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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - 7/10

I guess I'm just not comfortable with the use of a rape/murder as a MacGuffin. The performances were all good though. 

Molly's Game - 7.5/10

I dig Sorkin's dialog. Not a huge fan of Chastain but she's really good here. Idris Elba is ways great. 

Topaz - 6/10

Ugh. Hitchcock paints by numbers here and the results are simply dull. Except, that is, for the overhead shot of the purple dress. I wonder how many takes that took and what the mechanism was underneath to make it flow like that. 

 
Andy Dufresne said:
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - 7/10

I guess I'm just not comfortable with the use of a rape/murder as a MacGuffin. The performances were all good though. 
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it's a personal preference numbers thing and not important in the grand scheme of things, but for me 7/10 is a movie I really liked. thought you were going with "didn't like" for this one, outside of performances... like a 5 or maybe 6/10. fwiw, I really didn't like this one. thought the writing was terrible. but yeah- the actors did well with it.

 
El Floppo said:
it's a personal preference numbers thing and not important in the grand scheme of things, but for me 7/10 is a movie I really liked. thought you were going with "didn't like" for this one, outside of performances... like a 5 or maybe 6/10. fwiw, I really didn't like this one. thought the writing was terrible. but yeah- the actors did well with it.
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For me, it's really hard for a movie to get into 8+ territory. Usually those affect me emotionally. 

There's a huge spike in my ratings bell curve at 7/7.5. Most movies I choose to watch are "pretty good" as I don't give most movies I suspect I'll dislike a chance. 

6/6.5 is usually reserved for movies that didn't do anything for me. 

5 and lower are progressively increasing amounts of how much a movie offended me and/or angered me by wasting my time. 

 
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Why did I think Doctor Zhivago would be bad? I had no interest in ever seeing but DVRd it the other week and ended up watching it Sun/Mon. What a great movie- I should have expected no less from Lean, Shariff, Christie and Guiness. It wasn't quite LoA or Bridge on the River Kwai, but it is a truly great epic Hollywood movie. 

 
El Floppo said:
it's a personal preference numbers thing and not important in the grand scheme of things, but for me 7/10 is a movie I really liked. thought you were going with "didn't like" for this one, outside of performances... like a 5 or maybe 6/10. fwiw, I really didn't like this one. thought the writing was terrible. but yeah- the actors did well with it.
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He's a Minnesotan, or Upper Midwesterner anyway. The best and worst thing about them folk is that everything gets at least a 7 just for being part of this blessed existence.

 
Ilov80s said:
Why did I think Doctor Zhivago would be bad? I had no interest in ever seeing but DVRd it the other week and ended up watching it Sun/Mon. What a great movie- I should have expected no less from Lean, Shariff, Christie and Guiness. It wasn't quite LoA or Bridge on the River Kwai, but it is a truly great epic Hollywood movie. 
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Lean took Pasternak and made it Tolstoy. If you "knew" Communism (totalitarian Socialism, whatever), it would be even more resonant. The erosive effect of hard life on spirit has seldom been better represented.

Thing to look for next time you watch it: It is my assertion that David Lean fell in love with Peter O'Toole during the making of Lawrence of Arabia and my proof is that he cast the woman who most looks like O'Toole as his Lara in his next movie and shoots Julie Christie just like he did his LofA star - same hair color & style, same angles, same light. Check it & see.

 
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wikkidpissah said:
Lean took Pasternak and made it Tolstoy. If you "knew" Communism (totalitarian Socialism, whatever), it would be even more resonant. The erosive effect of hard life on spirit has seldom been better represented.

Thing to look for next time you watch it: It is my assertion that David Lean fell in love with Peter O'Toole during the making of Lawrence of Arabia and my proof is that he cast the woman who most looks like O'Toole as his Lara in his next movie and shoots her just like he did his LofA star - same hair color & style, same angles, same light. Check it & see.
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I certainly never lived through anything like Communism but as a history major who specialized in the first half of the 20th Century, I have studied it quite a bit. I just had the totally wrong idea about what Zhivago would be. I thought it was way more love story with just pre revolution Russian backdrop and for some reason I thought it would be light hearted and less serious. No clue where that idea came from. As for the Lara=Lawrence connection, I totally see it. There was a scene in the libary where Dr and Lara retunite, she is cast with just a sliver of light across her eyes and they are so damn blue- the kind of blue that one associates with O'Toole. Spot on observation Wikkid. 

 
Leave No Trace - never even heard of it before coming across it on Prime, but....wow.  I have a feeling I’ll be thinking about it for a while.  8.5/10

 
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Ilov80s said:
Why did I think Doctor Zhivago would be bad? I had no interest in ever seeing but DVRd it the other week and ended up watching it Sun/Mon. What a great movie- I should have expected no less from Lean, Shariff, Christie and Guiness. It wasn't quite LoA or Bridge on the River Kwai, but it is a truly great epic Hollywood movie. 
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The entire cast & the music won me over big time over the years.  Acting & the visual scenes are stunning.  When the doctor is recruited against his will in that rag tag army group & they stop on a hill, on their horses, in the winter,  he looks over the vastness that is Russia & realizes that nothing will ever be the same-it's a killer scene for me.  Just a great epic movie that stands any test of time.  IMHO, but I'm a romantic at heart and this movie constantly tugs at it's core.

They could have given 3 best actor awards in this movie-easy.

 
Watched "The Loved Ones" based on the reviews. It was ok I guess. It was odd.

It was strange how when the main girl is first seen on screen, you think "meh". But she grows on you as the movie progresses. 

 
Watched The Predator last night.

Yes the plot was silly and unrealistic. But they added a lot of humor to it and that help make it overall pretty entertaining for me.

