Last Movie You Watched

[Duncan]

1 hour ago, bluebell said:

From one minute to the next you never knew what was going to happen, and a lot of things happened that I didn't expect.

and that lady with the baby😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[Tacenda]

2 hours ago, bluebell said:

From one minute to the next you never knew what was going to happen, and a lot of things happened that I didn't expect.

Excited to see this movie, good to know there isn't as much gore as Saving Private Ryan.

[sunstoned]

I saw 1917 today.  Well produced and well directed.

[Tacenda]

Last Black Man in San Francisco was such a good film. I had heard it was a good movie and saw it on Amazon Prime, I am about to cancel Prime, so needed to check on movies to watch. Glad I clicked on this film! My heart was in my throat practically. Don't let the artsy-ness scare you off at the beginning, it doesn't stay that way, nor the few or more f-words. 

And while I'm at it, "Harriet" was amazing too, that I watched yesterday, didn't know this amazing woman existed before now, I wonder if it was in the history school books or even taught, her full name is Harriet Tubman. It may have been taught and I wasn't listening well, I do that a lot.

Edited January 22, 2020 by Tacenda

[bluebell]

10 hours ago, Tacenda said:

And while I'm at it, "Harriet" was amazing too, that I watched yesterday, didn't know this amazing woman existed before now, I wonder if it was in the history school books or even taught, her full name is Harriet Tubman. It may have been taught and I wasn't listening well, I do that a lot.

I saw that some parts of the movie Harriet were purposefully exaggerated.  She was almost certainly taught in school, as the creator of the underground railway, but it wouldn't have been the film version.  I look forward to seeing the movie still though.  I've heard it's excellent.

 https://www.michigandaily.com/section/arts/“harriet”-tries-hard-rewrite-history

Edited January 22, 2020 by bluebell

[Tacenda]

2 hours ago, bluebell said:

I saw that some parts of the movie Harriet were purposefully exaggerated.  She was almost certainly taught in school, as the creator of the underground railway, but it wouldn't have been the film version.  I look forward to seeing the movie still though.  I've heard it's excellent.

 https://www.michigandaily.com/section/arts/“harriet”-tries-hard-rewrite-history

It's still at Kaysville theatre. Have you been there? They switch out movies for Friday so hopefully see it by this Thursday. I tried to watch on cable or Netflix etc. But it charged an arm and leg! I'll read your link! 

[bluebell]

20 minutes ago, Tacenda said:

It's still at Kaysville theatre. Have you been there? They switch out movies for Friday so hopefully see it by this Thursday. I tried to watch on cable or Netflix etc. But it charged an arm and leg! I'll read your link! 

I have once.  It's a good deal.  Unfortuantely, I'm spoiled and can't seem to enjoy movies in theaters anymore unless i'm in a recliner in stadium seating.    I'll definitely watch it when it comes out on video.

[sunstoned]

On 1/22/2020 at 10:25 AM, Tacenda said:

It's still at Kaysville theatre. Have you been there? They switch out movies for Friday so hopefully see it by this Thursday. I tried to watch on cable or Netflix etc. But it charged an arm and leg! I'll read your link! 

This is a movie that I want to see.  I will probably stream in when it comes available.

[poptart]

On 11/13/2019 at 11:20 AM, bluebell said:

It's a sad story.  Such a waste, but hopefully can serve as a lesson for those who think you can just go out in the wilderness and survive without any training or knowledge of the area.

Old Childhood friend who lives up there was a cameraman for that movie.  To this day forest rangers have to go rescue people who have some dread fascination with finding that bus.  Makes me think, you have all kinds of wonderful places that still have terrifying animals to contend with.  If i'm going to go in the woods that has man hating things, why would I care about finding some rusting old bus?  An abandoned cabin, a gold mine, etc.  So many more options to choose from.

I remember learning about poison water hemlock in Alaska as a scout, that thing still gives me nightmares.  Wasn't until I was older I learned just how poisonous it really was, it blows pretty much anything down here away.

https://www.ars.usda.gov/pacific-west-area/logan-ut/poisonous-plant-research/docs/water-hemlock-cicuta-douglasii/

Speaking of learning, just learned it grows here and most of the western USA.  Lovely....

