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MOVIES: What are you watching?

B bates40Member
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back on my older movie kick . . .

Started off today with "Out of the past" which I enjoyed a lot

Chased that with "Cartel Land" which is fantastic albeit deeply disturbing (mixing the old with the new today on a flight)


Thanks for the heads up on Cartel Land. The movie overview sounds right up my alley. I just rented it online and put it in my queue. Maybe watch it this evening.


going to check out Cartel Land tonight - hopefully with enough time to get to sleep afterwards, looks pretty aggressive
W wine+artMember
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Rocco and His Brothers

American Airlines has A Death in Venice on their rotation!


Are you serious?

Yep. Shocked the hell out of me.


I'm shocked as well. I had three flights last week and never even checked to see what AA was offering.

I tend to keep my iPad loaded. Wink
winetarelliwinetarelliMember
Jurassic World

Ok, look. I love Jurassic Park. I actually think it is a masterpiece. So bear that in mind when I say...

HOLY CRAP, this movie is TERRIBLE!!! I mean, really atrocious. I mean... I wound up rooting for the dinosaur to eat the children so I wouldn't need to deal with their whiny, obnoxious, Darwin-award type selves. Beyond the hideous children, the kills were lame, the story was lame, I knew how they were going to solve the problem from 3 minutes into the film, there was no suspense; also no sense of wonder. No consistent scale. Everyone was a parody of a character, not a full-fledged one. 22 years later, the dinosaurs looked less real than they did in the original.

This was an awful film.

F+/D- (Just because I like Bryce in interviews)
glennkglennkMember
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Steve Jobs: ***

Very Good, but I have a hard time believing he was that much of an A-Hole.
I would be more surprised if he was not an a-hole. Not sure how many of these kind of guys you have been around in the business world but that's a pretty common theme. It also part of the trait that gets them to the top. There are others that do it differently but the a-hole way is a proven path.
W winespartyMember
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Steve Jobs: ***

Very Good, but I have a hard time believing he was that much of an A-Hole.
I would be more surprised if he was not an a-hole. Not sure how many of these kind of guys you have been around in the business world but that's a pretty common theme. It also part of the trait that gets them to the top. There are others that do it differently but the a-hole way is a proven path.

I had a big research paper in grad school that I had to do on a person. Our group picked Steve Jobs. IMO, he was clearly an a-hole, and I'm actually expecting the movie to not portray him as much of an a-hole as I have in my head.
The Old ManThe Old ManMember
So after my viewing of Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev I thought I'd dig back to Solaris. Only saw once in its US premiere at the Chicago Film Festival, with the director present, in 1972. I remembered the plot and some of the images and that I really didn't care for it. This viewing I now knew more about Tarkovsky and I could see repeating visual motifs, like the horses, seaweed in water, and the rain falling indoors. Rublev is 3 hours 25 minutes so Solaris' 2:45 seems like a cakewalk. Anyway I discovered I still don't like it much, but I appreciate a lot of it. I must say it really started getting good at 2 hours 18 minutes in. However at that point there's only 30 minutes left.

One highlight: the in/famous 4 minute 45 second highway scene. About half way through I realized that this was the reverse of what normally occurs in movies. Here the visuals were actually the background to the soundtrack. There was no music but a combination of natural and studio made sounds.

Now that I've watched all three versions--the original Russian TV, George Clooney's, and Tarkovsky's I think that the TV version gets more to the feeling of the original Lem story.
The Old ManThe Old ManMember
Night and Fog--1955, 32 minutes.

Alain Resnais ( Last Year at Marienbad) made this short film about the Holocaust only tens years after the end of WWII. It was perhaps the first significant documentary on a subject that is frequently, now a days, a shoe-in for an Academy Award for documentaries and often feature films too. However the power that this half hour packs with use of black and white historical images combined with present day b&w and color scenes of, and around, the concentration camps, surpasses most other attempts at conveying the horrors that man can unleash.

Watching this film, with its French narration and an original classical-style music is simply a shattering experience.

Sidenote: I see it was Chris Marker who suggested the composer to Resnais and worked on the script's brilliant words. And of course Marker is the director of the recently discussed...
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irwinirwinMember
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Bridge of Spies

Was considering going to see this on the weekend. What did you think of it, w+a?


Gonna go see it this afternoon. Unless w + a says it sucks, of course.....


We saw it today. Very enjoyable. Good acting, good (true) story, well written. Likely Oscar nomination for best picture.
bmanbmanMember
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Bridge of Spies

Was considering going to see this on the weekend. What did you think of it, w+a?


Gonna go see it this afternoon. Unless w + a says it sucks, of course.....


We saw it today. Very enjoyable. Good acting, good (true) story, well written. Likely Oscar nomination for best picture.


My son and I really enjoyed it, though it was a bit slow at the beginning and a bit too long. And not sure why it was the dead of winter in Berlin but a warm sunny day a few days later in Brooklyn.
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