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Post by toshtego on Mar 20, 2024 14:51:24 GMT -5
The Facebook entity "Beyond Russia" posted a list of a dozen Soviet era spy movies made in the old USSR. I have enjoyed their Tank movies so I am hoping these are also interesting. Available on Youtube. Starting with "Resident Error", 1968, this evening. If they are good, I will report back. Curious to see if the CIA and USA are the bad guys in these. We certainly have demonized the NKVD and KGB over the years.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 20, 2024 15:51:33 GMT -5
We tried to watch Poor Things. Great cast interesting story. Couldn't do it. A confusing mess. Worse than Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. YMMV.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 20, 2024 15:55:15 GMT -5
Not exactly a movie, but President Kennedy speaking at American University on June 10th, 1963. Supposedly the speech that got him killed and ended our republic.
I thought it was a pretty good speech.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 20, 2024 17:03:15 GMT -5
It is a very good speech. More of us should hear it.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 20, 2024 18:53:22 GMT -5
It is a very good speech. More of us should hear it. Well, that was then and this is now. We listened to all of his speeches back then. Younger people just couldn't understand what it was like. That way of life is gone, never to return. All anyone is interested in about him is his philandering with Marilyn Monroe. Very few men that have the ambition to reach that high are also going to be chaste. If you want a chaste president, that's Jimmie Carter.
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Post by lizardonarock on Mar 20, 2024 20:06:09 GMT -5
The scorning of the military industrial complex did him in. But it is a good speech.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 22, 2024 15:38:17 GMT -5
"Daughter of the Wolf". Interesting action pic filmed in snowy British Columbia. Wolves are the chorus and show some heroism. They know whose bad and who is right. Love seeing them. A Vet gal returns home when her son is kidnapped by a family gang of rusticated outlaws. Vengeance is hers. Gina Carano. The old chieftain of the outlaws played by Richard Dreyfuss and you would never recognize him. 2019.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 22, 2024 15:46:21 GMT -5
"Daughter of the Wolf". Interesting action pic filmed in snowy British Columbia. Wolves are the chorus and show some heroism. They know whose bad and who is right. Love seeing them. A Vet gal returns home when her son is kidnapped by a family gang of rusticated outlaws. Vengeance is hers. Gina Carano. The old chieftain of the outlaws played by Richard Dreyfuss and you would never recognize him. 2019. Yep, a good one. I really like Gina Carano and Dreyfuss is over the top but fully in control. Better acting all around than I expected.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 23, 2024 11:07:04 GMT -5
Watching the old James Cameron movie, "The Abyss", 1997. A highly improbable sci fi underwater movie. Well done except for the diving suits. Should have been hard suits but not cinematic compatible.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 23, 2024 16:47:46 GMT -5
Watching the old James Cameron movie, "The Abyss", 1997. A highly improbable sci fi underwater movie. Well done except for the diving suits. Should have been hard suits but not cinematic compatible. Wife loves that one almost as much as twister. Both are entertaining, but don't think about it.
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Post by lizardonarock on Mar 23, 2024 17:42:32 GMT -5
Watching Dances with Wolves on BBC 8/10
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Post by trailboss on Mar 23, 2024 21:02:05 GMT -5
The wife drug me to the cinema, the drugs were pretty good!
The new Ghostbuster pretty much stank though, but it gave the original cast an opportunity to appear and cash in.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 23, 2024 23:17:41 GMT -5
The new GB is looking awful and the reviews say so too. The new Beetlejuice is in. New Alien looks good. A couple of others look promising.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 24, 2024 10:55:06 GMT -5
The new GB is looking awful and the reviews say so too. The new Beetlejuice is in. New Alien looks good. A couple of others look promising. Is there a new "Alien" movie? Ridley Scott?
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Post by toshtego on Mar 24, 2024 11:03:02 GMT -5
Watching "No God, No Master". A 2012 American independent crime suspense thriller directed, written, and produced by Terry Green. The film stars David Strathairn, Ray Wise, Sam Witwer, Alessandro Mario and Edoardo Ballerini. The story includes references to the 1914 Ludlow Massacre as well as depictions of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial and the 1920 Wall Street bombing. Well done. Strathairn plays a federal investigator in the years before the FBI was formed. J. Edgar as a young man is present with his own agenda. Excellent period piece. Many characters speaking Italian. Amazing how they can pace their dialogue. I can barely discern a single word. Not that I understand Italian but I try to grab a word. Subtitles, of course. Emma Goldberg also portrayed along with other Anarchists of the time. Many Ford Model Ts on the road.
If this is a period of history of interest, worth watching. On Amazon Prime.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Mar 24, 2024 11:34:23 GMT -5
Gonna try it John, thanks!
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Post by trailboss on Mar 24, 2024 11:44:43 GMT -5
Gonna try it John, thanks! Ditto!
