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Title: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on December 27, 2012, 03:03:47 AM
Last movie I saw was A Christmas Story, on TV a couple days ago.

How about youse guys?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on December 27, 2012, 03:15:01 AM
I've still never seen "A Christmas Story...."
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lyubov on December 27, 2012, 03:30:38 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on December 27, 2012, 03:15:01 AM
I've still never seen "A Christmas Story...."

Me neither.

The last movie I watched was The Curse of the Golden Flower. Very nice visuals, but a weird movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on December 27, 2012, 03:35:10 PM
The wife and I were watching The Two Towers and then Return of the King on blu-ray...

kinda prepping before the hobbit.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Penelope on December 27, 2012, 06:43:11 PM
My fiance took me to see Skyfall in theaters, per my request (he had already seen it). It was excellent.

On television, though, the last movie I saw was A Christmas Story. Most excellent (secular) Christmas movie. It's my grandfather's favorite Christmas movie because it reminds him of what life was like when he was a little boy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rob on December 27, 2012, 06:53:42 PM
I was flipping through the channels on Christmas and found "The Song of Bernadette on TCM channel.  I never really watched the whole movie before but I was impressed with the acting and surprised to see a young Vincent Price was in the movie. Jenifer Jones was excellent too.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lyubov on December 27, 2012, 06:57:05 PM
Quote from: Rob on December 27, 2012, 06:53:42 PM
I was flipping through the channels on Christmas and found "The Song of Bernadette on TCM channel.  I never really watched the whole movie before but I was impressed with the acting and surprised to see a young Vincent Price was in the movie. Jenifer Jones was excellent too.

Haha, I noticed that on TV, too. The movie ran a bit long, but Vincent Price was the best part. I own that movie on DVD.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rob on December 27, 2012, 07:16:13 PM
I see why it won so many oscars
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ancilla Domini on December 27, 2012, 07:57:48 PM
I can't even remember... It's been that long.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on December 27, 2012, 10:00:07 PM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fia.media-imdb.com%2Fimages%2FM%2FMV5BMTI5NTI3OTAyOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTg3ODkxMQ%40%40._V1._SY317_CR3%2C0%2C214%2C317_.jpg&hash=58ae209c8e38458e629644f29416bbbdf249b031)

Hunk-ules!

I mean, Hercules!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: EcceQuamBonum on December 27, 2012, 10:14:37 PM
Christmas Story.  Annual tradition.  Know the whole movie by heart at this point and still laugh through the whole thing. 


"You used up all the glue on purpose!"

;D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Penelope on December 27, 2012, 10:16:28 PM
Quote from: EcceQuamBonum on December 27, 2012, 10:14:37 PM
Christmas Story.  Annual tradition.  Know the whole movie by heart at this point and still laugh through the whole thing. 


"You used up all the glue on purpose!"

;D

My Facebook status on Christmas Eve was "Used all the glue. On purpose. Sorry."
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on December 27, 2012, 10:44:26 PM
Watched The Trouble With Harry on Blu-ray today.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ancilla Domini on December 27, 2012, 10:46:22 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on December 27, 2012, 10:44:26 PM
Watched The Trouble With Harry on Blu-ray today.

Classic!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on December 27, 2012, 10:51:51 PM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.wonderhowto.com%2Fimg%2F62%2F29%2F63407378431246%2F0%2Feraserhead.w654.jpg&hash=d5ac7dd5a0a7a7ca8d07951a08ee318bf695bd18)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lyubov on December 27, 2012, 11:03:29 PM
Quote from: Penelope on December 27, 2012, 10:16:28 PM
Quote from: EcceQuamBonum on December 27, 2012, 10:14:37 PM
Christmas Story.  Annual tradition.  Know the whole movie by heart at this point and still laugh through the whole thing. 


"You used up all the glue on purpose!"

;D

My Facebook status on Christmas Eve was "Used all the glue. On purpose. Sorry."

I was wondering what that meant.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on December 27, 2012, 11:08:05 PM
Eraserhead is trippy enough, why the need to watch it in Spanish?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on December 27, 2012, 11:13:15 PM
Quote from: Lyubov on December 27, 2012, 11:03:29 PM
Quote from: Penelope on December 27, 2012, 10:16:28 PM
Quote from: EcceQuamBonum on December 27, 2012, 10:14:37 PM
Christmas Story.  Annual tradition.  Know the whole movie by heart at this point and still laugh through the whole thing. 


"You used up all the glue on purpose!"

;D

My Facebook status on Christmas Eve was "Used all the glue. On purpose. Sorry."

I was wondering what that meant.

Ditto.  I was really confused. 

I thought it was a hodge podge of mod podge redux.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on December 27, 2012, 11:26:28 PM
Quote from: Ancilla Domini on December 27, 2012, 10:46:22 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on December 27, 2012, 10:44:26 PM
Watched The Trouble With Harry on Blu-ray today.

Classic!

Indeed!  Makes you wonder what could have been... if Hitchcock had made more comedies after that.

Quote from: Hat And Beard on December 27, 2012, 10:51:51 PM
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Quote from: Mithrandylan on December 27, 2012, 11:08:05 PM
Eraserhead is trippy enough, why the need to watch it in Spanish?

LOL.  Cabeza borradora!  Guess I've learned my "something new" for today.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on December 31, 2012, 11:34:06 AM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2F2%2F27%2FCheech_%2526_Chong%2527s_Up_in_Smoke.jpg&hash=4cdca57ba9498e5df8e138b276d620f9ce33e8e0)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on December 31, 2012, 01:12:14 PM
The season two finale of Hell on Wheels. If that doesn't count(it was 93 minutes long), then Rocky IV.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on December 31, 2012, 01:21:44 PM
The Hobbit!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on December 31, 2012, 01:26:07 PM
Quote from: Hat And Beard on December 31, 2012, 11:34:06 AM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2F2%2F27%2FCheech_%2526_Chong%2527s_Up_in_Smoke.jpg&hash=4cdca57ba9498e5df8e138b276d620f9ce33e8e0)

Although not from the same movie, I have to post it:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2K-_2AHYh0[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on January 02, 2013, 08:32:12 PM
Well, this was odd.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdjWWSKfKsg[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gottmitunsalex on January 02, 2013, 10:48:06 PM
At the cinema, the last one I saw was:
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 02, 2013, 10:53:47 PM
O Brother, where art thou?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on January 02, 2013, 11:11:05 PM
I've actually watched a lot of movies lately.

Today the wife and I saw the Hobbit.

Last night we watched (in order) Sling Blade, Dr. Strangelove and The Thin Red Line.  All Blu Rays I'd had for a while and hadn't gotten around to watching.  Three of my favorite movies, in fact.  The Thin Red Line Blu Ray was the Criterion Collection edition.  I look forward to exploring it some more.

Also watched recently The Road (blu ray) and Gangs of New York (blu ray)
Title: Re: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on January 03, 2013, 06:46:29 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 02, 2013, 10:53:47 PM
O Brother, where art thou?

Thoughts?   It's really good, IMHO.
Title: Re: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Eliza on January 03, 2013, 07:11:58 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 03, 2013, 06:46:29 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 02, 2013, 10:53:47 PM
O Brother, where art thou?

Thoughts?   It's really good, IMHO.

It's a great movie. One of my favorite parts is when he's up in the barn loft about ready to get caught and he keeps saying, "we're in a tight spot!" Makes me laugh every time.

And the music is great.
Title: Re: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on January 03, 2013, 01:15:29 PM
Quote from: Eliza on January 03, 2013, 07:11:58 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 03, 2013, 06:46:29 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 02, 2013, 10:53:47 PM
O Brother, where art thou?

Thoughts?   It's really good, IMHO.

It's a great movie. One of my favorite parts is when he's up in the barn loft about ready to get caught and he keeps saying, "we're in a tight spot!" Makes me laugh every time.

And the music is great.

Best script ever, AFAIAC. To wit:

"WERE NOT HEAT TO CUT A RECORD, YOU DUMN CRACKER!"
"Gimme that chopper"(referring to the Tommy Gun).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on January 03, 2013, 01:18:26 PM
Quote from: Mithrandylan on January 02, 2013, 11:11:05 PM
I've actually watched a lot of movies lately.

Today the wife and I saw the Hobbit.

Last night we watched (in order) Sling Blade, Dr. Strangelove and The Thin Red Line.  All Blu Rays I'd had for a while and hadn't gotten around to watching.  Three of my favorite movies, in fact.  The Thin Red Line Blu Ray was the Criterion Collection edition.  I look forward to exploring it some more.

Also watched recently The Road (blu ray) and Gangs of New York (blu ray)

That was a major let down. I think it was after that movie Scorcese said he would only make documentaries.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on January 03, 2013, 06:32:13 PM
Intriguing, Ben - I quite liked Gangs.  Thought it captured the "alien" feel of the past much better than most period films.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on January 03, 2013, 06:47:58 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on January 03, 2013, 06:32:13 PM
Intriguing, Ben - I quite liked Gangs.  Thought it captured the "alien" feel of the past much better than most period films.

I agree.  I'm going to provide some minor spoilers, followed by some major ones.  Read at your own risk.

That said, Gangs isn't without it's problems.  There was definitely some Catholic inaccuracy... like CITH in those catacombs, with a completely fabricated communion prayer (though it was pretty cool pre-battle, nonetheless) "May God put the steel of the Holy Spirit [SPIRIT?!?] in your spine and the love of the Blessed Virgin in your heart"  Sounds pretty good when pronounced with a nice Irish lilt, though. 

It appears, though from some angles this could be disputed, that the priest in the catacombs was offering mass (or at least the elevation) versus populum... then there's the issue of the movie opening with Liam Neeson saying the St Michael prayer... in 1846 (think about that one for a second).

As far as the scene where it appears characters are receiving CITH, it is odd because there is a later scene where the main Irish characters are quite reverently receiving communion on the tongue.

Then there's the ridiculously campy line of Liam Neeson (in response to DDL's "may the Christian God guide my hand against your roman popery!) of "PREPARE TO RECEIVE THE TRUE LORD!" and then pulls his sword and charges into battle... ugh

Leo's character was not well developed.  He throws his bible into the river when he leaves Hellgate.  Now, one could say that he did this because Hellgate was obviously a protestant boarding school and it reasons they gave him a protestant bible (this does logically follow) and a self respecting Irish Catholic wouldn't be caught dead with a prot bible, but he was only like seven years old when he went to Hellgate, which raises the question of how he could, for sixteen years, maintain any Catholic sentiment and even KNOW that there were different "versions" of scripture... plus, he sincerely hugs the Reverend when he leaves... and then RIGHT after he throws the bible in the river, he's seen praying the St Michael prayer... I mean, c'mon this is not well thought out.

Then Leo talks about "Always hating the harbor after dark..." how?  You've been in a boarding school since you were 7.  Were you looting many ferry boats at this age?  Or his narrative about all the different kinds of criminals in the five points.  We're getting a narrative from someone who DIDN'T grow up in the five points... while he could easily come across this information from the crew he's now running with, this gangster lifestyle-- whatever his propensity could have been to it due to his early childhood and fiery Irish personality-- is largely alien to him.  His gangster savvy seems out of place for someone who spent his entire practical life in a protestant boarding school.

And the ending sucks.  It leaves a bad taste in my mouth.  The movie does it's best to build up tension between the natives and the Irish, between Catholics and masons/prots/politicians and completely abandons it at the last second for some "unified American" bullsh. 

How does the final scene climax?  With your two main characters fighting it to the death?  NO.  They try to, but the canon fire from the navy interrupts, one of them gets shrapeneled and the other finishes him off.  THEN Leo is narrating at the end about how many dead there were, and that it didn't matter whether they were rabbits, natives, whatever... it didn't matter?  Then what did I just spend the first two hours watching?  Then close with U2's "these are the hands that built America..."  No thanks. 

I LIKE the movie.  But some things in it were just wrong. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on January 03, 2013, 06:51:09 PM
Actually, the worst part of the movie was Cameron Diaz.  You could have completely removed her from the movie and not only would you have had to do next to zero re-writing, it would have been significantly better.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on January 03, 2013, 07:59:47 PM
Dylan, although it has been a while since I watched my Blu-ray of Gangs I generally agree with your criticisms.  Didn't remember the CITH!  In fact, upon further reflection, I think the movie is good almost in spite of itself.  But given the plot holes you mention... yes, I maintain it is a success in conveying the aforementioned "alien" FEEL of that time, especially compared to our own.  Scorsese and other "film school era" film-makers generally succeed in getting the "feel" of their movies right, if leaving a plot that serves only to develop and navigate the "feel."
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on January 03, 2013, 08:19:07 PM
Tommydubsmachine,

That is a very good way of putting it.  The movie is good in spite of itself.

Our internet has been woefully slow and have not been able to use youtube for about two weeks.  Here is the opening scene from Gangs, and it should have the instance I'm talking about, though I don't know at what part since I can't watch it-- I'd imagine about halfway through the clip.  Look for Liam Neeson and John C Reilly to take communion in the hand-- though it is not the way you might see it in NO churches, they kind of yank the Host (which seems to be leavened).  It all happens very fast.  Perhaps it wasnt' communion at all, but considering that it comes immediately after what appears to be a celebration of Holy Mass (also, tell me if it looks to you like the mass in this scene is versus populum) then it would seem to be Holy Communion.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zo6iOotaJA[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 03, 2013, 10:06:51 PM
The Hobbit
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on January 03, 2013, 10:57:25 PM
The Odd Life of Timothy Green .... Oddly not as entertaining as I thought it would be.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lyubov on January 04, 2013, 03:41:47 AM
I'm not sure if it counts as a movie, but I'm currently re-watching I, Claudius. It's kind of sad when you can still remember all the lines in a 13-hour miniseries.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on January 04, 2013, 11:20:49 AM
Quote from: Lyubov on January 04, 2013, 03:41:47 AM
I'm not sure if it counts as a movie, but I'm currently re-watching I, Claudius. It's kind of sad when you can still remember all the lines in a 13-hour miniseries.

Brian Blessed's in that. Whenever I see him I think of A. L. Rowse's contemptuous characterization of C.S. Lewis as a "big, beefy, beery man."
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on January 04, 2013, 11:22:50 AM
Quote from: tmw89 on January 03, 2013, 06:32:13 PM
Intriguing, Ben - I quite liked Gangs.  Thought it captured the "alien" feel of the past much better than most period films.

I disliked it for some of the reasons Mithrandylan mentioned, but it was also just poor all around. It looked stagey and I wasn't impressed with the sets. Add all of these up and I was trying not to fall asleep.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lyubov on January 04, 2013, 11:24:47 AM
Quote from: Ben on January 04, 2013, 11:20:49 AM
Quote from: Lyubov on January 04, 2013, 03:41:47 AM
I'm not sure if it counts as a movie, but I'm currently re-watching I, Claudius. It's kind of sad when you can still remember all the lines in a 13-hour miniseries.

Brian Blessed's in that. Whenever I see him I think of A. L. Rowse's contemptuous characterization of C.S. Lewis as a "big, beefy, beery man."

I love Brian Blessed. The person I was watching with questioned his acting skills. :(

In one of my university classes, we watched a documentary about Napoleon's invasion of Russia that was narrated by Brian Blessed. :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on January 04, 2013, 11:28:40 AM
Quote from: Lyubov on January 04, 2013, 11:24:47 AM
Quote from: Ben on January 04, 2013, 11:20:49 AM
Quote from: Lyubov on January 04, 2013, 03:41:47 AM
I'm not sure if it counts as a movie, but I'm currently re-watching I, Claudius. It's kind of sad when you can still remember all the lines in a 13-hour miniseries.

Brian Blessed's in that. Whenever I see him I think of A. L. Rowse's contemptuous characterization of C.S. Lewis as a "big, beefy, beery man."

I love Brian Blessed. The person I was watching with questioned his acting skills. :(

In one of my university classes, we watched a documentary about Napoleon's invasion of Russia that was narrated by Brian Blessed. :)

I do too! The hammier the actor the more I like them. He could have a career just doing voice-over work.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on January 07, 2013, 02:20:34 AM
In honor of Django Reinhardt as this is the month of his birthday(Djangoary, as some folks call it):
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 07, 2013, 02:21:15 AM
How was Django?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on January 07, 2013, 02:23:32 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 07, 2013, 02:21:15 AM
How was Django?
He was missing some fingers, but other than that he was probably the greatest guitar player that ever lived.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on January 12, 2013, 10:53:10 AM
Rear Window, for really the umpteenth time - but the first time on Blu-ray.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: EcceQuamBonum on January 12, 2013, 02:56:02 PM
Just watched The Big Sleep.  Don't know how many times I've seen it.  Always great.

I'm teaching a freshman comp class this semester, and the course theme I picked was film noir, so I have a whole semester of awesome films to look forward to.   8)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on January 12, 2013, 04:44:46 PM
Quote from: EcceQuamBonum on January 12, 2013, 02:56:02 PM
Just watched The Big Sleep.  Don't know how many times I've seen it.  Always great.

I'm teaching a freshman comp class this semester, and the course theme I picked was film noir, so I have a whole semester of awesome films to look forward to.   8)
Oh yes. The Maltese Falcon, Sunset Boulevard, A Touch of Evil, The Third Man, and to shake things up, Chinatown. It's going to be a fun semester for you.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 12, 2013, 05:16:01 PM
40 Years of Fidelity: Abp. Lefebvre documentary.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on January 12, 2013, 07:59:41 PM
I will watch China Heavyweight tonight. I'll give a full report around 7AM MST tomorrow.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: CoolCat on January 14, 2013, 02:22:58 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 12, 2013, 05:16:01 PM
40 Years of Fidelity: Abp. Lefebvre documentary.
Isn't that an ongoing soap opera?
Just kidding.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 15, 2013, 11:55:53 AM
Quote from: CoolCat on January 14, 2013, 02:22:58 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 12, 2013, 05:16:01 PM
40 Years of Fidelity: Abp. Lefebvre documentary.
Isn't that an ongoing soap opera?
Just kidding.

You mean a novela?

8)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: CoolCat on January 15, 2013, 01:38:03 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 15, 2013, 11:55:53 AM
Quote from: CoolCat on January 14, 2013, 02:22:58 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 12, 2013, 05:16:01 PM
40 Years of Fidelity: Abp. Lefebvre documentary.
Isn't that an ongoing soap opera?
Just kidding.

You mean a novela?

8)
I had to look it up.  Yes, something like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenovela (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenovela)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on January 15, 2013, 01:50:07 PM
Quote from: EcceQuamBonum on January 12, 2013, 02:56:02 PM
Just watched The Big Sleep.  Don't know how many times I've seen it.  Always great.

I'm teaching a freshman comp class this semester, and the course theme I picked was film noir, so I have a whole semester of awesome films to look forward to.   8)

I'll have to see that again. I've read that the plot didn't make any sense to Hawks.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ancilla Domini on January 15, 2013, 02:02:40 PM
Quote from: CoolCat on January 15, 2013, 01:38:03 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 15, 2013, 11:55:53 AM
Quote from: CoolCat on January 14, 2013, 02:22:58 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 12, 2013, 05:16:01 PM
40 Years of Fidelity: Abp. Lefebvre documentary.
Isn't that an ongoing soap opera?
Just kidding.

You mean a novela?

8)
I had to look it up.  Yes, something like that.

You mean there are shirtless Latinos in every scene? I might have to watch that!  :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Christknight104 on January 15, 2013, 02:03:40 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 12, 2013, 05:16:01 PM
40 Years of Fidelity: Abp. Lefebvre documentary.

Did you buy that at the Retreat House?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 15, 2013, 02:19:42 PM
Quote from: Christknight104 on January 15, 2013, 02:03:40 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 12, 2013, 05:16:01 PM
40 Years of Fidelity: Abp. Lefebvre documentary.

Did you buy that at the Retreat House?

No, we just watched it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on January 15, 2013, 11:43:09 PM
Hugo. It was fantastic, absolutely enchanting.  :) I'll have to hunt down the book now.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on January 16, 2013, 06:05:40 PM
Finally saw For Greater Glory today. I couldn't really keep track of the reasons behind things, especially the government's decisions, but the cristeros' conviction and dedication was definitely inspriring!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 16, 2013, 06:39:55 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on January 16, 2013, 06:05:40 PM
Finally saw For Greater Glory today. I couldn't really keep track of the reasons behind things, especially the government's decisions, but the cristeros' conviction and dedication was definitely inspriring!

Calles wanted to diminish the power of the Church.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on January 16, 2013, 06:43:02 PM
He was also a Mason.

Effin' Masons.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on January 16, 2013, 07:57:30 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on January 16, 2013, 06:05:40 PM
Finally saw For Greater Glory today. I couldn't really keep track of the reasons behind things, especially the government's decisions, but the cristeros' conviction and dedication was definitely inspriring!

How was Andy Garcia? Haven't seen him in anything for awhile.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: phnuggle on January 16, 2013, 09:19:46 PM
Les Mis.   So.  Good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on January 16, 2013, 10:28:48 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 16, 2013, 06:43:02 PM
He was also a Mason.

Effin' Masons.

Betcha he was a jew, too.

#meximasonjews
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 16, 2013, 10:57:43 PM
Quote from: Mithrandylan on January 16, 2013, 10:28:48 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 16, 2013, 06:43:02 PM
He was also a Mason.

Effin' Masons.

Betcha he was a jew, too.

#meximasonjews

I've never heard that, but he was an atheist.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Vetus Ordo on January 16, 2013, 11:33:40 PM
Jews are actually some of the fiercest atheists out there.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Francisco Suárez on January 17, 2013, 12:01:33 AM
The Bourne Legacy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on January 17, 2013, 12:10:45 AM
After Voxxpop posted a clip from Ghost World in a different thread, I decided to check it out - what a slice of life time capsule!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gottmitunsalex on January 17, 2013, 12:14:25 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on January 16, 2013, 06:05:40 PM
Finally saw For Greater Glory today. I couldn't really keep track of the reasons behind things, especially the government's decisions, but the cristeros' conviction and dedication was definitely inspriring!
It is a great movie. A big part they left out at the end was to point out that once the Cristeros handed over their guns to the judeo-masonic government due to the "arreglos" (arrangements/accord), the government killed more Cristeros and priests in that time than during the 3 year war.

The only reason the Cristeros handed their guns to the judeo-masonic government was because Pope Pius XI gave the order to the Mexican bishops.
Due to misinformation he (the pope) received from the American bishops who were pushing the envelope with his holiness to order the Mexican bishops to tell their flock to sign the agreement with the government and hand over their weapons.


Sad times. Beautiful movie!! The best movie of 2012.     
   

If you can, pickup this book (actually it's a 3 part set) from Jean Meyer
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on January 17, 2013, 10:07:56 PM
Vertigo - I've lost count of the number of times I've seen the movie, but I think this was the first time on Blu-ray.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 18, 2013, 01:19:57 AM
Argo
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Der Kaiser on January 18, 2013, 03:57:33 AM
House of Dark Shadows from 1971. Very good. Not as good and cooky as the show though way better than that Tim Burton Crapfest.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on January 19, 2013, 07:38:41 PM
Zodiac on Blu-ray.  Quite liked it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on January 20, 2013, 12:18:43 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on January 19, 2013, 07:38:41 PM
Zodiac on Blu-ray.  Quite liked it.

What did you think of Ruffalo?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 21, 2013, 12:39:51 AM
Animal Farm
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on January 21, 2013, 07:56:02 AM
Quote from: Ben on January 20, 2013, 12:18:43 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on January 19, 2013, 07:38:41 PM
Zodiac on Blu-ray.  Quite liked it.

What did you think of Ruffalo?

I think he gave a particularly nuanced performance in Zodiac.  Far more interesting as a character and a performance than his turn in The Avengers.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on January 21, 2013, 07:56:56 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 21, 2013, 12:39:51 AM
Animal Farm

We talkin' the old CIA-sponsored cartoon or the PBS (BBC?) miniseries?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 21, 2013, 09:24:45 AM
Quote from: tmw89 on January 21, 2013, 07:56:56 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 21, 2013, 12:39:51 AM
Animal Farm

We talkin' the old CIA-sponsored cartoon or the PBS (BBC?) miniseries?

Cartoon
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Der Kaiser on January 21, 2013, 03:38:06 PM
Gangster Squad. Cool old style gangster movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 22, 2013, 03:55:21 PM
The Great Escape
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on January 24, 2013, 09:17:35 PM
The 1952 Moulin Rouge by John Huston, followed by The Birds.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on January 24, 2013, 09:49:59 PM
I watched a documentary, can't remember the name, but it was about the Death Metal scene in Norway in the early 90's.  It was NOT about Mayhem, but they were mentioned on quite a few occasions because of the obvious influences (both in music and behavior).  More focused on Darkthrone, Burzum and a few others.  I actually watched it because I've long been fascinated with that culture (not metal in general) of real death, satanism and just darkness.  Know thy enemy.  I can't really explain it.  Probably the same reason I binge learn about serial killers every year for a few months.

The doc was so-so.  I often think about people who are rabidly anti-Christian, and how they'd make really good Catholics.  Well, they did I suppose.  Just not all of them.  Not many in the current culture, anyhow.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 24, 2013, 09:50:55 PM
Dylan, would you say the virulent anti-Christians (the cold) are better than the amoral, agnostic, lukewarm?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on January 24, 2013, 09:56:01 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 24, 2013, 09:50:55 PM
Dylan, would you say the virulent anti-Christians (the cold) are better than the amoral, agnostic, lukewarm?

Better in what sense?

If one dies in either state, one goes to Hell obviously.  So not in that respect.

I would say that in terms of personal potential the cold have an aptitude to be great Catholics.  Look at St Paul, or St Augustine.  Not that the lukewarm couldn't, I just see the raw potential for it more in the cold.  The cold actually care and are convicted, they are just convicted in the wrong thing.  Of course, it is the grace of God that works in us and moves us to do His will, our own gifts are merely the instruments in this process.  Praise the Name of the Lord!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Der Kaiser on January 25, 2013, 02:48:08 AM
Frankenstein from 92 with Kenneth Brannagh. Seen it many times not bad. Not as good as the Luke Goss 2004 one though. And no one will ever trump the 31' Karloff version in atmosphere.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: CoolCat on January 25, 2013, 12:17:56 PM
Gods and generals.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Der Kaiser on January 28, 2013, 01:56:33 AM
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunter. The girlfriends Idea. THis is why a guy should never allow his lady to pick the ten $ movie they watch. Good lord what utter crud.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on January 28, 2013, 10:28:39 AM
2001: A Space Odyssey
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on January 28, 2013, 10:38:36 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 28, 2013, 10:28:39 AM
2001: A Space Odyssey

Thoughts?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on January 28, 2013, 11:21:22 AM
Quote from: tmw89 on January 28, 2013, 10:38:36 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 28, 2013, 10:28:39 AM
2001: A Space Odyssey

Thoughts?

SPACEYAWN
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on January 28, 2013, 11:46:13 AM
Ha!  The last time I watched 2001 was with a few friends, on Blu-ray by way of the PS3 - half-way through the Dawn of Man segment, we decided to switch it to 1.5 speedup for the rest of the movie.  Somebody still conked out.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gottmitunsalex on January 28, 2013, 10:36:50 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 22, 2013, 03:55:21 PM
The Great Escape
That is a good movie!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on January 29, 2013, 06:11:57 AM
Quote from: Gottmitunsalex on January 28, 2013, 10:36:50 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 22, 2013, 03:55:21 PM
The Great Escape
That is a good movie!
Have either of you seen the original?

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If not, you owe it to yourself. :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on January 29, 2013, 09:02:49 PM
Babel.

Definitely for grownups.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on January 29, 2013, 09:32:02 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on January 29, 2013, 09:02:49 PM
Babel.

Definitely for grownups.

Have you seen Amores Perros and 21 Grams, the first two movies in the trilogy?

I thought Babel was lackluster.  Not a fan.  And I saw it before I was Catholic in any real sense, so I'm not even really talking about some of the moral implications of it.

I thought the first two movies were great, though they are also for adults...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 29, 2013, 09:34:32 PM
I don't think we have a reason to watch those movies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on January 29, 2013, 09:42:24 PM
Quote from: Mithrandylan on January 29, 2013, 09:32:02 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on January 29, 2013, 09:02:49 PM
Babel.

Definitely for grownups.

Have you seen Amores Perros and 21 Grams, the first two movies in the trilogy?

I thought Babel was lackluster.  Not a fan.  And I saw it before I was Catholic in any real sense, so I'm not even really talking about some of the moral implications of it.

I thought the first two movies were great, though they are also for adults...

I had no idea those two movies segued into Babel. Thanks.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gottmitunsalex on January 30, 2013, 01:34:19 AM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on January 30, 2013, 06:11:10 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on January 29, 2013, 09:42:24 PM
Quote from: Mithrandylan on January 29, 2013, 09:32:02 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on January 29, 2013, 09:02:49 PM
Babel.

Definitely for grownups.

Have you seen Amores Perros and 21 Grams, the first two movies in the trilogy?

I thought Babel was lackluster.  Not a fan.  And I saw it before I was Catholic in any real sense, so I'm not even really talking about some of the moral implications of it.

I thought the first two movies were great, though they are also for adults...

I had no idea those two movies segued into Babel. Thanks.

Yeah.  It's not a trilogy in the proper sense, because each one is about totally unrelated events (OR ARE THEY!?!?!?)

Anyways, it's referred to as Innaritu's trilogy of death. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on January 30, 2013, 04:03:51 PM
The Passion of Darkly Noon

I didn't understand it, though I liked Ashley Judd's performance.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gottmitunsalex on January 31, 2013, 12:58:23 AM
Quote from: Hat And Beard on January 29, 2013, 06:11:57 AM
Quote from: Gottmitunsalex on January 28, 2013, 10:36:50 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 22, 2013, 03:55:21 PM
The Great Escape
That is a good movie!
Have either of you seen the original?

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If not, you owe it to yourself. :)
No I haven't' but I will look into it.
Thanks!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on January 31, 2013, 01:59:31 AM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on January 31, 2013, 02:01:45 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 22, 2013, 03:55:21 PM
The Great Escape

One of my favorite oldies. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on January 31, 2013, 01:10:04 PM
Just finished Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, on Blu-ray.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on January 31, 2013, 01:21:12 PM
In an attempt to see as many of the movies nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars as possible, my wife and I saw both Zero Dark Thirty and Silver Linings Playbook recently.

The former was good, but not worthy of the nomination in my opinion, and the second was mostly a romantic comedy (and thus I didn't care for it all that much, though De Niro was pretty awesome in it).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Quo Vadis on February 01, 2013, 01:03:30 AM
Mary Poppins
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on February 01, 2013, 08:31:42 AM
Marnie, on Blu-ray.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: BierKaiser on February 01, 2013, 08:45:31 PM
Star Trek, the 2009 movie on BluRay.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Anastasia on February 02, 2013, 11:18:09 AM
The Bourne Legacy. Boy, was that disappointing!
Title: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on February 02, 2013, 02:12:46 PM
Quote from: Anastasia on February 02, 2013, 11:18:09 AM
The Bourne Legacy. Boy, was that disappointing!

I liked Jeremy Renner, but the rest of the movie left a lot to be desired. Especially the climax at the end with the bad guy. No hand to hand combat just one extremely drawn out bike chase? Serious let down.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Anastasia on February 02, 2013, 05:32:15 PM
Quote from: Archer on February 02, 2013, 02:12:46 PM
Quote from: Anastasia on February 02, 2013, 11:18:09 AM
The Bourne Legacy. Boy, was that disappointing!

I liked Jeremy Renner, but the rest of the movie left a lot to be desired. Especially the climax at the end with the bad guy. No hand to hand combat just one extremely drawn out bike chase? Serious let down.
I know, they didnt even develop the bad guy at all really, just threw him in for the last half hour with no explanation of who he was, why he was so special, anything. It wasnt really a Bourne movie, first of all. The minute they did the magic pill makes him a supersoldier routine, we were in comic book movie territory. It wouldve made more sense to just make it a Hawkeye movie, honestly.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on February 02, 2013, 09:17:41 PM
I agree about the ending. Pretty lame.

I liked the beginning of that movie, when he was in the wilderness.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on February 02, 2013, 09:26:33 PM
I really liked Ultimatum. Nobody else?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Penelope on February 02, 2013, 09:53:07 PM
My fiance and I just watched Ruby Sparks (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839492/). It was really, really excellent.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on February 03, 2013, 12:34:25 AM
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Went to a wedding in the middle of nowhere during a snowstorm and had to crash with a friend an hour from home. Watched this and I really liked it(perfect movie to watch in a snowstorm). I'm glad I watched it alone because I strangely identified with Peter sellers.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on February 03, 2013, 08:55:36 AM
Good Will Hunting
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on February 03, 2013, 08:56:47 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on February 03, 2013, 08:55:36 AM
Good Will Hunting

One of the all time greats, though there's a few crude instances I rather fast forward.

Can't think of many movies that capture the "feel-good" movie without being saturated in cheese.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on February 03, 2013, 09:22:54 AM
Quote from: Mithrandylan on February 03, 2013, 08:56:47 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on February 03, 2013, 08:55:36 AM
Good Will Hunting

One of the all time greats, though there's a few crude instances I rather fast forward.

Can't think of many movies that capture the "feel-good" movie without being saturated in cheese.

I can't tell you how much I agree with this post. I like to think that I am able to succinctly capture the essence of this fantastic film, but there is so much there. Robin Williams is great in his dramatic role, but his talents as comedian shine through in a few places. The three heroes of the film are definitely good will hunting.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Quo Vadis on February 03, 2013, 10:19:16 PM
Quote from: Mithrandylan on February 03, 2013, 08:56:47 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on February 03, 2013, 08:55:36 AM
Good Will Hunting

One of the all time greats, though there's a few crude instances I rather fast forward.

Can't think of many movies that capture the "feel-good" movie without being saturated in cheese.

What are the natures of the crude scenes?  Are they the reason for the R rating?  Thanks.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on February 03, 2013, 10:22:02 PM
There's one that could be considered a sex scene, though there's no sex.  There are two scenes that have some pretty explicit sexual dialogue that I have in mind.

The movie also has pretty profane language, though as far as I recall, there is no blasphemy.  The characters are working class Bostonians.

There are some other pieces of dialogue that some may consider untoward, but there are two main ones.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on February 03, 2013, 10:31:08 PM
There is also a pretty violent scene towards the beginning. While I think the profane tirade a young lady spews towards Ben Affleck's character(in reference to his "Irish Curse" and lack of, ahem, performance) is superfluous, the violent scene of which we speak is necessary for character development and plot.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on February 03, 2013, 10:40:43 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on February 03, 2013, 10:31:08 PM
There is also a pretty violent scene towards the beginning. While I think the profane tirade a young lady spews towards Ben Affleck's character(in reference to his "Irish Curse" and lack of, ahem, performance) is superfluous, the violent scene of which we speak is necessary for character development and plot.

Agree.  Though I wasn't actually thinking of that scene (toot, toot!) but of the "give us a kiss" scene in the bar with Skylar, and the baseball mitt part.  But the one you mentioned is nasty as well.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: BierKaiser on February 04, 2013, 11:10:14 AM
The Hobbit
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on February 04, 2013, 04:22:53 PM
I saw Lincoln this weekend... meh.  There were some really great scenes that only bolstered my conviction that this should have been a biopic on the emotionally complex Lincoln and not a movie about Lincoln's push on Congress to pass the 13th Amendment.  I mean, come on, you have Daniel Day Lewis.  Utilize him.   That being said, DDL was amazing as usual (though I thought Tommie Lee Jones was flat).

Better than Silver Linings Playbook and Zero Dark Thirty, but there's no way it's the best film of the year.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on February 04, 2013, 04:24:36 PM
How was Zero Dark Thirty? Too violent?

I also recommend The Conspirator for a better Lincoln related movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on February 04, 2013, 04:27:23 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on February 04, 2013, 04:24:36 PM
How was Zero Dark Thirty? Too violent?

I also recommend The Conspirator for a better Lincoln related movie.

I didn't think it was too violent, but I have very little aversion to movie violence.  Zero Dark Thirty was ok, but I thought the acting was lacking, there was little character development, and the ending was lackluster.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gottmitunsalex on February 07, 2013, 12:55:23 AM
I just finished watching Henry V for the first time.
All I can say is: It is on my favorite list.
Non nobis Domine.  Wow. A selfless king.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psUXxdRqHQU[/yt]



Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: FaithByProxy on February 07, 2013, 10:18:11 AM
Days of Heaven

Sad, and annoying at times due some of the choices made by the characters, but a very good movie. It does a great job of displaying how sin will completely wreck your life if left unchecked.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on February 07, 2013, 05:00:15 PM
Quote from: Gottmitunsalex on February 07, 2013, 12:55:23 AM
I just finished watching Henry V for the first time.
All I can say is: It is on my favorite list.
Non nobis Domine.  Wow. A selfless king.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psUXxdRqHQU[/yt]

Yay, Alex!

It's one of my favorites, if not my very favorite.  I've seen it probably a hundred times.  Can't wait for a blu ray (hopefully some day). 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: BierKaiser on February 09, 2013, 10:55:55 PM
Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on February 10, 2013, 12:14:06 AM
Quote from: Mithrandylan on February 07, 2013, 05:00:15 PM
Yay, Alex!

It's one of my favorites, if not my very favorite.  I've seen it probably a hundred times.  Can't wait for a blu ray (hopefully some day).

Soon.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on February 15, 2013, 08:23:59 PM
Time of Eve.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on February 15, 2013, 08:27:30 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on February 10, 2013, 12:14:06 AM
Quote from: Mithrandylan on February 07, 2013, 05:00:15 PM
Yay, Alex!

It's one of my favorites, if not my very favorite.  I've seen it probably a hundred times.  Can't wait for a blu ray (hopefully some day).

Soon.

When?  I've been checking blu ray news every week for like, forever.  Nary a sign of it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on February 16, 2013, 12:48:51 PM
We Were Soldiers
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on February 17, 2013, 09:22:22 AM
Parts of some Halle Berry flic where she kills a lot of people.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on February 17, 2013, 12:07:35 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on February 17, 2013, 09:22:22 AM
Parts of some Halle Berry flic where she kills a lot of people.

The Flinstones?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on February 17, 2013, 01:18:35 PM
flight with denzel washington...total snoozer disappointment. Talk about being mislead by previews >:(
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: FaithByProxy on February 17, 2013, 01:30:24 PM
The Conversation

Better than I was expecting!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on February 21, 2013, 09:29:49 PM
Am I any closer to getting to a scant 100 movies for my Top 100 Movies thread?  No.

Did I just re-watch Zodiac on Blu-ray?  Yes.

Do I seem like a jerk for posing questions to myself and answering them?  Probably.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gottmitunsalex on February 21, 2013, 09:30:35 PM
lol
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on February 22, 2013, 02:12:53 AM
Quote from: tmw89 on February 21, 2013, 09:29:49 PM
Am I any closer to getting to a scant 100 movies for my Top 100 Movies thread?  No.

And why is that?

Maybe you're over-thinking it?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: CoolCat on February 22, 2013, 11:56:49 AM
The rite.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on February 22, 2013, 07:06:37 PM
Some movie with Owen Wilson that was anti-Serb propaganda. Poorly made. Awful script. Unintentionally funny. Almost turned it off.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on February 22, 2013, 08:03:46 PM
Quote from: Ben on February 22, 2013, 07:06:37 PM
Some movie with Owen Wilson that was anti-Serb propaganda. Poorly made. Awful script. Unintentionally funny. Almost turned it off.

Behind enemy lines?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lateran on February 22, 2013, 08:17:50 PM
Children if the Corn (2009)  :tinfoil:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gottmitunsalex on February 22, 2013, 09:42:05 PM
Quote from: Ben on February 22, 2013, 07:06:37 PM
Some movie with Owen Wilson that was anti-Serb propaganda. Poorly made. Awful script. Unintentionally funny. Almost turned it off.
You mention "almost" turned it off. You have to admit. That was a good movie.

Anti-Catholic. Serbian rebels= Catholic "rebels".
I was actually rooting for the "enemy" colonel in that movie. Good looking guy. Charismatic. Reminded of Ante Pavelic.
If you noticed, some of the "bad guys" had rosaries and crucifixes.
And Gene Hackman played his part well.






Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on February 23, 2013, 12:41:37 AM
Yeah, it was Behind Enemy Lines. And it wasn't good. I've sat through lots of awful movies. The only part that was entertaining was when the missiles were chasing the plane.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on February 23, 2013, 01:41:44 AM
Quote from: Ben on February 23, 2013, 12:41:37 AM
Yeah, it was Behind Enemy Lines. And it wasn't good. I've sat through lots of awful movies. The only part that was entertaining was when the missiles were chasing the plane.
I can never look at owen wilson without wondering wtf happened to his nose!
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on February 23, 2013, 03:19:22 AM
Ha!

It just makes him that much more distinctive.

Speaking of Wilson, did anyone else find it strange how the media respected his desire for privacy after the suicide attempt? He must have powerful friends in the media.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on February 24, 2013, 02:19:39 AM
Die Hard 5. Two thumbs up!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on February 24, 2013, 02:27:20 AM
I saw Django Unchained tonight which rounds out all of the Oscar noms for Best Picture for me.  I think it was a weak year.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on February 24, 2013, 02:28:38 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on February 24, 2013, 02:27:20 AM
I saw Django Unchained tonight which rounds out all of the Oscar noms for Best Picture for me.  I think it was a weak year.

Do you recommend it?

If its between Lincoln and Argo for best pic, I have to go with Argo. Lincoln was great but it's just like a left wing history some Ivory Tower commie would make me read.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gottmitunsalex on February 24, 2013, 02:29:36 AM
And of course, everyone forgot about For Greater Glory...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on February 24, 2013, 02:30:39 AM
Quote from: Gottmitunsalex on February 24, 2013, 02:29:36 AM
And of course, everyone forgot about For Greater Glory...

I was never even taught about the Cristeros in 13 years of expensive "Catholic" schooling.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Christknight104 on February 24, 2013, 02:50:29 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on February 24, 2013, 02:19:39 AM
Die Hard 5. Two thumbs up!

Yippee Ki Yay!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Christknight104 on February 24, 2013, 02:52:50 AM
Argo. A good film, which felt very American and patriotic at times :). The audience literally clapped at the end at the theater.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on February 24, 2013, 02:55:01 AM
Quote from: Christknight104 on February 24, 2013, 02:52:50 AM
Argo. A good film, which felt very American and patriotic at times :). The audience literally clapped at the end at the theater.

Haha.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on February 24, 2013, 02:55:19 AM
Quote from: Christknight104 on February 24, 2013, 02:50:29 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on February 24, 2013, 02:19:39 AM
Die Hard 5. Two thumbs up!

Yippee Ki Yay!

YES!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on February 24, 2013, 04:05:47 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on February 24, 2013, 02:28:38 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on February 24, 2013, 02:27:20 AM
I saw Django Unchained tonight which rounds out all of the Oscar noms for Best Picture for me.  I think it was a weak year.

Do you recommend it?

If its between Lincoln and Argo for best pic, I have to go with Argo. Lincoln was great but it's just like a left wing history some Ivory Tower commie would make me read.

I thought Argo was one of the weakest movies nominated.  Django was one of the better ones but ended up feeling even too Tarantino for Tarantino.  I was also uncomfortable with the degree to which the movie intended to be some racial catharsis with a black man killing every white guy in the movie.

Amour was my favorite, hands down.  The only problem was that a major event in the movie revolves around an act which the Church condemns.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on February 24, 2013, 02:10:02 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on February 24, 2013, 02:19:39 AM
Die Hard 5. Two thumbs up!

Ironically enough I checked out IMDB and I see it was directed by John Moore, the guy who directed Behind Enemy Lines.

Here are his credits:

2013 A Good Day to Die Hard

2008 Max Payne

2006 The Omen

2004 Flight of the Phoenix

2001 Behind Enemy Lines

I've seen all of these except Die Hard 5 and the only one that was halfway watchable was Flight of the Phoenix. I see people asking in the comments section if he's the worst major film director.

I think I'll pass on Die Hard 5!  ;D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gottmitunsalex on February 24, 2013, 02:13:40 PM
Quote from: Ben on February 24, 2013, 02:10:02 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on February 24, 2013, 02:19:39 AM
Die Hard 5. Two thumbs up!

Ironically enough I checked out IMDB and I see it was directed by John Moore, the guy who directed Behind Enemy Lines....

....I think I'll pass on Die Hard 5!  ;D

I had to watch it, Die hard fan.. Not nearly as many cuss words as Die Hard. No Sex scenes.
But I was duped by the film trailer into believing it would have part of Beethoven's 9th Choral movement. What a sham! I am still waiting for it.

Other than that, it was entertaining a la mission impossible.


Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on February 24, 2013, 02:16:28 PM
Quote from: Gottmitunsalex on February 24, 2013, 02:13:40 PM
Quote from: Ben on February 24, 2013, 02:10:02 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on February 24, 2013, 02:19:39 AM
Die Hard 5. Two thumbs up!

Ironically enough I checked out IMDB and I see it was directed by John Moore, the guy who directed Behind Enemy Lines....

....I think I'll pass on Die Hard 5!  ;D

I had to watch it, Die hard fan.. Not nearly as many cuss words as Die Hard. No Sex scenes.
But I was duped by the film trailer into believing it would have part of Beethoven's 9th Choral movement. What a sham! I am still waiting for it.

Other than that, it was entertaining a la mission impossible.

Speaking of Mission, I recently saw the one with Seymour Hoffman. That guy should play a villain in action films more often!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on February 24, 2013, 04:21:17 PM
Quote from: Ben on February 24, 2013, 02:10:02 PM
I've seen all of these except Die Hard 5 and the only one that was halfway watchable was Flight of the Phoenix. I see people asking in the comments section if he's the worst major film director.

I'd think that distinction would go to either Michael Bay or Uwe Boll...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on February 24, 2013, 04:22:16 PM
Quote from: Ben on February 24, 2013, 02:16:28 PM
Quote from: Gottmitunsalex on February 24, 2013, 02:13:40 PM
Quote from: Ben on February 24, 2013, 02:10:02 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on February 24, 2013, 02:19:39 AM
Die Hard 5. Two thumbs up!

Ironically enough I checked out IMDB and I see it was directed by John Moore, the guy who directed Behind Enemy Lines....

....I think I'll pass on Die Hard 5!  ;D

I had to watch it, Die hard fan.. Not nearly as many cuss words as Die Hard. No Sex scenes.
But I was duped by the film trailer into believing it would have part of Beethoven's 9th Choral movement. What a sham! I am still waiting for it.

Other than that, it was entertaining a la mission impossible.

Speaking of Mission, I recently saw the one with Seymour Hoffman. That guy should play a villain in action films more often!

Ever seen Synecdoche, New York, Ben?  Saddest movie ever... and of course, it stars PSH.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on February 24, 2013, 04:25:50 PM
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PSH best movie
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on February 24, 2013, 06:29:14 PM
Quote from: Ben on February 24, 2013, 02:10:02 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on February 24, 2013, 02:19:39 AM
Die Hard 5. Two thumbs up!
I think I'll pass on Die Hard 5!  ;D

I'm really into Russia, so I had to watch it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on February 24, 2013, 08:08:14 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on February 24, 2013, 04:21:17 PM
Quote from: Ben on February 24, 2013, 02:10:02 PM
I've seen all of these except Die Hard 5 and the only one that was halfway watchable was Flight of the Phoenix. I see people asking in the comments section if he's the worst major film director.

I'd think that distinction would go to either Michael Bay or Uwe Boll...

Not Tommy Wiseau?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on February 24, 2013, 08:08:49 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on February 24, 2013, 04:22:16 PM
Ever seen Synecdoche, New York, Ben?  Saddest movie ever... and of course, it stars PSH.

No, but thanks for the tip!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on February 24, 2013, 11:34:29 PM
Nevermind, you are absolutely ''on the money'' with Wiseau!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gottmitunsalex on February 25, 2013, 10:57:54 PM
Star Trek IV.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gottmitunsalex on February 26, 2013, 11:44:07 PM
War Horse.

Man, even the WWI Germans are portrayed as underage-killers, slave drivers, looters etc...
When will they give em a break for once?!





Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on February 27, 2013, 12:27:38 AM
Quote from: Ben on February 24, 2013, 08:08:14 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on February 24, 2013, 04:21:17 PM
Quote from: Ben on February 24, 2013, 02:10:02 PM
I've seen all of these except Die Hard 5 and the only one that was halfway watchable was Flight of the Phoenix. I see people asking in the comments section if he's the worst major film director.

I'd think that distinction would go to either Michael Bay or Uwe Boll...

Not Tommy Wiseau?

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on February 28, 2013, 03:43:19 PM
 :laugh:

Bay, btw, has made some watchable movies. Armageddon, for example.I've never seen any Uwe Bole.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Christknight104 on March 01, 2013, 01:31:12 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on February 24, 2013, 04:05:47 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on February 24, 2013, 02:28:38 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on February 24, 2013, 02:27:20 AM
I saw Django Unchained tonight which rounds out all of the Oscar noms for Best Picture for me.  I think it was a weak year.

Do you recommend it?

If its between Lincoln and Argo for best pic, I have to go with Argo. Lincoln was great but it's just like a left wing history some Ivory Tower commie would make me read.

I thought Argo was one of the weakest movies nominated. 

I concur. Argo was good, but not great. My mom and I  honestly think we could have gone without  watching it at all, which surprised me when it actually won. Maybe the Academy got a surge of patriotism :P
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Christknight104 on March 01, 2013, 01:40:40 AM
Silver Linings Playbook. A very good film and quite inspirational, though the dissolution of a marriage is far from ideal, but I digress. The lead actress, Jennifer Lawrence, is a really cute girl indeed. :D. Given just the choice between  Argo and Silver Linings for best picture, I would favor Silver Linings quite a bit.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ben on March 03, 2013, 01:36:37 AM
I agree about Argo. Just saw it and it was one of those self-congratulatory Hollywood movies. And super dull.

All these critics give it a perfect score: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024648/criticreviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt

I don't know of any professional film critic whose taste is trustworthy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on March 03, 2013, 02:09:27 AM
Quote from: Christknight104 on March 01, 2013, 01:40:40 AM
The lead actress, Jennifer Lawrence, is a really cute girl indeed.

Ha.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 03, 2013, 06:11:40 AM
Stranger than Fiction. Extreamly underrated funny and smart and relatively clean.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on March 03, 2013, 09:06:07 AM
Admiral
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on March 03, 2013, 09:09:46 AM
Reversal of Fortune, via OnDemand HD.  First-rate Jeremy Irons performance.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on March 03, 2013, 05:12:27 PM
Miss Potter  (no relation to Harry.)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on March 04, 2013, 10:16:38 AM
Norwegian Ninja...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on March 06, 2013, 09:16:26 PM
Big Fish, on a friend's Netflix.  Didn't care for it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: CoolCat on March 07, 2013, 01:18:46 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 06, 2013, 09:16:26 PM
Big Fish, on a friend's Netflix.  Didn't care for it.
Is this thread about where and through what medium was the last movie we saw, or just, "last movie we saw"?


Anywho, Kill Bill Vol 2
Omni Violentia
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on March 07, 2013, 04:59:11 PM
I took his mention of the medium to imply that he wasn't really seeking the movie out, he just happened to watch it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on March 07, 2013, 08:22:31 PM
What H&B said, besides how I'll generally volunteer the info.

Although I think "CoolCat" is trying some lame tactic against me... "it's not very effective..."
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on March 07, 2013, 08:46:01 PM
Oh, and almost forgot!  Watched 1955's noir classic Kiss Me Deadly tonight . . . on Blu-ray  :tongue:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on March 08, 2013, 01:11:41 AM
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on March 10, 2013, 02:30:30 AM
Skyfall
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gottmitunsalex on March 10, 2013, 01:21:27 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on March 10, 2013, 02:30:30 AM
Skyfall
Did you like it?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Christknight104 on March 10, 2013, 01:42:02 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on March 10, 2013, 02:30:30 AM
Skyfall

I felt Bond let his girlfriend die too easily in that film.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on March 10, 2013, 08:58:29 PM
Quote from: Gottmitunsalex on March 10, 2013, 01:21:27 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on March 10, 2013, 02:30:30 AM
Skyfall
Did you like it?

