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Last movie you watched......

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

  1. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    Two multi-Oscar winning 80s movies that don't hold up at all:

    Tender Mercies. A pretty young widow hires and then instantly falls in love with an alcoholic drifter old enough to be her father. Not even even Duvall's performance can salvage this stagy, inert movie.

    Moonstruck. Incomprehensible behaviors abound. Nic Cage's first scene is crazed and unhinged....even for him and yet Cher immediately falls in love with him, the brother of her fiance. The fiance is conveniently kept in Europe for 90 percent of the movie visiting his sick mother (the same mother of Cage's character and he doesn't seem to care at all about her).

    Vincent Gardenia's mistress subplot....please, just ridiculous. And John Mahoney as a pathetic, womanizing NYU professor who only dates his students is portrayed as being charming and misunderstood. Pass.
     
  2. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    Watched Saturday Night Live, enjoyable, some good laughs. Lorne Michaels really was ahead of his time and we’re the better for it.
     
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  3. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    A Complete Unknown.

    Tight little flick. Never saw Chalamet till now. He's got presence.

    Could easily play Billy Joe Armstrong and you'd never know the difference.
     
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  4. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    One of the previews yesterday was for a new movie with Michael Fassbender.

    He has the looks, charm, and It to be the next Bond.

     
  5. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Happy birthday to the greatest one-hit wonder thread starter in message board history!
     
  6. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Brangelina did it better.
     
  7. Small Town Guy

    Small Town Guy Well-Known Member

    Love Mr. & Mrs. Smith but this is directed by Soderbergh so I'm looking forward to this one too.

    Babygirl: Erotic thriller though more erotic than thriller which was a tad disappointing to me. Which must mean I'm getting old. I liked it but another odd experience as the theater was mostly me--middle-aged guy sitting by himself--and gaggles of tittering young women sharing blankies while watching Nicole Kidman crawl around on all fours.
     
  8. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Saw this today. It's OK, nothing special.

    Weak chemistry between 50 Shades of Punk and Cougar Kidman.

    Kidman worked extra hard with a trainer.

    Seems the real message came when Esme moralized about the importance of women supporting powerful and sinful women even after powerful and sinful women fuck women over.
     
  9. Small Town Guy

    Small Town Guy Well-Known Member

    Did think the actor wasn’t at Nicole’s level and movie would have been better if he had been.
     
  10. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    Just got out of a matinee of A Complete Unknown. I enjoy Chalamet and find his subtlety amazing. Was he Dylan? I don't know because I don't know much about Dylan. However, he made me see someone who came from nowhere, was troubled by stardom, and could be a prick while making amazing music and someone who bursts out of folk music to something differeing.

    I'm getting older and that makes me appreciate the small stuff more. In this instance, I was so touched by the warmth that I saw between Dylan and Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. IMHO that becomes the meaning of life almost, (well beyond love of my own family).

    TWO THUMBS UP!!!!
     
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  11. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    That opening scene between the 3 at the hospital is special.
     
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  12. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    1917. Hadn't seen it since it was first out. Perfect film. Dazzling, unsettling and superbly well-acted and cast.
     
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