:
Boyhood: very well done, filmed over a 12 year period with the same actors & actresses. It does not promote the liberal agenda too much. There is even a part where the ex-husband really does not become happy until he remarries into a religious right, gun loving family. The story follows a boy and his extended family as he grows up from age 6 to going off to college. Patricia Arquet plays the mom, who goes through three husbands in the movie. Two of which are abusive.
The Grand Budapest Hotel:
I thought this was a funny, strange, weird movie. I thought it was OK. I am not sure I could recommend it.
American Sniper:
A very moving story. I also read the book. Similar story line to The Deer Hunter and Coming Home regarding the effect of war not only on the soldier but on everyone around him.
The rest of these movies are your typical liberal cult films. Some may be great acting, but stories that very few people want to see.
Birdman is a story about an actor. People in Hollywood loves stories about themselves. “Shakespeare in Love” won against “Saving Private Ryan”. Sometimes they get it correct like “The Godfather and The Godfather part II”, “Gladiator”, “Braveheart”, “Unforgiven”, or “The Silence of the Lambs”. However, some years they don’t.
Some years there are two or even three great movies. !975 for example: One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest(winner), Dog Day Afternoon and Jaws lost. Also, in 1972: The Godfather wins. Deliverance loses. Both great movies.
Some years there are not. 2008, Slumdog Millionaire wins. A nice movie with a happy ending. It beat out: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk and The Reader.
None of these are GREAT movies.
Senator Joseph McCarthy's focus was on communist infiltration of government, not Hollywood.
I thought he was great in two movies: Beatlejuice and Mr Mom.
Yep we do.
Watched that circus last night. For the last time. Hollywood favors blacks, Mexicans, gays and radical feminism. American Sniper is completely snubbed.
I went to the theater for ONE movie this year (and for the past 12 months), American Sniper.
Last time for me also. Hollywood and anything associated with it is just something you need to let go of. It will never support or condone anything decent or American or worthy.
worst host in a lifetime, I might also add.
Who watches this waste of air time, this self-aggrandizing mutual ass kissing society?
No redeeming social or entertainment value at all; It would appear the Party Down South on CMT might have more of both or is on the same level.
Yeah, you can add Neil Patrick Harris to the list of one-hit wonders as host of the Oscars. Quite frankly, there hasn’t been a decent emcee since Billy Crystal retired from the gig.
Rumor has it that Kevin Hart will host the 2016 telecast. With an all-white list of acting nominees this year, Hollywood’s racial guilt is at an all-time high, and doncha know, they’ve got to do something to get more people of color in front of the camera.
At least Mr. Hart would be a lot funnier than Neil Patrick Harris. I always find it amusing that the hosts get slammed for material that was written by someone else. The best hosts (Bob Hope, Billy Crystal, Johnny Carson) were comedians who know what would work (and wouldn’t work) within the confines of the show. The worst hosts are actors like Harris who are only as funny as their material. Mr. Harris should fire his writers—right after the academy announces their “new host” for next year.
I will say this, other then for my favorite actor, Michael Keaton, if he had not been nominated for best actor, I would not have bothered myself. I have noticed that over the years, the awards stuff have become a waste of time.
I am waiting for it to come out in dvd. I do not bother anymore to go to the theaters.
She's been there, done that.
Backstage at last night's Grammy Awards, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga looked like an elegant couple out on the town. As the vocal duo posed for portrait photographer Danny Clinch, Gaga held a trophy and leaned comfortably against Bennett's shoulder. The two singers had just won the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Grammy for last year's standards collaboration Cheek to Cheek.
American Sniper was so sold out here that we thought to avoid the hassle and wait for it to come out on Amazon. Normally we just watch Netflix or Amazon, particularly BBC series and mysteries. Just reading the Birdman descriptions would keep me away. Not bad, just not our preference in film types.
“Ida”, the movie that won Best Foreign Language picture was much better than Birdcrap, or whatever it’s called.
Speaking of BBC series. Have you seen the Sherlock Homes series on BBC that I believe is going into season 4.
My teenage son got us to watch it. Very well done.
We have!! Very good humor and well acted. If you liked that, you might try Midsomer Murders.
And Sean Penn’s time at the dais to award Best Movie,and his “jokes”, again proving how intelleKtually,Kulturally,racially, and morally, SUPERIOR he is, next to us, the unwashed,square,backward hillbillies of Fly-Over Territory, Americans.
Look upon his greatness,as well as his works,and despair....
Watch The Imitation Game and the Hawking biopic, both are superb.
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