MOVIES: What are you watching?

Gone in 60 Seconds: *1/2

Force Majeure

Tried to go see Hail Caesar yesterday but matinee was sold out by the time we go there

Sicario

I liked it. Especially the performance by Benecio del Toro.

The Martian

Good but not great. I enjoyed the book a bit more.

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Originally posted by Jcocktosten:
Tried to go see Hail Caesar yesterday but matinee was sold out by the time we go there

Saw it today: **. Coen Bros. weakest effort in memory. Pass.

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Originally posted by indybob:

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Originally posted by Jcocktosten:
Tried to go see Hail Caesar yesterday but matinee was sold out by the time we go there

Saw it today: **. Coen Bros. weakest effort in memory. Pass.

Do you generally like their films? My parents were visiting us in Key West and my mom wanted to go - that was the main reason we tried to see it.

I saw Hail Caesar yesterday in a fairly empty theater. (Film ending around kickoff may have been the cause).

Movie was lightweight and enjoyable but not worthy of the high praise it received from critics. Basically *** not ****. Those who enjoy look backs at idealized movie history will like it the most which might explain why critics liked it so much. Other than Brolin, virtually everyone else had not much more than a cameo.

Neil

I liked Hail Caesar though agree it's not as good as other Coen Brothers films. W + A and TOM might enjoy its tongue-in-cheek perspective on making movies in the good old days (when they were merely middle-aged..... )

As a fallen Coen brothers fan, I really want to like this. However they've made so many bad films in the last 20 years I've given up hope.

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Originally posted by steve8:

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Originally posted by The Old Man:
Saw it in the theater and even as a young hippie I couldn't buy Sutherland's hippie in WWII character.

I think he was still high from MASH.

Careful talking about Rob's uncle.

1st cousin, twice removed actually (at least I think that's how it works? He and my grandfather were 1st cousins.). Nice man, son's a git.

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Originally posted by Jcocktosten:

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Originally posted by indybob:

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Originally posted by Jcocktosten:
Tried to go see Hail Caesar yesterday but matinee was sold out by the time we go there

Saw it today: **. Coen Bros. weakest effort in memory. Pass.

Do you generally like their films? My parents were visiting us in Key West and my mom wanted to go - that was the main reason we tried to see it.

Yes. Fargo, Big Lebowski, and No Country for Old Men are among the best films I've ever seen. Inside Llewyn Davis and Raising Arizona are up there as well.

I didn't care much for Hail, Caesar! because I felt it had flimsy plot lines, an unsatisfying McGuffin, A-List actors without much to do (ScarJo, Ralph Fiennes). Sure there were some clever references to yesteryear, but whatever. It felt hurried and chucked together to make a deadline, without the usual Coen Brothers script wizardry.

That said, it has its merits, there are far worse ways to spend two hours. Great costuming and sets, and Tilda Swinton was a joy to watch.

The Cool School: Story of the Ferus Art Gallery

Excellent look at the genesis of serious art in Los Angeles starting in the 1950's.

Through the Eyes of the Sculptor

Straight Outta Compton. Like others I thought it was a bit long, but I enjoyed it.

Oblivion - entertaining, but just ok overall
Sicario - I thought it was pretty good

Deadpool. I'm not big fan on the whole comic book genre, but I can't remember the last movie I laughed out loud this much. Very well done.

Room--72pts.

The Desert of Forbidden Art

The Martian

Enjoyed it.

Alvin and the Chipmunks - The Road Chip

Too cold to do anything outside, so took the kids to this movie. They laughed. I did not.

Bridge of Spies.

an oldie - The Magnificent Ambersons
It was a university copy lent to me and I don't know if it's any different than the original. This is my favorite Welles film.

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Originally posted by WinoCA:
an oldie - The Magnificent Ambersons
It was a university copy lent to me and I don't know if it's any different than the original. This is my favorite Welles film.

Unfortunately there is no original as in a pure Welles version. This, and all prints, are the version with heavy edits done by the studio when Welles was out of the country. Unlike in the happy ending for the original Touch of Evil (also cut for the worse by the studios), there are no known copies of the deleted clips.

