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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 5, 2024 13:22:53 GMT -5
I have watched only one movie in probably the last two years. I only watched that one because my wife really wanted to watch it with me on our anniversary. It was something called Peanut Butter Falcon. Your time is probably better spent smoking a cigar and looking at the scenery.
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Post by toshtego on Jul 6, 2024 8:53:13 GMT -5
Watching an interesting old movie. The first post Atomic Apocalypse movie from 1951. "Five". Yes, five survivors. An interesting mix of characters. Filmed at Frank Lloyd Wright's, "Cliff House" cabin in the Santa Monica Mountains of southern California. It was the home of the Director.
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Post by trailboss on Jul 6, 2024 20:44:42 GMT -5
Went to the theater with the wife to see Kevin Costner's "Horizon an American Saga" the first movie is chapter 1 with a total of 4 movies covering 12 years of the old west. 3 hours, the movie never "dragged" because of the length, cinematography, plot, and acting was pretty good. Danny Huston is in it, the son of director John Huston, I have always liked his acting and Kevin does a fair job. It will be a good binge-fest for those inclined when it is available on one of the streaming channels.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 6, 2024 21:18:35 GMT -5
Went to the theater with the wife to see Kevin Costner's "Horizon an American Saga" the first movie is chapter 1 with a total of 4 movies covering 12 years of the old west. 3 hours, the movie never "dragged" because of the length, cinematography, plot, and acting was pretty good. Danny Huston is in it, the son of director John Huston, I have always liked his acting and Kevin does a fair job. It will be a good binge-fest for those inclined when it is available on one of the streaming channels. We want to see it, but we are going to wait until the end of the month so it will be closer to part 2.
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Post by lizardonarock on Jul 6, 2024 21:36:08 GMT -5
Today was free Jaws movie day with Piranha thrown in the mix.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 6, 2024 22:17:32 GMT -5
Today was free Jaws movie day with Piranha thrown in the mix. Yep. We're on #3 3-D now. Lots of commercials.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jul 10, 2024 13:53:09 GMT -5
Horizon out on July 15 on Prime, price preordering is 28$
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 10, 2024 17:17:28 GMT -5
Horizon out on July 15 on Prime, price preordering is 28$ Less than we would spend driving a hundred mile round trip to Texarkana and buying tickets. However, if we happen to find ourselves in Texarkana and have time the senior matinee tickets are 10 bucks. We'll probably do the Prime thing. Probably will get the 86 inch next month. Sam's has a nice one with 3 years warranty for $1100.
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Post by toshtego on Jul 10, 2024 17:31:54 GMT -5
Horizon out on July 15 on Prime, price preordering is 28$ I will wait until the price comes down to a reasonable level. Kevin is best at Westerns and I enjoyed all of them in the past. "The Untouchables" was similar enough to a Western to work well.
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Post by instymp on Jul 10, 2024 17:37:36 GMT -5
Horizon out on July 15 on Prime, price preordering is 28$ I will wait until the price comes down to a reasonable level. Kevin is best at Westerns and I enjoyed all of them in the past. "The Untouchables" was similar enough to a Western to work well. I thought he was great in The Highwaymen
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jul 10, 2024 17:40:04 GMT -5
Ron we bought an 85 inch Samsung 2 years ago, you'll love it.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 10, 2024 21:01:23 GMT -5
Ron we bought an 85 inch Samsung 2 years ago, you'll love it. There's an idiot on the screen! 😮
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Post by toshtego on Jul 11, 2024 11:06:04 GMT -5
I will wait until the price comes down to a reasonable level. Kevin is best at Westerns and I enjoyed all of them in the past. "The Untouchables" was similar enough to a Western to work well. I thought he was great in The Highwaymen Yes he was! Another story with no moral ambiguity.
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Post by instymp on Jul 11, 2024 17:31:57 GMT -5
I thought he was great in The Highwaymen Yes he was! Another story with no moral ambiguity. Don't think I understand what that means in reference to his performance in that movie.
Or actually what that means at all!!
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jul 17, 2024 14:47:04 GMT -5
Just watched Horizon, I liked it, but then I’m just an Old Cajun, no critic.
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Post by trailboss on Jul 17, 2024 22:45:14 GMT -5
Hillbilly Elegy, by Ron Howard, JD Vance. On Netflix.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 18, 2024 9:20:04 GMT -5
Hillbilly Elegy, by Ron Howard, JD Vance. On Netflix. I lost my brother J.D. 10 years ago. This is all kinda painful.
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Post by toshtego on Jul 18, 2024 9:52:12 GMT -5
Hillbilly Elegy, by Ron Howard, JD Vance. On Netflix. I lost my brother J.D. 10 years ago. This is all kinda painful. I am sorry for your pain over the loss of your brother.
