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Post by Plainsman on Oct 16, 2023 18:10:10 GMT -5
Don’t have the bandwidth.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 17, 2023 10:12:42 GMT -5
Don’t have the bandwidth. Sorry to read that. We lacked that here until our local REA co-op brought in fiber optic cable. If I run across a DVD rental service, I will pass on their particulars.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 17, 2023 10:16:28 GMT -5
Watching "2010: The Year We Make Contact". With Roy Scheider, Helen Mirren, and John Lithgow. I have seen it before and like it well enough to watch again.
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Post by trailboss on Oct 20, 2023 22:04:22 GMT -5
If you have never watched this documentary, I highly recommend it.
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Post by urbino on Oct 20, 2023 22:16:52 GMT -5
It's a good one.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 22, 2023 22:24:00 GMT -5
Watched SAVING PRIVATE RYAN TONIGHT. A powerful film. The landing at Omaha Beach takes 26 miniutes. I doubt it will ever be portrayed better. Hard to watch.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Oct 23, 2023 8:54:50 GMT -5
Yes Bob. Took me 3 times to watch it, turned tv off, went outside calmed down, didn't turn it on till the next day. Realistic like hell!
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Post by toshtego on Oct 23, 2023 13:53:32 GMT -5
Jason and the Argonauts, 1963. The Ray Harryhausen classic. I have not seen it since it was first in the theater. Holds up well. Niall McGinnis made an excellent Zeus. Jack Gwillim was an over the top King Aeetes but always enjoyable. I confess to impure thoughts about Honor Blackman as Hera. What a dish she was. Stirs the ashes in this old man! Fun movie with excellent production values.
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Post by trailboss on Oct 24, 2023 17:25:01 GMT -5
Watched SAVING PRIVATE RYAN TONIGHT. A powerful film. The landing at Omaha Beach takes 26 miniutes. I doubt it will ever be portrayed better. Hard to watch. They interviewed some WWII vets that were there that day, they said the same…. Very realistic.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 25, 2023 9:42:02 GMT -5
Watched MONSTER’S BALL last night. Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Heath Ledger. Excellent performances all around. But somehow it just doesn’t come together, for me at least. It tries to weave a happy ending out of a tapestry of pain and gloom. I’m not convinced. Something is missing.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 25, 2023 12:25:33 GMT -5
Watched MONSTER’S BALL last night. Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Heath Ledger. Excellent performances all around. But somehow it just doesn’t come together, for me at least. It tries to weave a happy ending out of a tapestry of pain and gloom. I’m not convinced. Something is missing. I agree, it's a complicated subject and the it has an open ending. Good flick though.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 25, 2023 12:54:44 GMT -5
It is a good film. And it IS complicated, especially when you have Thornton playing two different characters in it.
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Post by urbino on Oct 25, 2023 17:12:34 GMT -5
Rewatched Bowfinger. What a hoot.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 27, 2023 12:37:16 GMT -5
Watched APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX last night. A kind of “director’s cut” (I guess) of the original. Quite a bit longer at 3 hours 20 minutes. A great deal more of Brando. It’s a long sit. (With a very young, and skinny, Lawrence Fishburne!) I’m not sure how much the extra length actually adds to what was already a long film. Coppola’s “vision” was chaotic it what was already a chaotic time. Brando’s performance has always been, for me, kinda murky. Although famously based, very loosely, on Conrad’s HEART OF DARKNESS, it’s a good lesson that film is seldom able to replicate the power of literature. Coppola’s film, good as it may be, is no match for Conrad’s story. (Amazing side-bar about Conrad: he did not learn English until he was 21.)
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Post by toshtego on Oct 27, 2023 14:50:57 GMT -5
The Black Scorpion, 1958. One of the big bug movies of the 1950s. These attack the people of Old Mexico. Great monsters with dripping jaws and piercing mandibles. Guns won't stop them. Who can? Richard Deming will find a way. Mara Corday is there to help and add beauty.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 27, 2023 14:55:37 GMT -5
The Black Scorpion, 1958. One of the big bug movies of the 1950s. These attack the people of Old Mexico. Great monsters with dripping jaws and piercing mandibles. Guns won't stop them. Who can? Richard Deming will find a way. Mara Corday is there to help and add beauty. I don't like movies about monsters that can't be stopped by guns. Sometimes you just need a bigger gun. I can stop anything on the planet if I know it's coming. 😁
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 27, 2023 16:04:41 GMT -5
I just can’t get into science fiction films or films about imaginary monsters. I’m more interested in films about real-world situations or history. Or a good, well-written drama. Just not smart enough for the other stuff I guess.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 27, 2023 19:08:47 GMT -5
I just can’t get into science fiction films or films about imaginary monsters. I’m more interested in films about real-world situations or history. Or a good, well-written drama. Just not smart enough for the other stuff I guess. I enjoy these old movies. They are a diversion which is needed here. Best watched at a Drive-In.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 28, 2023 8:56:43 GMT -5
I am well into the British series, "The Night Manager", as mentioned previously. Wow! is this a great show. The production values are impressive. Hugh Laurie makes a great character in this one. If you like intrigue, espionage, action and great characters, this is for you.