A great comparison is to watch Tim Holt, in a slightly more common location for him, in The Treasure of The Sierra Madre.

Hail, Caesar!

My wife and I absolutely loved it! We laughed throughout the show.

Against the Sun- predictable, but somewhat gripping. Worth seeing once

A slew of mediocre flicks lately:

White House Down & Olympus Has Fallen
-->not sure which of these "White house gets taken over by terrorists" movies came out first but they are almost identical. Literally, there are some action sequences that one movie must have "borrowed" from the other
--neither movie is all that good

Sleeping with other people: fun romantic comedy. Saw this on a flight but could imagine watching this with my wife during a low-key date night

Mr. X: an Indian flick I saw on a flight. Silly and ridiculous, but I had 8 hours to spare. It barely held my attention for its 2 hours and I had to take a break from it on 3 occasions but I suffered through. The only redeeming quality was the amazingly beautiful lead actress, but I suspect she really was a model posing as an actress for this flick

More interesting . . .

Splash
Big
Ghost Busters

My wife and I are gradually exposing our young kids to "grown-up" movies to see if any of them will take. They loved these movies, especially Big. My 4 year old cried when Tom Hanks turned back into a little boy and had to leave his girlfriend

Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains The Same.

Awesome.

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Originally posted by bates40:
Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains The Same.

Awesome.

1st viewing? I think I was about 11 when I first saw this, when theaters used to play it through huge sound systems. My older brother got me into them at a VERY early age.

The Night Before: mildly entertaining Seth Rogen flick

Goosebumps: not my greatest moment of airline travel, but good for wasting a few hours

Spy: ** 1/2
Better than anticipated!

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Originally posted by Parcival:
The Night Before: mildly entertaining Seth Rogen flick

Goosebumps: not my greatest moment of airline travel, but good for wasting a few hours

Seth Rogen, entertaining, Seth Rogen, entertaining... I must have missed this aberration in his career.

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Originally posted by wine+art:
Seth Rogen, entertaining... I must have missed this aberration in his career.

I can't take more than 5 minutes of this guy

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Originally posted by Parcival:
More interesting . . .

Splash
Big
Ghost Busters

My wife and I are gradually exposing our young kids to "grown-up" movies to see if any of them will take. They loved these movies, especially Big. My 4 year old cried when Tom Hanks turned back into a little boy and had to leave his girlfriend

This is an interesting experiment to me. I've thought about the same thing for our girls (the only non-animated movies they've seen are the first 6 Star Wars movies). Our 5 year old was in the room when we watched the first 20-30 minutes of Grease Live, and seemed intrigued by the concept of real people. I've wondered what non-animated movies would be a good entry for them. I like the Ghostbusters idea, but our girls get scared at anything (and many times can't recover from it to watch the rest of something...this happened with The Little Mermaid and The Good Dinosaur). I could see a couple scenes in Ghostbusters spooking them a bit.

Let me know if you come across any others that seem to go over well!

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Originally posted by bates40:
Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains The Same.

Awesome.

1st viewing? I think I was about 11 when I first saw this, when theaters used to play it through huge sound systems. My older brother got me into them at a VERY early age.

No, I saw it back in the 1980s, but had not seen he entire movie in a long while. Music still holds true.

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Originally posted by bates40:

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Originally posted by billhike:

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Originally posted by bates40:
Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains The Same.

Awesome.

1st viewing? I think I was about 11 when I first saw this, when theaters used to play it through huge sound systems. My older brother got me into them at a VERY early age.

No, I saw it back in the 1980s, but had not seen he entire movie in a long while. Music still holds true.

Sucked then, sucked now?

The Old Man - Thanks for the recco, I'll seek that one out.

The Railway Man--72pts.

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Originally posted by The Old Man:

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Originally posted by bates40:

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Originally posted by billhike:

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Originally posted by bates40:
Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains The Same.

Awesome.

1st viewing? I think I was about 11 when I first saw this, when theaters used to play it through huge sound systems. My older brother got me into them at a VERY early age.

No, I saw it back in the 1980s, but had not seen he entire movie in a long while. Music still holds true.

Sucked then, sucked now?

The quality of your posts and contribution to this forum? I agree, positively!