Last Movie You Watched

[Tacenda]

"Where'd You Go, Bernadette", such an underrated movie people probably haven't seen due to under advertising perhaps. Great acting and story line and feel good movie, rated PG13.

[Garden Girl]

18 hours ago, Tacenda said:

"Where'd You Go, Bernadette", such an underrated movie people probably haven't seen due to under advertising perhaps. Great acting and story line and feel good movie, rated PG13.

Briefly, what's the storyline or subject?

GG

[Tacenda]

1 hour ago, Garden Girl said:

Briefly, what's the storyline or subject?

GG

Cate Blanchett is a famous architect, after many miscarriages she finally was able to have a daughter. She quits architecture, and raises the daughter. Soon she is doing crazy things, isolating herself etc. Come to find out she has a need to create and hadn't been able to, she quit after one of her creations (house) was bulldozed over by a buyer, she is unique and creates objects/structures for the job that takes a lot of work. But you'd have to watch, such a wonderful story! Beautiful scenery, which includes the Antarctica.

 

 

[Garden Girl]

2 hours ago, Tacenda said:

Cate Blanchett is a famous architect, after many miscarriages she finally was able to have a daughter. She quits architecture, and raises the daughter. Soon she is doing crazy things, isolating herself etc. Come to find out she has a need to create and hadn't been able to, she quit after one of her creations (house) was bulldozed over by a buyer, she is unique and creates objects/structures for the job that takes a lot of work. But you'd have to watch, such a wonderful story! Beautiful scenery, which includes the Antarctica.

 

 

Thanks... Cate Blanchett is one of my very favorite actresses... so talented...  movie sounds interesting...

GG

[Garden Girl]

Being able to watch movies is one way that has helped keep me sane during my self-isolation... in addition to reading, drawing, scripture study...  I had ordered 4 films to add to my film library... they arrived yesterday:

from 1954.... Young at Heart... starring Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Gig Young, Dorothy Malone.  About a musical family with three daughters who become attracted to a visiting composer (Young), who manages to win the hearts of the 3 sisters, and who sends for a cynical songwriter friend to help him with some arrangements (Sinatra).  What ensues is a romantic comedy-drama with wonderful songs by the Gershwins...

from 1958... Marjorie Morningstar...  starring Natalie Wood as New Yorker Marjorie who is eighteen. beautiful. and eager to explore the world of the theater.  During a season of summer stock at an east coast resort, she meets and falls in love with a handsome older producer (Gene Kelly) who sweeps her off her feet and into a once-in-a-lifetime love affair while he tries to break into the demanding world of Broadway.  A "beautifully made romantic drama" co-starring Claire Trevor, Martin Balsam, Caroline Jones. Martin Milner... Based a a novel by Herman Wouk.

from 1991... Conagher... starring Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross... Conn Conagher (Elliott) is a man who admires a woman with nerve, and the widow Evie Teale (Ross) has plenty... but he is a ranch hand dealing with deadly rustlers... besides, a fenced-in life isn't Conn's way... at least not yet.  Evie Teale, widowed after coming west, is forced to prove her nettle in many ways.  Conn drifts in and out of Evie's life... something about this frontier woman keeps drawing Conn back to her... But can Evie ever keep him from drifting out again?  Beautifully filmed, based on a Louis L'Amour novel... 

from 1996... Michael... directed by Nora Ephron... starring John Travolta as Michael, a grubby party animal who knows his way around a dance floor, but who is very much an angel.  Co-starring William Hurt, Andie McDowell, and Robert Pastorelli as 3 tabloid reporters sent to investigate the report of a landlady about her heavenly guest... The journalists want a page-one scoop, but their subject has a far more joyous and life-affirming plan in mind...

GG

 

Edited April 4, 2020 by Garden Girl

[Amulek]

Sonic the Hedgehog (at my son's request). 

Proving, yet again, that the whole based-on-video-game genre needs to stop being a thing. 

 

[Calm]

2 hours ago, Amulek said:

Sonic the Hedgehog (at my son's request). 

Proving, yet again, that the whole based-on-video-game genre needs to stop being a thing. 

 

I liked Detective Pikachu.  Not so much the second time around, but worth the ticket...or would have been if I had seen it in the theatres. 

[Garden Girl]

I watched a movie being shown on Showtime during a  free period titled "Adrift" starring Shaleen ______(?)  that was based on a true story... about a free-spirited girl who worked her way around the world, mostly on boats/marinas.  She meets a fellow from England who has a yacht and they start seeing each other... he runs into old friends (a couple who have to fly home on an emergency and agrees to sail their yacht back to the U.S. (San Diego) for them).  I think they are somewhere near Australia... anyway, it's about a 30-day crossing.  The girl agrees to go with him and they start out.  Everything goes well the first week until they are hit by a huge storm that disables the yacht and leaves them adrift... what follows is their story of trying to survive (he is seriously injured... broken ribs/shattered leg).  They are not near any shipping lanes or flight paths... During another bout of high waves/wind he is washed overboard and lost...she is left on her own, alone and adrift for 41+ days.   Finally the currents have carried her to an area where she sees another ship and she is able to send up flares and is rescued... She continues to this day to love sailing in spite of this experience.  I thought about Rod and Patti Headlee as I watched this movie... the power of the sea can be truly frightening...

