Last movie you watched......

I'll give The Room this much ... at least we see Johnny die when he eats a gun.

Sure would've been nice to see Llewelyn Moss die instead of stumbling upon his dead body in the motel room.

 

'The Autopsy of Jane Doe'
Strange. not everything fit, but I liked it.

 

The Shape of Water was beautiful to look at, the work of an amazing imagination. A little slow in parts, maybe? But Sally Hawkins, who plays the mute main character, is terrific. Oscar nomination for sure.

 

How would Brad Garrett have been in the part?

 

Better than everybody's cinematic hero Javier Bardem.

 

It's so rare that an opinion might be singular—as in, just one person on Earth holds it. But I think @Songbird might actually be the only person on Earth who would rather have seen Brad Garrett play Anton Chigurh than Javier Bardem. That's the sort of opinion that's so outside the bounds of possibility, it casts into doubt everything its holder ever thought about anything.

 

Delivered with the same boring intensity as Bardem. You've got a way to go with the shrink.

 

A year or so ago, watched the full movie on DVD, rather than the TV edited version. Watched it at least a dozen times as a kid, with my mom and sister. Lots of great scenes and songs.

My mom recalls seeing it in the theater, and the long, pulling away shot of Maria leaving her note and leaving the Von Trapp house was how they went into intermission. I'm not a film technique buff, but that's one of the all-time great scenes.

 

Took about six tries to get through it: Wonder Woman. What was the big deal? God, it was hard to sit through.

Went to a friend's who had AppleTV. We did Get Out, The Big Sick and then went to Star Wars. Big Sick was the best of those, hands down.

Star Wars was marginally better the second time around, but still meh.

 

Bardem plays the role with calm cold-bloodedness. That's what makes it so effective, to most people. But for you, it makes you not buy the crazy.

Is this a fair summation?

 

1, He wasn't believable.

2, In back to back years we had NCFOM and Inglourious Basterds, each of them with ruthless killers played by actors who had never really been heard from in America till these breakthrough performances. Both actors won the Oscar but awards are unimportant in this little exercise unless you're typefitter because he bases one's worth on awards and needs people to tell him how to feel about a movie or actor. Anyway, Javier Bardem and Christoph Waltz played the same ruthless killer. The difference? Waltz personified evil as Landa whereas Bardem looked like he had just graduated from Lee Strasberg Acting School and was giving Anton Chigurh all the precious effort he could. In other words, no, I didn't buy his crazy. He looked like a docile little kitty cat.

 

Back in the early '80s, I had this cable movie thingee, I think it was called Z Channel. You got two movies a week and they played them over and over. One week, the pairing was "The Sound of Music" and "Slap Shot." It was a rainy Saturday when I had nothing to do. I stayed home and watched both of them three times each. The hills are alive and you feel shame.