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Post by Deviancy on Dec 27, 2021 1:15:36 GMT
I watched a movie about one of my heroes, JRR Tolkien. I read most of his books 10 years ago, or at least all the ones that I could find. Tolkien deserves way more appreciation than he gets.In the era when reading for enjoyment is at its lowest ever since we've been alive at least, not likely. Not sure what happened... Not sure if it matters.. I mean Egon did say print was dead in 1984.
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Post by francesca on Dec 28, 2021 1:06:08 GMT
I'm just so fascinated by stories & films that are set in bayous or swamps. It started last summer when I read Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.
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Post by edwardjohn on Dec 31, 2021 22:40:42 GMT
Tolkien deserves way more appreciation than he gets. In the era when reading for enjoyment is at its lowest ever since we've been alive at least, not likely. Not sure what happened... Not sure if it matters.. I mean Egon did say print was dead in 1984. Unlike a lot of authors, Tolkien did get a bit of appreciation when he was still going. So there is that, I suppose.
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Post by francesca on Jan 1, 2022 5:53:15 GMT
I was surprised that CS Lewis wasn't featured in the Tolkien movie. I read in his bio that they were friends who would bounce ideas off each other. Their friendship was similar to Joe Hill & Neil Gaiman, but instead of tweeting each other they went out for drinks.
Today I watched an Ethan Hawke movie called Before Sunrise. Then I realize that a YA novel I read a few years ago was stolen from that film. The similarities were too obvious.
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Post by wolf on Jan 4, 2022 1:57:16 GMT
Took a break yesterday. Watched a couple of good psyche thrillers on Hulu.
"Don't Say A Word" 2001 ....
a good cast and story. Saw it once before when it first hit cable. Not a flick I was in a hurry to see again soon, it wasn't as good as the trailers I'd seen made me think it was going to be. But the 2nd watch was better than I had remembered. - Michael Douglas, Brittany Murphy, Sean Bean, Famke Janssen, Oliver Platt and quite a few other favorites.
"Every Breath You Take" 2021
Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Sam Claflin, India Eisley. This one was pretty good too. (I think both stories follow a storyline that has been done over and over, "a man and his family are plagued by another man with a grudge".)
Casey Affleck surprised me in this latter film, he's good. But I think this is the best I've seen him at in a long time. This flick is no 'Cape Fear' with Mitchum or Deniro, but it grabs you and holds on pretty good. At least it did me. It was much better than what I expected it to be.
Saw an 'okay' Hopkins' film on Hulu not all that long ago :
"The Virtuoso" 2021
Pretty good cast and story. But didn't see enough of Anthony.
...watching another Hopkins's film tonight....
"Solace" 2015
So far it looks good, MORE Hopkins in it. Only cast worth noting(so far) is Hopkins, Jeffrey Morgan, Xander Berkley and Abbey Cornish.
Can't help noticing these are 2 films Hopkins and Cornish have done together. She was in 2011's "Sucker Punch" and 2006's "A Good Year" with Crowe, Finney, Marion Cotillard and other good actors.
There's something else she's been in...but can't seem to remember what it is. She's pretty good. She's doing pretty well working one and one with Hopkins right now, in 'Solace'.
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Post by wireman on Jan 4, 2022 13:48:55 GMT
Poison Ivy (Drew Barrymore) 1992
A Lolita type film and not as good as Lolita but it's not too bad either. This is probably Drew Barrymore's first movie where she's trying to shed the little kid image from her previous films and she's very good playing the home wrecker. Tom Skerritt and Drew Barrymore make this worth watching. Young Leo DiCaprio has a small role in this movie too.
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Post by osnafrank on Jan 4, 2022 20:11:16 GMT
Don't breathe 2
The movie is entirely different from part 1. We got to see a different side of the blind man in this movie. Its not an continuation or a direct sequel of the first part. It gave a look at Stephen Lang's acting skills and the little girl deserves a ton of credit!
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Post by wolf on Jan 4, 2022 23:00:34 GMT
Don't breathe 2
The movie is entirely different from part 1. We got to see a different side of the blind man in this movie. Its not an continuation or a direct sequel of the first part. It gave a look at Stephen Lang's acting skills and the little girl deserves a ton of credit! I'd like to see that. He was great in the first movie!
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Post by wolf on Jan 16, 2022 1:08:42 GMT
Watching Adrian Lyne's "Jacob's Ladder" again tonight. Watched it last night, but was tired and fell asleep, missing the ending. Great cast. Love this surreal deep trip. Pretty awesome 70's soundtrack too. Everything is very fitting. Still like it so much better than the recent remake, Cap docpain2 .
And like lil Sis Diz said the other day, Where is Deviancy ? Haven't seen you in a few days, bud. Hope everything is alright. You're missed when you're not around.
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Post by Deviancy on Jan 16, 2022 23:55:51 GMT
Hope everything is alright. You're missed when you're not around. Electric company messed up the cable in the neighborhood on Thursday. I was watching the new Ghostbusters film before the outage, didn't get to finish, but was good up until the outage. I'll give it another go later in the week. So the latest movie I've watched since I went MIA, Despicable Me 3. It was fun but I was hoping a few of the minions would have still been purple after the second, they wore all black and had Robert Smith hair, which I imagine was intentional since one of the Minions has a green eye and a blue eye, and that's the creators paying tribute to Bowie, and most Bowie fans like Robert Smith... Minions: The Rise Of Gru is due out soon, should have been out already but Covid is keeping it on the shelf till this summer I think, should be fun.
