There was no butler in the film but it was so obvious that there was nothing thrilling about it.
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There was no butler in the film but it was so obvious that there was nothing thrilling about it.
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The leading actors are gorgeous and the scenery (Catalina Island) is beautiful.
The leading actors are gorgeous and the scenery (Catalina Island) is beautiful.
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Yesterday I watched Sherlock - The Abominable Bride. As I understand a special episode to start the series over with a new season (coming in 2017?)
While I typically like the Sherlock series a lot, thanks to Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, I found this one to be one of the more confusing ones. And my wife fell asleep a few times during the movie.
Also, it showed me that I definitely need to watch the episodes from season 3 again.
While I typically like the Sherlock series a lot, thanks to Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, I found this one to be one of the more confusing ones. And my wife fell asleep a few times during the movie.
Also, it showed me that I definitely need to watch the episodes from season 3 again.
I saw Ransom the other night and really loved it, I have seen it before but it was still quite tense. I watched another old Mel Gibson film, Signs, which I thought was interesting.
I finally saw SPECTRE yesterday.
I was not impressed :-(
Somehow it felt as if they have looked at all the old Bond movies to steal some scenes or ideas to put into the new movie.
(but not as good as the original, or half-heartedly)
Christoph Waltz as villain was a huge disappointment for me, as I really like him normally, but found him quite unremarkable in that movie. NOTHING compared to his performance in "Django" or "Inglorious Basterds".
I was not impressed :-(
Somehow it felt as if they have looked at all the old Bond movies to steal some scenes or ideas to put into the new movie.
(but not as good as the original, or half-heartedly)
Christoph Waltz as villain was a huge disappointment for me, as I really like him normally, but found him quite unremarkable in that movie. NOTHING compared to his performance in "Django" or "Inglorious Basterds".
The usual world domination plot was quite lacklustre. What? The bad guys ... spying on everybody?
Possibly reading your email and stealing your youtube videos. Huh.
No impending doom, nuclear bomb devastating a major city, deadly virus getting set free, gold reserves being irradiated, super-laser destroying everything, EMP pulse disabling all technology, asteroid hitting the earth, just ... 50 people, placed in a surveillance center in a meteor crater in the middle of the desert ... starting to look at all the video cameras everywhere in the world? Wow. I'm terrified.
Of course, the secret installation that had just managed to co-erce all major nations to agree with their surveillance scheme (while secretly boot-legging the tapes) was guarded by, what, 12 security guards who were easily overpowered by James Bond, once he had blown up the bad guy's torture control center. That is so ... retro (and foreseeable).
And Christoph Waltz being outed as Bond's long-believed-dead jealous adoptive brother, who then turns out to be (from his mother's side) also called Ernst Stavro Blofeld (complete with persian cat and scarred face), who has personally engineered the killing of everybody close to Bond in the past. I can not help but think they might have made much more of that than casual name-dropping to invoke Bond history.
So, for me, this marks a new lowdown of the Bond franchise, and I think I might rather watch re-runs of some old Timothy Dalton or Pierce Brosnan Bond movies instead.
Possibly reading your email and stealing your youtube videos. Huh.
No impending doom, nuclear bomb devastating a major city, deadly virus getting set free, gold reserves being irradiated, super-laser destroying everything, EMP pulse disabling all technology, asteroid hitting the earth, just ... 50 people, placed in a surveillance center in a meteor crater in the middle of the desert ... starting to look at all the video cameras everywhere in the world? Wow. I'm terrified.
Of course, the secret installation that had just managed to co-erce all major nations to agree with their surveillance scheme (while secretly boot-legging the tapes) was guarded by, what, 12 security guards who were easily overpowered by James Bond, once he had blown up the bad guy's torture control center. That is so ... retro (and foreseeable).
And Christoph Waltz being outed as Bond's long-believed-dead jealous adoptive brother, who then turns out to be (from his mother's side) also called Ernst Stavro Blofeld (complete with persian cat and scarred face), who has personally engineered the killing of everybody close to Bond in the past. I can not help but think they might have made much more of that than casual name-dropping to invoke Bond history.
