MOVIES: What are you watching?

The Artist and the Model

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

I think this is an outstanding film.

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Originally posted by steve8:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

I think this is an outstanding film.

Steve, your first viewing?

Bridge of Spies: Neve really built up any suspense for me.

Break from shoveling and bringing in firewood:

The Sting (1973; Newman/Redford), classic.


Love this, haven't watched in a while but great movie.

Grosse Point Blank. It never gets old.....

Death in Venice

The Equalizer

Straight Outta Compton could have been shorter

The Intern (2015) the girls wanted to watch it

The Lady in The Van--67pts. If I wasn't with my mom (who did like it) this would have been the second movie in a year I'd walked out on. Perhaps the worst soundtrack (in the context of the movie) I've ever heard. But...it does have a good payoff ending. If you dote on Maggie Smith, or films about old cantankerous women, you'll like it as much as my surrounding audience did.

Venuto al Mondo

Walking Tall: Lone Justice- You've seen it before and you've seen it much better. Pass

The Revenant - a very good, but not great movie.

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Originally posted by wine+art:

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Originally posted by steve8:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

I think this is an outstanding film.

Steve, your first viewing?

No, I saw it shortly after release but felt like watching it again. Really well done and an incredible story.

Cul-de-Sac

Really not very good despite the presence of Francoise Dorleac. Obviously Polanski had something for the young Deneuve/Dorleac sisters.

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Originally posted by steve8:
Cul-de-Sac

Really not very good despite the presence of Francoise Dorleac. Obviously Polanski had something for the young Deneuve/Dorleac sisters.

He was always the Humbert Humbert of filmmaking.

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Originally posted by The Old Man:

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Originally posted by steve8:
Cul-de-Sac

Really not very good despite the presence of Francoise Dorleac. Obviously Polanski had something for the young Deneuve/Dorleac sisters.

He was always the Humbert Humbert of filmmaking.

... Only as a filmmaker?

In the Heart of the Sea.

The Barbarian Invasions

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Originally posted by wine+art:
The Barbarian Invasions

I'm assuming you've seen this. Once was enough for me.

A Knight's Tale

Spotlight.

Movie about investigation of Catholic Church in Boston.

Interesting, but hindered by the fact that most of the results of the investigation are already widely known to the public.

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Originally posted by bates40:
Spotlight.

Movie about investigation of Catholic Church in Boston.

Interesting, but hindered by the fact that most of the results of the investigation are already widely known to the public.

I find this an odd comment; it's not a suspense movie.

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Originally posted by The Old Man:

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Originally posted by bates40:
Spotlight.

Movie about investigation of Catholic Church in Boston.

Interesting, but hindered by the fact that most of the results of the investigation are already widely known to the public.

I find this an odd comment; it's not a suspense movie.

I ma not sure what the definition of a suspense movie is, but the movie focused on two (2) items in my viewing: (1) whether they story would be gathered and released to the public, after facing internal and external pressures, and, (2) if a competing newspaper would have access to the subjection information and be able to release it to the public prior to the Globe being able to do the same.

All good.

The Big Short: ***

bates40,

I'm honestly not trying to be obnoxious; but I'm wondering if you have the same problem with All the President's Men?

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Originally posted by winetarelli:
bates40,

I'm honestly not trying to be obnoxious; but I'm wondering if you have the same problem with All the President's Men?

(quietly) That's the first one that came to mind to me also.

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Originally posted by winetarelli:
bates40,

I'm honestly not trying to be obnoxious; but I'm wondering if you have the same problem with All the President's Men?

Same with Schindler's List, Apollo 13, Argo, Rush, 127 Hours, Seabiscuit, etc. There are many movies where the audience knows how it will end. The challenge for the director is maintaining high interest in spite of that as the plot progresses. Most of the time, they do a really good job of it.

Deux Jours a Tuer

Jules et Jim

Good, but pretentious and overrated.

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Originally posted by steve8:
Jules et Jim

Good, but pretentious and overrated.

Great and underrated.

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Originally posted by wine+art:

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Originally posted by steve8:
Jules et Jim

Good, but pretentious and overrated.

Great and underrated.

Yep.

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Originally posted by The Old Man:

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Originally posted by winetarelli:
bates40,

I'm honestly not trying to be obnoxious; but I'm wondering if you have the same problem with All the President's Men?

(quietly) That's the first one that came to mind to me also.

Good point, and well taken. As a Catholic who has followed the inter workings of the priest abuse scandal I was much more aware of the situation and circumstances surrounding the catholic church than I was the inter workings of the investigative processes re: All the President's Men.

Bridge of Spies.

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Originally posted by bates40:

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Originally posted by The Old Man:

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Originally posted by winetarelli:
bates40,

I'm honestly not trying to be obnoxious; but I'm wondering if you have the same problem with All the President's Men?

(quietly) That's the first one that came to mind to me also.

Good point, and well taken. As a Catholic who has followed the inter workings of the priest abuse scandal I was much more aware of the situation and circumstances surrounding the catholic church than I was the inter workings of the investigative processes re: All the President's Men.

For what's it worth "inter" is a verb meaning to place in a grave.

(I think I like the bunny the best.)

Burnt

Movie pablum.

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Originally posted by sunnylea57:
Burnt

Movie pablum.

I had hope for this film, but have heard this far too often.

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Originally posted by wine+art:

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Originally posted by sunnylea57:
Burnt

Movie pablum.

I had hope for this film, but have heard this far too often.

Nice food photography. Not much else. Full of chefs and fury, signifying nothing.

The Equalizer- I'm not a big Denzel fan, but he was good in this movie. You could tell how it would end very early on, and some of the action challenged the suspension of reality, but it was a good action flick. Worth seeing

Baby Doll

OK. A very young Carol Baker (and Karl Malden and Eli Wallach for that matter). I had to search to see if Ms. Baker is still alive. She is.