Oh yes.

Quote from: Christknight104 on March 10, 2013, 01:42:02 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on March 10, 2013, 02:30:30 AM
Skyfall

I felt Bond let his girlfriend die too easily in that film.

She barely had any screen time.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gottmitunsalex on March 10, 2013, 09:01:09 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on March 10, 2013, 08:58:29 PM
Quote from: Gottmitunsalex on March 10, 2013, 01:21:27 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on March 10, 2013, 02:30:30 AM
Skyfall
Did you like it?

Oh yes.

Quote from: Christknight104 on March 10, 2013, 01:42:02 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on March 10, 2013, 02:30:30 AM
Skyfall

I felt Bond let his girlfriend die too easily in that film.

She barely had any screen time.
Literally. Lol
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: BierKaiser on March 10, 2013, 10:00:02 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on March 10, 2013, 02:30:30 AM
Skyfall

That is one of my favorite Bond films.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 05:39:48 PM
The Shadow, in HD via OnDemand.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Someone1776 on March 15, 2013, 05:41:11 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 05:39:48 PM
The Shadow, in HD via OnDemand.

Is life really that bad? 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 06:06:33 PM
Quote from: Someone1776 on March 15, 2013, 05:41:11 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 05:39:48 PM
The Shadow, in HD via OnDemand.

Is life really that bad?

:laugh:

I remembered watching it on TV as a kid, and found an old VHS recording last week which I'd made from a broadcast in 2000ish.  Wanted to see what it looked like in HD.  Horrible CGI effects look a lot worse, plot-holes I hadn't noticed before glare out, and hammy acting abounds (John Lone went from Last Emperor to THIS??)

In other words... pure 1990s goodness.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Someone1776 on March 15, 2013, 06:08:14 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 06:06:33 PM

In other words... pure 1990s goodness.

:doh:

You could at least listen to Orson Welles' Shadow
[yt]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMf1RD8bltw[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 06:10:59 PM
Quote from: Someone1776 on March 15, 2013, 06:08:14 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 06:06:33 PM

In other words... pure 1990s goodness.

:doh:

You could at least listen to Orson Welles' Shadow

You know you love the 90s.

And I bought up a bunch of commercially-released audio cassettes of the old radio show in the 2000s, listened to them all the time...  haven't been able to find them, thanks for the YouTube vid/link.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Someone1776 on March 15, 2013, 06:18:01 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 06:10:59 PM
You know you love the 90s.

80s is where it's at, fool. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 06:32:56 PM
Quote from: Someone1776 on March 15, 2013, 06:18:01 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 06:10:59 PM
You know you love the 90s.

80s is where it's at, fool.

White wine vs. red wine  ;)

Or... Parmesan cheese vs. Swiss, take your pick!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Someone1776 on March 15, 2013, 06:36:50 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 06:32:56 PM
Quote from: Someone1776 on March 15, 2013, 06:18:01 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 06:10:59 PM
You know you love the 90s.

80s is where it's at, fool.

White wine vs. red wine  ;)

Or... Parmesan cheese vs. Swiss, take your pick!

More like Pius V vs Paul VI.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 06:42:08 PM
Quote from: Someone1776 on March 15, 2013, 06:36:50 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 06:32:56 PM
Quote from: Someone1776 on March 15, 2013, 06:18:01 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 06:10:59 PM
You know you love the 90s.

80s is where it's at, fool.

White wine vs. red wine  ;)

Or... Parmesan cheese vs. Swiss, take your pick!

More like Pius V vs Paul VI.

Pfffff.  Your ridiculousness of your dichotomies make TIA blush.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Someone1776 on March 15, 2013, 06:47:37 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 06:42:08 PM
Quote from: Someone1776 on March 15, 2013, 06:36:50 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 06:32:56 PM
Quote from: Someone1776 on March 15, 2013, 06:18:01 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 06:10:59 PM
You know you love the 90s.

80s is where it's at, fool.

White wine vs. red wine  ;)

Or... Parmesan cheese vs. Swiss, take your pick!

More like Pius V vs Paul VI.

Pfffff.  Your ridiculousness of your dichotomies make TIA blush.

You should throw Blade Runner away and start making posts on the greatness of Michael Bay!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 06:51:54 PM
Quote from: Someone1776 on March 15, 2013, 06:47:37 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 06:42:08 PM
Pfffff.  Your ridiculousness of your dichotomies make TIA blush.

You should throw Blade Runner away and start making posts on the greatness of Michael Bay!

Ha!  Now I'm trying to imagine BR re-cut by Bay... eesh.

I'd read Ridley Scott was going to make a sequel to it back when there was much hub-bub about Prometheus... wonder if it's still in the cards...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Someone1776 on March 15, 2013, 06:57:23 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 15, 2013, 06:51:54 PM

Ha!  Now I'm trying to imagine BR re-cut by Bay... eesh.

Ummm....

http://www.the-shoe-horn.com/entertainment/michael-bay-penned-to-direct-stunning-blade-runner-remake/
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 17, 2013, 11:31:22 AM
loopers
Another movie that could be totally great without nudity...it added nothing to the story at all...this pisses me off because its like finding a perfect chocolate cake with a dead fly in the middle >:(
The writing and acting were good and the time-travel scenario intriguing.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on March 19, 2013, 09:52:05 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 17, 2013, 11:31:22 AM
loopers
Another movie that could be totally great without nudity...it added nothing to the story at all...this pisses me off because its like finding a perfect chocolate cake with a dead fly in the middle >:(
The writing and acting were good and the time-travel scenario intriguing.

Totally agree that it ruins the movie.  There are so many movies with great plots that I've turned off or couldn't recommend to someone because of it. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on March 19, 2013, 09:53:38 AM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on March 19, 2013, 10:40:56 AM

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Manchurian Candidate
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: BierKaiser on March 19, 2013, 01:25:18 PM
Quote from: Archer on March 19, 2013, 09:53:38 AM
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Good movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on March 19, 2013, 02:42:06 PM
Quote from: BierKaiser on March 19, 2013, 01:25:18 PM
Quote from: Archer on March 19, 2013, 09:53:38 AM
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Good movie.

That is my favorite John Wayne movie.  :) :) :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on March 19, 2013, 04:31:12 PM
I'm a big John Wayne fan.  Watching the Quiet Man is kind of a St. Patrick's day tradition in my family. 

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: EcceQuamBonum on March 19, 2013, 04:44:57 PM
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So amazing.  So, so amazing.

One of the greatest tracking shots in all of film:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8AXd1ayxrg[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on March 19, 2013, 04:47:03 PM
Quote from: EcceQuamBonum on March 19, 2013, 04:44:57 PM

[epic Touch of Evil poster]

So amazing.  So, so amazing.

Indeed!  Which version did you see?  And in 1.33:1 or 1.85:1?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: EcceQuamBonum on March 19, 2013, 04:52:27 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 19, 2013, 04:47:03 PM
Quote from: EcceQuamBonum on March 19, 2013, 04:44:57 PM

[epic Touch of Evil poster]

So amazing.  So, so amazing.

Indeed!  Which version did you see?  And in 1.33:1 or 1.85:1?

The 1998 revision.  And 1.85, of course.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 20, 2013, 07:29:14 AM
Skyfall......lamo crap...villian is a sod with dentures.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on March 20, 2013, 10:54:02 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 20, 2013, 07:29:14 AM
Skyfall......lamo crap...villian is a sod with dentures.

Skyfall was the first Bond movie I've watched.  I felt the same way.  Pretty boring.  I did like the cinematography, however.  That was surprisingly good for an action movie.  And the Aston Martin DB5 was beautiful, as was the Scottish home at the end of the movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Someone1776 on March 20, 2013, 04:16:07 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on March 20, 2013, 10:54:02 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 20, 2013, 07:29:14 AM
Skyfall......lamo crap...villian is a sod with dentures.

Skyfall was the first Bond movie I've watched.  I felt the same way.  Pretty boring.  I did like the cinematography, however.  That was surprisingly good for an action movie.  And the Aston Martin DB5 was beautiful, as was the Scottish home at the end of the movie.

Isn't it also the only Bond film you have watched? At least a month ago you said you had never watched a Bond movie!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Someone1776 on March 20, 2013, 04:16:50 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 19, 2013, 04:47:03 PM
Quote from: EcceQuamBonum on March 19, 2013, 04:44:57 PM

[epic Touch of Evil poster]

So amazing.  So, so amazing.

Indeed!  Which version did you see?  And in 1.33:1 or 1.85:1?

I do have to say Charlton Heston is the worst Mexican ever. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 20, 2013, 06:50:51 PM
Quote from: Someone1776 on March 20, 2013, 04:16:50 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on March 19, 2013, 04:47:03 PM
Quote from: EcceQuamBonum on March 19, 2013, 04:44:57 PM

[epic Touch of Evil poster]

So amazing.  So, so amazing.

Indeed!  Which version did you see?  And in 1.33:1 or 1.85:1?

I do have to say Charlton Heston is the worst Mexican ever.
I do disagree most heartily.....
(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQQ49ESVn47sExpoEiAzT5348F7LS1nmDUULVLT1qsDNIb0kW3g)
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fstream1.gifsoup.com%2Fview5%2F2190885%2Fnacho-libre-o.gif&hash=483a2e8051a3fa1193487d72fe69c2989753e5c7)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on March 20, 2013, 08:16:21 PM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F3%2F38%2FPoster_-_Meet_John_Doe_01.jpg%2F220px-Poster_-_Meet_John_Doe_01.jpg&hash=8fa390d5b1bbab73f510dcd8cc568dc6cd1acb95)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on March 20, 2013, 09:46:23 PM
Quote from: Lyubov on December 27, 2012, 03:30:38 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on December 27, 2012, 03:15:01 AM
I've still never seen "A Christmas Story...."

Me neither.

It's overrated.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: EcceQuamBonum on March 20, 2013, 10:07:06 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on March 20, 2013, 10:54:02 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 20, 2013, 07:29:14 AM
Skyfall......lamo crap...villian is a sod with dentures.

Skyfall was the first Bond movie I've watched.

Whatttttt.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: EcceQuamBonum on March 20, 2013, 10:08:47 PM
Quote from: piabee on March 20, 2013, 09:46:23 PM
Quote from: Lyubov on December 27, 2012, 03:30:38 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on December 27, 2012, 03:15:01 AM
I've still never seen "A Christmas Story...."

Me neither.

It's overrated.

This is material heresy.  Condemned in Pascendi, I believe.  (St. Pius X was perceptive and had fine taste in comedies.)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on March 21, 2013, 09:59:48 AM
Quote from: piabee on March 20, 2013, 09:46:23 PM
Quote from: Lyubov on December 27, 2012, 03:30:38 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on December 27, 2012, 03:15:01 AM
I've still never seen "A Christmas Story...."

Me neither.

It's overrated.

I hate that movie.  It's just retarded and you feel significantly dumber after watching it.   
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on March 21, 2013, 11:58:38 AM
Quote from: Someone1776 on March 20, 2013, 04:16:07 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on March 20, 2013, 10:54:02 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 20, 2013, 07:29:14 AM
Skyfall......lamo crap...villian is a sod with dentures.

Skyfall was the first Bond movie I've watched.  I felt the same way.  Pretty boring.  I did like the cinematography, however.  That was surprisingly good for an action movie.  And the Aston Martin DB5 was beautiful, as was the Scottish home at the end of the movie.

Isn't it also the only Bond film you have watched? At least a month ago you said you had never watched a Bond movie!

Yes, first and only.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on March 21, 2013, 05:02:41 PM

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.giantbomb.com%2Fuploads%2Foriginal%2F3%2F39996%2F1039199-g1.jpg&hash=a5a20ca49dcdc30c7124cf2bbce7985a01f01270)
The Godfather. I have to use my school library for something.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lateran on March 22, 2013, 09:33:34 PM
Quote from: piabee on March 20, 2013, 09:46:23 PM
Quote from: Lyubov on December 27, 2012, 03:30:38 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on December 27, 2012, 03:15:01 AM
I've still never seen "A Christmas Story...."

Me neither.

It's overrated.

*gasp* *swoon* *gasp*

It's a great American treasure, wonderful film. I even bought it New! on dvd.  :swoon:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on March 23, 2013, 07:34:15 AM
Quote from: MilesChristi on March 21, 2013, 05:02:41 PM

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.giantbomb.com%2Fuploads%2Foriginal%2F3%2F39996%2F1039199-g1.jpg&hash=a5a20ca49dcdc30c7124cf2bbce7985a01f01270)
The Godfather. I have to use my school library for something.

What did you think of it?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on March 23, 2013, 09:48:07 AM
Second time seeing it. I still like it just as much as the other time I saw it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Someone1776 on March 23, 2013, 10:04:14 AM
Godfather II > Godfather I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Weekend at Bernies>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Godfather III
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on March 23, 2013, 10:30:17 AM
Quote from: Someone1776 on March 23, 2013, 10:04:14 AM
Godfather II > Godfather I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Weekend at Bernies>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Godfather III

Pretty much my opinion as well, although I've considered re-watching all three Godfather consecutively for a while...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on March 23, 2013, 11:31:05 AM
I need to rewatch them in HD. Pt. II is my favorite movie. Ever.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on March 23, 2013, 05:48:01 PM
Blast From the Past

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmovie-shop.us%2Fpictures%2FBlast_from_the_Past.jpg&hash=cd09982f7f926081f7ddc3056f9781ecb46d419c)



Off to listen to some Perry Como.... .
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on March 23, 2013, 05:51:08 PM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.impawards.com%2F2013%2Fposters%2Folympus_has_fallen_ver10.jpg&hash=d3d15dca9dd4ebc7ee4ce16708cb03d1e5c735a6)

Adrenaline rush. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on March 23, 2013, 06:04:29 PM
Haha, MLG.  That's a fun and cute movie, from what I remember of it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on March 23, 2013, 08:35:37 PM
Olympus has fallen.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 24, 2013, 10:04:40 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on March 23, 2013, 08:35:37 PM
Olympus has fallen.
I cant see this in public...I would be cheering to much for the bad guys lol
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on March 24, 2013, 11:44:07 AM
Quote from: MilesChristi on March 21, 2013, 05:02:41 PM

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.giantbomb.com%2Fuploads%2Foriginal%2F3%2F39996%2F1039199-g1.jpg&hash=a5a20ca49dcdc30c7124cf2bbce7985a01f01270)
The Godfather. I have to use my school library for something.

Part Two
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on March 24, 2013, 01:00:39 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 24, 2013, 10:04:40 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on March 23, 2013, 08:35:37 PM
Olympus has fallen.
I cant see this in public...I would be cheering to much for the bad guys lol

Not sure if this is a joke, but considering your posting history I think you probably mean most of it. 

If you had refrained from posting until after you saw the movie, you would know that the bad guys are Korean guerrillas led by an ex-North Korean terrorist.  They have two goals....first to use the President as a hostage to force the United States to withdraw from Korea, allowing the civil war to finish. Second, to detonate all United States nuclear bombs in their silos and destroy the United States as revenge for the death of his mother.   

No matter how much you dislike the government, a nuclear holocaust wiping out the entire population is not something you should desire.  Not only that, but throughout the movie the terrorists brutally kill innocent civilians in mass numbers and also numerous times execution style. If you cheer for stuff like that then I question not only your Patriotism but also your Catholicity. 

Statements like the one you made are ignorant, stupid, and take away from your credibility and from other's who share similar feelings, but who are going about fighting for those ideals the right way. 

Edited: clarity
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on March 24, 2013, 01:10:01 PM
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on March 24, 2013, 01:12:53 PM
Who was that directed at?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on March 24, 2013, 01:14:55 PM
just for fun.  8)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 24, 2013, 02:00:50 PM
Quote from: Archer on March 24, 2013, 01:00:39 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 24, 2013, 10:04:40 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on March 23, 2013, 08:35:37 PM
Olympus has fallen.
I cant see this in public...I would be cheering to much for the bad guys lol

Not sure if this is a joke, but considering your posting history I think you probably mean most of it. 

If you had refrained from posting until after you saw the movie, you would know that the bad guys are Korean guerrillas led by an ex-North Korean terrorist.  They have two goals....first to use the President as a hostage to force the United States to withdraw from Korea, allowing the civil war to finish. Second, to detonate all United States nuclear bombs in their silos and destroy the United States as revenge for the death of his mother.   

No matter how much you dislike the government, a nuclear holocaust wiping out the entire population is not something you should desire.  Not only that, but throughout the movie the terrorists brutally kill innocent civilians in mass numbers and also numerous times execution style. If you cheer for stuff like that then I question not only your Patriotism but also your Catholicity. 

Statements like the one you made are ignorant, stupid, and take away from your credibility and from other's who share similar feelings, but who are going about fighting for those ideals the right way. 

Edited: clarity
ya just going by the previews ;D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on March 24, 2013, 04:54:41 PM
Quote from: MilesChristi on March 24, 2013, 01:10:01 PM
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c[/yt]

We're really starting an SD tradition here.  And I like it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on March 24, 2013, 05:20:02 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 24, 2013, 02:00:50 PM
Quote from: Archer on March 24, 2013, 01:00:39 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 24, 2013, 10:04:40 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on March 23, 2013, 08:35:37 PM
Olympus has fallen.
I cant see this in public...I would be cheering to much for the bad guys lol

Not sure if this is a joke, but considering your posting history I think you probably mean most of it. 

If you had refrained from posting until after you saw the movie, you would know that the bad guys are Korean guerrillas led by an ex-North Korean terrorist.  They have two goals....first to use the President as a hostage to force the United States to withdraw from Korea, allowing the civil war to finish. Second, to detonate all United States nuclear bombs in their silos and destroy the United States as revenge for the death of his mother.   

No matter how much you dislike the government, a nuclear holocaust wiping out the entire population is not something you should desire.  Not only that, but throughout the movie the terrorists brutally kill innocent civilians in mass numbers and also numerous times execution style. If you cheer for stuff like that then I question not only your Patriotism but also your Catholicity. 

Statements like the one you made are ignorant, stupid, and take away from your credibility and from other's who share similar feelings, but who are going about fighting for those ideals the right way. 

Edited: clarity
ya just going by the previews ;D

Huge spoilers. Maybe someone can censor them.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 24, 2013, 05:23:35 PM
Quote from: Archer on March 24, 2013, 01:00:39 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 24, 2013, 10:04:40 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on March 23, 2013, 08:35:37 PM
Olympus has fallen.
I cant see this in public...I would be cheering to much for the bad guys lol

Not sure if this is a joke, but considering your posting history I think you probably mean most of it. 

If you had refrained from posting until after you saw the movie, you would know that the bad guys are Korean guerrillas led by an ex-North Korean terrorist.  They have two goals....first to use the President as a hostage to force the United States to withdraw from Korea, allowing the civil war to finish. Second, to detonate all United States nuclear bombs in their silos and destroy the United States as revenge for the death of his mother.   

No matter how much you dislike the government, a nuclear holocaust wiping out the entire population is not something you should desire.  Not only that, but throughout the movie the terrorists brutally kill innocent civilians in mass numbers and also numerous times execution style. If you cheer for stuff like that then I question not only your Patriotism but also your Catholicity. 

Statements like the one you made are ignorant, stupid, and take away from your credibility and from other's who share similar feelings, but who are going about fighting for those ideals the right way. 

Edited: clarity
BTW  SINCE!........I didnt see the movie....I was obviously joking about rooting for the bad guys. The Point is...all those satanic symbols being torn down...Yeah I might think it good...unless you think freemasonic Temples to false gods are things we should weep over when they get destroyed
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 24, 2013, 05:24:33 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on March 24, 2013, 04:54:41 PM
Quote from: MilesChristi on March 24, 2013, 01:10:01 PM
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c[/yt]

We're really starting an SD tradition here.  And I like it.
LOL comm on boyz...its how we roll!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on March 24, 2013, 05:39:00 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 24, 2013, 05:24:33 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on March 24, 2013, 04:54:41 PM
Quote from: MilesChristi on March 24, 2013, 01:10:01 PM
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c[/yt]

We're really starting an SD tradition here.  And I like it.
LOL comm on boyz...its how we roll!

I don't roll on Shabbos.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 24, 2013, 05:45:17 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on March 24, 2013, 05:39:00 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 24, 2013, 05:24:33 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on March 24, 2013, 04:54:41 PM
Quote from: MilesChristi on March 24, 2013, 01:10:01 PM
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c[/yt]

We're really starting an SD tradition here.  And I like it.
LOL comm on boyz...its how we roll!

I don't roll on Shabbos.
whats a shabbos? :o
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on March 24, 2013, 05:48:52 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 24, 2013, 05:45:17 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on March 24, 2013, 05:39:00 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 24, 2013, 05:24:33 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on March 24, 2013, 04:54:41 PM
Quote from: MilesChristi on March 24, 2013, 01:10:01 PM
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c[/yt]

We're really starting an SD tradition here.  And I like it.
LOL comm on boyz...its how we roll!

I don't roll on Shabbos.
whats a shabbos? :o

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPo9OBrIOi4[/yt]

Warning for language.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 24, 2013, 06:24:54 PM
ya gotta love cohen dialog
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on March 25, 2013, 12:07:15 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 24, 2013, 06:24:54 PM
ya gotta love cohen dialog

It's true to life, for better or worse.  Sounds like a lot of conversations I had in high school and college, again, for better or worse.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 25, 2013, 06:28:04 AM
Not to derail. But Ive been in construction a long time and I have a horribly vulgur tongue. And I wish I had bridled it early but alas such was not the case. I have been able to totally 99.99% (confessing the .1% right away if it happens)to avoid directly blasphemeing the Holy Name of Jesus, I have not reigned in the inevitable fbomb. On the other hand I am not blushed or unsettled if vulgur language is used by others unless it is a direct blashpeme or pornographic in nature. This leaves me accessable to many more people I think than if I was a language prude. Im really not sure how God views language sins overall. It seems an issue of culture and intent of the user. The scripture tells us Peter swore, not as a good thing, but only that he did. Scripture tells us Our Lord dined and held company with "sinners" so can we assume blue Language in our lords presence? I would say yes. In cohen films the bad language never seems gratuitous but as you said true...or true to the characters and context of the film. Tarantino has the same gift BUT he is also a profligate user of gratuitous language so therefore less appealing. (I love Tarantino movies when theve been edited for TV...other wise I am offended)
I also Loved the Sopranos series for its dialog but only on MAD TV LOL
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgBD94cs0T8[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Teilo and a Half on March 25, 2013, 07:24:56 AM
Certain while ago, I watched:

Murder By Proxy: How America Went Postal.

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on March 25, 2013, 08:14:00 AM
Quote from: Teilo and a Half on March 25, 2013, 07:24:56 AM
Certain while ago, I watched:

Murder By Proxy: How America Went Postal.

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles.

Sounds like someone have netflix instantstream
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on March 25, 2013, 01:26:15 PM
Blaspheming is certainly a grave sin.  As for other sorts of swearing, I find it much less serious.  One should be quite careful in most company, but if you're sitting in a boat fishing and drinking some beers with your friends, I don't think some swearing is a big deal.  Maybe that's just the Irish in me.  I don't know.

If you use the words to be vulgar and crude then there's certainly a problem.  But if you use them merely for emphasis then they mean little.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: CoolCat on March 25, 2013, 02:43:40 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on March 25, 2013, 01:26:15 PM
Blaspheming is certainly a grave sin.  As for other sorts of swearing, I find it much less serious.  One should be quite careful in most company, but if you're sitting in a boat fishing and drinking some beers with your friends, I don't think some swearing is a big deal.  Maybe that's just the Irish in me.  I don't know.

If you use the words to be vulgar and crude then there's certainly a problem.  But if you use them merely for emphasis then they mean little.

Colorful metaphors, if you will.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on March 30, 2013, 08:59:41 PM
Not a movie, per se, but a television special concluded a few minutes ago.  It was titled The Song of Lunch, and starred Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson.  For what it was, it kept my interest.  I laughed more than ten times.  But it has made me thirsty for wine which I will not be able to acquire until Monday, which is maddeningly inconvenient.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 05, 2013, 04:05:40 AM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.moviepostershop.com%2Ftop-gun-movie-poster-1986-1010728006.jpg&hash=fd60924d8a3878219ecb34e6644840c183c996a2)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: FaithByProxy on April 05, 2013, 09:59:20 AM
Opening Night

It was a great movie, but not my favorite by John Cassavettes.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 09, 2013, 05:55:53 AM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.impawards.com%2F2007%2Fposters%2Ffracture_ver6.jpg&hash=b1b19193ba8bee8ed96d6062375fd27ab9378c2f)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on April 09, 2013, 08:20:35 AM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimageshack.us%2Fa%2Fimg31%2F730%2Feuropa51.jpg&hash=d0a1e2566333904949e76861cd1e52dc9288c2ec)

What a sad movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: EcceQuamBonum on April 09, 2013, 08:55:25 AM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2Fthumb%2F8%2F80%2FLongposter.jpg%2F220px-Longposter.jpg&hash=4962536c907d3cc134be757d1a5922d747ece3a2)


Such a thoroughly awesome film.  Elliott Gould is wonderful.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on April 10, 2013, 03:22:05 PM
Shirley Temple in Susannah of the Mounties
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 10, 2013, 05:16:51 PM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.movieposter.com%2Fposters%2Farchive%2Fmain%2F49%2FMPW-24522&hash=ecc7d00528fa6f51dafbfd6724434da0bd31744b)

Edited to fix link. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 10, 2013, 05:18:11 PM
...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 10, 2013, 05:19:28 PM
Hmmm... interesting.  My modify button didn't work for a minute there. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on April 10, 2013, 10:09:11 PM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.wikia.com%2Fwesanderson%2Fimages%2F0%2F0b%2FThe_Darjeeling_Limited_Poster.jpg&hash=2f3fd7bdbc39632a10a671f60e422ffdd97b30c1)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on April 10, 2013, 11:16:29 PM
Great movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on April 11, 2013, 09:48:26 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on April 10, 2013, 11:16:29 PM
Great movie.
Is it good I was going back and forth renting it.
I actually liked Moonrise Kingdom alot too...as a sort of post modernist fairy tail.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MX_BQwa7680[/yt]

But I hated the amazing mr Fox...cant see how that schrek got made.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on April 11, 2013, 11:54:26 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on April 11, 2013, 09:48:26 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on April 10, 2013, 11:16:29 PM
Great movie.
Is it good I was going back and forth renting it.
I actually liked Moonrise Kingdom alot too...as a sort of post modernist fairy tail.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MX_BQwa7680[/yt]

But I hated the amazing mr Fox...cant see how that schrek got made.

If you liked Moonrise Kingdom then I think you'd definitely like Darjeeling Limited.  All of Wes Anderson's movies have a similar look and feel.  Darjeeling is mixed up in some feel-good spirituality that mixes in some Hinduism, but overall the movie is about the challenges of family and 3 brothers sorting out their past.

I really like it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on April 11, 2013, 04:41:45 PM
I thought Darjeeling Limited was utter crap.  And I'm a big Wes Anderson fan.  I'm the only person I know who owns Bottle Rocket.

#closethipster
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on April 11, 2013, 09:35:57 PM
Quote from: Mithrandylan on April 11, 2013, 04:41:45 PM
I thought Darjeeling Limited was utter crap. 
Why?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on April 11, 2013, 10:23:39 PM
Quote from: Hat And Beard on April 11, 2013, 09:35:57 PM
Quote from: Mithrandylan on April 11, 2013, 04:41:45 PM
I thought Darjeeling Limited was utter crap. 
Why?

I don't remember, and it was too crappy to warrant a re-watch.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: BierKaiser on April 11, 2013, 10:49:36 PM
Snow White and the Huntsman
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on April 13, 2013, 07:51:24 AM
Quote from: BierKaiser on April 11, 2013, 10:49:36 PM
Snow White and the Huntsman
couldve been so good. But I felt like I was wandering around the woods for the whole movie
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on April 13, 2013, 10:43:34 AM
From Russia with Love
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Der Kaiser on April 13, 2013, 01:06:25 PM
Dracula 1931 version
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on April 14, 2013, 12:44:27 AM
Rear Window.

Diamonds are Forever.

Pulp Fiction.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on April 14, 2013, 12:45:27 AM
1963's The Raven.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gottmitunsalex on April 14, 2013, 12:51:01 AM
Three Days of the Condor.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 14, 2013, 02:03:03 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on April 14, 2013, 12:44:27 AM
Rear Window.

Great movie!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mr. Mysterious on April 14, 2013, 07:09:10 PM
I saw 42 in the theater on Friday, very good movie about Jackie Robinson covering the years 1945-47.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on April 14, 2013, 08:28:16 PM
Quote from: The Punisher on April 14, 2013, 07:09:10 PM
I saw 42 in the theater on Friday, very good movie about Jackie Robinson covering the years 1945-47.
was it preachy?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mr. Mysterious on April 14, 2013, 08:32:48 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on April 14, 2013, 08:28:16 PM
Quote from: The Punisher on April 14, 2013, 07:09:10 PM
I saw 42 in the theater on Friday, very good movie about Jackie Robinson covering the years 1945-47.
was it preachy?
I wouldn't say it was preachy. It didn't whitewash a lot of the crap Robinson had to face when he broke into Major League Baseball. Branch Rickey (played by Harrison Ford) did quote the Bible a few times in the movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on April 16, 2013, 09:53:12 PM
61*
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Patriarch on April 16, 2013, 10:00:39 PM
G.I. Joe
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 16, 2013, 11:43:18 PM
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Post by: Patriarch on April 17, 2013, 04:47:11 PM
Excellenticious choice, my good man! :toth:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on April 19, 2013, 10:20:26 PM
The Dark Knight
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on April 20, 2013, 08:35:21 PM
Red Dawn (TOPICAL!..its time I think)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on April 20, 2013, 10:58:53 PM
42
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Post by: Mithrandylan on April 20, 2013, 11:03:29 PM
Equilibrium. 

It was a decent martial arts with guns action flick with a dystopian plot, but I couldn't recommend.  The general premise is that the populace has been convinced that their emotions are bad, so they take drugs that make them non-emotive and the government confiscates and destroys all art, music, etc. (anything that would inspire or move a person).  Of course, you get the tripe about how our emotions are what makes us human and without them life isn't worth living, etc. etc.  A dangerous message for anyone who isn't prepared to reject it on it's face.  I appreciated the dystopian theme and some of the action, but beyond that...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Christknight104 on April 23, 2013, 09:48:56 PM
Traffic (2000)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 28, 2013, 11:27:43 PM
Man on a ledge.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on April 29, 2013, 02:40:41 PM
The Intouchables
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Patriarch on May 04, 2013, 10:24:12 PM
Iron Man III; as of three-and-one-half hours ago. :toth:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on May 05, 2013, 05:04:46 AM
Quote from: Patriarch on May 04, 2013, 10:24:12 PM
Iron Man III; as of three-and-one-half hours ago. :toth:
well??? How was it....dish.z
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on May 05, 2013, 07:43:11 PM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on May 05, 2013, 08:16:34 PM
How was it, Archer?  I have a few Poirot movies on my Netflix instant queue, but haven't gotten around to watching them yet.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: ImperialGuardsman on May 05, 2013, 11:52:57 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on May 05, 2013, 05:04:46 AM
Quote from: Patriarch on May 04, 2013, 10:24:12 PM
Iron Man III; as of three-and-one-half hours ago. :toth:
well??? How was it....dish.z

I just saw Iron Man 3 tonight.  Better than the second one I'd say.  Good summertime movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on May 06, 2013, 08:55:21 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on May 05, 2013, 08:16:34 PM
How was it, Archer?  I have a few Poirot movies on my Netflix instant queue, but haven't gotten around to watching them yet.

It was good.  I really enjoy Agatha Christie mysteries and Poirot is my favorite.  Some of them can be a little slow, but most are very good and David Suchet is casted perfectly. Off the top of my head a couple other good ones are:

Hickory Dickory Dock
Death on the Nile
Peril at End House
Sad Cypress
Three Act Tragedy

We're probably going to watch Murder on the Orient Express next. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: stitchmom on May 06, 2013, 09:23:29 AM
Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on May 06, 2013, 12:55:01 PM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on May 08, 2013, 11:17:58 PM
Iron Man 3
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on May 08, 2013, 11:26:31 PM
Quote from: ImperialGuardsman on May 05, 2013, 11:52:57 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on May 05, 2013, 05:04:46 AM
Quote from: Patriarch on May 04, 2013, 10:24:12 PM
Iron Man III; as of three-and-one-half hours ago. :toth:
well??? How was it....dish.z

I just saw Iron Man 3 tonight.  Better than the second one I'd say.  Good summertime movie.

Yes.

Iron Man 3 was VERY enjoyable.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Patriarch on May 10, 2013, 08:40:54 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on May 05, 2013, 05:04:46 AM
Quote from: Patriarch on May 04, 2013, 10:24:12 PM
Iron Man III; as of three-and-one-half hours ago. :toth:
well??? How was it....dish.z

It was alright. It was decent. The villain setup was to my liking though. I've seen a rather decidedly lack of compotent and well-played and well-thought out villainry in films too often nowadays. You'd figure they've have better villains; ones with clearer and better machinations. Some seem so trite or underdeveloped nowadays.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on May 14, 2013, 01:51:28 AM
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What did you think?  I've been meaning to watch the entire "Trilogy of Faith" but haven't yet.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on May 14, 2013, 03:57:36 AM
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I'm a Keifer Sutherland fan, but I liked the ending of this original better than the 1993 "happy ending" version.  Both movies were well done, though, and Jeff Bridges does play a convincing villain (better than he was in the first Iron Man anyway).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on May 14, 2013, 04:06:26 AM
Quote from: Patriarch on May 10, 2013, 08:40:54 AM
It was alright. It was decent. The villain setup was to my liking though. I've seen a rather decidedly lack of compotent and well-played and well-thought out villainry in films too often nowadays. You'd figure they've have better villains; ones with clearer and better machinations. Some seem so trite or underdeveloped nowadays.

I liked Iron Man 3 better than the second one for sure.  I thought the way they handled The Mandarin was well done, but then again, I've never read the comics so I can't compare the two.

Acting was top notch.  RD,Jr. played his normal self (I don't think he really acts; I'm guessing he's like Tony Stark IRL).  Ben Kingsley was great as always, and Guy Pearce is one of the underrated actors of our generation (Memento and LA Confidential are two of my all time fave movies).  Gwyneth Paltrow...meh.

The action sequences were a bit over the top, but that's what makes it a good summer popcorn flick.  Special effects were top notch, but with a $500 mil budget, they'd better be.

Story was decent, if somewhat predictable.  I liked the storyline with the boy in the small town that Tony runs into.  I thought that added a lot to the film.  The Mandarin story was good, too (no spoilers here).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on May 14, 2013, 07:10:51 AM
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What did you think?  I've been meaning to watch the entire "Trilogy of Faith" but haven't yet.
I watched the entire trilogy of faith when I was 19. They're all good, but not Bergman's best. Winter Light is among his best, though; I'm not sure why I re-watched it, perhaps I identify with a few of the main characters. I'm guessing you've only seen Through a Glass Darkly? That one is rough, and this one is a much easier watch- I highly recommend it.  :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on May 14, 2013, 09:59:35 AM
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I'm a Keifer Sutherland fan, but I liked the ending of this original better than the 1993 "happy ending" version.  Both movies were well done, though, and Jeff Bridges does play a convincing villain (better than he was in the first Iron Man anyway).

I haven't seen the American remake and doubt I ever will.  I'm a Jeff Bridges fan, but the original is the right story.  That ending is great.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on May 14, 2013, 10:03:17 AM
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What did you think?  I've been meaning to watch the entire "Trilogy of Faith" but haven't yet.
I watched the entire trilogy of faith when I was 19. They're all good, but not Bergman's best. Winter Light is among his best, though; I'm not sure why I re-watched it, perhaps I identify with a few of the main characters. I'm guessing you've only seen Through a Glass Darkly? That one is rough, and this one is a much easier watch- I highly recommend it.  :)

I haven't seen Winter's Light, but out of the Bergman films I've seen, I think Wild Strawberries is my favorite.  The Seventh Seal is probably a slightly better film but the nihilism sort of takes it over.  WS is actually quite a Christian film.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on May 14, 2013, 10:20:39 AM
You really might like this one, then. It could go other way in the tug of war between nihilism and christianity.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Christknight104 on May 14, 2013, 10:28:38 PM
Quote from: Hat And Beard on May 14, 2013, 10:20:39 AM
You really might like this one, then. It could go other way in the tug of war between nihilism and christianity.

Does not Atheist Nihilism win over Christianity in Winter Light? I have not watched the film, though I have read the summary.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on May 15, 2013, 10:03:06 AM
Quote from: Christknight104 on May 14, 2013, 10:28:38 PM
Quote from: Hat And Beard on May 14, 2013, 10:20:39 AM
You really might like this one, then. It could go other way in the tug of war between nihilism and christianity.

Does not Atheist Nihilism win over Christianity in Winter Light? I have not watched the film, though I have read the summary.
This is what I thought as well.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on May 15, 2013, 05:52:02 PM
Its ambiguous, really. He could be faking at the end(or so I've read). Plus, Bergman said that was the film that he permanently shed his faith on.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on May 15, 2013, 07:04:43 PM
Quote from: Hat And Beard on May 15, 2013, 05:52:02 PM
Its ambiguous, really. He could be faking at the end(or so I've read). Plus, Bergman said that was the film that he permanently shed his faith on.

I'm pretty sure Bergman said that Winter Light was his 'accepting' that he lost his (Lutheran) faith.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: BierKaiser on May 21, 2013, 10:14:04 PM
Quote from: Patriarch on May 10, 2013, 08:40:54 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on May 05, 2013, 05:04:46 AM
Quote from: Patriarch on May 04, 2013, 10:24:12 PM
Iron Man III; as of three-and-one-half hours ago. :toth:
well??? How was it....dish.z

It was alright. It was decent. The villain setup was to my liking though. I've seen a rather decidedly lack of compotent and well-played and well-thought out villainry in films too often nowadays. You'd figure they've have better villains; ones with clearer and better machinations. Some seem so trite or underdeveloped nowadays.

Watched it a few days ago.  I liked it better than the second one and agree with Patriarch about the villain setup.  It was a good, entertaining movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: FaithByProxy on May 31, 2013, 01:59:29 PM
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan

A fun little movie. Had to watch it after seeing the new Star Trek (which I was not fond of).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on June 06, 2013, 01:02:48 PM
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"I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on June 07, 2013, 03:35:20 AM
Orange county ( funny)...2 coen brothers films...man who wasnt there...a serious man....both intriguing but wierd
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lyubov on June 08, 2013, 10:05:55 AM
I was dragged to The Purge a couple of nights ago. What an embarrassing movie. I felt bad for it. :(
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: ImperialGuardsman on June 08, 2013, 11:08:14 PM
Quote from: Lyubov on June 08, 2013, 10:05:55 AM
I was dragged to The Purge a couple of nights ago. What an embarrassing movie. I felt bad for it. :(

I wasn't sure if I wanted to see it or not.  That bad?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lyubov on June 08, 2013, 11:17:30 PM
Quote from: ImperialGuardsman on June 08, 2013, 11:08:14 PM
Quote from: Lyubov on June 08, 2013, 10:05:55 AM
I was dragged to The Purge a couple of nights ago. What an embarrassing movie. I felt bad for it. :(

I wasn't sure if I wanted to see it or not.  That bad?

Lots of cringe-worthy acting, and the characters behaved a bit too illogically at some points. If I was a rich American in 2022, I would just go to Canada during the week of the purge.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: poche on June 09, 2013, 10:51:01 PM
The last movie I saw in the theatre was "Prince" in 1986.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on June 09, 2013, 10:52:24 PM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on June 10, 2013, 03:42:17 AM
Ah the manchurian candidate...coming to a school shooting near you. Seriously this movie speaks the truth
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on June 10, 2013, 02:27:05 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on June 10, 2013, 03:42:17 AM
Ah the manchurian candidate...coming to a school shooting near you. Seriously this movie speaks the truth

Quite right, though [spoiler]I wasn't a fan of how at the end Shaw was give a sort of martyr's eulogy.  I felt bad for the guy, of course, but he still killed himself.[/spoiler]

(highlight to reveal spoilers.  Spoilers are of a 'what happens at the end' variety)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on June 10, 2013, 02:30:41 PM
Quote from: Mithrandylan on June 10, 2013, 02:27:05 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on June 10, 2013, 03:42:17 AM
Ah the manchurian candidate...coming to a school shooting near you. Seriously this movie speaks the truth

Quite right, though [spoiler]I wasn't a fan of how at the end Shaw was give a sort of martyr's eulogy.  I felt bad for the guy, of course, but he still killed himself.[/spoiler]

(highlight to reveal spoilers.  Spoilers are of a 'what happens at the end' variety)
yeah but was he in his right mind? He had by then killed the woman and father figure he loved without the ability to stop himself...by having it end the way it did shawn pretty much assured he couldnt be compelled to kill again.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on June 10, 2013, 02:48:28 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on June 10, 2013, 02:30:41 PM
Quote from: Mithrandylan on June 10, 2013, 02:27:05 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on June 10, 2013, 03:42:17 AM
Ah the manchurian candidate...coming to a school shooting near you. Seriously this movie speaks the truth

Quite right, though [spoiler]I wasn't a fan of how at the end Shaw was give a sort of martyr's eulogy.  I felt bad for the guy, of course, but he still killed himself.[/spoiler]

(highlight to reveal spoilers.  Spoilers are of a 'what happens at the end' variety)
yeah but was he in his right mind? He had by then killed the woman and father figure he loved without the ability to stop himself...by having it end the way it did shawn pretty much assured he couldnt be compelled to kill again.

Voxpop, you raise another excellent point without even realizing it --  nevermind the emotional duress, is there any telling whether or not that act was part of his programming, for after completing his big task?  We aren't given any info to that effect in the film... but there's a great deal more than that the film holds out on, too.

(or maybe I'm just reading too far into it!)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on June 10, 2013, 03:23:07 PM
The point is that this type of mind control exists and has existed since at least stalin. I am of the very firm opinion that..sirhan sirhan..oswald..the school shooters..the movie house shooters..the recent california shooters were these type of psychorobots.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mithrandylan on June 10, 2013, 03:26:29 PM
Agreed, agreed.  I just prefer the emphasis on victim, not hero. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on June 10, 2013, 03:28:05 PM
The Manchurian Candidate was one of those old VHS tapes I'd watch over and over.... when I was 5.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on June 10, 2013, 03:49:13 PM
Quote from: Mithrandylan on June 10, 2013, 03:26:29 PM
Agreed, agreed.  I just prefer the emphasis on victim, not hero.
well it also was tinged with craptastic 60s hollywood melodrama...thats what you were sensing. Sinatra sucked in that movie (actually I think sinatra sucked period)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on June 15, 2013, 04:28:46 PM
Struck by Lightning.
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Yeah, I haven't posted in a while.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: BierKaiser on June 16, 2013, 11:26:32 AM
Finally saw Star Trek. It was very good, maybe better than the first one.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on June 16, 2013, 11:41:34 AM
Love Terrence Mallick
Title: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on June 16, 2013, 03:26:52 PM
Tree of Life was very good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on June 16, 2013, 03:38:33 PM
Saw Man of Steel.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on June 16, 2013, 03:48:37 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on June 16, 2013, 03:26:52 PM
Tree of Life was very good.
Yeah but the end was a bit muddled
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on June 16, 2013, 06:11:35 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on June 16, 2013, 03:48:37 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on June 16, 2013, 03:26:52 PM
Tree of Life was very good.
Yeah but the end was a bit muddled
From what I've read about Terrence Malick, it was very autobiographical and thus the ending hasn't been written yet. When someone like Terrence Malick spends 30-40 years thinking up a movie and an entire year editing it, I don't think it's possible for the ending to be unintentionally muddled.  :D


Edited to add italicized.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on June 16, 2013, 06:20:17 PM
The Following.  Interesting movie, and an interesting beginning to Christopher Nolan's career. 

FYI - I counted 2 blasphemies and there was some profanity throughout.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1aLxZZY9IKU[/yt]

Oh yeah, also Man of Steel.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Cesar_Augustus on June 16, 2013, 06:21:33 PM
Man of Steel. And some weeks ago, Iron Man 3.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on June 16, 2013, 07:14:32 PM
The Red violin....what an excellent movie! I saw it years and years ago......I forgot how good.

Spoilers in vid
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8ITW72y_6s[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on June 16, 2013, 10:00:35 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on June 16, 2013, 07:14:32 PM
The Red violin....what an excellent movie! I saw it years and years ago......I forgot how good.

I just watched this again about 3 weeks ago.  One of my favorites.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on June 17, 2013, 10:18:47 AM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on June 17, 2013, 11:11:50 AM
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I just ordered this one off of Amazon.  A favorite of mine.  :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on June 18, 2013, 11:14:28 PM
Pitch Perfect.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on June 19, 2013, 12:23:54 AM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on June 20, 2013, 07:34:33 PM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on June 20, 2013, 07:37:06 PM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Patriarch on June 21, 2013, 10:19:14 PM
'Man of Steel'.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on June 22, 2013, 04:16:51 PM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on June 22, 2013, 08:15:36 PM
RED
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on June 23, 2013, 05:12:51 AM
WW Z. Didnt blow me away but it made my wife bury her head in my shoulder a couple times....so for that it was worth all the tea in china.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Othmar on June 26, 2013, 04:14:33 PM
The Great Gatsby.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Der Kaiser on June 26, 2013, 07:45:58 PM
Quote from: Othmar on June 26, 2013, 04:14:33 PM
The Great Gatsby.

How was that? I never did see it. I liked the Book and the old movie, but the rap music scared me away. It is set in the jazz age for Pete's sake not a thug ghetto :P
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on June 26, 2013, 08:16:41 PM
Quote from: Der Kaiser on June 26, 2013, 07:45:58 PM
Quote from: Othmar on June 26, 2013, 04:14:33 PM
The Great Gatsby.

How was that? I never did see it. I liked the Book and the old movie, but the rap music scared me away. It is set in the jazz age for Pete's sake not a thug ghetto :P
Last time I checked, jazz came from and thrived in the 'thug ghetto'. (https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcatholicforum.fisheaters.com%2FSmileys%2Ffishy%2Fhuh.gif&hash=82527133c97554a8059b892cdfef3dc8f8334e17)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 26, 2013, 09:57:20 PM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on June 26, 2013, 10:58:22 PM
Caught the last hour of Rebecca on TCM.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on June 27, 2013, 12:52:21 AM
Quote from: Mr Brocklehurst on June 26, 2013, 09:57:20 PM
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How was this?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Othmar on June 27, 2013, 01:59:29 AM
Quote from: Der Kaiser on June 26, 2013, 07:45:58 PM
Quote from: Othmar on June 26, 2013, 04:14:33 PM
The Great Gatsby.

How was that? I never did see it. I liked the Book and the old movie, but the rap music scared me away. It is set in the jazz age for Pete's sake not a thug ghetto :P
It was great. I cringed a bit when I first heard the soundtrack, but I could live with it. It's not that noticeable after a while.

I've never read the book, so I can't compare it with that.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on June 27, 2013, 02:47:31 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on June 23, 2013, 05:12:51 AM
WW Z. Didnt blow me away but it made my wife bury her head in my shoulder a couple times....so for that it was worth all the tea in china.

I just saw this as well, only I was with my brother-in-law instead of my wife, so I had no such relief.  It was 'meh'.  The movie was like a cross between Outbreak/Contagion and 28 Days.  I wouldn't say it was bad, or not worth watching once, but even the recent RomCom zombie movie Warm Bodies was more entertaining to me.  No zombie flick beats Shaun of the Dead, though.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 27, 2013, 11:50:05 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on June 27, 2013, 12:52:21 AM
Quote from: Mr Brocklehurst on June 26, 2013, 09:57:20 PM
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How was this?

Personally, I thought it was fantastic.  But I can definitely see why critics are so divided on it.  There's a dizzying array of intertwining story lines spanning several centuries, one of which is in the (unsubtitled) language of a post-apocalyptic patois, and the running time approaches three hours.  It's demanding and frequently mystifying.  Cinematically, however, it's in league of its own.  It's certainly one of the most impressive and beautiful CGI extravaganzas ever produced (it's a real treat having CGI in the hands of genuine artists like Tom Twyker and the Wachowskis, as opposed to hacks like Zach Snyder and Michael Bay).  The editing that weaves the story lines together is innovative; you would think that rapid-fire cuts between the sequences would only heighten the confusion, but somehow it doesn't.  It's almost symphonic how they all flow together.  I haven't been able to get it out of my head for the past two days.  It will require a second and possibly third viewing, and I'm even curious to read the book.

It isn't, however, Tom Twyker's masterwork.  That remains Perfume.  But the Wachowskis, for their part, have now outdone The Matrix.  IMO.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on June 27, 2013, 11:52:35 AM
Sounds like it's definitely worth a watch.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Der Kaiser on June 27, 2013, 04:10:34 PM
Quote from: Hat And Beard on June 26, 2013, 08:16:41 PM
Quote from: Der Kaiser on June 26, 2013, 07:45:58 PM
Quote from: Othmar on June 26, 2013, 04:14:33 PM
The Great Gatsby.

How was that? I never did see it. I liked the Book and the old movie, but the rap music scared me away. It is set in the jazz age for Pete's sake not a thug ghetto :P
Last time I checked, jazz came from and thrived in the 'thug ghetto'. (https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcatholicforum.fisheaters.com%2FSmileys%2Ffishy%2Fhuh.gif&hash=82527133c97554a8059b892cdfef3dc8f8334e17)

Uh...no
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on June 27, 2013, 04:22:00 PM
Quote from: Der Kaiser on June 27, 2013, 04:10:34 PM
Quote from: Hat And Beard on June 26, 2013, 08:16:41 PM
Quote from: Der Kaiser on June 26, 2013, 07:45:58 PM
Quote from: Othmar on June 26, 2013, 04:14:33 PM
The Great Gatsby.

How was that? I never did see it. I liked the Book and the old movie, but the rap music scared me away. It is set in the jazz age for Pete's sake not a thug ghetto :P
Last time I checked, jazz came from and thrived in the 'thug ghetto'. (https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcatholicforum.fisheaters.com%2FSmileys%2Ffishy%2Fhuh.gif&hash=82527133c97554a8059b892cdfef3dc8f8334e17)

Uh...no

Actually that's quite true, but it still doesn't justify using hip hop music in the movie version of the quintessential 1920s novel.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on June 27, 2013, 05:19:17 PM
Quote from: Mr Brocklehurst on June 27, 2013, 11:50:05 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on June 27, 2013, 12:52:21 AM
Quote from: Mr Brocklehurst on June 26, 2013, 09:57:20 PM
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How was this?

Personally, I thought it was fantastic.  But I can definitely see why critics are so divided on it.  There's a dizzying array of intertwining story lines spanning several centuries, one of which is in the (unsubtitled) language of a post-apocalyptic patois, and the running time approaches three hours.  It's demanding and frequently mystifying.  Cinematically, however, it's in league of its own.  It's certainly one of the most impressive and beautiful CGI extravaganzas ever produced (it's a real treat having CGI in the hands of genuine artists like Tom Twyker and the Wachowskis, as opposed to hacks like Zach Snyder and Michael Bay).  The editing that weaves the story lines together is innovative; you would think that rapid-fire cuts between the sequences would only heighten the confusion, but somehow it doesn't.  It's almost symphonic how they all flow together.  I haven't been able to get it out of my head for the past two days.  It will require a second and possibly third viewing, and I'm even curious to read the book.

