Thread: What are you watching?

Last night ::

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* Luv it!

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Last night, revisited ::

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Late last night; the 3D version, meh.

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The 2D version.

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* 1944 (B&W) - Not 'Lawrence of Arabia', far from it, but still better than the Blu-ray movie that goes by the same title (2009).

Barry, you're still around?

Last night ::

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* You've got to be kidding me! ...What a flick!
- Ennio Morricone scored it (music composer).

Yes,mi am still here. I am writing a book and have a Monday deadline. The wolverine movie is a great coincidence because the book is on Marvel comics. The movie was okay, I liked the train sequence but that's about it. I haven't had the time to see a full movie, so I have been watching Star Trel tng episodes. Can you tell me about the Uninvied movie?

Originally Posted by Lefisc

Yes,mi am still here. I am writing a book and have a Monday deadline. The wolverine movie is a great coincidence because the book is on Marvel comics. The movie was okay, I liked the train sequence but that's about it. I haven't had the time to see a full movie, so I have been watching Star Trel tng episodes. Can you tell me about the Uninvied movie?

1. Barry, it's great that you are still alive and well!
2. Writing a book? ...Awesome! ...What about Barry?
3. 'The Wolverine' -- No thank you very much.

4. 'The Uninvited' (1944) - It's an older flick, passe, unimaginative (depending on who's looking), and simply from another ghost world.
- Read that particular review; I agree in part with it (by clicking on the picture cover, you know ...), but at the end it's just too outdated and not turning any major wheels in my brain. ...Unless some people can go back in time during that era then the decors and all that jazz might get you into some transcendental/subliminal atmosphere. ...It might work for you; we're all different in our movie DNA's viewing.

Be well, be good.

Last night ::

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I listened to this last night (and watched it too) ::

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And the night before I revisited this ::

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* I will probably die watching some cinematography like this and listening to some musical score like that.

I have been very, very busy, but I did get Doc Martin Season 6 today and watched the first episode!!!

Thx for stopping by Barry; you just brought some light into the world of my dark solitude.

And thanx too for the PM.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Very interesting movie

They really don’t make movies like this anymore. I just “Mary Poppins” on Blu ray this morning. I totally enjoyed it, everyone was just great.

But I understand the complaints about the TV version of the Sound of Music. You just can’t replace Julie Andrews so easily.

I am anxious to see “Saving Mr. Banks” a new movie about the creation of the Mary Poppins movie,

I watched the 3D version last night :::

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* It was totally awesome; great colorful animation flick! ...Goes well with the first. ...I'm a happy camper.

Hi! I am still on my book project, but I did see an episode of Star Trek the Next Gen last night, "Q Who?" funny and fun. I had wanted to go to the movies today and see "Saving Mr. Banks" but no time, darn it. I make it a point to see the "smaller movies" drama or comedy in the theatre because they really do need our support (and money) to continue.

I revisited this flick last night ::

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* That's a great one to revisit (replay value), and that liftoff scene (played at reference level) is something/shaking else!
~ Sound: dts High Definition/Resolution Master Audio @ 48kHz/24-bit (5.1 surround).

Last night, reintegration ::

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The Andrea Bocelli Concert!









Show starts soon!!!

Devils vs Lightning, while listening to Fourplay's Snowbound. We are getting about 10" of snow tonight.

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What can be said about this flick that wasn't already been said.
The year was 1980 (the film was made in 1982, and released in 1983); the year is now 2013 (soon 2014).
Cocaine is still a drug, Cuba has a new president (Raoul Castro), Miami has beautiful sandy beaches and gorgeous looking women, Brian De Palma is still alive, so is Oliver Stone and Al Pacino. And I love these three guys.

Film making is more CGI nowadays, and in America the dream is still well alive.

I first saw that flick on its first released date at the theater (in Vancouver - Granville and Broadway).
And I remember it just like it was yesterday.
At the end of the movie I was feeling numb, and walked out of the theater in a slow-motion kind of way.
It was slightly raining outside and you could see the red lights behind the cars reflecting on the wide wet Granville street.
...An eerie feeling, inside and out.
The red was like shining blood, and it was like an hallucinating trip, but without having taken any acid.

Very late last night (or very early this morning); compensation time (another revisit - & in 2D) ::

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Peter O'Toole just passed away (last Saturday), so in his honor I revisited his best film ::

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Methinks that it did not age so well. ... 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'

* In a similarly related vein, 'The Wild Bunch' still has a lot of "impacting" appeal.

I watched this last night ::

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* If you wanna know what I thought of it, just ask me.
I'm a communicator, not an empty reviewer all alone.

I recently got the discs to Doc Martin season 6. It's a british show I enjoy a lot. I saw a couple last night.

--I watched this one last night ::

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* Not to the same caliber as the first one, unfortunately.

It's a shame; Hollywood directors are only doing sequels and series! ...More and more that is what's going on and I just don't like it at all.
It means that money is the only game in town and that cinematic creativity and artistic imagination is no more; or very little, to the point of getting non-existent (extinction), of no more value to the true cineastes. I'm very saddened by this because music and movie making are true art forms, like painting, sculpture, etc.

