movies

[cardsfantx]

Watched White Christmas tonight... it's a whole lotta white and not a lot of Christmas.

spolier alert

[GeddyWrox]

Anyone seen "Green BooK"

I wanted to after seeing the preview. But then I read that the family isn't happy with its truthiness. And then it started to sound like yet another white savior movie.

Now I'm not sure. I think I still want to see it but have much lower expectations.

[Freed Roger]

Late to the party, but last night I watched Michael Clayton on Amazon Prime. It's very good thriller that futures peak Clooney.

Love that movie. Good to know its on Prime.

Possibly my favorite movie of all time. So many incredible performances. Insane cast.

heck to the yeah. skimmed past that movie so many times. this is why I read this thread

[heyzeus]

Roma is the new Cuaron (Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Gravity) movie that just debuted both in theaters and on Netflix - a pretty interesting distribution model for a film with oscar aspirations.

It's very moving, very lived-in, and quietly reflective. Without saying too much, it's quite a meditation on class and the quiet lives of servants and laborers.

[lukethedrifter]

Late to the party, but last night I watched Michael Clayton on Amazon Prime. It's very good thriller that futures peak Clooney.

Love that movie. Good to know its on Prime.

Possibly my favorite movie of all time. So many incredible performances. Insane cast.

heck to the yeah. skimmed past that movie so many times. this is why I read this thread

[SHOW]

Did he not stop for the ponies on the hill because they were the drawing from the book his kid gave to Edens?

[Freed Roger]

Roma is the new Cuaron (Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Gravity) movie that just debuted both in theaters and on Netflix - a pretty interesting distribution model for a film with oscar aspirations.

It's very moving, very lived-in, and quietly reflective. Without saying too much, it's quite a meditation on class and the quiet lives of servants and laborers.

Thumbs up. Wish I had something more profound to say

[Freed Roger]

watching old movies off TCM lately

The Apartment. Pretty good, because of Jack Lemmon. Mad Men aspects. Weird juxtaposition of serious topic, attempted suicide of the Shirley Maclaine character with the sanitized version of 50ish infidelity and mistreatment of the female. Shirley is a modern women but little more than a child in it.

Marty - Ernest Borgnine in it as lead. A man in his 30s living with his Mom - ah the good ole days when this was worthy of a film. I enjoyed it. Not sure why.

The Montana Incident - an hour long western that gets 3.5 out of 4 from uverse. Not deserved. Ah the glories and US patriotic virtues of rancher property rights vs eminent domain development. Didnt know which one to root for. The villain is a women, so that was a welcome twist. However the hero character is Whip Wilson - played by actor named Whip Wilson. Bull. shet. Glad I watched it though.

The Woman in the Window. A key piece of noir with a classic femme fatale. Edward G Robinson....seemed too old to play the role but maybe people liked that back then. interesting story BUT

[SHOW]

it was all just a dream. Total fail.

Patterns. - probably liked it 2nd behind Marty. Rod Serling wrote it so there you go. 1950s drama about high pressure business environment. Van Heflin, good. Kind of narrow scope - could easily just been a play. But the boss man, I dare say has to be the model/inspiration for Montgomery Burns of The Simpsons. Will need to check that out.

[CardsofSTL]

https://ew.com/tv/2018/12/19/deadwood-movie-photos/


First photos from Deadwood movie. Deadwood is my [expletive] [expletive]

[thrill]

hell yeah

[Swirls]

The wife and I went to a Christmas screening of Die Hard at our local Alamo Drafthouse a couple nights ago. It was classified as a "movie party" so a lot of their normal rules didn't apply - they even provided us with props, so we had cap guns (with the little red firecracker-like caps you played with as a kid) that we were encouraged to fire off whenever people were shooting at each other, we had lighters that we were encouraged to flick on any time Bruce Willis lit up a cigarette (this happened a lot more than I expected it to), and we got Twinkies to eat in homage of Sgt Al Powell.

And, most of all, everyone was encouraged to shout out their favorite quotes of the movie as they were happening. It got pretty loud and raucous (especially since the booze was flowing seemingly nonstop like always at an Alamo Drafthouse), but was still an awesome experience.