It isn't, however, Tom Twyker's masterwork.  That remains Perfume.  But the Wachowskis, for their part, have now outdone The Matrix.  IMO.

Hmmm... I have a free redbox movie code.  Might rent that one, looks good. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on June 29, 2013, 11:13:47 PM
Changing Lanes
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Elliott on June 30, 2013, 12:59:35 AM
I watched about ten minutes of Tomb Raider. I remember watching it when it came out. I thought it would be good but it seemed to me that its original popularity may have been due to the immodesty of Angeli Jolie. I couldn't stand it so we turned it off.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Penelope on June 30, 2013, 01:20:34 AM
Fiance and I watched Goldfinger tonight, my second Bond movie ever. I can't believe that that's Sean Connery. I always think of the Indiana Jones version of Sean Connery, but this version is much, much different.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Der Kaiser on July 01, 2013, 02:53:40 AM
The Wicker Man. lololol talk about crap
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 01, 2013, 03:12:04 PM
Quote from: Der Kaiser on July 01, 2013, 02:53:40 AM
The Wicker Man. lololol talk about crap

The original with Christopher Lee, or the remake with Nicolas Cage? Both are not great viewing because they have a nihilistic world view, but at least Lee gives a good performance in the original.

Last movie I watched was EL CID with Charlton Heston on Blu-ray. A very good movie, and something that would never be made today unless Mel Gibson did it. It reminded me of BRAVEHEART in a lot of ways, but Cid had more compassion and virtue than William Wallace, though I'm sure both movies take a lot of liberties with the facts.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on July 01, 2013, 03:42:28 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on July 01, 2013, 03:12:04 PM
Quote from: Der Kaiser on July 01, 2013, 02:53:40 AM
The Wicker Man. lololol talk about crap

The original with Christopher Lee, or the remake with Nicolas Cage? Both are not great viewing because they have a nihilistic world view, but at least Lee gives a good performance in the original.

Last movie I watched was EL CID with Charlton Heston on Blu-ray. A very good movie, and something that would never be made today unless Mel Gibson did it. It reminded me of BRAVEHEART in a lot of ways, but Cid had more compassion and virtue than William Wallace, though I'm sure both movies take a lot of liberties with the facts.

Yeah, the original isn't a great but it's pretty creepy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 01, 2013, 04:27:24 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on July 01, 2013, 03:42:28 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on July 01, 2013, 03:12:04 PM
Quote from: Der Kaiser on July 01, 2013, 02:53:40 AM
The Wicker Man. lololol talk about crap

The original with Christopher Lee, or the remake with Nicolas Cage? Both are not great viewing because they have a nihilistic world view, but at least Lee gives a good performance in the original.

Last movie I watched was EL CID with Charlton Heston on Blu-ray. A very good movie, and something that would never be made today unless Mel Gibson did it. It reminded me of BRAVEHEART in a lot of ways, but Cid had more compassion and virtue than William Wallace, though I'm sure both movies take a lot of liberties with the facts.

Yeah, the original isn't a great but it's pretty creepy.

Yeah, it's pretty unsettling.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Der Kaiser on July 01, 2013, 06:47:12 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on July 01, 2013, 03:12:04 PM
Quote from: Der Kaiser on July 01, 2013, 02:53:40 AM
The Wicker Man. lololol talk about crap

The original with Christopher Lee, or the remake with Nicolas Cage? Both are not great viewing because they have a nihilistic world view, but at least Lee gives a good performance in the original.

Last movie I watched was EL CID with Charlton Heston on Blu-ray. A very good movie, and something that would never be made today unless Mel Gibson did it. It reminded me of BRAVEHEART in a lot of ways, but Cid had more compassion and virtue than William Wallace, though I'm sure both movies take a lot of liberties with the facts.

The Nicholas Cage one. I think the original is a very good horror film. Really creepy in parts too. The Nikki Cage one was just horrible from start to finish.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on July 01, 2013, 07:12:57 PM
Quote from: Der Kaiser on July 01, 2013, 06:47:12 PM
The Nicholas Cage one. I think the original is a very good horror film. Really creepy in parts too. The Nikki Cage one was just horrible from start to finish.
You mean that you hadn't heard that before watching it? I thought it was supposed to be the movie that really showed that Nicholas Cage was going down hill. :D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Der Kaiser on July 01, 2013, 07:45:36 PM
Quote from: Hat And Beard on July 01, 2013, 07:12:57 PM
Quote from: Der Kaiser on July 01, 2013, 06:47:12 PM
The Nicholas Cage one. I think the original is a very good horror film. Really creepy in parts too. The Nikki Cage one was just horrible from start to finish.
You mean that you hadn't heard that before watching it? I thought it was supposed to be the movie that really showed that Nicholas Cage was going down hill. :D

Oh yeah I heard about it, but I still thought I'd watch it just to see for myself. The BEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on July 01, 2013, 07:48:23 PM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 01, 2013, 08:10:33 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on July 01, 2013, 08:53:21 PM
If 20 minutes count as watching a movie, it was Skyfall. 20 painful minutes.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on July 01, 2013, 09:22:50 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 01, 2013, 08:53:21 PM
If 20 minutes count as watching a movie, it was Skyfall. 20 painful minutes.

I agree, it was a terrible movie. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Penelope on July 02, 2013, 12:25:33 AM
Quote from: Archer on July 01, 2013, 09:22:50 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 01, 2013, 08:53:21 PM
If 20 minutes count as watching a movie, it was Skyfall. 20 painful minutes.

I agree, it was a terrible movie.

:(  I really liked it. It was my first ever Bond movie, though, so I didn't have much to compare it with.
Title: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on July 02, 2013, 02:30:41 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 01, 2013, 08:53:21 PM
If 20 minutes count as watching a movie, it was Skyfall. 20 painful minutes.

It was definitely bad but it looked good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Der Kaiser on July 02, 2013, 05:16:06 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on July 01, 2013, 07:48:23 PM
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:rofl:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Der Kaiser on July 02, 2013, 05:17:55 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 01, 2013, 08:53:21 PM
If 20 minutes count as watching a movie, it was Skyfall. 20 painful minutes.

WOW! We are two very different people. Besides the Connery ones it was my favorite Bond. I went to it twice. I haven't gone to a movie more than once since The Passion of the Christ. What didn't you like about it?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on July 02, 2013, 09:53:44 AM
Quote from: Der Kaiser on July 02, 2013, 05:17:55 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 01, 2013, 08:53:21 PM
If 20 minutes count as watching a movie, it was Skyfall. 20 painful minutes.

WOW! We are two very different people. Besides the Connery ones it was my favorite Bond. I went to it twice. I haven't gone to a movie more than once since The Passion of the Christ. What didn't you like about it?

Yes, we are I guess. I find car chases at the beginning of a movie uncreative, among other things that are modernistic and cliched.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 02, 2013, 11:46:55 AM
I liked SKYFALL too when I saw it at the movies. When I rewatched it on Blu-ray recently, I didn't like it as much, though it was still pretty good. My favorite Bond movies are still FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE and ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: stmykearchangel on July 04, 2013, 04:50:01 AM
Breaking Away, This movie is one of my all time favs watched it amazon video last night.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 05, 2013, 03:27:37 PM
JAWS on Blu-ray. The perfect movie for 4th of July weekend.  ;)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on July 05, 2013, 04:05:51 PM
World War Z
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Der Kaiser on July 05, 2013, 04:18:34 PM
Quote from: piabee on July 05, 2013, 04:05:51 PM
World War Z

Was that any good? Personally I am sick of this whole zombie craze, but that one looked intriguing.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on July 06, 2013, 12:23:33 AM
It had a few new angles. But I like zombie movies so I'm biased. We saw it at Alamo Drafthouse, after Hopdoddy's. You know a place is good when you order the black bean burger and you don't miss meat.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Patriarch on July 06, 2013, 09:24:08 PM
Sorry, but I hated Cloud Atlas the who reincarnation bit just irked me too much. Skyfall just had an awful, lack-lustre villian who was NOT up to par at all!

Regarding Bond films, my favourites are the ones with Sean Connery as Bond.

Last movie that I saw: 'Murder by Decree', a Sherlock Holmes film. A good one.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: rowsofvoices9 on July 06, 2013, 10:20:00 PM
The Bicycle Thief.  Made in post war WW11 Italy using ordinary people as actors and considered one the top 100 films of all time.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lyubov on July 06, 2013, 10:31:12 PM
Quote from: rowsofvoices9 on July 06, 2013, 10:20:00 PM
The Bicycle Thief.  Made in post war WW11 Italy using ordinary people as actors and considered one the top 100 films of all time.

How did you like it?

The ending [spoiler]depressed me![/spoiler]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on July 06, 2013, 10:51:59 PM
Quote from: stmykearchangel on July 04, 2013, 04:50:01 AM
Breaking Away, This movie is one of my all time favs watched it amazon video last night.

I used to work with the man whose story was told in this. He was an Episcopalian, but was always talking about becoming Catholic. I wonder if he ever did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Blase
http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/blase-of-breaking-away-glory/Content?oid=1276289#.Udjz1fm87oI


Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on July 07, 2013, 08:56:51 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 02, 2013, 09:53:44 AM
Quote from: Der Kaiser on July 02, 2013, 05:17:55 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 01, 2013, 08:53:21 PM
If 20 minutes count as watching a movie, it was Skyfall. 20 painful minutes.

WOW! We are two very different people. Besides the Connery ones it was my favorite Bond. I went to it twice. I haven't gone to a movie more than once since The Passion of the Christ. What didn't you like about it?

Yes, we are I guess. I find car chases at the beginning of a movie uncreative, among other things that are modernistic and cliched.
The Villian was a homo hacker with dentures...and Bond flirts with him convincingly (hinting a deliberate queer bias in the franchise tocome)...further Lady Dench's character  is soo unsympathetic I couldnt care less if the villian offed her.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 07, 2013, 04:44:10 PM
Quote from: Lyubov on July 06, 2013, 10:31:12 PM
Quote from: rowsofvoices9 on July 06, 2013, 10:20:00 PM
The Bicycle Thief.  Made in post war WW11 Italy using ordinary people as actors and considered one the top 100 films of all time.

How did you like it?

The ending [spoiler]depressed me![/spoiler]

I agree about the ending, but what a great movie The Bicycle Thief is! It really is a great commentary on the human condition.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on July 07, 2013, 07:40:32 PM
Despicable Me 2
Very Good...funny and excellent art work. A better spy film than most all of the bonds...the only other better spy flick was Disneys Incredibles.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 07, 2013, 08:06:00 PM
THE MIRACLE OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA on DVD. Still a very good and touching movie, even if it isn't 100% accurate. Legend has it that this film was Jack Warner's atonement for the pro Soviet MISSION TO MOSCOW made during WWII.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lyubov on July 07, 2013, 08:21:45 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on July 07, 2013, 08:06:00 PM
THE MIRACLE OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA on DVD. Still a very good and touching movie, even if it isn't 100% accurate. Legend has it that this film was Jack Warner's atonement for the pro Soviet MISSION TO MOSCOW made during WWII.

I didn't realize that the two films were connected. I liked The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (despite some of the cheesier moments) and I need to watch Mission to Moscow soon.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 07, 2013, 08:33:39 PM
Quote from: Lyubov on July 07, 2013, 08:21:45 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on July 07, 2013, 08:06:00 PM
THE MIRACLE OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA on DVD. Still a very good and touching movie, even if it isn't 100% accurate. Legend has it that this film was Jack Warner's atonement for the pro Soviet MISSION TO MOSCOW made during WWII.

I didn't realize that the two films were connected. I liked The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (despite some of the cheesier moments) and I need to watch Mission to Moscow soon.

They are only connected in the sense that Warner was sorry he made MISSION in the 1940's when the USA was creating propaganda to justify the Allies alliance with the Soviet's. The Fatima message was very popular at the time, and was known to be anti-Communist, so Warner made this movie as an apology. At least according to some film history books I've read, which may or may not be accurate.
Don't waste your time on MISSION TO MOSCOW unless you just want to study it as an historical artifact. It isn't a very good movie, and makes "Uncle Joe" Stalin out to be a hero.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lyubov on July 07, 2013, 09:48:16 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on July 07, 2013, 08:33:39 PM
Don't waste your time on MISSION TO MOSCOW unless you just want to study it as an historical artifact.

Yep, that's why I need to watch it. Have you seen it yourself? I want to watch it to see how it portrays the Soviet cosmetics industry.  :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on July 07, 2013, 11:49:54 PM
Quote from: piabee on July 06, 2013, 12:23:33 AM
It had a few new angles. But I like zombie movies so I'm biased. We saw it at Alamo Drafthouse, after Hopdoddy's. You know a place is good when you order the black bean burger and you don't miss meat.

Californians...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on July 07, 2013, 11:55:13 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on July 07, 2013, 11:49:54 PM
Californians...

Catholics... I never would have chosen a burger place on a Friday but my BFF's BF's roommate was chauffering us around and set the itinerary.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on July 07, 2013, 11:56:03 PM
Quote from: piabee on July 07, 2013, 11:55:13 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on July 07, 2013, 11:49:54 PM
Californians...

Catholics... I never would have chose a burger place on a Friday but my BFF's BF's roommate was chauffering us around and set the itinerary.

Oh, it was a Friday.  That changes everything.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 08, 2013, 10:55:05 AM
Quote from: Lyubov on July 07, 2013, 09:48:16 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on July 07, 2013, 08:33:39 PM
Don't waste your time on MISSION TO MOSCOW unless you just want to study it as an historical artifact.

Yep, that's why I need to watch it. Have you seen it yourself? I want to watch it to see how it portrays the Soviet cosmetics industry.  :)

I saw it years ago on AMC when they actually ran classic movies. I barely remember it, only that it was very hokey. I've never had a desire to see it again, which is unusual for me, because I love to watch and rewatch films from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on July 08, 2013, 06:05:27 PM
Quote from: rowsofvoices9 on July 06, 2013, 10:20:00 PM
The Bicycle Thief.  Made in post war WW11 Italy using ordinary people as actors and considered one the top 100 films of all time.
You must love Bresson, then. Diary of a Country Priest, Pickpocket, Au Hasard Balthazar, and the Trial of Joan of Arc are all some of the best movies ever(and very Catholic, too).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on July 08, 2013, 06:40:22 PM
Quote from: Hat And Beard on July 08, 2013, 06:05:27 PM
Quote from: rowsofvoices9 on July 06, 2013, 10:20:00 PM
The Bicycle Thief.  Made in post war WW11 Italy using ordinary people as actors and considered one the top 100 films of all time.
You must love Bresson, then. Diary of a Country Priest, Pickpocket, Au Hasard Balthazar, and the Trial of Joan of Arc are all some of the best movies ever(and very Catholic, too).

I've heard that Diary of a Country Priest and, of course, Joan of Arc are Catholic, but this is true of his other films as well?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on July 08, 2013, 06:52:42 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on July 08, 2013, 06:40:22 PM
Quote from: Hat And Beard on July 08, 2013, 06:05:27 PM
Quote from: rowsofvoices9 on July 06, 2013, 10:20:00 PM
The Bicycle Thief.  Made in post war WW11 Italy using ordinary people as actors and considered one the top 100 films of all time.
You must love Bresson, then. Diary of a Country Priest, Pickpocket, Au Hasard Balthazar, and the Trial of Joan of Arc are all some of the best movies ever(and very Catholic, too).

I've heard that Diary of a Country Priest and, of course, Joan of Arc are Catholic, but this is true of his other films as well?
Au Hasard Balthazar certainly is. Pickpocket and A Man on Death Row Escaped are both great and have a Catholic trim, however faint. Although he was an agnostic, he made Catholic movies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: stmykearchangel on July 08, 2013, 07:02:05 PM
I'm really interested in this Pacific Rim movie anyone else. If you like monsters and robots this looks awesome!  http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/pacificrim/
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on July 12, 2013, 02:52:13 PM
Quote from: stmykearchangel on July 08, 2013, 07:02:05 PM
I'm really interested in this Pacific Rim movie anyone else. If you like monsters and robots this looks awesome!  http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/pacificrim/
most certainly...I was po-ed at this morning radio talk show that was just spewing spoilers...idiotically prefaceing each spoiler with "not to give too much away but......" :censor:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on July 14, 2013, 11:15:22 PM
Man of Steel, finally. Wifey and I both liked it. A very Christian take on Supes, and an interesting take on Zod as well. The only Superman movie I've ever seen that I actually rather liked.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on July 15, 2013, 09:45:54 PM
La Vie en Rose.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on July 17, 2013, 03:10:49 PM
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMcTKNDB2TM[/yt]

One of the greatest sword fights ever filmed starting at 1:16:00.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on July 17, 2013, 03:24:29 PM
Lone Ranger
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on July 18, 2013, 09:57:32 AM
secret of kells
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 18, 2013, 03:08:33 PM
Quote from: Archer on July 17, 2013, 03:10:49 PM
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMcTKNDB2TM[/yt]

One of the greatest sword fights ever filmed starting at 1:16:00.

Heck, yeah! This, and the Errol Flynn movie ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, have the best sword fights in movie history.
Title: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on July 18, 2013, 07:09:31 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on July 18, 2013, 03:08:33 PM
Heck, yeah! This, and the Errol Flynn movie ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, have the best sword fights in movie history.

I know! To this day The Adventures of Robin Hood is one of my favorite movies.  I can watch it over and over again, it never gets old. 

ETA: And talk about an all-star cast. When actors actually could act....

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evof-iVDOwQ[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Alypius on July 19, 2013, 02:30:58 PM
In the Name of the Father

D.D. Lew is the man.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on July 19, 2013, 02:58:56 PM
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (full "movie" below)

Being a fan of the Firefly series, when I saw this was directed by Joss Whedon and had Nathan Fillion as a main actor, I had to check it out.  Definitely NOT what I expected, but then again, with a title like that, I shouldn't be surprised.  42" of pure silliness.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVBjS22ppdw&feature=player_detailpage[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 19, 2013, 07:00:41 PM
Quote from: Archer on July 18, 2013, 07:09:31 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on July 18, 2013, 03:08:33 PM
Heck, yeah! This, and the Errol Flynn movie ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, have the best sword fights in movie history.

I know! To this day The Adventures of Robin Hood is one of my favorite movies.  I can watch it over and over again, it never gets old. 

ETA: And talk about an all-star cast. When actors actually could act....

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evof-iVDOwQ[/yt]

ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD is in my top five of all time. I've loved that movie since I watched it on a Sunday afternoon around Christmas time as a little kid. Even then, I was blown away by the gorgeous Technicolor and the great acting.

Keeping on topic: the last movie I watched was the 1989 BATMAN with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. I haven't watched it in a very long time, mainly because I didn't think it held up compared to the new Christopher Nolan films. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed seeing it again. It isn't as well written as Nolan's movies, and I think the script needed one more draft before they began production. But it is a fun flick, with a great scenery chewing performance by Jack, and a very complex and moody Keaton as Bruce/Batman. Plus Danny Elfman's music rules.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on July 19, 2013, 09:29:44 PM
Michael Keaton is the best Batman ever.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on July 19, 2013, 09:59:30 PM
Swing Parade (1946, with the 3 Stooges)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on July 19, 2013, 11:46:59 PM
Quote from: totiusque on July 19, 2013, 02:58:56 PM
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (full "movie" below)

Being a fan of the Firefly series, when I saw this was directed by Joss Whedon and had Nathan Fillion as a main actor, I had to check it out.  Definitely NOT what I expected, but then again, with a title like that, I shouldn't be surprised.  42" of pure silliness.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVBjS22ppdw&feature=player_detailpage[/yt]

42 minutes of pure hilarity.

Laundry day!  See you there, under things, tumbaling....
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on July 19, 2013, 11:55:37 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 19, 2013, 09:29:44 PM
Michael Keaton is the best Batman ever.

You guys are trolling me.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 19, 2013, 11:57:24 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 19, 2013, 09:29:44 PM
Michael Keaton is the best Batman ever.


I still prefer Bale, but Keaton is second best.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on July 20, 2013, 12:09:15 AM
Dark Knight Rises for maybe the tenth time.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on July 20, 2013, 12:09:22 AM
I saw "The Call."  It was made by WWE Studios.

Not a single bodyslam happened.  :'(
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 20, 2013, 01:09:00 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on July 20, 2013, 12:09:15 AM
Dark Knight Rises for maybe the tenth time.



I still haven't watched RISES as many times as the other two, but I think it's a great movie. What's funny is that most of my non comic book reading friends think RISES is the best in the series, while comic book fans complain about certain aspects of it(particularly who John Blake turns out to be, and the last scene of the movie). I thought it was the perfect way to end the Batman story, so much so that I'm not all that interested in the inevitable reboot(though I'm sure that I'll be there for it on opening day, God willing).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on July 20, 2013, 12:35:16 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on July 20, 2013, 01:09:00 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on July 20, 2013, 12:09:15 AM
Dark Knight Rises for maybe the tenth time.



I still haven't watched RISES as many times as the other two, but I think it's a great movie. What's funny is that most of my non comic book reading friends think RISES is the best in the series, while comic book fans complain about certain aspects of it(particularly who John Blake turns out to be, and the last scene of the movie). I thought it was the perfect way to end the Batman story, so much so that I'm not all that interested in the inevitable reboot(though I'm sure that I'll be there for it on opening day, God willing).


"Do you feel in charge?"  :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 20, 2013, 05:59:11 PM
Quote from: Gerard on July 20, 2013, 12:35:16 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on July 20, 2013, 01:09:00 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on July 20, 2013, 12:09:15 AM
Dark Knight Rises for maybe the tenth time.



I still haven't watched RISES as many times as the other two, but I think it's a great movie. What's funny is that most of my non comic book reading friends think RISES is the best in the series, while comic book fans complain about certain aspects of it(particularly who John Blake turns out to be, and the last scene of the movie). I thought it was the perfect way to end the Batman story, so much so that I'm not all that interested in the inevitable reboot(though I'm sure that I'll be there for it on opening day, God willing).


"Do you feel in charge?"  :)

Great line, and great delivery by Hardy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on July 20, 2013, 07:02:39 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on July 20, 2013, 05:59:11 PM

Great line, and great delivery by Hardy.

Agreed. Hardy is underrated especially for what he accomplished in a difficult role to pull off. 

BTW,  I can't recommend the Rifftrax accompaniment to Dark Knight enough. 

http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/dark-knight

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR04HS2G8E4[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on July 20, 2013, 07:15:16 PM
The only thing Hardy could have done to be more impressive was actually gain 50 lbs. of muscle, instead of resorting to CGI. However, that would have entailed the use of banned substances.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on July 20, 2013, 10:01:02 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on July 20, 2013, 07:15:16 PM
The only thing Hardy could have done to be more impressive was actually gain 50 lbs. of muscle, instead of resorting to CGI. However, that would have entailed the use of banned substances.

Found a short clip of that scene:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C_BubeBU8E[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on July 20, 2013, 10:32:47 PM
Manborg. Why do I feel like someone posted this recently?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on July 21, 2013, 02:44:51 AM
Terminator.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: sprungli on July 21, 2013, 06:54:50 AM
Monsters University

Toy Story
Title: Last movie you saw?
Post by: sprungli on July 21, 2013, 08:48:54 AM
Shaun of the dead
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on July 21, 2013, 11:18:59 AM
How to Train Your Dragon.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Alypius on July 23, 2013, 03:12:12 PM
8 1/2
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Cesar_Augustus on July 23, 2013, 08:30:18 PM
Monsters University.

Despicable Me 2.

Pacific Rim.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on July 23, 2013, 10:32:40 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 19, 2013, 11:46:59 PM
Quote from: totiusque on July 19, 2013, 02:58:56 PM
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (full "movie" below)

Being a fan of the Firefly series, when I saw this was directed by Joss Whedon and had Nathan Fillion as a main actor, I had to check it out.  Definitely NOT what I expected, but then again, with a title like that, I shouldn't be surprised.  42" of pure silliness.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVBjS22ppdw&feature=player_detailpage[/yt]

42 minutes of pure hilarity.

Laundry day!  See you there, under things, tumbaling....

LOL!  That was a good one.   :rofl:  Wonder if they'll make a sequel???
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on July 23, 2013, 10:37:25 PM
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on July 23, 2013, 08:30:18 PM
Monsters University.

Despicable Me 2.

Pacific Rim.

Whoa!  Busy night at the movies?  Didn't all 3 of these just come out this month?  Wish I had that kind of dough....   ;D

Playing For Keeps - wife picked it out on Netflix, so there you go.  Cheesy RomCom.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on July 24, 2013, 01:51:46 AM
Quote from: Alypius on July 23, 2013, 03:12:12 PM
8 1/2

How was it?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: FaithByProxy on July 24, 2013, 09:22:03 AM
The Conjuring

Better than I was expecting. Genuinely creepy at certain points, and almost orthodox on Catholic issues. It was respectful, at least.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Alypius on July 24, 2013, 03:14:35 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on July 24, 2013, 01:51:46 AM
Quote from: Alypius on July 23, 2013, 03:12:12 PM
8 1/2

How was it?

I thought it was terrific.  Great ending.  I also love how it was shot.  While watching it I kept thinking "man, 'I'm Not There' (that Dylan movie) kinda borrowed quite a bit from this."  Especially style wise.  I want to watch it again though.  A lot of great lines.  "Because he doesn't know how to love."

Also, I should mention that I "watched it wrong."  I haven't yet seen La Dolce Vita, only La Strada.  Apparently you need to see La Dolce Vita to more fully appreciate 8 1/2, but I still liked it a lot nevertheless.

Also also, I had just watched Bergman's "Persona" earlier in the evening [but technically, at the time I posted 8 1/2 was the last movie I had scene (bad pun)] and it was interesting because they both deal with finding meaning in life--even if it means just choosing one thing and finding meaning there.  I like 8 1/2 more.



Incidentally, the most recent movie I have seen as of now is Diary of a Country Priest.  Loved it!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on July 24, 2013, 03:15:46 PM
Quote from: Alypius on July 24, 2013, 03:14:35 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on July 24, 2013, 01:51:46 AM
Quote from: Alypius on July 23, 2013, 03:12:12 PM
8 1/2

How was it?

I thought it was terrific.  Great ending.  I also love how it was shot.  While watching it I kept thinking "man, 'I'm Not There' (that Dylan movie) kinda borrowed quite a bit from this."  Especially style wise.  I want to watch it again though.  A lot of great lines.  "Because he doesn't know how to love."

Also, I should mention that I "watched it wrong."  I haven't yet seen La Dolce Vita, only La Strada.  Apparently you need to see La Dolce Vita to more fully appreciate 8 1/2, but I still liked it a lot nevertheless.

Also also, I had just watched Bergman's "Persona" earlier in the evening [but technically, at the time I posted 8 1/2 was the last movie I had scene (bad pun)] and it was interesting because they both deal with finding meaning in life--even if it means just choosing one thing and finding meaning there.  I like 8 1/2 more.



Incidentally, the most recent movie I have seen as of now is Diary of a Country Priest.  Loved it!

Someone is on a Criterion kick.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Alypius on July 24, 2013, 03:20:09 PM
haha, yeah.  What else am I going to do?  I had to take a break from Arrested Development.  Still about halfway done with it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on July 24, 2013, 03:32:46 PM
Quote from: Alypius on July 24, 2013, 03:20:09 PM
haha, yeah.  What else am I going to do?  I had to take a break from Arrested Development.  Still about halfway done with it.

You should become a puzzle guy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mrs. Featherbottom on July 24, 2013, 03:44:56 PM
Quote from: Alypius on July 24, 2013, 03:20:09 PM
haha, yeah.  What else am I going to do?  I had to take a break from Arrested Development.  Still about halfway done with it.

Don't you have a big trip coming up?  You should make some homemade crafts as gifts to your hosts.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Alypius on July 24, 2013, 03:58:49 PM
Yeah, I've been into puzzles and crafts in a big way lately.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on July 24, 2013, 04:15:22 PM
Quote from: Mrs. Featherbottom on July 24, 2013, 03:44:56 PM
Quote from: Alypius on July 24, 2013, 03:20:09 PM
haha, yeah.  What else am I going to do?  I had to take a break from Arrested Development.  Still about halfway done with it.

Don't you have a big trip coming up?  You should make some homemade crafts as gifts to your hosts.

Maybe something like this?

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FcqNCKdW.jpg&hash=fcfe532163345345aa190efeb38dc5fb448ba57e)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on July 24, 2013, 08:24:28 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on July 24, 2013, 04:15:22 PM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FcqNCKdW.jpg&hash=fcfe532163345345aa190efeb38dc5fb448ba57e)

Thanks bud, now I know I'm going to have nightmares. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on July 24, 2013, 08:26:30 PM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.comicalcine.com%2Fa%2Fmedia%2F2010%2F10%2Fposter-The_Dark_Knight_Rises.jpg&hash=f7b3d94fa32c200a98bad9855a012a0de1baff0f)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on July 24, 2013, 09:08:49 PM
Barry Lyndon
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on July 24, 2013, 09:26:29 PM
Planet of Dinosaurs (1978) [Non-Rifftrax version]

It was awful and dumb, but it provided plenty of unintentional laughter in addition to the stop-motion dinosaurs. I loved it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on July 24, 2013, 10:01:35 PM
X2 (with the Rifftrax) before that Pacific Rim

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qQUBK7HFxA[/yt]
Title: Last movie you saw?
Post by: sprungli on July 26, 2013, 09:51:41 AM
The wolverine

A+++++!!! :D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on July 26, 2013, 10:50:16 AM
Quote from: sprungli on July 26, 2013, 09:51:41 AM
The wolverine

A+++++!!! :D

I'm off to see it in about 15 min.  Looking forward to it. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 26, 2013, 10:58:33 AM
Quote from: Gerard on July 26, 2013, 10:50:16 AM
Quote from: sprungli on July 26, 2013, 09:51:41 AM
The wolverine

A+++++!!! :D

I'm off to see it in about 15 min.  Looking forward to it.

I have to wait until next weekend to see it. A fellow traddie wants to see it with me, but won't be free until next weekend. We'll go to First Saturday Mass(TLM, of course),  and then to the movies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on July 26, 2013, 03:11:20 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on July 26, 2013, 10:58:33 AM
Quote from: Gerard on July 26, 2013, 10:50:16 AM
Quote from: sprungli on July 26, 2013, 09:51:41 AM
The wolverine

A+++++!!! :D

I'm off to see it in about 15 min.  Looking forward to it.

I have to wait until next weekend to see it. A fellow traddie wants to see it with me, but won't be free until next weekend. We'll go to First Saturday Mass(TLM, of course),  and then to the movies.

That was MUCH better than the X-Men Origins: Wolverine film. 

It draw a lot from the Frank Miller Chris Claremont mini series from the early 80s. 

And the Easter egg is probably the best tease I've seen of all of them. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 26, 2013, 03:17:47 PM
I've heard a lot of good things, I'm looking forward to it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on July 27, 2013, 04:57:59 PM
Superman Returns  (2006)

Following the major let down that was the recent Superman movie (a glitzy re-hash of superman 2 with no heart or soul) I decided to revisit the 2006 offering.
I remembered it being OK but also somewhat disappointing so I wanted to refresh and compare. Having just finished it I feel it is a far superior version than the 2013 serving. It has a lot more appeal and feels a little more depth-ful. The Christ references are there too and in fact are far more obvious. Superman (almost) dies in this movie as a sacrifice for men and the scene were he falls to earth, having given up the ghost, is drenched in Christological imagery. Lex stabs superman in his right side with a shard of Kryptonite to finish him off. It passed me by the first time but it seemed an obvious reference to the spear of Longinus. All in all a far more satisfying version I felt and not so much the obvious vehicle for snazzy visuals ( which i like) wrapped round an old story with limp acting and a general sense of emotional malaise about the thing as we experience in the new version.The 2006 version almost managed to retain some of the sense of fun of the Reeves movies whihc were lacking in the new one. I was fully anticipating an edgier take on superman which would have been great but the new movie did not produce on this score. It was a real damp squib in terms of impact and engagement.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Pheo on July 27, 2013, 06:39:01 PM
Quote from: FaithByProxy on July 24, 2013, 09:22:03 AM
The Conjuring

Better than I was expecting. Genuinely creepy at certain points, and almost orthodox on Catholic issues. It was respectful, at least.

I just saw this one too.  It really wasn't as scary as I thought it would be, but it had a couple good jump moments.  And you're right - they had a few goofy ideas, but things seemed to be presented decently.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 28, 2013, 06:37:28 AM
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on July 27, 2013, 04:57:59 PM
Superman Returns  (2006)

Following the major let down that was the recent Superman movie (a glitzy re-hash of superman 2 with no heart or soul) I decided to revisit the 2006 offering.
I remembered it being OK but also somewhat disappointing so I wanted to refresh and compare. Having just finished it I feel it is a far superior version than the 2013 serving. It has a lot more appeal and feels a little more depth-ful. The Christ references are there too and in fact are far more obvious. Superman (almost) dies in this movie as a sacrifice for men and the scene were he falls to earth, having given up the ghost, is drenched in Christological imagery. Lex stabs superman in his right side with a shard of Kryptonite to finish him off. It passed me by the first time but it seemed an obvious reference to the spear of Longinus. All in all a far more satisfying version I felt and not so much the obvious vehicle for snazzy visuals ( which i like) wrapped round an old story with limp acting and a general sense of emotional malaise about the thing as we experience in the new version.The 2006 version almost managed to retain some of the sense of fun of the Reeves movies whihc were lacking in the new one. I was fully anticipating an edgier take on superman which would have been great but the new movie did not produce on this score. It was a real damp squib in terms of impact and engagement.

Even though I liked MAN OF STEEL, I have to admit that I'll go against popular consensus and say that I enjoyed SUPERMAN RETURNS at least as much, if not more so. It was good closure to the original series of Superman movies. Director Bryan Singer mentioned in an interview that, even though he's Jewish, he was influenced by the story of Christ in making this movie, and directly referenced the spear of Longinus as being an inspiration for the scene where Luthor stabs Superman with the Kryptonite. Also, THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST had just been released when this film went into production, and I can't help but think that the scene of Luthor's thugs beating up Superman(while Lex's girlfriend looks on in grief at the cruelty of it) wasn't inspired by some of  the imagery in Mel's masterpiece of a movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on July 28, 2013, 07:52:33 AM
Coriolanus. I want to read the play now.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on July 28, 2013, 07:54:27 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 28, 2013, 07:52:33 AM
Coriolanus. I want to read the play now.

I want to see the movie version.
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Post by: Heinrich on July 28, 2013, 07:56:25 AM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on July 28, 2013, 07:54:27 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 28, 2013, 07:52:33 AM
Coriolanus. I want to read the play now.

I want to see the movie version.

Well produced and adapted from what I understand the original to be. It will elevate your speech patterns for the rest of the day.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on July 28, 2013, 12:05:00 PM
Cabin on the Woods and Sharknado

The former was OK. 

The latter FREAKING HILARIOUS.

Sent from my HTC Sensation using Tapatalk 2

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Post by: dymphna17 on July 28, 2013, 01:18:42 PM
World War Z.  I'd love to watch this happen from a helicopters view.  I wonder if zombie preppers are now buying ships for future safety.  lol
Title: Last movie you saw?
Post by: sprungli on August 01, 2013, 08:28:19 AM
Garden state

So funny & meaningful . 3 1/2 stars.
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Post by: Othmar on August 01, 2013, 08:41:24 AM
Braveheart. Seems to be overrated.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on August 01, 2013, 09:32:52 AM
Quote from: Othmar on August 01, 2013, 08:41:24 AM
Braveheart. Seems to be overrated.

Excuse you?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on August 01, 2013, 09:34:14 AM
Quote from: Othmar on August 01, 2013, 08:41:24 AM
Braveheart. Seems to be overrated.

Blasphemy!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Othmar on August 01, 2013, 10:14:48 AM
It's quite historically inaccurate, and seems to espouse some strange revisionism. I mean, why refer to historical characters if you just make up almost everything? Some parts are almost insulting to anyone who knows a bit of medieval history (Ius Primae Noctis, kilts, ...). The scenery was quite fine, as well as the battle scenes. The pacing is a bit uneven, and the love scenes are a bore. Mel Gibson is a good actor, though I think Patrick McGoohan was the real star.

I'm not saying that it's bad, but it has some deep flaws. It's certainly a spectacle, and I don't regret seeing it, but it is somewhat overrated.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on August 01, 2013, 10:22:22 AM
Quote from: Othmar on August 01, 2013, 10:14:48 AM
It's quite historically inaccurate

Doesn't matter, no one is getting graded on the outcome but I see your point. I am bothered however by historical inaccuracies when the agenda is anti-Catholic. The Elizabeth movie for example.
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Post by: Bonaventure on August 01, 2013, 12:40:10 PM
It's very inaccurate. William Wallace did not simultaneously die with Edward Longshanks. The notion that he fathered Edward III is, historically, ridiculous.
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Post by: Gerard on August 01, 2013, 01:26:48 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on August 01, 2013, 12:40:10 PM
It's very inaccurate. William Wallace did not simultaneously die with Edward Longshanks. The notion that he fathered Edward III is, historically, ridiculous.

If you watch it with the Director's Commentary, Mel Gibson points out a lot of the historical changes that were made, some for Hollywood storytelling purposes and others for pragmatic filming purposes. 
Gibson didn't even want to play the part because he was too old (37 at the time), Wallace was castrated before his execution and a host of other details. 
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Post by: Othmar on August 01, 2013, 01:40:37 PM
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on August 01, 2013, 10:22:22 AM
I am bothered however by historical inaccuracies when the agenda is anti-Catholic. The Elizabeth movie for example.
I think I've only seen its sequel, or was too young to remember the first one. In any case, some scenes might yet have some didactic use.

Concerning the diabolisation of Catholics in films about Queen Elizabeth, I guess it's bound to happen with "Bloody Mary" still lingering in British culture. Are there any films about Elizabeth that portray Catholics somewhat sympathetically?
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Post by: Bonaventure on August 01, 2013, 03:23:05 PM
Paths of Glory
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Post by: Larry on August 01, 2013, 05:32:51 PM
Quote from: Othmar on August 01, 2013, 01:40:37 PM
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on August 01, 2013, 10:22:22 AM
I am bothered however by historical inaccuracies when the agenda is anti-Catholic. The Elizabeth movie for example.
I think I've only seen its sequel, or was too young to remember the first one. In any case, some scenes might yet have some didactic use.

Concerning the diabolisation of Catholics in films about Queen Elizabeth, I guess it's bound to happen with "Bloody Mary" still lingering in British culture. Are there any films about Elizabeth that portray Catholics somewhat sympathetically?

John Ford's MARY OF SCOTLAND portrays Elizabeth as a harpy, makes Reformer John Knox look like a fanatic, and presents the Catholic Faith in a sympathetic manner.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Othmar on August 01, 2013, 05:41:30 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on August 01, 2013, 05:32:51 PM
Quote from: Othmar on August 01, 2013, 01:40:37 PM
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on August 01, 2013, 10:22:22 AM
I am bothered however by historical inaccuracies when the agenda is anti-Catholic. The Elizabeth movie for example.
I think I've only seen its sequel, or was too young to remember the first one. In any case, some scenes might yet have some didactic use.

Concerning the diabolisation of Catholics in films about Queen Elizabeth, I guess it's bound to happen with "Bloody Mary" still lingering in British culture. Are there any films about Elizabeth that portray Catholics somewhat sympathetically?
John Ford's MARY OF SCOTLAND portrays Elizabeth as a harpy, makes Reformer John Knox look like a fanatic, and presents the Catholic Faith in a sympathetic manner.
Didn't it flop precisely because of that?  :P
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Post by: Larry on August 01, 2013, 06:23:04 PM
Quote from: Othmar on August 01, 2013, 05:41:30 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on August 01, 2013, 05:32:51 PM
Quote from: Othmar on August 01, 2013, 01:40:37 PM
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on August 01, 2013, 10:22:22 AM
I am bothered however by historical inaccuracies when the agenda is anti-Catholic. The Elizabeth movie for example.
I think I've only seen its sequel, or was too young to remember the first one. In any case, some scenes might yet have some didactic use.

Concerning the diabolisation of Catholics in films about Queen Elizabeth, I guess it's bound to happen with "Bloody Mary" still lingering in British culture. Are there any films about Elizabeth that portray Catholics somewhat sympathetically?
John Ford's MARY OF SCOTLAND portrays Elizabeth as a harpy, makes Reformer John Knox look like a fanatic, and presents the Catholic Faith in a sympathetic manner.
Didn't it flop precisely because of that?  :P

I know it didn't do very well, but I don't know if that's why. I think it was Katherine Hepburn. She was labeled "box office poison" around the time this movie was released.
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Post by: Hat And Beard on August 01, 2013, 08:23:43 PM
All 25 seasons of this:
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2Fthumb%2Fb%2Fb0%2FABC_Aferschool_Special_Title_Screen.jpg%2F250px-ABC_Aferschool_Special_Title_Screen.jpg&hash=c71369d99e6b374931e9fb7a15af9e20bf957b5a)

They don't make programs like this anymore. Nope. Now all they make is crap and I'm angry about it!!!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on August 01, 2013, 08:29:02 PM
Quote from: Hat And Beard on August 01, 2013, 08:23:43 PM
All 25 seasons of this:
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2Fthumb%2Fb%2Fb0%2FABC_Aferschool_Special_Title_Screen.jpg%2F250px-ABC_Aferschool_Special_Title_Screen.jpg&hash=c71369d99e6b374931e9fb7a15af9e20bf957b5a)

They don't make programs like this anymore. Nope. Now all they make is crap and I'm angry about it!!!

I don't know of programs that are quite like that (if you mean explicitly educational cartoon shows), but there are good cartoon series still being made today. I made a thread not long ago about Avatar: The Last Airbender and its sequel, The Legend of Korra. They are pretty darn good. I would even speculate to say, perhaps even better than the cartoons I saw growing up (with the exception of Batman: The Animated Series).

But I thought this thread was for movies, not TV shows. If it were about serials, I'd post here a lot more frequently.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on August 02, 2013, 10:59:31 AM
Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972). Non-Rifftrax version, out of morbid curiosity.

The film wasn't very good.  ::)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on August 03, 2013, 04:30:34 PM
Wolverine. It was great, much better than the Wolverine:Origins movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on August 03, 2013, 05:16:14 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on August 03, 2013, 04:30:34 PM
Wolverine. It was great, much better than the Wolverine:Origins movie.

That last part really isn't saying much! I have my hopes up. Wifey loves her some Wolverine so I believe we'll be seeing this later tonight.
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Post by: Larry on August 03, 2013, 05:38:57 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on August 03, 2013, 05:16:14 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on August 03, 2013, 04:30:34 PM
Wolverine. It was great, much better than the Wolverine:Origins movie.

That last part really isn't saying much! I have my hopes up. Wifey loves her some Wolverine so I believe we'll be seeing this later tonight.

Lol, I know. It's good though. I don't think you'll be disappointed. A word of warning though: there are some beautiful women who are immodestly dressed(to say the least) in a few scenes in this movie, so be prepared for that. I had to close my eyes a couple of times.  :P
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Post by: Bonaventure on August 04, 2013, 01:08:42 AM
The Dark Knight.
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Post by: Adeodatus on August 05, 2013, 12:08:05 AM
Wolverine, at the theater last night. It was fun.

300 tonight on DVD, since wifey had never seen it. Setting aside the oliphants and goatboys, it's not a bad little picture.

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Post by: Othmar on August 05, 2013, 04:29:21 AM
Does anyone remember the Mummy? That was my favourite movie when I was little. I feel like watching it later today.

I don't want to say that it's qualitywise comparable to Indiana Jones, but there's definitely a similar feeling and setting. There's something enormously attractive to these kind of movies. Set in the 40s, preposterous and with a slight touch of Dieselpunk...
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Post by: Larry on August 05, 2013, 11:33:51 AM
Quote from: Othmar on August 05, 2013, 04:29:21 AM
Does anyone remember the Mummy? That was my favourite movie when I was little. I feel like watching it later today.

I don't want to say that it's qualitywise comparable to Indiana Jones, but there's definitely a similar feeling and setting. There's something enormously attractive to these kind of movies. Set in the 40s, preposterous and with a slight touch of Dieselpunk...

I liked the first Mummy. It was fun. Not as good as the original Mummy from the 1930's, but it was enjoyable. I didn't care for the sequels though.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on August 06, 2013, 12:24:05 AM
Quote from: Adeodatus on August 05, 2013, 12:08:05 AM
300 tonight on DVD, since wifey had never seen it. Setting aside the oliphants and goatboys, it's not a bad little picture.

Excited for the next one?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on August 06, 2013, 07:40:09 AM
Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Not too bad. It was only stupid a couple of times.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on August 06, 2013, 08:32:06 AM
The Avengers. Good fun.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on August 06, 2013, 04:33:13 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on August 06, 2013, 12:24:05 AM
Quote from: Adeodatus on August 05, 2013, 12:08:05 AM
300 tonight on DVD, since wifey had never seen it. Setting aside the oliphants and goatboys, it's not a bad little picture.

Excited for the next one?

Next one? Are they doing Plataea?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Othmar on August 06, 2013, 04:57:11 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on August 06, 2013, 04:33:13 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on August 06, 2013, 12:24:05 AM
Quote from: Adeodatus on August 05, 2013, 12:08:05 AM
300 tonight on DVD, since wifey had never seen it. Setting aside the oliphants and goatboys, it's not a bad little picture.

Excited for the next one?

Next one? Are they doing Plataea?
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It seems to be Salamis.
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Post by: Cesar_Augustus on August 06, 2013, 08:59:49 PM
Quote from: totiusque on July 23, 2013, 10:37:25 PM
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on July 23, 2013, 08:30:18 PM
Monsters University.

Despicable Me 2.

Pacific Rim.

Whoa!  Busy night at the movies?  Didn't all 3 of these just come out this month?  Wish I had that kind of dough....   ;D

Playing For Keeps - wife picked it out on Netflix, so there you go.  Cheesy RomCom.

Hahaha!

These weren't on the same day.

I watched them every one or two weeks.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on August 07, 2013, 02:17:13 AM
Quote from: Othmar on August 06, 2013, 04:57:11 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on August 06, 2013, 04:33:13 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on August 06, 2013, 12:24:05 AM
Quote from: Adeodatus on August 05, 2013, 12:08:05 AM
300 tonight on DVD, since wifey had never seen it. Setting aside the oliphants and goatboys, it's not a bad little picture.

Excited for the next one?

Next one? Are they doing Plataea?
[yt]2zqy21Z29ps[/yt]

It seems to be Salamis.

Well that looks like fun. It seems that they're giving some attention to Artemisia I, the satrap of Caria, which could be cool. I suppose it's too much to hope that we'll see actual naval tactics like the diekplous employed, but there's obviously ramming going on. And Lena Headey is back.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on August 08, 2013, 01:14:27 AM
The Conjuring. Why the title? Nothing was conjured.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on August 08, 2013, 01:44:46 AM
Quote from: piabee on August 08, 2013, 01:14:27 AM
The Conjuring. Why the title? Nothing was conjured.

Was it as good as advertised?  As scary as advertised?
Title: Last movie you saw?
Post by: sprungli on August 08, 2013, 07:53:01 AM
The way way back
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Post by: Habitual_Ritual on August 08, 2013, 11:57:39 AM
Oblivion

Decent movie with a nice little twist . Great filmography and 80s style sound track. Could have done without Morgan Freeman though...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on August 08, 2013, 12:27:17 PM
Quote from: sprungli on August 08, 2013, 07:53:01 AM
The way way back

How was it?
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Post by: Adeodatus on August 08, 2013, 03:32:52 PM
After being told that it was the greatest western, and perhaps greatest movie, of all time, I tried watching Once Upon a Time in the West. It was total "rifiuto".

Cinematography is good, but it's not coextensive with film making, i.e. a good film needs more than cinematography (and score). Sure, I could put a camera in a desert and tell a craggy cowboy to ride from the horizon to the camera. Then I could set that 45 minute ride to a haunting orchestral score. Then I could have the cowboy halt his horse in front of the camera and make and hold a mean face for 10 minutes while I do a closeup.

But what would that be about? About the sweat and crusty nose hairs of a mean-faced cowboy?

I watched for an entire hour and there were only like 3 scenes. How long does it take to establish that the chick waits 20 minutes at the train station only to realize that no one is there to pick her up? Surely not an actual 20 minutes.

Not to mention that the first gun fight (about 15 minutes in) was so impossible that all the turgid "nose hair cam" stuff from the opening scene took on the character of a farce in retrospect.

To bleach my brain I re-watched Miller's Crossing. I don't even care for Gabriel Byrne but Albert Finney and John Turturro are fantastic in that one... and stuff actually happens.
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Post by: Othmar on August 08, 2013, 04:12:39 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on August 08, 2013, 03:32:52 PM
After being told that it was the greatest western, and perhaps greatest movie, of all time, I tried watching Once Upon a Time in the West. It was total "rifiuto".

Cinematography is good, but it's not coextensive with film making, i.e. a good film needs more than cinematography (and score). Sure, I could put a camera in a desert and tell a craggy cowboy to ride from the horizon to the camera. Then I could set that 45 minute ride to a haunting orchestral score. Then I could have the cowboy halt his horse in front of the camera and make and hold a mean face for 10 minutes while I do a closeup.

But what would that be about? About the sweat and crusty nose hairs of a mean-faced cowboy?

I watched for an entire hour and there were only like 3 scenes. How long does it take to establish that the chick waits 20 minutes at the train station only to realize that no one is there to pick her up? Surely not an actual 20 minutes.

Not to mention that the first gun fight (about 15 minutes in) was so impossible that all the turgid "nose hair cam" stuff from the opening scene took on the character of a farce in retrospect.
Are you familiar with other westerns. The movie makes a lot more sense when you get all the stabs it takes against other movies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on August 08, 2013, 10:31:20 PM
Just saw Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Good scene with Stanley Tucci as Dionysius the god of wine.  He's being punished by Zeus and each time he tries to pour a glass of wine, it instantly turns into water. 

Dionysius says in frustration, "You know, the Christians have a guy who can do this the other way around!  Now THAT's a God!"
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on August 09, 2013, 01:48:24 AM
Quote from: Gerard on August 08, 2013, 10:31:20 PM
Just saw Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Good scene with Stanley Tucci as Dionysius the god of wine.  He's being punished by Zeus and each time he tries to pour a glass of wine, it instantly turns into water. 

Dionysius says in frustration, "You know, the Christians have a guy who can do this the other way around!  Now THAT's a God!"

Hah!  Excellent!  The connections between Our Lord and Dionysius are quite amazing and too extensive to be mere coincidence.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on August 09, 2013, 03:50:02 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on August 08, 2013, 01:44:46 AM
Quote from: piabee on August 08, 2013, 01:14:27 AM
The Conjuring. Why the title? Nothing was conjured.

Was it as good as advertised?  As scary as advertised?

They had some interesting tricks to ramp up the fear before the reveal. After that it felt silly, unless you're Catholic. I could have waited for the dvd but my friend really wanted to go. There were five people in the theater on a Wednesday night and we shared some jumps and laughs. It was fun.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Othmar on August 09, 2013, 04:26:27 PM
The Evil Dead remake. It was better than I expected, some of the changes they made worked really well. One certain scene did horrify me, which is something I generally only feel when I watch French horror movies.

The original trilogy will always have a special place in my heart, though.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on August 09, 2013, 04:29:34 PM
Quote from: piabee on August 09, 2013, 03:50:02 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on August 08, 2013, 01:44:46 AM
Quote from: piabee on August 08, 2013, 01:14:27 AM
The Conjuring. Why the title? Nothing was conjured.

Was it as good as advertised?  As scary as advertised?

They had some interesting tricks to ramp up the fear before the reveal. After that it felt silly, unless you're Catholic. I could have waited for the dvd but my friend really wanted to go. There were five people in the theater on a Wednesday night and we shared some jumps and laughs. It was fun.

