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jdoggydogg said:
Yeah, that's a systemic problem with most movies. Cast someone normal and appropriate and the role is far more believable. 
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Plus it only goes one way.   We are never going to see an average looking non-skinny woman in a movie married to a man that looks like Ryan Reynolds or something like that.

 
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I went in with medium expectations due to lack of buzz.  It still disappointed.

Streep is good.  Hanks is completely forgettable.  Way too much makeup on everyone.  Hire some older actors.  Geez.  Film just felt so artificial.  From the cast to the music.  No grit.

6.5/10

Watched Bridge of Spies again recently and liked it even more.  Perhaps the political climate.  

 
Daywalker said:
The Post

I went in with medium expectations due to lack of buzz.  It still disappointed.

Streep is good.  Hanks is completely forgettable.  Way too much makeup on everyone.  Hire some older actors.  Geez.  Film just felt so artificial.  From the cast to the music.  No grit.

6.5/10
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That doesn't sound like a 6.5/10 review. A 6.5/10 seems like a good movie, worth watching.

 
Wolves at the Door

Movie focuses on the Manson murders. Not a bad movie overall and not gory, but highly suspenseful.  3.5./5

 
CletiusMaximus said:
I loved it, especially Rockwell and of course McDormand.  Over a drink after the movie last night, my wife and I were in complete agreement that its one of the best of the year for us, but we also both had the same minor complaint.  I'd like to put it in spoiler tags to discuss, but don't know how to do that, and its not really all that interesting.  Basically, the movie's appeal to a large degree is the interplay between comedy juxtaposed with brutal violence and drama, with snappy dialogue in a Cohen Bros / Tarrantino style.  There were a couple areas when I thought this went too far and became somewhat of a weakness, particularly involving the ex-husband's young girlfriend and some of Rockwell's dialogue. My wife also though Woody Harrelson's wife was way too young and hot.
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I'm not sure what your spoiler would have been, but the one issue I had is, as much as I loved the portrayal of Rockwell, was his transition overnight from the racist loser to a guy looking to make a difference based on just a single letter from his boss.  That and the scene where Rockwell is in the hospital.  A little much.  But, I still loved this movie.  I can count on one hand the number of movies that I've paid to see in the theater more than once, and this is one of them.

 
I, Tonya

I don't think there's any question that you had to have been at least 18 or older at the time of the Harding/Kerrigan rivalry in order to get much out of this movie.  Without that foreknowledge, I'm not sure if you would like this.  I was 25ish at that time, and I loved this movie.  Margot/Janey combination were great. It's hard to tell where real life and artistic license comes into play, but if the abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother and husband are accurately portrayed, it will soften your heart toward old Tonya before the movie ends. 

 
Daywalker said:
The Post

I went in with medium expectations due to lack of buzz.  It still disappointed.

Streep is good.  Hanks is completely forgettable.  Way too much makeup on everyone.  Hire some older actors.  Geez.  Film just felt so artificial.  From the cast to the music.  No grit.

6.5/10

Watched Bridge of Spies again recently and liked it even more.  Perhaps the political climate.  
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Or Mark Rylance's film stealing portrayal of Rudolf Abel

 
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Funniest movie ever? One you can watch over and over? Bringing Up Baby has climbed into that range for me- it's funnier every time. 

 
I watched Wind River last night and thought it was very good.

Sad, realistic, good scenery. I like Renner, though he mumbles a lot in it.

 
Ilov80s said:
Funniest movie ever? One you can watch over and over? Bringing Up Baby has climbed into that range for me- it's funnier every time. 
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Looks awesome. I'm thinking Airplane! might actually beat it to the punch, but humor is time-bound and relative, and now I need to watch Bringing Up Baby per your recommendation. Looks funny from the trailer.  

 
rockaction said:
Looks awesome. I'm thinking Airplane! might actually beat it to the punch, but humor is time-bound and relative, and now I need to watch Bringing Up Baby per your recommendation. Looks funny from the trailer.  
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First time I saw it a couple years ago I didn't get it. Rewatched last year and have since seen it 3 more times. The back and forth dialogue between Grant and Hepburn is genius. 

 
Ilov80s said:
First time I saw it a couple years ago I didn't get it. Rewatched last year and have since seen it 3 more times. The back and forth dialogue between Grant and Hepburn is genius. 
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Grant is awesome. So is Hartford Katherine. (I grew up twenty minutes from Hartford. She's one of our few artistic treasures.) I'll have to check it out.  

