YOU BEEN HERE A WEEK YET ?
Going to the Movies: past, present, future.
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YOU BEEN HERE A WEEK YET ?
It's a great musical and would make my top five to ten easily. The only way I could stop the list from swelling was to limit it to my top choice.
Fiddler has one of my all time favorite scenes, the bottle dance. Powerful stuff.
Probably at number two for me.
Absolutely. It's up there with me too. So is Gandhi.
:cheers:The rest I can't remember tonight. Maybe later.
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seriously, though - Judgement at Nuremberg - absolutely amazing
Spencer Tracy
Burt Lancaster
Richard Widmark
Maximillian Schell
Marlene Dietrich
Montgomery Clift
Judy Garland
and a pre-Hogan's Heroes Werner Klemperer
and a pre-Star Trek William Shatner
nominated for 11 academy awards
Spencer Tracy
Burt Lancaster
Richard Widmark
Maximillian Schell
Marlene Dietrich
Montgomery Clift
Judy Garland
and a pre-Hogan's Heroes Werner Klemperer
and a pre-Star Trek William Shatner
nominated for 11 academy awards
Shoot. I knew I was leaving something out.
War: Patton
Historical: A Man For All Seasons
Comedy: His Girl Friday
Horror: The Shining
Romance: Sense and Sensibility
General: Shawshank, A Lion in Winter, Searching for Bobby Fisher, The Quiet Man, Witness; My Man Godfrey
War: Patton
Historical: A Man For All Seasons
Comedy: His Girl Friday
Horror: The Shining
Romance: Sense and Sensibility
General: Shawshank, A Lion in Winter, Searching for Bobby Fisher, The Quiet Man, Witness; My Man Godfrey
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Watched a movie on Netflix tonight that I really enjoyed, entitled Next. It stars Nick Cage and the premise is that he has the ability to see a short time into the future, except when it comes to a woman he hasn't met yet... There are a few moments of not too solid CGI, but the movie is engaging and I've never understood why it didn't do better and spawn sequels. Too bad. Cage, who can phone it in with the best of them, seems to be having a good time with his role. I wish someone would try it again. By the films end his power has grown a bit and the potential is hard to miss.
There are a few moments of not too solid CGI, but the movie is engaging and I've never understood why it didn't do better and spawn sequels. Too bad. Cage, who can phone it in with the best of them, seems to be having a good time with his role. I wish someone would try it again. By the films end his power has grown a bit and the potential is hard to miss.
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Will look into it. Sounds like a variation of Denzel's Deja Vu.Watched a movie on Netflix tonight that I really enjoyed, entitled Next. It stars Nick Cage and the premise is that he has the ability to see a short time into the future, except when it comes to a woman he hasn't met yet...
I like movies with a time displacement element.
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I like that one too. Both were entertaining, though Washington's has more immediacy and tempo going for it.
Watched the restored Lawrence of Arabia the other day on Netflix to remind myself of how much better movies can be without CGI enhancement and people with superpowers. Just tremendous acting, a great script and a genius director trying things that today's audiences likely wouldn't have the patience to appreciate, sadly, like the long shot across the desert that resolves with violence and the first meeting of Lawrence and Sherif Ali.
Brilliant. A movie that runs around three and a half hours and I never shifted in my seat or thought about the time.
Which one? Some call the second one by King and not Stanley Kubrick the original because the screen play is from the book.
De Niro's directorial debut - "A Bronx Tale" - love that film on so many levels; a child coming of age, family values, street values, its great sense of "neighborhood," of friendships gained, friendships lost, of first love, the many lessons learned, of change, and a great sound track, an era romanticized, the movie's sense of classic French, Italian, New York films, and on and on...
Kubrick. Nicholson is magnificent and the direction is spot on.
Haven't seen it. I love De Niro, especially the earlier work and films, but I burned out on New York as subject films for a while. Same thing happened to me with Tennessee Willliams' version of a strata of Southern culture...just one too many and I couldn't muster enthusiasm.
And the Martian, or whatever the title is for the Damon film coming up. It looks terrific and should have an upbeat ending.
The Spectre trailer looks great, considering the plot is not revealed.
Movies are the major way we American are exposed to myth. The plot of any story is mythological, and there are many movies today that introduce us to different ways of ordering our reality.
It's a bit like smuggling a book through customs. Once it enters the subconscious, we take off the silly wrapper and see it for what it is.
Our present myths are not compelling any more. That's why I salute well-made believable movies as well as big-budget fantasy flicks.
It's a bit like smuggling a book through customs. Once it enters the subconscious, we take off the silly wrapper and see it for what it is.
Our present myths are not compelling any more. That's why I salute well-made believable movies as well as big-budget fantasy flicks.
I think that movie is a minor classic. It's a great story.