So it has a Catholic slant then?  That's the second time I've heard someone say something like that.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on August 13, 2013, 11:59:58 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on August 09, 2013, 04:29:34 PM
So it has a Catholic slant then?  That's the second time I've heard someone say something like that.

The paranormal experts appear to be Catholic although it never says explicitly that they are. They also consult with a priest and contact the Vatican for permission. You know how people joke that they feel like they should genuflect when they pass the aisle in the movie theater? I have never had that urge, but I almost made the Sign of the Cross when they did in the movie. Haha
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Post by: Heinrich on August 13, 2013, 07:18:04 PM
5 Broken Cameras
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on August 13, 2013, 10:54:59 PM
Batman Returns. I've been on a superhero kick lately, I need to watch a serious movie again before my brain turns to complete mush.  :tongue:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on August 14, 2013, 06:01:13 AM
Cowboys and Aliens.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on August 14, 2013, 09:49:21 PM
Batman Forever. A few good scenes, but it pretty much stinks. I won't bother with Batman and Robin.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on August 14, 2013, 10:03:15 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on August 14, 2013, 06:01:13 AM
Cowboys and Aliens.

Good movie.
Title: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on August 14, 2013, 10:10:06 PM

Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 14, 2013, 10:03:15 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on August 14, 2013, 06:01:13 AM
Cowboys and Aliens.

Good movie.

Can someone give me a facepalm please?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on August 14, 2013, 10:26:08 PM
Quote from: Archer on August 14, 2013, 10:10:06 PM

Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 14, 2013, 10:03:15 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on August 14, 2013, 06:01:13 AM
Cowboys and Aliens.

Good movie.

Can someone give me a facepalm please?

Have you seen it?

It delivered exactly what is promised.  Cowboys fighting aliens.  It did it in a funny, enjoyable, and entertaining way.

It was, for what it was, great.

:P
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on August 14, 2013, 10:53:02 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 14, 2013, 10:26:08 PM
Quote from: Archer on August 14, 2013, 10:10:06 PM

Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 14, 2013, 10:03:15 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on August 14, 2013, 06:01:13 AM
Cowboys and Aliens.

Good movie.

Can someone give me a facepalm please?

Have you seen it?

It delivered exactly what is promised.  Cowboys fighting aliens.  It did it in a funny, enjoyable, and entertaining way.

It was, for what it was, great.

:P

Unfortunately I have.  Laaaaammmmmme. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on August 14, 2013, 10:56:45 PM
You're lame.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on August 14, 2013, 11:13:17 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 14, 2013, 10:56:45 PM
You're lame.

That was totally uncalled for.  You don't see me getting nasty do you?  I mean, I didn't say anything when I saw your face and thought, "man that's a face only a mother could love."
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on August 14, 2013, 11:19:36 PM
Quote from: Archer on August 14, 2013, 11:13:17 PM
I mean, I didn't say anything when I saw your face and thought, "man that's a face only a mother could love."

I usually point out his many flaws.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on August 14, 2013, 11:23:08 PM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on August 14, 2013, 11:33:13 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on August 14, 2013, 11:19:36 PM
Quote from: Archer on August 14, 2013, 11:13:17 PM
I mean, I didn't say anything when I saw your face and thought, "man that's a face only a mother could love."

I usually point out his many flaws.

It's good for him.  Builds character. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on August 14, 2013, 11:47:46 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 14, 2013, 11:23:08 PM
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Oh sweet, a pity party!  I'll bring the cheese since you already have the whine. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on August 15, 2013, 09:19:30 PM
How about all of you are idiots?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on August 15, 2013, 09:24:07 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on August 15, 2013, 09:19:30 PM
How about all of you are idiots?

No one asked you.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on August 15, 2013, 09:24:29 PM
I'm currently watching Fast and Furious.

Such a great movie.  It's a pity I've waited so long to see it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on August 15, 2013, 09:43:28 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 15, 2013, 09:24:29 PM
I'm currently watching Fast and Furious.

Such a great movie.  It's a pity I've waited so long to see it.

You might want to stop posting in this thread.  Or at least lie about what you're watching.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tradne4163 on August 15, 2013, 10:20:57 PM
The Expendables 2. It is surprisingly good, as long as you know from the start that it is deliberately being cheesy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on August 15, 2013, 11:04:40 PM
Quote from: tradne4163 on August 15, 2013, 10:20:57 PM
The Expendables 2. It is surprisingly good, as long as you know from the start that it is deliberately being cheesy.

I've never laughed so hard for so long during a movie.

I also almost choked and died on popcorn when Stallone gave his heart-wrenching speech in the mountains.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tradne4163 on August 15, 2013, 11:40:50 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 15, 2013, 11:04:40 PM
Quote from: tradne4163 on August 15, 2013, 10:20:57 PM
The Expendables 2. It is surprisingly good, as long as you know from the start that it is deliberately being cheesy.

I've never laughed so hard for so long during a movie.

I also almost choked and died on popcorn when Stallone gave his heart-wrenching speech in the mountains.
Don't forget the Chuck Norris Cameo. He actually had a line that was a Chuck Norris joke.
Not to mention the big shootout near the end.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on August 16, 2013, 08:34:44 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on August 15, 2013, 09:43:28 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 15, 2013, 09:24:29 PM
I'm currently watching Fast and Furious.

Such a great movie.  It's a pity I've waited so long to see it.

You might want to stop posting in this thread.  Or at least lie about what you're watching.

Seriously. If he thinks Fast and Furious is a great movie he needs professional help.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on August 17, 2013, 06:55:13 AM
Judge Dredd

Quite awesome, quite violent and not for the kiddies. As a child fan of the comic book I was pleased with the translation compared with the disastrous Stallone version of some years back.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on August 17, 2013, 12:10:35 PM
The Godfather
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on August 17, 2013, 01:23:19 PM
I went and saw "Elysium."

Heard that it was preachy in the class warfare category, but while the "bad guys" were almost cartoonish, there was some gradation. 

All in all, it reminded me of the old Charlton Heston sci fi movies like Omega Man, Planet of the Apes or Soylent Green. 

It also borrows from the Greek myths for more than just the word "Elysium" it has a bit of Prometheus, Deadalous and the Minotaur elements and Icarus thrown in for good measure. 

Not anything I'd plan on owning but wouldn't be a waste of time to watch on basic TV or to rent.  No sex, lots of foul language and some bloody gore involved in the injuries and killling. 

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on August 17, 2013, 11:26:51 PM
Kick-Ass 2.

It was good but not stellar. The first one is in a class of its own. This one continued to examine the same themes from a different angle, but by its very nature (taking this particular angle) it was more cartoonish than the first one. Definitely enjoyable. Not family fare at all, however.

They do touch on, though only obliquely, a question that interests me: where are all the charismatic overachieving reckless genius narcissists? Alexander, Julius, Bonaparte, etc.? I'm speaking of "heroism" in the Classical sense. The answer is that our society does not reward that spirit directly; rather, it channels it into very limited arenas such as business (you can have some treasure as long as you don't rock the boat). No one is allowed to try to remake society in their image, because society itself disallows it. Or, as my wife put it more succinctly, people have turned into a bunch of pussies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on August 18, 2013, 09:05:43 AM
Troy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on August 19, 2013, 10:29:10 AM
The documentary Fatima narrated by Ricardo Montalban.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Anastasia on August 19, 2013, 05:12:40 PM
The Winslow Boy, a great movie. Possibly the best end line in any movie ever.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on August 20, 2013, 03:11:40 PM
Dead Man with johnny depp weird but compelling
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on August 21, 2013, 11:57:57 PM
28 Days Later

I thought it was decent, but considering what fans of the genre say about it, certainly overrated.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on August 23, 2013, 01:19:30 AM
Quote from: Anastasia on August 19, 2013, 05:12:40 PM
The Winslow Boy, a great movie. Possibly the best end line in any movie ever.

Love this movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on August 26, 2013, 10:58:47 PM
Kingdom of Heaven

I heard from many, even secular people, that the film tried too hard to promote a historical view that became popular after 9/11. This convivencia approach to history is inaccurate and not firmly grounded; since it only wishes to promote coexistence after 9/11, Iraq, and so on, it will become passé once these events fade from popular memory.

Halfway through I had to stop watching it. Thomas F. Madden, a medieval history professor at St. Louis University, had this to say on the film, and I wholeheartedly agree:

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The second major anachronism is the movie's approach to religion. Most people know that the Crusades were wars of faith. Crusaders underwent extreme hardship, risking their lives and expending enormous amounts of money because of their devotion to Christ, his Church, and his people. Crusader piety also manifested itself in extraordinary devotion to the Virgin Mary and the saints, particularly those saints who had lived in the Holy Land. The Kingdom of Heaven, however, performs the delicate operation of stripping religious piety completely out of the Crusades. Balian and his father appear to be agnostics. Other Crusaders, like the Hospitaller, are openly critical of religion. Indeed, all of the good guys in this movie seem to have no devotion to God at all, only a devotion to tolerance. The bad guys, on the other hand, are all religiously devout, which causes them to be either evil (like Guy and Reynald) or mad (like the glassy-eyed preacher who chants, "To kill a Muslim is not murder, it is the path to heaven"). In other words, the medieval world is portrayed in much the same way that Hollywood views America: Smart people either have no religion or do not take it very seriously. The rest are right-wing Christian fanatics.

There are no churches in this movie, not even in the holiest of cities. There are no monks, no nuns, and very few pilgrims, all of whom would have filled the streets of medieval Jerusalem. Only two priests appear in the film, one a twisted corpse mutilator and the other a villain whose strategy for defending Jerusalem is to convert to Islam and leave the people to die. Scott scatters a few crosses here and there, but there are no crucifixes, which were much more common in the Middle Ages. Beautiful set decoration of Crusader palaces includes no icons of Mary or the saints, indeed no religious art of any kind. Christians, Muslims, and Jews all live in harmony in this cinematic Jerusalem. Yet, in truth non-Christians were forbidden to live in the Holy City during the reign of Baldwin IV. But it is not just Christianity that Scott sterilizes. Muslims are shown praying a few times in the film, yet the only devout Muslim is a black-robed cleric demanding that Saladin attack the Christians and capture Jerusalem. The message here is clear: Religion leads to fanaticism, and fanaticism leads to war.

I should add that one character bluntly states that fanatics, especially the Templars, are the ones pushing for war. Those who profess Tolerance, rather than Catholicism or Islam, are the heroes of what essentially is Boccaccio's Tale of the Three Rings with Hollywood frosting.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on August 27, 2013, 06:33:18 AM
Drop Dead Gorgeous.

The early 90s parody on beauty pageants in the style of Spinal tap or Best in Show.
Quite good. Not for kiddies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on August 27, 2013, 06:34:26 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on August 20, 2013, 03:11:40 PM
Dead Man with johnny depp weird but compelling
I couldn't finish this myself. Not to say it sucked but I simply could not get into the right frame for it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Othmar on August 27, 2013, 04:51:53 PM
The Conjuring. It was really good. Reminds me that we need more exorcists.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on August 27, 2013, 07:15:53 PM
Mud.

Stupid.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on August 30, 2013, 06:52:41 PM
The Awakening ....muddlef mess
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on August 31, 2013, 09:00:03 AM
The original version of The Omen.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: FaithByProxy on September 02, 2013, 01:48:49 PM
The Island

A great film. I'd seen it before, and enjoyed it enough to watch it again.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on September 02, 2013, 10:18:49 PM
Under the Sun of Satan
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on September 02, 2013, 10:29:11 PM
Damien:Omen II and The Final Conflict(Omen III). A very weird trilogy, but Satan and the Antichrist are portrayed as truly evil, and Christ visibly triumphs at the end of the third movie. The music used for the Second Coming is amazing. Maybe Jerry Goldsmith's finest score.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MrsKriddels on September 06, 2013, 08:37:35 AM
Quote from: FaithByProxy on September 02, 2013, 01:48:49 PM
The Island

A great film. I'd seen it before, and enjoyed it enough to watch it again.

Are you talking about the Russian movie with the "crazy" Russian Orthodox monk?  It's one of my favorite movies. I also enjoyed The Return and the Russian take on 12 Angry Men titled simply 12.  Now I'm wondering what other Russian movies are worth watching.

I watched Oblivion a couple weeks ago with my mother.  We quite enjoyed it, though I could poke some holes through it. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on September 06, 2013, 11:46:56 AM
The Road

A great movie but very sad, depressing and terrifying should such a scenario ever come to pass. It is a hard movie to watch because of the degree of human tragedy and despair but likely a quiet classic in the making.Translated very well from the book version too.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Petertherock on September 06, 2013, 04:28:58 PM
I just saw Getaway the other day. Of course I had to see it because Selena Gomez was in it, but it was a great action movie! Selena plays a great part and it was very entertaining.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on September 08, 2013, 01:38:58 AM
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. An amusing caper, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on September 08, 2013, 08:43:41 PM
The Song of Bernadette, in honor of Our Lady's birthday.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on September 14, 2013, 11:34:18 PM
The Breakfast Club.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: sprungli on September 14, 2013, 11:59:53 PM
The Way Way Back.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Der Kaiser on September 15, 2013, 04:08:22 AM
Friday night I watched the Evil Dead remake: disgusting bloody lame
Saturday I watched the Princess Bride(for the 5th time or so) with my Girlfriend: Which I think is Entertaining but, forgettable. I'll never get the hub bub over that one.

Edit to add: What is with horror movies having to be full of gore? I just want a good ghost story >:(
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Der Kaiser on September 15, 2013, 04:12:27 AM
Quote from: Othmar on August 27, 2013, 04:51:53 PM
The Conjuring. It was really good. Reminds me that we need more exorcists.

Did it have any Catholic undertones? I have wanted to see it, but with The Last Exorcist being about Evangelicals I am leery.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on September 15, 2013, 05:32:53 AM
Just watched the ken burns doc on prohibition...netflix...outstanding! Excellent stuff about Al Smith...and puts the blame square on the protty ethic...and anti catholic bigotry. Prohibition caused many of the sociotal and legal problems were suffering even today.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on September 15, 2013, 11:30:40 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on September 15, 2013, 05:32:53 AM
Just watched the ken burns doc on prohibition...netflix...outstanding! Excellent stuff about Al Smith...and puts the blame square on the protty ethic...and anti catholic bigotry. Prohibition caused many of the sociotal and legal problems were suffering even today.

Watched this earlier this year myself. V-good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Pheo on September 15, 2013, 12:05:43 PM
Finally got around to watching Trollhunter.  It was decent - certainly better than I expected given the name.  Even if it was inadvertant, it was interesting how they worked the indellible baptismal character into the movie!

It's on Netflix.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on September 15, 2013, 05:28:42 PM
Troll Hunter is pretty awesome.  It's a campy movie, but surprisingly entertaining.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: VeraeFidei on September 15, 2013, 05:30:40 PM
Anybody seen The Grandmaster?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Pheo on September 15, 2013, 08:33:35 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on September 15, 2013, 05:28:42 PM
Troll Hunter is pretty awesome.  It's a campy movie, but surprisingly entertaining.

Pretty amazing scenery in it too.  Norway moved way up on my list of places I'd like to visit (but probably never will!).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on September 15, 2013, 09:27:05 PM
Quote from: Pheo on September 15, 2013, 08:33:35 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on September 15, 2013, 05:28:42 PM
Troll Hunter is pretty awesome.  It's a campy movie, but surprisingly entertaining.

Pretty amazing scenery in it too.  Norway moved way up on my list of places I'd like to visit (but probably never will!).

Yeah!  Beautiful, right?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on September 16, 2013, 09:59:17 PM
Elephant Walk - an old nostalgic favorite.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on September 17, 2013, 04:02:15 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on September 15, 2013, 09:27:05 PM
Quote from: Pheo on September 15, 2013, 08:33:35 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on September 15, 2013, 05:28:42 PM
Troll Hunter is pretty awesome.  It's a campy movie, but surprisingly entertaining.

Pretty amazing scenery in it too.  Norway moved way up on my list of places I'd like to visit (but probably never will!).

Yeah!  Beautiful, right?
if you like grey cold and wet  :P
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on September 17, 2013, 10:33:11 AM
I do, actually.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: per_passionem_eius on September 17, 2013, 08:46:23 PM
Not really a movie but ...

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uetx5FOryM[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on September 17, 2013, 11:51:48 PM
Red Tails
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on September 22, 2013, 10:36:05 AM
World War Z

Don't bother, this a shameless propaganda piece for the UN and the W.H.O. Both of whom are very evil. All this is wrapped in a very dull movie which has no connection to the book
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on September 22, 2013, 11:22:31 AM
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on September 22, 2013, 10:36:05 AM
World War Z

Don't bother, this a shameless propaganda piece for the UN and the W.H.O. Both of whom are very evil. All this is wrapped in a very dull movie which has no connection to the book
saw it in the theater and just thought it had too many implausabilitys:
heres a big one...the US military sends brad pitt's charecter and an ELITE...got that? ELITE..... spec ops seal team to extract someone from a zombie infested LZ...but OOPS they dont have NIGHT VISION! gmab! :P
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on September 22, 2013, 02:09:32 PM
EXORCIST III: LEGION. For the most part, a very Catholic film. And very disturbing. There is one scene that may be the scariest moment in any movie I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on September 22, 2013, 05:13:29 PM
I watched Young Guns II, half of Das Boot and We Were Soldiers for the 12th or so time. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on September 26, 2013, 10:50:21 PM
The Good Shepherd. This was the first time I've seen it since it was released a little while ago. It's an excellent, albeit underrated film.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on September 27, 2013, 03:17:08 PM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on September 27, 2013, 04:15:48 PM
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One of my all time favorites! To me, this and VERTIGO where the peak of Hitchcock's career. I know many people love PSYCHO and THE BIRDS, but to me they aren't anywhere near as entertaining as Hitchcock's late fifties films(even though they are excellent films in their own right).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on September 27, 2013, 04:48:34 PM
Thought I had posted The World's End but it looks like I forgot.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on September 28, 2013, 02:18:03 AM
Quote from: piabee on September 27, 2013, 04:48:34 PM
Thought I had posted The World's End but it looks like I forgot.

Been dying to see this.  How was it?  As good as Hot Fuzz or Shaun of the Dead?

My last movie watched - Insidious.  It was OK.  Disappointing and not as scary as expected, especially after hearing so many good things about the creator's follow-up of The Conjuring.  Plus the main demon guy just reminded me of Darth Maul...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on September 28, 2013, 10:37:26 AM
Star Trek: Into Darkness on Blu-ray.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on September 30, 2013, 01:05:56 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on September 28, 2013, 10:37:26 AM
Star Trek: Into Darkness on Blu-ray.

Haven't seen that one yet, but plan on it.

Watched this one yesterday

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on September 30, 2013, 01:08:13 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on September 30, 2013, 01:05:56 PM
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Ah, good ol' VHS box art... I've come to a new appreciation of it lately, digging through old tapes a while ago.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on September 30, 2013, 02:49:56 PM
I saw Inglourious Basterds for the first time. It was alright. Christoph Waltz's character (Colonel Landa, "the Jew Killer") was creepy beyond belief. I believe he's distinguished for being the only actor to receive an Oscar for a Tarantino film, but not only did he achieve this once, but twice (also for Django Unchained).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on September 30, 2013, 03:28:48 PM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on September 30, 2013, 02:49:56 PM
I saw Inglourious Basterds for the first time. It was alright. Christoph Waltz's character (Colonel Landa, "the Jew Killer") was creepy beyond belief. I believe he's distinguished for being the only actor to receive an Oscar for a Tarantino film, but not only did he achieve this once, but twice (also for Django Unchained).

Even weirder than that is how (IIRC) the two characters are very, very similar.  Not just as a result of the acting, either.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on September 30, 2013, 10:16:29 PM
I watched THE CRIMINAL CODE, a crime/social conscious drama from 1931, directed by Howard Hawks. Really well done, and it has a great supporting turn by Boris Karloff as a tough convict. It was this role that gained him the attention of Universal studios and resulted in his casting as the Monster in FRANKENSTEIN. I love these old movies. Now that October has began, I plan to watch as many old classic Horror films as I can. I'm not a big fan of slasher and gore flicks, but I love the old movies with Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price and Christopher Lee. Many of them are excellent morality plays, and always show the power of Christ over Satan.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on October 01, 2013, 09:48:39 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on September 27, 2013, 04:15:48 PM
One of my all time favorites! To me, this and VERTIGO where the peak of Hitchcock's career. I know many people love PSYCHO and THE BIRDS, but to me they aren't anywhere near as entertaining as Hitchcock's late fifties films(even though they are excellent films in their own right).

Vertigo was pretty good.  I confess that I haven't seen Psycho or The Birds yet.  My favorites (in no particular order) are Rear Window, Spellbound, To Catch a Thief, Dial M for murder, Notorious, and I Confess. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on October 01, 2013, 10:17:38 PM
Quote from: Archer on October 01, 2013, 09:48:39 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on September 27, 2013, 04:15:48 PM
One of my all time favorites! To me, this and VERTIGO where the peak of Hitchcock's career. I know many people love PSYCHO and THE BIRDS, but to me they aren't anywhere near as entertaining as Hitchcock's late fifties films(even though they are excellent films in their own right).

Vertigo was pretty good.  I confess that I haven't seen Psycho or The Birds yet.  My favorites (in no particular order) are Rear Window, Spellbound, To Catch a Thief, Dial M for murder, Notorious, and I Confess.

I like all of those. Strangers on a Train is another good one if you haven't seen it. I Confess is an underrated gem.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on October 02, 2013, 06:59:41 AM
I watched the original version of THE FLY last night with Vincent Price to start my October scary movie fest. It was on Blu-ray, and the color and Cinemascope photography looked outstanding.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on October 02, 2013, 09:43:54 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on October 01, 2013, 10:17:38 PM
Quote from: Archer on October 01, 2013, 09:48:39 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on September 27, 2013, 04:15:48 PM
One of my all time favorites! To me, this and VERTIGO where the peak of Hitchcock's career. I know many people love PSYCHO and THE BIRDS, but to me they aren't anywhere near as entertaining as Hitchcock's late fifties films(even though they are excellent films in their own right).

Vertigo was pretty good.  I confess that I haven't seen Psycho or The Birds yet.  My favorites (in no particular order) are Rear Window, Spellbound, To Catch a Thief, Dial M for murder, Notorious, and I Confess.

I like all of those. Strangers on a Train is another good one if you haven't seen it. I Confess is an underrated gem.

I just looked up Strangers on a Train on IMDb and will definitely have to check it out.  Thanks for the recommendation!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on October 02, 2013, 11:59:23 PM
Quote from: Archer on October 02, 2013, 09:43:54 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on October 01, 2013, 10:17:38 PM
Quote from: Archer on October 01, 2013, 09:48:39 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on September 27, 2013, 04:15:48 PM
One of my all time favorites! To me, this and VERTIGO where the peak of Hitchcock's career. I know many people love PSYCHO and THE BIRDS, but to me they aren't anywhere near as entertaining as Hitchcock's late fifties films(even though they are excellent films in their own right).

Vertigo was pretty good.  I confess that I haven't seen Psycho or The Birds yet.  My favorites (in no particular order) are Rear Window, Spellbound, To Catch a Thief, Dial M for murder, Notorious, and I Confess.

I like all of those. Strangers on a Train is another good one if you haven't seen it. I Confess is an underrated gem.

I just looked up Strangers on a Train on IMDb and will definitely have to check it out.  Thanks for the recommendation!

It may be my favorite Hitchcock picture, as it was the first one I saw as a kid on television. I won't give anything important away, but all the scenes at a small town carnival are unforgettable. Oh, and the villain of the piece is definitely supposed to be a pervy homosexual. Politically incorrect by today's standards.
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Post by: Larry on October 03, 2013, 12:05:48 AM
I watched THE EXORCIST tonight as part of my October horror film festival. I should probably stick to the more fun horror flicks like the classic Frankenstein movies. Don't get me wrong, it's one of the best pictures ever made. But it's not fun at all, and the evil portrayed is very real, and very frightening. There was one line I didn't remember from previous viewings. The young priest, Fr. Karras, who is questioning his faith, asks the older and wiser priest Fr. Merrin why the devil would choose an innocent little girl to possess. Fr. Merrin's answer: "He wants us to despair. He wants  to reduce us to believe that we are base and inhuman animals, and make us believe that God could never love us". Profound stuff. I so wish Hollywood would make more movies that take our Faith seriously.
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Post by: Larry on October 04, 2013, 11:31:04 AM
Murders in the Rue Morgue(1932) with Bela Lugosi. Lugosi is great, and so is the art direction. But the dialogue and supporting cast almost sink the movie. Almost.
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Post by: Bonaventure on October 05, 2013, 09:54:33 PM
Runner Runner. Moral of the story: don't make money in a sleazy way.
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Post by: Larry on October 06, 2013, 09:36:49 AM
The Walking Dead, not the AMC series, but the original movie of that title with Boris Karloff from 1936. Another great morality tale, disguised as a horror picture. The last line of the film: "The Lord Our God is a jealous God".
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Post by: Elizabeth on October 07, 2013, 10:30:26 AM
The House on Telegraph Hill  Not bad at all, and my little girl liked it, too.
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on October 07, 2013, 12:24:08 PM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages2.fanpop.com%2Fimages%2Fphotos%2F4800000%2FThe-Young-Victoria-the-young-victoria-4872525-240-323.jpg&hash=85d0146f907dac43ffd7d255c79666955dfd9c3d)
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Post by: Bonaventure on October 07, 2013, 02:21:29 PM
Quote from: Elizabeth on October 07, 2013, 10:30:26 AM
The House on Telegraph Hill  Not bad at all, and my little girl liked it, too.

I've been on that hill many times.
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Post by: Elizabeth on October 08, 2013, 07:35:49 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on October 07, 2013, 02:21:29 PM
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I've been on that hill many times.

Me, too.  The very fondest memories I have are of SF.
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Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on October 14, 2013, 04:00:26 PM
Gravity


Great great 3d movie...but Ironically barren of any gravitas. not sure the 24 bux was worth it...but its good for teenagers and familys.( no sex/nudity...just some language stuff) ..great space geek stuff....the physics seem spot on and extremely realistic looking.
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Post by: LouisIX on October 14, 2013, 04:11:42 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on October 14, 2013, 04:00:26 PM
Gravity


Great great 3d movie...but Ironically barren of any gravitas. not sure the 24 bux was worth it...but its good for teenagers and familys.( no sex/nudity...just some language stuff) ..great space geek stuff....the physics seem spot on and extremely realistic looking.

I was originally hoping it'd be philosophical in a nod to 2001, but it appears that the movie isn't really like that.
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Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on October 14, 2013, 05:04:24 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on October 14, 2013, 04:11:42 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on October 14, 2013, 04:00:26 PM
Gravity


Great great 3d movie...but Ironically barren of any gravitas. not sure the 24 bux was worth it...but its good for teenagers and familys.( no sex/nudity...just some language stuff) ..great space geek stuff....the physics seem spot on and extremely realistic looking.

I was originally hoping it'd be philosophical in a nod to 2001, but it appears that the movie isn't really like that.
thats the way they hyped it..but no deal. There are obvious nods to previous space movies like 2001 and many others..even Wall-e....but no real mystical stuff. Just awsome effects
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Post by: zork on October 17, 2013, 08:55:36 PM
The Galaxy Invader (1985). It was awful, but not without redemptive qualities.
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Post by: Adeodatus on October 17, 2013, 09:29:14 PM
"Chosin", a good interview documentary about the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir.
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Post by: dueSicilie on October 18, 2013, 07:44:45 AM
Dred, it was awesome! (a couple of suggestive/ sexual elements, but the action made up for it)
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Post by: Larry on October 18, 2013, 10:15:13 AM
Vampyr, a Danish film directed by Carl Dreyer(who also directed The Passion of Joan of Arc) from 1932. One of the most Catholic horror films ever made. And also one of the scariest.
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on October 18, 2013, 07:41:31 PM
Mamma Mia
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Post by: Bonaventure on October 20, 2013, 06:58:31 PM
Dr. No
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Post by: dueSicilie on October 20, 2013, 07:11:43 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on October 20, 2013, 06:58:31 PM
Dr. No

Is it just me, or do Felix's sunglasses look really womanly?
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Post by: Clare on October 31, 2013, 04:38:16 PM
Rio Bravo
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Post by: Maximilian on October 31, 2013, 05:05:22 PM
"To Live" -- Chinese movie by Zhang Yimou, starring Gong Li. Epic movie.

Available to watch free on Youtube:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB7HYhUpDz8
[/yt]
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Post by: Heinrich on October 31, 2013, 05:32:27 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on October 17, 2013, 09:29:14 PM
"Chosin", a good interview documentary about the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir.

Is this the story of the rescued Marines?

Regardless, do you have a link?
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Post by: Larry on November 02, 2013, 10:32:32 PM
Diary of a Country Priest
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Post by: Bonaventure on November 02, 2013, 10:33:29 PM
Quote from: dueSicilie on October 20, 2013, 07:11:43 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on October 20, 2013, 06:58:31 PM
Dr. No

Is it just me, or do Felix's sunglasses look really womanly?

They do.
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Post by: Basilios on November 03, 2013, 06:00:51 AM
Django Unchained.
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Post by: Larry on November 09, 2013, 09:55:26 PM
Thor 2: The Dark World. A little slow in the beginning, but it turned out to be a lot of fun. Tom Hiddleston steals the movie.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on November 10, 2013, 01:29:45 AM
Quote from: Larry S. on November 09, 2013, 09:55:26 PM
Thor 2: The Dark World. A little slow in the beginning, but it turned out to be a lot of fun. Tom Hiddleston steals the movie.

Agreed.

I wish Loki had a larger role.  Apparently if Thor 4 gets made, they know where to take him. But his character is so.... Delightfully bad.  And his voice... His voice fits the role so well.

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Post by: Larry on November 10, 2013, 11:05:56 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on November 10, 2013, 01:29:45 AM
Quote from: Larry S. on November 09, 2013, 09:55:26 PM
Thor 2: The Dark World. A little slow in the beginning, but it turned out to be a lot of fun. Tom Hiddleston steals the movie.

Agreed.

I wish Loki had a larger role.  Apparently if Thor 4 gets made, they know where to take him. But his character is so.... Delightfully bad.  And his voice... His voice fits the role so well.

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They should just make a Loki movie, and let Thor be the supporting character.
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Post by: Gerard on November 10, 2013, 11:08:16 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on November 10, 2013, 01:29:45 AM
Quote from: Larry S. on November 09, 2013, 09:55:26 PM
Thor 2: The Dark World. A little slow in the beginning, but it turned out to be a lot of fun. Tom Hiddleston steals the movie.

Agreed.

I wish Loki had a larger role.  Apparently if Thor 4 gets made, they know where to take him. But his character is so.... Delightfully bad.  And his voice... His voice fits the role so well.

Sent from my HTC Sensation using Tapatalk

I enjoyed it too.  I was recently reading the old Lee/Kirby issues in Marvel Masterworks from the 60s and it's amazing how true to the original flavor the movie producers have been. 

In those stories, the masculinity of Thor was always prominent and humorous whenever he was in a city of "the mortals."  I think there's a clear distinction between strong masculine and feminine roles in the film and that is going to be part of its appeal as well as make it a target of the enemies of gender identity in the society. 

Though I do think they only touched on the opportunity to use Volstagg as a comic foil. 

If the genre continues, and the Asgardian aspect grows in popularity, I would really enjoy a light, semi-comedic movie of The Warriors Three with Lady Sif. 

As it is, they are definitely going towards the Jim Starlin "cosmic" epic tales as demonstrated by the introduction of The Collector and they'll wait to bring in Thanos for the 3rd Avengers movie, so that'll mean Adam Warlock is a possibility. 

Starlin wrote most of his best stories pirating from Catholicism and setting up straw man versions of the Church to portray as evil organizations.  He's got a love/hate thing going on with Catholicism.

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Post by: piabee on November 11, 2013, 02:00:38 AM
Bottle Shock, following an afternoon of California wine tasting.
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Post by: OCLittleFlower on November 11, 2013, 03:07:28 AM
Quote from: piabee on November 11, 2013, 02:00:38 AM
Bottle Shock, following an afternoon of California wine tasting.

Great film.  Montelena is a great winery to visit as well -- if I ever win the lotto I'm buying their estate cab on futures.  :tongue:
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Post by: red solo cup on November 11, 2013, 06:09:01 AM
Olympus has Fallen.  Meh.
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Post by: Archer on November 11, 2013, 08:41:53 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on November 11, 2013, 06:09:01 AM
Olympus has Fallen.  Meh.

I saw that this spring.  It had a couple good one liners and a lot of stuff got blown up. 
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Post by: drummerboy on November 11, 2013, 08:56:10 AM
R.I.P.D.  (Rest In Peace Dept.)

Ryan Reynolds is a dirty cop who gets killed by his dirty partner, and instead of going to hell is recruited to work with Jeff Bridges to arrest "deados" - basically escaped souls from hell - and then some deados make a staff that will release hell on earth but they are stopped.  Pretty funny.
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Post by: Aquila on November 11, 2013, 11:46:26 AM
Gravity, Pacific Rim, and Star Trek: into Darkness

Gravity was great in 3D.

Pacific Rim is possibly the worst film I have ever seen. I have know idea how on earth it got 4 stars on Amazon. It's simply atrocious in every department of film-making.

Star Trek was alright. I actually thought it was a little better than the 2009 film. Cumberbatch is a good Khan, but I think the actor himself is a bit overrated. I still much prefer TWOK and First Contact. The new films are much, much better than Nemesis however....man that was a bad film! Whole franchise had to be rebooted after that stinker.



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Post by: Bonaventure on November 11, 2013, 05:39:44 PM
Thor 2
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Post by: Kaesekopf on November 11, 2013, 06:32:05 PM
Quote from: Aquila on November 11, 2013, 11:46:26 AM
Pacific Rim is possibly the worst film I have ever seen. I have know idea how on earth it got 4 stars on Amazon. It's simply atrocious in every department of film-making.

A priest I know described Pacific Rim this way, in a deadpan manner:
"While watching it, I wanted the monsters to win."
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Post by: Aquila on November 11, 2013, 07:22:49 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on November 11, 2013, 06:32:05 PM
Quote from: Aquila on November 11, 2013, 11:46:26 AM
Pacific Rim is possibly the worst film I have ever seen. I have know idea how on earth it got 4 stars on Amazon. It's simply atrocious in every department of film-making.

A priest I know described Pacific Rim this way, in a deadpan manner:
"While watching it, I wanted the monsters to win."

;D

It was the film Michael Bay only dreams of making. Clichéd, cheesy dialogue? Check. Idiotic main characters who somehow survive despite terrible decision-making and zero common sense? Check. Melodramatic, over the top death scenes? Check. A plot that you can predict the ending to within the first ten minutes (literally)? Check! Plot holes you could drive a semi-truck through? Of course! Completely unrealistic CGI? It's the only thing the movie has going for it. Technology that would never actually exist in real life because the entire concept underlying it is horribly flawed? Naturally.
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Post by: piabee on November 12, 2013, 02:53:42 PM
Quote from: OCLittleFlower on November 11, 2013, 03:07:28 AM
Quote from: piabee on November 11, 2013, 02:00:38 AM
Bottle Shock, following an afternoon of California wine tasting.

Great film.  Montelena is a great winery to visit as well -- if I ever win the lotto I'm buying their estate cab on futures.  :tongue:

I had never heard of it before but I enjoyed it. It was a great way to wind down after all the boozing and driving (activities which were not done by the same people, obvi).
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Post by: Larry on November 13, 2013, 10:39:07 AM
Man of Steel on Blu-ray.
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Post by: Mr. Mysterious on November 14, 2013, 11:47:06 PM
Thor 2: The Dark World. I like how they brought in one of The Elders of the Universe (Taneleer Tivan, The Collecter) after the credits and alluded to the Infinity Gems. I agree that Adam Warlock may make an eventual appearance but I'll also hope for Captain Mar-vell also. (The Silver Surfer would be even better not to mention some of the other Elders of the Universe such as the Grandmaster, the Gardener, the Runner, etc.)

I'd also enjoy it if in the next Thor movie they use some of the Asgardians not often seen in the Thor comic book: Tyr, Hermod, Hoder, Frey, Freya, Idunn, Aegir, Njord, Bragi, as well as greater roles for Balder and appearances by the death goddess Hela, the Frost Giant Ymir and the fire demon Surtur.

 
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Post by: Gerard on November 15, 2013, 12:23:02 AM
Quote from: The Punisher on November 14, 2013, 11:47:06 PM
Thor 2: The Dark World. I like how they brought in one of The Elders of the Universe (Taneleer Tivan, The Collecter) after the credits and alluded to the Infinity Gems. I agree that Adam Warlock may make an eventual appearance but I'll also hope for Captain Mar-vell also. (The Silver Surfer would be even better not to mention some of the other Elders of the Universe such as the Grandmaster, the Gardener, the Runner, etc.)

I'd also enjoy it if in the next Thor movie they use some of the Asgardians not often seen in the Thor comic book: Tyr, Hermod, Hoder, Frey, Freya, Idunn, Aegir, Njord, Bragi, as well as greater roles for Balder and appearances by the death goddess Hela, the Frost Giant Ymir and the fire demon Surtur.



Don't forget two classics: The Enchantress and The Executioner. 

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Post by: Mr. Mysterious on November 15, 2013, 09:17:16 AM
Quote from: Gerard on November 15, 2013, 12:23:02 AM
Quote from: The Punisher on November 14, 2013, 11:47:06 PM
Thor 2: The Dark World. I like how they brought in one of The Elders of the Universe (Taneleer Tivan, The Collecter) after the credits and alluded to the Infinity Gems. I agree that Adam Warlock may make an eventual appearance but I'll also hope for Captain Mar-vell also. (The Silver Surfer would be even better not to mention some of the other Elders of the Universe such as the Grandmaster, the Gardener, the Runner, etc.)

I'd also enjoy it if in the next Thor movie they use some of the Asgardians not often seen in the Thor comic book: Tyr, Hermod, Hoder, Frey, Freya, Idunn, Aegir, Njord, Bragi, as well as greater roles for Balder and appearances by the death goddess Hela, the Frost Giant Ymir and the fire demon Surtur.



Don't forget two classics: The Enchantress and The Executioner.
Right! I also forgot Ulik and Geirrodur the rock trolls.
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Post by: Larry on November 15, 2013, 11:49:33 AM
Quote from: Gerard on November 10, 2013, 11:08:16 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on November 10, 2013, 01:29:45 AM
Quote from: Larry S. on November 09, 2013, 09:55:26 PM
Thor 2: The Dark World. A little slow in the beginning, but it turned out to be a lot of fun. Tom Hiddleston steals the movie.

Agreed.

I wish Loki had a larger role.  Apparently if Thor 4 gets made, they know where to take him. But his character is so.... Delightfully bad.  And his voice... His voice fits the role so well.

Sent from my HTC Sensation using Tapatalk

I enjoyed it too.  I was recently reading the old Lee/Kirby issues in Marvel Masterworks from the 60s and it's amazing how true to the original flavor the movie producers have been. 

In those stories, the masculinity of Thor was always prominent and humorous whenever he was in a city of "the mortals."  I think there's a clear distinction between strong masculine and feminine roles in the film and that is going to be part of its appeal as well as make it a target of the enemies of gender identity in the society. 

Though I do think they only touched on the opportunity to use Volstagg as a comic foil. 

If the genre continues, and the Asgardian aspect grows in popularity, I would really enjoy a light, semi-comedic movie of The Warriors Three with Lady Sif. 

As it is, they are definitely going towards the Jim Starlin "cosmic" epic tales as demonstrated by the introduction of The Collector and they'll wait to bring in Thanos for the 3rd Avengers movie, so that'll mean Adam Warlock is a possibility. 

Starlin wrote most of his best stories pirating from Catholicism and setting up straw man versions of the Church to portray as evil organizations.  He's got a love/hate thing going on with Catholicism.

Interesting info, Gerard. I read those Starlin stories as a little kid and just thought they were great fun. I wouldn't mind reading them again to see the subtext.
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Post by: Gerard on November 15, 2013, 12:31:35 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on November 15, 2013, 11:49:33 AM
Interesting info, Gerard. I read those Starlin stories as a little kid and just thought they were great fun. I wouldn't mind reading them again to see the subtext.

I thought the same thing.  I would never have thought he was actually trying to attack the Catholic Church but just borrowing frameworks. 

In the Warlock storyline, his future self was The Magus who was the head of the Universal Church of Truth. 

And if you read the "Dreadstar" series that was even more directly pulled with the use of clergy and nuns in pursuit of power and the "Thanos-like" Villian, The Lord High Papal complete with clerical collar, stained glass and all.

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-ZcC-zGpCCuU%2FUR1_RZSiZoI%2FAAAAAAAAA1w%2FLPDMZ4yygEk%2Fs400%2Flordpapal1_large.jpg&hash=abdd8ed07c0cde38f835e85fea3df1a9e96357a6)
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Post by: Larry on November 15, 2013, 01:38:31 PM
Wow. I don't remember seeing that. The two issues by Starlin that I remember were an Avengers Annual and a Marvel Two-in-One Annual that had some incredible artwork; Thanos was the villain. But I don't recall the Church bashing, if it was in those stories at all.

Anyway, last movie I watched was Charlie Chaplin's City Lights on the Criterion Collection Blu-ray. What a beautiful movie.
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Post by: Mr. Mysterious on November 18, 2013, 01:07:19 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on November 15, 2013, 01:38:31 PM
Wow. I don't remember seeing that. The two issues by Starlin that I remember were an Avengers Annual and a Marvel Two-in-One Annual that had some incredible artwork; Thanos was the villain. But I don't recall the Church bashing, if it was in those stories at all.

Anyway, last movie I watched was Charlie Chaplin's City Lights on the Criterion Collection Blu-ray. What a beautiful movie.
Those were Avengers Annual #7 and Marvel Two-In-One Annual #2, 1977. It featured the death of Adam Warlock, Gamora, and Pip the Troll though Warlock's spirit came out of the Soul Gem and turned Thanos to stone.
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Post by: Adeodatus on November 18, 2013, 02:50:09 PM
Last of the Mohicans, 1992. A truly atrocious film. Worst of all was the slanderous perversion of the character of General Montcalm. Historically, after his capture of the fort (one of his several brilliant victories over the British) he tried to prevent his indian allies from ambushing and butchering the defeated British. In the film, they depict it as actually being his idea!

That to me is so Hollywood. Sure, the story is from the British/American perspective. But General Montcalm was not like that. Hollywood apparently cannot conceive of someone being on the other side and not being a total heel.
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Post by: Heinrich on November 18, 2013, 05:24:17 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on November 18, 2013, 02:50:09 PM
Last of the Mohicans, 1992. A truly atrocious film. Worst of all was the slanderous perversion of the character of General Montcalm. Historically, after his capture of the fort (one of his several brilliant victories over the British) he tried to prevent his indian allies from ambushing and butchering the defeated British. In the film, they depict it as actually being his idea!

That to me is so Hollywood. Sure, the story is from the British/American perspective. But General Montcalm was not like that. Hollywood apparently cannot conceive of someone being on the other side and not being a total heel.

I remember his character also rationalizing the slaughter with the words to the effect of I am of the True Faith. Any chance Hwood has to smear and darken Goodness, they will take it.

But you have to admit, the H2H combat scenes are some of the best choreographed ever.
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Post by: Heinrich on November 18, 2013, 05:27:47 PM
A documentary on the KLitschko brothers. I am still labeling them as cliched, but damn they are powerful and interesting men. Neat also in that I am a contempory of Vitali, the older of the two. Hearing about his lean life in communism while I got fat and cocky in capitalism is of interest.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6w8I_KrtGo[/yt]

ETA: it appears this trailer is from a Polish POV and the commentary from the brothers is in German. The trainer speaks English.
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Post by: MilesChristi on November 18, 2013, 06:11:32 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on November 18, 2013, 02:50:09 PM
Last of the Mohicans, 1992. A truly atrocious film. Worst of all was the slanderous perversion of the character of General Montcalm. Historically, after his capture of the fort (one of his several brilliant victories over the British) he tried to prevent his indian allies from ambushing and butchering the defeated British. In the film, they depict it as actually being his idea!

That to me is so Hollywood. Sure, the story is from the British/American perspective. But General Montcalm was not like that. Hollywood apparently cannot conceive of someone being on the other side and not being a total heel.

how did it happen in the book?
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Post by: Adeodatus on November 19, 2013, 12:37:25 PM
Quote from: MilesChristi on November 18, 2013, 06:11:32 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on November 18, 2013, 02:50:09 PM
Last of the Mohicans, 1992. A truly atrocious film. Worst of all was the slanderous perversion of the character of General Montcalm. Historically, after his capture of the fort (one of his several brilliant victories over the British) he tried to prevent his indian allies from ambushing and butchering the defeated British. In the film, they depict it as actually being his idea!

That to me is so Hollywood. Sure, the story is from the British/American perspective. But General Montcalm was not like that. Hollywood apparently cannot conceive of someone being on the other side and not being a total heel.

how did it happen in the book?

Good question. I haven't read the book, though I've heard that the movie doesn't really follow it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: moneil on November 24, 2013, 12:47:40 AM
Tonight on PBS KWSU (the hometown station, I work at the Washington State University Dairy Center):

Giant (1956) with Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, and Rock Hudson.  It was about an old line Texas ranch family.  I rather enjoyed it.

Unrelated to the topic, but WSU defeated the University of Utah this afternoon 49-37, and are likely headed to a bowl game.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on November 24, 2013, 05:40:21 AM
Miracle on 34th St, 1947 version. I always watch it around this time of year, and love it every time. Soon it will be time for A Charlie Brown Christmas.  :)
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Post by: Adeodatus on November 24, 2013, 11:18:41 PM
Saw the latest Hungry Games. Was decent. Definitely a transitional piece: you either didn't care for the first one so there's no point in seeing this one, or you liked the first one and this one whets your appetite for #3. The pacing was good but there wasn't a whole lot of action. There's no island full of teenagers massacring each other: re-watch #1 or Battle Royale for that. This one is all about politics, setting up the revolution, dealing with the other victors, etc. There is a "hunger arena" battle but it's not the same as the first one, and takes up less of the movie.
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Post by: red solo cup on November 27, 2013, 10:19:05 AM
Damages. Season 5.
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Post by: Larry on November 27, 2013, 10:21:59 AM
The original 1933 King Kong on Blu-ray.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on November 28, 2013, 12:48:48 AM
Catching Fire.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: OCLittleFlower on November 28, 2013, 02:33:52 AM
Quote from: piabee on November 28, 2013, 12:48:48 AM
Catching Fire.

When I saw you as the most recent poster, I knew this was going to be your answer...
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Post by: piabee on November 28, 2013, 10:53:35 AM
Hahaha! Everyone and their mother saw it last night. It was really good. More substantial than the first one. My sister hasn't seen the first one and it's not a genre she cares for, but now she wants to read the books.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on November 29, 2013, 10:54:05 AM
The Hunger Games, followed by The Bling Ring. It was festive.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on December 02, 2013, 07:50:42 PM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on December 02, 2013, 11:17:27 PM
The Awakening. Weird. Terrible.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on December 02, 2013, 11:33:39 PM
Quote from: piabee on December 02, 2013, 11:17:27 PM
The Awakening. Weird. Terrible.

Odd.  I thought it was pretty good.  A tad frustrating towards the end, but better than most ghost stories.  It was superbly filmed, at any rate: pale, haunting, Edwardian gothic.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on December 03, 2013, 05:48:08 AM
It had potential, but it went completely off the rails halfway through.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on December 03, 2013, 10:16:32 AM
Quote from: piabee on December 03, 2013, 05:48:08 AM
It had potential, but it went completely off the rails halfway through.

The set-up was much better than the fulfillment, I agree, but I didn't think it was all that bad.  I rated it "four stars" on my Netflix account (which, according to Netflix, means I "really liked it") but probably more for the atmospherics and the actors than the story.  Rebecca Hall and Dominic West are both pretty good.  They're not Saoirse Ronan or  Michael Fassbender, of course, but they'll do.

I've been away from this thread for several months.  Getting caught up:

Quote from: Larry S. on October 18, 2013, 10:15:13 AM
Vampyr, a Danish film directed by Carl Dreyer(who also directed The Passion of Joan of Arc) from 1932. One of the most Catholic horror films ever made. And also one of the scariest.

Agreed.  It's hard for me to decide if the best vampire movie is Vampyr or Nosferatu (or, wild card nomination: Shadow of the Vampire), but Vampyr is definitely at the pinnacle.  There's an exquisite Criterion Collection boxed edition that is well worth the price.  The bonus materials are actually worthwhile, for a change.  The story behind it is just as strange as the movie.  The main actor, Julian West, was not a trained actor at all, but a wealthy eccentric baron who financed the movie with the caveat that he be its star.  (I guess it was easier to get away with that kind of thing in the days of silents).  Fortunately he had a solemnly expressive stare.

A good Christmas present for a cinephile.

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Quote from: Maximilian on October 31, 2013, 05:05:22 PM
"To Live" -- Chinese movie by Zhang Yimou, starring Gong Li. Epic movie.

Zhang Yimou has made some really superb films, mostly in the 90s.  Raise the Red Lantern and The Road Home, like To Live, are both great.  I don't know why he hopped on the bandwagon of martial arts films in the aughts, but oh well.

I should add, Maximilian, on a complimentary note, that your tenure on this forum has greatly improved its overall quality.  I've only been a lurker since your arrival, but I have admired many of your posts.  You have a gift for articulating unpopular views well; you're able to appeal to both reason and intuition.  I just wanted to say as much now, since I won't be able to in the unlikely event that you get permanently banned (may it never happen).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on December 03, 2013, 11:19:38 AM

Quote from:Mr Brocklehurst

QuoteAgreed.  It's hard for me to decide if the best vampire movie is Vampyr or Nosferatu (or, wild card nomination: Shadow of the Vampire), but Vampyr is definitely at the pinnacle.  There's an exquisite Criterion Collection boxed edition that is well worth the price.  The bonus materials are actually worthwhile, for a change.  The story behind it is just as strange as the movie.  The main actor, Julian West, was not a trained actor at all, but a wealthy eccentric baron who financed the movie with the caveat that he be its star.  (I guess it was easier to get away with that kind of thing in the days of silents).  Fortunately he had a solemnly expressive stare.

A good Christmas present for a cinephile.


I watched Nosferatu last week; it was just released to Blu-ray. I think I like Vampyr more, but both are great films. Being a fan of the Hollywood horror films of the thirties, I think my personal favorite vampire movie is the underrated Dracula's Daughter, but Vampyr is probably the best movie ever made on the subject of the Undead.

I have that Criterion edition of Vampyr, it is a beautiful set.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on December 03, 2013, 11:30:59 AM
Thank you very much for your kind and thoughtful compliment.

Quote from: Mr Brocklehurst on December 03, 2013, 10:16:32 AM
I just wanted to say as much now, since I won't be able to in the unlikely event that you get permanently banned (may it never happen).

In the past I've been pretty good at ducking those things, although this forum seems more arbitrary and therefore more easy to slip up. Although one time I was banned from Angelqueen for defending Bishop Williamson. Ironically, this was before 2009, at which time everyone including the moderator switched sides and started liking Bishop Williamson. Which was a very heart-warming thing to see -- that everyone supported him when he was under attack, rather than fleeing in his time of need, even though they had been ambivalent beforehand.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on December 03, 2013, 11:33:40 AM
Pacific Rim

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on December 03, 2013, 05:46:59 PM
Thor: The Dark World.

I enjoy the blend of mythology and science fiction, and the interesting spin they put on things like the svartalfar. I enjoy Thor as a traditional hero: strong, faithful, forthright, generous. Beautiful scenery and effects.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on December 04, 2013, 11:36:41 AM
Still waiting on some friends to nail down an available date for seeing Catching Fire.

