What are you watching?

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* Recommended viewing. :buzz: :entertaining:

<<<>>> Warning! Contains blood (fake blood), war sequences (fake scenes). ...So not to everyone's taste; like the ladies for example, and men with low-level stamina (sensitivity).
And remember; it's only a movie, a depiction, a decapitation, a story (fiction), about .... 'The Flowers of War'.
...See it for yourself, and decide of your own outcome. :)
 
Bob:

On Saturday with some friends I saw, "Catch me If You can." A good movie, and for Spielberg a small one. They make the lead character very likable, but in real life he was not so nice. He stole from hard working "little" people. Here, in the movie they only showing him ripping off large companies...and have ties with his family he never had. I very much though enjoyed the movie.

The I saw Spielberg's Lincoln (a coincidence ). A nicely made piece of history but it did not draw me in very much. I enjoyed it but would give three out of four stars and it is not a movie I would see again. Daniel Day Lewis is the real reason for watching.
 
Lefisc said:
Bob:

On Saturday with some friends I saw, "Catch me If You can". A good movie, and for Spielberg a small one. They make the lead character very likable, but in real life he was not so nice. He stole from hard working "little" people. Here, in the movie they only showing him ripping off large companies...and have ties with his family he never had. I very much though enjoyed the movie.
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I love that flick Barry; with Leonardo and Tom. :cool: ...I don't know much about the real story, so I just look at it as pure entertainment without stressing myself too much. :)

The I saw Spielberg's Lincoln (a coincidence ). A nicely made piece of history but it did not draw me in very much. I enjoyed it but would give three out of four stars and it is not a movie I would see again. Daniel Day Lewis is the real reason for watching.
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I agree with you; for Daniel and Tommy's performances. ...As for that snapshot of American history; well, I wasn't there and I just look at politics today in America, with the Senate and all that jazz...
Today's telling me more about the state of our country than yesterday! ...And our set of values regarding equality and 'exceptional' people (American people in general).

I know; 'Lincoln' is just a film, a fiction, an interpretation of someone's own vision (director & writer & the gang) based on real facts.
Politics are based on someone's own agenda with power. ...The people are actually the ones who elect those in power (legally, democratically, or not). :)
And no matter if things make sense or not, at the end only the ones in power have the final say! ...Not truly the people, unfortunately.

The laws mean nothing if they are not abode by and fairly imposed upon; by the people, and for the people.
...That'll be the day!
 
Last night I re-watched the Extended Cut; the longer 2D version (by eight more minutes) of this Blu-ray flick ::

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I appreciate more and more the audio soundtrack (musical score and sound effects).
And those Zs are even nastier and faster! ...Watch out! :derf:

Of many flicks where you have to leave your brain at the door, zombie flicks are some of my favorites.
Why? Because they're usually real funny. :D
...This one is serious though, I mean those zombies are not joking around! :S :badnews::facepalm::whoa: :afraid: :dontgetcocky::shocking:
They'll climb real fast over anything to bite you! You'd better get a good camouflage suit!
 
Bob,

I like “small movies.” I don’t have a great, perfect definition of what one is. Generally they are characters studies that don’t have a huge cast or expensive settings. Driving Miss Daisy would be an example, but so would the Shawshank Redemption. And so would Steel Magnolias. Sometimes I hear people refer to some of these as “chick flicks.” Of course on these sites, the big, loud, action movies are often reviewed.

For a while, in the 1970s or so, TV made great small movies including Brian’s Song and the Autobiography of Jane Pittman, but soon these movies began to feature less young stars and more older movie stars in a disease of the week movie.

Last night I saw a small movie from 2004 entitled, “In Good Company.” This is a story of a young exec, Topher Grace, at age 26, takes over a Magazine (something like Sports Illustrated) and tries to bring it into the present. He meets, competes and eventually admires Dennis Quaid a man twice his age who the company has begun to marginalized. Of course, nothing is easy and Grace falls for Quaid’s daughter, Scarlett Johannsen.

Good premise, bad finish, bad acting. Grace plays the role he played on TV and did not have the depth nor scope to show his character developing. It was everyone else that carried you through the movie. Of course all the evil things that Grace did were fixed by the end and that is why I am writing this.

You see Topher wants to update the magazine and make it more computer centric, what we today would call “electronic.” Grace saw that as the wave of the future and the only way you could sell advertising. So he had to fire some people who could not do this. In the end Quaid wins out and returns to the mag to just print. He rehires the “old” people and Topher is not just fired, he is left a shattered person. And everyone cheers that the old guys were right!

Except Topher was right! A decade after this movie was made, they all would have been out of work with the magazine closing! It was only a happy ending for a minute until you realize that the world has really changed.
 
