Last Movie You Watched

[Tacenda]

15 hours ago, Kenngo1969 said:

Darkest Hour.  With apologies to President Dieter F. Uchtdorf (who, given how his family suffered during WWII, certainly can understand what I mean  ) I think an occasional reminder to be thankful that we're not all speaking German is a good thing.  Gary Oldman is outstanding as Winston Churchill.  I'm glad that the Brits demonstrated such backbone in the face of such overwhelming odds, until the U.S. and its leaders overcame isolationist tendencies, came to our senses, finally recognized the threat Hitler posed, and (albeit belatedly) joined the fight.  Also, I was deeply affected by a quote from Winston Churchill that appeared on the screen during the ending credits: "Success is not final.  Failure is not fatal.  It is the courage to continue that counts."

Looking forward to seeing this. 

[Duncan]

I saw "Hacksaw Ridge" about Desmond Doss, the CO medic in the Battle of Okinawa, powerful! gory to be sure but it was cool at the end they showed clips of him and some others speaking who were saved by him. Found out later Elder Maxwell of the Twelve was there, not necessarily at Hacksaw Ridge but at the Battle of Okinawa, he apparently lost some hearing because of it. I don't know how people can survive those kinds of ordeals

[bluebell]

28 minutes ago, Duncan said:

I saw "Hacksaw Ridge" about Desmond Doss, the CO medic in the Battle of Okinawa, powerful! gory to be sure but it was cool at the end they showed clips of him and some others speaking who were saved by him. Found out later Elder Maxwell of the Twelve was there, not necessarily at Hacksaw Ridge but at the Battle of Okinawa, he apparently lost some hearing because of it. I don't know how people can survive those kinds of ordeals

I was impressed that a war movie actually existed that had no swearing!  Still rated R because of the violence (and it is extreme) but no swearing or sex, it was very refreshing! 

[bluebell]

Hubby and I went to see the new Jumanji movie on Saturday.  It was a lot of fun.  It's got some funny parts and is just generally entertaining the whole way.  Plus, it's got some heart to it, which is nice.

[Duncan]

6 minutes ago, bluebell said:

I was impressed that a war movie actually existed that had no swearing!  Still rated R because of the violence (and it is extreme) but no swearing or sex, it was very refreshing! 

Yeah! TBH I had never heard of the Battle of Okinawa before, I knew of Iwo Jima and I know of the Pacific Battles situation that the US went through, I met a member of the Church in LA that was in the Navy there during WW2 and his stories were mind blowing and it's amazing people survived!

 

I always thought Pearl Harbour could have been better, it was like a romance movie, then, Pearl Harbour happens, then back to the romance, which to me it deserved better

[Garden Girl]

12 hours ago, Duncan said:

Yeah! TBH I had never heard of the Battle of Okinawa before, I knew of Iwo Jima and I know of the Pacific Battles situation that the US went through, I met a member of the Church in LA that was in the Navy there during WW2 and his stories were mind blowing and it's amazing people survived!

 

Hacksaw Ridge was a fantastic movie... realistic... my husband was in the Philipines and experienced such a battle ... the Battle of Leyte.  And also battles on Mendinao and Mindoro (sp?).  The close combat was very true.  I can't say more because of today's relationship with Japan and it would be too political, even painful.  But he was very lucky to come out of it alive... he was wounded in one of the battles, but rejoined his unit after he recovered...

GG

[Duncan]

37 minutes ago, Garden Girl said:

Hacksaw Ridge was a fantastic movie... realistic... my husband was in the Philipines and experienced such a battle ... the Battle of Leyte.  And also battles on Mendinao and Mindoro (sp?).  The close combat was very true.  I can't say more because of today's relationship with Japan and it would be too political, even painful.  But he was very lucky to come out of it alive... he was wounded in one of the battles, but rejoined his unit after he recovered...

