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Post by Badactor on Feb 10, 2022 20:28:17 GMT -5
I just wanted to watch a western...
a good old-fashioned horse picture.
Something with scenery and a story and horses.
Lots of horses.
All the buzz about the power of the dog...
It's ridiculous. This is an awful movie.
Agonizingly tedious. Mush, not mushy, mush.
If Cumberbatch thinks he's going to get an award
just for showing his weiner... he can forget it.
I found it excruciating to watch him perform
his perfect American accent...
(only once did i detect the english accent)
there we're times, however, where it sounded
like he was doing Tom Selleck.
And the script, what nonsense. Obvious.
Nothing original or interesting here.
And the pace, my God, the pace...
Directing 101 fail!
I'd say it was two hours I'll never get back,
but Miss Kirsten Dunst is worth seeing.
She is so lovely and a very fine actress.
The power of the dog...
it's not the Western you're looking for.
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Post by Badactor on Feb 10, 2022 20:32:47 GMT -5
Respect. R e s p e c t! Great film. Great performances.
Even if it were a bad movie, The Music would save it,
but this is a darn fine motion picture...
Highest recommendation. Miss Hudson is brilliant!
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Post by Badactor on Feb 10, 2022 20:54:32 GMT -5
Rita Moreno is a beautiful gift to this world
and her performance in the reimagined West Side Story
is simply breathtaking.
Spielberg gives the movie A Spielberg look
and I suppose it works... movie musicals are tough.
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Post by Badactor on Feb 10, 2022 20:58:52 GMT -5
Tick Tick boom... A movie about a musical.
Maybe it's me and maybe after a lifetime
of performing musical theater, I'm simply
tired of it, but I really miss the old style shows
with actual Melodies and beautiful lyrics.
Recitative... It's all recitative in the newfangled style
of musical theater... I don't care for it.
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Post by eye123 on Feb 10, 2022 21:08:29 GMT -5
Watched "The Hangover" on Netflix the other day (how I missed that one over the years I'll never know) absolutely HILARIOUS ! Non stop laughs. Just to give an idea of the scope of what I watch....caught "The Apartment" with Jack Lemmon again (never can see that one enough..favorite actor) Billy Wilder hits a home run there. (CC Baxter takes home $97.50 a week...apartment rent was $80 a month...but after the landlady put in an old air conditioner the rent went up to $85 (1960)  ) Can recommend "Ozark" Netflix......If you liked Breaking Bad...you'll like this. Also "The Last Kingdom is coming out with season 5 next month...if looking for something to binge watch this is a good one. That's my Siskel and Ebbert. |
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Post by spiderjohn on Feb 10, 2022 21:46:51 GMT -5
My wife signed up for Netflix. I did watch Ozarks and The Money Heist.
Have enjoyed both of them. Did watch most of Miss Maisel the first Mexican drug cartel series. A lot of musician biographies.
Very much enjoyed jack Lemmon throughout. Other than that, I am a Bogart, Tracy, Cagney, Edward G, Gable, Greenstreet, Welles era kind of guy.
Television—-nfl, racing and the Greg Gutfeld show(imo hilarious), KET
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Post by Badactor on Feb 10, 2022 23:51:54 GMT -5
I worked with Will Smith in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air...
One of the nicest actors I have ever met.
The producers of the show thought his career
was coming to an end because he was getting older
and wasn't going to be young and cute anymore...
They were wrong.
It his new film, King Richard,
Will Smith turns in a powerful performance.
Detailed and emotional. He displays strength
and vulnerability in an exquisite performance.
The Venus and Serena Williams story is fascinating
and beautifully told in this wonderfully acted film.
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Post by cherokeescot on Feb 11, 2022 8:25:49 GMT -5
The Lost Daughter - should have stayed lost !
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Post by spanky126 on Feb 11, 2022 12:20:01 GMT -5
The Hangover was comedy masterpiece! Usually the sequel sucks but The Hangover 2 is great!
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Post by spanky126 on Feb 11, 2022 14:10:58 GMT -5
Will Smith was great in The Wild,Wild West. The original was one of my favorite shows back in the day...
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Post by shoes on Feb 11, 2022 18:23:30 GMT -5
I watch mostly films of the 1930s -1950s, with a healthy number from the 1960s and 1970s and a bit of a dip into Silents from the 1920s. I've seen quite a few movies from the 1980s on but am finding it more an more difficult to enjoy modern films. I'm just not interest in Marvel/CGI extravaganzas.
