BS: Seen any good movies lately?

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Dec 22 - 02:57 PM

Super anti hero=Black Adam

2021 Father Christmas returns has John Cleese in his latest appearance
I hope it wasn't his last film because it was awful.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Senoufou
Date: 30 Dec 22 - 02:10 AM

We watched our favourite film on Christmas Day - 'Oliver' the musical, with Ron Moody as Fagin. (We have the video). It always makes us laugh, but it is also very sad at times, for instance when the little Oliver sings 'Where is love?'. I think we're word perfect with the script. Our favourite moment is at the very end, when the Artful Dodger hands Fagin a wallet he's stolen, and Fagin asks, "Lined?" Brilliant film, with humour, pathos, excellent choreography, great songs and an insight into life in Victorian London.
Husband actually took our video over to his family in Africa and showed it to them on their TV. They could hardly believe how the orphans suffered in the Workhouse.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 28 Dec 22 - 11:01 AM

Black Adam, the latest DC comic movie is quite enjoyable. Good message in that the west does not come to the aid of a middle Eastern country until the people of that country get a powerful protector of their own. I wonder where they got that idea from !?!? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Dec 22 - 10:56 AM

The jokes in Glass Onion are involved intricate and clever. They are different from what I am used to.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Dec 22 - 01:12 AM

I found a good movie! 'The Last Laugh' with Chevy Chase, Richard Dreyfus and Andi McDowell. I'ts about old people. I know we shouldn't say old but instead we should say pre dead or previously lived but it is a funny movie.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 27 Dec 22 - 05:46 PM

‘Knives Out’ and ‘Glass Onion’, both starring Daniel Craig.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Amergin
Date: 27 Dec 22 - 05:39 PM

I have been enjoying alot of Pixar's offerings in the last year or so. They deal with things like grief, puberty, and depression very well.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Dec 22 - 03:58 PM

B movie romps can be fun too. 'Pottersville' is a nice twist on It's a wonderful life with a good cast with a few exceptions.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 27 Dec 22 - 03:45 PM

Michael Caine in The Eagle has Landed.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Dec 22 - 05:09 PM

Been working my way through my box set of Pink Panthers. Not now, Cato, you fool!

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 26 Dec 22 - 04:17 PM

Trading Places. On Christmas, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 27 Nov 22 - 11:49 AM

Django is great Bonzo. We can agree on that :-)

Just watched the Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special on Disney and it is the best Christmas show ever! Kevin Bacon's Christmas song is pretty good too :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 25 Nov 22 - 07:28 PM

Django unchained for the third time.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Nov 22 - 07:20 PM

Ahh it was good. It had plenty of health, humor and history.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 25 Nov 22 - 07:08 PM

We've just watched Topsy Turvy, all about Gilbert and Sullivan's angst-ridden progress towards their triumph which was The Mikado. As with any Mike Leigh film, absolutely grand!

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: meself
Date: 25 Nov 22 - 06:56 PM

Secrets of War, a Dutch film about two boys whose friendship is tested by Nazi occupation and a new girl in town. Intelligent, sensitive, and poignant.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Nov 22 - 06:01 PM

The Swimmers, on Netflix. A tough watch in these days of refugees but with a lovely feelgood factor too. See this or severely miss out. Warning to Brits: if you hate Sweller Braverman already, you'll be making a doll of her and sticking pins in it after you've seen this...

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: robomatic
Date: 23 Nov 22 - 01:54 PM

Couple years ago out came "Wonder Woman 2" I thought it managed to be hyperbolic, over acted, poorly written, and a trial of endurance. In other words, I didn't like it and even thought less of all the actors in it.

Meanwhile, the classics movie channel has put on one of my favorites which has held up super well. It's the 1949 classic noir/ crime flick about a clever but obsessive and violent criminal. James Cagney remade his career in "White Heat" directed by Raoul Walsh. If you've seen it you'll understand. The only reason to bring it up at this late date is if you may not have seen it due to differences in global coordinates or tender youth.

The only warnings are that the film is in black and white, is somewhat violent even for this time, and is unequivocally American and of its time. But it is clever, moves right along, and has one of the best progressions of the criminal's progress from minor to major.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: meself
Date: 22 Nov 22 - 03:07 PM

The Man Who Knew Infinity - Edwardian era, unschooled East Indian mathematical genius is brought to Cambridge and does amazing things. Mathematically-challenged me found it thoroughly engaging and moving. Predictable in parts, I suppose, but so is life. "Based on a true story".

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 21 Nov 22 - 11:28 AM

Watched Slumberland last night. Kid's film really but very enjoyable with good performances from Jason Mamoa and Chris O'Dowd. Good soundtrack too with an uptempo version of The Parting Glass tune recurring regularly

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Nov 22 - 11:20 AM

Keanu Reeves has mastered the ability to always look bored and pissed.
Maybe he is and he is not acting.

