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I'll post in here as I DVR some good films. I need someone to talk about them with. My wife just rolls her eyes and I'm not sure any of my friends have seen a movie made before 1970.

tonight: Sudden Fear (haven't seen) but has Joan Crawford and a young Jack Palence. After that is Dial M For Murder which is a Hitchcock classic. The theme is treacherous spouses. 

 
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Ilov80s said:
I'll post in here as I DVR some good films. I need someone to talk about them with. My wife just rolls her eyes and I'm not sure any of my friends have seen a movie made before 1970.
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Been years since I watched a lot of classic movies. So do post things that look great and if I see them here and have a minute I will DVR them.

 
Added Hulu to my streaming options recently. I decided last night to sample some of the shorter, new comedies out. I only watched the pilot episodes of these.

"You're the Worst" up first. Started promising enough but seemed to rush a bit. Can't stand the lead guy but the girl is okay. Fun but not funny.

"Casual" was up next. I liked this a little better. It seems to have more in line with, say, "Transparent" in terms of tone but still lighter. It's a muddy premise but I think the acting is there along with some good writing. I'm willing to give this one a little more time.

I'll sample "Married" - the other FX one - because I'm enjoy Judy Greer ever since "Arrested Development".

 
Ilov80s said:
I'll post in here as I DVR some good films. I need someone to talk about them with. My wife just rolls her eyes and I'm not sure any of my friends have seen a movie made before 1970.

tonight: Sudden Fear (haven't seen) but has Joan Crawford and a young Jack Palence. After that is Dial M For Murder which is a Hitchcock classic. The theme is treacherous spouses. 
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Time for new wife and friends?

 
saintfool said:
"You're the Worst" up first. Started promising enough but seemed to rush a bit. Can't stand the lead guy but the girl is okay. Fun but not funny.

"Casual" was up next. I liked this a little better. It seems to have more in line with, say, "Transparent" in terms of tone but still lighter. It's a muddy premise but I think the acting is there along with some good writing. I'm willing to give this one a little more time.

I'll sample "Married" - the other FX one - because I'm enjoy Judy Greer ever since "Arrested Development".
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I like You're The Worst. Married is really good.

If it's available, the best of the FX series are Louie, Man Seeking Woman, and Better Things.

 
jdoggydogg said:
To be fair, most people I know don't care about old films, either.
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I had an ex like 10 years ago that liked them, she was not not mentally stable though so there was a definite limit to how long I could take the good with the bad. Good: liked classic movies, good music, books, crazy sex, very hot. Bad: major drinking problem, liked to get into serious physical fights with me and others, hated all my friends, was violently jealous and was a wreck with money. 

 
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oh right... saw Creed last weekend. decent enough. couldn't have been any more predictable or cliched (time for a montage!), but good overall tone and I thought the kid who played Creed was outstanding.

 
Ilov80s said:
jdoggydogg said:
To be fair, most people I know don't care about old films, either.
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I had an ex like 10 years ago that liked them, she was mentally stable though so there was a definite limit to how long I could take the good with the bad. Good: liked classic movies, good music, books, crazy sex, very hot. Bad: major drinking problem, liked to get into serious physical fights with me and others, hated all my friends, was violently jealous and was a wreck with money. 
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You know who else likes classic movies? My mom.

 
Denzel had a good line in his AMA today:

"If they see you all week for free they won't pay to see you on the weekend."  Something like that.

Of course you have to reach a level to behave that way but be smart for more stars to follow this rule.

 
jdoggydogg said:
To be fair, most people I know don't care about old films, either.
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To be fair, I am married to somebody who is ambivalent at best about movies.  I honestly can't remember the last time we watched one together.  

That is why I am in the FFA talking about movies so much and I am trying to train my son to be more interested in movies.  (I will probably prod too hard and have that backfire). 

 
Fargo Season 1:

Only 3 episodes in, but I am really liking it so.  Not quite what I expected, and that is good.  It did take me a little bit to get over trying to compare and contrast this vs. the movie and which characters are representing which.  I will also say that they toe the line for me of seeming to have characters in there just to have another weird quirky person (the supermarket King's son).  However, I am really digging the humor for the most part, and love it any time BBT is on screen.  Such an odd and interesting character. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
Fargo Season 1:

Only 3 episodes in, but I am really liking it so.  Not quite what I expected, and that is good.  It did take me a little bit to get over trying to compare and contrast this vs. the movie and which characters are representing which.  I will also say that they toe the line for me of seeming to have characters in there just to have another weird quirky person (the supermarket King's son).  However, I am really digging the humor for the most part, and love it any time BBT is on screen.  Such an odd and interesting character. 