Edited January 24, 2020 by poptart

[bluebell]

1 hour ago, poptart said:

Old Childhood friend who lives up there was a cameraman for that movie.  To this day forest rangers have to go rescue people who have some dread fascination with finding that bus.  Makes me think, you have all kinds of wonderful places that still have terrifying animals to contend with.  If i'm going to go in the woods that has man hating things, why would I care about finding some rusting old bus?  An abandoned cabin, a gold mine, etc.  So many more options to choose from.

I remember learning about poison water hemlock in Alaska as a scout, that thing still gives me nightmares.  Wasn't until I was older I learned just how poisonous it really was, it blows pretty much anything down here away.

https://www.ars.usda.gov/pacific-west-area/logan-ut/poisonous-plant-research/docs/water-hemlock-cicuta-douglasii/

Speaking of learning, just learned it grows here and most of the western USA.  Lovely....

People romanticize the wilderness way to much.  That was one of the things that did McCandles in.  

[strappinglad]

Probably just me getting old , but I can't take the loudness of a movie theatre any more. 

[poptart]

On 1/24/2020 at 12:20 PM, bluebell said:

People romanticize the wilderness way to much.  That was one of the things that did McCandles in.  

Bright side to that is it scares off people from rural parts of the world, removes the idiots and well, helps the circle of life continue.  Someday when I get land in the middle of nowhere if I go nuts and end up with multiple imaginary friends, well, have no one to blame but myself.  Will just have to make sure I don't get into arguments with multiple personalities....

[Tacenda]

2 hours ago, poptart said:

Bright side to that is it scares off people from rural parts of the world, removes the idiots and well, helps the circle of life continue.  Someday when I get land in the middle of nowhere if I go nuts and end up with multiple imaginary friends, well, have no one to blame but myself.  Will just have to make sure I don't get into arguments with multiple personalities....

😂

[sunstoned]

I just saw JoJo Rabbit. It was up for best picture.  It was not what I expected, but it turned out to be an enjoyable movie.

 

[sunstoned]

I also watched Harriet (on pay for view).  This was the biographical file about Harriet Tubman, who was a abolitionist just prior to the civil war. It was good movie (not great) in my opinion.  While this was a biographical film, there were liberties taken with many of the details, which leaned toward sensationalism. Casting was good, but I felt the development of the characters could have been better.   These are mild criticisms, as I do think the movie is very much worth seeing.

 

[Amulek]

National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Finally the kids are getting old enough to select live action movies for family movie night (and there was much rejoicing).

I liked both of the National Treasure movies. Too bad Disney is on auto-pilot, cranking out Marvel movies for the foreseeable future. It would be nice to see them come back around and give us the final chapter to this trilogy (what was on page 47? - inquiring minds want to know).

 

[sunstoned]

While not technically a movie,  the new three part History channel series on Washington was very good. It was well directed and from what I could tell, historically correct.  I recommend it.

[bluebell]

I watched Omo Child on Prime.  It's a documentary about the Kara tribe in the Omo Valley in Ethiopia and their practice of Mingi:  killing babies and toddlers that the tribe believes are cursed.  Cursed children were those born out of wedlock, twins, and those who's top teeth came in before their bottom teeth.

One young man, who's father sent him away to be educated, realized what was happening when he was a teenager and decided then that he was going to work to stop it.  The movie is about his fight with the tribe to save the babies and stop the practice.

It was a good movie, but hard to watch considering the subject matter.  

[Garden Girl]

I'm getting a free weekend of Starz and Showtime, and to be perfectly frank there hasn't been any movies I was interested in until today... I watched "Green Book." which I didn't realize until the final credits was based on a real person...a black musician named Don(?) Shirley... I think that's the name... a very good movie about Dr. Shirley's white driver, Viggio Mortensen(sp), an Italian blue collar type man... Viggio received an Oscar nomination as best actor...  anyway, a very good movie based on Shirley's musical tour of the South during Jim Crow laws...

GG

Edited February 23, 2020 by Garden Girl

[Tacenda]

1 hour ago, Garden Girl said:

I'm getting a free weekend of Starz and Showtime, and to be perfectly frank there hasn't been any movies I was interested in until today... I watched "Green Book." which I didn't realize until the final credits was based on a real person...a black musician named Don(?) Shirley... I think that's the name... a very good movie about Dr. Shirley's white driver, Viggio Mortensen(sp), an Italian blue collar type man... Viggio received an Oscar nomination as best actor...  anyway, a very good movie based on Shirley's musical tour of the South during Jim Crow laws...