Still waiting on some film company to produce an adaptation of Stephen King's The Long Walk, which is in a very similar vein to The Hunger Games.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on December 04, 2013, 05:03:09 PM
A Christmas Story.  :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on December 04, 2013, 06:32:08 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on December 04, 2013, 05:03:09 PM
A Christmas Story.  :)

Oooooh, Ralphie and his BB gun. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Christknight104 on December 04, 2013, 10:14:26 PM
Gravity.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hohenstaufen on December 04, 2013, 11:06:23 PM
Just rewatched Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters.

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A really excellent film.  My favorite piece of it is the third chapter, "Runaway Horses":

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_aaPW1rASo&t=1h6m10s[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on December 05, 2013, 12:59:00 AM
Theaters - Thor 2, Catching Fire (both decent)
Home - Flight (wish I hadn't seen this one, for several reasons)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on December 05, 2013, 08:08:10 PM
A lot of Thor watchers here. I was a big fan of the original, but one of my close friends who saw it, and whose opinion on comic films I mostly trust, rated Thor 2 a 4 out of 10. Totally lambasted the thing. Kenneth Branagh also wasn't involved. As such, I've avoided it for now.

You guys might like the little factoid, though, that Chris Hemsworth's wife was Natalie Portman's kissing double for one scene.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on December 05, 2013, 09:17:22 PM
I actually enjoyed Thor 2 more than the original, but I'm not a comic book reader so I can't say how it compares with the comics.  The only thing I really disliked about the sequel was Natalie Portman's friend in the movie, who was very annoying and distracting.  Hiddleston's Loki was the real character who stole the show.

Interesting fact about Hemsworth, though.  Just saw an interview with his brother Liam on Leno, and it sounded like they came from a good tight-knit family, and that Hollywood hasn't really changed them.  Then again, Liam did date Miley Cyrus, so that pretty much kills that theory.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on December 05, 2013, 09:56:51 PM
Thor was treated differently in the comics depending on the comics themselves.  It's a vast difference between how Thor was portrayed in the Avengers comics vs. his own book.  In the Avengers he was just powerful muscle that would get knocked out on occasion in order to show off how powerful the villain is. The Thor comics especially in the Stan Lee / Jack Kirby days (and later the Walt Simonson years) they were incredibly fantastical stories and "over the top" was considered the baseline.  Thor 2 is definitely in the direction of Thor's own comics vs.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on December 06, 2013, 12:24:51 PM
Quote from: Gerard on December 05, 2013, 09:56:51 PM
Thor was treated differently in the comics depending on the comics themselves.  It's a vast difference between how Thor was portrayed in the Avengers comics vs. his own book.  In the Avengers he was just powerful muscle that would get knocked out on occasion in order to show off how powerful the villain is. The Thor comics especially in the Stan Lee / Jack Kirby days (and later the Walt Simonson years) they were incredibly fantastical stories and "over the top" was considered the baseline.  Thor 2 is definitely in the direction of Thor's own comics vs.

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fiaincarstairs.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F01%2Fthor1.jpg%3Fw%3D404%26amp%3Bh%3D338&hash=f2b1c0cbb01395d89e47313fb05ecd956c4f78b6)

There was one great Avengers story in the comics where Thor and the Hulk had a big knock down drag out fight. I was glad they referenced it a little bit in the Avengers movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on December 06, 2013, 10:05:42 PM
I just finished episode one of the 3 part Ken Burns Prohibition series.

Man oh man...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on December 07, 2013, 02:16:14 AM
My favorite part is suddenly recognizing what celebrity is narrating.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hohenstaufen on December 11, 2013, 10:23:04 AM
Watched El Cid the other night, which I highly recommend to anyone here.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGlfSV0IC6M[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RobertJS on December 11, 2013, 11:24:51 AM
 Carbine Williams (1952) with James Stewart
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on December 11, 2013, 04:37:47 PM
The 1968 version of The Producers on Blu-ray.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on December 11, 2013, 05:04:57 PM
Quote from: Hohenstaufen on December 04, 2013, 11:06:23 PM
Just rewatched Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters.

I saw it as well. The postmodernists in college love him. What do you think of his seppuku stunt?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Elizabeth on December 11, 2013, 07:40:23 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on December 06, 2013, 10:05:42 PM
I just finished episode one of the 3 part Ken Burns Prohibition series.

Man oh man...

Why oh why????? should I check it out, is it free?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on December 14, 2013, 12:04:37 PM
The second Hobbit movie. Pretty good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on December 14, 2013, 12:54:56 PM
So I'm guessing that the filming is all done for the trilogy, right?  It has to be for them to be released so quick.

Which would be good because Ian McKellan isn't getting any younger.  If they dragged out the filming, he might pass away, and then they'd have to cgi him in, which would be weird.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on December 14, 2013, 01:22:47 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on December 14, 2013, 12:54:56 PM
So I'm guessing that the filming is all done for the trilogy, right?  It has to be for them to be released so quick.

Which would be good because Ian McKellan isn't getting any younger.  If they dragged out the filming, he might pass away, and then they'd have to cgi him in, which would be weird.


Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're done. I think they also did all of Christopher Lee's footage; he wasn't in this one, but he's supposed to be in the 3rd.
I liked a lot of this movie more than the first, but there was something missing. I didn't think the music was as good, and there's too much filler. But I had a good time and I'll see it again. But not in IMAX. I was getting dizzy watching the action scenes. Smaug is the coolest dragon I've ever seen in a movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on December 14, 2013, 04:24:53 PM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Cesar_Augustus on December 14, 2013, 05:21:23 PM
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on December 14, 2013, 10:11:07 PM
Grifters....bleh
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on December 15, 2013, 09:25:00 AM
Red 2

Very good movie.  Not as funny as the first, but it could stand on its own as a good comedy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on December 15, 2013, 01:34:43 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on December 15, 2013, 09:25:00 AM
Red 2

Very good movie.  Not as funny as the first, but it could stand on its own as a good comedy.
I thought it was good too
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on December 15, 2013, 02:01:34 PM
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on December 14, 2013, 05:21:23 PM
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
Yes, I just watched the first movie of this series: 'The Hunger Games' and this sequel. Both were very well done. The trilogy is a good story; the author takes her heroine through one psychological and physical trauma after another; by the end of the last book, she is finally getting over PTSS, but she will never recover totally.
Also, I'm looking forward to watching the Hobbit-2; I saw the trailer on youtube, and it looks like a great movie. I also enjoyed the first movie a lot. Peter Jackson has made Tolkien's little story into an epic. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Elizabeth on December 15, 2013, 03:20:29 PM
Yo, I thought [/Hunger Gamesb] was a big no-no???  I'm interested in seeing it now if MW gives it the OK!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on December 15, 2013, 05:09:22 PM
Flight with Denzel Washington
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on December 15, 2013, 06:05:07 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on December 15, 2013, 05:09:22 PM
Flight with Denzel Washington

That was an awesome movie.  Didn't care for the very beginning scene in the hotel... but the rest was good.  And John Goodman played an awesome dealer; I liked the beer bottle opener on the dashboard.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on December 16, 2013, 06:16:02 AM
Quote from: drummerboy on December 15, 2013, 06:05:07 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on December 15, 2013, 05:09:22 PM
Flight with Denzel Washington

That was an awesome movie.  Didn't care for the very beginning scene in the hotel... but the rest was good.  And John Goodman played an awesome dealer; I liked the beer bottle opener on the dashboard.
Goodman WAS funny. "Don't touch the murch"!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on December 16, 2013, 04:55:17 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on December 15, 2013, 05:09:22 PM
Flight with Denzel Washington
turned into another AA preachy hogswallop...very disappointed.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Sbyvl36 on December 16, 2013, 06:18:47 PM
Sahara.  Humphrey Bogart
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on December 16, 2013, 07:40:07 PM
Quote from: Sbyvl36 on December 16, 2013, 06:18:47 PM
Sahara.  Humphrey Bogart

Great movie! J. Carroll Naish steals the movie in my opinion.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on December 18, 2013, 10:44:56 AM
I watched less than half of the Star Wars Holiday Special last night. It was the worst piece of trash tied to a major franchise I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on December 18, 2013, 11:20:29 AM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on December 18, 2013, 10:44:56 AM
I watched less than half of the Star Wars Holiday Special last night. It was the worst piece of trash tied to a major franchise I've ever seen.

With or without the Rifftrax accompaniment? 

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pR6gtr01Sc[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on December 18, 2013, 11:21:05 AM
Without the Rifftrax. Sober.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on December 18, 2013, 11:44:56 AM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on December 18, 2013, 11:21:05 AM
Without the Rifftrax. Sober.


Ugh...what were you thinking?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on December 18, 2013, 11:57:56 AM
Quote from: Gerard on December 18, 2013, 11:44:56 AM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on December 18, 2013, 11:21:05 AM
Without the Rifftrax. Sober.


Ugh...what were you thinking?

That I wanted to cover my Lenten penance for the next five years in advance, apparently.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on December 18, 2013, 11:59:36 AM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on December 18, 2013, 10:44:56 AM
I watched less than half of the Star Wars Holiday Special last night. It was the worst piece of trash tied to a major franchise I've ever seen.

On that note--Happy Life Day, everybody!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on December 18, 2013, 08:10:55 PM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on December 18, 2013, 11:57:56 AM
Quote from: Gerard on December 18, 2013, 11:44:56 AM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on December 18, 2013, 11:21:05 AM
Without the Rifftrax. Sober.


Ugh...what were you thinking?

That I wanted to cover my Lenten penance for the next five years in advance, apparently.

:laugh:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: C.Z. on December 18, 2013, 08:29:06 PM
Quote from: Gerard on December 18, 2013, 11:20:29 AM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on December 18, 2013, 10:44:56 AM
I watched less than half of the Star Wars Holiday Special last night. It was the worst piece of trash tied to a major franchise I've ever seen.

With or without the Rifftrax accompaniment? 

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pR6gtr01Sc[/yt]

"The Star Wars Holiday Special will continue - despite growing protests outside our office!"

My favorite part :lol:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on December 18, 2013, 11:34:31 PM
Breaker Morant on Netflix. Quite a fine movie (I'd seen it before).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on December 19, 2013, 03:06:13 AM
Hobbit 2.   Enjoyable popcorn movie once you've come to the realization that this is Peter Jackson's creation, not JRR Tolkien's.  There should be a disclaimer at the beginning saying - All characters appearing in this work are fictitious.  Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or from JRR Tolkien's original book, is purely coincidental.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on December 19, 2013, 11:31:28 AM
Elysium - Pretty decent eye candy if an obvious push for an Open US Borders policy. All the oppressed people in this movie are Latin types.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on December 19, 2013, 06:58:53 PM
The last "new to me" movie I saw was To Be and to Have, a French documentary.

It is a year in the life of a teacher who teaches 12 students ages 4 to 10 in a rural school in central France.

It was engrossing.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on December 20, 2013, 11:25:12 PM
"The Recipe" (Doenjang) - A Korean movie. Very beautiful, lyrical, artistic, subtly surrealistic. Available on Netflix.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on December 21, 2013, 12:59:54 AM
Next
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on December 21, 2013, 11:39:49 AM
World War Z. Stupid.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on December 21, 2013, 12:06:59 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on December 21, 2013, 11:39:49 AM
World War Z. Stupid.

Did you expect anything else?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on December 21, 2013, 12:14:55 PM
Not really. It was two hours of my life I won't get back.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on December 21, 2013, 07:27:21 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on December 21, 2013, 11:39:49 AM
World War Z. Stupid.

I liked it. Even though I thought it borrowed too much from 28 Days Later
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on December 21, 2013, 08:18:10 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on December 21, 2013, 07:27:21 PM
I liked it. Even though I thought it borrowed too much from 28 Days Later

It was better. 28 is overrated.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on December 22, 2013, 07:09:55 PM
Going My Way.

May +Williamson forgive me...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on December 22, 2013, 10:19:22 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on December 22, 2013, 07:09:55 PM
Going My Way.

May +Williamson forgive me...

It's a great movie, especially the Barry Fitzgerald character.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on December 23, 2013, 06:45:25 AM
Quote from: tmw89 on December 22, 2013, 07:09:55 PM
Going My Way.

May +Williamson forgive me...

Now you need to watch The Bells of St Marys :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on December 23, 2013, 08:12:50 AM
Quote from: tmw89 on December 22, 2013, 07:09:55 PM
Going My Way.

May +Williamson forgive me...

If you really want to tick him off, watch The Sound of Music. Haha.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Basilios on December 23, 2013, 10:44:08 AM
Man of Steel.

Really enjoyed it. A few plot holes/stupid things but otherwise it was solid. The best fighting in a Superhero movie I've seen.

Not sure how I felt about the not-so-subtle attempt at making Superman into a Messiah figure pretty much ripping off Our Lord but I guess it is natural; however, they didn't do anything with that theme except say a few nice things alluding to it. Which is fine but pointless if it doesn't have a conclusion or a greater meaning behind it. I think like a lot of "serious" movies this tried to do too many things and ended up not exploring everything well enough. Which is standard for a movie that is trying to establish Superman/reboot him by giving him a backstory and also something to work with in terms of a proper plot.

I didn't like the flashback sequences. Call me crazy but in terms of straightforward Superhero movies I prefer to have linear timelines. They didn't do it correctly in this movie in my opinion. I also really didn't like the ending. It was just OTT and unnecessary - at least for an introductory movie. Batman Begins was so good because it introduced the character really well but gave him a good plot that wasn't really OTT.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on December 23, 2013, 02:35:37 PM
Quote from: Basilios on December 23, 2013, 10:44:08 AMNot sure how I felt about the not-so-subtle attempt at making Superman into a Messiah figure pretty much ripping off Our Lord but I guess it is natural; however, they didn't do anything with that theme except say a few nice things alluding to it. Which is fine but pointless if it doesn't have a conclusion or a greater meaning behind it.

My friend, who is a major Superman fan, argues that the Superman-as-messiah motif is the "traditional" one most faithful to its origins, and that the Superman-as-boy-scout one is modernist.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: OCLittleFlower on December 23, 2013, 02:38:20 PM
Frozen -- it was quite good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on December 23, 2013, 02:43:54 PM
American Hustle
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on December 23, 2013, 03:40:32 PM
It's a Wonderful Life.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on December 23, 2013, 04:06:16 PM
I used a free ticket to see Thor: The Dark World. My roommate rated it a 4 out of 10 and we have common tastes, and I knew the sequel wasn't directed by Kenneth Branagh, so I wasn't expecting anything good. I came out thinking it was mediocre and there were a few moments when I wanted the movie to end (and that's a thought that rarely comes to me at the theater, since I usually want to get my money's worth with a long viewing), but still..... not quite in the realm of "bad".
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Basilios on December 23, 2013, 04:19:38 PM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on December 23, 2013, 02:35:37 PM
Quote from: Basilios on December 23, 2013, 10:44:08 AMNot sure how I felt about the not-so-subtle attempt at making Superman into a Messiah figure pretty much ripping off Our Lord but I guess it is natural; however, they didn't do anything with that theme except say a few nice things alluding to it. Which is fine but pointless if it doesn't have a conclusion or a greater meaning behind it.

My friend, who is a major Superman fan, argues that the Superman-as-messiah motif is the "traditional" one most faithful to its origins, and that the Superman-as-boy-scout one is modernist.

I've heard as much too. I never really liked superman so I don't know too much about his golden years. But this movie wasn't just messianic it was outright copycat.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on December 23, 2013, 05:07:36 PM
Isnt Superman supposed to be some post modern, jewish allegory?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on December 24, 2013, 12:03:19 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on December 23, 2013, 05:07:36 PM
Isnt Superman supposed to be some post modern, jewish allegory?

It originally had a Moses theme going with the being sent to Earth in a rocket ship alone like Moses was sent down the Nile.

What eventually and naturally develops out of that is the Christ-figure precisely because Moses and all of the Jewish heroes of the Old Testament are prefigurements of Christ and for that matter Catholic saints. 

People never tire of having their stories be patterned on the truth of what we were made for. 

If they stray too far, the hero flops and the story dies, if they bring the hero closer to Our Lord and the truths of the Faith, the story gains in popularity. 



Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: ReadyJoan on December 24, 2013, 01:58:25 AM
Hunger Games Catching Fire.  Way better than the first movie and probably even better than the book in my opinion. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on December 24, 2013, 03:08:27 PM
Quote from: Gerard on December 24, 2013, 12:03:19 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on December 23, 2013, 05:07:36 PM
Isnt Superman supposed to be some post modern, jewish allegory?

It originally had a Moses theme going with the being sent to Earth in a rocket ship alone like Moses was sent down the Nile.

What eventually and naturally develops out of that is the Christ-figure precisely because Moses and all of the Jewish heroes of the Old Testament are prefigurements of Christ and for that matter Catholic saints. 

People never tire of having their stories be patterned on the truth of what we were made for. 

If they stray too far, the hero flops and the story dies, if they bring the hero closer to Our Lord and the truths of the Faith, the story gains in popularity.

Makes sense. But it appears to me that Superman is the styled like a Nietschien-Talmudic-Chosenite who comes to save the day. And the populace idolizes the figure. Maybe I am thinking too much into it.


I just received The Departed and The Fighter as early Christmas gifts. Looking forward to seeing these great movies again. Boston Irish. Settlers for great movie idears.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on December 24, 2013, 04:51:05 PM
Quote from: ReadyJoan on December 24, 2013, 01:58:25 AM
Hunger Games Catching Fire.  Way better than the first movie and probably even better than the book in my opinion.

That was my exact opinion of HG:CF as well, right after seeing it.

Just saw The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug last night.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on December 25, 2013, 10:51:03 AM
Quote from: ReadyJoan on December 24, 2013, 01:58:25 AM
Hunger Games Catching Fire.  Way better than the first movie and probably even better than the book in my opinion.
I saw CF first then H.G. I thought they were both well done; although I pictured Peeta a little bit stockier, to reflect his strength in throwing the 100 lb sacks of flower. Johanna was a great cast. And Haymich's "drinking problem" was toned down quite a bit. Come to think of it, so was Catnis's emotional roller-coaster. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on December 25, 2013, 11:55:11 AM
47 Ronin.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on December 25, 2013, 11:58:15 PM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.rogerebert.com%2Fuploads%2Fmovie%2Fmovie_poster%2Fan-angel-at-my-table-1991%2Flarge_pctlXU5N2v54kpr9QeCo41vlCkP.jpg&hash=6e4d662ec1b56c20b4e1a3e4bead716a93745f2a)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: ReadyJoan on December 26, 2013, 04:42:41 AM
Quote from: RedCaves on December 25, 2013, 11:55:11 AM
47 Ronin.

any good? 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Basilios on December 26, 2013, 04:48:40 AM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fia.media-imdb.com%2Fimages%2FM%2FMV5BMjYxMDcyMzIzNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNDg2MDU3._V1_SY317_CR5%2C0%2C214%2C317_.jpg&hash=4f22e952f48bbc736c099fbf5f19293b12687c5c)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on December 26, 2013, 08:57:53 AM
Quote from: ReadyJoan on December 26, 2013, 04:42:41 AM
Quote from: RedCaves on December 25, 2013, 11:55:11 AM
47 Ronin.

any good?

In my opinion, I LOVED it!!!

The critics, however, don't. :(

In real life, Keanu Reeves is part Chinese.

My main concern was that the movie would be extremely white-washed, but it was very minor.

The world of 47 Ronin felt very tangible and realistic, besides the mythical animals and magic powers that occur.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on December 26, 2013, 01:22:32 PM
Silent Running (1971)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on December 26, 2013, 07:48:35 PM
It's a Wonderful Life.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on December 26, 2013, 09:21:50 PM
The 1951 version of A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim as Scrooge. Still the best version of the story.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: C.Z. on December 26, 2013, 10:42:18 PM
Air Force One.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on December 27, 2013, 01:13:18 AM

Quote from: Larry S. on December 26, 2013, 09:21:50 PM
The 1951 version of A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim as Scrooge. Still the best version of the story.

I beg to differ good sir. The 1984 version with George C. Scott is my favorite.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on December 27, 2013, 01:14:07 AM
Just got back from The Hobbit 2. I'll post my thoughts in another thread.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on December 27, 2013, 02:29:47 AM
Quote from: Archer on December 27, 2013, 01:13:18 AM

Quote from: Larry S. on December 26, 2013, 09:21:50 PM
The 1951 version of A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim as Scrooge. Still the best version of the story.

I beg to differ good sir. The 1984 version with George C. Scott is my favorite.

Mine as well

Highlights

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1-aIOpV0dA[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: OCLittleFlower on December 27, 2013, 04:50:08 AM
Just got back from Saving Mr. Banks.  It was good, but bring Kleenex.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on December 27, 2013, 09:00:58 PM
Quote from: Archer on December 27, 2013, 01:13:18 AM

Quote from: Larry S. on December 26, 2013, 09:21:50 PM
The 1951 version of A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim as Scrooge. Still the best version of the story.

I beg to differ good sir. The 1984 version with George C. Scott is my favorite.

That's in second place for me. I like Sim, and the supporting cast in the 1951 version.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on December 27, 2013, 10:05:35 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on December 27, 2013, 09:00:58 PM
Quote from: Archer on December 27, 2013, 01:13:18 AM

Quote from: Larry S. on December 26, 2013, 09:21:50 PM
The 1951 version of A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim as Scrooge. Still the best version of the story.

I beg to differ good sir. The 1984 version with George C. Scott is my favorite.

That's in second place for me. I like Sim, and the supporting cast in the 1951 version.

Don't forget the version voice by Sim from the Chuck Jones 1971 animated short. 

This was my first exposure to the Dickens tale.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUZfW1W_CMM[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on December 27, 2013, 10:20:59 PM
Quote from: Gerard on December 27, 2013, 10:05:35 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on December 27, 2013, 09:00:58 PM
Quote from: Archer on December 27, 2013, 01:13:18 AM

Quote from: Larry S. on December 26, 2013, 09:21:50 PM
The 1951 version of A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim as Scrooge. Still the best version of the story.

I beg to differ good sir. The 1984 version with George C. Scott is my favorite.

I remember seeing that as a kid, but I didn't know that Sim provided the voice for Scrooge.
That's in second place for me. I like Sim, and the supporting cast in the 1951 version.

Don't forget the version voice by Sim from the Chuck Jones 1971 animated short. 

This was my first exposure to the Dickens tale.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUZfW1W_CMM[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on December 30, 2013, 01:00:36 PM
Becket on Blu-ray, in honor of St. Thomas Becket's feast day, and also in remembrance of Peter O'Toole. What a great movie, and what a great performance by O'Toole(and Richard Burton, too).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on December 30, 2013, 04:13:28 PM
Its a Wonderful Life

Reservoir Dogs

Layer Cake (early Daniel Craig as a high-up drug middleman)

RAID: Redemption (lots of awesome mauy thai and knife fighting!)

Once Upon a Time in the West

A Fish Called Wanda
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on December 30, 2013, 04:56:40 PM
Elysium (scary accurate post economic apocalypse tale)

Man of Steel
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on December 31, 2013, 04:10:17 PM
Argo. Meh.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Spooky on December 31, 2013, 04:37:26 PM
All Good Things starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst. I didn't realize until 2/3rds in that it was based on the Robert Durst/Kathleen McCormack case. Robert Durst is no Ryan Gosling I assure you that.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on December 31, 2013, 11:41:15 PM
Ender's Game.

Available at the second-run theater for $1.50 per ticket.

Pretty good sci-fi. Not original, but still entertaining. And pretty good family entertainment. No immodesty, bad language, etc.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on January 01, 2014, 05:16:10 AM
Will Hay's Convict 99.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_HeoFHnLrU[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 01, 2014, 06:37:28 AM
Sunset Boulevard on Blu-ray, mainly because it has a very memorable scene set on New Year's Eve.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on January 01, 2014, 03:00:35 PM
Just finished watching "Despicable Me 2" Laughed my head off all through the movie. Of Course Gru will not only be nominated for an academy award, but this time he will win it (If forces of evil do not stop it).  the Little minions are even better this time.
The little children are adorable and I don't want to add any spoilers.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on January 02, 2014, 03:34:31 AM
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the '50s version)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on January 02, 2014, 08:35:58 AM
Quote from: Clare on January 02, 2014, 03:34:31 AM
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the '50s version)
That was a scary movie!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 02, 2014, 10:14:36 AM
Quote from: Clare on January 02, 2014, 03:34:31 AM
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the '50s version)

What a great movie, made on a shoestring budget. The remake is good too, but way more pessimistic.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Elizabeth on January 02, 2014, 10:54:07 AM
The first part of an old black-and-white Spanish movie about St. Theresa of Avila.  Remarkable actress.  I am left hanging because there seem to be no more English subtitled episodes available.  It is surprisingly well done so far.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on January 02, 2014, 02:39:50 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on January 02, 2014, 10:14:36 AM
Quote from: Clare on January 02, 2014, 03:34:31 AM
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the '50s version)

What a great movie, made on a shoestring budget. The remake is good too, but way more pessimistic.
Yes, I'd seen the Donald Sutherland movie on TV some years ago. The older one was quite different, and the ending more hopeful.

The armchair moral theologian in me tends to watch films like this, regretting the fact that the heroes are divorced. But then realising that their spouses are probably cloned by the end, so they may be eligible to marry each other after all!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 02, 2014, 04:43:41 PM
Quote from: Clare on January 02, 2014, 02:39:50 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on January 02, 2014, 10:14:36 AM
Quote from: Clare on January 02, 2014, 03:34:31 AM
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the '50s version)

What a great movie, made on a shoestring budget. The remake is good too, but way more pessimistic.
Yes, I'd seen the Donald Sutherland movie on TV some years ago. The older one was quite different, and the ending more hopeful.

The armchair moral theologian in me tends to watch films like this, regretting the fact that the heroes are divorced. But then realising that their spouses are probably cloned by the end, so they may be eligible to marry each other after all!

Whenever I watch an old movie where divorced people get together, I always assume they were previously in an invalid civil marriage. But yes, this particular movie has its own special circumstances! :lol:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Pheo on January 02, 2014, 07:01:27 PM
Just watched this on Netflix:

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi44.tinypic.com%2F9v9he0.jpg&hash=2fef172ef041d9d6089b990b1108df1a88b3b341)

For the most part this documents time spent with a Siberian sable trapper - and the title couldn't have been more appropriate.  It's definitely not an easy life, but it is a very honest one.  These men work with their hands, are almost entirely self-relient, and are pretty intimately connected to God's Creation (it's scary to think how many people in North America have never even planted a seed in a garden).

This isn't helping my urge to go live off the grid somewhere ;D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on January 03, 2014, 04:02:03 PM
Arsenic & Old Lace

A challenging film for the inner moral theologian!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: OCLittleFlower on January 03, 2014, 04:04:01 PM
War and Peace (1956) with Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda. 

Good movie -- I'd wanted to watch it for a while but when I saw it was leaving Netflix on Jan 1, I spent a chunk of time on the 31st watching it.

And, of course, I didn't consider the possibility of battle scenes, and ended up with my parents' Rottweiler on my lap, shaking in fear.  :tongue:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 03, 2014, 04:12:11 PM
Quote from: Clare on January 03, 2014, 04:02:03 PM
Arsenic & Old Lace

A challenging film for the inner moral theologian!
The Brewster sisters are nuts, so they aren't guilty of serious sin. Maybe.  :tongue:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on January 03, 2014, 04:23:42 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on January 03, 2014, 04:12:11 PM
Quote from: Clare on January 03, 2014, 04:02:03 PM
Arsenic & Old Lace

A challenging film for the inner moral theologian!
The Brewster sisters are nuts, so they aren't guilty of serious sin. Maybe.  :tongue:
Yes, and they're totally honest and not remotely malicious. But what would have been the correct action for Mortimer to take? I think the sanitarium was probably the best place for them.

Does moral theology ruin films??
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 03, 2014, 04:43:26 PM
Quote from: Clare on January 03, 2014, 04:23:42 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on January 03, 2014, 04:12:11 PM
Quote from: Clare on January 03, 2014, 04:02:03 PM
Arsenic & Old Lace

A challenging film for the inner moral theologian!
The Brewster sisters are nuts, so they aren't guilty of serious sin. Maybe.  :tongue:
Yes, and they're totally honest and not remotely malicious. But what would have been the correct action for Mortimer to take? I think the sanitarium was probably the best place for them.

Does moral theology ruin films??

I try not to think about it too much, especially older movies from more simple times. :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on January 04, 2014, 12:39:44 AM
More on Man of Steel (was just watching some favorite scenes)

The Christ image is so strong in this film.  I'm noticing more each time. 

This scene is Superman against the "World Engine" which is an invention designed to transform the world into a New World of Krypton. 

You'll notice that Superman in his effort to "overcome the world (engine)"  is giving everything of himself to save the world. 

At that point, you'll notice the wide angle shot of him standing in a Cross of light.

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn3.whatculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F06%2FWorld-Engine-3.jpg&hash=e2eba08f0cd72306f0f261af3366af7e1bd93242)

The other touching scene is the cutaway to the destruction in Metropolis where Perry White won't leave a trapped Jenny Olsen to die alone even though it looks like it means his own certain death. 

The music accompaniment is simple, elegant and epic. 

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJW4d7DE3vA[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Roland Deschain on January 04, 2014, 07:05:01 AM
Finished up my annual watching of the LOTR series last night....extended version of course.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on January 04, 2014, 07:37:30 AM
Sissi, starring Romy Schneider (dubbed in Spanish, since I don't know any German and Youtube doesn't have an English version).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on January 04, 2014, 08:27:13 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on January 04, 2014, 07:37:30 AM
Sissi, starring Romy Schneider (dubbed in Spanish, since I don't know any German and Youtube doesn't have an English version).

I might have to check that out tonight. Thanks. However, my version will be in German. I do not know Spanish.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on January 04, 2014, 09:52:14 AM
Quote from: Roland Deschain on January 04, 2014, 07:05:01 AM
Finished up my annual watching of the LOTR series last night....extended version of course.
I love the books; and I think the extended version of the movies is really great.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on January 04, 2014, 04:09:48 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on January 04, 2014, 08:27:13 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on January 04, 2014, 07:37:30 AM
Sissi, starring Romy Schneider (dubbed in Spanish, since I don't know any German and Youtube doesn't have an English version).

I might have to check that out tonight. Thanks. However, my version will be in German. I do not know Spanish.

It looked like they had some Italian and French versions, too.  ;)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on January 04, 2014, 05:12:13 PM
Rocky II

"Yo, Adrian, I was thinking I'll go home and think up a new joke and I'll be back in the morning, k'?"
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Cesar_Augustus on January 04, 2014, 05:46:03 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on December 15, 2013, 02:01:34 PM
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on December 14, 2013, 05:21:23 PM
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
Yes, I just watched the first movie of this series: 'The Hunger Games' and this sequel. Both were very well done. The trilogy is a good story; the author takes her heroine through one psychological and physical trauma after another; by the end of the last book, she is finally getting over PTSS, but she will never recover totally.
Also, I'm looking forward to watching the Hobbit-2; I saw the trailer on youtube, and it looks like a great movie. I also enjoyed the first movie a lot. Peter Jackson has made Tolkien's little story into an epic.

I haven't seen the first one yet. A cousin was reading the three books and finished them very quickly. I went with her and another cousin that likes the series too.

I recently watched two Legend of the Galatic Heroes movies:

"My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars"

And

"Overture to a New War"
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Cesar_Augustus on January 04, 2014, 05:52:50 PM
Quote from: Gerard on December 24, 2013, 12:03:19 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on December 23, 2013, 05:07:36 PM
Isnt Superman supposed to be some post modern, jewish allegory?

It originally had a Moses theme going with the being sent to Earth in a rocket ship alone like Moses was sent down the Nile.

What eventually and naturally develops out of that is the Christ-figure precisely because Moses and all of the Jewish heroes of the Old Testament are prefigurements of Christ and for that matter Catholic saints. 

People never tire of having their stories be patterned on the truth of what we were made for. 

If they stray too far, the hero flops and the story dies, if they bring the hero closer to Our Lord and the truths of the Faith, the story gains in popularity.

Very interesting.

Having that in mind, the rejection of traditional, or typical heroic characters, and people preferring troubled, flawed hero types in recent years. What could be gathered from that?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Sbyvl36 on January 04, 2014, 05:58:14 PM
Anyone here ever seen the movie "Pick up on South Street"?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on January 04, 2014, 10:07:28 PM
Quote from: Sbyvl36 on January 04, 2014, 05:58:14 PM
Anyone here ever seen the movie "Pick up on South Street"?

Sounds interesting...

What's it about, a delivery gone wrong? lol
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Sbyvl36 on January 04, 2014, 10:09:23 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on January 04, 2014, 10:07:28 PM
Quote from: Sbyvl36 on January 04, 2014, 05:58:14 PM
Anyone here ever seen the movie "Pick up on South Street"?

Sounds interesting...

What's it about, a delivery gone wrong? lol

No, it's actually quite complicated.  Basically, a pick pocket pick-pockets a woman carrying stolen information to the Russians, and who was being watched by the Feds.  So now he is in hot water, and things spiral out of control.  It's from 1953, IIRC.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on January 05, 2014, 02:21:25 PM
If I ever see it on TCM I'll record it
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on January 09, 2014, 02:15:42 AM
Act of Valor
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on January 09, 2014, 04:53:56 PM
Saving Mr. Banks
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Cesar_Augustus on January 10, 2014, 12:03:40 PM
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on January 10, 2014, 04:09:25 PM
Django Unchained.

I never knew I could laugh at so many macabre moments.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on January 11, 2014, 02:19:40 AM
The Maltese Falcon
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 11, 2014, 12:41:52 PM
Quote from: Clare on January 11, 2014, 02:19:40 AM
The Maltese Falcon

Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre own that movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on January 11, 2014, 02:20:44 PM
Spirited Away.....very nice Alice in wonderland tale with creepy edges,
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tAhCgNTmTc[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on January 11, 2014, 10:44:05 PM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.koreanfilm.org%2Ftom%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F05%2Fhousemaid2010.jpg&hash=f1f3ae0b89430c7513d6619f1c45190fc48409a3)

The Housemaid (2010)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on January 12, 2014, 12:03:59 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Countdown_%28film%29
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on January 12, 2014, 06:38:04 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on January 11, 2014, 02:20:44 PM
Spirited Away.....very nice Alice in wonderland tale with creepy edges,
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tAhCgNTmTc[/yt]
Do you watch this with your kids VP, or for yourself? My grandchildren love Totoro and I've watched it a lot with them. The more I do the more subtlety and depth I notice. Miyazaki's films are terrific.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on January 12, 2014, 07:26:21 AM
I watched it with my teens...I dont think it would good for small children as there confusing and frightening elements....especially the witch and the black ghosts.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on January 12, 2014, 08:44:31 AM
"The Conjuring"
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on January 12, 2014, 12:40:11 PM
Bunraku
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on January 12, 2014, 07:10:23 PM
Khodorkovsky
FANTASTIC DOCUMENTARY about Putin Russia and the Oligarchs!
Net flix
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on January 12, 2014, 07:31:09 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on January 12, 2014, 07:10:23 PM
Khodorkovsky
FANTASTIC DOCUMENTARY about Putin Russia and the Oligarchs!
Net flix

Let me guess: the jewish man is short changed by the evil dictator and the Amnesty International crowd is up in molotov cocktails for his release. I am not convinced that Mikael Khodorkovsky is a victim of a vicious oligarch.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on January 12, 2014, 08:00:00 PM
Neither am I but it was still an excellent look inside Russia
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on January 12, 2014, 09:20:22 PM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 12, 2014, 10:03:16 PM
Anastasia with Ingrid Bergman on Turner Classic Movies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Sbyvl36 on January 14, 2014, 03:57:31 PM
Quote from: Clare on January 11, 2014, 02:19:40 AM
The Maltese Falcon

One of my favorite movies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: C.Z. on January 14, 2014, 04:11:11 PM
Skyfall. The opening theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeumyOzKqgI) by Adele is fantastic.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on January 14, 2014, 04:20:49 PM
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ugCIjzHptA[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on January 14, 2014, 04:21:34 PM
Quote from: Bowwow on January 14, 2014, 04:11:11 PM
Skyfall. The opening theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeumyOzKqgI) by Adele is fantastic.
Yeah the music was great the movie was a complete embarrassment to bonds.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 14, 2014, 06:19:04 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on January 14, 2014, 04:21:34 PM
Quote from: Bowwow on January 14, 2014, 04:11:11 PM
Skyfall. The opening theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeumyOzKqgI) by Adele is fantastic.
Yeah the music was great the movie was a complete embarrassment to bonds.

I liked it. I didn't think it was as great as everyone else said it was, but it was pretty good. Way better than Quantum of Solace. Man, I hated that movie!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on January 16, 2014, 12:21:58 PM
Rocky V

Why on earth don't people like that movie?!  I'd rate it after Rocky I.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 16, 2014, 01:35:39 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on January 16, 2014, 12:21:58 PM
Rocky V

Why on earth don't people like that movie?!  I'd rate it after Rocky I.

It's definitely better than Rocky IV or the sixth one.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on January 16, 2014, 01:44:53 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on January 16, 2014, 01:35:39 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on January 16, 2014, 12:21:58 PM
Rocky V

Why on earth don't people like that movie?!  I'd rate it after Rocky I.

It's definitely better than Rocky IV or the sixth one.

Rocky IV?

Heck no.  (by which I mean, rocky IV was awesome).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 16, 2014, 01:48:00 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 16, 2014, 01:44:53 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on January 16, 2014, 01:35:39 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on January 16, 2014, 12:21:58 PM
Rocky V

Why on earth don't people like that movie?!  I'd rate it after Rocky I.

It's definitely better than Rocky IV or the sixth one.

Rocky IV?

Heck no.  (by which I mean, rocky IV was awesome).

It just didn't seem like a Rocky movie to me. More like a Marvel comic book.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on January 16, 2014, 09:49:15 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 16, 2014, 01:44:53 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on January 16, 2014, 01:35:39 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on January 16, 2014, 12:21:58 PM
Rocky V

Why on earth don't people like that movie?!  I'd rate it after Rocky I.

It's definitely better than Rocky IV or the sixth one.



Rocky IV?

Heck no.  (by which I mean, rocky IV was awesome).

I am with Käse on this: Rocky IV is a great movie. I was in high school when it came out and the Cold War was center stage and Rocky knocked the balls off them evil commies!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 16, 2014, 11:28:21 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on January 16, 2014, 09:49:15 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 16, 2014, 01:44:53 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on January 16, 2014, 01:35:39 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on January 16, 2014, 12:21:58 PM
Rocky V

Why on earth don't people like that movie?!  I'd rate it after Rocky I.

It's definitely better than Rocky IV or the sixth one.



Rocky IV?

Heck no.  (by which I mean, rocky IV was awesome).

I am with Käse on this: Rocky IV is a great movie. I was in high school when it came out and the Cold War was center stage and Rocky knocked the balls off them evil commies!

I was a teenager when it came out too and saw it opening night. All of my friends loved it, but I just couldn't get into it. Rocky seemed like a different character than the guy from the first 3 movies. The Philly connection was tenuous(I forget, is there even one shot of Rocky in Philly in the movie?). I thought Paulie's robot was really dumb. The Russians(and even Gorby) turning against Drago in the fight was, even as a kid, ridiculous to me. And to add insult to injury, the Rocky theme wasn't played once in the entire movie(though I did like the soundtrack anyway). It just didn't do it for me.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 16, 2014, 11:30:16 PM
Oh, and the last movie I watched was The Mask of Fu Manchu with Boris Karloff and Myrna Loy. This movie was so politically incorrect that I can't imagine any network showing it on television today without a disclaimer. Which is why I enjoyed it so much.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on January 16, 2014, 11:34:24 PM
Captain America
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on January 16, 2014, 11:53:41 PM
I JUST WROTE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SUMMARY OF WHY ROCKY IV WAS THE BEST, GOT LOGGED OUT, AND LOST IT ALL. 

LIFE IS TERRIBLE.  WHY.  WHY.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on January 16, 2014, 11:56:58 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 16, 2014, 11:53:41 PM
I JUST WROTE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SUMMARY OF WHY ROCKY IV WAS THE BEST, GOT LOGGED OUT, AND LOST IT ALL. 

LIFE IS TERRIBLE.  WHY.  WHY.

Hit "back" and it should be retained, copy, paste after loggin back in.

Or just do what I do: copy entire post, including quotes, before hitting reply.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on January 16, 2014, 11:58:49 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 16, 2014, 11:53:41 PM
I JUST WROTE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SUMMARY OF WHY ROCKY IV WAS THE BEST, GOT LOGGED OUT, AND LOST IT ALL. 

LIFE IS TERRIBLE.  WHY.  WHY.

Once you hit that logged out screen, click the back arrow and it'll take you back to your post.  Then you can copy it, log back in, and post. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 17, 2014, 12:15:55 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 16, 2014, 11:53:41 PM
I JUST WROTE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SUMMARY OF WHY ROCKY IV WAS THE BEST, GOT LOGGED OUT, AND LOST IT ALL. 

LIFE IS TERRIBLE.  WHY.  WHY.

I hope you're able to find it and post it. I want to read your defense of Paulie's robot.  ;)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on January 17, 2014, 12:20:07 AM
I hit back.  It was gone.  :'(
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on January 17, 2014, 12:20:21 AM
Quote from: Larry S. on January 17, 2014, 12:15:55 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 16, 2014, 11:53:41 PM
I JUST WROTE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SUMMARY OF WHY ROCKY IV WAS THE BEST, GOT LOGGED OUT, AND LOST IT ALL. 

LIFE IS TERRIBLE.  WHY.  WHY.

I hope you're able to find it and post it. I want to read your defense of Paulie's robot.  ;)

I will re-write it this weekend.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on January 17, 2014, 12:24:55 AM
Quote from: Gardener on January 16, 2014, 11:56:58 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 16, 2014, 11:53:41 PM
I JUST WROTE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SUMMARY OF WHY ROCKY IV WAS THE BEST, GOT LOGGED OUT, AND LOST IT ALL. 

LIFE IS TERRIBLE.  WHY.  WHY.

Hit "back" and it should be retained, copy, paste after loggin back in.

Or just do what I do: copy entire post, including quotes, before hitting reply.

I didn't see that you had wrote the same thing right before me, lol. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on January 17, 2014, 12:25:24 AM
Quote from: Larry S. on January 17, 2014, 12:15:55 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 16, 2014, 11:53:41 PM
I JUST WROTE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SUMMARY OF WHY ROCKY IV WAS THE BEST, GOT LOGGED OUT, AND LOST IT ALL. 

LIFE IS TERRIBLE.  WHY.  WHY.

I hope you're able to find it and post it. I want to read your defense of Paulie's robot.  ;)


Wasn't that the robot "Pulsar" from the old Pulsations nightclub in Glen Mills or an equivalent model?  I remember people mentioning it in the theater at the time. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 17, 2014, 10:15:47 AM
Quote from: Gerard on January 17, 2014, 12:25:24 AM
Quote from: Larry S. on January 17, 2014, 12:15:55 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 16, 2014, 11:53:41 PM
I JUST WROTE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SUMMARY OF WHY ROCKY IV WAS THE BEST, GOT LOGGED OUT, AND LOST IT ALL. 

LIFE IS TERRIBLE.  WHY.  WHY.

I hope you're able to find it and post it. I want to read your defense of Paulie's robot.  ;)


Wasn't that the robot "Pulsar" from the old Pulsations nightclub in Glen Mills or an equivalent model?  I remember people mentioning it in the theater at the time.

I don't remember the details, I just remember the robot with the female voice and Paulie's goofy grin. I also remember the movie had an editing style reminiscent of MTV  music video's from the time. Just wasn't impressed, looking forward to Kaesekopf's review.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on January 17, 2014, 11:25:24 AM
Rocky IV was good, but not great.  Yes, the robot was really dumb.  And when you look at all the Rocky movies, IV gets into the action way to quick; there's almost no plot.  Creed gets killed, Rocky gets angry, the Rock and the Bear fight.  There ya have it.  Plus, you can tell that Stallone and Lundgren really liked showing off their muscles in the film; if I want to see muscle boys showing off and grinning at their biceps in the mirror I'll go to a gym, thank you.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on January 17, 2014, 11:42:11 AM
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6w4XtsfyVo&feature=player_detailpage[/yt]

There's a nice "gay moment" at around 1:25-1:30.  3:40 is good too: "No pain!"
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Machaut1377 on January 17, 2014, 02:14:30 PM
The Scarlet and the Black.   

Great movie
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jqm3dpBlvg[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on January 17, 2014, 04:10:47 PM
I got it on VHS  8)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on January 17, 2014, 04:15:36 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on January 17, 2014, 11:42:11 AM
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6w4XtsfyVo&feature=player_detailpage[/yt]

There's a nice "gay moment" at around 1:25-1:30.  3:40 is good too: "No pain!"

The hilarious thing about this movie, and this particular video, is that the exact opposite would have likely been the case in terms of training methods.

I believe it was, of course, to show American ingenuity and triumph over the attempt of Soviet Russia to be technologically superior. Of course, they weren't and aren't, and even if they were we'd win -- right?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on January 17, 2014, 04:49:18 PM
Exactly.  Where are the kettlebells? lol!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on January 17, 2014, 08:55:50 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on January 17, 2014, 04:49:18 PM
Exactly.  Where are the kettlebells? lol!

Kettle bells is serious training.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on January 17, 2014, 09:10:53 PM
Rocky IV is the only Rocky film I've seen. I'm going to assume it's the best, because a friend threw a party for the 25th anniversary of the film in 2010 and even ordered a cake saying "Happy 25th Birthday, Rocky IV" complete with the Soviet and American gloves crashing together.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on January 17, 2014, 09:53:22 PM
Quote from: vakarian on January 17, 2014, 09:10:53 PM
Rocky IV is the only Rocky film I've seen. I'm going to assume it's the best, because a friend threw a party for the 25th anniversary of the film in 2010 and even ordered a cake saying "Happy 25th Birthday, Rocky IV" complete with the Soviet and American gloves crashing together.

I would put the original "Rocky" film as actually a great film.  The rest are enjoyable in varying degrees but only popcorn flicks.  Rocky isn't even the same character in the sequels.  In the original, he's already too old, washed up, physically not capable of winning a championship fight no matter how hard he trains for it.  He never has a chance and it's his last opportunity to make some money by being a sacrificial lamb for basically a publicity fight.  His only goal is to "go the distance" because no one has ever done that against Creed.  The best moment in the entire flick is at 1:47, the look on Creed's face when the man won't stay down no matter how hopeless and the urging of Rocky to "come on" with the totally disfigured face by the pounding. 

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25NmudB2fqg[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 18, 2014, 11:11:41 AM
I agree, Gerard, that the first movie is great. The second, while derivative, at least seems to be about the same characters in the first movie. 3 and 4 become superhero movies(though the third is fun). They try to bring it all back full circle in V, which is why I enjoy it more than 3 or 4. It's about Rocky Balboa from South Philly again.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on January 18, 2014, 11:19:11 AM
I saw The Talented Mr. Ripley. Don't. Disturbing on a level I didn't anticipate.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 18, 2014, 12:18:55 PM
Quote from: Gardener on January 18, 2014, 11:19:11 AM
I saw The Talented Mr. Ripley. Don't. Disturbing on a level I didn't anticipate.

Very disturbing. But it did have beautiful shots of Italy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on January 18, 2014, 06:56:35 PM
The Philadelphia Story
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on January 18, 2014, 08:08:17 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on January 18, 2014, 06:56:35 PM
The Philadelphia Story

Classic.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on January 18, 2014, 09:07:25 PM
Quote from: Archer on January 18, 2014, 08:08:17 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on January 18, 2014, 06:56:35 PM
The Philadelphia Story

Classic.

What is the wish?

uuhhh.  Dost thou havest a bathroom?

lol!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on January 18, 2014, 09:49:50 PM
High Noon.

Awesome.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on January 18, 2014, 10:44:50 PM
The Great Gatsby

And Rocky IV is far superior to Rocky V.  I can't believe there's even a debate about it.  That is all.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on January 19, 2014, 07:30:07 AM
Elysium. Not too bad. They didn't mind hitting you over the head with their message. The squalor on Earth kept reminding me
of District 9.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on January 19, 2014, 02:41:46 PM
Quote from: totiusque on January 18, 2014, 10:44:50 PM
The Great Gatsby

And Rocky IV is far superior to Rocky V.  I can't believe there's even a debate about it.  That is all.

Just for saying that...

I must break you. >:(
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on January 19, 2014, 08:02:12 PM
Lifeboat, directed by Alfred Hitchcock on TCM

Sent from my KFTT using Tapatalk 2

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on January 19, 2014, 09:45:57 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on January 19, 2014, 02:41:46 PM

Just for saying that...

I must break you. >:(

Only stating the facts.  I'm trying to think of a more annoying actor/character than Rocky's son in Rocky V, and I just can't do it.  And a street fight?  With Tommy Morrison?  With a bad acting Don King wannabe babbling in the background?  Yeah, no comparison. 

Is Rocky IV a perfect film?  No, far from it.  But compared to the trash that was Rocky V, it comes out looking like Citizen Kane.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tradne4163 on January 19, 2014, 09:52:27 PM
Quote from: totiusque on January 19, 2014, 09:45:57 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on January 19, 2014, 02:41:46 PM

Just for saying that...

I must break you. >:(

Only stating the facts.  I'm trying to think of a more annoying actor/character than Rocky's son in Rocky V, and I just can't do it.  And a street fight?  With Tommy Morrison?  With a bad acting Don King wannabe babbling in the background?  Yeah, no comparison. 

Is Rocky IV a perfect film?  No, far from it.  But compared to the trash that was Rocky V, it comes out looking like Citizen Kane.
Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode II.  A Whiny overgrown brat he was.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on January 19, 2014, 09:55:44 PM
Quote from: tradne4163 on January 19, 2014, 09:52:27 PM
Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode II.  A Whiny overgrown brat he was.

I stand corrected, though you could probably name a good number of characters from the pre-trilogy that fall under that umbrella (looking at you, Jar Jar!).  I blame that more on Lucas than on Hayden Christensen, though.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tradne4163 on January 19, 2014, 11:14:36 PM
Quote from: totiusque on January 19, 2014, 09:55:44 PM
Quote from: tradne4163 on January 19, 2014, 09:52:27 PM
Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode II.  A Whiny overgrown brat he was.

I stand corrected, though you could probably name a good number of characters from the pre-trilogy that fall under that umbrella (looking at you, Jar Jar!).  I blame that more on Lucas than on Hayden Christensen, though.
Yep. Lucas has totally gone Bugnini on Star Wars.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on January 20, 2014, 01:01:44 AM
Quote from: tradne4163 on January 19, 2014, 09:52:27 PM
Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode II.  A Whiny overgrown brat he was.

He was an whiny brat in all 3.  The only redeeming actor in the entire new trilogy was Liam Neeson. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on January 20, 2014, 01:17:58 AM
Quote from: Archer on January 20, 2014, 01:01:44 AM
Quote from: tradne4163 on January 19, 2014, 09:52:27 PM
Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode II.  A Whiny overgrown brat he was.

He was an whiny brat in all 3.  The only redeeming actor in the entire new trilogy was Liam Neeson.

Well, I'd have to say Kenny Baker and Anthony Daniels were also decent in the prequels.  Now that's what I call acting.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on January 20, 2014, 01:23:18 AM
Quote from: totiusque on January 20, 2014, 01:17:58 AM
Quote from: Archer on January 20, 2014, 01:01:44 AM
Quote from: tradne4163 on January 19, 2014, 09:52:27 PM
Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode II.  A Whiny overgrown brat he was.

He was an whiny brat in all 3.  The only redeeming actor in the entire new trilogy was Liam Neeson.