 
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I'm in the middle of S1 too. I would agree with you about the "quirk" factor. It takes me out of the storytelling usually. Otherwise, I'm enjoying it with the exception of the casting of Martin Freeman. He's a fine actor but not right for this role.

 
saintfool said:
I'm in the middle of S1 too. I would agree with you about the "quirk" factor. It takes me out of the storytelling usually. Otherwise, I'm enjoying it with the exception of the casting of Martin Freeman. He's a fine actor but not right for this role.
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just remembered I watched part or all of episode 1 and couldn't get past this. stopped watching entirely (although I'm going to jump back in given the raves here and everywhere else).

 
Set aside your swipes, your flashmobs, your hiphop frippery tonite, whippersnappers - one of the all-time greats (and the movie playing in my fireplace-and-fondue dream date w Krista) is on Turner Classic Movies @ 10pm. The Best Years of Our Lives. Fall in love all over again with the Greatest Generation as they return to a world so much more dull and, in its way, challenging than war. That is all - back to your Twirkering

 
wikkidpissah said:
Set aside your swipes, your flashmobs, your hiphop frippery tonite, whippersnappers - one of the all-time greats (and the movie playing in my fireplace-and-fondue dream date w Krista) is on Turner Classic Movies @ 10pm. The Best Years of Our Lives. Fall in love all over again with the Greatest Generation as they return to a world so much more dull and, in its way, challenging than war. That is all - back to your Twirkering
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I forget- is this the one with the war vet amputee actor?

 
El Floppo said:
I forget- is this the one with the war vet amputee actor?
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yuh-huh. his put-to-bed ritual which leaves him powerless to even brush away a fly wipes me out every time. And Frederic March is topnotch. I even wrote a country song years ago after one of his lines " guess we'll have to fall in love all over again" to his wife that Collin Raye asked for a demo of after hearing my son's mom & i sing it at a party.

 
saintfool said:
I'm in the middle of S1 too. I would agree with you about the "quirk" factor. It takes me out of the storytelling usually. Otherwise, I'm enjoying it with the exception of the casting of Martin Freeman. He's a fine actor but not right for this role.
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I have grown to really like him.  Maybe not the accent, but I just really enjoy his mannerisms and reactions to what's going on around him or as people are talking to him. 

Keep seeing here and other places that S2 is better and it gets to do it's own thing.  I am very interested in that, as I do distract myself too much with comparing the movie and show. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
Fargo Season 1:

Only 3 episodes in, but I am really liking it so.  Not quite what I expected, and that is good.  It did take me a little bit to get over trying to compare and contrast this vs. the movie and which characters are representing which.  I will also say that they toe the line for me of seeming to have characters in there just to have another weird quirky person (the supermarket King's son).  However, I am really digging the humor for the most part, and love it any time BBT is on screen.  Such an odd and interesting character. 
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One of my ALL time favorite series.. Season two gets a little "strange" for some, but I enjoyed both seasons a lot and I can't wait for Season 3 :excited:

 
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snogger said:
One of my ALL time favorite series.. Season two gets a little "strange" for some, but I enjoyed both seasons a lot and I can't wait for Season 3 :excited:
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Is this starting up soon?  The plan was for me to get through these first couple seasons before S3 started up. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
Is this starting up soon?  The plan was for me to get through these first couple seasons before S3 started up. 
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Spring they say. You dont really have to worry about continuity. S2 (takes place in 79) has as little to do with S1 as S1 does with the movie, and S3's the same i hear.

 
Has anyone else watched "Other People" 

The movie stars Molly Shannon (mother dying of cancer) and Jesse Plemons (gay son looking for love).

I don't know why I've been drawn to these depressing stories on film lately, but they've been really good. 

Jesse Plemons - reminded me a lot of the same style of Phillip Seymour Hoffman. 

It was funny watching him play this role when the last thing I saw him was Breaking Bad. 

 
Watched Sudden Fear from TMC the other night, really good movie. Young Palence was creepy as ####, "this is a great place for an accident." Crawford is money and as always Gloria Grahame is a total the perfect bad girl, man she is sexy. Definitely worth watching. My only complaint is the direction /cinematography could be a bit better, it would have played really well with an even more noir visual aesthetic.

 
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Big Game with Samuel L. Jackson. D+ That was pretty awful, to the point it was laughable. The kid did have his moments.

Head of State with Chris Rock F. That was one awful movie. And Chris Rock has only himself to blame since he wrote and directed it also

 
"Zootopia" with family movie night (again). I really like this movie. It definitely feels more Disney than a Pixar knockoff. The animation is just superb. The plot is just fine but nothing too clever. It's got some nice voiceover work from Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman.