But then, it is my fault; I don't have to subscribe, I'm free to choose the true talent, the art, the emotional impact, the vibrating chords inside my soul. I guess I'm influenceable like most people; I got to get back on track with my true innards.

OI hated the first movie and I am not a fan of Nick Cage.

Moneyball on blu.

This is another bad movie with a good intent. And the ending defies the movie. First off, the Moneyball team, Oakland has not won anything in ten years! But a the end, Money ball shows a card saying that the Boston Red Sox won the world series adapting the principals of Moneyball. This ridiculous because Bosto had the second highest payroll in the League in 2004 and still has a high one. What Moneyball? The Boston Payroll was over $125 million.

Originally Posted by Lefisc

This is another bad movie with a good intent. And the ending defies the movie. First off, the Moneyball team, Oakland has not won anything in ten years! But a the end, Money ball shows a card saying that the Boston Red Sox won the world series adapting the principals of Moneyball. This ridiculous because Bosto had the second highest payroll in the League in 2004 and still has a high one. What Moneyball? The Boston Payroll was over $125 million.

Agreed I like the movie but they made Oakland out to be some kinda powerhouse when I believe that year the yanks whooped em in the playoffs. And they were out in the first round .
Boston was a super high payroll but I think the premise was they started bringing in high on base percentage guys. But that's still not really "money ball"
I think the Tampa bay rays are a better example of a money ball team and do a better job of it than Oakland does. And they actually been to a World Series this century. Think Oakland won one and lost one back in late 80's early 90's but haven't been back since.

Originally Posted by Lefisc

O I hated the first movie and I am not a fan of Nick Cage.

Ok Barry, fair enough.
Me I'm not in love with the first one ('Kick-Ass'), but it is still better than its sequel; that's all what I'm sayin'.

I started to switch gear last night ::

I meet Mr. Scorsese once.

At the New York Film festival a decade ago he introduced a new, remastered and extended print of "the Good, The Bad and the Ugly." He is a great filmmaker and boy does he know a lot about old movies. he was just fun to listen. I'd love to havehim over to the house and just watch a movie with him and listen to what he would have to say.

Originally Posted by Lefisc

I meet Mr. Scorsese once.

At the New York Film festival a decade ago he introduced a new, remastered and extended print of "the Good, The Bad and the Ugly." He is a great filmmaker and boy does he know a lot about old movies. he was just fun to listen. I'd love to havehim over to the house and just watch a movie with him and listen to what he would have to say.

Marty is a true cinema aficionado, like so many more movie directors also are.
...Not perfect though (we all made mistakes), but very passionate indeed, just like a kid opening a Christmas present.

I never met him, but read a lot about him, and watched several videos on his life, ambitions, passions, passed accomplishments, and all that cinema jazz.

Me too I would love to spend a week or a month with him and talked mainly about movies (& all that cinema 'obscura', & stuff that has never been released, but viewed by very few).
Because through films (moving pictures, documentaries, live music concerts, ...) we have all the world's eyes, vision, evolution ...

I saw the Wolverine movie last night, the extended version, which was not in 3D.

A common lament about these movies from comic book fans is that people judge the character and the comic not by reading the actual stories, but only by watching the movie. I likied the first hour but was not thrilled with the second. I think Jackman gets the character right, but the writing has let me done in his two Wolverine movies.

Hugh Jackman is a fine actor and will have played the Wolverine in four X-men movie and three Wolverine movies (with a cameo in X-Men first class) Both Sean Connery and Roger Moore played Bond seven times, so he is tyied with them. (Radcliff played Harry Potter in eight movies, he may be the record holder for recent “A” movie). But is Jackman the Sean Connery fo the Wolverine movies? That is there will be several Wolverines after him, will be the standard like Connery is?

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Barry, I haven't watched the Wolverine movies but the main reason I like the X-Men series is because of Jackman. He does a great job as Wolverine. I think that it's time to pass the torch to someone else now just like in the Bond series. As much as we might enjoy a particular actor, I think changing things up keeps the series fresh. Another example for me would be the Bourne movies.

Yeah, same here, I get bored seeing the same actors performing the same routine over and over, all in the name of Hollywood bank machine.
Hollywood is obsessed with what everyone wants on this planet, money; and sequels and series and trilogies+++ and remakes abound like a bad virus spreading fast and deadly.
...Fast & Furious (#7).

One of the best aspects in life (what's fun about it) is the diversification; new faces, new talents, new energy, imagination, creativity, ...
...In movies like in everything else. But the reality is not like that; values are monetary, financial profits. ...Very unfortunately, and the true art (cinema) is dying (CGI computer recreations, ka-da-boom sounds, etc.).
They don't make no more Lawrence of Arabia, or The Bridge on the River Kwai.

By the way, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint & Emma Watson were in seven Harry Potter movies; the seventh one was in two parts.
* The Harry Potter's writer is a nice young lady, just like you and me.

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Here's just another example of a remake among a multitude more (2013 American remake & 2003 Korean original) ::

Agreed Bob.