Well, I'd have to say Kenny Baker and Anthony Daniels were also decent in the prequels.  Now that's what I call acting.

They definitely have the most orignial lines I've ever heard too. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on January 20, 2014, 06:20:28 AM
A New Hope  8)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on January 20, 2014, 06:24:41 AM
"Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?"
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on January 20, 2014, 08:12:23 AM
The Help. It was good, especially since I'm a transplant to the South. I do wonder how much of that mindset still lingers, now that it isn't out in the open and supported by law. Anyway, I'm looking forward to reading the book next.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on January 20, 2014, 09:14:19 AM
Big Trouble in Little China....Directed By the THING Director John Carpenter.
Creepy, funny, not bad effects...classic 80s...and yet didnt look too dated.
Kurt Russel's best role! (yes including snake pliskin)
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl-pr5iqKb4[/yt]

"I never drive faster than I can see"
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on January 20, 2014, 09:18:24 AM
Yes, I liked this movie also. I always thought that Kurt Russel was a good actor.  His "Elvis" was eerily exact.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 20, 2014, 09:34:45 AM
Quote from: Archer on January 20, 2014, 06:24:41 AM
"Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?"

It's amazing that the same guy who directed the first movie, with it's natural, spontaneous acting style, also directed the stilted prequels.

Last movie I watched was The Third Man. One of my all time favorites.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on January 20, 2014, 12:51:06 PM
Quote from: Archer on January 20, 2014, 06:24:41 AM
"Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?"
;D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on January 20, 2014, 01:40:16 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on January 20, 2014, 08:12:23 AM
The Help. It was good, especially since I'm a transplant to the South. I do wonder how much of that mindset still lingers, now that it isn't out in the open and supported by law. Anyway, I'm looking forward to reading the book next.

The book was very good.  I need to see the movie, haven't yet.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on January 20, 2014, 04:16:18 PM
Quote from: Larry on January 20, 2014, 09:34:45 AM
Quote from: Archer on January 20, 2014, 06:24:41 AM
"Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?"

It's amazing that the same guy who directed the first movie, with it's natural, spontaneous acting style, also directed the stilted prequels.

So true.  I heard Harrison Ford ad libbed that scene.  It's one of my favorites - gets me to laugh every time. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on January 20, 2014, 10:45:41 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on January 20, 2014, 09:14:19 AM
Big Trouble in Little China....Directed By the THING Director John Carpenter.
Creepy, funny, not bad effects...classic 80s...and yet didnt look too dated.
Kurt Russel's best role! (yes including snake pliskin)
[yt]....[/yt]

"I never drive faster than I can see"

Hmm.  That's a tough one.  Yes, BTILC is one of his best roles, but he was also great as Wyatt Earp (Tombstone), Captain Ron, and Lt. Cash (Tango&Cash).  I'd take all those roles over Snake Pliskin.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on January 20, 2014, 11:20:29 PM
Apocalypse Now.

Extremely powerful. First time watching it.
NOT for family viewing, it need hardly be said.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 20, 2014, 11:23:55 PM
The Desolation of Smaug
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on January 20, 2014, 11:47:46 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 20, 2014, 11:23:55 PM
The Desolation of Smaug

Your thoughts?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 21, 2014, 12:52:43 AM
Quote from: Archer on January 20, 2014, 11:47:46 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 20, 2014, 11:23:55 PM
The Desolation of Smaug

Your thoughts?

I thought it was great. [spoiler]Mirkwood, and the life-likeness of the spiders, was horrific. I didn't realize Tauriel was Kate from Lost.

Of course, one realizes it's going to drag and that they're stretching things out to make it a trilogy. It's quite difficult to sit for three hours.[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on January 21, 2014, 01:26:37 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 21, 2014, 12:52:43 AM
I thought it was great. [spoiler]Mirkwood, and the life-likeness of the spiders, was horrific. I didn't realize Tauriel was Kate from Lost.

Of course, one realizes it's going to drag and that they're stretching things out to make it a trilogy. It's quite difficult to sit for three hours.[/spoiler]

I'm pretty sure that none of what you put in your spoiler comments are, in fact, spoilers. 

It's funny, but I couldn't see Tauriel as anything BUT Kate from Lost.  I guess I'm just not a big fan of Evangeline Lilly, though I loved Lost and have enjoyed the Hobbit movies for what they are - big budget popcorn flicks.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 21, 2014, 01:36:49 AM
Don't wanna risk it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on January 23, 2014, 09:16:02 AM
Jack Reacher. Usually I can't stand Tom Cruz bu the movie was pretty good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on January 23, 2014, 09:18:08 AM
Won't be seeing Hobbit 2.  Not after Bona's spoiler re: spiders.  Nope nope nope nope nope.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on January 23, 2014, 09:23:58 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 23, 2014, 09:18:08 AM
Won't be seeing Hobbit 2.  Not after Bona's spoiler re: spiders.  Nope nope nope nope nope.

Wuss. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on January 23, 2014, 09:25:10 AM
Quote from: Archer on January 23, 2014, 09:23:58 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 23, 2014, 09:18:08 AM
Won't be seeing Hobbit 2.  Not after Bona's spoiler re: spiders.  Nope nope nope nope nope.

Wuss.

Yep.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on January 23, 2014, 08:45:02 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 23, 2014, 09:25:10 AM
Quote from: Archer on January 23, 2014, 09:23:58 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 23, 2014, 09:18:08 AM
Won't be seeing Hobbit 2.  Not after Bona's spoiler re: spiders.  Nope nope nope nope nope.

Wuss.

Yep.

Peter Jackson's cinematic excretions should be avoided at all costs.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on January 23, 2014, 08:48:09 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on January 23, 2014, 08:45:02 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 23, 2014, 09:25:10 AM
Quote from: Archer on January 23, 2014, 09:23:58 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 23, 2014, 09:18:08 AM
Won't be seeing Hobbit 2.  Not after Bona's spoiler re: spiders.  Nope nope nope nope nope.

Wuss.

Yep.

Peter Jackson's cinematic excretions should be avoided at all costs.

I think we've had this argument before. I agree with you, insofar as they do not accurately represent Tolkien's work. But as Friday night popcorn flicks they are great entertainment.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on January 25, 2014, 03:46:17 PM
The Empire Strikes Back
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on January 25, 2014, 09:48:23 PM
Battle of the Bulge
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on January 25, 2014, 09:52:47 PM
Requiem for A Dream. timeless classic.
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Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on January 25, 2014, 10:15:33 PM
Quote from: Arun on January 25, 2014, 09:52:47 PM
Requiem for A Dream. timeless classic.
This is a very good movie to show older teens and young adults about the dangers of drug abuse..or more broudly abaout ALL kinds of addictions........or would be if there wasn't such violent sexual scenes. Sometimes I wish we could edit movies for ourselves.
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Post by: Arun on January 25, 2014, 10:52:40 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on January 25, 2014, 10:15:33 PM
Quote from: Arun on January 25, 2014, 09:52:47 PM
Requiem for A Dream. timeless classic.
This is a very good movie to show older teens and young adults about the dangers of drug abuse..or more broudly abaout ALL kinds of addictions........or would be if there wasn't such violent sexual scenes. Sometimes I wish we could edit movies for ourselves.

i think that the "a to a" scene is effective precisely because of its shock effect, personally. but yeah good film.
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Post by: Heinrich on January 25, 2014, 10:55:04 PM
I have never even heard of this movie. I guess I need to get out more.
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Post by: Arun on January 25, 2014, 10:56:47 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on January 25, 2014, 10:55:04 PM
I have never even heard of this movie. I guess I need to get out more.

its been around awhile. it's on tubeplus, i think.
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Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on January 25, 2014, 11:02:17 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on January 25, 2014, 10:55:04 PM
I have never even heard of this movie. I guess I need to get out more.
ts harsh but very engrossing....youll never underestimate addictions again.
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Post by: Adeodatus on January 26, 2014, 07:51:28 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on January 25, 2014, 09:48:23 PM
Battle of the Bulge

Any good? What kind of vehicles did they use?
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Post by: Larry on January 26, 2014, 08:55:40 PM
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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Post by: Michael Wilson on January 26, 2014, 09:54:15 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on January 26, 2014, 07:51:28 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on January 25, 2014, 09:48:23 PM
Battle of the Bulge

Any good? What kind of vehicles did they use?
If its the one I saw in the 60's with Henry Fonda; they actually used real tanks; I was too young to tell you if the German tanks were authentic.
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Post by: Maximilian on January 26, 2014, 10:48:19 PM
Hara Kiri. Available on Netflix.

Very beautiful and powerful. Also very violent and disturbing.

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Post by: Mono no aware on January 26, 2014, 11:20:14 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on January 26, 2014, 10:48:19 PM
Hara Kiri. Available on Netflix.

Very beautiful and powerful. Also very violent and disturbing.

+1

It's an excellent film.
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Post by: Habitual_Ritual on January 27, 2014, 06:40:11 AM
Outlander - Jim Caveizel - 2009

Decent movie, some good sfx and some ropey lookin sfx but over-all decent production qaulity.
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Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on January 27, 2014, 07:05:32 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on January 26, 2014, 10:48:19 PM
Hara Kiri. Available on Netflix.

Very beautiful and powerful. Also very violent and disturbing.
which one? 2011...or 1919?
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Post by: Older Salt on January 27, 2014, 08:48:08 AM
"Pride of the Marines" with John Garfield.

Outstanding true story put to a great film
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Post by: Mono no aware on January 27, 2014, 12:50:08 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on January 27, 2014, 07:05:32 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on January 26, 2014, 10:48:19 PM
Hara Kiri. Available on Netflix.

Very beautiful and powerful. Also very violent and disturbing.
which one? 2011...or 1919?

The one I saw was from the 1960s.  I assumed this was the one Maximilian was referring to, but now I realize that there's a 1919 Fritz Lang movie by the same name also available on Netflix.
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Post by: Michael Wilson on January 27, 2014, 04:40:57 PM
Quote from: Older Salt on January 27, 2014, 08:48:08 AM
"Pride of the Marines" with John Garfield.

Outstanding true story put to a great film
Dawg! I saw that a long time ago; that was a great movie.
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Post by: Der Kaiser on January 27, 2014, 06:21:53 PM
Quote from: totiusque on January 18, 2014, 10:44:50 PM
The Great Gatsby

And Rocky IV is far superior to Rocky V.  I can't believe there's even a debate about it.  That is all.

I found The DiCaprio Gatsby to be lacking.
Rocky IV is far better than V, but III is the best!
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Post by: Der Kaiser on January 27, 2014, 06:22:41 PM
Finally saw The Hobbit II last night. Better than the first, but still lame. I will be waiting for the DVD for the third one.
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Post by: Clare on February 01, 2014, 04:07:00 PM
The Return of the Jedi

This must be the fifth time I've seen this film, and I still couldn't remember much about it except the ewoks!
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Post by: Larry on February 01, 2014, 04:56:48 PM
Quote from: Clare on February 01, 2014, 04:07:00 PM
The Return of the Jedi

This must be the fifth time I've seen this film, and I still couldn't remember much about it except the ewoks!

Definitely the weakest of the original trilogy. Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher basically phone in their performances. But the stuff with the Emperor, Vader and Luke is great.
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Post by: Clare on February 01, 2014, 04:59:30 PM
Quote from: Larry on February 01, 2014, 04:56:48 PM
Quote from: Clare on February 01, 2014, 04:07:00 PM
The Return of the Jedi

This must be the fifth time I've seen this film, and I still couldn't remember much about it except the ewoks!

Definitely the weakest of the original trilogy. Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher basically phone in their performances. But the stuff with the Emperor, Vader and Luke is great.
The ending with Vader and Luke was great. I was willing it to end as it did, even though I'd seen it four times already! I last saw it over ten years ago.
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Post by: drummerboy on February 03, 2014, 01:10:37 PM
Les Miserables

Hugh Jackman was great, you couldn't tell that he also plays the insane Wolverine character at all; very flexible actor.
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Post by: Arun on February 03, 2014, 10:03:59 PM
Filth.

one helluva movie...
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Post by: Bernadette on February 03, 2014, 10:21:36 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on February 03, 2014, 01:10:37 PM
Les Miserables

Hugh Jackman was great, you couldn't tell that he also plays the insane Wolverine character at all; very flexible actor.

It was surprisingly good, wasn't it?  :) I loved the book, and couldn't find much fault with the movie except for a couple of scenes. I love redemption stories. :)
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Post by: Sockpuppet on February 03, 2014, 11:01:17 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on February 03, 2014, 10:21:36 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on February 03, 2014, 01:10:37 PM
Les Miserables

Hugh Jackman was great, you couldn't tell that he also plays the insane Wolverine character at all; very flexible actor.

It was surprisingly good, wasn't it?  :) I loved the book, and couldn't find much fault with the movie except for a couple of scenes. I love redemption stories. :)

What's kind of funny is how positively Catholicism comes across in the movie when Victor Hugo wrote the novel as a condemnation of Catholicism.
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Post by: Arun on February 04, 2014, 02:21:44 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on February 03, 2014, 10:21:36 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on February 03, 2014, 01:10:37 PM
Les Miserables

Hugh Jackman was great, you couldn't tell that he also plays the insane Wolverine character at all; very flexible actor.

It was surprisingly good, wasn't it?  :) I loved the book, and couldn't find much fault with the movie except for a couple of scenes. I love redemption stories. :)

i don't really like that sung one. the old one with john malkovich and gerard depardieu was good though.
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Post by: sprungli on February 10, 2014, 09:29:33 AM
About Time.
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Post by: Bernadette on February 10, 2014, 12:51:25 PM
Quote from: Arun on February 04, 2014, 02:21:44 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on February 03, 2014, 10:21:36 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on February 03, 2014, 01:10:37 PM
Les Miserables

Hugh Jackman was great, you couldn't tell that he also plays the insane Wolverine character at all; very flexible actor.

It was surprisingly good, wasn't it?  :) I loved the book, and couldn't find much fault with the movie except for a couple of scenes. I love redemption stories. :)

i don't really like that sung one. the old one with john malkovich and gerard depardieu was good though.

I'd love to see that one, but it looks like Amazon only has an abridged version. I might try the version (with Dutch subtitles ??? ) on youtube.
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Post by: Michael Wilson on February 10, 2014, 05:04:28 PM
I saw the documentary on Archbishop Lefebvre; very well done; it goes through his whole life and has testimonies of his family, the priests that knew him in the Holy Ghost fathers; the people in the missions in Africa, and the priests that were with him from the beginning in the SSPX. I highly recommend this film.  Also, in the "settings" section of the DVD, select "English subtitles", as none of Msgr. Lefebvre's words are voiced over with a translation, so you are listening to him speak in French.
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Post by: drummerboy on February 10, 2014, 09:22:49 PM
Loved that film!
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Post by: Gerard on February 11, 2014, 12:43:52 AM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on February 10, 2014, 05:04:28 PM
I saw the documentary on Archbishop Lefebvre; very well done; it goes through his whole life and has testimonies of his family, the priests that knew him in the Holy Ghost fathers; the people in the missions in Africa, and the priests that were with him from the beginning in the SSPX. I highly recommend this film.  Also, in the "settings" section of the DVD, select "English subtitles", as none of Msgr. Lefebvre's words are voiced over with a translation, so you are listening to him speak in French.

Just curious, does Bishop Williamson appear in any way in the film or is he glossed over completely?
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Post by: Michael Wilson on February 11, 2014, 04:57:53 PM
Quote from: Gerard on February 11, 2014, 12:43:52 AM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on February 10, 2014, 05:04:28 PM
I saw the documentary on Archbishop Lefebvre; very well done; it goes through his whole life and has testimonies of his family, the priests that knew him in the Holy Ghost fathers; the people in the missions in Africa, and the priests that were with him from the beginning in the SSPX. I highly recommend this film.  Also, in the "settings" section of the DVD, select "English subtitles", as none of Msgr. Lefebvre's words are voiced over with a translation, so you are listening to him speak in French.

Just curious, does Bishop Williamson appear in any way in the film or is he glossed over completely?
He appears in the scene of the Consecration of the bishops and looks quite distinguished. But the only bishop that is interviewed in the film is Msgr. Tissier; I believe mainly because he was one of the original seminarians that went to speak to Msgr. Lefebvre in Rome, about taking charge of them.  Fr. Aulangnier also gets a lot of screen time for the same reason. As does the parish priest of Econe.
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Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on February 11, 2014, 05:22:17 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on February 11, 2014, 04:57:53 PM
Quote from: Gerard on February 11, 2014, 12:43:52 AM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on February 10, 2014, 05:04:28 PM
I saw the documentary on Archbishop Lefebvre; very well done; it goes through his whole life and has testimonies of his family, the priests that knew him in the Holy Ghost fathers; the people in the missions in Africa, and the priests that were with him from the beginning in the SSPX. I highly recommend this film.  Also, in the "settings" section of the DVD, select "English subtitles", as none of Msgr. Lefebvre's words are voiced over with a translation, so you are listening to him speak in French.

Just curious, does Bishop Williamson appear in any way in the film or is he glossed over completely?
He appears in the scene of the Consecration of the bishops and looks quite distinguished. But the only bishop that is interviewed in the film is Msgr. Tissier; I believe mainly because he was one of the original seminarians that went to speak to Msgr. Lefebvre in Rome, about taking charge of them.  Fr. Aulangnier also gets a lot of screen time for the same reason. As does the parish priest of Econe.
Is there a link where I could see this?
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Post by: Michael Wilson on February 12, 2014, 05:09:34 PM
V.P. stated
QuoteIs there a link where I could see this? (ref to parts of the C.D.)
I don't know of any; but I haven't looked.
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Post by: Arun on February 15, 2014, 05:56:30 PM
Movie 43. Stupidest f@#king thing I have ever seen. Don't watch it.
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on February 15, 2014, 07:18:52 PM
Star Trek: Into The Darkness, watching it now.
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Post by: Clare on February 16, 2014, 09:49:30 AM
The Phantom Menace
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Post by: Michael Wilson on February 16, 2014, 10:06:35 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on February 11, 2014, 05:22:17 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on February 11, 2014, 04:57:53 PM
Quote from: Gerard on February 11, 2014, 12:43:52 AM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on February 10, 2014, 05:04:28 PM
I saw the documentary on Archbishop Lefebvre; very well done; it goes through his whole life and has testimonies of his family, the priests that knew him in the Holy Ghost fathers; the people in the missions in Africa, and the priests that were with him from the beginning in the SSPX. I highly recommend this film.  Also, in the "settings" section of the DVD, select "English subtitles", as none of Msgr. Lefebvre's words are voiced over with a translation, so you are listening to him speak in French.

Just curious, does Bishop Williamson appear in any way in the film or is he glossed over completely?
He appears in the scene of the Consecration of the bishops and looks quite distinguished. But the only bishop that is interviewed in the film is Msgr. Tissier; I believe mainly because he was one of the original seminarians that went to speak to Msgr. Lefebvre in Rome, about taking charge of them.  Fr. Aulangnier also gets a lot of screen time for the same reason. As does the parish priest of Econe.
Is there a link where I could see this?
Vox,
here is a link to the official trailer on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSY4FqZBVZU
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Post by: RedCaves on February 16, 2014, 12:05:52 PM
Predators

A good sequel to the Predator franchise. :)
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Post by: Habitual_Ritual on February 16, 2014, 12:17:32 PM
Enders Game. Pretty decent take on the book.
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Post by: dueSicilie on February 16, 2014, 02:05:28 PM
Romantics Anonymous (a French movie)
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Post by: Larry on February 16, 2014, 11:20:11 PM
The 1959 Hammer Films version of The Mummy with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
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Post by: Sbyvl36 on February 17, 2014, 11:07:30 AM
From 1948, The Big Clock.  This is one of my favorite movies of all time.
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Post by: Mono no aware on February 17, 2014, 01:26:24 PM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.solovyev.info%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F11%2FSmultronst%25C3%25A4llet.jpg&hash=47119125e72969e763dab98b8b7ad901315b970f)

Wild Strawberries (1957).  Some people's favorite Bergman movie.  Not mine.
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Post by: totiusque on February 18, 2014, 12:14:59 AM
The Lego Movie
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Post by: Clare on February 21, 2014, 04:34:59 PM
Attack of the Clones, of course!
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Post by: MilesChristi on February 21, 2014, 05:55:08 PM
Quote from: Clare on February 21, 2014, 04:34:59 PM
Attack of the Clones, of course!

I am so sorry.

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Post by: Larry on February 21, 2014, 11:07:20 PM
A triple feature on TCM: Cool Hand Luke,The Sunshine Boys, and Going My Way.
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Post by: Heinrich on February 22, 2014, 07:49:26 AM
Nice. Although I have never heard of the last two. Planning to watch Jack Reacher tonight. A classmate from high school has a speaking part in it.
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Post by: Clare on February 22, 2014, 04:53:58 PM
And finally, Revenge of the Sith.
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Post by: piabee on February 23, 2014, 04:52:24 PM
SIDE BY SIDE: The Science, Art and Impact of Digital Cinema. You could make a documentary about paint drying and I would watch it and find it fascinating.
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Post by: Pheo on February 23, 2014, 04:56:10 PM
Quote from: piabee on February 23, 2014, 04:52:24 PM
SIDE BY SIDE: The Science, Art and Impact of Digital Cinema. You could make a documentary about paint drying and I would watch it and find it fascinating.

Watching paint dry is way more exciting than you might have guessed:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW5wB8rJ8Zc[/yt]
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Post by: drummerboy on February 23, 2014, 06:15:57 PM
Dr. Zhivago.  The original 1965 version of course!
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Post by: Heinrich on February 23, 2014, 06:47:43 PM
Jack Reacher. Pretty good. My high school peer did not have a speaking part, but he was in the movie.
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Post by: Gardener on February 23, 2014, 07:08:53 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on February 23, 2014, 06:47:43 PM
Jack Reacher. Pretty good. My high school peer did not have a speaking part, but he was in the movie.

The "hey that's my sister!", "she a good kisser?" Was easily one of the best lines.
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Post by: Archer on February 23, 2014, 08:04:24 PM
Teacher's Pet with Clark Gable and Doris Day. 
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Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on February 24, 2014, 05:05:47 AM
Crazy stupid love...very funny.
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Post by: Heinrich on February 24, 2014, 08:29:49 PM
Quote from: Gardener on February 23, 2014, 07:08:53 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on February 23, 2014, 06:47:43 PM
Jack Reacher. Pretty good. My high school peer did not have a speaking part, but he was in the movie.

The "hey that's my sister!", "she a good kisser?" Was easily one of the best lines.

"Remember. You asked for this."
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Post by: SamVanHouten on February 25, 2014, 05:47:25 AM
Quote from: Arun on February 15, 2014, 05:56:30 PM
Movie 43. Stupidest f@#king thing I have ever seen. Don't watch it.

One of the most vile, puerile "movies" ever put to film. I'm sorry.

Speaking of movies, I've been meaning to see that Spike Jonze movie "Her", where a guy falls in love with his OS. Looks really good.
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Post by: Bernadette on February 27, 2014, 08:07:02 AM
Waking Ned Divine (netflix). Funny, entertaining flick about a couple of guys in Ireland who decide to impersonate a lottery winner in order to claim the prize, after they discover that he died from the shock of winning.
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Post by: RedCaves on February 27, 2014, 10:15:59 AM
Enemy of the State

Watching it after the NSA scandal came out made me feel a bit awkward....

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Post by: tmw89 on February 28, 2014, 07:59:24 AM
Finally got around to re-watching The Godfather Part III for the first time in a long time.  What a confused mess!  Here are a few thoughts on it:

I take no issue with long movies, but from the obviously pained editing it occurred to me that the only reason this film clocked in at ~ 170 minutes was the rationale "because it's a Godfather movie."

Sofia Coppola, so often ridiculed for her bad acting in this final chapter of the saga, was truly the least of the movie's problems.  Great acting by Eli Wallach, however -- so much so that I think he should have been recognized for it.

Al Pacino fades in and out as Michael... sometimes he got back into the character, other times he's just later career Al Pacino.

Connecting the plot to the JP1 nontificate was an interesting move, I'd like to have seen more of it.  But why did the picture go out of the way to tell us it's set in 1979 when P6 & JP1 died in '78?  Odd.

I was very, very surprised Coppola had the nerve to make Michael mention P2.

About 40% of this movie is salvageable, the rest should be cast into fire.
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Post by: Larry on February 28, 2014, 10:39:43 AM
Quote from: tmw89 on February 28, 2014, 07:59:24 AM
Great acting by Eli Wallach, however -- so much so that I think he should have been recognized for it.



He certainly seemed to enjoy his cannoli.
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Post by: Bernadette on March 05, 2014, 07:36:02 PM
TNT's Book of Genesis, narrated by Paul Scofield. Yum.  :)
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Post by: kempff on March 06, 2014, 10:29:29 AM
gosford park
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on March 06, 2014, 10:44:56 AM
Quote from: kempff on March 06, 2014, 10:29:29 AM
gosford park

Loooove that movie.  Precursor to Downton Abbey.
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Post by: kempff on March 06, 2014, 10:48:10 AM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on March 06, 2014, 10:44:56 AM
Quote from: kempff on March 06, 2014, 10:29:29 AM
gosford park

Loooove that movie.  Precursor to Downton Abbey.

"Are you okay?"

"Am I what?"
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Post by: red solo cup on March 07, 2014, 06:36:32 AM
Skyfall
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on March 07, 2014, 07:51:27 AM
Quote from: kempff on March 06, 2014, 10:48:10 AM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on March 06, 2014, 10:44:56 AM
Quote from: kempff on March 06, 2014, 10:29:29 AM
gosford park

Loooove that movie.  Precursor to Downton Abbey.

"Are you okay?"

"Am I what?"

Maggie Smith is awesome.

"What was it called? "The Dodger"? "
"The Lodger. "
"The Lodger. It must be so disappointing when something just *flops* like that. "

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Post by: Habitual_Ritual on March 07, 2014, 08:51:55 AM
Gravity.  V-good.
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Post by: kempff on March 07, 2014, 04:46:10 PM
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on March 07, 2014, 08:51:55 AM
Gravity.  V-good.
Perfect example of what happens when you send a woman to do a man's job.
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Post by: kempff on March 07, 2014, 05:02:26 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on March 07, 2014, 07:51:27 AM
Maggie Smith is awesome.

"What was it called? "The Dodger"? "
"The Lodger. "
"The Lodger. It must be so disappointing when something just *flops* like that. "
"Mabel is so clever to travel light - why should one wear a different frock every evening?"
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Post by: Bonaventure on March 07, 2014, 10:42:20 PM
Her
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Post by: Gerard on March 07, 2014, 10:50:17 PM
Quote from: kempff on March 07, 2014, 05:02:26 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on March 07, 2014, 07:51:27 AM
Maggie Smith is awesome.

"What was it called? "The Dodger"? "
"The Lodger. "
"The Lodger. It must be so disappointing when something just *flops* like that. "
"Mabel is so clever to travel light - why should one wear a different frock every evening?"

Kempff,

Any relation to this Kempff?

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSulR9Fymg[/yt]
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Post by: Gerard on March 07, 2014, 11:03:18 PM
Hamlet via Mystery Science Theater 3000 Hilarious!

The whole thing:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8rxZDB8LNw[/yt]  or highlights: [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eajMQ6Q3-6s[/yt]
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Post by: kempff on March 09, 2014, 01:32:38 AM
Quote from: Gerard on March 07, 2014, 10:50:17 PM
Any relation to this Kempff?
Maybe on Dad's side, not that I know of. But I grew up with W.K.'s & von Karajan's LPs.

Love Kempff's finger-slips. Makes it real.
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Post by: kempff on March 09, 2014, 02:02:08 AM
Quote from: Gerard on March 07, 2014, 11:03:18 PM
Hamlet via Mystery Science Theater 3000 Hilarious!
"Please speak up, my tympanic membrane rotted away some years ago."
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Post by: Arun on March 09, 2014, 04:58:41 AM
splice. sucked. now you see me. sucked worse.

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Post by: Kaesekopf on March 09, 2014, 01:21:12 PM
Now You See Me was all about the Masons and NWO if you believe Vigilant citizen.  (He makes a decent case....)

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Post by: Arun on March 09, 2014, 02:00:39 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on March 09, 2014, 01:21:12 PM
Now You See Me was all about the Masons and NWO if you believe Vigilant citizen.  (He makes a decent case....)

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oh yeah i could get that
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Post by: Kaesekopf on March 09, 2014, 02:37:57 PM
I wasn't a big fan of the movie though.  The only movies I get excited for nowadays are movies with superheroes.  Haha

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Post by: Arun on March 09, 2014, 04:01:01 PM
Renzo Gracie Legacy. awesome.
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Post by: Larry on March 09, 2014, 04:05:32 PM
I started my Lent Biblical/religious films with the Jeffrey Hunter King of Kings, one of my least favorite movies of this genre. But the music and photography are really nice.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: SamVanHouten on March 09, 2014, 04:10:45 PM
Her. It's so original and immaculately written. It deserved that Oscar win for writing 100%.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on March 09, 2014, 05:30:37 PM
Quote from: Arun on March 09, 2014, 04:01:01 PM
Renzo Gracie Legacy. awesome.

Googling it now. Thanks for the tip, hottie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on March 09, 2014, 05:32:29 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on March 09, 2014, 05:30:37 PM
Quote from: Arun on March 09, 2014, 04:01:01 PM
Renzo Gracie Legacy. awesome.

Googling it now. Thanks for the tip, hottie.

alguds mate. its a documentary film, hopefully you like it. just a heads up theres some swear words.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on March 09, 2014, 06:05:14 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on March 09, 2014, 02:37:57 PM
I wasn't a big fan of the movie though.  The only movies I get excited for nowadays are movies with superheroes.  Haha

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For real?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on March 09, 2014, 06:10:53 PM
Yeah.  The stuff marvel has been putting out have been really good.   Or at least entertaining.   

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on March 10, 2014, 12:41:41 AM
Quote from: SamVanHouten on March 09, 2014, 04:10:45 PM
Her. It's so original and immaculately written. It deserved that Oscar win for writing 100%.

It was great. Certainly underrated.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on March 10, 2014, 04:44:52 PM
Quote from: Archer on March 09, 2014, 06:05:14 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on March 09, 2014, 02:37:57 PM
I wasn't a big fan of the movie though.  The only movies I get excited for nowadays are movies with superheroes.  Haha

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For real?

Same here. It's been years since I went to a movie theater to see something that wasn't either based on a comic, The Hobbit, or was a Tarantino film.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on March 10, 2014, 06:00:45 PM
Prior to the Hobbit movies the last movie I saw in theaters was probably Inception (excellent movie btw). I don't get out a whole lot...kids.

Other than the latest Batman movies which were fantastic, Superhero movies really don't do a whole lot for me.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 10, 2014, 06:38:45 PM
Quote from: Archer on March 10, 2014, 06:00:45 PM
Prior to the Hobbit movies the last movie I saw in theaters was probably Inception (excellent movie btw). I don't get out a whole lot...kids.

Other than the latest Batman movies which were fantastic, Superhero movies really don't do a whole lot for me.
I saw gravity in 3d....more of an experience than a story though. Kinda of like a space Poseidon adventure for one.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on March 10, 2014, 07:01:06 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 10, 2014, 06:38:45 PM
Quote from: Archer on March 10, 2014, 06:00:45 PM
Prior to the Hobbit movies the last movie I saw in theaters was probably Inception (excellent movie btw). I don't get out a whole lot...kids.

Other than the latest Batman movies which were fantastic, Superhero movies really don't do a whole lot for me.
I saw gravity in 3d....more of an experience than a story though. Kinda of like a space Poseidon adventure for one.

I heard mixed reviews on that one.  Haven't seen it myself yet. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 11, 2014, 08:11:18 AM
Quote from: Archer on March 10, 2014, 07:01:06 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 10, 2014, 06:38:45 PM
Quote from: Archer on March 10, 2014, 06:00:45 PM
Prior to the Hobbit movies the last movie I saw in theaters was probably Inception (excellent movie btw). I don't get out a whole lot...kids.

Other than the latest Batman movies which were fantastic, Superhero movies really don't do a whole lot for me.
I saw gravity in 3d....more of an experience than a story though. Kinda of like a space Poseidon adventure for one.

I heard mixed reviews on that one.  Haven't seen it myself yet.
If you cant see it un 3d there is no point
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Wicked Papist on March 11, 2014, 08:20:55 PM
Last four movies I saw:
Akira
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds
Howl's Moving Castle
Wolf Children: Ame and Yuki
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on March 11, 2014, 09:43:15 PM
In a World...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on March 11, 2014, 10:19:44 PM
Quote from: Wicked Papist on March 11, 2014, 08:20:55 PM

Howl's Moving Castle


I've been meaning to watch this again. I think there might be more there than I first realized. The anti-war message comes to dominate the movie and make it hard to focus on the other aspects. I don't object to the anti-war message per se, but I think the "moving castle" might be an interesting metaphor for the soul which got lost when the anti-war stuff was tacked on. Also, I want to find a version of it that is subbed instead of dubbed so that I don't have to listen to Billy Crystal.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 12, 2014, 05:46:34 AM
Quote from: Wicked Papist on March 11, 2014, 08:20:55 PM
Last four movies I saw:
Akira
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds
Howl's Moving Castle
Wolf Children: Ame and Yuki
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2Fthumb%2Fd%2Fd6%2FShingeki_no_Kyojin_manga_volume_1.jpg%2F230px-Shingeki_no_Kyojin_manga_volume_1.jpg&hash=d5e73244470c0ef6d794c680291f90944cd2ec21)
Attack on Titan (????? Shingeki no Kyojin?, lit. "Advancing Giants")
Best Anime series Ive ever watched! (1st season free on netflix)
Wiki:
It is set in a world where humanity lives inside cities surrounded by enormous walls due to the Titans, gigantic humanoid creatures who devour humans seemingly without reason. The story centers on Eren Yeager, his adoptive sister Mikasa Ackerman, and their friend Armin Arlert, whose lives are changed forever after the appearance of a Colossus Titan brings about the destruction of their home town and the death of Ere.
The acting is overdone of course but the animation is world class...and the storyline is fantastic. Twists and turns. It is a mix of drama-scifi-and horror. The benal nature of the creatures and their facial expressions are fascinateinglly disturbing. There are some really intelligent meditations on courage and grace under pressure.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Wicked Papist on March 12, 2014, 10:37:08 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on March 11, 2014, 10:19:44 PM
Quote from: Wicked Papist on March 11, 2014, 08:20:55 PM

Howl's Moving Castle


I've been meaning to watch this again. I think there might be more there than I first realized. The anti-war message comes to dominate the movie and make it hard to focus on the other aspects. I don't object to the anti-war message per se, but I think the "moving castle" might be an interesting metaphor for the soul which got lost when the anti-war stuff was tacked on. Also, I want to find a version of it that is subbed instead of dubbed so that I don't have to listen to Billy Crystal.

Just Google "howl's moving castle english subbed."  I watched it with subs.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on March 12, 2014, 07:35:04 PM
A Man for All Seasons.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on March 12, 2014, 11:18:16 PM
Quote from: Larry on March 12, 2014, 07:35:04 PM
A Man for All Seasons.

I re-watched this before, as well. 

I like this quote, though I know it lacks a bit...
Quote"And when have gone to Heaven for following your conscience," More replies, "and I have gone to Hell for not following mine, will you come with me — for fellowship?"
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on March 13, 2014, 05:23:34 AM
Out of the Furnace - Christian Bale and Woody Harelson. Most excellent.

One of the few movies I've seen get 5 stars on Amazon.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on March 13, 2014, 11:53:13 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on March 12, 2014, 11:18:16 PM
Quote from: Larry on March 12, 2014, 07:35:04 PM
A Man for All Seasons.

I re-watched this before, as well. 

I like this quote, though I know it lacks a bit...
Quote"And when have gone to Heaven for following your conscience," More replies, "and I have gone to Hell for not following mine, will you come with me — for fellowship?"

My favorite line:
Quote"Richard,it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales..."

Really an incredible movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on March 13, 2014, 01:45:38 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on March 12, 2014, 11:18:16 PM
Quote"And when have gone to Heaven for following your conscience," More replies, "and I have gone to Hell for not following mine, will you come with me — for fellowship?"

My favorite quote out of that movie.  I wish I could find out if More actually said something like that quote.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on March 13, 2014, 01:50:18 PM
I remember yelling "It is a deadly canker in the body politic AND I WILL HAVE IT OUT!!!" as a child and not understanding at all what it meant.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 13, 2014, 05:27:00 PM
Sunset blvd
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTT0LW0M_Y[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on March 13, 2014, 05:54:32 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 13, 2014, 05:27:00 PM
Sunset blvd
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTT0LW0M_Y[/yt]

Another great, great movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 13, 2014, 06:09:38 PM
Quote from: Larry on March 13, 2014, 05:54:32 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 13, 2014, 05:27:00 PM
Sunset blvd
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTT0LW0M_Y[/yt]

Another great, great movie.
Yes I was surprised...although if I was in William Holdens (batchelor) position I wouldn't have griped a peep...I mean what the heck did he want?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on March 13, 2014, 08:32:32 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 13, 2014, 06:09:38 PM
Quote from: Larry on March 13, 2014, 05:54:32 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 13, 2014, 05:27:00 PM
Sunset blvd
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTT0LW0M_Y[/yt]

Another great, great movie.
Yes I was surprised...although if I was in William Holdens (batchelor) position I wouldn't have griped a peep...I mean what the heck did he want?

Artie's girlfriend.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 13, 2014, 10:16:35 PM
Classic case of overreaching getting you killed
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on March 14, 2014, 05:28:45 AM
Oldboy. Sick.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on March 14, 2014, 11:30:53 AM
Since I only had 45 minutes... Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog (42 minute running time). More amusing than I expected... I don't usually enjoy comedies (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead being my favorite).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on March 14, 2014, 01:23:23 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 13, 2014, 05:27:00 PM
Sunset blvd
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTT0LW0M_Y[/yt]

Always makes me think of the Carol Burnett version. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 14, 2014, 02:58:59 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on March 14, 2014, 01:23:23 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on March 13, 2014, 05:27:00 PM
Sunset blvd
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTT0LW0M_Y[/yt]

Always makes me think of the Carol Burnett version.
I know...I only saw the carol burnett skit before I watched it and it kind of made the movie lughable and a parody of itself...weird.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on March 14, 2014, 04:13:36 PM
I read the book on the making of Sunset Boulevard, and Billy Wilder did intend the movie to be a dark comedy. So it is sort of funny even without Carol Burnett, but also very sad and disturbing at the same time.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on March 14, 2014, 06:04:16 PM
Twelve Years a Slave
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on March 14, 2014, 07:43:18 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on March 14, 2014, 05:28:45 AM
Oldboy. Sick.

yeah that plot twist was unsettling eh.

just watched "cheap thrills" its alright.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on March 15, 2014, 02:10:18 AM
Take a wild guess.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on March 15, 2014, 04:17:07 AM
Quote from: piabee on March 15, 2014, 02:10:18 AM
Take a wild guess.

huh?

guess mine too but i give you a clue; theres only eight people in greenland, its a good palce to find a thumb...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on March 15, 2014, 09:39:59 AM
That's too easy. It's Veronica Mars.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on March 15, 2014, 11:40:49 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on March 15, 2014, 09:39:59 AM
That's too easy. It's Veronica Mars.

What did you think?

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on March 15, 2014, 01:53:05 PM
It was definitely enjoyable for fans. I want to see it again with friends who haven't watched the show. The biggest thing that bugged was that it sounded different. That's the difference between mixing for a movie theater and for dvds played on a laptop but it changed the atmosphere and it was tough to get past. I couldn't decide if it wanted to be a long episode or a short season. Logan was also missing a bit of his light-hearted quirkiness but all the characters were in a good place at the beginning and the end (for those who evolved during the story). I'm sure I will be watching it many more times and my opinion could change. But a solid A overall. They set up some intriguing plot points for a sequel (fingers crossed!). [spoiler]RIP Sachs.[/spoiler]

Edited to fix phone typos.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on March 15, 2014, 03:10:30 PM
Good! I enjoyed the series. My daughter saw it last night too and loved it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: verenaerin on March 15, 2014, 04:42:28 PM
Ugh, I want to see it so bad. But Mr. T is working the weekend. Maybe I will see it on Monday.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: verenaerin on March 15, 2014, 04:57:06 PM
Apparently I won't be seeing it, it is only in select cities. Tiny town in the middle of nowhere, PA was not selected.


:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on March 15, 2014, 04:57:31 PM
Quote from: verenaerin on March 15, 2014, 04:42:28 PM
But Mr. T is working the weekend.

oh, man. i pity the fool...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on March 15, 2014, 06:24:02 PM
Quote from: verenaerin on March 15, 2014, 04:57:06 PM
Apparently I won't be seeing it, it is only in select cities. Tiny town in the middle of nowhere, PA was not selected.

They released it to download and rent online yesterday, too, for fans in exactly your situation!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: SamVanHouten on March 16, 2014, 04:56:37 AM
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Beautifully written, beautifully acted. It's very much a break-up movie, despite what people will have you think.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on March 16, 2014, 04:51:48 PM
The Agony and the Ecstasy. Great performances from Rex Harrison and Chuck Heston.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: verenaerin on March 16, 2014, 07:32:22 PM
Quote from: piabee on March 15, 2014, 06:24:02 PM
Quote from: verenaerin on March 15, 2014, 04:57:06 PM
Apparently I won't be seeing it, it is only in select cities. Tiny town in the middle of nowhere, PA was not selected.

They released it to download and rent online yesterday, too, for fans in exactly your situation!

Awesome! That is perfect. I would have never looked into it. Thanks for the heads up! :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on March 21, 2014, 05:31:26 AM
The Grand Exotic Marigold Hotel. This had everybody in it. Maggie Smith. Judi Dench. The gal who played Mathew's mother  on Downton Abbey.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: ChristConquers on March 21, 2014, 10:10:43 AM
La Dolce Vita.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 21, 2014, 02:45:35 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on March 21, 2014, 05:31:26 AM
The Grand Exotic Marigold Hotel. This had everybody in it. Maggie Smith. Judi Dench. The gal who played Mathew's mother  on Downton Abbey.
Theres very little beautifull about India after watching this Netflix episode of 'An Idiot abroad."
http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70297418&trkid=7882979&t=An+Idiot+Abroad%3A+Ssn+1%3A+India (http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70297418&trkid=7882979&t=An+Idiot+Abroad%3A+Ssn+1%3A+India)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on March 21, 2014, 06:47:49 PM
Watching XMen. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on March 22, 2014, 06:13:08 PM
Movie weekend.  Finished XMen and am on to The King's Speech. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on March 23, 2014, 10:12:01 AM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on March 22, 2014, 06:13:08 PM
Movie weekend.  Finished XMen and am on to The King's Speech.

On to A Man for All Seasons
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on March 23, 2014, 10:22:20 AM
Saving Mr Banks. Actually very good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on March 23, 2014, 12:42:20 PM
Quo Vadis with Peter Ustinov as Nero.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on March 23, 2014, 04:28:20 PM
Rat (Netflix). Fun movie about a guy who comes home from the pub and turns into a rat.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on March 24, 2014, 06:18:14 PM
The Wind Rises. Excellent.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on March 24, 2014, 07:12:04 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on March 24, 2014, 06:18:14 PM
The Wind Rises. Excellent.


I want to see that.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on March 24, 2014, 07:14:06 PM
Wall Street
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on March 25, 2014, 11:24:28 AM
Quote from: Larry on March 23, 2014, 12:42:20 PM
Quo Vadis with Peter Ustinov as Nero.

Ustinov has some of the best scenes in Spartacus - he manages to steal scenes from Charles Laughten and Laurence Olivier. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on March 25, 2014, 12:31:31 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on March 25, 2014, 11:24:28 AM
Quote from: Larry on March 23, 2014, 12:42:20 PM
Quo Vadis with Peter Ustinov as Nero.

Ustinov has some of the best scenes in Spartacus - he manages to steal scenes from Charles Laughten and Laurence Olivier.

He's a scene stealer in Quo Vadis too. He plays a despicable character, but you can't help but feel sorry for him.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on March 28, 2014, 01:32:09 PM
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on March 28, 2014, 01:42:03 PM
Mansfield Park. Great movie
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on March 28, 2014, 03:07:59 PM
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/churchofthemasses/2014/03/the-utter-embarrassing-mess-of-noah-and-why-everybody-is-lying-about-it/ (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/churchofthemasses/2014/03/the-utter-embarrassing-mess-of-noah-and-why-everybody-is-lying-about-it/)
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fblogs%2Fchurchofthemasses%2Ffiles%2F2014%2F03%2Frussell-crowe-as-noah-014-noah-s-russell-crowe-says-that-banning-was-to-be-expected-300x180.jpg&hash=ebe82759459ba8e813c18bd13509024470c868aa)

Well Im not gonna see NOAH (im not at all surprised)

QuoteLet me just start by saying two words which you can accept as fair warning to avoid this stupidest movie in years: Rock People.
Need more?
Tragiclly, as Western Civilization continues to decay all around us, one thing remains unmuddled: everything is politics. And nowhere is that more true than in media. The same polarization that fired Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty and then got him rehired, and made Mel Gibson $600 million, and then lost him his Hollywood career, and made half the world want to canonize Roman Polanski with the other half wanting him castrated — these are the same social causes propelling the embarrassingly awful horribleness of Darren Aronofsky's Noah, into an 76% fresh rating from the shameless, agenda-driven critics at RottenTomatoes.com, and setting so many Christian leaders and critics into shilling for the same. Please, stop the madness. It is astounding to me how Christians can be lured into a defense of the indefensible because they are so afraid of the charge of "unreasonablenes." Trying so hard to be nice, we end up being patsies for people who have no other agenda than to make money off of us.
Oh yeah. And ROCK PEOPLE.
Honestly, there is so little that is Biblical in the piece that it isn't even worth critiquing it as an irreverent adaptation. If the Bible was an original writer of the material, the WGA wouldn't even insist on it getting a shared story credit with Aronofsky. It isn't an adaptation in any serious sense of that term. There is a boat, a flood, and a guy named Noah in both pieces, and that is all they have in common.
Noah is a terrible, terrible movie. I kept thinking all through, "Wow. The secular critics hate Christians this much. They hate the Christians so much, that they will rave about this piece of crap because they think the Christians are going to hate it for ideological reasons." And the Christian critics? Well, too many have been all balled up in the throes of self-loathing for at least a decade, which leads them to depths of self-contradiction in their popular culture appraisals that never seems to have a bottom. As soon as the momentum around this picture as offensive Scripturally began to go – and it is clear that this was generated intentionally by the studio and PR people promoting Noah – the Christians felt themselves double-dared to show themselves "enlightened" enough to embrace the movie even as it spits in their eye in every way – as an adaptation of Scripture, as a work of cinema, and as a plain old story. Remember when so many Christians felt the need to embrace the neo-porn mess, The Master? I remember one guy insisting that it was the best film of the decade. It wasn't. It was an offensive, puerile mess. And remember when we were all told to go see The Da Vinci Code to promote "dialogue." What a crock! In this case, the insane need to embrace modern sewage has the critics swallowing huge, gargantuan portions of ROCK PEOPLE!
Where was I? Oh yes, Noah is a terrible, terrible movie. As a story, it doesn't attain to the level of the worst of the cheesy Biblical movies made in the fifties. Aronofsky broke the first and sacred rule of storytelling: you have to make the audience care. We never cared about Noah even after he was kind to a wounded, half dog – half snake. (No, that wasn't a mistake.) We never cared for any of the characters. I kept hearing people say this movie is deep. It isn't. It is psychologically pedestrian. The only emotion the movie elicited in me was laughs of scorn. The script is problematic in every way in which a script can be problematic. Bad characterizations – no complex personalities, just stereotypes. Unmotivated choices abound. No imagery or story subtext. Huge story problems requiring ark-sized suspension of disbelief. Earnest, oh so earnest, dialogue with every syllable on-the-tedious-nose. Awkward transitions. Completely missing a coherent theme. Embarrassing soap-operaish holds on actors looking tense or worried or just staring ahead trying to convey lostness and doubt. And the fakest, funniest looking, plastic green snake used repeatedly to indicate badness.
It's so dumb, I can't even write a serious review. Seems likely the studio purposely created and then drove all the controversy around the movie because they knew they had a dog. They're hoping they can have a huge opening weekend because as soon as word gets out that this is a dull, idiotic waste, it's going to drop like a rock person next weekend.
Here is a short list of some of the stupid story problems in Nooah: (Is it possible to spoil a rotten thing? Well, be warned anyway...)
- Some of the angels felt compassion for Adam and Eve. God was so petulant and wrathful that he turned those angels into rock people. Then, human beings killed most of the rock people somehow. So, the rock people hate humans. But they take a hankering to Noah for no reason and build the ark for him.
- Noah chides his son for ending the life of a teeny wildflower. And then he cuts down an entire forest to build his ark.
- We are told that the cities are centers of technology, but when we see the cities close up, they are just tents and unwashed people with really bad hair. You would think if they were so advanced they might have invented shampoo.
- It starts to rain, and five minutes later, Tubal Cain attacks the ark with an army of thousands and thousands. That's a great general!
- The evil city people believe it is the apocalypse within seconds of the first drops of rain.
- Tubal-Cain hides on the ark -unknown to Noah – for nine months. He stays hidden despite the fact that he is eating the animals raw to keep up his strength. There went all the unicorns, I guess.
- The animals are lulled to deep sleep by a herbal smoke potion. But it has no effect on the humans.
- Noah spends nine months firmly entrenched in his plan to murder his grandchildren at their birth. He's intractable and insane in his conviction that this is what God wants. But then, when he is about to stick the knife in the children, he just changes his mind. Unmotivated choice.
- Five minutes after they emerge onto the new land, Noah makes himself a winery and gets crazy drunk and naked. It's not clear if he is angry at "The Creator" or angry at himself or just an introvert who suddenly has nothing to do.
- ROCK PEOPLE. ROCK PEOPLE. ROCK PEOPLE.
I was looking forward to the effects, but, really, the movie storytelling is so bad, that the effects fall flat. The score is over the top and intrusive. It is striving so transparently to make up for the lack of emotion in the picture that it repeatedly calls attention to itself, in the worst way.
Oh yeah, and there is a ton of annoying, superior liberal preaching about how we should all be vegetarians, and that technology and cities are innately bad because they hurt the planet. Dumb, oversimplified liberal utopia nonsense. But it barely offended me because I was so much mre offended by the terrible story craft in the piece.
Stay far away and save your money. Rent The Ten Commandments for the weekend. Or Ben Hur. Or even a bad Biblical movie like The Robe. Any of them are a thousand times better than this piece of pretentious, over-hyped garbage.
Galaxy Quest called. They want their rock people back.
Anybody who says Christians need to see the movie to promote dialogue is being a tool. Anybody who says the movie is visionary is jumping on an Emperor has No Clothes bandwagon. Any pastor who creates a sermon to coincide with this awful piece is being played for a sucker. And the Christians who are promoting the film for money should be ASHAMED of themselves. Really, how dare you?
P.S. rock people
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on March 28, 2014, 03:28:38 PM
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on March 28, 2014, 01:42:03 PM
Mansfield Park. Great movie


You need a link. There have been lots of versions of Mansfield Park.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on March 28, 2014, 07:44:49 PM
The Passion of Joan of Arc. As powerful in its own way as Gibson's movie about Our Lord's Passion.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on March 29, 2014, 07:55:53 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on March 28, 2014, 03:28:38 PM
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on March 28, 2014, 01:42:03 PM
Mansfield Park. Great movie


You need a link. There have been lots of versions of Mansfield Park.

