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Spoilers What Movie Are You Watching?
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Others that are notable:
The War Game- a documentary?
The Bedford Incident- a Cold War incident, excellent.
By Dawn's Early Light
Fail Safe (1964 & 2000)- the lengths a President would go to try to avoid WWIII. Did not see 2000 version.
On The Beach (1959 & 2000)- the sobering aftermath. Did not see 2000 version.
Dr Stranglove- Amazing caustic satire.
The Day After- I don’t remember much about this.
Twilight's Last Gleaming
The War Game - a documentary? - YES, hard hitting, nor easy to come by
The Bedford Incident - a Cold War incident, excellent.
By Dawn's Early Light - HBO at it's very best
Fail Safe (1964 & 2000)- the lengths a President would go to try to avoid WWIII. Did not see 2000 version. - 2K was a TV live event well worth watching if you can find
On The Beach (1959 & 2000)- the sobering aftermath. Did not see 2000 version. 59 is the better IMO
Dr Strangleove- Amazing caustic satire.
The Day After - I don’t remember much about this. - Watch it, you will, one of the first shout outs
Twilight's Last Gleaming. - Little off the mark, equally not by much, Lancaster carries & shines, eqaully an illustration of the futility of such acts...
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American Psycho [2000]
Yup, we’ve all watched it, nothing shy of being an amazing film. [My avatar is reflective of that.]
So instead of discussing my thoughts on the film, I thought it would just be more ‘fun’ to put down some of my favorite quotes from the movie below:
Enjoy!
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“Don’t Touch the watch...”
“Is that Ivanka Trump?...”
“Why are their copies of the style section all over the place, do you have a dog? A little chow or something?“ (<- Paul Allen)
“I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?“
“Waiter: Would you like to hear today's specials?
Bateman: Not if you want to keep your spleen.”
“Bateman: Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?
Van Patten: Ed Gein? Maitre d' at Canal Bar?
Bateman: No, serial killer, Wisconsin in the fifties.”
Christie: You have a really nice place, Paul. How much did you pay for it?
Bateman: Well, actually, that's none of your business, Christie. But I can assure you, it certainly wasn't cheap.”
Yup, we’ve all watched it, nothing shy of being an amazing film. [My avatar is reflective of that.]
So instead of discussing my thoughts on the film, I thought it would just be more ‘fun’ to put down some of my favorite quotes from the movie below:
Enjoy!
******************
“Don’t Touch the watch...”
“Is that Ivanka Trump?...”
“Why are their copies of the style section all over the place, do you have a dog? A little chow or something?“ (<- Paul Allen)
“I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?“
“Waiter: Would you like to hear today's specials?
Bateman: Not if you want to keep your spleen.”
“Bateman: Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?
Van Patten: Ed Gein? Maitre d' at Canal Bar?
Bateman: No, serial killer, Wisconsin in the fifties.”
Christie: You have a really nice place, Paul. How much did you pay for it?
Bateman: Well, actually, that's none of your business, Christie. But I can assure you, it certainly wasn't cheap.”
Definitely another family movie that will be loved by small kids and the elderly alike.
(of course I am joking)
This one is my favorite of the whole film. Close second is his lecture about Huey Lewis and the News and their musical output. Great writing and delivery.
Just, for the love of everything that's holy, steer clear of American Psycho 2. There quite literally is nothing to be gained by subjecting oneself to that. I have, so I know. Don't repeat my mistake.
There's Something About Mary(1998)
Possibly the only romcom i actually like and will recommend. Still funny after all these years!
Possibly the only romcom i actually like and will recommend. Still funny after all these years!
Set the player to random - Leviathan
It then served up The Russia House
followed by In the Mouth of Madness
Think I'll leave it on random as it doing a good job so far
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It then served up The Russia House
followed by In the Mouth of Madness
Think I'll leave it on random as it doing a good job so far
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"Ad Astra", with Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones and Donald Sutherland.
It's an evocative movie. The lunar surface scenes and some of the spaceship set design look a lot like "2001: A Space Odyssey", a movie which I dearly love. The pacing, music and space scenes, on the other hand, remind me of "Solaris", another film that is languid and beautiful to look at and listen to. And the antagonist being a scientist lost on a deep space mission is clearly similar to Dr. Hans Reinhardt in "The Black Hole".
It's not a movie for the impatient, though. It makes its two hour length feel like three.
It's not for logic lovers either, who will wonder how you can cling by hand to a launching rocket, why the whole mayday rescue scene was even in the film, and why the central problem, bursts of energy threatening Earth, was explained with nothing more than some throwaway dialogue about antimatter.
And the beautiful and talented Liv Tyler is in so few scenes, she's wasted in this.
On the other hand, it has interesting takes on searching for life in space as opposed to Earth, as well as how we will carry our problems with us when we start to colonize space.
Ah yes, the film remembered mainly for its blundered title. Krakatoa is actually west of Java. 😄Krakatoa East of Java
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Good old Sunday matinee, all the drama in the world
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I’ll have to check it out sometime, though. I remember an old Time Tunnel set on Krakatoa, and it was quite an adventure.
The version I saw a few years ago had not aged well. And the special effects were very weak.
Watched the new Emmerich "Midway" last night and it was quite good! Much better than I expected. This was a good WW2 flick and I recommend it!
Set the player to random - Leviathan
It then served up The Russia House
followed by In the Mouth of Madness
Think I'll leave it on random as it doing a good job so far
That's pretty fun! What's the system / hardware / pool of movies it's pulling from ?
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I think you are _right_on_ with your assessment. It's beautifully acted, outside of a couple of set pieces, it's very a very slow burn, and while there are some head scratching moments, the message is pretty amazing, and it stands up nicely against the movie as a whole.
You’ve convinced me to give this a pass. Brad Pitt, and thinking about George Clooney are both up front negatives. I can handle slow burns as long as there is a payoff. Just don’t say I’m not intellectual enough.
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Nothing special, just an old Mac repurposed as an HTPC. Instead of streaming I just thought I let the player pick randomly off the local drives. I always backup my disks so I can watch films when traveling. Little basic, equally works well enough and produced some interesting combinations.
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Oh, that's great. Last year we dropped like 50 movies into a randomizer for Halloween and let some code pick our nightly watch (it was just a list we created, we still had to track the movie down
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An important look into the depraved humanity that permeated USA Gymnastics, we never knew.
On Netflix
On Netflix