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 24, 2024 11:57:36 GMT -5
The new GB is looking awful and the reviews say so too. The new Beetlejuice is in. New Alien looks good. A couple of others look promising. Is there a new "Alien" movie? Ridley Scott? New movie, new director. Scott loves it. Scary, back to the roots.
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Post by urbino on Mar 24, 2024 14:41:52 GMT -5
Watching " No God, No Master". A 2012 American independent crime suspense thriller directed, written, and produced by Terry Green. The film stars David Strathairn, Ray Wise, Sam Witwer, Alessandro Mario and Edoardo Ballerini. The story includes references to the 1914 Ludlow Massacre as well as depictions of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial and the 1920 Wall Street bombing. Well done. Strathairn plays a federal investigator in the years before the FBI was formed. J. Edgar as a young man is present with his own agenda. Excellent period piece. Many characters speaking Italian. Amazing how they can pace their dialogue. I can barely discern a single word. Not that I understand Italian but I try to grab a word. Subtitles, of course. Emma Goldberg also portrayed along with other Anarchists of the time. Many Ford Model Ts on the road. If this is a period of history of interest, worth watching. On Amazon Prime. I do find that era and the Anarchists interesting. Her historical essays on it are my favorite section of Tuchman's The Proud Tower. Will give this a look. Thanks, John.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Mar 24, 2024 15:55:32 GMT -5
Watched it, very good thought provoking movie, I enjoyed it, thanks John.
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Post by Gandalf on Mar 24, 2024 19:04:53 GMT -5
Haven't seen any movies yet this year, at least none in a theater, but I'd like to see Dune Part 2. Loved the books, well, most of them, anyway.
Thinking about re-reading them soon.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 24, 2024 20:08:06 GMT -5
Just watched Forgotten Love on Netflix. A nice old fashioned movie with good acting. Made in Poland and English dubbed. Really liked it.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 26, 2024 14:29:28 GMT -5
"Journey to the Center of the Earth", 1959. With James Mason, Arlen Dahl, Pat Boone, and some big rock ape from Iceland. Respectfully, he was the Icelandic Champion something or other. Well made and holds up to modern standards with the sets, matte paintings and location filming in Carlsbad Caverns. Big lizards well photographed. Pat Boone sang songs which I FF forward through. I saw it in a theater as boy when first released. So, it was nice to watch it again.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 26, 2024 16:36:52 GMT -5
"Journey to the Center of the Earth", 1959. With James Mason, Arlen Dahl, Pat Boone, and some big rock ape from Iceland. Respectfully, he was the Icelandic Champion something or other. Well made and holds up to modern standards with the sets, matte paintings and location filming in Carlsbad Caverns. Big lizards well photographed. Pat Boone sang songs which I FF forward through. I saw it in a theater as boy when first released. So, it was nice to watch it again. We watched it again a few months ago. I barely recognized the movie I saw as a child. It hasn't aged well. Still enjoyable though.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 26, 2024 17:03:18 GMT -5
"Journey to the Center of the Earth", 1959. With James Mason, Arlen Dahl, Pat Boone, and some big rock ape from Iceland. Respectfully, he was the Icelandic Champion something or other. Well made and holds up to modern standards with the sets, matte paintings and location filming in Carlsbad Caverns. Big lizards well photographed. Pat Boone sang songs which I FF forward through. I saw it in a theater as boy when first released. So, it was nice to watch it again. We watched it again a few months ago. I barely recognized the movie I saw as a child. It hasn't aged well. Still enjoyable though. I watched with suspension of disbelief except for the scenes of the coach in the sagebrush. No sagebrush in Iceland.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 26, 2024 19:02:33 GMT -5
We watched it again a few months ago. I barely recognized the movie I saw as a child. It hasn't aged well. Still enjoyable though. I watched with suspension of disbelief except for the scenes of the coach in the sagebrush. No sagebrush in Iceland. Are you sure? Have you seen all of Iceland? 😁
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 29, 2024 22:10:04 GMT -5
Just watched The Passion of the Christ. I had to force myself.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 30, 2024 10:55:28 GMT -5
I watched with suspension of disbelief except for the scenes of the coach in the sagebrush. No sagebrush in Iceland. Are you sure? Have you seen all of Iceland? 😁 Well, not the southwest portion. LOL!
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Post by toshtego on Mar 30, 2024 10:57:45 GMT -5
"Wrath of Man". A caper tale with a revenge motivation. Very well done except the armored cash truck drivers, messengers and guards that I knew way back whilst at Bank of America never would have behaved as these guys did. They were serious men on a mission.
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Post by Plainsman on Apr 1, 2024 21:46:24 GMT -5
I just watched THE LOST BATTALION. It’s a powerful film, but deeply flawed in the way they shot it. Too many absolute military no.-NOS. I’m thinking they didn’t have a good military advisor.
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