MOVIES: What are you watching?

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The Last Seduction

Once upon a time there was an attempt to break Linda Fiorentino into the big time. This movie was the final attempt. It had much fanfare, but director John Dahl (himself a minor director who was a great hope) didn't have what it takes to get Fiorentino into the next Femme Fatale.

He became a TV director and she has just faded with time.

I always really liked this movie.

Liked Fiorentino, too.

She was in Men in Black...

she was in a b movie called Gotcha with Anthony Edwards. She got my attention in that movie!

56 Up -- the most recent in the series that started with 7 Up. I've watched all of them and have found them very interesting. Not exactly "page turners," but interesting how people's lives evolve. The director also has a series called Married in America that uses the same concept of checking in on people over the course of time.

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56 Up -- the most recent in the series that started with 7 Up. I've watched all of them and have found them very interesting. Not exactly "page turners," but interesting how people's lives evolve.

A wonderful series and often quite poignant.

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56 Up -- the most recent in the series that started with 7 Up.

A personal favourite. Fascinating - especially since the subjects are the same age as me.

Besides directing features like Nell and The World Is Not Enough, I've seen Michael Apted's name pop up as director on a number of series lately, including episodes of Master of Sex and Ray Donovan.

Intimate Strangers

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The Last Seduction

Tell me, what was the last "mass market" movie you saw, and what were your impressions?

PH

Oh my. Let me think about what was the last time I viewed such.

Rush.

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The Last Seduction

Tell me, what was the last "mass market" movie you saw, and what were your impressions?

PH

Oh my. Let me think about what was the last time I viewed such.

Wasn't it 4 For Texas in 1963?

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The Last Seduction

Tell me, what was the last "mass market" movie you saw, and what were your impressions?

PH

Oh my. Let me think about what was the last time I viewed such.

Argo
Lincoln
Life of Pi
Django Unchained
Zero Dark Thirty
Les Miserables

were all mass-marketed here last year. Surely you saw a few of those?

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The Last Seduction

Tell me, what was the last "mass market" movie you saw, and what were your impressions?

PH

Oh my. Let me think about what was the last time I viewed such.

Argo
Lincoln
Life of Pi
Django Unchained
Zero Dark Thirty
Les Miserables

were all mass-marketed here last year. Surely you saw a few of those?

Proof of why one needs to stay away from populist films.

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Originally posted by wine+art:
The Last Seduction

Tell me, what was the last "mass market" movie you saw, and what were your impressions?

PH

Oh my. Let me think about what was the last time I viewed such.

Argo
Lincoln
Life of Pi
Django Unchained
Zero Dark Thirty
Les Miserables

were all mass-marketed here last year. Surely you saw a few of those?

Proof of why one needs to stay away from populist films.

Les Mis was terrible -- apart from Hathaway. (And I adore the musical, btw.) The others were all good to very very very good. None awesome, but such is life.

I didn't really care for Les Mis either. Put me in the minority.

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I didn't really care for Les Mis either. Put me in the minority.

From the last episode of Modern Family, Cam speaking about a bad call from a football ref, "That's the worst call since Russell Crowe was cast in Les Miz."

Les Mis - we didn't finish the film as we thought it was so bad.

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Originally posted by wine+art:
The Last Seduction

Tell me, what was the last "mass market" movie you saw, and what were your impressions?

PH

Oh my. Let me think about what was the last time I viewed such.

Argo... Yes, watched on an airplane.
Lincoln... Nope. No interest.
Life of Pi ... See above
Django Unchained ... See above
Zero Dark Thirty ... See above
Les Miserables ... See above

were all mass-marketed here last year. Surely you saw a few of those? Thanks, winetarelli. You made it easy for me.

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Originally posted by wine+art:
The Last Seduction

Tell me, what was the last "mass market" movie you saw, and what were your impressions?

PH

Oh my. Let me think about what was the last time I viewed such.

Argo... Yes, watched on an airplane.
Lincoln... Nope. No interest.
Life of Pi ... See above
Django Unchained ... See above
Zero Dark Thirty ... See above
Les Miserables ... See above

were all mass-marketed here last year. Surely you saw a few of those? Thanks, winetarelli. You made it easy for me.

Humbug!

Last few days out of boredom:

We're the Millers : Amusing, held my attention.

The To-Do List : Vaguely repulsive with absolutely no redeeming value.

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Originally posted by wine+art:

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Originally posted by wine+art:
The Last Seduction

Tell me, what was the last "mass market" movie you saw, and what were your impressions?

PH

Oh my. Let me think about what was the last time I viewed such.

Argo... Yes, watched on an airplane.
Lincoln... Nope. No interest.
Life of Pi ... See above
Django Unchained ... See above
Zero Dark Thirty ... See above
Les Miserables ... See above

were all mass-marketed here last year. Surely you saw a few of those? Thanks, winetarelli. You made it easy for me.

