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Re: Latest Movie You Watched
« Reply #2220 on: February 22, 2015, 01:43:36 PM »
Whiplash 2014
I thought it twas a great film.Gripping to a brilliant end.

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Re: Latest Movie You Watched
« Reply #2221 on: February 23, 2015, 02:36:21 AM »

Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast kept the kids quiet for an hour and a half.  That's a win in my book.
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Re: Latest Movie You Watched
« Reply #2222 on: February 23, 2015, 04:31:03 PM »
Birdman. 8.5/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2562232/

Looks like Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's entering the territory of [director] John Cassavetes.



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Re: Latest Movie You Watched
« Reply #2223 on: February 23, 2015, 05:53:29 PM »
Never finished watching Birdman <delete>

Watched American Sniper. 8.5/10

Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.

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Re: Latest Movie You Watched
« Reply #2224 on: March 10, 2015, 01:12:58 PM »
 ::) never are

Exodus - god and kings http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1528100/
What a waste of time. I could go on but I wont. Sometimes you have to upset people to make a good film.

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Re: Latest Movie You Watched
« Reply #2225 on: March 10, 2015, 05:31:08 PM »
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2103281/reference
Good Flick
8/10

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1646971/reference
More of the same
But not as funny
6/10

Autómata (2014)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1971325/reference
Interesting --- BUT :
Low Budget ($7,000,000)
Bad Acting by supporting Cast
Stupid Blade-Runner type effects
= 5/10
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Re: Latest Movie You Watched
« Reply #2226 on: April 01, 2015, 04:19:03 PM »

Autómata (2014)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1971325/reference
Interesting --- BUT :
Low Budget ($7,000,000)
Bad Acting by supporting Cast
Stupid Blade-Runner type effects
= 5/10

Melanie Griffith hasn't looked that good in years.

As Cleo, that is.
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Re: Latest Movie You Watched
« Reply #2227 on: April 02, 2015, 04:39:24 PM »
Dune, with Sting and Kyle McLaughlin.  Boy did that suck.  And the DVD we got from the library was so scratched that it simply stopped halfway through and wouldn't play any more.  We thought it was so bad, we just took it back.

This is a great plot for a movie and somebody should really remake it without such cheese in the sets and low level technology.  With new CGI effects it could be so much better.

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Re: Latest Movie You Watched
« Reply #2228 on: April 03, 2015, 03:52:27 PM »
We just watched Paddington and I have to say I was more than pleasantly surprised.  I think that had a lot to do with Julie Walters even though she probably had the least screentime of the majority of the cast. She really is a marvellous actress.

Anywho, not much to criticise with the film and plenty of laughing out loud to be had from it.

7.5/10
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Re: Latest Movie You Watched
« Reply #2229 on: April 04, 2015, 12:50:37 AM »
Taken 3, not as much action and hopefully the last. F,Whittaker was good though in the small scenes he had

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« Reply #2230 on: April 05, 2015, 11:02:05 PM »
Kyle McLachlan has one speed.  Stodgy.

I agree with you about the book (I've only read Dune).  He seemed to be well on the path to tyranny when the book ended.  I have yet to pick up the next.  I'm reading the Aeneid now, or at least trying.  I had to put it down to give myself a quick refresher in ancient Anatolian towns and various persons parentage.  It's easier with a scorecard, I think.

I'm plowing through Neverwhere right now (the 1996 tv series).  It's dated but sort of interesting.

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Re: Latest Movie You Watched
« Reply #2231 on: April 06, 2015, 03:59:45 PM »
I can't recall a decent movie with Kyle McLachlan in. Dune is much better left as a set of books, I think.

Dune appeals to me as it is there are a gazillion stories of the underdog travelling to the throne, but only Dune actually asks the question "what does he do next - turn into the tyrant himself?"

I'm still pissed off they cancelled Believe. Maybe it was Kyle that killed it.
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Re: Latest Movie You Watched
« Reply #2232 on: April 17, 2015, 08:39:45 AM »
Birdman. 8.5/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2562232/

Looks like Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's entering the territory of [director] John Cassavetes.

I watched it a few days ago. The direction, performances and cinematography are OUTSTANDING. The direction and cinematography gave me an oppressive feeling (and that's a good thing regarding the movie BTW). The plot is what I liked the least. So much angst and self-torture and egotism made me want to slap some sense into most characters. Maybe that was the point?  :-\
I've read a critic (I like to read movie critics after I watched films) and it said it's "Godardian". I think that could be correct cause I kind of struggled through it.  ;D
What I liked best: Michael Keaton and Lindsay Duncan (she has a tiny role but she's fantastic!!).
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Re: Latest Movie You Watched
« Reply #2233 on: April 17, 2015, 03:05:34 PM »
That's been well reviewed.  Maybe we'll view it if we can locate it at the library.  It may be too soon.  Heard Keaton interviewed on public radio and he sounded like a nice unassuming kind of person.

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Re: Latest Movie You Watched
« Reply #2234 on: April 18, 2015, 09:28:28 AM »
^^ I heartily recommend it.
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