I assume bad movies are more plentiful than good ones.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: meself
Date: 21 Nov 22 - 11:12 AM

Watched a Hungarian movie called The Shepherd the other night. The cinematography is beautiful ... but after ten minutes or so establishing the protagonist's peaceful if melancholy pastoral life, we're treated to an hour and a half or so of a slow-moving, unrelenting descent into Nazi brutality and sadism. By the end, all the 'good guys' have died horrible deaths and the Nazis carry on. I suppose it would be a worthwhile watch for anyone who needs to be reminded that the Nazis were the baddies, otherwise it is just very disturbing to no particular end ...

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 21 Nov 22 - 08:53 AM

I can heartily recommend NOT watching Siberia starring Keanu Reeves. It was terrible. IMO of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Neil D
Date: 20 Nov 22 - 09:35 PM

Watch the Indian action epic "RRR" on Netflix. Three packed hours of pure unadulterated fun!

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 02:48 AM

Oh, and 600 :-D

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 02:47 AM

Saw Wakanda Forever last night and it was really good. Yes, the CGI effects were spectacular and the body count was high but the story line, messages and acting are what makes it. Highly recommended and very enjoyable.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: meself
Date: 16 Nov 22 - 08:50 PM

Where I'm from, you watch movies in a theatre, and films in a cinema. Wait, scratch that - you watch movies in a theatre, and that's it. Films and cinemas are for another class of people.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Nov 22 - 07:08 PM

As a kid, I drank soda pop... but mostly referred to brand names-- mostly Pepsi. I guess the most common short form I heard was pop.

Movies.. films? *shrug* I would have understood either, but 'movies' was the more popular word. There's a lot more U.K./U.S.A. words that bother me than those.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 15 Nov 22 - 09:09 AM

Incidentaly, something I have been thinking of for a while.

How come you watch movies in the 'states while we watch films in the UK? I think you also go to the movies while we go to the pictures or, sometimes, flicks. I can see where movies and pictures both have the same root in moving pictures but I find it odd how the phrase has mutated differently acrss the Atlantic.

Is the same true for soda (US) and pop (UK)? Do they both stem from soda pop?

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 15 Nov 22 - 07:59 AM

Green Lantern was my favourite as a kid and there are some animated films that are pretty good but the live action one with Ryan Reynolds was pretty dire. When Reynolds became Deadpool in an adjacent comic universe his references to GL were hilarious.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Nov 22 - 06:14 AM

The worst must be the current unreleased SH movie. As a kid, I could relate to the Flash since I could run.
As for green lantern, I'm a sucker for the passing the torch themes.
I can suspend belief but I can't abandon it forever.
Gnomes even existed. Remember the Hobbit skeletons?

Body counts used to be a thing in movies but now like in pandemics, the numbers are too high to grasp.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 15 Nov 22 - 04:12 AM

I'm hoping to see Wakanda Forever tonight or tomorrow. Watch this space :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 Nov 22 - 01:10 PM

Green Lantern was the second worse super hero film of all time. Cat Woman with Halle Berry was the worst!

Sorry Don. The layout of the site was so annoying I couldn't read it all :-(

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 22 - 12:55 PM

Sorry Dave the link does contain Wakanda Forever death counts. Spoiler alert.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 22 - 12:49 PM

I do have a snarky opinion of comic book movies but I don't think of myself as a snob since I have enjoyed Superman and Green Lantern.

Magical blue thingies are annoying.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 Nov 22 - 11:40 AM

Hehehe. A bit like "I shall take a week off tomorrow" :-D

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: meself
Date: 10 Nov 22 - 11:32 AM

"I shall watch Wakanda forever next week" ... hmmm ... expecting it to be a bit of a bore, are you?

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 Nov 22 - 07:01 AM

Sorry Don but I don't understand that at all. Your link is to a killcount in Black Panther with no mention of Wakanda Forever. Are you having a bad day?

Tell you what. I shall watch Wakanda forever next week and let you know what I thought. After you have seen it, maybe your comments will carry more weight.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 22 - 06:52 AM

You say 2 mato I say Tom ato. The first movie has a small body count compared to the sequel.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 Nov 22 - 04:14 AM

I have not seen it yet but I believe "Black Panther - Wakanda Forever" is a sensitive portrayal of the loss of a loved one rather than a comedic CGI super hero movie. The actor who played Black Panther in the previous films, Chadwick Boseman, died of cancer after making the previous one and the grief for the loss of the character, I read, reflects the real life grief. I may go to see it next week.

