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I thought the moon sequencers last were cool.Ad Astra..... was just so boring. Tried to be so important but.... meh.
I thought the moon sequencers last were cool.Ad Astra..... was just so boring. Tried to be so important but.... meh.
Just saw, wish I didnt. Terribly boringYankee23Fan said:Ad Astra..... was just so boring. Tried to be so important but.... meh.
The scene where:Yankee23Fan said:Ad Astra..... was just so boring. Tried to be so important but.... meh.
I liked it all the way up to Mars and after that completely fell apart for me.Ad Astra..... was just so boring. Tried to be so important but.... meh.
I agree. It ranks among the bottom of the Bonds, along with some of the Brosnan ones.I had forgotten how terribly constructed Quantum of Solace is.
There might be a decent story in it somewhere but the editing gives the viewer zero chance of following.
Edit: Finished. Terrible movie confirmed.
Was decent. Would never watch again.Saw Knives Out and enjoyed it. It's a fun movie and will please any fan of the whodunnit, but I was a little less entertained than I was expecting given the reviews.
Watching the end of Four Horseman now.For you night owls - Ingmar Bergman's classic The Seventh Seal is on TCM @ 2:45am
Interesting. I thought Daniel Craig and Michael Shannon were really funny in it.Was decent. Would never watch again.
Don't understand the casting. Ana De Armas, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans and Christopher Plummer. Like all of them but not the group I would bring together if I need to squeeze comedy out of a script. Michael Shannon is hilarious in real life but not his screen persona. Jaime Lee Curtis is a great choice but she was underused.
This type of movie needs to have the comedy baked in with the cast.
Move was a bit too straight-laced. Needed more goofiness.
For you night owls - Ingmar Bergman's classic The Seventh Seal is on TCM @ 2:45am
Both were on my list to see so I was able to DVR both to watch when I get back from vacation. Thanks for the heads up, glad I caught that!Watching the end of Four Horseman now.
Not sure if I will make it thru to the end & 7.
I may have wherewithal, tho.
Love this movie. Is it weird that it may be my favorite Bergman?For you night owls - Ingmar Bergman's classic The Seventh Seal is on TCM @ 2:45am
it's mine, but i don't much care for his workEl Floppo said:Love this movie. Is it weird that it may be my favorite Bergman?
and it wasn’t trying to be ClueIlov80s said:Interesting. I thought Daniel Craig and Michael Shannon were really funny in it.
The live action one?Just watched dora with the family
It's exactly what we expected. Cute enough, cheesy.
Yep.The live action one?
Obviously WW1 got overshadowed by WW2 but the time between them produced some outstanding movies if you like silent or very early talkies. I would say the 3 best arePaths of Glory.
88 minutes. Does not mess around. Great ending. Lot to digest.
9/10. Only downgrade is due to the prisoner scenes which were not up to par with the rest of the film.
Been on a WWI kick lately. Hopefully 1917 is good.
WWI really does need a Band of Brothers treatment.
Always reminds me of being the only one in the theater belly laughing during the "death" scene in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.For you night owls - Ingmar Bergman's classic The Seventh Seal is on TCM @ 2:45am
If anyone was looking for a reason to watch War Dogs, her 6 minutes of screen time might be it.Ana De Armas
It's hard. I tried, but there is so much more horror than heroism in the conflict where technology put the rules of war thru the meat grinder. And the American part of WW1 was a little like a bullfight. When i saw my 1st one in Seville, i was surprised how tenderized (had at for a half hour by picadors & toreros to a 20-30% loss of blood before the matador ever appears) the bull was before the dance of death. The American Expeditionary Force essentially chased a German army home which had already been tenderized by four years of trench warfare.Paths of Glory.
88 minutes. Does not mess around. Great ending. Lot to digest.
9/10. Only downgrade is due to the prisoner scenes which were not up to par with the rest of the film.
Been on a WWI kick lately. Hopefully 1917 is good.
WWI really does need a Band of Brothers treatment.
That last scene is one of my favorite endings to any movie.Daywalker said:Paths of Glory.
88 minutes. Does not mess around. Great ending. Lot to digest.
9/10. Only downgrade is due to the prisoner scenes which were not up to par with the rest of the film.
Been on a WWI kick lately. Hopefully 1917 is good.
WWI really does need a Band of Brothers treatment.
I believe the singer went on to marry KubrickThat last scene is one of my favorite endings to any movie.
wonder if this should be in the "horror" thread. sounds gruesome.JoeSteeler said:just watch The Mountain (Hulu) with Jeff Goldblum and Tye Sherian
Not sure really what I watched, struck me as if David Lynch and Wes Anderson made a movie together
"1950s America. Since his mother‘s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour advocating for his increasingly controversial lobotomy procedure."