Humbug!

... well, if I were to watch one of the no watch movies, which would you select?

In the Bedroom

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Originally posted by winetarelli:

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Originally posted by wine+art:

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Originally posted by PurpleHaze:

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Originally posted by wine+art:
The Last Seduction

Tell me, what was the last "mass market" movie you saw, and what were your impressions?

PH

Oh my. Let me think about what was the last time I viewed such.

Argo... Yes, watched on an airplane.
Lincoln... Nope. No interest.
Life of Pi ... See above
Django Unchained ... See above
Zero Dark Thirty ... See above
Les Miserables ... See above

were all mass-marketed here last year. Surely you saw a few of those? Thanks, winetarelli. You made it easy for me.

Humbug!

... well, if I were to watch one of the no watch movies, which would you select?

Lincoln

And seriously, do see 12 Years A Slave sooner rather than later. I would love to read your thoughts. And really just a wonderful movie, imo.

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Originally posted by wine+art: ... well, if I were to watch one of the no watch movies, which would you select?

Hey, I did say everyone should see the deeply flawed masterpiece Gravity. But again, only in 3D where it's visuals and sense of being in space are a must see.

Annie Hall

Brilliance. Not quite as good as Manhattan, but I just don't understand how anyone cannot like this movie.

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Annie Hall

Brilliance. Not quite as good as Manhattan, but I just don't understand how anyone cannot like this movie.

One of my top 5 all time faves. Joey Nickels!!

The Son

Ocean's Eleven (1960)

Maborosi

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Ocean's Eleven (1960)

Somm

The Conjuring

Last night new Hunger Games Catching Fire movie.

Haute Cuisine. This is a documentary about a woman who cooked for Mitterand in the late 1980's or early 1990's when he was head of France.
Great food. Wonderful pastries. I think I gained about 3 pounds watching the movie.

The World's End

Far less successful than I thought it to be. I like Simon Pegg and some of Edgar Wright's work. But I thought this was boring and heavy handed.

Alphaville

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The World's End

Far less successful than I thought it to be. I like Simon Pegg and some of Edgar Wright's work. But I thought this was boring and heavy handed.

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Watched it over the week-end. Fan boy movie with reverences to everything under the sun and quite blatant about it. This was their Ocean's 12. Now that they've done it they can go on to do good work again...

That said, every time I see Rosamund Pike I fawn/pine/lust after her even more.

Speaking of classics, watched Young Frankenstein on a plane last week.

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Alphaville

I've mentioned before that I love this untypical Godard work. Everything is unique from turning the "City of Lights" into a nightmarish backdrop through creative cinematography to creating the voice of the Alpha 60 computer from the speech of a man who'd lost his vocal cords so speaks using the burping technique that many learn to do.

The actors are each special. Eddie Constantine, the pock-marked stoic actor, portrays secret agent Lemmie Caution who drives a Ford Galaxie from the Outlands. Enigmatic actress Anna Karina plays the woman he tries to save. Lemmie, (who narrates to film more successfully than Harrison Ford in Blade Runner) refers to her "pretty sphinx face." And finally a surprise to see Akim Tamiroff as the missing agent Caution is looking for.

The film is loaded with memorable scenes that stuck with me for years in between re-watches. One example is the martyrs who are executed while standing on a swimming pool's diving board reciting anti-government slogans. Then they are shot and fall in the water.

I give this film a 96 while giving the previously mentioned Blade Runner (a failed attempt to blend noir and science fiction that Alphaville succeeds at on a shoe string budget and no special effects) a 79.

12 Years As A Slave.

What a great buzzkill. That's at least 2 major oscars in the bag. Esp. Best Actor.

The Dark Knight

Still love Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker. But watching it again makes me realize that other aspects of the film really could have used some improvement.

The Way, Way Back. Good movie.

Man of Steel

Please can I have my 2 1/2 hours back? And please could someone make a superhero movie that (a) doesn't feature a non-stop barrage of seizure-inducing bursts of white light, (b) isn't solely about the CGI destruction of everything in sight, and (c) has actual character development?

Yeah, I know I'm asking too much.

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Man of Steel

Please can I have my 2 1/2 hours back? And please could someone make a superhero movie that (a) doesn't feature a non-stop barrage of seizure-inducing bursts of white light, (b) isn't solely about the CGI destruction of everything in sight, and (c) has actual character development?

Yeah, I know I'm asking too much.

I think it was done with Unbreakable. Unfortunately that talented hack, M. Night Shyamalan always thinks he needs a surprise twist ending and this ones destroyed the entire movie.

Swimming Pool