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Post by instymp on Oct 28, 2023 9:05:31 GMT -5
Wasn't a movie but Band of Brothers. Reminded me of what a set of cojones my Dad had in WW2
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 28, 2023 10:23:46 GMT -5
Watched ROAD TO PERDITION. Tom Hanks. Paul Newman. Daniel Craig. Ciaran Hinds. Jude Law. Dark and dismal. Has a “good” ending though, amid all the blood and betrayals. Forgot Stanley Tucci, when he had hair.
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Post by urbino on Oct 28, 2023 14:54:17 GMT -5
Watched ROAD TO PERDITION. Tom Hanks. Paul Newman. Daniel Craig. Ciaran Hinds. Jude Law. Dark and dismal. Has a “good” ending though, amid all the blood and betrayals. Forgot Stanley Tucci, when he had hair. I always enjoy that one.
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Post by urbino on Oct 28, 2023 14:56:33 GMT -5
I am well into the British series, "The Night Manager", as mentioned previously. Wow! is this a great show. The production values are impressive. Hugh Laurie makes a great character in this one. If you like intrigue, espionage, action and great characters, this is for you. The woman who plays the love interest in that one is also in a pretty good but not entirely satisfying Australian series about a woman trying to investigate what really happened to her and her friend when they were kids. I think it's called The Kettering Incident. Something like that.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 28, 2023 15:36:30 GMT -5
Watched ROAD TO PERDITION. Tom Hanks. Paul Newman. Daniel Craig. Ciaran Hinds. Jude Law. Dark and dismal. Has a “good” ending though, amid all the blood and betrayals. Forgot Stanley Tucci, when he had hair. I always enjoy that one. Hanks was pretty good with that typewriter.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 28, 2023 16:40:40 GMT -5
I have to mention this about PERDITION, despite liking the film: everyone connected with it was clueless about the 1911, Mike Sullivan’s (Tom Hanks character’s) chosen sidearm. In one scene we see it cocked and then in the next cut the hammer is down. In a final crucial scene we see it in perfect profile. The hammer is down. He “fires” it and mimics the recoil but the pistol does not cycle and the hammer remains down. He does this twice more. The hammer remains down each time and the slide does move. There is no extraction. Yeah, I know: “details.” And picky, picky, picky. But I think that when you are dealing with a well-known, prime prop you oughta at least know how it works. Very disappointing. Insulting even.
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Post by trailboss on Oct 28, 2023 20:02:13 GMT -5
I get it, and agree...it is a simple thing to get right, hardly a tough thing to do given their operating budget.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Oct 30, 2023 5:08:19 GMT -5
Watched GOLDA on Amazon Streaming, Helen Mirran played her, a Masterful film, you will understand what Israel is going thru now watching historic was in 1978.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 30, 2023 9:35:48 GMT -5
Watched GOLDA on Amazon Streaming, Helen Mirran played her, a Masterful film, you will understand what Israel is going thru now watching historic was in 1978. Thanks for the tip. I will look for this one. I admired her in the day.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 30, 2023 10:33:44 GMT -5
Two latest: LAYER CAKE. London drugs and crime. Daniel Craig and the incomparable Micael Gambon. Colm Meaney in there, too. A BRIDGE TOO FAR. Incredible cast, too many to mention. Eliot Gould is his usual PIA distraction, along with a nonsense side-tale with James Caan. Otherwise very good.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 30, 2023 11:36:33 GMT -5
I have to mention this about PERDITION, despite liking the film: everyone connected with it was clueless about the 1911, Mike Sullivan’s (Tom Hanks character’s) chosen sidearm. In one scene we see it cocked and then in the next cut the hammer is down. In a final crucial scene we see it in perfect profile. The hammer is down. He “fires” it and mimics the recoil but the pistol does not cycle and the hammer remains down. He does this twice more. The hammer remains down each time and the slide does move. There is no extraction. Yeah, I know: “details.” And picky, picky, picky. But I think that when you are dealing with a well-known, prime prop you oughta at least know how it works. Very disappointing. Insulting even. Patricia Cornwall is a great writer, but I can't read her books because of her totally not knowing anything about guns. Really stupid mistakes and she never learns.
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