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"The Phantom of the Opera" 1925
You just had to mention it (T2) and here I am watching it.
I could not figure out how to get the theater version going on the DVD I have so I‘m watching extreme version an extra 16 minutes, which are not needed. 🤯I have a negative thing most added scenes in most special editions of movies released after the theatrical version, most are just extra filler, making the movie less tight. My examples are specifically this movie, Aliens 2, and Avatar, all Cameron films.
https://screenrant.com/every-new-scene-extended-cut-terminator-2/.
- Sara sees Kyle in a vision while in prison, including the beginning of her dream, the destruction of LA.
- The T1000 kills the dog.
- They access the Terminator’s CPUand Sara tries to destroy it. John tells her no, they need him.
- John teaches the Terminator to smile.
- Dison‘s family life segment.
- John and the Terminator talk about fear
- John and the Terminator talk about crying? Maybe not extra.
- John gives the Terminator another lecture about not killing people.
- Scene at the lab where they destroy stuff.
You just had to mention it (T2) and here I am watching it.
I have a negative thing most added scenes in most special editions of movies released after the theatrical version, most are just extra filler, making the movie less tight. My examples are specifically this movie, Aliens 2, and Avatar, all Cameron films.
https://screenrant.com/every-new-scene-extended-cut-terminator-2/.
- Sara sees Kyle in a vision while in prison, including the beginning of her dream, the destruction of LA.
- The T1000 kills the dog.
- They access the Terminator’s CPUand Sara tries to destroy it. John tells her no, they need him.
- John teaches the Terminator to smile.
- Dison‘s family life segment.
- John and the Terminator talk about fear
- John and the Terminator talk about crying? Maybe not extra.
- John gives the Terminator another lecture about not killing people.
- Scene at the lab where they destroy stuff.
The extended versions of The Lord of the Rings were excellent and added a lot to the movies.
Miracle (2004). A great movie, a tale of beating the odds and winning through effort. True story.
We Are Marshall (2006). A sad, yet powerful movie about being a true phoenix, resurrecting from the ashes. True story.
Friday Night Lights (2004). The tale of Odessa's HS football team. Or, how much pressure is put on young kids for no real reason. To me, this movie is a total indictment of the educational system and, worse, of all the adults that unreasonably focus on what is NOT important in the hope that one of their kids can make them reach/famous/successful. True story.
We Are Marshall (2006). A sad, yet powerful movie about being a true phoenix, resurrecting from the ashes. True story.
Friday Night Lights (2004). The tale of Odessa's HS football team. Or, how much pressure is put on young kids for no real reason. To me, this movie is a total indictment of the educational system and, worse, of all the adults that unreasonably focus on what is NOT important in the hope that one of their kids can make them reach/famous/successful. True story.
I watched the series, and I completely agree with your assessment.
Molly’s Game [2017]
I don’t condone gambling, even though I have gambled in the past, [mainly on sports games, I’m not really a card player.] I won big before, but I’ve also lost big. But it amazes me when you look at some of the numbers that gamblers can drop in a high-stakes poker game that are north of $300K to $500K in an instant, kinda crazy.
The plot is about a female, (Jessica Chastain) who essentially tried to self operate high-stakes gambling venues, but in the midst of her legal operation, puts her in a situation that now deals with legal issues. The movie itself is based on a ‘true story’.
The movie is good, if you’re somebody that enjoys the backdrop of gambling and how things work behind the scenes, I’d say this is a good film to watch, even though I do think it wasn’t entirely for me. That said, I do have to say, Jessica Chastain is and has always been a very —distracting— woman on set to say the least, but...umm...who wouldn’t be? (Rhetorical). 😁
I don’t condone gambling, even though I have gambled in the past, [mainly on sports games, I’m not really a card player.] I won big before, but I’ve also lost big. But it amazes me when you look at some of the numbers that gamblers can drop in a high-stakes poker game that are north of $300K to $500K in an instant, kinda crazy.
The plot is about a female, (Jessica Chastain) who essentially tried to self operate high-stakes gambling venues, but in the midst of her legal operation, puts her in a situation that now deals with legal issues. The movie itself is based on a ‘true story’.