My favorite genres are probably the Warner Bros films with Bogart, Cagney, Davis, Flynn, Dehavailand and film noir. Also very open to foreign films and sub titles don't bother me.
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Post by shoes on Feb 11, 2022 18:25:19 GMT -5
PS- I agree that movie musicals are difficult to do well. My favorites include Oliver, Flower drum song and All That Jazz.
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Post by spiderjohn on Feb 11, 2022 19:17:18 GMT -5
I have watched a lot of silent movies
Metropolis is always interesting—-Deja vu all over again?
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Post by spanky126 on Feb 12, 2022 19:41:43 GMT -5
Jack Lemon is one of my all time favorites. The Odd Couple is a given but The Out of Towners was awesome. Sandy Dennis was great, Steve Martin version was terrible imo...
I watched the original movie The Fly with Vincent Price. Interesting.
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Post by turffan on Feb 13, 2022 10:08:54 GMT -5
Just happened to watch Pale Rider last night, one of the Clint Eastwood movies of a man WITH a name in this case - Preacher. I like Westerns that capture what I think conditions in the West were like at the time based on what I see of the present day landscape out there. I think that the TV series 1883, prequel to Yellowstone, captures that well. Watched the first two free episodes but with all the steaming services I didn't want the shell out $ per month for ANOTHER one.
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Post by eye123 on Feb 13, 2022 10:45:43 GMT -5
Peacock TV offers streaming service for just $4.99...limited adds.(cancel when you want) Can catch the Olympics as well as the Super Bowl, live sports,movies,TV series etc,etc....(watching Yellowstone on there currently)...
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Post by Badactor on Feb 13, 2022 12:13:54 GMT -5
Masterfully directed by Kenneth Branagh,
Belfast should be on the list of films to see.
Brilliant use of black&white and color film.
All the actors give beautiful performances.
Powerful. Emotional. This film will get your ire up.
Highest 'Bad' Recommendation. (patent pending)
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Post by spanky126 on Feb 13, 2022 12:36:31 GMT -5
Clints new show "Cry Macho" ...well, I'll reserve comments but would like to see what others have to say who has seen it., especially the Badactor (if you've seen it).
Branagh has been great in every film I've seen him in. I think he stars in the new film Death on the Nile. Gal Gadot stars as well...
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Post by eye123 on Feb 13, 2022 12:42:04 GMT -5
Gal Gadot...if I were 40 yrs younger, better looking ,and had a personality |
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Post by tc on Feb 13, 2022 12:54:25 GMT -5
Gal Gadot...if I were 40 yrs younger, better looking ,and had a personality  you will probably need some shekels as well. |
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Post by spanky126 on Feb 16, 2022 11:18:20 GMT -5
Better Wonder Woman...Gal Gadot or Lynda Carter?
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Post by bobtailnag on Feb 16, 2022 16:36:41 GMT -5
The best movie I ever saw was "Beyond the Rainbow" starring Clara Bow. She was movieland's first sex star - of course I was too young to know what that meant.
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Post by Badactor on Feb 16, 2022 17:07:53 GMT -5
The best movie I ever saw was "Beyond the Rainbow" starring Clara Bow. She was movieland's first sex star - of course I was too young to know what that meant. |
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Post by Badactor on Feb 16, 2022 17:19:05 GMT -5
Binged the new season (6 episodes) of The Kominsky Method...
wonderful cast, terrific show. Kathleen Turner is perfect!
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Post by spanky126 on Feb 16, 2022 19:11:02 GMT -5
Jessica Chastain in the movie The Eyes Of Tammy Baker should deserves an Oscar for Best Actress! She was also fantastic in Mollys Game...
I had forgotten Jim Baker went to prison for fraud. The film also stars actors portraying Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.
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Post by cherokeescot on Feb 16, 2022 20:43:55 GMT -5
Going to watch Silence of the Lambs tomorrow on the big screen at Ocala’s historic Marion Theatre. Excited about it 🍷
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Post by Badactor on Feb 18, 2022 23:33:06 GMT -5
Enjoying another season of Ted Lasso.
Not quite as sharp as last year and the drama
is a bit forced, but I got to know the characters
last year and I like them. Enjoyable comedy.
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) Can recommend "Ozark" Netflix......If you liked Breaking Bad...you'll like this. Also "The Last Kingdom is coming out with season 5 next month...if looking for something to binge watch this is a good one. That's my Siskel and Ebbert. 