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Post by wolf on Jan 17, 2022 0:13:53 GMT
Hope everything is alright. You're missed when you're not around. Electric company messed up the cable in the neighborhood on Thursday. I was watching the new Ghostbusters film before the outage, didn't get to finish, but was good up until the outage. I'll give it another go later in the week. So the latest movie I've watched since I went MIA, Despicable Me 3. It was fun but I was hoping a few of the minions would have still been purple after the second, they wore all black and had Robert Smith hair, which I imagine was intentional since one of the Minions has a green eye and a blue eye, and that's the creators paying tribute to Bowie, and most Bowie fans like Robert Smith... Minions: The Rise Of Gru is due out soon, should have been out already but Covid is keeping it on the shelf till this summer I think, should be fun. Glad you're back online, dude. I'll have to check all that out when i can. 😊
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Post by docpain2 on Jan 17, 2022 11:48:32 GMT
Watching Adrian Lyne's "Jacob's Ladder" again tonight. Watched it last night, but was tired and fell asleep, missing the ending. Great cast. Love this surreal deep trip. Pretty awesome 70's soundtrack too. Everything is very fitting. Still like it so much better than the recent remake, Cap docpain2 .
And like lil Sis Diz said the other day, Where is Deviancy ? Haven't seen you in a few days, bud. Hope everything is alright. You're missed when you're not around. I got through about 20 minutes of the remake and turned it off.
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Post by wolf on Jan 17, 2022 21:08:44 GMT
Watching Adrian Lyne's "Jacob's Ladder" again tonight. Watched it last night, but was tired and fell asleep, missing the ending. Great cast. Love this surreal deep trip. Pretty awesome 70's soundtrack too. Everything is very fitting. Still like it so much better than the recent remake, Cap docpain2 .
And like lil Sis Diz said the other day, Where is Deviancy ? Haven't seen you in a few days, bud. Hope everything is alright. You're missed when you're not around. I got through about 20 minutes of the remake and turned it off. I did stick with it and watch it all the way through, unfortunately. It never got better, like I had hoped it would.🙂
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Post by Deviancy on Jan 18, 2022 23:47:21 GMT
Still haven't gotten around to the new Ghostbusters... and now Scream is out, not that I'll go the theater to see it, just wait till it hits digital which these days takes like a month.
But I want them to finally kill Sydney. She was in the first four, that's too long for the "final girl" to last in a slasher franchise.
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Post by osnafrank on Jan 20, 2022 20:20:42 GMT
Venom: Let there be Carnage.
This movie was funny, exciting, in some ways suspenseful and continued marvels playful character Venom. The actors had on screen chemistry that fit their characters relationships.
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Post by Deviancy on Jan 22, 2022 2:08:21 GMT
Finally watched Ghostbusters Afterlife.
Huge improvement over that lousy reboot, its a really fun film. One issue, Finhard has to break out of the cage they have him in, he's always the geeky teen in every film or show he's in. Need to prove he's versatile sooner than later or he'll be another Anthony Michael Hall or Corey Feldman. I'm pretty sure he's the only one from Stranger Things who has the potential for a long career if he breaks out of that mold, the others, no chance in hell. But most kid actors don't have long shelf lives, its rare when they transcend. Like poor Dakota Fanning, very talented child actor, now she's pretty irrelevant.
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Post by wolf on Jan 26, 2022 22:48:06 GMT
I'm just so fascinated by stories & films that are set in bayous or swamps. It started last summer when I read Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. Good Wes Craven flick, and a great cast. DC comics came out with "Swamp Thing", and Marvel answered that with "The Man Thing"...both pretty cool stories. Not sure about the origins of "Swamp Thing" (in the comic books, I didn't read those ones much), but "The Man Thing was created by a mixture/combining of the 'Super Soldier Serum' that created Captain American, and the oozy muck of the swamp +. Cool icky stuff. 😄
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Post by wolf on Jan 26, 2022 22:51:57 GMT
Venom: Let there be Carnage.
This movie was funny, exciting, in some ways suspenseful and continued marvels playful character Venom. The actors had on screen chemistry that fit their characters relationships. I WANT to see that.
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Post by wolf on Jan 26, 2022 23:22:59 GMT
Last night before I fell asleep I got to watch a good one on TCM. "The Strangler" 1964 Starring Victor Buono as the Strangler (of "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane", and Adam West TV Batman's 'King Tut'. I always liked him) Ellen Corby and others. Was pleasantly surprised to see a quite young 'James B. Sikking' (from 'Hill Street Blues', 'Star Trek III', and plenty other places) as a Police sketch artist. A good watch to go to sleep to. Didn't fall asleep during it though. Murder psych thriller drama.
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Post by osnafrank on Feb 3, 2022 20:36:20 GMT
Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel was just amazing. It was fully packed with action,humour and everything one can expect from a MCU movie.
The cast was brilliant, and the cat was hilarious.
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