GG

WOW!, I didn't know that! Over Christmas I was at my folks place and they both knew WW1 vets and they said it was almost a sin to ask them about their experiences, if they talked about it it was one thing but you never asked them , it was just so hard to talk about what they went through. My Mum had an Uncle who did all 4 years in WW1 and she didn't even know he was in France until she was in her 20's, he never mentioned it to her or her parents never talked about it.

[Daniel2]

I highly, highly recommend "The Greatest Showman."  GREAT story, PG-rated, loved the music and dancing.

[Tacenda]

On 1/10/2018 at 12:36 PM, Daniel2 said:

I highly, highly recommend "The Greatest Showman."  GREAT story, PG-rated, loved the music and dancing.

I can't say enough good about this movie, the scenes were amazing. And agree that the music and dancing were too! It's a good film, I'd take my mother-in-law to this, she doesn't see very many movies. Or we don't dare take her to what's out there anyway! 

[Daniel2]

On ‎1‎/‎15‎/‎2018 at 9:17 AM, Tacenda said:

I can't say enough good about this movie, the scenes were amazing. And agree that the music and dancing were too! It's a good film, I'd take my mother-in-law to this, she doesn't see very many movies. Or we don't dare take her to what's out there anyway! 

Glad you loved it, too!   I've been four times, some of which included some of our kids, another our grandkids, and one was MY 75-year-old mom. Everyone loved it--including our 16-year-old grandson!

[Duncan]

I just saw "3 Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri" gripping movie, great cast, powerful! 

[Garden Girl]

4 hours ago, Duncan said:

I just saw "3 Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri" gripping movie, great cast, powerful! 

I'm glad to see your comments as I want to see this film too...

GG

[bluebell]

12 hours ago, Duncan said:

I just saw "3 Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri" gripping movie, great cast, powerful! 

I haven't even heard of that movie.  What's it about?

[Duncan]

12 minutes ago, bluebell said:

I haven't even heard of that movie.  What's it about?

um, it's a dark comedy of sorts, about this woman who lost her daughter to rape and murder. She is upset with the lack of progress on the case so she puts up three billboards calling out the Chief of Police to do something more and the movie is the fallout from those billboards and the reactions of the Ebby townspeople. I don't know if she knows but the chief of police has cancer and there is a dark side to every character but a very human side as well. I wouldn't watch it with kids mind you but it's been nominated for some Oscar's, it's good!

Edited January 26, 2018 by Duncan

[Okrahomer]

My wife and I were very pleasantly surprised by Lars and the Real Girl.  It does have at least one connection to Mormonism since Ryan Gosling is Lars.

I tried to check back through the thread but lost patience.  So, I apologize if this one has already been mentioned.

[Garden Girl]

49 minutes ago, Okrahomer said:

My wife and I were very pleasantly surprised by Lars and the Real Girl.  It does have at least one connection to Mormonism since Ryan Gosling is Lars.

I tried to check back through the thread but lost patience.  So, I apologize if this one has already been mentioned.

I like Ryan Gosling, and he is very talented... but, alas, as happens with most (not all) LDS who become celebrities he does appear to have abandoned his faith... the funniest thing I've seen is the home movie someone posted either here or Facebook of him and his sister at a Stake talent show when he was about 13 -14 doing this rousing dance... it was terrific...

GG

[Okrahomer]

Yes, I thought that was probably the case.

[bluebell]

Not exactly a movie, but hubby and I started watching Netflix’s Godless on Friday night. It’s a western and was billed as being about a town where all the men were killed so it’s run by women. 

Whike it was well-acted and well-written, we won’t be watching any more episodes. It’s brutal (highlighting violence against women and children) and has a weird anti-Mormon spin because the monster/villain was raised by the Mormons after they raped and killed his family at the Mountain Meadows Massacre. 

[Tacenda]

15 minutes ago, bluebell said:

Not exactly a movie, but hubby and I started watching Netflix’s Godless on Friday night. It’s a western and was billed as being about a town where all the men were killed so it’s run by women. 