In the meanwhile, following another sad loss, Robbie Coltrane, I have just watched the entire Cracker series on ITV hub. Brilliant. I would recommend it to anyone if only for Coltrane's portrayal of the very flawed psychologist, Fitz.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 22 - 12:18 AM

I have not seen the new CGI super hero movie released this week 'Whacondom Forever'.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: meself
Date: 08 Nov 22 - 01:07 PM

Recently watched the 1994 BBC production of The Return of the Native. Good? Well ... uneven. Beautiful visually, in more ways than one - Zeta Somebody-Jones, whom we're all supposed to know, of course - is perfection as Eustacia; one of the few instances I've encountered in which the woman who plays the stunning beauty actually is - that's all subjective, though, of course. 'Mrs Yeobright' was great. 'Clym' was the real weak link; the actor never seemed to get a real grip on the part. The writer(s) got the essence of the novel down to 90 minutes without taking unreasonable liberties. The editing is clumsy; I got the impression they got rushing to patch it together to meet a deadline. If you like the look of rural Victoriana, and of course you do, you'll enjoy that aspect of it. It includes a couple of short bits of a 'village band' and mummering ....

I seem to be the only person on earth who has reservations about the novel itself: it's Hardy, so the writing and the play of ideas have depth - but the plot depends on more coincidences, accidents, improbabilities, and surprise inheritances than all of Shakespeare's comedies and The Complete Charles Dickens combined. The film benefits from having had to cut most of them out.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: pattyClink
Date: 07 Nov 22 - 09:46 AM

Get well soon, Joe!!

I don't keep current on movies, but collect a small stash of classics on DVD, you might see if they are streamable now. "Mystery, Alaska" is a great comedy no one has ever heard of. "New in Town" is a fun rom-com set in Minnesota, might be comforting. And "Local Hero" is shot on location in a little village in Scotland.

If I had to sit still a good while, I might try to rewatch the series Treme, set in N.O. a year after Katrina and featuring a lot of musicians.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Nov 22 - 09:25 AM

On cable TV, I recorded and watched "The Lion in Winter". It won all sorts of acclaim and a best actress for Katharine Hepburn?.
It was dramatic and visually amazing... but the plot, taken loosely from history, was tedious.... as everyone's personality kept bouncing from 'friendly' to 'hateful'. They all accused each other of lying and sometimes admitting it and sometimes denying in order to jockey for personal advantage. It was almost impossible to guess who supported whom from one moment to the next.
   The ending was almost a parody of whatever the overall point was! I can't say I enjoyed it, but was merely fascinated, like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Nov 22 - 08:27 PM

A Netflix drama 'Inside Man' convinced me that absolutely anyone can become a murderer. Stanley Tucci was brilliant.

get well soon Joe, Life of Pi is visually stunning.
Richard Parker was a strange bedfellow whether he was real or a psychological construct like 'Wilson'.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Nov 22 - 06:26 PM

I'm home with COVID, so it's a good time to catch up on movies. I watched "Life of Pi" last night, and really liked it. It's kinda like Tom Hanks in "Cast Away," but the young Indian protagonist is accompanied by a tiger, not a basketball. And the tiger is not very nice.

I was surprised how much I liked Disney's "Cruella," with Emily Blunt as the protagonist. Kinda like "The Devil Wears Prada," but with Emma Thompson instead of Meryl Streep as the fashion designer villain.

I'm too snuffly to read easily, but it doesn't seem to keep me from enjoying movies.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,Mrr whose computer RsIP
Date: 08 Jan 13 - 01:41 PM

Loved The Hobbit and didn't think it was too Teletubby except Gollum and the Great Goblin. Forgivable. The Dwarves are great but aren't stunted enough for me... but I am hearing from people that they now feel ripped off that LOTR didn't last for 9 movies. I am not thinking that, I always liked The Hobbit so much more anyway.
But I also saw Django - really enjoyed that too, to my surprise,it hadn't sounded anything I would like.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 03 Jan 13 - 02:45 PM

Quartet - Seven Psychopaths both magic
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Jan 13 - 11:21 AM

Well, I just can't relate to the idea of a race that's "hatched out of the ground". ;-) Seems unlikely to me.

If anyone is familiar with the role-playing game "Oblivion", it has a world in which Orcs are one of about 8 different races in that game (3 distinct races of Elves, 3 distinct races of Humans, some Lizard beings, some feline beings, and the Orcs). The Orcs in Oblivion are much of the type I'm describing, civilized but rather fierce creatures, and they fit right in socially with all the other races, take part in the society as the others do, and have much the same concerns and abilities.

Every race in Oblivion naturally thinks well of itself! Every race has its own special talents and weaknesses. They're all proud of being what they are, Orcs included. But they have found ways of getting along with each other too for mutual benefit, although there are some racial tensions and prejudices between them, for sure.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,Stim
Date: 03 Jan 13 - 11:10 AM

My deal, and indulge me, is that, all kidding aside, the film orcs are "Peter Jackson Orcs". I like the Little Hawk Orcs a lot--also all kidding aside--they have great story possibilities--anti-heroes. On reflection--aren't orcs reminiscent of Morlocks?

My question is, did Tolkien develop them more? I know that LOTR was actually the last
part of a much longer story that he'd started years before "The Hobbit' was published.