 
CletiusMaximus said:
I loved it, especially Rockwell and of course McDormand.  Over a drink after the movie last night, my wife and I were in complete agreement that its one of the best of the year for us, but we also both had the same minor complaint.  I'd like to put it in spoiler tags to discuss, but don't know how to do that, and its not really all that interesting.  Basically, the movie's appeal to a large degree is the interplay between comedy juxtaposed with brutal violence and drama, with snappy dialogue in a Cohen Bros / Tarrantino style.  There were a couple areas when I thought this went too far and became somewhat of a weakness, particularly involving the ex-husband's young girlfriend and some of Rockwell's dialogue. My wife also though Woody Harrelson's wife was way too young and hot.
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And don't forget Harrelson's acting. He was fantastic as the sheriff who was trying to do the delicate balance of the town and the mom

 
El Floppo said:
Baby's great. 

For me, spinal tap and strangelove are tops. 
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Yeah, if I had a list of perfect comedies those would up there was well. Strangelove is just genius. The fact that it started as a super serious drama but Kubrick realized that nuclear war was so absurd that it could only really work as a comedy- but he didn't tell all the actors that- just makes it an even more amazing movie. And where would modern comedy be with Spinal Tap? The mockumentry style led to Best in Show, The Office, the other Office, Parks and Rec. That really bled into almost all modern comedy. 

Also as Rock said, Airplane is fantastic. It's in the Bringing Up Baby mold. A joke a second, every character is crazy. Screwball to the max. 

 
The script is a masterpiece of structure, with too many double entendres to count. Doug Moston, acting teacher and Shakespeare scholar, used to remind his students that when they were analyzing a Shakespeare play, “If you don’t think a line is bawdy—it’s only because you haven’t worked it out yet.” The same applies to Bringing Up Baby. It is a movie, after all, that starts with the following exchange:

David Huxley (holding up a giant dinosaur bone): “Alice, I think this one belongs in the tail.”

Miss Swallow: “Nonsense. You tried it in the tail yesterday.”
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Ilov80s said:
Yeah, if I had a list of perfect comedies those would up there was well. Strangelove is just genius. The fact that it started as a super serious drama but Kubrick realized that nuclear war was so absurd that it could only really work as a comedy- but he didn't tell all the actors that- just makes it an even more amazing movie. And where would modern comedy be with Spinal Tap? The mockumentry style led to Best in Show, The Office, the other Office, Parks and Rec. That really bled into almost all modern comedy. 

Also as Rock said, Airplane is fantastic. It's in the Bringing Up Baby mold. A joke a second, every character is crazy. Screwball to the max. 
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Ive told this before, but I saw strange love once in Paris. About half way through I realized I was the only person laughing- at Sterling Hayden in particular- much to the embassment of my ex and the consternation of the dour French crowd. I tried reading the French subtitles after that, and saw what a fine line the movie was riding between satire/comedy and the grim realities of the cold war. Reading the script took away the humor PDQ.

And re Baby... I always think of arsenic and old lace in the same vein, but don't remember if it actually is similar in approach.

 
El Floppo said:
Ive told this before, but I saw strange love once in Paris. About half way through I realized I was the only person laughing- at Sterling Hayden in particular- much to the embassment of my ex and the consternation of the dour French crowd. I tried reading the French subtitles after that, and saw what a fine line the movie was riding between satire/comedy and the grim realities of the cold war. Reading the script took away the humor PDQ.

And re Baby... I always think of arsenic and old lace in the same vein, but don't remember if it actually is similar in approach.
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That is so amazing. I can see how a movie like that could be easily lost in translation 

 
Ilov80s said:
That is so amazing. I can see how a movie like that could be easily lost in translation 
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I never got the love for Strangelove. Terry Southern was pretty countercultural, and I never really got the politics, though I did. But it was over-the-top, as it were.  

Blue Movie: "Who do I have to #### to get off this set?!" was pretty funny, though.  

 
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rockaction said:
I never got the love for Strangelove. Terry Southern was pretty countercultural, and I never really got the politics, though I did. But it was over-the-top, as it were.  

Blue Movie: "Who do I have to #### to get off this set?!" was pretty funny, though.  
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Interesting. I would have guessed you loved that movie. That's another topic too: classic comedy that you don't get.

 
Ilov80s said:
Funniest movie ever? One you can watch over and over? Bringing Up Baby has climbed into that range for me- it's funnier every time. 
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I wouldn't call it funniest movie ever, but somehow Raising Arizona gets funnier with each viewing...each character does or says something I'd never noticed before and laughter ensues

 
MASH is easily the most highly rated comedy and probably movie that I just hated. Awful movie as Ive said here before. The Pink Panther movies are the modern equivalent of Austin Powers though. Tough to watch. 