GG

 

[Amulek]

12 hours ago, Calm said:

I liked Detective Pikachu.  Not so much the second time around, but worth the ticket...or would have been if I had seen it in the theatres. 

I took my son to go see that in one of the IMAX theaters back when it came out. I fell asleep about a quarter of the way into it. 

 

[bluebell]

3 hours ago, Garden Girl said:

I watched a movie being shown on Showtime during a  free period titled "Adrift" starring Shaleen ______(?)  that was based on a true story... about a free-spirited girl who worked her way around the world, mostly on boats/marinas.  She meets a fellow from England who has a yacht and they start seeing each other... he runs into old friends (a couple who have to fly home on an emergency and agrees to sail their yacht back to the U.S. (San Diego) for them).  I think they are somewhere near Australia... anyway, it's about a 30-day crossing.  The girl agrees to go with him and they start out.  Everything goes well the first week until they are hit by a huge storm that disables the yacht and leaves them adrift... what follows is their story of trying to survive (he is seriously injured... broken ribs/shattered leg).  They are not near any shipping lanes or flight paths... During another bout of high waves/wind he is washed overboard and lost...she is left on her own, alone and adrift for 41+ days.   Finally the currents have carried her to an area where she sees another ship and she is able to send up flares and is rescued... She continues to this day to love sailing in spite of this experience.  I thought about Rod and Patti Headlee as I watched this movie... the power of the sea can be truly frightening...

GG

 

****Huge Spoiler alert.  Don't keep reading if you haven't seen the movie******

I really liked that movie!  Both actors were really good.  But it was a real shock to me when I figured out that he had actually been lost at sea during the first huge storm and everything after that with him in it was her imagination helping her cope with being left alone, until she's finally able to face it and the audience finds out she's been alone the whole time.  It was a brilliant way to do the movie.  

[Calm]

3 hours ago, Amulek said:

I took my son to go see that in one of the IMAX theaters back when it came out. I fell asleep about a quarter of the way into it. 

 

You ever play the game?  It was fun to see the characters in a setting.

[Garden Girl]

2 hours ago, bluebell said:

****Huge Spoiler alert.  Don't keep reading if you haven't seen the movie******

I really liked that movie!  Both actors were really good.  But it was a real shock to me when I figured out that he had actually been lost at sea during the first huge storm and everything after that with him in it was her imagination helping her cope with being left alone, until she's finally able to face it and the audience finds out she's been alone the whole time.  It was a brilliant way to do the movie.  

I must be dense!  I thought he was with her until the second storm... that she had been able to rescue him at the time of the first and he was with her until the second storm that did leave her alone... when was it that it became known that she had been alone the whole time?  Either way, wasn't it a good movie!

GG

[Amulek]

16 hours ago, Calm said:

You ever play the game?  

Nope. I was too old to get into the cartoons and video games when they first came out. 

My main exposure has been just recently as my son has gotten into watching the cartoon series on Netflix. He likes it well enough. Whereas, I just keep thinking to myself, 'How many seasons is it going to take this poor kid before he finally becomes a Pokemon 'master?''

Oh, and my son also likes the cards - not for playing the actual card game; just for collecting them. He likes to order them from cuddliest to least cuddly. 

I'm just biding my time and trying to slowly plant the seeds that when he gets older he can play a real card game (i.e., MTG).  

 

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It was fun to see the characters in a setting.

I suppose. But I've never fallen asleep in a theater before - that was a first for me. And I've seen some pretty lousy movies in my day.  

 

[bluebell]

19 hours ago, Garden Girl said:

I must be dense!  I thought he was with her until the second storm... that she had been able to rescue him at the time of the first and he was with her until the second storm that did leave her alone... when was it that it became known that she had been alone the whole time?  Either way, wasn't it a good movie!

GG

It's been months since I've seen it but I think it was during the flashback where she relives the big wreck where the boat flips, and you realize from the changed scenes that she never found him out in the ocean and swam and brought him back.  He had been gone from the beginning of the ordeal. 

[Calm]

11 hours ago, Amulek said:

was too old to get into the cartoons and video games when they first came out. 

One of the perqs of being a stay at home mom is becoming too familiar with your kids’ favorite cartoons.
 

I played a couple of games in order for my daughter to have someone to talk to about them given her social anxiety. Pokémon was one of them.  Halo or other games that required you to do something fast or in a set way I don’t like. Puzzle or building a collection games much less pressure.  Civilization is the first game  I got addicted to. Current fix is DragonVale, primarily enjoy the look.  Very useful for distracting little kids when they have to wait for something. 
 

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Oh, and my son also likes the cards - not for playing the actual card game; just for collecting them. He likes to order them from cuddliest to least cuddly. 