1999 with Frances O'Connor
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on March 30, 2014, 01:04:21 PM
The Gospel of John. I heard good things about this, so was a bit disappointed in it. The New English version of the Bible was used, so instead of "The Word Became Flesh", we get "He became a human being". There are some good things about it, but I was expecting a better movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on March 30, 2014, 01:24:30 PM
Quote from: Larry on March 30, 2014, 01:04:21 PM
The Gospel of John. I heard good things about this, so was a bit disappointed in it. The New English version of the Bible was used, so instead of "The Word Became Flesh", we get "He became a human being". There are some good things about it, but I was expecting a better movie.

If you want to absolutely rage, read the first chapter of St. John's Gospel in "The Message" version of the "Bible" (I deny such things to be proper Bibles, hence the quotes)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on March 30, 2014, 01:38:32 PM
Quote from: Larry on March 30, 2014, 01:04:21 PM
The Gospel of John. I heard good things about this, so was a bit disappointed in it. The New English version of the Bible was used, so instead of "The Word Became Flesh", we get "He became a human being". There are some good things about it, but I was expecting a better movie.

That movie was actually a gateway to me exploring Christianity and taking it seriously on my own terms. It was when I was a freshman in high school or so. I remember walking all the way to the movie theater and back. I'm sure I could nitpick it to hell if I were to watch it again, but I was quite moved by it the first time around.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Christknight104 on March 30, 2014, 04:06:01 PM
Divergent and American Hustle.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on March 30, 2014, 06:02:45 PM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on March 30, 2014, 01:38:32 PM
Quote from: Larry on March 30, 2014, 01:04:21 PM
The Gospel of John. I heard good things about this, so was a bit disappointed in it. The New English version of the Bible was used, so instead of "The Word Became Flesh", we get "He became a human being". There are some good things about it, but I was expecting a better movie.

That movie was actually a gateway to me exploring Christianity and taking it seriously on my own terms. It was when I was a freshman in high school or so. I remember walking all the way to the movie theater and back. I'm sure I could nitpick it to hell if I were to watch it again, but I was quite moved by it the first time around.

I could see it having that effect on someone. The healing of the blind man, Our Lord's clashes with the scribes, the resurrection appearances, were all very well done. The actor who portrayed Christ was good.  I was just expecting a better artistic experience, as I remember many comparing it favorably to more accomplished cinematic versions of Our Lord's life when it was released.
I watched Pasolini's The Gospel According to Matthew this afternoon. A beautiful movie, but definitely not for all tastes.

ETA: Two things that I really appreciated in The Gospel According to John were the wedding feast at Cana(Our Lady was portrayed very well), and the "I am the Bread of Life" discourse. I don't know how anyone could watch that scene and not understand that Our Lord is truly present in the Eucharist. The movie will probably grow on me in subsequent viewings. Whenever my mind builds up an expectation for a book or film, I'm usually disappointed on my initial viewing. I learn to appreciate it later.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on March 30, 2014, 06:31:57 PM
Quote from: Larry on March 30, 2014, 01:04:21 PM
The Gospel of John. I heard good things about this, so was a bit disappointed in it. The New English version of the Bible was used, so instead of "The Word Became Flesh", we get "He became a human being". There are some good things about it, but I was expecting a better movie.
Where did you see this?

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on March 30, 2014, 06:48:12 PM
Quote from: Lynne on March 30, 2014, 06:31:57 PM
Quote from: Larry on March 30, 2014, 01:04:21 PM
The Gospel of John. I heard good things about this, so was a bit disappointed in it. The New English version of the Bible was used, so instead of "The Word Became Flesh", we get "He became a human being". There are some good things about it, but I was expecting a better movie.
Where did you see this?

Sent from my KFTT using Tapatalk 2

I bought the DVD from Amazon. I don't know if Netflix carries it or not.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on March 31, 2014, 02:59:21 AM
I Spit On Your Grave. absolute shite. why did i even bother...?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on March 31, 2014, 06:54:20 AM
Quote from: Arun on March 31, 2014, 02:59:21 AM
I Spit On Your Grave. absolute shite. why did i even bother...?

One of the most disturbing movies ever made. I always thought that Roger Ebert's review was very apt.

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/i-spit-on-your-grave-1980
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on March 31, 2014, 03:42:34 PM
oh nah i watched the 2012 remake of it, not the original one.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on March 31, 2014, 04:23:56 PM
Quote from: Arun on March 31, 2014, 03:42:34 PM
oh nah i watched the 2012 remake of it, not the original one.

I never knew there was a remake. That's what happens when you get old.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on March 31, 2014, 07:37:56 PM
i think there was a sequel last year too...

still it could be worse. i was given a copy of the plot to read of a film which was being protested a while ago called "A Serbian Film". i don't know how anybody could possibly find that entertaining.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on April 03, 2014, 11:09:45 PM
Captain America 2.

It was good and enjoyable. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on April 03, 2014, 11:15:21 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 03, 2014, 11:09:45 PM
Captain America 2.

It was good and enjoyable.

http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/L13TESTE.HTM


:popcorn:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on April 04, 2014, 09:49:03 AM
:lol:

It was really good.  Everyone should see it.  The marvel cinematic universe is amazing.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on April 05, 2014, 04:36:24 PM
I just saw Captain America 2 as well. It was great.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Francisco Suárez on April 05, 2014, 10:57:39 PM
Kelly's Heroes. It's a classic.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on April 06, 2014, 12:48:34 AM
Captain America 2. An excellent film.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Petrie on April 06, 2014, 08:59:46 AM
unfortunately, noah
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on April 07, 2014, 10:37:05 AM
Quote from: Petrie on April 06, 2014, 08:59:46 AM
unfortunately, noah
so youll pay money to see a movie that was known to blaspheme God...but you wont go to a TLM that mentions Francis?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on April 07, 2014, 10:43:33 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on April 07, 2014, 10:37:05 AM
Quote from: Petrie on April 06, 2014, 08:59:46 AM
unfortunately, noah
so youll pay money to see a movie that was known to blaspheme God...but you wont go to a TLM that mentions Francis?

Leave her alone, Voxx.

Last film I saw was Ghosthouse (1987).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Petrie on April 07, 2014, 03:11:49 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on April 07, 2014, 10:37:05 AM
Quote from: Petrie on April 06, 2014, 08:59:46 AM
unfortunately, noah
so youll pay money to see a movie that was known to blaspheme God...but you wont go to a TLM that mentions Francis?

Again, when did the Church (or a priest) tell me that I shouldn't see the movie Voxx?  Or is a random movie reviewer have more pull for you than say a sedevacantist priest?

And PS.  I haven't decided on the una cum issue, so I don't know where you get off telling me what I will or won't do.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on April 07, 2014, 03:20:36 PM
Fistful of Dollars, before that Captain América 2.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on April 07, 2014, 05:17:32 PM
I watched The Greatest Story Ever Told, which is one of the weakest depictions of the life of Our Lord on film. But it still has beautiful photography and scenery. This film, as long as it is, was actually butchered before release. I wonder if George Stevens original version would be better?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on April 07, 2014, 06:21:44 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on April 06, 2014, 12:48:34 AM
Captain America 2. An excellent film.

So good.  Very enjoyable.

I kind of want to see it again.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on April 07, 2014, 08:11:05 PM
Quote from: Petrie on April 07, 2014, 03:11:49 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on April 07, 2014, 10:37:05 AM
Quote from: Petrie on April 06, 2014, 08:59:46 AM
unfortunately, noah
so youll pay money to see a movie that was known to blaspheme God...but you wont go to a TLM that mentions Francis?

Again, when did the Church (or a priest) tell me that I shouldn't see the movie Voxx?  Or is a random movie reviewer have more pull for you than say a sedevacantist priest?

And PS.  I haven't decided on the una cum issue, so I don't know where you get off telling me what I will or won't do.
your right I was being snarky...sorry.
And I didnt know you are a lady...doubly sorry
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Petrie on April 08, 2014, 03:11:28 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on April 07, 2014, 08:11:05 PM
Quote from: Petrie on April 07, 2014, 03:11:49 PM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on April 07, 2014, 10:37:05 AM
Quote from: Petrie on April 06, 2014, 08:59:46 AM
unfortunately, noah
so youll pay money to see a movie that was known to blaspheme God...but you wont go to a TLM that mentions Francis?

Again, when did the Church (or a priest) tell me that I shouldn't see the movie Voxx?  Or is a random movie reviewer have more pull for you than say a sedevacantist priest?

And PS.  I haven't decided on the una cum issue, so I don't know where you get off telling me what I will or won't do.
your right I was being snarky...sorry.
And I didnt know you are a lady...doubly sorry

Thanks voxx (although your apology because I am a lady was totally unnecessary).  I'm sorry that we seem to be butting heads lately.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on April 08, 2014, 04:06:35 AM
Im on a grinding work schedule right now and I get irracible...well um ...more so than usual ;D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on April 08, 2014, 11:27:23 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 07, 2014, 06:21:44 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on April 06, 2014, 12:48:34 AM
Captain America 2. An excellent film.

So good.  Very enjoyable.

I kind of want to see it again.

I might go see it tonight.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on April 08, 2014, 11:30:23 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on April 08, 2014, 04:06:35 AM
Im on a grinding work schedule right now and I get irracible...well um ...more so than usual ;D

Feast or famine, eh? I'm glad you're busy, even if irascible...  :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Elizabeth on April 08, 2014, 04:38:10 PM
Last night we watched The Passion of the Christ; have not done so for a few years.

It is still wonderful for meditating on the Sorrowful Mysteries, but the BVM is still so wrong.

Our Lady should have been much, much more beautiful and younger with delicate gestures. 

Still the best Christ, St. John, Pontius Pilate, and Satan and everybody else, really.  All in all, a good thing for the kids and I on a Lenten school night to cry for the love of Our Lord. 

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Petrie on April 08, 2014, 05:10:33 PM
Quote from: Elizabeth on April 08, 2014, 04:38:10 PM
Last night we watched The Passion of the Christ; have not done so for a few years.

It is still wonderful for meditating on the Sorrowful Mysteries, but the BVM is still so wrong.

Our Lady should have been much, much more beautiful and younger with delicate gestures. 

Still the best Christ, St. John, Pontius Pilate, and Satan and everybody else, really.  All in all, a good thing for the kids and I on a Lenten school night to cry for the love of Our Lord.
I liked this Mary, but my fave is Mary from Jesus of Nazareth.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on April 08, 2014, 05:49:43 PM
Quote from: Elizabeth on April 08, 2014, 04:38:10 PM
Last night we watched The Passion of the Christ; have not done so for a few years.

It is still wonderful for meditating on the Sorrowful Mysteries, but the BVM is still so wrong.

Our Lady should have been much, much more beautiful and younger with delicate gestures. 


I think she was very pretty, and how could she possibly be any younger? Late 40s is totally appropriate.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on April 08, 2014, 06:01:46 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on April 08, 2014, 05:49:43 PM
Quote from: Elizabeth on April 08, 2014, 04:38:10 PM
Our Lady should have been much, much more beautiful and younger with delicate gestures. 

I think she was very pretty, and how could she possibly be any younger? Late 40s is totally appropriate.

I agree with you that the actress was appropriate, but it would've been a creative and provocative choice to have a younger (and transcendentally beautiful) actress in the role, since the curse of Original Sin is death and, by extension, the decay of age.  Our Lady being conceived without sin, it's frequently been presumed that she suffered no decay of age.  In most of the traditional artistic representations, she is usually kind of "ageless" in a way: not necessarily young, but certainly not old either.  Had Mel Gibson cast an obviously young actress, it might've been too jarring for modern audiences.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on April 08, 2014, 06:12:34 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 08, 2014, 06:01:46 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on April 08, 2014, 05:49:43 PM
Quote from: Elizabeth on April 08, 2014, 04:38:10 PM
Our Lady should have been much, much more beautiful and younger with delicate gestures. 

I think she was very pretty, and how could she possibly be any younger? Late 40s is totally appropriate.

I agree with you that the actress was appropriate, but it would've been a creative and provocative choice to have a younger (and transcendentally beautiful) actress in the role, since the curse of Original Sin is death and, by extension, the decay of age.  Our Lady being conceived without sin, it's frequently been presumed that she suffered no decay of age.  In most of the traditional artistic representations, she is usually kind of "ageless" in a way: not necessarily young, but certainly not old either.  Had Mel Gibson cast an obviously young actress, it might've been too jarring for modern audiences.

Even though it would be appropriate in a way for Our Lady to never age, at the same time, people would have noticed and it would have brought her a lot of attention that she never would have wanted.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on April 08, 2014, 06:25:43 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on April 08, 2014, 06:12:34 PMEven though it would be appropriate in a way for Our Lady to never age, at the same time, people would have noticed and it would have brought her a lot of attention that she never would have wanted.

Agreed.  I think Mel Gibson probably opted to cast an older woman to avoid surprising a modern audience.  He'd already filled the project with enough controversy for one movie.

The really interesting choice, I think, was Satan as a pale human androgyne: a bald female with an overdubbed masculine voice.  Considering the recent nitpicking over the Noah movie, I'm surprised some posters here don't wonder why Satan wasn't a snake, or at least a horned demon with wings.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Roland Deschain2 on April 08, 2014, 06:27:32 PM
Quote from: Elizabeth on April 08, 2014, 04:38:10 PM
Last night we watched The Passion of the Christ; have not done so for a few years.

It is still wonderful for meditating on the Sorrowful Mysteries, but the BVM is still so wrong.

Our Lady should have been much, much more beautiful and younger with delicate gestures. 

Still the best Christ, St. John, Pontius Pilate, and Satan and everybody else, really.  All in all, a good thing for the kids and I on a Lenten school night to cry for the love of Our Lord.

I doubt Our Lady would have stood out at all given Her humility. I'm sure she looked like your typical Jewish woman of the era. Despite our Western renderings, our Lord and the Blessed Mother did not look like blue-eyed Germans.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on April 08, 2014, 06:44:56 PM
Quote from: Roland Deschain2 on April 08, 2014, 06:27:32 PMI doubt Our Lady would have stood out at all given Her humility. I'm sure she looked like your typical Jewish woman of the era. Despite our Western renderings, our Lord and the Blessed Mother did not look like blue-eyed Germans.

Couldn't a beautiful person still perfectly possess the virtue of humility?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on April 08, 2014, 08:38:52 PM
Quote from: piabee on April 08, 2014, 11:27:23 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 07, 2014, 06:21:44 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on April 06, 2014, 12:48:34 AM
Captain America 2. An excellent film.

So good.  Very enjoyable.

I kind of want to see it again.

I might go see it tonight.

Did you see it?  What'd you think?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on April 09, 2014, 02:04:43 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 08, 2014, 08:38:52 PM
Quote from: piabee on April 08, 2014, 11:27:23 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 07, 2014, 06:21:44 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on April 06, 2014, 12:48:34 AM
Captain America 2. An excellent film.

So good.  Very enjoyable.

I kind of want to see it again.

I might go see it tonight.

Did you see it?  What'd you think?

It was very long. Was there another scene after the credits after the scene after the credits?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Petrie on April 09, 2014, 03:24:28 AM
Quote from: Roland Deschain2 on April 08, 2014, 06:27:32 PM
Quote from: Elizabeth on April 08, 2014, 04:38:10 PM
Last night we watched The Passion of the Christ; have not done so for a few years.

It is still wonderful for meditating on the Sorrowful Mysteries, but the BVM is still so wrong.

Our Lady should have been much, much more beautiful and younger with delicate gestures. 

Still the best Christ, St. John, Pontius Pilate, and Satan and everybody else, really.  All in all, a good thing for the kids and I on a Lenten school night to cry for the love of Our Lord.

I doubt Our Lady would have stood out at all given Her humility. I'm sure she looked like your typical Jewish woman of the era. Despite our Western renderings, our Lord and the Blessed Mother did not look like blue-eyed Germans.

Agreed.  I think it's the same reason why Jesus wasn't blonde and blue eyed in Mel's movie.  Generally, Mel Gibson's movie was raw.  There was nothing about it that seemed "beautiful".  It wasn't meant to be so.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Elizabeth on April 09, 2014, 09:04:46 AM
Quote from: erin is nice on April 08, 2014, 06:12:34 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 08, 2014, 06:01:46 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on April 08, 2014, 05:49:43 PM
Quote from: Elizabeth on April 08, 2014, 04:38:10 PM
Our Lady should have been much, much more beautiful and younger with delicate gestures. 

I think she was very pretty, and how could she possibly be any younger? Late 40s is totally appropriate.

I agree with you that the actress was appropriate, but it would've been a creative and provocative choice to have a younger (and transcendentally beautiful) actress in the role, since the curse of Original Sin is death and, by extension, the decay of age.  Our Lady being conceived without sin, it's frequently been presumed that she suffered no decay of age.  In most of the traditional artistic representations, she is usually kind of "ageless" in a way: not necessarily young, but certainly not old either.  Had Mel Gibson cast an obviously young actress, it might've been too jarring for modern audiences.

Even though it would be appropriate in a way for Our Lady to never age, at the same time, people would have noticed and it would have brought her a lot of attention that she never would have wanted.

Ah, but Queen of Angels
            Queen of Mercy
            Queen of Heaven
            Full of Grace
            Queen Conceived Without Original Sin
            etc. etc.
I insist she is the most beautiful, radiant, resplendent physically perfect, symmetrical, glorious lady ever!  No age, no ungraceful movement, no flaw everything absolutely perfect of all.  Ageless perfection, dignified Queen of All Virtues.  Anyway, not that actress. It was her expression, reminded me of a bird of prey most of the time.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Elizabeth on April 09, 2014, 09:10:40 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 08, 2014, 06:01:46 PM
  Had Mel Gibson cast an obviously young actress, it might've been too jarring for modern audiences.

No no no!  Almost every statue shows the Holy Mother as beautiful.  This was a fatal flaw -- everybody loves beauty.
Veronica was more beautiful than the actress who played Our Lady.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Elizabeth on April 09, 2014, 09:13:54 AM
Quote from: Roland Deschain2 on April 08, 2014, 06:27:32 PM


I doubt Our Lady would have stood out at all given Her humility. I'm sure she looked like your typical Jewish woman of the era. Despite our Western renderings, our Lord and the Blessed Mother did not look like blue-eyed Germans.

Roland!  You are breaking my heart! For starters, the eyes are the window to the soul.  That's one reason Caveziel was so good, even with brown contact lenses.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on April 09, 2014, 09:16:38 AM
If Our Lady never aged over whatever age you think she should have stopped (and who determines that, anyway?), everyone would have been talking about her and staring at her, and it would have just gotten worse every year-- Do you really think the Blessed Mother would have wanted to be the center of worldly attention like that? I think she would have been very, very beautiful, but not frozen in time because she would not have wanted it (even though she deserved it).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Elizabeth on April 09, 2014, 09:24:03 AM
She is too full of Grace for God to have allowed any such nonsense.  Her Son's disciples would all have loved her, and her gaze would only inspire love and purity.  She had glorious St. Joseph beforehand. 

Also, I think it's possible there were more beautiful women in those days.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 09, 2014, 12:07:50 PM
Quote from: Elizabeth on April 08, 2014, 04:38:10 PM
Still the best Christ, St. John, Pontius Pilate, and Satan and everybody else, really.  All in all, a good thing for the kids and I on a Lenten school night to cry for the love of Our Lord.

I prefer Simon Peter and Pontius Pilate from "Jesus of Nazareth."
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on April 09, 2014, 02:50:25 PM
Quote from: piabee on April 09, 2014, 02:04:43 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 08, 2014, 08:38:52 PM
Quote from: piabee on April 08, 2014, 11:27:23 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 07, 2014, 06:21:44 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on April 06, 2014, 12:48:34 AM
Captain America 2. An excellent film.

So good.  Very enjoyable.

I kind of want to see it again.

I might go see it tonight.

Did you see it?  What'd you think?

It was very long. Was there another scene after the credits after the scene after the credits?

It was long but I really enjoyed it still.

There were two postcredit scenes.  One was after the stylized credits, another after all the credits.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on April 09, 2014, 03:00:39 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on April 09, 2014, 09:16:38 AM
If Our Lady never aged over whatever age you think she should have stopped (and who determines that, anyway?), everyone would have been talking about her and staring at her, and it would have just gotten worse every year-- Do you really think the Blessed Mother would have wanted to be the center of worldly attention like that? I think she would have been very, very beautiful, but not frozen in time because she would not have wanted it (even though she deserved it).

yeah personally i think she would of aged, but aged well. like that saying "ageing gracefully" well whose got more grace than Our Lady right.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on April 09, 2014, 04:11:20 PM
Quote from: Elizabeth on April 09, 2014, 09:10:40 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 08, 2014, 06:01:46 PM
  Had Mel Gibson cast an obviously young actress, it might've been too jarring for modern audiences.

No no no!  Almost every statue shows the Holy Mother as beautiful.  This was a fatal flaw -- everybody loves beauty.
Veronica was more beautiful than the actress who played Our Lady.

I agree with you that Our Lady did not age.  I think it would've been the creative (and best) choice for Mel Gibson to have cast a beautiful young woman in the role.  It would've been boldly Catholic.  But it would've run the risk of freaking some people out.  Jim Cavievel's Jesus (who also should not have aged, actually) would've had a mother who looked the same age or even younger than he.  Modern audiences just wouldn't get it.  I don't fault Gibson for his casting decision there, although his Mary was a little bit (as another poster has put it) "raw," and I'm not sure I really appreciate that.  I guess I can see both sides of the argument.

Thus far no one has mentioned the best Pontius Pilate in all of cinema: David Bowie.  I like that he wasn't the stereotypical Pilate, the macho soldier.  He was a fey equestrian: fashionably Stoic; an aspiring aristocrat.  Sholem Asch invented an excellent backstory for Pilate in his novel The Nazarene, wherein Pilate was a decadent political careerist who married the not-so-marriageable Claudia (who was related to the emperor) as a stepping stone to his appointment in Jerusalem.  But he still succumbed to having his Pilate being broad-shouldered and short-tempered, whereas a "Bowie" type would've been better.

To answer Erin's question, a person free from Original Sin would not have aged past the most perfect bloom of their adulthood.  This would generally tend to be somewhere between the mid-20s and early 30s, so use your imagination.  In Islam, the most perfect age (and the age one stays in heaven) is said to be 33, which seems reasonable enough at first blush, but is actually kind of cruel when you apply it across the board.  Pity the prematurely bald.  But you get the idea.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on April 09, 2014, 05:58:05 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 09, 2014, 02:50:25 PM
It was long but I really enjoyed it still.

It took a long time for everything to happen but there was a lot packed into it so maybe that's why?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Roland Deschain2 on April 09, 2014, 07:26:08 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 09, 2014, 04:11:20 PM
Quote from: Elizabeth on April 09, 2014, 09:10:40 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 08, 2014, 06:01:46 PM
  Had Mel Gibson cast an obviously young actress, it might've been too jarring for modern audiences.

No no no!  Almost every statue shows the Holy Mother as beautiful.  This was a fatal flaw -- everybody loves beauty.
Veronica was more beautiful than the actress who played Our Lady.

I agree with you that Our Lady did not age. 

To answer Erin's question, a person free from Original Sin would not have aged past the most perfect bloom of their adulthood. 

Yet it is perfectly acceptable to believe that the Blessed Mother died prior to her being assumed into Heaven. The Eastern Church celebrates her "Dormition."

If Our Lady could die than she could have also aged.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on April 09, 2014, 07:44:30 PM
I thought the actress playing Our Lady in the Passion was very beutifull... But remember the movie takes place during her passion as well.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on April 09, 2014, 09:07:29 PM
Quote from: piabee on April 09, 2014, 05:58:05 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 09, 2014, 02:50:25 PM
It was long but I really enjoyed it still.

It took a long time for everything to happen but there was a lot packed into it so maybe that's why?

It did take a long time for things to happen,  but also consider just how much they packed into that story.  At least two major plotlines.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on April 10, 2014, 06:33:49 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 09, 2014, 04:11:20 PM
To answer Erin's question, a person free from Original Sin would not have aged past the most perfect bloom of their adulthood.  This would generally tend to be somewhere between the mid-20s and early 30s, so use your imagination.  In Islam, the most perfect age (and the age one stays in heaven) is said to be 33, which seems reasonable enough at first blush, but is actually kind of cruel when you apply it across the board.  Pity the prematurely bald.  But you get the idea.

St. Augustine also thought 33 was the perfect age.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on April 10, 2014, 09:05:02 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 09, 2014, 04:11:20 PM
Thus far no one has mentioned the best Pontius Pilate in all of cinema: David Bowie.  I like that he wasn't the stereotypical Pilate, the macho soldier.  He was a fey equestrian: fashionably Stoic; an aspiring aristocrat.  Sholem Asch invented an excellent backstory for Pilate in his novel The Nazarene, wherein Pilate was a decadent political careerist who married the not-so-marriageable Claudia (who was related to the emperor) as a stepping stone to his appointment in Jerusalem.  But he still succumbed to having his Pilate being broad-shouldered and short-tempered, whereas a "Bowie" type would've been better.


Bowie was great, too bad the movie was such a theological fustercluck. It has so many incredible visual moments, and Peter Gabriel's music is amazing. A good edit job and some added scenes would  help that flick.

On Asch's book: I haven't read it in years. Was Asch a believer in Our Lord, or just an admirer? I remember a Jewish lady I used to work with really appreciating that book, so I have to wonder. I read it as a teenager when I would read or watch anything about Jesus.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Elizabeth on April 10, 2014, 10:14:58 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 09, 2014, 04:11:20 PM


Thus far no one has mentioned the best Pontius Pilate in all of cinema: David Bowie. 


Because WHO KNEW?!  I think I can believe this without seeing.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on April 10, 2014, 02:41:20 PM
Catch me if you can
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on April 10, 2014, 04:20:02 PM
Quote from: Larry on April 10, 2014, 09:05:02 AMBowie was great, too bad the movie was such a theological fustercluck. It has so many incredible visual moments, and Peter Gabriel's music is amazing. A good edit job and some added scenes would  help that flick.

On Asch's book: I haven't read it in years. Was Asch a believer in Our Lord, or just an admirer? I remember a Jewish lady I used to work with really appreciating that book, so I have to wonder. I read it as a teenager when I would read or watch anything about Jesus.

I guess The Last Temptation was a better book than it was a movie, although the movie did have some excellent flourishes, as you point out.  I think the three best novels written about Christ by non-Catholics are Kazantzakis' book, King Jesus by Robert Graves, and Asch's The Nazarene.  Asch was not a believer, but his keen admiration for the Christian religion was frowned upon by his fellow Jews.  By the end of The Nazarene, he seems to be of the opinion that Christ was something of an alternate messiah, intended for the Gentiles, bringing them into a valid covenant with God while having them continue to subsist apart from the Jews.  Which is kind of a strange way to look at the situation, but it seems to have been somewhat prophetic, since it was also the ecumenical view shared by popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, who said things like "the Old Covenant was never revoked" and "the messianic wait is not in vain."
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on April 10, 2014, 04:21:16 PM
Quote from: Roland Deschain2 on April 09, 2014, 07:26:08 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 09, 2014, 04:11:20 PM
Quote from: Elizabeth on April 09, 2014, 09:10:40 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 08, 2014, 06:01:46 PM
  Had Mel Gibson cast an obviously young actress, it might've been too jarring for modern audiences.

No no no!  Almost every statue shows the Holy Mother as beautiful.  This was a fatal flaw -- everybody loves beauty.
Veronica was more beautiful than the actress who played Our Lady.

I agree with you that Our Lady did not age. 

To answer Erin's question, a person free from Original Sin would not have aged past the most perfect bloom of their adulthood. 

Yet it is perfectly acceptable to believe that the Blessed Mother died prior to her being assumed into Heaven. The Eastern Church celebrates her "Dormition."

If Our Lady could die than she could have also aged.

It's acceptable to believe it (after all, it's even permissible to believe that canonizations are fallible), but I just don't see the logic.  If "the wages of sin is death," then why would a sinless woman suffer death or decay?

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on April 10, 2014, 04:52:35 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 10, 2014, 04:21:16 PM
Quote from: Roland Deschain2 on April 09, 2014, 07:26:08 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 09, 2014, 04:11:20 PM
Quote from: Elizabeth on April 09, 2014, 09:10:40 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 08, 2014, 06:01:46 PM
  Had Mel Gibson cast an obviously young actress, it might've been too jarring for modern audiences.

No no no!  Almost every statue shows the Holy Mother as beautiful.  This was a fatal flaw -- everybody loves beauty.
Veronica was more beautiful than the actress who played Our Lady.

I agree with you that Our Lady did not age. 

To answer Erin's question, a person free from Original Sin would not have aged past the most perfect bloom of their adulthood. 

Yet it is perfectly acceptable to believe that the Blessed Mother died prior to her being assumed into Heaven. The Eastern Church celebrates her "Dormition."

If Our Lady could die than she could have also aged.

It's acceptable to believe it (after all, it's even permissible to believe that canonizations are fallible), but I just don't see the logic.  If "the wages of sin is death," then why would a sinless woman suffer death or decay?

That passage (Romans 6) is primarily speaking of the eternal death.

She did not suffer decay, as according to Tradition she was assumed following her temporal death before the necessary time elapsed to make her ritually unclean under Jewish law.

Dr. Taylor Marshall lays it out here: http://taylormarshall.com/2013/08/did-the-virgin-mary-die.html

He cites Popes, Saints, etc.

One could just as easily ask if being free from Original and Actual sin, how Christ could die. It makes no sense for the Apostles to have put her in a tomb is she was sleeping like Snow White. Her dormition, so-called, might have been a term to distinguish her death biologically speaking from the death due to sin of which we shall all take part.

We find some explanations here: https://www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/AOFMARY.HTM

John Paul II provides a good understanding here:
Quote
3. It is true that in Revelation death is presented as a punishment for sin. However, the fact that the Church proclaims Mary free from original sin by a unique divine privilege does not lead to the conclusion that she also received physical immortality. The Mother is not superior to the Son who underwent death, giving it a new meaning and changing it into a means of salvation. Involved in Christ's redemptive work and associated in his saving sacrifice, Mary was able to share in his suffering and death for the sake of humanity's Redemption. What Severus of Antioch says about Christ also applies to her: "Without a preliminary death, how could the Resurrection have taken place?" (Antijulianistica, Beirut 1931, 194f.). To share in Christ's Resurrection, Mary had first to share in his death.

http://www.ewtn.com/library/papaldoc/jp2bvm53.htm
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on April 10, 2014, 05:37:24 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 10, 2014, 04:21:16 PM
It's acceptable to believe it (after all, it's even permissible to believe that canonizations are fallible), but I just don't see the logic.  If "the wages of sin is death," then why would a sinless woman suffer death or decay?

She wanted to share in her Son's Passion, which included His death.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on April 10, 2014, 06:09:53 PM
Quote from: Gardener on April 10, 2014, 04:52:35 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 10, 2014, 04:21:16 PMIf "the wages of sin is death," then why would a sinless woman suffer death or decay?

That passage (Romans 6) is primarily speaking of the eternal death.

She did not suffer decay, as according to Tradition she was assumed following her temporal death before the necessary time elapsed to make her ritually unclean under Jewish law.

Well, both beliefs are permissible to hold (that Our Lady suffered bodily death, or that she did not) until something dogmatic is declared about this.  By "decay," however, I was referring to the decay of aging while she lived, and not the bodily decay of a corpse, since I don't believe that she died.

Do you think Our Lady aged past the most perfect bloom of her adulthood?  Do you think her body was subject to the vicissitudes of growing old?  I do not.  I believe that, being free of sin, she was given the gift of immortality that God had originally given to the sinless Adam & Eve, but which they spurned.  Remember, the fruit of the Tree of Life was not forbidden in Eden—it was put there for them to eat thereof, and to "live for ever"; it's just that the first pair opted to take from the Tree of Knowledge instead.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on April 11, 2014, 06:53:32 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 10, 2014, 06:09:53 PM
Well, both beliefs are permissible to hold (that Our Lady suffered bodily death, or that she did not) until something dogmatic is declared about this.  By "decay," however, I was referring to the decay of aging while she lived, and not the bodily decay of a corpse, since I don't believe that she died.

In the movie, Our Lady is shown to be in her late 40's, and at that age, healthy people have not experienced the 'decay of aging'.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on April 11, 2014, 08:43:13 AM
Quote from: erin is nice on April 11, 2014, 06:53:32 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 10, 2014, 06:09:53 PM
Well, both beliefs are permissible to hold (that Our Lady suffered bodily death, or that she did not) until something dogmatic is declared about this.  By "decay," however, I was referring to the decay of aging while she lived, and not the bodily decay of a corpse, since I don't believe that she died.

In the movie, Our Lady is shown to be in her late 40's, and at that age, healthy people have not experienced the 'decay of aging'.

You say that now...  don't lie to yourself!  :lol:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on April 11, 2014, 08:56:46 AM
Quote from: erin is nice on April 11, 2014, 06:53:32 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 10, 2014, 06:09:53 PM
Well, both beliefs are permissible to hold (that Our Lady suffered bodily death, or that she did not) until something dogmatic is declared about this.  By "decay," however, I was referring to the decay of aging while she lived, and not the bodily decay of a corpse, since I don't believe that she died.

In the movie, Our Lady is shown to be in her late 40's, and at that age, healthy people have not experienced the 'decay of aging'.

But of course they have.  I'm in my 40s; I should know.  A person at 42 does not look the same as they did at 22.  The aging process is a curve, not a plateau.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on April 11, 2014, 10:03:20 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 11, 2014, 08:56:46 AM
Quote from: erin is nice on April 11, 2014, 06:53:32 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 10, 2014, 06:09:53 PM
Well, both beliefs are permissible to hold (that Our Lady suffered bodily death, or that she did not) until something dogmatic is declared about this.  By "decay," however, I was referring to the decay of aging while she lived, and not the bodily decay of a corpse, since I don't believe that she died.

In the movie, Our Lady is shown to be in her late 40's, and at that age, healthy people have not experienced the 'decay of aging'.

But of course they have.  I'm in my 40s; I should know.  A person at 42 does not look the same as they did at 22.  The aging process is a curve, not a plateau.

Do you think it's all about looks?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on April 11, 2014, 11:07:30 AM
Quote from: erin is nice on April 11, 2014, 10:03:20 AM
Do you think it's all about looks?

No.  Wisdom, for example, is frequently accrued with age, and that is certainly a positive benefit of the process.  But this discussion is about whether the Blessed Virgin Mary was physically preserved in the perfect bloom of her adult beauty; she who, speaking of wisdom, is the Seat of Wisdom herself: "for she is more beautiful than the sun, and above all the order of the stars: being compared with the light, she is found before it."

I believe that she was physically preserved in her perfect bloom, because I believe that being free of sin, she did not suffer the physical decay of the body which is the curse of death wrought from Original Sin: "for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return."  Aging is, physically speaking, a curve: you're born, you grow up, you reach the peak of your bloom (the state Adam & Eve would've kept eternally had they not sinned), and then it's all downhill from there.  We're all slowly crumbling back into dust.  It's just a hard fact of life.  Everybody knew what David Bowie meant when he sang, "we live for just these 20 years / do we have to die for the 50 more?"
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on April 12, 2014, 05:16:23 PM
Stage Door

Edited to correct title
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on April 12, 2014, 08:47:53 PM
Cecil B. Demille's 1927 King of Kings. One of the best movies about Our Lord ever made.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on April 13, 2014, 06:22:14 PM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on April 13, 2014, 07:27:10 PM
The first half of Jesus of Nazareth.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on April 15, 2014, 02:42:58 AM
Tried to watch the new G.I. Joe: Retaliation on Netflix.

It was sufficient, but most definitely inefficacious.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on April 16, 2014, 04:23:36 PM
Thor The Dark World; very well made, I enjoyed it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on April 16, 2014, 04:52:03 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 13, 2014, 06:22:14 PM
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i saw that one, didn't think much of it though.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on April 18, 2014, 05:17:52 AM
The Usual Suspects
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on April 18, 2014, 10:33:29 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on April 18, 2014, 05:17:52 AM
The Usual Suspects

Awesome movie.

Enviado desde mi SCH-I545 mediante Tapatalk

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on April 18, 2014, 12:04:41 PM
Only a clip, but it's funny

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ThvBNZdGcQ[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on April 18, 2014, 09:53:53 PM
The Passion of the Christ. Tomorrow I wrap up my Lenten religious movie viewing with the last part of Jesus of Nazareth.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on April 18, 2014, 11:12:36 PM
Passion of the Christ
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on April 18, 2014, 11:23:33 PM
Quote from: Larry on April 10, 2014, 09:05:02 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 09, 2014, 04:11:20 PM
Thus far no one has mentioned the best Pontius Pilate in all of cinema: David Bowie.

Bowie was great

Can you post a clip?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on April 19, 2014, 08:37:46 AM
Quote from: piabee on April 18, 2014, 11:23:33 PM
Quote from: Larry on April 10, 2014, 09:05:02 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 09, 2014, 04:11:20 PM
Thus far no one has mentioned the best Pontius Pilate in all of cinema: David Bowie.

Bowie was great

Can you post a clip?

It's from a film that is considered sacrilegious, so it probably wouldn't go over well here. The scene with Bowie is not sacrilegious though.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on April 19, 2014, 10:28:29 AM
Captain America.

Kind of weak and boring.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on April 19, 2014, 12:27:20 PM
47 Ronin.
Pretty good; I liked the movie but didn't like the exaltation of the Japanese code of Bushido.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on April 19, 2014, 09:39:49 PM
Quote from: Older Salt on April 19, 2014, 10:28:29 AM
Captain America.

Kind of weak and boring.

The new one, or the first? I liked both, but I really enjoyed the second. I'm seeing it again on Monday with a friend who wants to see it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on April 19, 2014, 09:45:28 PM
After watching Jesus of Nazareth and The Passion of the Christ so close together, I think I've switched my definitive Christ film from Gibson's to Zeffirelli's. Both are great, but I was really moved by JON this year. For some reason, The Passion just made me numb when I watched it; I only felt very deeply when Our Lord was rejected by the Sanhedrin, and the scenes where Our Lady laments at the scourging, and when She meets Him on the Via Dolorosa. I think I need to skip watching it for the next few years.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Petrie on April 20, 2014, 05:41:58 AM
Quote from: Larry on April 19, 2014, 09:45:28 PM
After watching Jesus of Nazareth and The Passion of the Christ so close together, I think I've switched my definitive Christ film from Gibson's to Zeffirelli's. Both are great, but I was really moved by JON this year. For some reason, The Passion just made me numb when I watched it; I only felt very deeply when Our Lord was rejected by the Sanhedrin, and the scenes where Our Lady laments at the scourging, and when She meets Him on the Via Dolorosa. I think I need to skip watching it for the next few years.

I have a hard time choosing between the two because they are so different.  I think they are definitive in their own ways.  However, I have not seen the latter in quite some time, so I would like to do that next year.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Cesar_Augustus on April 20, 2014, 09:08:01 AM
The Passion of the Christ.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on April 20, 2014, 08:41:52 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on April 19, 2014, 12:27:20 PM
but didn't like the exaltation of the Japanese code of Bushido.

Really? Bushido is the most valuable Eastern philosophy I can think of.

The way of the warrior is to consider oneself as dead so that one can serve his master with absolute loyalty. While one cannot adopt Bushido as it stands, there is much of value for a Christian to mine from this material. Consider that your daimyo is Jesus Christ and reread the texts.

I often have a copy of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's book close at hand.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on April 21, 2014, 08:12:53 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on April 20, 2014, 08:41:52 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on April 19, 2014, 12:27:20 PM
but didn't like the exaltation of the Japanese code of Bushido.

Really? Bushido is the most valuable Eastern philosophy I can think of.

The way of the warrior is to consider oneself as dead so that one can serve his master with absolute loyalty. While one cannot adopt Bushido as it stands, there is much of value for a Christian to mine from this material. Consider that your daimyo is Jesus Christ and reread the texts.

I often have a copy of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's book close at hand.

Yeah, cutting off innocent heads and taking their rice. Real good stuff to emulate there.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on April 21, 2014, 09:37:01 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on April 20, 2014, 08:41:52 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on April 19, 2014, 12:27:20 PM
but didn't like the exaltation of the Japanese code of Bushido.

Really? Bushido is the most valuable Eastern philosophy I can think of.

The way of the warrior is to consider oneself as dead so that one can serve his master with absolute loyalty. While one cannot adopt Bushido as it stands, there is much of value for a Christian to mine from this material. Consider that your daimyo is Jesus Christ and reread the texts.

I often have a copy of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's book close at hand.

when i was training with the Bujinkan i tried very hard to reocncile the two concepts. i wasn't able to in the end.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on April 22, 2014, 11:42:42 AM
Quote from: Arun on April 21, 2014, 09:37:01 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on April 20, 2014, 08:41:52 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on April 19, 2014, 12:27:20 PM
but didn't like the exaltation of the Japanese code of Bushido.

Really? Bushido is the most valuable Eastern philosophy I can think of.

The way of the warrior is to consider oneself as dead so that one can serve his master with absolute loyalty. While one cannot adopt Bushido as it stands, there is much of value for a Christian to mine from this material. Consider that your daimyo is Jesus Christ and reread the texts.

I often have a copy of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's book close at hand.

when i was training with the Bujinkan i tried very hard to reocncile the two concepts. i wasn't able to in the end.

I don't advocate "reconciliation". As Tsunetomo himself says, "It is bad when one thing becomes two." He goes on to say that the study of another way should not confuse the practice of your way, but strengthen you in it. This is sound advice. Bushido as it stands is a pagan philosophy, and so in one way is no different than the works of Plato or Aristotle (though it's not as deep as those in many ways). However, as St. Augustine reminds us, we may plunder the wisdom of the pagans just as the Hebrews plundered the treasures of Egypt.

Bushido has much to offer the Christian. It is a doctrine of putting one's master first, of absolute loyalty, of avoiding negligence, of being dead to the self so that one may strive to the utmost in the service of one's lord. But the point of studying Bushido is to become a better Christian, not to practice Bushido.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on April 22, 2014, 03:11:26 PM
it wasn't exactly bushido, but similar. i was doing bujinkan ninpo taijutsu, and so it embraced a lot of the ninpo mikkyo and so forth - students were often referred to as "buyu" as in a traveller in the way (the way being "budo"). it was pretty deep philosophical stuff, ended up being miles over my head which is why i switched to something else in the end. i still got a lot of good things out of it, though.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on April 22, 2014, 04:00:14 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on April 20, 2014, 08:41:52 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on April 19, 2014, 12:27:20 PM
but didn't like the exaltation of the Japanese code of Bushido.

Really? Bushido is the most valuable Eastern philosophy I can think of.

The way of the warrior is to consider oneself as dead so that one can serve his master with absolute loyalty. While one cannot adopt Bushido as it stands, there is much of value for a Christian to mine from this material. Consider that your daimyo is Jesus Christ and reread the texts.

I often have a copy of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's book close at hand.
Not to give any spoilers, but there is two instances where characters take the "honorable death" route by killing themselves; and it is portrayed as very noble. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on April 22, 2014, 04:29:09 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on April 22, 2014, 04:00:14 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on April 20, 2014, 08:41:52 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on April 19, 2014, 12:27:20 PM
but didn't like the exaltation of the Japanese code of Bushido.

Really? Bushido is the most valuable Eastern philosophy I can think of.

The way of the warrior is to consider oneself as dead so that one can serve his master with absolute loyalty. While one cannot adopt Bushido as it stands, there is much of value for a Christian to mine from this material. Consider that your daimyo is Jesus Christ and reread the texts.

I often have a copy of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's book close at hand.
Not to give any spoilers, but there is two instances where characters take the "honorable death" route by killing themselves; and it is portrayed as very noble.

it was considered to be
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on April 23, 2014, 07:48:34 AM
The Amazing Spiderman.

A lot better than that Tobey Mcquire fluff.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on April 23, 2014, 08:07:25 AM
Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller)   Quite good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on April 23, 2014, 08:34:26 AM
Quote from: Arun on April 22, 2014, 04:29:09 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on April 22, 2014, 04:00:14 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on April 20, 2014, 08:41:52 PM
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but didn't like the exaltation of the Japanese code of Bushido.

Really? Bushido is the most valuable Eastern philosophy I can think of.

The way of the warrior is to consider oneself as dead so that one can serve his master with absolute loyalty. While one cannot adopt Bushido as it stands, there is much of value for a Christian to mine from this material. Consider that your daimyo is Jesus Christ and reread the texts.

I often have a copy of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's book close at hand.
Not to give any spoilers, but there is two instances where characters take the "honorable death" route by killing themselves; and it is portrayed as very noble.

it was considered to be

This. Killing yourself wasn't considered a sin. My grandma tells me that women used to carry knives specifically to kill themselves if they were "dishonored by a man." To quote her: "There was no such thing as rape. If a man raped you, you killed yourself."
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on April 23, 2014, 09:36:07 AM
Has anyone seen "Mud" with Matt Mconahee
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on April 23, 2014, 10:25:17 AM
Quote from: Older Salt on April 23, 2014, 09:36:07 AM
Has anyone seen "Mud" with Matt Mconahee

Just watched it a couple weeks ago. Why?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on April 23, 2014, 11:58:52 AM
Quote from: erin is nice on April 23, 2014, 10:25:17 AM
Quote from: Older Salt on April 23, 2014, 09:36:07 AM
Has anyone seen "Mud" with Matt Mconahee

Just watched it a couple weeks ago. Why?
Is it good for family viewing?
My wife and I.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on April 23, 2014, 12:45:13 PM
Quote from: Older Salt on April 23, 2014, 11:58:52 AM
Quote from: erin is nice on April 23, 2014, 10:25:17 AM
Quote from: Older Salt on April 23, 2014, 09:36:07 AM
Has anyone seen "Mud" with Matt Mconahee

Just watched it a couple weeks ago. Why?
Is it good for family viewing?
My wife and I.

It has some swearing, and some raunchy dialogue, but it's not Pulp Fiction level or anything. No nudity. Definitely not for kids. So really it depends on your own tolerance for language..

Be prepared for the fact that it is over two hours long-- you will need lots of snacks.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on April 23, 2014, 02:31:20 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on April 23, 2014, 12:45:13 PM
Quote from: Older Salt on April 23, 2014, 11:58:52 AM
Quote from: erin is nice on April 23, 2014, 10:25:17 AM
Quote from: Older Salt on April 23, 2014, 09:36:07 AM
Has anyone seen "Mud" with Matt Mconahee

Just watched it a couple weeks ago. Why?
Is it good for family viewing?
My wife and I.

It has some swearing, and some raunchy dialogue, but it's not Pulp Fiction level or anything. No nudity. Definitely not for kids. So really it depends on your own tolerance for language..

Be prepared for the fact that it is over two hours long-- you will need lots of snacks.
Thanks Erin.

I like long films.

I do not mind harsh language, neither does my wife BUT we cannot stand taking the Lords name in vain.

Such as

"Oh G-d"
G--dammit"
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on April 23, 2014, 03:48:16 PM
i watched Mud like, last year sometime. don't remember the language content sorry. the plot was entertaining enough.

just watched I Am Soldier. didn't think much of it. seemed a bit low budget.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on April 23, 2014, 04:15:13 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on April 23, 2014, 08:34:26 AM
Quote from: Arun on April 22, 2014, 04:29:09 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on April 22, 2014, 04:00:14 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on April 20, 2014, 08:41:52 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on April 19, 2014, 12:27:20 PM
but didn't like the exaltation of the Japanese code of Bushido.

Really? Bushido is the most valuable Eastern philosophy I can think of.

The way of the warrior is to consider oneself as dead so that one can serve his master with absolute loyalty. While one cannot adopt Bushido as it stands, there is much of value for a Christian to mine from this material. Consider that your daimyo is Jesus Christ and reread the texts.

I often have a copy of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's book close at hand.
Not to give any spoilers, but there is two instances where characters take the "honorable death" route by killing themselves; and it is portrayed as very noble.

it was considered to be

This. Killing yourself wasn't considered a sin. My grandma tells me that women used to carry knives specifically to kill themselves if they were "dishonored by a man." To quote her: "There was no such thing as rape. If a man raped you, you killed yourself."
I agree that the Japanese and others may not consider it a sin, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a sin; just the same as some of the practices that the Missionaries in America found that the Indians were practicing; they were part of the their civil code but were still sinful.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on April 23, 2014, 04:24:53 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on April 23, 2014, 04:15:13 PM

I agree that the Japanese and others may not consider it a sin, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a sin; just the same as some of the practices that the Missionaries in America found that the Indians were practicing; they were part of the their civil code but were still sinful.

i'm not disagreeing with you about that; however it makes sense that it would be depicted as noble, as thats the way they looked at it. doesn't mean it is, just that it was considered to be.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on April 24, 2014, 09:02:54 AM
The Family with Robert DeNiro
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on April 24, 2014, 10:42:42 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on April 24, 2014, 09:02:54 AM
The Family with Robert DeNiro
"The Family" seems to be a VERY impure movie:

From IMDB Parents Guide:

Just post the link, OS.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on April 24, 2014, 10:52:52 AM
Um... it might have been better just to link to the parent's guide, instead of posting all the gory details.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on April 24, 2014, 12:05:21 PM
Umm [I have to think about that]

Sorry for posting the impure details.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on April 24, 2014, 03:56:00 PM
Quote from: Arun on April 23, 2014, 04:24:53 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on April 23, 2014, 04:15:13 PM

I agree that the Japanese and others may not consider it a sin, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a sin; just the same as some of the practices that the Missionaries in America found that the Indians were practicing; they were part of the their civil code but were still sinful.

i'm not disagreeing with you about that; however it makes sense that it would be depicted as noble, as thats the way they looked at it. doesn't mean it is, just that it was considered to be.
Of course, I was just issuing a warning to those who might want to see this movie of the objectionable message.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on April 24, 2014, 04:06:52 PM
The Sound of Music played in the background as I updated my records on all the donations I made to CUFI, and for breaks I read rebuttals to the Leuchter report. Later, after reading the writings of Buddha for inspiration, I prayed the Luminous Mysteries.

St. Thomas Merton, pray for us!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on April 25, 2014, 01:32:36 AM
Layer Cake
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on April 25, 2014, 01:46:51 AM
Actually, I watched The Family (mentioned above)...

Yeah, don't do that.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on April 25, 2014, 03:49:46 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on April 25, 2014, 01:32:36 AM
Layer Cake

that's an awesome film eh
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 25, 2014, 09:50:09 AM
Quote from: Gardener on April 24, 2014, 04:06:52 PM
The Sound of Music played in the background as I updated my records on all the donations I made to CUFI, and for breaks I read rebuttals to the Leuchter report. Later, after reading the writings of Buddha for inspiration, I prayed the Luminous Mysteries.

St. Thomas Merton, pray for us!

LOL.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: J. Blevins on April 25, 2014, 12:35:06 PM
I watched The Big Year last night.  Actually a fun movie.


Sent from the galley of the Hispaniola.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on April 25, 2014, 12:36:53 PM
Quote from: Arun on April 25, 2014, 03:49:46 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on April 25, 2014, 01:32:36 AM
Layer Cake

that's an awesome film eh

'Twas.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on April 25, 2014, 03:55:41 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on April 24, 2014, 03:56:00 PM
Quote from: Arun on April 23, 2014, 04:24:53 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on April 23, 2014, 04:15:13 PM

I agree that the Japanese and others may not consider it a sin, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a sin; just the same as some of the practices that the Missionaries in America found that the Indians were practicing; they were part of the their civil code but were still sinful.

i'm not disagreeing with you about that; however it makes sense that it would be depicted as noble, as thats the way they looked at it. doesn't mean it is, just that it was considered to be.
Of course, I was just issuing a warning to those who might want to see this movie of the objectionable message.

Or dueling and bullfighting in early modern Europe, lol.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on April 25, 2014, 08:14:33 PM
Double Indemnity.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on April 25, 2014, 08:37:09 PM
5th element.