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Post by toshtego on Jul 18, 2024 10:03:17 GMT -5
Yes he was! Another story with no moral ambiguity. Don't think I understand what that means in reference to his performance in that movie.
Or actually what that means at all!! Moral ambiguity is the blurring of lines between what is right and what is not. In the movies and TV it refers to characters doing things which could be interpreted as behavior inconsistent with a moral code such as The Ten Commandments, the Qur'an, the Tao Te Ching, the Iroquois Great Tree of Life, etc. Circumstances of the plot compel the character to cross those lines. The Western movie genre traditionally has clear lines which the characters remain behind. Right is right. Bad is bad. Clearly stated. Or, perhaps more clearly stated than in, say, Mob movies where the characters sometimes demonstrate nobility and the good guys do bad things for expedience. In telling the story of Frank Hamer, his early desire to become a Methodist Minister defines how he behaves as a lawman. He remains straight as an arrow and upright.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 18, 2024 14:12:02 GMT -5
I lost my brother J.D. 10 years ago. This is all kinda painful. I am sorry for your pain over the loss of your brother. I am pretty much past it, but hearing his name a hundred times a day is getting on my nerves.
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Post by Plainsman on Jul 18, 2024 14:45:24 GMT -5
Ron we bought an 85 inch Samsung 2 years ago, you'll love it. There's an idiot on the screen! 😮 I think God should lay off making idiots for a while. We have plenty.
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Post by Darin on Jul 18, 2024 15:06:27 GMT -5
In HIS image. 😂
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Post by Plainsman on Jul 19, 2024 17:35:34 GMT -5
Watched HILLBILLY ELEGY. Not much of a film actually.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jul 20, 2024 15:35:49 GMT -5
Yep watched it a good while back, not memorable.
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Post by trailboss on Jul 20, 2024 22:42:24 GMT -5
Watched an interview of Cuba Gooding Jr. and Kevin Sorbo on Huckabee, it looks like a great movie put out by independent studios that are much better than common fare. Tickets for next week. www.firingsquadfilm.com/
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Post by trailboss on Jul 21, 2024 17:00:09 GMT -5
Saw Twisters today at the cinema, I thought it much better than the original. I liked the actors and plot, really good music.
The thing about action movies that kind of bugs me…. In the case of Twister, you aren’t going through the eye of a tornado without debris destroying you…. Action movies surfing down a collapsing building, etc…
The wife constantly tells me “enjoy the movie for what it is, an escape from reality”
But I am a realist.
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Post by zambini on Jul 27, 2024 12:36:41 GMT -5
I saw Twisters yesterday as well. I don't understand how they can do a good job animating the tornadoes and a poor job animating smaller things like the car boring into the ground. Lazy writing that turns the plot on Glen Powell telling a justly traumatized Daisy Edgar to just get over it and rural wi-fi being able to upload proprietary data to some random supercomputer, generate a new modelling software that includes new variables present in the proprietary data and return them the info in less time than it took Maura Tierney to question why Daisy Edgar didn't have to try and stick the accent or how she copied Ann Hathaway's acting style to a T. I'm also intrigued by how no one stops for gas even as they drive around the state the whole time. Fun movie all in all.
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Post by trailboss on Jul 27, 2024 12:52:28 GMT -5
A little off topic, but related to Twister…..
I never understood the news channels sending their “storm reporters” out into extremely windy conditions. I expect at some point to see a street sign flying and providing us with a live decapitation.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 27, 2024 14:25:47 GMT -5
A little off topic, but related to Twister….. I never understood the news channels sending their “storm reporters” out into extremely windy conditions. I expect at some point to see a street sign flying and providing us with a live decapitation. It's all Dan Rather's fault. We thought he was an idiot during hurricane Carla and we haven't changed our minds. Is it weather or reality TV? He went to my high school but years ahead of me. Old memories come back and I can picture him on the Galveston seawall on our little B&W TV.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 27, 2024 14:34:57 GMT -5
I saw Twisters yesterday as well. I don't understand how they can do a good job animating the tornadoes and a poor job animating smaller things like the car boring into the ground. Lazy writing that turns the plot on Glen Powell telling a justly traumatized Daisy Edgar to just get over it and rural wi-fi being able to upload proprietary data to some random supercomputer, generate a new modelling software that includes new variables present in the proprietary data and return them the info in less time than it took Maura Tierney to question why Daisy Edgar didn't have to try and stick the accent or how she copied Ann Hathaway's acting style to a T. I'm also intrigued by how no one stops for gas even as they drive around the state the whole time. Fun movie all in all. Thanks. My wife wants to see it Twister one of her favorite movies and she watches it every time it comes on. I try not to notice that the actors would have been hamburger meat. She wanted to see the Twister exhibit at Universal Studios in Orlando. They spin up a mini tornado in a little room and we were supposed to be impressed. Having been through several, the movies require a massive suspension of disbelief.
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