 
The Mid 90s & Eighth Grade

Saw two fantastic indy films about childhood this week. Can't say enough positive things about both of them. Both feature excellent child actors. And the writing and directing is also wonderful. Jonah Hill hung out with skate kids as a child, so The Mid 90s is semi-autobiographical. Comedian Bo Burnham directed Eighth Grade, and it's a sweet, sometimes awkward look at junior high life for girls. Two thumbs way up for both movies.

 
jdoggydogg said:
The Mid 90s & Eighth Grade

Saw two fantastic indy films about childhood this week. Can't say enough positive things about both of them. Both feature excellent child actors. And the writing and directing is also wonderful. Jonah Hill hung out with skate kids as a child, so The Mid 90s is semi-autobiographical. Comedian Bo Burnham directed Eighth Grade, and it's a sweet, sometimes awkward look at junior high life for girls. Two thumbs way up for both movies.
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Saw Eighth Grade just started streaming on Amazon Prime.  Looking forward to checking it out this weekend, I've heard good things about it.

 
jdoggydogg said:
The Mid 90s & Eighth Grade

Saw two fantastic indy films about childhood this week. Can't say enough positive things about both of them. Both feature excellent child actors. And the writing and directing is also wonderful. Jonah Hill hung out with skate kids as a child, so The Mid 90s is semi-autobiographical. Comedian Bo Burnham directed Eighth Grade, and it's a sweet, sometimes awkward look at junior high life for girls. Two thumbs way up for both movies.
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You think a 6th grade boys could handle either?

 
El Floppo said:
You think a 6th grade boys could handle either?
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I think kids would really relate to both these movies. To break it down: The Mid 90s has drug and alcohol use with teen boys, and a lot of vulgar language. So it depends on your tolerance for that stuff. Eighth Grade has mostly PG language, but there is a scene (no nudity) where the lead girl is in a situation where she'd being pressured into sex. Honestly, I think these movies understand childhood very well. And being the pinko liberal that I am, I would probably have shown them to my boy back in 6th grade. 

 
Andy Dufresne said:
Has anyone seen/heard of the movies The Endless/Spring/Resolution?

The descriptions of each sound interesting but the user reviews are all over the map. Critic reviews seem more generous and complimentary of the directors. 
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KarmaPolice said:
I've seen Spring.  It had promise, but I thought it was OK.  Kept seeing it as a top horror movie for 2014 or whenever it came out, but in the end I thought the idea was better than the execution.  I would say that the 6.7 imdb rating is slightly high and I personally would have it as a 5 - 5.5.  

The Endless looks good, so I added my name to the queue at the library.  
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The Endless is on Netflix.

I guess I'd say the same thing about it as you said about Spring - in the end I thought the idea was better than the execution. I'm afraid to say that I think it's skippable.

 
Life of the Party - Its certainly not great. But it has some funny parts. I laughed. Maya Rudolph and her husband in the movie are REALLY funny. There are worse ways to spend 105 minutes.

Galveston - It was better than I thought it'd be. Its basically an action/drama movie. Ben Foster is really good - but he always is. The story is a little tired - at least until the end. Overall, worth a watch.

 
In prep for the podcast, I watched Rear Window again the other night.  It's been years and years since I've seen it, and it feels like different things stuck out for me this time around - mainly what a #### Stewart is most of the movie to the people around him.  Also picked up more of the rooms he is spying on being a reflection of his thoughts and conversations that he is having and how Grace Kelly's character seemed to be a hybrid of Ms Torso and Ms Lonely hearts.   Also forgot how funny his nurse is.   One of my favorites of Hitchcock's for sure.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
In prep for the podcast, I watched Rear Window again the other night.  It's been years and years since I've seen it, and it feels like different things stuck out for me this time around - mainly what a #### Stewart is most of the movie to the people around him.  Also picked up more of the rooms he is spying on being a reflection of his thoughts and conversations that he is having and how Grace Kelly's character seemed to be a hybrid of Ms Torso and Ms Lonely hearts.   Also forgot how funny his nurse is.   One of my favorites of Hitchcock's for sure.  
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He was really good at playing an #######. And I think, because he's known as Mr Decent, he's scarier when he's not a nice guy than someone like George Kennedy or Lee Marvin.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
He was really good at playing an #######. And I think, because he's known as Mr Decent, he's scarier when he's not a nice guy than someone like George Kennedy or Lee Marvin.
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It was perfect casting because he has so many jabs at the people around him, but yet you still are still on his side for the movie.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
In prep for the podcast, I watched Rear Window again the other night.  It's been years and years since I've seen it, and it feels like different things stuck out for me this time around - mainly what a #### Stewart is most of the movie to the people around him.  Also picked up more of the rooms he is spying on being a reflection of his thoughts and conversations that he is having and how Grace Kelly's character seemed to be a hybrid of Ms Torso and Ms Lonely hearts.   Also forgot how funny his nurse is.   One of my favorites of Hitchcock's for sure.  
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When I reflect on some of my favorite thrillers (The Usual Suspects, SE7EN, etc.), the common thread is the core concepts and devices are brilliant and intelligent. Rear Window is that kind of movie.

 
KarmaPolice said:
In prep for the podcast, I watched Rear Window again the other night.  It's been years and years since I've seen it, and it feels like different things stuck out for me this time around - mainly what a #### Stewart is most of the movie to the people around him.  Also picked up more of the rooms he is spying on being a reflection of his thoughts and conversations that he is having and how Grace Kelly's character seemed to be a hybrid of Ms Torso and Ms Lonely hearts.   Also forgot how funny his nurse is.   One of my favorites of Hitchcock's for sure.  
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love the movie, but I was hoping for a skimpier set of PJs for the future princess.  

 
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