 
While I still like it, I have to say that Fargo is starting to lose me a little bit.  I think I have about 3 episodes left in season 1?

 
badmojo1006 said:
Big Game with Samuel L. Jackson. D+ That was pretty awful, to the point it was laughable. The kid did have his moments.
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Strenuously disagree. It goes into the "just-run-with-it-entertaining" for me.  I'm looking forward to Big Game 2, Big Game 3, Big Game 4, each time the president gets shot down in a different country and gets help with a different kid who just happens to somehow represent his country/environment perfectly.  

 
saintfool said:
"Zootopia" with family movie night (again). I really like this movie. It definitely feels more Disney than a Pixar knockoff. The animation is just superb. The plot is just fine but nothing too clever. It's got some nice voiceover work from Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman.
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That was a fun movie.

 
I turned off Eraserhead after about a half hour (the carving of the mini turkey).

It's not the movie for me.

I'll stick with Muholland Dr for my Lynch fix.

 
Andy Dufresne said:
I turned off Eraserhead after about a half hour (the carving of the mini turkey).

It's not the movie for me.

I'll stick with Muholland Dr for my Lynch fix.
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I saw that for the first time only about a year or two ago. I would watch about 10 minutes at a time.

 
Somehow we've ended up watching Escape from L.A. this cold, lazy afternoon.

Were Carpenter and Russel serious about this? :lmao:

Peter Fonda RULES in this movie!

 
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Wednesday TMC is playing a murderers row of classic noir. Gangsters, femme fatales, drinking, smoking and sharp witty dialogue from many of the icons of 40s cinema: Bogart, Bacall, Crawford, Mitchum, Lancaster, Stanwyck, Hawks, Wilder. 

The 2 must see films are Out of the Past and Double Indemnity, but Born to Kill, The Big Sleep, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Mildred Pierce are all classic. 

 
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KarmaPolice said:
While I still like it, I have to say that Fargo is starting to lose me a little bit.  I think I have about 3 episodes left in season 1?
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I never understood the love.  Lot of lazy plotting.

 
Andy Dufresne said:
I turned off Eraserhead after about a half hour (the carving of the mini turkey).

It's not the movie for me.

I'll stick with Muholland Dr for my Lynch fix.




 
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"The Straight Story" might be his best film really. Farnsworth is so good in it too.

 
jdoggydogg said:
I don't even know who you are anymore.
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To be fair, I said I still liked it.  I think it's more like I am shaking my finger at the screen and giving the show a warning.  It was

the fish storm

that really did it.  It's also every episode title being a parable that doesn't seem to go anywhere, one too many clueless person, one too many movie nods, one too many coincidences, etc..  Not enough that I am not enjoying it, just enough to put me on high alert.  I would be a lot more worried if it were a network show that had 23+ episodes a season, but I think I am on my last few now and will probably plow through them tonight. 
 
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Ilov80s said:
Wednesday TMC is playing a murderers row of classic noir. Gangsters, femme fatales, drinking, smoking and sharp witty dialogue from many of the icons of 40s cinema: Bogart, Bacall, Crawford, Mitchum, Lancaster, Stanwyck, Hawks, Wilder. 

The 2 must see films are Out of the Past and Double Indemnity, but Born to Kill, The Big Sleep, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Mildred Pierce are all classic. 
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if i could hit the like button 14 times i would. Out of the Past is a must - i'll take Jane Greer & Rhonda Fleming over any threesome i could be offered today. It's unfortunate even Wm Faulkner couldnt figure out how to get Carmen Sternwood's behavior past the censors without completely muddying the story or Big Sleep would be the best old movie ever. And Double indemnity is immaculate (and Stanwyck's sneer delicious)

tonite TCM has one of the few movies teaming Bogie & Cagney (Roaring 20s) - Mitchum's Cape Fear is on right now - @ 8pm, but my oldmovie eye will be trained to the Movies! network for three hours of Once Upon a Time in the West, if not the best Western ever, pretty damn close. wikkid say check it.

 
Oh, and I think the fork in the road of our movie relationship was probably Mad Max: Fury Road.  Not sure if we will recover from that.  ;)

 
wikkidpissah said:
if i could hit the like button 14 times i would. Out of the Past is a must - i'll take Jane Greer & Rhonda Fleming over any threesome i could be offered today. It's unfortunate even Wm Faulkner couldnt figure out how to get Carmen Sternwood's behavior past the censors without completely muddying the story or Big Sleep would be the best old movie ever. And Double indemnity is immaculate (and Stanwyck's sneer delicious)

tonite TCM has one of the few movies teaming Bogie & Cagney (Roaring 20s) - Mitchum's Cape Fear is on right now - @ 8pm, but my oldmovie eye will be trained to the Movies! network for three hours of Once Upon a Time in the West, if not the best Western ever, pretty damn close. wikkid say check it.
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I know we covered this, but which is the channel that doesn't have commercials, and are any of these movies they show edited for TV?  I think I need to double check if I have these channels and clear some space on the DVR.

 
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