Also, if crime movies and noir is your thing, TMC has a great 1-2 punch starting at 8:00. with White Heat. Cagney's ferocious return to the gangster genre playing Cody Jarrett, a wolverine with shotgun and a mother complex.  An ex-con with a heist in the works and federal agents on his heels.  

After that, a man is on the hunt for his own murderer. It' s D.O.A. which is a quick noir with an impossibly good set-up and some interesting direction. 

 
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I loved MASH in it's day.  Like many comedies, it hasn't aged very well.  I will still watch it sometimes and enjoy it - but can certainly see why younger people wouldn't like it.  

 
Binky The Doormat said:
blue movie?  what is that?
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Blue Movie is a book by Terry Southern, who was a co-author of Dr. Strangelove. It's a book about a blue movie, and in a joke about a casting couch (a no-no these days) the actress, on the first page of the book, actually asks "Who do I #### to get off this set?" 

It's kind of funny, and bawdy and memorable. Like Strangelove. Southern was his own brand of humor, I guess. Julie Andrews, believe it or not, was supposed to play the lead in the movie adaptation that never got made. 

 
Ilov80s said:
Interesting. I would have guessed you loved that movie. That's another topic too: classic comedy that you don't get.
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I think if I watched it again, I might love it. It's so highly political -- and I was so high back then -- that I'm not sure I can even remember it from my mid-twenties. I remember laughing but going, "eh..."

That's all I can say about it.  

 
rockaction said:
Blue Movie is a book by Terry Southern, who was a co-author of Dr. Strangelove. It's a book about a blue movie, and in a joke about a casting couch (a no-no these days) the actress, on the first page of the book, actually asks "Who do I #### to get off this set?" 

It's kind of funny, and bawdy and memorable. Like Strangelove. Southern was his own brand of humor, I guess. Julie Andrews, believe it or not, was supposed to play the lead in the movie adaptation that never got made. 
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big southern fan. Never heard of this movie.  Thanks!

 
rockaction said:
I think if I watched it again, I might love it. It's so highly political -- and I was so high back then -- that I'm not sure I can even remember it from my mid-twenties. I remember laughing but going, "eh..."

That's all I can say about it.  
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I never read it as all that political. Just a black screw ball comedy with 60s sensibilities and a genius blurring of lines between drama and comedy. 

 
Ilov80s said:
I never read it as all that political. Just a black screw ball comedy with 60s sensibilities and a genius blurring of lines between drama and comedy. 
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A man riding a nuclear bomb down onto an unsuspecting land while waving a cowboy hat has to be at least somewhat political. The war room and the offer to move everybody underground? C'mon...that was the Cold War and humor about it. 

Although, I guess, also, I was leaving D.C. when I found it and maybe through that lens did I find it political. 

 
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rockaction said:
A man riding a nuclear bomb down onto an unsuspecting land while waving a cowboy hat has to be at least somewhat political. The war room and the offer to move everybody underground? C'mon...that was the Cold War and humor about it. 

Although, I guess, also, I was leaving D.C. when I found it and maybe through that lens did I find it political. 
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It was making fun of the Cold War but I never got any kind of agenda from the movie other than to point out how absurd things were. 

 
Ilov80s said:
It was making fun of the Cold War but I never got any kind of agenda from the movie other than to point out how absurd things were. 
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I'm pretty sure there was a direct agenda, which was to make fun of the Cold War, as you pointed out. I think my political humor gauge went haywire in my mid-twenties. I liked the movie, too. And laughed. Just don't consider it an all-time classic.  

 
But, hey, my bad (or personal) taste shouldn't be the standard-bearer for all things great. 

eta* I like the movie. Have nothing but fond memories of it.  

 
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Ilov80s said:
I am probably missing lots of stuff in that movie and am reading it way wrong 
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I don't know. I was in a bad way back then. I'm being sincere. That's when I was into Southern.  

eta* I have Bringing Up Baby cued up on amazon.com. Is it that funny? 

 
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rockaction said:
I don't know. I was in a bad way back then. I'm being sincere. That's when I was into Southern.  

eta* I have Bringing Up Baby cued up on amazon.com. Is it that funny? 
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The Southern book sounds interesting. It's very old, but I think it's extremely funny. 

 
rockaction said:
Blue Movie is a book by Terry Southern, who was a co-author of Dr. Strangelove. It's a book about a blue movie, and in a joke about a casting couch (a no-no these days) the actress, on the first page of the book, actually asks "Who do I #### to get off this set?" 

It's kind of funny, and bawdy and memorable. Like Strangelove. Southern was his own brand of humor, I guess. Julie Andrews, believe it or not, was supposed to play the lead in the movie adaptation that never got made. 
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Julie showed her Andrews in S.O.B.... Which iirc had something to do with the making of a movie. Wonder if it was related to your book.

 
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