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| marantzo |
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Syd wrote: When I finish this, the Best Pictures I'll not have seen will be Cimarron, The Great Ziegfeld, Going My Way, The Lost Weekend, Gentlemen's Agreement, The Greatest Show on Earth, Midnight Cowboy, Godfather II, Ordinary People and The English Patient. I've only seen parts of Oliver since I dislike what I've seen. The hardest to get is Cavalcade, which is too bad because it's a pretty good film.
Of the movies you wrote of, are some OK and some are awful, and I loved
Godfather II and Midnight Cowboy. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 9:04 am |
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marantzo wrote: Syd wrote: When I finish this, the Best Pictures I'll not have seen will be Cimarron, The Great Ziegfeld, Going My Way, The Lost Weekend, Gentlemen's Agreement, The Greatest Show on Earth, Midnight Cowboy, Godfather II, Ordinary People and The English Patient. I've only seen parts of Oliver since I dislike what I've seen. The hardest to get is Cavalcade, which is too bad because it's a pretty good film.
Of the movies you wrote of, are some OK and some are awful, and I loved
Godfather II and Midnight Cowboy.
The Greatest Show on Earth and (especially) The English Patient are absolutely terrible. Never seen Cimarron. Gentlemen's Agreement, despite the dated quality of the narrative, holds up remarkably well due to terrific performances and good direction by Kazan. The Lost Weekend is second-tier Billy Wilder, which means first-tier anyone else. Ziegfeld aqnd GMW are meh. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2016 4:15 pm |
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Syd wrote: billyweeds wrote: Syd wrote: Gone with the Wind finally made it to the top of my Netflix queue. (I'd had it there for years and kept pushing it down.) It promply turned me off with the first title card. However, it's preparation for watching "The Birth of a Nation." Not Griffith's film, but Nate Parkers.
You'd never seen "Gone With the Wind"???
Nope. I made it to intermission. "As God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again." I guess she eats a lot in the second half. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2016 4:20 pm |
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Syd wrote: When I finish this, the Best Pictures I'll not have seen will be ...The Greatest Show on Earth... Ordinary People and The English Patient |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2016 9:10 am |
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| Saw Cafe Society, best Woody I've had in years! |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2016 2:06 pm |
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bartist wrote: Saw Cafe Society, best Woody I've had in years!
Very good that you saw it. Another very good movie. Woody had a few movies these years that were good and some very good. Don't know why so many don't like most of Woody's in the last few years.
Ridiculous! |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2016 6:23 pm |
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marantzo wrote: bartist wrote: Saw Cafe Society, best Woody I've had in years!
Very good that you saw it. Another very good movie. Woody had a few movies these years that were good and some very good. Don't know why so many don't like most of Woody's in the last few years.
Ridiculous!
It's not ridiculous to loathe Hollywood Ending, Anything Else, Whatever Works, and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. That said, there have been some good ones, and none better than Cafe Society. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2016 7:20 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: marantzo wrote: bartist wrote: Saw Cafe Society, best Woody I've had in years!
Very good that you saw it. Another very good movie. Woody had a few movies these years that were good and some very good. Don't know why so many don't like most of Woody's in the last few years.
Ridiculous!
It's not ridiculous to loathe Hollywood Ending, Anything Else, Whatever Works, and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. That said, there have been some good ones, and none better than Cafe Society.
Billy, the ones you write about on top of this, (except the Cafe Society) those others were not very good at all. I wasn't thinking about them. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 5:55 am |
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| Some Woody Allen films are overrated IMO (Stardust Memories, anyone?). But some are underrated, for instance You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, which is quite terrific. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 7:29 am |
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I really liked that one.  |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:17 pm |
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"Beasts of No Nation" is a brutal tale of child soldiers fighting in a civil war in an unnamed African country. It has won 30 international awards including several for the director Cary Fukunaga and the brilliant British-African actor Idris Elba. Visually riveting, it is rich in local cultural vignettes of West Africa and harrowing in its depiction of African warfare.
Fukunaga, who is Japanese-American, also directed the brilliant migration drama "Sin Nombre" which I first saw sitting in a dentist's chair while getting some root canal work done. When I went for my next visit, the dentist asked me which movie I wanted to see that day. My immediate response was, "Sin Nombre again, please!" Fukunaga also directed HBO's "True Detective".
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 5:39 am |
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Huh, I never heard of watching a movie at the dentist.
A few years ago I had to have a tooth wrenched out and I asked if it was okay to keep my headphones on. And listening to my MP3 player really made a difference while two women chiseled on my face.
I generally just keep my eyes shut because the light tends to be bright and I figure it's a bit weird for the dentist when you are staring up at them.
For a movie, I'd think the dentist would frequently get in the way of the screen. And chewing all that popcorn would invariably make their work more difficult. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:34 am |
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Quote: ...which I first saw sitting in a dentist's chair while getting some root canal work done.
Like Gromit, I've never heard of this amenity in a dentist's chair. There are some movies, like "The World of Henry Orient" or "Stoker," where the root canal work during the viewing would be redundant. For some reason, my mind is running through films that would be perfect viewing in such a position....
Little Shop of Horrors (the dentist scene, of course)
Novocaine (hey, Steve Martin again)
High Anxiety
Coma
Marathon Man ("Is it safe?") |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 12:25 pm |
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| If you see a root canal expert, or "endodentist", each session is about an hour, and you need to go for 6 or 8 or more weekly sessions. It was once a very unpleasant experience but with modern local anesthetics the only unpleasant part is boredom. My endodentist has an excellent collection of about 80 movies. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 12:51 pm |
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Rewatched Woody Allen's Radio Days.
The costumes and hair and period design are really good.
But the film is a lot of loose anecdotes cobbled together with Woody Allen narrating with too on-the-nose comments.
The jokes aren't funny at all. And most of the set-ups lead nowhere. There's finally a payoff to the constant talk of fish, but it's creaky how long it took to get there. Then that leads to a chemistry set which is forced into a moment that doesn't work.
I usually say that Woody Allen screenplays, especially the latter decade or two are filled with shortcuts, and this whole film is an exercise in shortcuts. Really I think it would be a better film without the voiceover.
It's nice to look at, but there isn't much there there. |
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