The movie is good, if you’re somebody that enjoys the backdrop of gambling and how things work behind the scenes, I’d say this is a good film to watch, even though I do think it wasn’t entirely for me. That said, I do have to say, Jessica Chastain is and has always been a very —distracting— woman on set to say the least, but...umm...who wouldn’t be? (Rhetorical). 😁
The Nest [2020]
This movie kind of reminded me of ‘War of the Roses’ with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas from 1989, except without all the violence.
The plot is very straightforward, it’s about a family that relocates to the U.K for a better job prospect, and it shows you that their new life transition wasn’t really the best decision and how their family isn’t really cohesive as a unit, The relationship between the family members is disconnected, Jude law‘s career position in the movie falls apart and starts to hit a financial hardship, and struggles of how they cope with what happens when things go awry.
Jude law and Carrie Coons portray how loving they are with each other in the beginning, but once they face life difficulties and push each other away, they become toxic to each other and destructive in terms of they don’t put each other first, they put their emotions first.
There really isn’t any major plot twists in this movie, I think it’s just a decent drama to keep family first before your own self desires that ultimately destroy something so special.
This movie kind of reminded me of ‘War of the Roses’ with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas from 1989, except without all the violence.
The plot is very straightforward, it’s about a family that relocates to the U.K for a better job prospect, and it shows you that their new life transition wasn’t really the best decision and how their family isn’t really cohesive as a unit, The relationship between the family members is disconnected, Jude law‘s career position in the movie falls apart and starts to hit a financial hardship, and struggles of how they cope with what happens when things go awry.
Jude law and Carrie Coons portray how loving they are with each other in the beginning, but once they face life difficulties and push each other away, they become toxic to each other and destructive in terms of they don’t put each other first, they put their emotions first.
There really isn’t any major plot twists in this movie, I think it’s just a decent drama to keep family first before your own self desires that ultimately destroy something so special.
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Came across this last night channel hoping. Not seen it before.
Entertaining enough. A few laughs, some action. Not Clints best work, but good enough for a Friday evening.
Entertaining enough. A few laughs, some action. Not Clints best work, but good enough for a Friday evening.
Hamilton.
A friend very kindly arranged for me to "piggyback" on his (brief subscription to Disney Plus) so that I could watch it.
The problem is - as (unlike, say, the Civil War era, or 20th century history, where I do know a bit about the material), I keep pausing the movie, to chase down rabbit holes of history to confirm stuff, or to find out more about, certain specific stuff (okay, wikipedia, but Ron Chernow's biography of Hamilton is beside my bed, waiting to be read).
Thus, - and the musical Hamilton is brilliant, absolutely brilliant, - seriously brilliant - but incredibly intense, there is a lot to learn and unpack and think about and mull over - I am a lot less far in the musical than you would think, given that I started watching it hours and hours ago on Friday.
Anyway, having spent much of the week-end watching Hamilton, last night, (Sunday), I finally - finally - finished Hamilton.
Although I watched several scenes three or four - or more - times.
Superlative.
Just superlative.
Outstanding.
As politics, music (and musical forms), songs, lyrics - oh, those lyrics - history, costumes, choreography, acting, art, narrative, (yes, race and gender also feature) - philosophy - and not to mention the wonderful subversion of tradition (and traditional story telling) seeing people of colour fully own and inhabit with commanding confidence and gleeful mastery of these (revolutionary) roles. And very witty at times.
Absolutely outstanding.
And so intelligent - this is an extraordinarily intelligent and thoughtful production, and demands much (by way of attention, concentration, focus) from the viewer, audience; blink, and you miss something important.
And this is not a show where you can "switch off' - this is intense and requires your full attention at all times; some of the scenes are incredibly dense with action, subtle insights, puns, asides, foreshadowing, - visually, orally, in placement - whereas the lyrics are incredibly layered, subtle, sophisticated, and exquisitely well written.
Anyway, absolutely superb, a classic.
A friend very kindly arranged for me to "piggyback" on his (brief subscription to Disney Plus) so that I could watch it.