I like reading your posts. always interesting.wikkidpissah said:It's hard. I tried, but there is so much more horror than heroism in the conflict where technology put the rules of war thru the meat grinder. And the American part of WW1 was a little like a bullfight. When i saw my 1st one in Seville, i was surprised how tenderized (had at for a half hour by picadors & toreros to a 20-30% loss of blood before the matador ever appears) the bull was before the dance of death. The American Expeditionary Force essentially chased a German army home which had already been tenderized by four years of trench warfare.
I did find one hero trail, shortly after i took up writing again following my wife's death 20some years ago, and chased it for over a year - the story of an omnisexual Jewish gentleman named Siegfried Sassoon. If the times hadn't forced him to be the greatest war poet ever, he might have really been something. He fought the first couple of years of the Great War with enough distinction to gain the VC & gallant nickname Mad Jack, then walked off the line and sent a letter of resignation, indicting the incompetence of Great Britain's pursuit of the war, to Command (copies to the newspapers).
Sassoon's great friend Robert Graves (estimable poet himself, writer of I, Claudius and someone i met in Majorca in the early 70s, which is how i first heard of all this) got his court martial changed to a medical board upon his fitness and Sass was sent to war history's first shellshock institute, Craiglockhart, in Scotland to "recover" and save the British military the embarrassment of executing an upperclassmen. There he was introduced to an immensely talented & conscientious doctor, WHRRivers (probably 2nd only to Freud in the development of The Talking Cure) and a young recovering soldier, Wilfred Owen, who he seduced into the world of war poetry before he was "cured" and sent back to die the week before the Armistice, leaving the most heartbreaking oeuvre since Keats behind.
The story had everything - the modern world's transition from Gilded Age to Guilty Age, class & communism, humor & heroism, camaraderie & concupiscence. It seemed a play, with an attic above the set where the wars of mind & memory played out, and i was going to use my new theory that yesterday's poets are today's comics by making Sassoon, Owen and the visiting Graves hilarious & telling in the face of it all, with Dr Rivers outsmarting them into reasonable mental health in the end. Alas, i wasn't up to the task (i never am). But it's pretty much the only decent WW1 story that doesn't get stuck in the mud.
A decent-but-po-faced novelization called the Regeneration Trilogy was written of it around the turn of this century, which was then made into an even more po-faced movie which is on Prime. Sassoon's memoirs are also almost as good as his poesy.
See I thought Dwayne was the weak part of the movie. His DeVito was kind of annoying at times. Hart was great. And Gillan is smoking hot.Jumanji - the next level was funnier than the first one. A good sequel. Hart had more of a chance to be Hart. The Rock was solid. A few chase scenes went on for way too long. Gillan in shorts and crop top for 60 minutes can never be a terrible thing.
Good point. His devito accent was terrible. The physical comedy was pretty good I thought but now that you mention the voice I have to agree.See I thought Dwayne was the weak part of the movie. His DeVito was kind of annoying at times. Hart was great. And Gillan is smoking hot.
I’m having the same issue. I’ve only seen 3: 7th Seal, Autumn Sonata and Fanny & Alexander. So far, I’m pretty meh on his work. My reaction to all 3 was the same: I liked it but it didn’t seem like genius or technically amazing and it didn’t grab my attention. Nice films that I am glad I saw but probably won’t ever go back to. Not sure what is is but I’m not seeing the Bergman genius. I have Scenes from a Marriage, Persona and Wild Strawberries on the DVR and I guess I will watch them eventually but I’m not expecting much.it's mine, but i don't much care for his work
Lucky! These movies are very dear to me. Genius.TCM tonight - Pink Panther/Clouseau marathon
The Pink Panther
A Shot in the Dark (my favorite Clouseau movie)
The Return of the Pink Panther
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Edge of Tomorrow is fantastic. And that they rebranded the title for the DVD was a great idea.Paxton in full Paxton mode. I loved this movie.
And the reality is that the original trilogy are pretty hokey, in terms of writing and hammill. I think it's a testament to just how bad the next trilogy was that people ended up being so sensitive. Like you, I completely enjoyed this last one.Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
I know that people treat every Star War as this perfect thing that gets ruined by the new movies. I did love these films as a kid, but I do like a lot of the new ones despite all the whining - especially episodes 7,8, and 9. Daisey Ridley is wonderful, and she carries these movies. The innate problem of making a new Star War is it's a nearly impossible task.
Exactly. Rogue One seemed to receive tepid reviews, but I thought it was one of the best SW ever.And the reality is that the original trilogy are pretty hokey, in terms of writing and hammill. I think it's a testament to just how bad the next trilogy was that people ended up being so sensitive. Like you, I completely enjoyed this last one.