Whike it was well-acted and well-written, we won’t be watching any more episodes. It’s brutal (highlighting violence against women and children) and has a weird anti-Mormon spin because the monster/villain was raised by the Mormons after they raped and killed his family at the Mountain Meadows Massacre. 

Woah!

[bluebell]

1 hour ago, Tacenda said:

Woah!

Yeah, it wasn’t the use of the story but the spinning of it that was annoying. 

[Tacenda]

12 hours ago, bluebell said:

Yeah, it wasn’t the use of the story but the spinning of it that was annoying. 

I watched a few minutes of it a while ago. I guess I'm not much of a series watcher. Some friends tell my husband and I of some good ones, and we try watching and lose interest. 

I usually have to catch up to where everyone is on some of them, such as Walking Dead, Stranger Things etc. 

[bluebell]

Saw Geostorm this weekend.  It was So bad.  Steer clear.

[Rain]

On 1/10/2018 at 12:36 PM, Daniel2 said:

I highly, highly recommend "The Greatest Showman."  GREAT story, PG-rated, loved the music and dancing.

I've heard lots of people reccomend it. I really should try to figure out when we can do that. 

[Stargazer]

I recently bought the movie "Sully", about that pilot who soft-landed his full airliner on the Hudson River after a bird strike took out his engines.

I was expecting something that vaguely resembled the facts of the incident, and the portrayal of the landing in the Hudson was accurate enough, but in the afterstory (with the landing told in flashback) the director and writers went off on some alternate universe thing where Sully and his copilot were being gainsaid by FAA investigators and their judgement in the Hudson landing was questioned as if they had made a terrible error -- that they should have tried to make it back to the airport they left or another alternate airport.  

Turns out the FAA did nothing of the kind, and the moviemakers invented the whole crazy accusational backstory.  And the actual pilot was quite upset about the movie treatment, as were the FAA people in the investigation.

 

[Garden Girl]

3 hours ago, Stargazer said:

I recently bought the movie "Sully", about that pilot who soft-landed his full airliner on the Hudson River after a bird strike took out his engines.

I was expecting something that vaguely resembled the facts of the incident, and the portrayal of the landing in the Hudson was accurate enough, but in the afterstory (with the landing told in flashback) the director and writers went off on some alternate universe thing where Sully and his copilot were being gainsaid by FAA investigators and their judgement in the Hudson landing was questioned as if they had made a terrible error -- that they should have tried to make it back to the airport they left or another alternate airport.  

Turns out the FAA did nothing of the kind, and the moviemakers invented the whole crazy accusational backstory.  And the actual pilot was quite upset about the movie treatment, as were the FAA people in the investigation.

 

Oh Stargazer!  You ruined the movie for me... I, too, bought the movie, and it has been one of my favorites.. now I find out it was not true in its depiction ...  I thought the hearing on the pilot's actions was entirely believable as a fact-finding investigation into what happened and why... how can a film company make such an inaccurate portrayal of an event?!!  I'm used to Hollywood taking "artistic" license, but this apparently overstepped reasonable bounds.  Sigh...  There surely was an inquiry... what was it really like?

GG

EDIT TO ADD...   Well, it's not quite as bad as it sounded... I googled "Miracle on the Hudson" and the website came up that described the whole process, quoting the NTSB report of the investigation and findings.  You are quite correct that the movie overstated considerably the accusatory aspect... the rest of the report confirmed the general portrayal of the film...

 The website stated... "Sullenberger's memoir, 'Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters' was adapted into a feature film, 'Sully: Miracle on the Hudson' directed directed by Clint Eastwood.."  The investigation apparently was conducted close to how it was portrayed... except the NTSB rejected the notion that Sully could have avoided ditching by returning to LaGuardia or Teterboro.  The multiple simulations were conducted (only 7 of the 13 succeeded).  The NTSB report called the simulations unrealistic and cited a further simulation that reflected "real world considerations" including the 35-second pilot delay which crashed as shown in the film.  

So I can watch the film but keep in mind that the accusatory aspect was as you pointed out and not as serious as portrayed...

Edited February 10, 2018 by Garden Girl