My daughter recently passed her set onto her nieces and nephew. I had to avoid thinking about them as I tend to be compulsive about completing collections. Thankfully by the time we could afford spending significant cash on sets, she wasn’t interested. 
I have never dared to get into MTG or other card game due to my compulsive nature. 

Edited April 30, 2020 by Calm

[bluebell]

HBO had some free movies on Prime yesterday and we watched Blinded by the Light, a weird show about a Pakistani teenager in the 80's who's life is made better by discovering Bruce Springsteen.  The movie was both odd and endearing, sometimes to artsy but always had a lot of heart.  It wasn't until the end that I discovered that it was based on a true story.  I recommend it for anyone who likes Bruce Springsteen.  

[Tacenda]

2 hours ago, bluebell said:

HBO had some free movies on Prime yesterday and we watched Blinded by the Light, a weird show about a Pakistani teenager in the 80's who's life is made better by discovering Bruce Springsteen.  The movie was both odd and endearing, sometimes to artsy but always had a lot of heart.  It wasn't until the end that I discovered that it was based on a true story.  I recommend it for anyone who likes Bruce Springsteen.  

I don't know why but I had the biggest lump in my throat and tears at the end when he gets the award and speaks about his father, what did you think?

[bluebell]

23 minutes ago, Tacenda said:

I don't know why but I had the biggest lump in my throat and tears at the end when he gets the award and speaks about his father, what did you think?

That was a touching scene.  I'm glad the family was able to come back together.  My inner speech writer (very very inner) couldn't completely get past what the speech would have sounded like to the rest of the audience, who didn't really know the background or anything.  It seems like they probably heard a lot of personal rambling that was a little awkward.  

[bluebell]

I finally watched Dark Waters last night and thought it was very well done and incredibly interesting (and slightly scary). 

It's based on the true story of a lawsuit involving Dupont Chemical for basically poisoning the entire world but  with Teflon and not telling anyone.  The lawsuit was centered on a town in West Virginia where Dupont was creating Teflon and illegally storing the toxic waste from it, giving everyone in the town cancer.  It focuses on the lawyer that spent decades working to hold Dupont accountable, even though by profession he was a partner at a law firm that normally represented chemical companies when they were being sued.

It's an "Erin Brokovich" type movie (but rated PG-13).  Highly recommended for people who like shows like that.

[Garden Girl]

I added to my movie library and spent yesterday watching them to be sure they're in top condition... they are:

South Pacific - from 1958 - starring Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi - Delightful musical set in WWII (based on Michener's Tales of the South Pacific, and the Broadway play)

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial - from 1982 - (the first time I've ever seen it)

Hacksaw Ridge - from 2016 - starring Andrew Garfield as Desmond Doss, the true story of a 7th Day Adventist who was a WWII Conscientious Objector who enlisted to serve his country as a combat medic... who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery.  Combat scenes are fierce and bloody.  In the battle for Hacksaw Ridge, he single-handedly saved 75 wounded men by lowering them by rope down the ridge where they were taken to a MASH unit.

Edited May 17, 2020 by Garden Girl

[bluebell]

7 hours ago, Garden Girl said:

I added to my movie library and spent yesterday watching them to be sure they're in top condition... they are:

South Pacific - from 1958 - starring Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi - Delightful musical set in WWII (based on Michener's Tales of the South Pacific, and the Broadway play)

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial - from 1982 - (the first time I've ever seen it)

Hacksaw Ridge - from 2016 - starring Andrew Garfield as Desmond Doss, the true story of a 7th Day Adventist who was a WWII Conscientious Objector who enlisted to serve his country as a combat medic... who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery.  Combat scenes are fierce and bloody.  In the battle for Hacksaw Ridge, he single-handedly saved 75 wounded men by lowering them by rope down the ridge where they were taken to a MASH unit.

What did you think of ET?

[Garden Girl]

1 hour ago, bluebell said:

What did you think of ET?

I fell asleep but what I saw was okay for what it was... It didn't give me any deep thoughts...

GG

[Garden Girl]

I watched "The Jerico Mile" from 1979 starring Peter Strauss... filmed inside of CA's Folsom Prison about an inmate that spends most of his time running on the prison track... Soon his speed becomes noticed and the warden arranges to have a time/distance race to qualify the inmate for Olympic trials... a terrific story...

GG

Edited June 1, 2020 by Garden Girl

[Maureen]

On 5/17/2020 at 6:20 PM, bluebell said:

What did you think of ET?

I watched ET recently and couldn't help but think how young those actors were when this movie was filmed compared to how much older they are now. 😊

M.

[Maureen]

I watched a movie called Ready or Not. It's a suspence/kinda horror/with a smidge of humour movie. A woman marries into a very wealthy family that has a tradition of playing a game with the new family member the night of the wedding. The first thing I noticed as the movie introduces the many characters is how many Canadian actors are in the movie and it was obviously filmed in Canada because of a scene where children are sleeping in beds and the pillow cases are very familiar since I bought those same pillow cases from The Bay (Hudson's Bay - a very Canadian department store). I liked the movie, it was fun.

M.

Edited June 1, 2020 by Maureen