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Got my wife into 'Sunset Boulevard' she was captivated by Gloria Swanson as 'Norma Desmond' and truly it is one of the best acting displays I can recall. Very emotive, but not over acted in any way she walked a tightrope with that performance and the film was shot so well too, striking visuals for a black and white film.
A Netflix original called 'Clinical' it's a decent little flick about a Psychiatrist who specializes in trauma and her dealing with her own traumas. It is verging on a horror movie, but stops just short. There are hints of the supernatural but never anything solid. It was a good little picture.
Watched Batman v Superman and I liked it but I am a comic geek and understood a lot of it.
Fantastic Four was better than the 2 older versions but was not brilliant.
Ever watch the Roger Corman version? It's not horribleQuote:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKxCzZeb5Fg
I saw Passengers the other night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U34xsSZ5PAQuote:
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Not culturally chic like Blacula? ;D
Anyway, enjoyed the news bloopers off your vid.
Watched captain American 3 civil war and it was funny and good
No I just expected you to talk about the movie a little. You gave this Asperger's/Rainman kind of post....Quote:
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"I watched this movie called 'Here's the movie title'...........that is all"
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Originally Posted by El KabongNo I just expected you to talk about the movie a little. You gave this Asperger's/Rainman kind of post....Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
"I watched this movie called 'Here's the movie title'...........that is all"
Ok sorry man. Well.... it's basically a sci fi kind of movie, which I generally like..... but with a love story intertwined to it, which of course appeals to the gentler gender. I don't know..... I liked it, even though I read nothing but crappy reviews on it. Me and movie reviews generally don't get along too well. ;D
Haha, no worries just poking some fun at you.Quote:
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I like some really crap films, I mean just atrociously bad movies, movies where directors should have been taken behind a barn and shot after the editing process. I enjoy explaining WHY I like those movies more the bad ones than the good ones. The good movies I'll just tell people "Go see this movie!" the bad movies I feel I owe a proper explanation about what to look for, where the joy is in those films.
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Originally Posted by El KabongHaha, no worries just poking some fun at you.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
I like some really crap films, I mean just atrociously bad movies, movies where directors should have been taken behind a barn and shot after the editing process. I enjoy explaining WHY I like those movies more the bad ones than the good ones. The good movies I'll just tell people "Go see this movie!" the bad movies I feel I owe a proper explanation about what to look for, where the joy is in those films.
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You know.... as movies are concerned it's really in the eye of the beholder. I remember my wife wanted us to go see (years ago) a highly acclaimed movie called Bridges of Madison County. I should've known any romantic movie with Clint Eastwood in it was going to have something wrong. Now.... I'm not saying it was an entirely bad movie..... but I'll be damned if after 20 minutes or so I was about to drift into a coma. It seems the first 15 or 20 minutes of the film is (if you haven't seen it) devoted to the female character's now grown kids (female lead is Meryl Streep) looking over some of her things, as she has just died.... and they find this letter which of course takes the movie back to when they were kids, and the mother had an affair (with Eastwood). That first part of the movie wasn't just slow. I would've seen more action watching a glacier move. Another chick movie my wife dragged me to go see was Waiting to Exhale. Luckily, we both walked out halfway through. Where I drew the line and luckily my wife took pity on me, was for Brokeback Mountain. No way in hell.
I watched Passengers. It was fucking shit. It was fucking shit because it was set up by a tagline of 'there's a reason why we woke up early' Or words to that effect.
Basic plot, mega ship full of passengers from Earth in suspended animation for the duration of the journey to a new home/planet.
Whilst there were reasons for them waking up early, the reason was about as exciting as getting a flat on the motorway. Except the motorway is space and your car is a giant nuclear powered space ship. Relatively speaking though, the same thing.
Whilst there turned out to be a need for a second body to do what needed to be done, it could have been anyone, there was no particular skill involved other than looking like something Chris Pratt or whatever his name is would like to stick his cock in.
Watched Spectre and it should be the final Bond film. It was good but has no where to go from there.
Watched 'Young Man With a Horn' starring Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, and Lauren Bacall, the music was done by THE Harry James an amazing trumpet player not celebrated as he should be really. Extremely talented and was married to Betty Grable for a while and his eulogy in 1983 was performed by Frank Sinatra so the guy had big time pull.
Anywho the film 'Young man With a Horn' is supposed to be a dramatic take on the life of Bix Beiderbecke who was a famous trumpet player in his own right but succumbed to the bottle before he ever truly realized his fame much like a Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon or Brad Nowell of Sublime. Those guys burned bright and sparked out, they never got commercial, they never sold out, they never faded talentwise, they just had all this talent and then poof gone. Unlike say a Chet Baker who faded into drugs and burned many bridges living the "artist's" lifestyle of booze, drugs, and women.
The film is stereotypical 1950's though, it has a happier kind of ending....much happier than Bix Beiderbecke's end where he suffered from the delirium tremens and died in agonizing pain due to his abuse of alcohol.