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Last movie you watched......

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Jenny Jobs, Dec 29, 2008.

  1. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    The Thing with Kurt Russell. Like an old comfortable pair of shoes.
     
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  2. cyclingwriter2

    cyclingwriter2 Well-Known Member

    Apparently, the basic cable version I grew up watching omitted the opening scene of the spaceship heading to earth. Made for a slightly different movie.
     
  3. fossywriter8

    fossywriter8 Well-Known Member

    Watched "The Pale Blue Eye" Wednesday on Netflix.
    Thought the acting and things dealing with aesthetics were good, but the story seemed to plod along at times.
     
  4. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Watched "CODA" - won best picture at the Oscars a year ago. Somewhat surprised. A very heartwarming movie, but chock-full of tropes, very unsubtle plot mechanisms that undermined the characters credibility, but created "issues" that could have been resolved/avoided with a simple text message.
     
  5. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    "Ambulance" was a decent ride. Abdul-Mateen II is the real deal. The female lead, Elza Gonzalez, was compelling. Didn't realize she was in Baby Driver.

    Downright minimalist for a Michael Bay movie. Could have done without the dialogue references to his previous flicks, however.

    Debut feature for the co-creator of NBC's "Chuck."
     
  6. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    Plane - a snappy fun ride.
     
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  7. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Really surprised "She Said," about the NYT's Weinstein investigation didn't do better at the box office. Great movie - anything with Andre Braugher (as Dean Baquet) works for me - but Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan as Kantor and Twohy are a great pairing. For a former journo, it felt absolutely spot on. (though the scene where Kantor had to fly to Silicon Valley and London and Wales to interview potential sources was unrelateable). Hell, a trip to El Paso was a big deal for me.

    The one thing that struck me about it was realizing how much the story put "reliable lefties" on opposite sides of each other. Weinstein was a very influential Dem donor and had Lanny Davis and Lisa Bloom (Gloria Allred's daughter) as his mouthpieces. And then you had the Times and the actresses. It wasn't like the NYT going after Ailes and O'Reilly at Fox News.
     
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  8. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    I'm not surprised at all....who in the movie-going public wants to go watch that?? I went and looked at the box office for Spotlight and was surprised that was nearly 100 million, of course the world was a difference place in 2015.

    I'd compare She said to Bombshell in a way, minus the campiness of big-name actresses playing real people.



    Movies as a whole since the pandemic are a crapshoot: NOONE went and saw the Fablemans; Babylon I think was in my local theater for the opening week and got kicked out, Banshees of Inisherin suffered the same fate

    Top Gun Maverick came out in late MAY and was 13th in box office in the middle of DECEMBER
     
  9. Tighthead

    Tighthead Well-Known Member

  10. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    I guess you are right - when your target audience are people who VERY MUCH BELIEVE in COVID, getting them into the theater is a tough sell.
     
  11. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    I watched maybe the first half hour of The Banshees of Inisherin. I'm 100 percent Irish, got engaged in Dublin, so it stood to reason this Irish dark comedy would be right in my wheelhouse. Nope, didn't care for it. It was stupid and annoying as fuck. Or maybe I am lol.
     
  12. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    Introduced the kids to the Blues Brothers this weekend. I think they liked it.
     
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