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06-22-2017, 10:41 AM
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The last movie I saw in the theater was "John Carter of Mars". There's probably a reason for that.
Occasionally, my mother will ask me "Why don't you go to the movies?" I reply in words to the effect of, "If I want to throw away $10 and have my intelligence insulted by condescending imbeciles, I can flush a ten dollar bill down the toilet and then watch MSNBC."
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I'm going to start a "post of the day" feature. This is Thursday's. Absolutely 1st class post!
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06-22-2017, 10:47 AM
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Yes, he performed several similar tasks from his boat. The 'Islands In The Stream' story is 'What if I REALLY found a U-boat'? His imaginations is very realistic. Part Three, "At Sea" is pretty hair raising. Like I said, it would make a darn good action movie. I can just imagine the studio execs that said, "Hey, that's a great idea and we will fund your film, but don't you think it would be 'better' if it ended like this??"
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PS Hemingway being Hemingway, they probably told him to keep his eyes open and report any suspicious activity, but I'll bet that he really armed his boat and was hoping to get in on the action. Now whether he had Ma Deuces and hand grenades, I don't really know, but it makes dang good reading.
PPS: George C. Scott played the main character who looked an awful lot like Hemingway himself. LIke I said, the first two thirds of the movie were fantastic. If you can't read the book, watch the movie until 5 minutes before the end, then read the thrid section of the book. It will go by fast, I promise. It stands on its own, just know that his estranged wife and three sons are killed in succession to different reasons. By the end the character, Thomas Hudson, doesn't have a lot to live for, except his art, which may also e drawing to a close if the artist isn't around.
PPPS: The book was published posthumously and edited by his family, who put in what they thought that he would himself. I don't know when he started writing it, but near the end of his life, he was proven several times that he wasn't the fire eater he wanted to be any more. Which is probably why he killed himself. |
SPOILER ALERT: Spock dies in the last scene. 
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06-22-2017, 11:45 AM
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The last terrible movie I went to see was the Batman Lego Movie with my granddaughter!
For a kid it may have been great but for an adult with the kid,,,,,Whattta Stinkbomb!
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06-22-2017, 11:59 AM
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The English Patient. Gouge your own eyes out bad.
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*** This one sentence speaks volumes about "the way of Hollywood"; and the way of "middle-man".
I believe in 1997 the fore-mentioned movie swept the awards sweepstakes. I may try to watch it someday,...if I grow weary of watching grass grow and paint dry.
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06-22-2017, 02:10 PM
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The last movie I saw in the theater was "John Carter of Mars". There's probably a reason for that.
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You poor soul..............remember reading the books when I was 12 or so..........loved the Edger R ice Burrough's... but that movie .......
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06-22-2017, 02:15 PM
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You poor soul..............remember reading the books when I was 12 or so..........loved the Edger R ice Burrough's... but that movie .......
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I was astonished that it wasn't as bad as it COULD have been.
I went to see it because I'd read the books when I was in grammar school in the '60s.
They'd been trying to make a John Carter movie since my grandmother was a young woman (I'm 60). Every time they tried, the utter inadequacy of the contemporary special effects technology defeated them. Max Fleischer ("Betty Boop") even did test footage for an animated version.
They tried to jam multiple books into one movie, which was doomed to failure. The books are far more readable than Tolkien, and deserve a similar film treatment. Failing that, a decent animation should be done.
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06-22-2017, 02:36 PM
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I sat through an anti-gun movie with Jessica Chastain called
Miss Sloan
I watched her in Zero Dark Thirty as the CIA operative who tortures and schemes her way into finding Osama bin Ladin. Heavy duty stuff.
Miss Sloan has her as a ethics-free lobbyist who switches sides at no pay to get gun control advocates destroyed and gun legislation passed. Well done, but hard to watch if you believe in the 2nd Amendment. Everybody looks like scum on both sides. True to life Washington DC.
anybody else see this?
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06-22-2017, 04:16 PM
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"I sat through an anti-gun movie with Jessica Chastain called Miss Sloan."
An authentic box office bomb. Almost no one went to see it. I think it crashed and burned the first week of release. I don't remember it being released at Redbox.
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06-22-2017, 04:43 PM
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"I sat through an anti-gun movie with Jessica Chastain called Miss Sloan."
An authentic box office bomb. Almost no one went to see it. I think it crashed and burned the first week of release. I don't remember it being released at Redbox.
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They keep making anti-gun and anti-military swill and they keep taking a bath on it.
They haven't made any money off of me in years.
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06-22-2017, 06:05 PM
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Time for a "good movie!I had a young lady(21yr.old)ask me...Jim,my boyfriend & I are staying home tonight & I was wondering you have any movie we can watch? I smiled ,said sure...gave her "To catch a thief"!Next day she returned the DVD & asked...."WHO",was that actor!! He was great we loved it!!I said Cary Grant!She didn't know who he was.Do you have anymore.I said well...I have another you may enjoy...THE QUIET MAN! I never realized there was someone who didn't know who John Wayne & Mareen O'hara were. I have now introduced some people to real acting!There IS hope!! I got a kick out of it!
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06-22-2017, 06:41 PM
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Time for a "good movie!I had a young lady(21yr.old)ask me...Jim,my boyfriend & I are staying home tonight & I was wondering you have any movie we can watch? I smiled ,said sure...gave her "To catch a thief"!Next day she returned the DVD & asked...."WHO",was that actor!! He was great we loved it!!I said Cary Grant!She didn't know who he was.Do you have anymore.I said well...I have another you may enjoy...THE QUIET MAN! I never realized there was someone who didn't know who John Wayne & Mareen O'hara were. I have now introduced some people to real acting!There IS hope!! I got a kick out of it!
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A kid (old enough to have served in Iraq) I worked with three years ago had NEVER heard of Jimmy Cagney.
He did however know everything there was to know about "Game of Thrones"...
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06-22-2017, 06:47 PM
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"Hobo With A Shotgun" gets my vote. I had high hopes with a title like that but it was just terrible.
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06-22-2017, 10:27 PM
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Generally my rule of thumb for watching movies is; "If the critics love it I stay away. If the critics hate it then what time does it start".
Unfortunately neither The Mummy and Transformers, The Last Knight proved my theory. I saw them both on opening day at the theatre. The first was just okay, I may get the DVD but only after it has been out long enough to go into the $6.98 bin.
I won't get the latest Teansformers on DVD. I'll wait to see what #6 is like.
As for La La Land, the title threw me off from the start.
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