Last movie you watched......

Yep, that was it.. The Hooker story.

I do love me some Ralphie May.

 

A Most Wanted Man: Well, that was depressing. A slow-moving spy movie that had the pace of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Hoffman's performance was great, but it was a movie that required your attention even if it was hard to keep it.

 

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?: A classic, and every time I see it, I can understand why. Really good movie.

 

Watched "Horrible Bosses 2" last night on demand.
Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis were annoying as hell by the halfway point, and there were plot holes you could drive a truck though, but overall the movie wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it'd be. Not as good as the first, but watchable.

 

Did you notice Tracy looking down at the ground a lot? He was looking for his mark on the floor for the camera setup, but it just kinda blends into the performance.

 

Finally saw The Imitation Game.
Gripping tale, yet a depressing one because of what ultimately happened to Alan Turing. Benedict Cumberbatch was amazing. Easy to see why the film received the accolades and Oscar nominations it did.

 

Saw "Selma" today while on vacation. I had no trouble believing it was not worthy of Oscar nominations. It got better toward the end, but it was so slow-moving I almost fell asleep.

The scene between King and Jackson's father after the death of the son was fantastic, though. I thought both actors did a wonderful job. But overall, the movie didn't seem to have much heart, at least until the final speech. That helped, but I just didn't think it was a powerful movie.

 

Same here and I think that was my overall impression as well. I liked that they kind of flipped the script and Nick, Kurt and Dale were the horrible bosses in this one, but for very different reasons than the first movie. They did a good job of keeping it fresh, too. After slogging through The Hangover 2, in which they essentially made the exact same film in a different location, it was good to see this one put an original spin on the concept of the first film.

It wasn't nearly as good as the first one, but it was worth the $4 rental. FWIW, it got 35 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

 

I still haven't seen it, but I just can't understand how it could be worthy of a nomination for Best Picture, but not get a nomination for a single other major award. Seems like it simply shouldn't have been nominated for Best Picture.

 

30-for-30 Of Miracles and Men.
It was labeled as Miracle on Ice and the aftermath from the Russian POV.
It was more of a history of Russian hockey. It was good, entertaining.

They first hour, hour and 15 minutes was about Russian Hockey and its build up to Lake Placid. They prolly devoted 20 minutes to the game, footage and some reactions.
There wasn't a whole lot about the post-Miracle stuff. Then again, not sure there is or could have been.
One of my favorite scenes is the Russian journalist when asked about writing the game story. And what it was like.
He said they wrote a straight story, nothing big or long or particularly lamenting. The interviewer followed up with The loss maybe downplayed??
The writer said the game was like kissing Sophia Loren. You get a kiss from Loren you talk about it the rest of your life. If your Loren, and you kissed some schmoe one time, somewhere, you'll forget all about it.

And wow were the Canadians a bunch of Thugs! Fuck Bobby Clarke.
Did he ever apologize for the slash? What a punk move.

 

I saw Fight Club for the first time on a big screen a couple of nights ago. It's been a few years since I had seen it, and I had only seen it once prior, but still a crazy good story.

 

Finally saw ‪Boyhood‬. Pretty good movie and groundbreaking film in the way it was made, but also easy to see why it did not win best picture. Mason's sullen attitude became more and more annoying as he got older. Mason Sr., however, was an easy character with which to relate. We all make poor choices in life, but it seems Richard Linklater wanted to make that the overriding theme of ‪Boyhood. After awhile, that theme becomes tiresome, as did Linklater's leftist views on politics and religion, the latter of which he clearly looks down his nose.