What are you watching?

mdkim said:
Kev:

That show is a drug. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Good luck managing your time until you watch the finale :eyebrow:.
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Ha! Just had my brother & his wife with their family stay for easter. They put me onto it saying it was a great show. So now have all 5 series
 
sharkmouth said:
Breaking Bad. Season One, episode one, never seen it!
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Having started with season one (via NetFlix), I saw the intrigue, but questioned if I really wanted to go that far into the dark side. Questioning others who had seen the entire series, I heard that it was worthwhile. I did watch the rest, to the finale, and must say it is extremely well done and probably among the best of genre out there , shines a laser light on a segment of modern society I knew littile about, but is a reality throughout our country. If you think it is valuable to be informed, watch it.
 
MtnHam said:
Having started with season one (via NetFlix), I saw the intrigue, but questioned if I really wanted to go that far into the dark side. Questioning others who had seen the entire series, I heard that it was worthwhile. I did watch the rest, to the finale, and must say it is extremely well done and probably among the best of genre out there , shines a laser light on a segment of modern society I knew littile about, but is a reality throughout our country. If you think it is valuable to be informed, watch it.
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Yes you're right. But, it's also worthwhile solely for the performances and emotional drama/escape. A moral message or spotlighting an issue are great, but, without a compelling underlying story and/or actors they would be lost. Breaking Bad is up there with the Sopranos (maybe even better).
 
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Yep! That one
First, I am disappointed that there aren’t many comedies out there that are funny. They are silly, crude, shocking but are neither clever nor funny. (Same is true on TV).

The Heat was a lightweight, silly movie with unbelievable characters and situations.

I have never been a big fan of Sandra Bullock, although a few of her “light” movies, 28 days and Hope Floats were “sit throughable” and pleasant.

But I don’t think she ever can develop a character on screen and make them convincing or real.
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And one more big think. Bullock was always a cute and attractive performer whose looks lead to these sort of parts. But you can see the plastic surgery and what it has done to her face. She is now unpleasant to look at and I squirm a bit watching close ups. So many other actresses have done this and it is painful
 
Hi gang:

I was thinking about the bottom half of this post and then I realized how times have changed, and what I call an “old” movie was.

For the first half of my life, movies would hit the theaters and be around a long time. They deem the first run theater in Manhattan and then spend the next few months going to the second run the theaters in the local boroughs and then second and even third run theaters where I could see a movie for a dollar. So I had half a year to see a movie. Old movies were rare, you got to see them in revival movie houses on occasion, and that was about it. Of course old movies will often shown on TV but they will always pan and scan and edited and broken up for commercials. You couldn’t have the real movie theater experience at home at that time.

I guess videotape recorders change things a bit because movies did not seem to last as long in the theaters, and in my neighborhood by the mid-1980s the third run theaters were gone, the second run theaters or fading and the first run theaters had all become quads. Even then, the movie theater experience was less than it was as theaters got smaller.

I was just going to post about some of the comments made a couple weeks ago about how we all receive movies. Of course many of us still go to the theaters that are out there, but they are in general much smaller than it used to be and that gigantic movie experience can only be experienced in IMAX now. With HD and great surroundsound we come very close to or even exceed what the modern movie theater experience is/

Many of us including me, have cable and get a lot of movies there.
Many of us use Netflix or similar service to order movies. Of course Netflix can be the actual DVDs or Blu-rays, or they could be online.
Many of us use red box
I also like to buy used Blu-rays. But we have all found a way to fit our lifestyle and be very happy with it although they may not be the same for each one of us. And many of us have really great home theaters that give us a great movie theater experience.

Frankly in my wildest dreams I never thought that this would have happened. So I guess I call an old movie “old” when it’s not in the theaters anymore and these days that’s a month or two.

And sadly, with no lines at the theaters, the awful popcorn, the uncomfortable seats, people texting, people talking, a half an hour of coming attractions and now even commercials, the distance to the bathroom, I mostly prefer seeing my movies at home.
 
Hi Barry,

Great comedies nowadays are very few indeed. We live in a new era; the CGI effects and the big kaddaboom.
The days of Charlie Chaplin, silent movies, intelligent and funny comedies are upon us. Today's comedies are parodies, extreme overboard simple and boring banalities.The good funny stuff is from yesteryears.

Sandra Bullock I don't know her much, have only seen her in few boring flicks. And her expression seems to be always the same. Her best acting films I guess I missed those.
As for her plastic surgery I know nothing.

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Times always change, but many things remain the same inside.

I used to be a regular at the theater (public cinema); but no more now. I could go back if I wanted to, but the passion switched environment, that's all; I'm still the same.

I will always remember black and white tube TVs and all the B&W stuff I watched on them; from the 50s and 60s. ...No VCRs back then.

I bought my first high-end VCR ($1,500) back in the mid 80s (I was late to the party because the outdoors were still my moving pictures).
But I was a movie lover way before I was born and still are.

Once in a Blue Moon I can check @ Imax (last I saw was 'Gravity' in 3D), but rarity is more custom.

I can write an encyclopedia about cinema, but time is short right now. ...Blus are where I'm mostly at, at this point in time; after travelling few more collections. ...All in the purpose of exploring my hobby (love of the moving pictures, photography, exposure, and music). ...Even in the silent era there was a piano player, and he/she was very important.

The true theaters are the ones which resemble museums; with several great flicks playing one after the other, in the same room. ...Classics, obscures, international, ...the bests!
Cineplexes are like smartphones; surfing grounds for fast quick thrills; quickly fading away in the eyes of smart viewers.

We are approaching May 2014, and soon 1,000 posts. It don't mean much at all, only that few people love movies and are aware of the times they live on.
Cinema is a reflection, a social evolution, a study of them. ...It can link to a dream, a philosophical view, a social statement, ...and with the time attached to it, to the director's motivation, his message, its emotional impact, its effects on the senses. ...Laughing, crying, meditating, thinking, scary ...
But it always reflects an idea, a social ideology, a culture, a mode. ...Like music.

Some women make the best popcorn in the world; and they are close, very close. ...Not at those cineplex joints.
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