I actually watched "Rosemary's Baby" last night. It was such a good old flick. Roman Polanski is a very versatile and gifted director. I hadn't seen that movie in years, but I'm glad I found it. My wife didn't really care for it, but it's not really her genre.
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VCR?
Anyway, I really hate Deer Hunter!
I found it to be a somber movie showing the harm of war and how it changed this particular group of people.
The Green Mile (also on VHS, I see that someone else does this too)
I always cry when they fry him at the end of cassette one....
I always cry when they fry him at the end of cassette one....
Bad Words - A 40 year old 8th-grade dropout (Patrick Bateman) joins a kids' national spelling bee. It's as bad as it sounds. I get that its supposed to be a satiric take on spelling bees, but honestly it's not very funny watching him bully and curse at a bunch of kids. However, the little boy (Rohan Chand) does a great job.
Last night I got my youngest to watch 1980's "The Private Eyes" with Tim Conway and Don Knotts. He loved it almost as much as I still do.
I think I annoyed my family by laughing at the funny parts before they happened.
I think I annoyed my family by laughing at the funny parts before they happened.
If you haven't seen The Grand Budapest Hotel I highly recommend it. Great movie. Superb acting and wonderful art.
Excellent movie.
Excellent movie.
I was so disappointed I didnt get to see it in theaters.....And not released on dvd for another 5 days. hahaha I can't wait.
Finally saw the new remake of Robocop. I was very impressed to say the least. Nothing has the nostalgia of the first one, but this was a better made movie.
Ill buy that for a dollar!! arrrr!
Ill buy that for a dollar!! arrrr!
Saw this over the last weekend. Loved it. Thought it was pretty darn good too!
Just watched Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and Non-Stop. Jack Ryan was not too bad, but Non-Stop was you typical Liam Neeson movie.
Yep. I'm finding that with a lot of movies. Plots and scripts aren't very strong and well developed in a lot of them anymore.
It's difficult to find a good quality flick anymore. I don't mind the no-brain-needed flick once in a while, but I'm old enough now to where I don't care all too much about the shoot-them-up explosion packed movies anymore. I prefer something to help my mind engage in the plot and make me think and even care for the characters.
A suggestion...watch some old movies for a while. I'm not talking 1980's old, I'm talking 1930s through early 1950s old.
Watching films with actual plots, acting, directing and cinematography...and following the technical and artistic development of the cinematic arts beats most of the current big budget crud all hollow.
Yes, there are certainly many current films worth watching...and I agree that the occasional no-brain-necessary film is fun and diverting. But it is my opinion that a steady diet of those films erodes the expectation that a film can have actual content and substance...and we just accept that films are mindless entertainment alone.
Watching the old films of many genres...gangster movies, westerns, dramas, comedies, and my favorites - film noir, gives one both an appreciation of the roots of cinema, and an appreciation of what can be done without CGI, graphic violence, and even color photography. (Full disclosure: I am much more impressed with the nuance and creativity available in black and white cinematography than color).
Agree with you to a very large extent.
Plot, character, script, lighting and pace are all - to my mind - absolutely necessary core ingredients to what I term a good play, or a good movie.
That said, bloated budgets, special effects, (including but not confined to CGI), excessive violence, an over-reliance on good-looking apparently youthful beautiful creatures (rather than character actors with real lived-in faces - this applies to both male and female actors) and threadbare story lines are all off-putting.
It may be boring to say it, but I like a good story; and the elements that combine make up a good story have not changed in a few thousand years, irrespective of the medium used to tell it.
Plot, character, script, lighting and pace are all - to my mind - absolutely necessary core ingredients to what I term a good play, or a good movie.
That said, bloated budgets, special effects, (including but not confined to CGI), excessive violence, an over-reliance on good-looking apparently youthful beautiful creatures (rather than character actors with real lived-in faces - this applies to both male and female actors) and threadbare story lines are all off-putting.
It may be boring to say it, but I like a good story; and the elements that combine make up a good story have not changed in a few thousand years, irrespective of the medium used to tell it.
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I think that even as an action flick the movie failed. Too much of the run time was spent with the characters doing pretty much nothing.
There was a lot of boring parts and I found myself drifting to the iPad to play a game during the movie.
Heh, I wish I had had that option. I saw it in the theater, so all I could do during those parts was zone out.