So, for me, this marks a new lowdown of the Bond franchise, and I think I might rather watch re-runs of some old Timothy Dalton or Pierce Brosnan Bond movies instead.
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I got "Thor" out of the library. It was good; I thought Anthony Hopkins, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston(?), and Natalie Portman were good as Odin, Thor, Loki, and Jane Foster, there was some humor in it, and the special effects weren't bad. Actually all the actors were good. I'm not particularly sorry I missed it in the theater though.
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The Visit. Long and boring until the last few minutes. I expected more from M. Night Shyamalan.
Watching The Gift with Jason Bateman next.
Watching The Gift with Jason Bateman next.
Watched "The Revenant" yesterday.
Well, what shall I say, not a bad movie in itself.
However, you will likely enjoy it more if you are a person who likes activities like hunting, trapping, fishing, butchering wild animals and devouring raw meat fresh from the carcass. Not to forget raping and killing of Native Americans.
If you do not enjoy such (as I think many here on the forum might not), then you might end up keeping your eyes closed for a quarter of the movie.
But as I said, other than that, not a bad movie. (Not a masterpiece either, IMO). Nice nature shots. Based on a true story (that was expanded with lots and lots of fiction, however, to make it more interesting).
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Well, what shall I say, not a bad movie in itself.
However, you will likely enjoy it more if you are a person who likes activities like hunting, trapping, fishing, butchering wild animals and devouring raw meat fresh from the carcass
. Not to forget raping and killing of Native Americans.If you do not enjoy such (as I think many here on the forum might not), then you might end up keeping your eyes closed for a quarter of the movie.
But as I said, other than that, not a bad movie. (Not a masterpiece either, IMO). Nice nature shots. Based on a true story (that was expanded with lots and lots of fiction, however, to make it more interesting).
True story: Guy was attacked by a bear, left for dead, but pulled through and crawled back to civilization. Forgave the guys who had left him for dead. End of story.
Extended version: Guy was also a superhero fighter for Native American Justice and, being such, had a few truly heart-wrenching episodes and noteworthy adventures along the way. Brought the main villain who had wronged him repeatedly to justice in a very graphic, cinematic way that should surely ensure the enjoyment of moviegoers everywhere.
Extended version: Guy was also a superhero fighter for Native American Justice and, being such, had a few truly heart-wrenching episodes and noteworthy adventures along the way. Brought the main villain who had wronged him repeatedly to justice in a very graphic, cinematic way that should surely ensure the enjoyment of moviegoers everywhere.
Best regards,
Andy
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The Gift (the one with Jason Bateman) was much better than I expected, and a hundred times better than The Visit. It had a few twists and a pretty good ending.
I saw The Revenant with my roommate and we laughed through most of it at the obvious, impossible to survive, embellishments. I guess it's tradition to take the original story mentioned above, and make it into an epic, death defying, legend, which we didn't know when we watched it.
I didn't like The Gift. [emoji45]
I wasn't happy with the direction they took Jason Bateman's character. And I didn't like how it ended. It was a well done film...it just left me with a not good feeling. I blame Hallmark. [\spoiler]
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That's what I liked about it. It was unexpected and most movies are too predictable nowadays.
His character was awful though, I wanted someone to beat the c**p out of him.
I got "Interstellar" out of the library- I haven't finished it yet. It starts slowly, and I wish Matthew McCaughnahey(sp?) would speak up (although he's doing a good job acting otherwise).
ETA: finished watching it. It was okay. The special effects and acting were good, but the score wasn't that great. I found out in a review that the dialogue was intentionally made difficult to make out in some scenes. Strange. And the ending was sad.
ETA: finished watching it. It was okay. The special effects and acting were good, but the score wasn't that great. I found out in a review that the dialogue was intentionally made difficult to make out in some scenes. Strange. And the ending was sad.
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I watched Splice last night as it was on Film 4 and I had read that it was an underrated horror film. It was one of the weirdest things I have seen in a long time.
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