MOVIES: What are you watching?

Gone Girl
What a mindf***.

Just watched Thor. I'm trying to keep up to date with my kids on all of these comic book superhero action movies.

Purple Noon

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Purple Noon

Yeah, saw that coming.

Thrilling story of the restoration of Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy

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Mad Max - Fury Road

Awful. Terrible. Horrific. Sucks.

Seriously, how did it get such a high rating? I don't even know where to begin...

98% on Rotten Tomatoes with 92% audience score, must be the Citizen Kane of post-apocalyptic movies. However I think your review is probably right on the money.

The only things that made this watchable (i.e., I didn't leave) were:
1) I went with friends and one was my ride home
2) Was a theatre with the new lounge seats that recline back quite a bit and are extra wide so you're not rubbing elbows with your neighbor
3) The theatre served beer
4) Did I mention I did not drive myself to the theatre?!

I thought Charlize Theron actually did a pretty good job in this film. But this is another one where you ask yourself . . . was anyone clamoring for a Mad Max redux?

Saw this yesterday. Visually, its very good. Everything else . . .

Rome, Open City

Playtime

Moonrise Kingdom - I enjoyed it but I like Wes Anderson movies generally

Still Alice

Well that was a happy movie. I had to listen to some Morrisey afterwards to cheer me up.

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Moonrise Kingdom - I enjoyed it but I like Wes Anderson movies generally

I'm hit-or-miss on him, but this is easily my favorite of his films -- I saw it the first day it was open in LA with knowing anything about it and I was just blown away.

The Other One - Doc on Bob Weir. Not bad.

The Conformist

Foxcatcher - I need to watch something happier after that one

First Mission Impossible

The Railway Man

Leviathan (2014)

The Campaign - I think it was worse than I thought it would be
Return of the Jedi with my daughters. Very fun re-living the first Star Wars film I remember seeing with them.

St. Vincent

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The Campaign - I think it was worse than I thought it would be.

May I suggest another political movie instead? Robert Redford's second best movie, The Candidate.

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First Mission Impossible

The first was my last.

Joe

Spaceballs

John Wick

Duff: pretty funny, endearing flick about the travails of navigating high school life

Robot Revolution: don't ask me why I rented this one (boredom on a 6 hour flight I guess). This is quite literally the worst movie I have seen in 10 years. The acting in Sharknado puts this movie to shame

Results: decent film. I liked looking at Cobie Smulders for most of the movie

Interstellar: try #3 to get through this. I have not decided to break it into 3 parts and watch only while I am on the elliptical so I literally have nothing better to do than try to get through this

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Fury

The 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared

Fairly true to the very entertaining book by Jonas Jonasson (though the book is far superior). Think of a Swedish, morally ambiguous, Forest Gump without the great soundtrack but also missing the off-putting schmaltz.

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Spaceballs

Easily one of the greatest movies ever made.

The Mirror

Big Eyes.

Seventh Son.

Last Action Hero.

Weird, did not care for it.

The Last Waltz, with the sound turned up..

The Naked Kiss

Pickup on South Street

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The Last Waltz, with the sound turned up..

Can't help repeating myself:

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I've mentioned this disgusting factoid before: Did you ever notice Neil Young's cocaine booger that Scorsese attempted to remove by optically manipulating the film? Marty bragged that he successfully did it for "one of the musicians" but it was obvious on the big screen, and now high quality video, who it was.

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The Naked Kiss

Pickup on South Street

Ah, a Fuller-fest. Richard Widmark at his best. Though there's always a place in my heart for the sainted Robert Alrich's Twilight's Last Gleaming

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Originally posted by ThistlinTom:
The Last Waltz, with the sound turned up..

Can't help repeating myself:

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I've mentioned this disgusting factoid before: Did you ever notice Neil Young's cocaine booger that Scorsese attempted to remove by optically manipulating the film? Marty bragged that he successfully did it for "one of the musicians" but it was obvious on the big screen, and now high quality video, who it was.

No wonder he was smiling so much and more animated than normal....I will have to go back and re-check the movie.

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The Campaign - I think it was worse than I thought it would be.

May I suggest another political movie instead? Robert Redford's second best movie, The Candidate.

+1

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The Naked Kiss

Pickup on South Street

Ah, a Fuller-fest. Richard Widmark at his best. Though there's always a place in my heart for the sainted Robert Alrich's Twilight's Last Gleaming