The problem is - as (unlike, say, the Civil War era, or 20th century history, where I do know a bit about the material), I keep pausing the movie, to chase down rabbit holes of history to confirm stuff, or to find out more about, certain specific stuff (okay, wikipedia, but Ron Chernow's biography of Hamilton is beside my bed, waiting to be read).
Thus, - and the musical Hamilton is brilliant, absolutely brilliant, - seriously brilliant - but incredibly intense, there is a lot to learn and unpack and think about and mull over - I am a lot less far in the musical than you would think, given that I started watching it hours and hours ago on Friday.
Anyway, having spent much of the week-end watching Hamilton, last night, (Sunday), I finally - finally - finished Hamilton.
Although I watched several scenes three or four - or more - times.
Superlative.
Just superlative.
Outstanding.
As politics, music (and musical forms), songs, lyrics - oh, those lyrics - history, costumes, choreography, acting, art, narrative, (yes, race and gender also feature) - philosophy - and not to mention the wonderful subversion of tradition (and traditional story telling) seeing people of colour fully own and inhabit with commanding confidence and gleeful mastery of these (revolutionary) roles. And very witty at times.
Absolutely outstanding.
And so intelligent - this is an extraordinarily intelligent and thoughtful production, and demands much (by way of attention, concentration, focus) from the viewer, audience; blink, and you miss something important.
And this is not a show where you can "switch off' - this is intense and requires your full attention at all times; some of the scenes are incredibly dense with action, subtle insights, puns, asides, foreshadowing, - visually, orally, in placement - whereas the lyrics are incredibly layered, subtle, sophisticated, and exquisitely well written.
Anyway, absolutely superb, a classic.
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Absolutely agree. Just magnificent. Before experiencing it, I wondered how could people watch it 3 or more times. Now I know. It’s fun, and there is so much to absorb.
The true test of how good it was (and the stunning stage performances of Wolf Hall, and Bring Up The Bodies, - adapted from Hilary Mantel's two superb books - with the RSC in the Aldwych theatre in London, which I had the privilege to see, passed the same test), was that my beer was not only unfinished by the end of the movie last night, but was almost untouched.
Easily it took another 1 1/2 to 2 hours to finish because we kept pausing it to talk about the history we were ignorant of and just how fricking good all the performers are. Might have to watch it again this weekend.
Exactly.
There were so many moments of "gosh, I didn't know that"....and you had to pause (and pause the movie) to think about it (and look it up), or other times, salute - in awestruck admiration - "wow,that was brillliant" - the subtlety of the exchanges (and how they were so intelligently - and cleverly - informed by so much knowledge, knowledge of history, of the character of the specific character - and of the precise circumstance).
And yes, all of the performers (and performances) were absolutely brilliant. Simply superb.
In an earlier life, I used to be a history teacher; I would see Hamilton as an invaluable classroom tool were I teaching the histrory of that era.
Apart from the spellbinding RSC performance of Wolf Hall & Bring Up The Bodies (which was outstanding), I don't think that I have enjoyed - and watched, enthralled, with rapt attention (that ignored beer, again) a performance so much in a very long time.
Hamilton - worked superbly as music, as entertainment, as narrative, as history, as politics.......simply superlative.
My wife's and my reaction exactly! I "borrowed" it from "some peers" back when it premiered on streaming, before Disney+ was available in México. Borrowed it along with Mulan and thought we would enjoy more M over H. Boy, were we wrong!
We learned, we laughed, we cried. We ended watching it 3 times along a 2 week period.
Yes! I thought we were the only ones pausing every other moment.
No, I was pausing it every other moment; that's why it took me the best part of threee days (well, evenings) to watch the movie to the end.
Mind you, I thought that I was the only person to have done that......and now, from the replies, it seems that both of you, @cdcastillo & @7thson have also done this.
Wow. Amazing.
I'm doing that with the novel I'm reading right now...
P R E A D A T O R
Starring the former Governor
of Minnesota
Jesse Ventura!
...just had to say that. Starring the former Governor
of Minnesota
Jesse Ventura!
Just watched this, sweeeet. Music plays a huge role in an adventure like this. The assault on the rebel camp is awe-some.
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