We need more of this:




and less of this:

Yes, 'Amelie', one thousand miles per hour! flick!

By the way, can't see Amelie's poster. ...True. ...Fixed now.

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Bob and Doug,

I respect your opinion, but no, they were in eight separate movies. The last two movies were based on one book. Another example: For Your Eyes Only, a Bond Book had three movies made from it: FYEO, A View to A Kill and A Quantum of Solace. We don’t say three separate movies. And, technically, Lord of the Rings was one book, and we don’t say it was one movie. Oh yes, The Hobbit, another three movies, was just one book.

I am currently writing a second book on Marvel, this one to be published, I believe, in April. Doug, I think the Wolverine makes a betting “supporting” or ensemble character than a headliner. Jackman does it well, but the character is not supposed to age and he is! But I bet he is offered a lot of money to continue and I’d take it too.

Sadly, these days, movies are so expensive they cannot be about art, the are only about money. Every time a movie does well, Cars, Matrix, Fast and Furious, Anchorman, Lord of the Rings, etc. there are uneventful mostly boring sequels (which are more often badly done and disguised remakes) Yet the public goes and sees them!

Yes, but Barry; 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' is specifically enumerated as Part One and Part Two. ... The movie.
It was simply too long for the theater venues; so they simply split it in two parts. ...Same as 'Kill Bill' Vol.1 and Vol.2

LOTR (EE) is 12 hours; no way you can make a single movie that long! ...The trilogy for home (at the theater it was 10 hours).

I fully agree with you on your last paragraph.

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Another thing: To pay an actor $20 million dollars for acting in a single movie tells us some' about the art direction of cinema today, and yesterday too. ...Tomorrow we'll never know.
It is very sad that us, the public, we are buying into this 'wave'. But it is what it is. ...And it ain't no art at all, just dysfunctional money allocation, financial and false values mismanaged in a world that just tries to go too fast in the wrong direction; without soul, without heart, without creativity, without intelligent imagination and beneficial development (evolution) for our entire societies. ...Simply put; wrong life's values.
Hey, this is just entertainment!

- "What did you do with your time on Earth; what job?"
- "I was an actor/actress. ...I made people cry or/and laugh, and anything emotional between. ...I entertained people, through the movies."

...Like a musician, a singer, an orchestra does through music and songs.

Nothing's wrong with that; it's up to us to select the material that's good for each one of us. And depending of our age and education and personal "levitation" in our own life's perception along our own journey here on planet Earth; it varies a whole lot. ...From extremely violent films to very peaceful ones. ...And from pure fiction to absolute reality.

P.S. Btw Barry; you didn't have to mention that you respect our opinions. ...If you didn't you wouldn't be here telling us about it.

I don’t mind hearing how much an actor makes, I’s a distribution of wealth.

Movies cost no more at a theatre based on an actor’s salary. He is most often these days the draw. If he doesn’t get it, the studio does, it not refunded to us. But that is capitalism, democracy; no one is forcing the studios to pay him that fee. Hey, we routinely get movies now making nearly one billion dollars. Would the Avengers have made 1.5 billion without Robert Downey who got $50 million? And who would have kept that money if he had worked for free?

Same thing for Baseball players, no one is forcing the owners to pay that munt. And if you think tickets prices would go down if they were paid less, you are wrong. The only thing that will bring down prices is when fans refuse to pay for them.

And, Harry Potter was always planned to have a two movie conclusion. Part one and Two were even used by Shakespeare for two separate plays!!!!! And the actors, directors, cameraman etc had two separate contracts for these movies. Look up Silkind clause!!

Most important, have a happy and healthy holiday!!!!! It's been a fun year talking to you about movies and TV!!!!!!!!

Robert got $50 million for his small role in 'The Avengers'!

How come aren't we all actors/actresses? ...Or golfers, or footballers, or basketballers, or hockeyers, or tennis players, ...

Because some of us are musicians, or music lovers, or gardeners, or cooks, or crooks.

Merry Christmas Barry & Happy New Year!

It wasn't really a small role. I believe he got $20 and a percentage. he spoke about this, it is not a rumor.

Marry Christmas, Harry New Year! And let's both become super-heroes in the Next Avengers movies. hell, I'll do it for half of what Downey got.

---- ...Yep, we'll both do (for half of Robert's wages). ...Iron Man.

* Batman (Christian Bale) refused a $20 million offer to play only 2 minutes in 'Batman 4'!

Let's move to Hollywood. ...And apply for a new job; like Batman, Iron Man, Spiderman, Superman, Thor, Green Hornet, Green Lantern, X-Men, Wolverine, Fantastic-4, Man with no Face, ...any comic superhero with superpower.

I am guessing that Bale could turn down that offer because he had another role lined up. But I am free! I'll work for 1/5 that

U-571

Someone referenced this movie and I saw it last night. Great visual and one of the best DTS_HD soundtracks I have heard. But it's a bad movie. It borrowed so many cliches from other sub-mariner movies (and Star trek) that I felt I had seen it before.