GG

One of my favorite movies ever!!

[bluebell]

I watched three movies this weekend, some better than others.

First was Equals on Netflix.  It's PG-13 and about a dystopian society that engineered it's populace to have no feelings.  Some people start having feelings though and that leads to the male and female main characters falling in love and then trying to find a way to stay together.  It's well acted and visually pretty, but boring.  I fast forwarded through a lot of it just so I find out what happened at the end.

Second was JoJo Rabbit.  Also PG-13 and a really interesting take on nazism. It's about a little german boy who loves all things Nazi and whose imaginary friend in Hitler.  The movie is hilarious in places and also very somber and devastating in others.  It's a weird mixture but it works.

Lastly was Hostiles.  It's R and came out a couple of years ago I think.  It's a very somber movie about Native Americans, civilians, and soldiers in the American West. It really makes you think and it has a 'kind of' happy ending, which was nice.  It was rated R for three F words and violence.

[Tacenda]

Saw the movie "Parasite", my first foreign film with subtitles, worried it would be difficult to watch. It wasn't, it was an amazing film. 

[Calm]

35 minutes ago, Tacenda said:

Saw the movie "Parasite", my first foreign film with subtitles, worried it would be difficult to watch. It wasn't, it was an amazing film. 

I have found I don’t even think much about subtitles these days, except when I am trying to figure out how to say names (doesn’t help that Netflix translates some names as Mr or Ms when they are titles or endearments or nicknames like “unni” meaning older sister, Asians use family titles for nonfamily members tons). If I try to remember what is said, I find I ‘hear’ English words in the actors’ voices.  This is after three or more years of watching international tv shows maybe even more than English speaking off Netflix, Hulu, Viki, and now Prime Video...my favorite being usually Korean as they tend to have higher quality shows (at least by my standards).  They come across as often more sophisticated, subtle, less overacting or what appears as overacting to American eyes.  Some humor is completely lost on me though. 
 

I now have close captioned on all the time for English as well. My ear was never that great, always missing stuff if said fast or mumbled.  It is nice to feel like I am not missing stuff.  Only problem is when jokes show in the captions too soon and it throws off the delivery.  Not so funny. 

Edited March 2, 2020 by Calm

[Tacenda]

2 hours ago, Calm said:

I have found I don’t even think much about subtitles these days, except when I am trying to figure out how to say names (doesn’t help that Netflix translates some names as Mr or Ms when they are titles or endearments or nicknames like “unni” meaning older sister, Asians use family titles for nonfamily members tons). If I try to remember what is said, I find I ‘hear’ English words in the actors’ voices.  This is after three or more years of watching international tv shows maybe even more than English speaking off Netflix, Hulu, Viki, and now Prime Video...my favorite being usually Korean as they tend to have higher quality shows (at least by my standards).  They come across as often more sophisticated, subtle, less overacting or what appears as overacting to American eyes.  Some humor is completely lost on me though. 
 

I now have close captioned on all the time for English as well. My ear was never that great, always missing stuff if said fast or mumbled.  It is nice to feel like I am not missing stuff.  Only problem is when jokes show in the captions too soon and it throws off the delivery.  Not so funny. 

I like subtitles in an English speaking movies as well. Since it was in Korean, I really relied heavily on reading what was said. I should add that the "R" rating was for maybe 2 "F" words that I caught, some violence at the end and a little bit of sexual innuendo. 

[Garden Girl]

Most of you know that I have an extensive film library... mostly U.S. films, but some foreign... whoever gets my library when I die will have lots of good entertainment... This week I added three films:

1.  How Green Was My Valley (1941)... (winner of Oscar for Best Picture)... starring Walter Pigeon and Maureen O'Hara... about life in a small Welsh coal mining town, including a labor strike.

2.   King Solomon's Mines (1950)... (nominated for Best Picture)... starring Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr... about a prim English woman's search for her missing husband in Africa... (of the four times its been  filmed,  this is my favorite version.)

3.  Love With the Proper Stranger (1963)...  (Nominated for 5 Academy Awards) ... starring Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen... about an innocent Macy's salesgirl, an Italian Catholic girl who becomes pregnant by footloose jazz musician (McQueen) and the decision she faces... 

GG