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Barry, everybody, this is an appropriate flick for the days we are living now in America (shutdown). ...This is it!

* BUT! If you take life seriously, this ain't no joke; you might want to watch the American news instead. ;)
 
Gravity

This movie is misnamed. It takes place in Outer Space and should be called “Lack of Gravity!”

Simply, this is the most interesting and compelling visual storytelling I have seen since 2001: A Space Odyssey. This movie is nothing like 2001, except for the fact that dialogue is not an essential part of the movie and its visual design tells the story. Quest for Fire was bit liked that too.

The movie opens with a nearly 20 minute uninterrupted, incredibly beautiful, carefully detailed, sequence of astronauts, including George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, orbiting the Earth and conducting a spacewalk. Everything you need to know about the characters, the plot and the setting is filled in here. This scene alone should win the film a dozen Oscars.

Then all hell breaks loose.
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That’s it from me; I won’t tell you the rest. You gotta see this movie! I saw it in Imax surround sound with 3D and you should too. It draws you in and keeps you involved. And the movie knows when to stop, it’s only 90 minutes.

George Clooney playing an astronaut on his last mission, is perfect for this role. He is likable and a you root for him from the beginning. Sandra Bullock lucks out and gets a role where she can be taken seriously and she effectively stretches into this role. Literally at times.

This is a four star movie
 
I'm going to make the effort of getting to my local IMAX theater to see it:'Gravity' @ 3D

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I loved it! ...Everything in and out (the flick, and the technical aspects; visuals, sounds, music, ...). ...And directed by that Frenchman; Luc Besson.
 
I saw the movie last night in 3D AVX. The picture quality was superb the sound on the other hand was too loud and the subs were way too much a part of the sound systems. I'm blaming that on my theater although the people that I went with said this was the movie and not theater. For me that was the first time for AVX. I found it mildly interesting members of my group were not as kind. I found it slow at times and there was never much question how it was going to end.
This is my take on the movie to each to his own.


Lefisc said:
Gravity

This movie is misnamed. It takes place in Outer Space and should be called “Lack of Gravity!”

Simply, this is the most interesting and compelling visual storytelling I have seen since 2001: A Space Odyssey. This movie is nothing like 2001, except for the fact that dialogue is not an essential part of the movie and its visual design tells the story. Quest for Fire was bit liked that too.

The movie opens with a nearly 20 minute uninterrupted, incredibly beautiful, carefully detailed, sequence of astronauts, including George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, orbiting the Earth and conducting a spacewalk. Everything you need to know about the characters, the plot and the setting is filled in here. This scene alone should win the film a dozen Oscars.

Then all hell breaks loose.
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That’s it from me; I won’t tell you the rest. You gotta see this movie! I saw it in Imax surround sound with 3D and you should too. It draws you in and keeps you involved. And the movie knows when to stop, it’s only 90 minutes.

George Clooney playing an astronaut on his last mission, is perfect for this role. He is likable and a you root for him from the beginning. Sandra Bullock lucks out and gets a role where she can be taken seriously and she effectively stretches into this role. Literally at times.

This is a four star movie
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Big B said:
I saw the movie last night in 3D AVX. The picture quality was superb the sound on the other hand was too loud and the subs were way too much a part of the sound systems. I'm blaming that on my theater although the people that I went with said this was the movie and not theater. For me that was the first time for AVX. I found it mildly interesting members of my group were not as kind. I found it slow at times and there was never much question how it was going to end.
This is my take on the movie to each to his own.
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That is what I've heard the most about IMAX Theaters and 3D; picture is excellently cool but the audio is generally way too loud (overwhelming and troubling).

Besides, in space you can't hear no one screaming.

* I found most movies (blockbusters and all) are poorly recorded audio wise.
The music is always the best aspect, and the rest has no real value other than being manufactured and irritating.
Only very few intelligent movies have an audio soundtrack that don't distract from the on-screen action and with music that perfectly complements it.
Most Hollywood stuff don't!
 
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* A good flick (thriller) with good acting performances and with a down-to-earth motion picture soundtrack.
It's a more subdued type of movie; audio and video wise. ...Good. :) ... More relaxing, much less stressful.
...Like also the one from post #352 if you like. French people have better taste, and Eric Serra's music score is cool, like always in all of Luc Besson's films.
 
...And not just IMAX theaters.

* The more I hear about 'Gravity' the more I wanna go to space. ...And see and hear for myself how accurate a motion picture science-fiction film is and close to real-life's dimensional 3D reality.

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...Science versus virtual reality (fiction). ...Not a sound, complete silence, and total freedom (floating space gravity).
 
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