Excellent scifi
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on April 26, 2014, 03:30:07 PM
The 1970's version of Winnie the Pooh 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernardus on April 26, 2014, 03:33:16 PM
Quote from: Larry on April 25, 2014, 08:14:33 PM
Double Indemnity.
I saw it a few days ago. A true classic.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on April 26, 2014, 06:23:12 PM
Quote from: Bernardus on April 26, 2014, 03:33:16 PM
Quote from: Larry on April 25, 2014, 08:14:33 PM
Double Indemnity.
I saw it a few days ago. A true classic.

Yeah, Barbara Stanwyck is amazing in it(both performance and the way she looks). It's one of my favorite movies. I just got the Blu-ray. I'm thinking of another Billy Wilder tonight(maybe Sabrina, which also just came out on Blu-ray).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on April 26, 2014, 06:37:46 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on April 26, 2014, 03:30:07 PM
The 1970's version of Winnie the Pooh

Awww. I bet someone else was watching it with you...

Sent from my KFTT using Tapatalk 2

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernardus on April 26, 2014, 06:47:29 PM
Quote from: Larry on April 26, 2014, 06:23:12 PM
Quote from: Bernardus on April 26, 2014, 03:33:16 PM
Quote from: Larry on April 25, 2014, 08:14:33 PM
Double Indemnity.
I saw it a few days ago. A true classic.

Yeah, Barbara Stanwyck is amazing in it(both performance and the way she looks). It's one of my favorite movies. I just got the Blu-ray. I'm thinking of another Billy Wilder tonight(maybe Sabrina, which also just came out on Blu-ray).
Mine is part of a Billy Wilder DVD box, but it's of rather low quality. I ought to replace it with Blu-rays too.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on April 27, 2014, 08:58:32 AM
Quote from: Bernardus on April 26, 2014, 06:47:29 PM
Quote from: Larry on April 26, 2014, 06:23:12 PM
Quote from: Bernardus on April 26, 2014, 03:33:16 PM
Quote from: Larry on April 25, 2014, 08:14:33 PM
Double Indemnity.
I saw it a few days ago. A true classic.

Yeah, Barbara Stanwyck is amazing in it(both performance and the way she looks). It's one of my favorite movies. I just got the Blu-ray. I'm thinking of another Billy Wilder tonight(maybe Sabrina, which also just came out on Blu-ray).
Mine is part of a Billy Wilder DVD box, but it's of rather low quality. I ought to replace it with Blu-rays too.

The Blu-ray is nice, but I've never seen the DVD so I don't know it it's worth an upgrade. Universal owns the Paramount library from the thirties and forties, and it's in rough shape. There's only so much they can do to make the picture pristine. The Blu-ray is sharp, but grainy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on April 27, 2014, 05:27:12 PM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on April 25, 2014, 03:55:41 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on April 24, 2014, 03:56:00 PM
Quote from: Arun on April 23, 2014, 04:24:53 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on April 23, 2014, 04:15:13 PM

I agree that the Japanese and others may not consider it a sin, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a sin; just the same as some of the practices that the Missionaries in America found that the Indians were practicing; they were part of the their civil code but were still sinful.

i'm not disagreeing with you about that; however it makes sense that it would be depicted as noble, as thats the way they looked at it. doesn't mean it is, just that it was considered to be.
Of course, I was just issuing a warning to those who might want to see this movie of the objectionable message.

Or dueling and bullfighting in early modern Europe, lol.
:laugh:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on May 01, 2014, 09:50:42 AM
Inception
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on May 01, 2014, 02:09:16 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on May 01, 2014, 09:50:42 AM
Inception

Love that movie. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mathieu on May 01, 2014, 02:16:26 PM
Ikiru (??? in japanese, means "to live"). A movie by Akira Kurosawa. Wonderful.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on May 01, 2014, 04:31:08 PM
Akira Kurosawa was a genius.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on May 01, 2014, 06:31:20 PM
Quote from: Arun on May 01, 2014, 04:31:08 PM
Akira Kurosawa was a genius.

You can say that again! What an amazing director.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on May 01, 2014, 06:40:51 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on May 01, 2014, 06:31:20 PM
Quote from: Arun on May 01, 2014, 04:31:08 PM
Akira Kurosawa was a genius.

You can say that again! What an amazing director.
+1
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on May 01, 2014, 08:43:51 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on May 01, 2014, 06:31:20 PM
Quote from: Arun on May 01, 2014, 04:31:08 PM
Akira Kurosawa was a genius.

You can say that again! What an amazing director.

the little details eh. and the swordwork in his films is always correct. i hate watching films with kenjutsu that is incorrect.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: J. Blevins on May 01, 2014, 09:13:15 PM

Quote from: Mathieu on May 01, 2014, 02:16:26 PM
Ikiru (??? in japanese, means "to live"). A movie by Akira Kurosawa. Wonderful.

Ikiru is such a beautiful film.

The day Kurosawa died was a hard day.




Sent from the galley of the Hispaniola.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on May 01, 2014, 10:45:09 PM
Quote from: Arun on May 01, 2014, 04:31:08 PM
Akira Kurosawa was a genius.


Ran and Kagemusha. Both classic epics.

Both are from his last period, but I think it's his most mature work. Plus I haven't seen most of his early films.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: ReadyJoan on May 02, 2014, 02:21:14 AM
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: verenaerin on May 02, 2014, 09:13:10 PM
The 'Burbs. I love that movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on May 02, 2014, 10:03:49 PM
Nebraska

Entertaining film, though too many instances of Our Lord's name taken in vain.  Other than that, I can see why it got all the Oscar hype.  Bruce Dern is quite a good actor, and I was really surprised to see Will Forte make the jump from SNL to a dramatic role like he did.

Love the scene in Lincoln where they pan the camera to the restaurant with the most heavenly buffalo wings in the world - The Watering Hole.  Alexander Payne must be a fan to have the camera lock on to that spot for a second or two.  I make special drives out to Lincoln just for those wings, and I'm rarely disappointed.  I know many of the FSSP seminarians at the OLG Seminary would agree.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on May 02, 2014, 11:00:08 PM
Enders Game.

Surprisingly entertaining.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on May 03, 2014, 04:17:19 AM
Quote from: Archer on May 02, 2014, 11:00:08 PM
Enders Game.

Surprisingly entertaining.

yeah i didn't mind it eh
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: sprungli on May 03, 2014, 09:15:25 AM
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on May 03, 2014, 10:54:38 AM
Quote from: sprungli on May 03, 2014, 09:15:25 AM
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Should one go into the film on and empty stomach-- :rofl: :laugh: :lol:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernardus on May 04, 2014, 05:48:49 AM
Quote from: Archer on May 02, 2014, 11:00:08 PM
Enders Game.

Surprisingly entertaining.
The last part was a bit lacklustre. I think I would have liked the film a lot more if I hadn't read the book.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on May 04, 2014, 05:58:26 AM
Quote from: J. Blevins on May 01, 2014, 09:13:15 PM

Quote from: Mathieu on May 01, 2014, 02:16:26 PM
Ikiru (??? in japanese, means "to live"). A movie by Akira Kurosawa. Wonderful.

Ikiru is such a beautiful film.

The day Kurosawa died was a hard day.




Sent from the galley of the Hispaniola.

He's dead?

Enviado desde mi SCH-I545 mediante Tapatalk

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: J. Blevins on May 04, 2014, 05:44:09 PM

Quote from: MilesChristi on May 04, 2014, 05:58:26 AM
Quote from: J. Blevins on May 01, 2014, 09:13:15 PM

Quote from: Mathieu on May 01, 2014, 02:16:26 PM
Ikiru (??? in japanese, means "to live"). A movie by Akira Kurosawa. Wonderful.

Ikiru is such a beautiful film.

The day Kurosawa died was a hard day.




Sent from the galley of the Hispaniola.

He's dead?

Enviado desde mi SCH-I545 mediante Tapatalk

Yes. He died September 6 1998. I actually remember seeing it on the news and having to sit down.

Strange how those we don't know personally can touch us.


Sent from the galley of the Hispaniola.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Daniel on May 04, 2014, 06:53:19 PM
I just saw The Amazing Spider-Man 2.  I didn't really like the first one much but I thought this one was better.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on May 05, 2014, 06:27:36 AM
The 1945 British ghost classic Dead of Night. Very spooky.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on May 05, 2014, 06:28:23 AM
Quote from: Daniel on May 04, 2014, 06:53:19 PM
I just saw The Amazing Spider-Man 2.  I didn't really like the first one much but I thought this one was better.

I had no desire to run out and see this one(I really disliked the first), but I may try to see it this coming Friday.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on May 05, 2014, 06:37:13 AM
Cap America - Winter soldier. Very good anti- New World Order theme. Very provocative
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on May 05, 2014, 08:06:33 AM
We just saw "Mud".

Absolute trash with no point.

There's 2 hours of my life I will never get back.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hector, Tamer of Horses on May 05, 2014, 02:34:04 PM
I saw Wait Until Dark this weekend on TCM.  Very good.  Pretty creepy for 1967.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on May 07, 2014, 08:47:28 AM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on May 07, 2014, 03:46:00 PM
Quote from: Archer on May 07, 2014, 08:47:28 AM
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I've never read any of the Bronte Sisters' books, but I just started "Sense and Sensibility", and I find that I have to keep a book mark with a description of the characters, to keep them all straight.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on May 07, 2014, 04:07:02 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on May 07, 2014, 03:46:00 PM
I've never read any of the Bronte Sisters' books, but I just started "Sense and Sensibility", and I find that I have to keep a book mark with a description of the characters, to keep them all straight.

"Sense and Sensibility" is Austen, not Brontë.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on May 07, 2014, 04:15:38 PM
Quote from: piabee on May 07, 2014, 04:07:02 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on May 07, 2014, 03:46:00 PM
I've never read any of the Bronte Sisters' books, but I just started "Sense and Sensibility", and I find that I have to keep a book mark with a description of the characters, to keep them all straight.

"Sense and Sensibility" is Austen, not Brontë.
Har! I can then say that I haven't read anything by the Bronte Sisters, even when I finish "Sense and Sensibility" (if I get through it).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on May 07, 2014, 04:48:12 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on May 07, 2014, 03:46:00 PM
Quote from: Archer on May 07, 2014, 08:47:28 AM
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I've never read any of the Bronte Sisters' books, but I just started "Sense and Sensibility", and I find that I have to keep a book mark with a description of the characters, to keep them all straight.

LoL. Yes Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility are both Austen. Ive never read S&S but I have read P&P which was excellent. This version of the movie is the best. Collin Firth is fantastic as Mr. Darcy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on May 07, 2014, 08:08:32 PM
Quote from: Archer on May 07, 2014, 04:48:12 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on May 07, 2014, 03:46:00 PM
Quote from: Archer on May 07, 2014, 08:47:28 AM
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I've never read any of the Bronte Sisters' books, but I just started "Sense and Sensibility", and I find that I have to keep a book mark with a description of the characters, to keep them all straight.

LoL. Yes Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility are both Austen. Ive never read S&S but I have read P&P which was excellent. This version of the movie is the best. Collin Firth is fantastic as Mr. Darcy.
Thanks Archer; my sister is a big big fan of both Austen and the Bronte sisters. Her two all time favorites are "Pride and Prejudice" and "Emma".
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on May 08, 2014, 01:33:47 AM
i think i saw that once with the missus. keira knightley was in it. thats about all i remember about it. i think i might of fallen asleep...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on May 09, 2014, 05:36:34 AM
The New World with Colin Farrell. Very disappointing.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on May 09, 2014, 08:06:23 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on May 09, 2014, 05:36:34 AM
The New World with Colin Farrell. Very disappointing.
Malick "films" usually are.

Especially that self indulgent hogwash with Brad Pitt he made a couple of years ago.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on May 09, 2014, 08:45:47 AM
That is such a long p&p. 

Only a little over half into it   oy.

But ... Mr darcy!  Oooh.

:lol:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on May 09, 2014, 05:36:54 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on May 09, 2014, 05:36:34 AM
The New World with Colin Farrell. Very disappointing.

yeah that movie sucked harder than a kirby
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on May 10, 2014, 07:47:35 PM
High Noon
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on May 10, 2014, 08:42:48 PM
Case 39. it was alright.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on May 10, 2014, 09:09:45 PM
Quote from: Larry on May 10, 2014, 07:47:35 PM
High Noon

Good movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on May 10, 2014, 09:10:07 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on May 09, 2014, 08:45:47 AM
That is such a long p&p. 

Only a little over half into it   oy.

But ... Mr darcy!  Oooh.

:lol:

Are you watching alone or with the lady friend?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on May 10, 2014, 09:20:43 PM
Quote from: Archer on May 10, 2014, 09:09:45 PM
Quote from: Larry on May 10, 2014, 07:47:35 PM
High Noon

Good movie.

It sure is.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on May 10, 2014, 09:22:09 PM
I love westerns. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on May 10, 2014, 09:26:57 PM
Quote from: Archer on May 10, 2014, 09:22:09 PM
I love westerns.

And this is one of the best. Plus, it has both Grace Kelly and Katy Jurado. How cool is that?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on May 10, 2014, 09:32:21 PM
Quote from: Larry on May 10, 2014, 09:26:57 PM
Quote from: Archer on May 10, 2014, 09:22:09 PM
I love westerns.

And this is one of the best. Plus, it has both Grace Kelly and Katy Jurado. How cool is that?

That makes it extra awesome.  Grace Kelly was a classy actress.

I recently saw The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance which I had never seen before (don't know why) and really liked it.  My father-in-law and I are finishing The Commancheros tonight. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gidge on May 10, 2014, 09:32:48 PM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040613/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040613/)

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-JU8vq4ENRdw%2FUFeprOa06NI%2FAAAAAAAAFIM%2F7n3L0irOHeI%2Fs1600%2Fmr-blandings-builds-his-dream-house-movie-title_cb.jpg&hash=762bdf9db20f142a1054b505616a93b63a0fb839)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on May 10, 2014, 10:30:02 PM
Quote from: Archer on May 10, 2014, 09:09:45 PM
Quote from: Larry on May 10, 2014, 07:47:35 PM
High Noon

Good movie.

Yeah. I just watched it again recently. I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. I was aware that it has an underlying Randian philosophy which made me prepared to hate it. But instead I loved it. A classic in every sense.

As a work of cinematic art, not a second or a frame is wasted. As far as finding that both the good and the bad people of the town are all cowards, that is not too different from what Our Lady said to Sr. Lucy around the same time the movie was being made, "No one has listened to me, neither the good nor the bad."

I love the way he goes from the saloon to the church. In the saloon they openly side with the criminals. But in the church they won't do anything that involves risking their status. All the talk about "protecting the women and children" is really just an excuse for cowardice.

And of course there's the song. I've always believed that music is the most important part of a movie. And this song is just perfect in every way. The tune is so catchy, but it also tells the whole story if you listen to the words.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKLvKZ6nIiA[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on May 10, 2014, 11:15:54 PM
Pete's Dragon
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on May 11, 2014, 10:49:27 AM
Quote from: Chestertonian on May 10, 2014, 11:15:54 PM
Pete's Dragon

Creepy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on May 12, 2014, 05:27:36 AM
The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke. Very good. But the boxing sure has taken it's toll on Mickey's face.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on May 12, 2014, 05:37:44 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on May 12, 2014, 05:27:36 AM
The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke. Very good. But the boxing sure has taken it's toll on Mickey's face.

i saw that a couple years ago. its a good movie eh.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on May 12, 2014, 07:28:08 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on May 11, 2014, 10:49:27 AM
Quote from: Chestertonian on May 10, 2014, 11:15:54 PM
Pete's Dragon

Creepy.

i have discovered a lot of old vhs tapes from my 80's childhood and that was one of them.  It's amazing how much junk there was!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hector, Tamer of Horses on May 12, 2014, 05:13:08 PM
Chinatown.

I liked it a lot.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on May 12, 2014, 05:13:48 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on May 12, 2014, 05:27:36 AM
The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke. Very good. But the boxing sure has taken it's toll on Mickey's face.

Not just boxing, but the epic amounts of plastic surgery.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: verenaerin on May 12, 2014, 08:52:11 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on May 12, 2014, 07:28:08 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on May 11, 2014, 10:49:27 AM
Quote from: Chestertonian on May 10, 2014, 11:15:54 PM
Pete's Dragon

Creepy.

i have discovered a lot of old vhs tapes from my 80's childhood and that was one of them.  It's amazing how much junk there was!

"The Labyrinth" was really, really creepy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on May 12, 2014, 09:41:55 PM
Quote from: verenaerin on May 12, 2014, 08:52:11 PM

"The Labyrinth" was really, really creepy.

Yes, the website from which I took the information about the satanic nature of modern music which I posted on the recent thread about music has a special report on "The Labyrinth" which they regard as the archetype of movies depicting "the blueprint to mind control."

http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/labyrinth-starring-david-bowie-a-blueprint-to-mind-control/
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on May 12, 2014, 10:04:55 PM
I never saw labyrinth but my parents did play a lot of Bowie growing up.  The mind control stuff they write about us weird.... Wonder what context the monarch mind control stuff happened in..

I couldn't even finish the articleWhen I was tortured the guy used a lot of weird sociopathic mind games. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on May 13, 2014, 12:04:36 AM
Quote from: Chestertonian on May 12, 2014, 10:04:55 PM
I never saw labyrinth but my parents did play a lot of Bowie growing up.  The mind control stuff they write about us weird.... Wonder what context the monarch mind control stuff happened in..

I couldn't even finish the articleWhen I was tortured the guy used a lot of weird sociopathic mind games.

man every time i see you mention that i just straight up wanna give ya a bro-hug right over the internet lol. i hope your doing okay. the fact that you made it through something like that and your still hanging in there just stands as testament that you truly gotta be one tough s.o.b. eh.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: verenaerin on May 13, 2014, 06:34:55 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 12, 2014, 09:41:55 PM
Quote from: verenaerin on May 12, 2014, 08:52:11 PM

"The Labyrinth" was really, really creepy.

Yes, the website from which I took the information about the satanic nature of modern music which I posted on the recent thread about music has a special report on "The Labyrinth" which they regard as the archetype of movies depicting "the blueprint to mind control."

http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/labyrinth-starring-david-bowie-a-blueprint-to-mind-control/

I read that a while ago. It's sick that they make these movies to target kids.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on May 13, 2014, 03:40:45 PM
Quote from: Archer on May 10, 2014, 09:10:07 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on May 09, 2014, 08:45:47 AM
That is such a long p&p. 

Only a little over half into it   oy.

But ... Mr darcy!  Oooh.

:lol:

Are you watching alone or with the lady friend?

Which do you think?  :lol:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on May 16, 2014, 08:42:00 PM
GODZILLAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

Worth the movie experience.  ;D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on May 18, 2014, 01:54:08 PM
Strangers on a Train
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hector, Tamer of Horses on May 18, 2014, 02:39:07 PM
Little Shop of Horrors (musical).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on May 18, 2014, 03:51:15 PM
Quote from: Larry on May 18, 2014, 01:54:08 PM
Strangers on a Train

I've seen that one too.  I can't remember if it was Hitchcock, Agatha Christie, or neither?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hector, Tamer of Horses on May 18, 2014, 04:03:27 PM
Quote from: Archer on May 18, 2014, 03:51:15 PM
Quote from: Larry on May 18, 2014, 01:54:08 PM
Strangers on a Train

I've seen that one too.  I can't remember if it was Hitchcock, Agatha Christie, or neither?

Hitchcock.

Based on a Patricia Highsmith story.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on May 18, 2014, 05:56:06 PM
Quote from: Hector, Tamer of Horses on May 18, 2014, 04:03:27 PM
Quote from: Archer on May 18, 2014, 03:51:15 PM
Quote from: Larry on May 18, 2014, 01:54:08 PM
Strangers on a Train

I've seen that one too.  I can't remember if it was Hitchcock, Agatha Christie, or neither?

Hitchcock.

Based on a Patricia Highsmith story.

Yep. The movie is a lot different than the book. And Robert Walker steals the show.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on May 18, 2014, 06:52:02 PM
Charlotte's web, on VHS.  My son thought it was a real tear jerker
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: james03 on May 18, 2014, 08:05:42 PM
Secret Life of Walter Mitty.  The road board scene is worth the ticket.  Actually the whole Greenland part was great.  I like Olaf the chopper pilot also.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on May 18, 2014, 09:29:49 PM
Quote from: Larry on May 18, 2014, 05:56:06 PM
Quote from: Hector, Tamer of Horses on May 18, 2014, 04:03:27 PM
Quote from: Archer on May 18, 2014, 03:51:15 PM
Quote from: Larry on May 18, 2014, 01:54:08 PM
Strangers on a Train

I've seen that one too.  I can't remember if it was Hitchcock, Agatha Christie, or neither?

Hitchcock.

Based on a Patricia Highsmith story.

Yep. The movie is a lot different than the book. And Robert Walker steals the show.

Thanks guys, I thought that's what it was.  I've never read the book but remember liking the movie. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on May 19, 2014, 05:25:08 AM
Spielberg's Lincoln, Didn't do anything for me.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Southern Ascetic on May 19, 2014, 02:34:12 PM
Godzilla 2014,

It was AWESOME.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Daniel on May 19, 2014, 04:09:09 PM
The other night I watched The Lost World: Jurassic Park (that was probably my first time seeing it in about 17 years...)

I'm probably going to see Godzilla some time this week.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ancilla Domini on May 19, 2014, 04:11:29 PM
Godzilla movies are always great!  :)

I didn't know there was a new one out. I live under a rock...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on May 21, 2014, 04:53:18 AM
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on May 22, 2014, 04:44:58 PM
Quote from: Ancilla Domini on May 19, 2014, 04:11:29 PM
Godzilla movies are always great!  :)

I didn't know there was a new one out. I live under a rock...

AC, do you speak Godzilla, too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6xs_YnSUFQ
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on May 22, 2014, 08:54:34 PM
Godzilla

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on May 23, 2014, 12:22:48 AM
Godzilla
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on May 23, 2014, 01:43:00 AM
The Black Cauldron
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ancilla Domini on May 23, 2014, 06:13:16 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on May 22, 2014, 04:44:58 PM
AC, do you speak Godzilla, too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6xs_YnSUFQ

Of course! I've mastered the 1962 variant. But as you can see, the language is undergoing rapid change. To today's native speakers, I sound ridiculously old-fashioned.  :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on May 24, 2014, 10:01:19 AM
Fatso with Dom Deluise.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on May 24, 2014, 10:03:31 AM
Quote from: Ancilla Domini on May 23, 2014, 06:13:16 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on May 22, 2014, 04:44:58 PM
AC, do you speak Godzilla, too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6xs_YnSUFQ

Of course! I've mastered the 1962 variant. But as you can see, the language is undergoing rapid change. To today's native speakers, I sound ridiculously old-fashioned.  :)

You are such the trad, AC!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on May 24, 2014, 10:08:53 PM
Quote from: Larry on May 24, 2014, 10:01:19 AM
Fatso with Dom Deluise.

Funniest scene;  "Did you ever take a jelly donut and suck the jelly out and then fill the hole with chocolate swirl ice cream?" 
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9HNDDcMgQ[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on May 25, 2014, 11:53:13 AM
Quote from: Gerard on May 24, 2014, 10:08:53 PM
Quote from: Larry on May 24, 2014, 10:01:19 AM
Fatso with Dom Deluise.

Funniest scene;  "Did you ever take a jelly donut and suck the jelly out and then fill the hole with chocolate swirl ice cream?" 
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9HNDDcMgQ[/yt]

Yeah, that was great! :lol:


Saw X-Men: Days of Future Past yesterday. Great movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on May 26, 2014, 02:49:44 PM
Spiderman
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on May 26, 2014, 04:14:00 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on May 26, 2014, 02:49:44 PM
Spiderman

Hey, me too! For the first time I might add.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on May 27, 2014, 08:49:34 AM
American Psycho.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on May 27, 2014, 01:56:31 PM
Rocky IV. X Men, First Class
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on May 27, 2014, 02:13:11 PM
One of the Batman movies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on May 27, 2014, 05:35:12 PM
The Magnificent Seven (can't believe I've never watched this before)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on May 28, 2014, 10:11:06 AM
Into the furnace......dissappointed in cliche ending....winters bone was a better version of a similer story

Also:
Inside Lewyenne Davis...cohen bros....?????????  Not sure what to say
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on May 29, 2014, 11:49:12 AM
Quote from: totiusque on May 27, 2014, 05:35:12 PM
The Magnificent Seven (can't believe I've never watched this before)
My all-time favorite cowboy movie! Also I just love the theme song of the M-7
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on May 29, 2014, 07:42:30 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on May 29, 2014, 11:49:12 AM
Quote from: totiusque on May 27, 2014, 05:35:12 PM
The Magnificent Seven (can't believe I've never watched this before)
My all-time favorite cowboy movie! Also I just love the theme song of the M-7

Have you watched The Seven Samurai as well?  I'm wondering if it's worth all the high ratings and critical acclaim it's been given.  Many say the American remake pales in comparison.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on May 29, 2014, 08:05:52 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on May 29, 2014, 11:49:12 AM
Quote from: totiusque on May 27, 2014, 05:35:12 PM
The Magnificent Seven (can't believe I've never watched this before)
My all-time favorite cowboy movie! Also I just love the theme song of the M-7

It's indeed a fantastic flick. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on May 29, 2014, 08:25:09 PM
Quote from: totiusque on May 27, 2014, 05:35:12 PM
The Magnificent Seven (can't believe I've never watched this before)

Ever watched Seven Samurai?

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on May 29, 2014, 08:29:34 PM
Quote from: MilesChristi on May 29, 2014, 08:25:09 PM
Quote from: totiusque on May 27, 2014, 05:35:12 PM
The Magnificent Seven (can't believe I've never watched this before)

Ever watched Seven Samurai?

On my list, but haven't seen it yet.  Does it live up to the hype that the media/critics give it, and how does it compare to the American remake?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on May 30, 2014, 03:40:19 AM
Havent seen magnificent seven, but I enjoyed it.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on May 30, 2014, 11:52:41 AM
Quote from: totiusque on May 29, 2014, 07:42:30 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on May 29, 2014, 11:49:12 AM
Quote from: totiusque on May 27, 2014, 05:35:12 PM
The Magnificent Seven (can't believe I've never watched this before)
My all-time favorite cowboy movie! Also I just love the theme song of the M-7

Have you watched The Seven Samurai as well?  I'm wondering if it's worth all the high ratings and critical acclaim it's been given.  Many say the American remake pales in comparison.
No, but I am going to have to watch it after what you just said.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: GeorgeT on June 04, 2014, 10:02:10 PM
Godzilla. It moved about as fast as a slow moving Godzilla. I have never felt so strongly about a movie.

[spoiler]Empathy that we could never have for the characters is attempted very early on. One character becomes interesting, then he dies. We're left with the remainder of the movie with one dimensional characters. The only thing that would help it is if it had action at this point. But it doesn't. One more thing could help: someone could say something interesting. Doesn't happen. There's a little bit of slow moving moster fighting around the end. The ony good part was a monster killing scene that lasted about one minute.

One would never guess a movie with so many atomic blasts could be so boring.

D-[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: OCLittleFlower on June 05, 2014, 01:10:25 AM
Maleficent -- it was decent, though I didn't like a few of the changes they made.  Poor Prince Phillip becomes basically a prop, whereas in the original he is the most active of all the Disney princes.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on June 05, 2014, 06:31:54 AM
The Monuments Men It was enjoyable, much lighter than I'd expected. It covered an aspect of the war that I'd never heard of before.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on June 05, 2014, 08:10:10 AM
Quote from: GeorgeT on June 04, 2014, 10:02:10 PM
Godzilla. It moved about as fast as a slow moving Godzilla. I have never felt so strongly about a movie.

[spoiler]Empathy that we could never have for the characters is attempted very early on. One character becomes interesting, then he dies. We're left with the remainder of the movie with one dimensional characters. The only thing that would help it is if it had action at this point. But it doesn't. One more thing could help: someone could say something interesting. Doesn't happen. There's a little bit of slow moving moster fighting around the end. The ony good part was a monster killing scene that lasted about one minute.

One would never guess a movie with so many atomic blasts could be so boring.

D-[/spoiler]
My daughter and her husband recently saw Godzilla and they both said it was horrible.

On the advice of SD members I watched Out of the Furnace last night. It was quite good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on June 05, 2014, 08:26:37 AM
I don't get why any of you would go to a Godzilla movie, thinking it would be good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on June 05, 2014, 11:46:59 AM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on June 05, 2014, 08:26:37 AM
I don't get why any of you would go to a Godzilla movie, thinking it would be good.

Because of Pacific Rim.  :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: GeorgeT on June 05, 2014, 05:15:13 PM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on June 05, 2014, 08:26:37 AM
I don't get why any of you would go to a Godzilla movie, thinking it would be good.

I could say the same thing about video games. I can't imagine how anyone would spend so much time and money on a total waste of time, in my eyes. But I realize not everyone's eyes are my own, so I keep it to myself.

It was either that or the pervy xmen movie directed by a pervert.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on June 05, 2014, 06:32:20 PM
Quote from: GeorgeT on June 05, 2014, 05:15:13 PM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on June 05, 2014, 08:26:37 AM
I don't get why any of you would go to a Godzilla movie, thinking it would be good.

I could say the same thing about video games. I can't imagine how anyone would spend so much time and money on a total waste of time, in my eyes. But I realize not everyone's eyes are my own, so I keep it to myself.

It was either that or the pervy xmen movie directed by a pervert.

Godzilla is pulpy B-movie fare by matter of content. It's theoretically possible for it to be elevated to something greater if it had been directed by Christopher Nolan, but that should be a very pleasant surprise, not an expectation.

A video game is simply a movie that accepts the user's input. At least, the good ones are.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Akavit on June 05, 2014, 07:00:16 PM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on June 05, 2014, 06:32:20 PM
Quote from: GeorgeT on June 05, 2014, 05:15:13 PM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on June 05, 2014, 08:26:37 AM
I don't get why any of you would go to a Godzilla movie, thinking it would be good.

I could say the same thing about video games. I can't imagine how anyone would spend so much time and money on a total waste of time, in my eyes. But I realize not everyone's eyes are my own, so I keep it to myself.

It was either that or the pervy xmen movie directed by a pervert.

Godzilla is pulpy B-movie fare by matter of content. It's theoretically possible for it to be elevated to something greater if it had been directed by Christopher Nolan, but that should be a very pleasant surprise, not an expectation.

A video game is simply a movie that accepts the user's input. At least, the good ones are.

Here we have an further proof of divergent tastes influencing perception.  I would have contended that movies are boring in general.  By extension, computer games comparable to movies would be dull as well and the best ones drop the cinematic sequences in favor of strategic depth, tactical exercises and mental challenges.

Consequently, a third option is to never go to the theater or play AAA computer games and stick with turn-based strategy titles.

Same topic, three paths, yet somehow they all avoid intersecting in any meaningful way.  Undoubtedly, somebody will soon contribute a fourth.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on June 05, 2014, 07:55:15 PM
I enjoy watching bad movies from time to time, like Batman Forever. But I know it's bad from the outset.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: GeorgeT on June 05, 2014, 09:58:41 PM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on June 05, 2014, 06:32:20 PM
Quote from: GeorgeT on June 05, 2014, 05:15:13 PM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on June 05, 2014, 08:26:37 AM
I don't get why any of you would go to a Godzilla movie, thinking it would be good.

I could say the same thing about video games. I can't imagine how anyone would spend so much time and money on a total waste of time, in my eyes. But I realize not everyone's eyes are my own, so I keep it to myself.

It was either that or the pervy xmen movie directed by a pervert.

Godzilla is pulpy B-movie fare by matter of content. It's theoretically possible for it to be elevated to something greater if it had been directed by Christopher Nolan, but that should be a very pleasant surprise, not an expectation.

A video game is simply a movie that accepts the user's input. At least, the good ones are.

I remember the one from 1998 or so. I liked it at the time. I've never seen it since. I was also a kid back then, so that factor comes into play. Anyway, I was expecting something similar. Not something great. Something OK. Not a Robert Breson film. There were so many things they could have done to make it better. Really obvious things.

On the plus side, it wasn't filthy like most movies these days. I'll take boring over filthy any day of the week.

Oh, and a video game is not a movie. Two different mediums. Read up on some Marshall McCluhan.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Miriam_M on June 06, 2014, 09:25:45 AM
Quote from: GeorgeT on June 05, 2014, 05:15:13 PM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on June 05, 2014, 08:26:37 AM
I don't get why any of you would go to a Godzilla movie, thinking it would be good.

It was either that or the pervy xmen movie directed by a pervert.

Oh, you're not attracted to the 99.9% of movies with their obligatory   soft porn      explicit sex ?  Can't understand why you would have any objection to those, George.   ;D

By the way I share your perception of video games.  I don't get it.  Never have.   OTOH, I have my own peculiar viewing tastes and "hidden addictions" which could also leave others scratching their heads.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on June 06, 2014, 09:40:03 AM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on June 05, 2014, 07:55:15 PM
I enjoy watching bad movies from time to time, like Batman Forever. But I know it's bad from the outset.

Oh, I can't stand that movie. Tommy Lee Jones was horrible as Two Face. I'm sure that had more to do with the director than the actor, but what a rotten flick.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on June 06, 2014, 09:42:08 AM
Quote from: GeorgeT on June 05, 2014, 09:58:41 PM
I remember the one from 1998 or so. I liked it at the time. I've never seen it since. I was also a kid back then, so that factor comes into play. Anyway, I was expecting something similar. Not something great. Something OK. Not a Robert Breson film. There were so many things they could have done to make it better. Really obvious things.

I also saw that one as a kid. I also read the junior novelization before seei.g the movie. I was mostly hyped up by the commercials for the licensed toys that came with the Taco Bell kids' meals.

It just seems readily apparent to me that seeing a Godzilla movie today would be lame, and that I would either have to be swayed by a good review first, or come in expecting it to be bad (like coming in for a remake of 1995 or so's Independence Day). Heck, I grimace through the vast majority of trailers before films, shaking my head at how stupid each one appears.

QuoteOn the plus side, it wasn't filthy like most movies these days. I'll take boring over filthy any day of the week.

I'm actually not convinced that Bryan Singer did what he's been accused of doing. Plus, did you see Captain America: The Winter Soldier yet? That was actually a good movie.

QuoteOh, and a video game is not a movie. Two different mediums. Read up on some Marshall McCluhan.

Medium is the message, fine, fine. It's not a movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on June 06, 2014, 09:43:05 AM
Quote from: Larry on June 06, 2014, 09:40:03 AM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on June 05, 2014, 07:55:15 PM
I enjoy watching bad movies from time to time, like Batman Forever. But I know it's bad from the outset.

Oh, I can't stand that movie. Tommy Lee Jones was horrible as Two Face. I'm sure that had more to do with the director than the actor, but what a rotten flick.

I'm sure if I didn't grow up with Batman Forever, I would despise it too. Now, I merely revel in its awfulness.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on June 06, 2014, 10:15:46 AM
I took my wife to see X-Men. There wasn't anything wrong with it... it was an enjoyable watch.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on June 06, 2014, 10:53:47 AM
Quote from: Adeodatus on June 06, 2014, 10:15:46 AM
I took my wife to see X-Men. There wasn't anything wrong with it... it was an enjoyable watch.

One of the things that concerns me is Hugh Jackman's toplessness.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on June 06, 2014, 10:56:34 AM
Heinrich: I think you meant to say Hugh Jackedman.

Probably not safe to take the little ladies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on June 06, 2014, 11:10:04 AM
That's offset by Jennifer Lawrence being essentially naked for the entire movie. Whereas they only force you to look at Hugh Jackman's butt for a few seconds.

Most girls aren't as cool as my wife, who actively suggests watching comic book movies. So the womenfolk overall probably need some inducement to attend the show. I take it that Jackman fills this role.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on June 06, 2014, 11:15:24 AM
Quote from: Adeodatus on June 06, 2014, 11:10:04 AM
That's offset by Jennifer Lawrence being essentially naked for the entire movie. Whereas they only force you to look at Hugh Jackman's butt for a few seconds.

Most girls aren't as cool as my wife, who actively suggests watching comic book movies. So the womenfolk overall probably need some inducement to attend the show. I take it that Jackman fills this role.

Not trying to be priggish(srs), I find it near occasion of sin when scantily clad women are on the screen. I tend to stay away from modern movies. For my wife and daughter, I would think that a buff Wolverine would lead them to the same concerns. Again, just me.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on June 06, 2014, 12:17:50 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on June 06, 2014, 10:15:46 AM
I took my wife to see X-Men. There wasn't anything wrong with it... it was an enjoyable watch.

I liked it too.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on June 06, 2014, 12:19:41 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on June 06, 2014, 11:15:24 AM
Quote from: Adeodatus on June 06, 2014, 11:10:04 AM
That's offset by Jennifer Lawrence being essentially naked for the entire movie. Whereas they only force you to look at Hugh Jackman's butt for a few seconds.

Most girls aren't as cool as my wife, who actively suggests watching comic book movies. So the womenfolk overall probably need some inducement to attend the show. I take it that Jackman fills this role.

Not trying to be priggish(srs), I find it near occasion of sin when scantily clad women are on the screen. I tend to stay away from modern movies. For my wife and daughter, I would think that a buff Wolverine would lead them to the same concerns. Again, just me.

Jennifer Lawrence was so coated in blue makeup that she didn't have any effect on me. Frankly, she's more of a temptation when she's wearing a nice dress.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on June 06, 2014, 12:52:29 PM
Yeah blue mutant chicks with Ziggy stardust mullets don't do it for me
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on June 06, 2014, 10:21:28 PM
Superman III. A friend and I got some good laughs watching this fun, cheesy eighties flick.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on June 07, 2014, 11:02:32 AM
"Lone Survivor" with Mark Wahlberg.

Best new film I have seen since "Bella".

Incredible story of Natural Love and Bravery.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on June 07, 2014, 05:43:36 PM
Quote from: Older Salt on June 07, 2014, 11:02:32 AM
"Lone Survivor" with Mark Wahlberg.

Best new film I have seen since "Bella".

Incredible story of Natural Love and Bravery.

Great movie, made even better because it was fairly accurate. I've seen it twice.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on June 07, 2014, 07:51:27 PM
I've heard that wahlberg of a practicing Catholic
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on June 07, 2014, 11:39:40 PM
Now You See Me
The Spanish Prisoner

Both movies are known for having a "twist ending", and they did a fair enough job with them to make them entertaining.  I preferred the former, but both were decent flicks.  Of course, they aren't as good as my favorite "twist" movies - Usual Suspects, Memento, Prestige, Primal Fear, etc.

Quote from: Chestertonian on June 07, 2014, 07:51:27 PM
I've heard that wahlberg of a practicing Catholic

Yes, and he talks about it quite a bit.  However, some of his movie choices leave a lot to be desired, so I'd guess that his career takes center stage over his faith.  I've never seen it, but I hear the movie "Ted" is absolutely terrible and raunchy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on June 07, 2014, 11:41:21 PM
I saw X-Men: Days of Future Past yesterday. I actually think it may be the best film in the series. Maybe.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on June 08, 2014, 12:27:23 PM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on June 07, 2014, 11:41:21 PM
I saw X-Men: Days of Future Past yesterday. I actually think it may be the best film in the series. Maybe.

It's either the new one or X2. Both are great. I just wish they would bring Nightcrawler back.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on June 09, 2014, 04:37:31 AM
Arn: The Knight Templar. Very good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Angelorum on June 09, 2014, 12:42:37 PM
Tokyo Godfathers - such a heartfelt and amazing masterpiece.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on June 09, 2014, 03:01:44 PM
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on June 09, 2014, 07:23:19 PM
Quote from: Larry on June 09, 2014, 03:01:44 PM
Plan 9 From Outer Space

So was it, in fact, the worst movie ever made?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hector, Tamer of Horses on June 09, 2014, 08:04:08 PM
Quote from: totiusque on June 09, 2014, 07:23:19 PM
Quote from: Larry on June 09, 2014, 03:01:44 PM
Plan 9 From Outer Space

So was it, in fact, the worst movie ever made?

In my opinion Manos The Hands of Fate is much worse.

Though Plan 9 is undoubtedly horrible.  In that incredibly campy, Ed Wood way that makes it so entertaining to watch.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: GeorgeT on June 09, 2014, 11:23:06 PM
I'd say to be truly the worst film ever made, the film would have to be really boring. Plan 9 is hilarious. The dialogue and the special effect match up perfectly. Both strive for an ideal their creators could not really achieve.

But I still think it should be called the worst movie ever made, in that such a great bad movie should be allowed such a lofty title. Or maybe it should be called the king of bad movies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on June 09, 2014, 11:40:08 PM
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLm_EI5mULo[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on June 10, 2014, 05:23:28 AM
Since it's so entertaining, Plan 9 is far from the worst movie ever made. Most incompetent, with bad acting? Maybe.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Pheo on June 12, 2014, 12:45:55 PM
It's a Girl on Netflix, a documentary looking at gendercide in Indian and China.  The movie starts off by interviewing a woman in India who had eight daughters in a row - she suffocated them all soon after birth and calmly talks about what she did with a smile on her face.  It also takes a look at China's one child policy which is made even more chilling when they break down the numbers.  13 million abortions in China per year...which works out to over 35,000 per day.  Over 1,500 per hour.

The cult of Ba'al is alive and well.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on June 12, 2014, 06:48:38 PM
Quote from: Pheo on June 12, 2014, 12:45:55 PM
It's a Girl on Netflix, a documentary looking at gendercide in Indian and China.  The movie starts off by interviewing a woman in India who had eight daughters in a row - she suffocated them all soon after birth and calmly talks about what she did with a smile on her face.  It also takes a look at China's one child policy which is made even more chilling when they break down the numbers.  13 million abortions in China per year...which works out to over 35,000 per day.  Over 1,500 per hour.

The cult of Ba'al is alive and well.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.
I saw the trailer on YouTube and it looked horrifying.,.

Can't watch Netflix here but will have to watch when i get home
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on June 13, 2014, 08:52:23 PM
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on June 13, 2014, 11:30:00 PM
Quote from: Larry on June 13, 2014, 08:52:23 PM
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Dont you mean Star Wars. Full stop.

Enviado desde mi SCH-I545 mediante Tapatalk

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on June 14, 2014, 09:45:07 AM
Quote from: Larry on June 13, 2014, 08:52:23 PM
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Best of the trilogy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on June 14, 2014, 10:36:38 AM
Quote from: MilesChristi on June 13, 2014, 11:30:00 PM
Quote from: Larry on June 13, 2014, 08:52:23 PM
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Dont you mean Star Wars. Full stop.

Enviado desde mi SCH-I545 mediante Tapatalk

Yeah, I always refer to it as Star Wars, but if I just posted that, people might ask "which one?".
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on June 14, 2014, 10:37:36 AM
Quote from: Archer on June 14, 2014, 09:45:07 AM
Quote from: Larry on June 13, 2014, 08:52:23 PM
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Best of the trilogy.

I like 'em all, but I think I like Empire the best. I'm gonna try to watch all of the movies, even the prequels.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on June 14, 2014, 07:56:23 PM
The Final Countdown

Good movie, though obviously dated.  Of course, I'm a sucker for time travel movies.  Only tedious part was watching airplanes take off and land on the aircraft carrier again and again and again.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=min2ohR8j3U[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on June 14, 2014, 11:39:43 PM
Edge of Tomorrow. Tom Cruise died. And died. And died and died and died and died and died.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on June 15, 2014, 03:05:17 AM
lords of london. it was okay, nothing special though.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on June 19, 2014, 01:32:48 PM
The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. Liam Neeson made TPM watchable, but AOTC... wow, what a stinker. I remember thinking it was better than TPM when it was first released, but not anymore. Without the great music and one or two good scenes, the movie would be almost unwatchable.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on June 20, 2014, 08:24:59 AM
Yes,  the first three Star War episodes where much better that the last three "prequels"; Lucas lost his touch. Perhaps with a new team producing the up-coming episodes, the franchise will recover its path.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 20, 2014, 08:46:13 AM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on June 20, 2014, 02:49:52 PM
antisocial. not bad.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on June 20, 2014, 04:44:43 PM
Floating Clouds (1955).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on June 20, 2014, 09:29:24 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on June 20, 2014, 08:24:59 AM
Yes,  the first three Star War episodes where much better that the last three "prequels"; Lucas lost his touch. Perhaps with a new team producing the up-coming episodes, the franchise will recover its path.

Watched Revenge of the Sith tonight. Much better than the other two. I'm looking forward to Episode VII.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on June 21, 2014, 09:11:21 PM
The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. ESB is nearly flawless; everything in ROTJ with Luke, Vader and the Emperor is golden, and the space battle is incredible. But those Ewoks are every bit as annoying as Jar Jar.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on June 21, 2014, 11:52:18 PM
Quote from: Larry on June 21, 2014, 09:11:21 PM
The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. ESB is nearly flawless; everything in ROTJ with Luke, Vader and the Emperor is golden, and the space battle is incredible. But those Ewoks are every bit as annoying as Jar Jar.

Ewoks must be frightfully strong. They penetrate stormtrooper armor with mere sticks and stones. If 'armor' doesn't protect against sticks and stones (the most elementary conceivable armaments) then in what sense can it be called "armor" at all?

Lowest bidder indeed.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on June 22, 2014, 09:31:32 AM
Quote from: Larry on June 21, 2014, 09:11:21 PM
The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. ESB is nearly flawless; everything in ROTJ with Luke, Vader and the Emperor is golden, and the space battle is incredible. But those Ewoks are every bit as annoying as Jar Jar.

I remember seeing Return of the Jedi (originally titled Revenge of the Jedi) in the theater and early on in the movie, I thought, "This has become the Muppet Show."  I actually remember heckling the movie ( I was a teenager :) ) when Vader's helmet came off I said, "Put it back."  Thank God the audience roared with laughter.  Come to think of it, that's probably where my love of MST3K and Rifftrax comes from. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on June 22, 2014, 11:06:32 AM
Quote from: Larry on June 19, 2014, 01:32:48 PM
The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. Liam Neeson made TPM watchable, but AOTC... wow, what a stinker. I remember thinking it was better than TPM when it was first released, but not anymore. Without the great music and one or two good scenes, the movie would be almost unwatchable.

Liam Neeson makes TPM ok. AOTC is so lame it's basically unwatchable. The only reason to put in the time is for story continuity to get you to Revenge of the Sith, which was actually decent.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Aquila on June 22, 2014, 12:47:11 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on June 21, 2014, 11:52:18 PM
Quote from: Larry on June 21, 2014, 09:11:21 PM
The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. ESB is nearly flawless; everything in ROTJ with Luke, Vader and the Emperor is golden, and the space battle is incredible. But those Ewoks are every bit as annoying as Jar Jar.

Ewoks must be frightfully strong. They penetrate stormtrooper armor with mere sticks and stones. If 'armor' doesn't protect against sticks and stones (the most elementary conceivable armaments) then in what sense can it be called "armor" at all?

Lowest bidder indeed.

In the original script the Ewoks were supposed to be Wookies, which would have made way more sense.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on June 22, 2014, 01:21:18 PM
Yes, the Ewoks were dumb; now Wookies would have been awesome!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on June 22, 2014, 01:49:20 PM
Quote from: Gerard on June 22, 2014, 09:31:32 AM
Quote from: Larry on June 21, 2014, 09:11:21 PM
The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. ESB is nearly flawless; everything in ROTJ with Luke, Vader and the Emperor is golden, and the space battle is incredible. But those Ewoks are every bit as annoying as Jar Jar.

I remember seeing Return of the Jedi (originally titled Revenge of the Jedi) in the theater and early on in the movie, I thought, "This has become the Muppet Show."  I actually remember heckling the movie ( I was a teenager :) ) when Vader's helmet came off I said, "Put it back."  Thank God the audience roared with laughter.  Come to think of it, that's probably where my love of MST3K and Rifftrax comes from.

I saw it when it came out too(also a teenager at the time) and I remember some people being really annoyed by all of the goofy creatures at Jabba's palace.  Except for the stuff with the Emperor, I think this is one of the weaker films in the series. Revenge of the Sith is much better, despite occasional clunky dialogue and bad line deliveries.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on June 22, 2014, 01:54:48 PM
Yes, over-all the "return of the Jedi" was the weakest of the original three films.  But still pretty good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on June 23, 2014, 08:51:18 AM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on June 22, 2014, 01:54:48 PM
Yes, over-all the "return of the Jedi" was the weakest of the original three films.  But still pretty good.

Ewoks are creepy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on June 23, 2014, 01:40:27 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on June 23, 2014, 08:51:18 AM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on June 22, 2014, 01:54:48 PM
Yes, over-all the "return of the Jedi" was the weakest of the original three films.  But still pretty good.

Ewoks are creepy.


In the latest version, they now blink. So they're even creepier than before. And still slow the movie down to a crawl every time they appear.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on June 23, 2014, 01:50:18 PM
Quote from: Larry on June 23, 2014, 01:40:27 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on June 23, 2014, 08:51:18 AM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on June 22, 2014, 01:54:48 PM
Yes, over-all the "return of the Jedi" was the weakest of the original three films.  But still pretty good.

Ewoks are creepy.


In the latest version, they now blink. So they're even creepier than before. And still slow the movie down to a crawl every time they appear.

Yeah. That and they elevate that neo homo C3PO to some divine status.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on June 23, 2014, 03:57:09 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on June 23, 2014, 01:50:18 PM
Quote from: Larry on June 23, 2014, 01:40:27 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on June 23, 2014, 08:51:18 AM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on June 22, 2014, 01:54:48 PM
Yes, over-all the "return of the Jedi" was the weakest of the original three films.  But still pretty good.

Ewoks are creepy.


In the latest version, they now blink. So they're even creepier than before. And still slow the movie down to a crawl every time they appear.

Yeah. That and they elevate that neo homo C3PO to some divine status.

:laugh:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on June 23, 2014, 07:39:23 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on June 23, 2014, 08:51:18 AM
Ewoks are creepy.

Funny that the word 'ewok' never even appears in the film.  There's your trivia for the day.

Also funny (or sad, depending on how you look at it), is that my brother-in-law just traveled to a comic book store dressed up as a stormtrooper to meet one of the original actors who played an ewok - Felix Silla.  Silla also played in Spaceballs, Batman Returns, and the original Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica series, among many others.  Apparently he even went out for pizza with him and his group and was  a very nice guy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on June 24, 2014, 04:22:48 AM
Edge of Tomorrow.  Very good. Quite funny.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on June 24, 2014, 05:55:02 AM
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on June 24, 2014, 04:22:48 AM
Edge of Tomorrow.  Very good. Quite funny.

I want to see that...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Pheo on June 25, 2014, 10:48:21 PM
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Yeah, worth re-watching.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on June 26, 2014, 11:27:22 AM
Tiny: A Documentary About Living Small About the current trend to build "Tiny Houses," 100-ish square-foot houses on trailers (to get around minimun square foot requirements). While I admire these people's desire and commitment to simplify their lives and not be so caught up in materialism, it would be pretty hard to raise a family in a Tiny House! In fact, the only family (couple with children) that the filmmakers interviewed had to buy a 500 square-foot house on the market and relegate the Tiny House to the back yard.  :lol: I think that it would be an excellent idea for single people, though, especially now that technology and appliances are so much smaller.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on June 26, 2014, 12:16:53 PM
I really do prefer a 100 room mansion, with a large swimming pool, golf and tennis courts as well as a stable of horses to ride when I feel like it.  Of course all on a smaller scale than say Versailles, just to keep it simple.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: FaithByProxy on June 26, 2014, 12:59:38 PM
Quote from: Pheo on June 25, 2014, 10:48:21 PM
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Yeah, worth re-watching.

I need to see this one again soon!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on June 27, 2014, 04:04:35 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on June 26, 2014, 11:27:22 AM
Tiny: A Documentary About Living Small About the current trend to build "Tiny Houses," 100-ish square-foot houses on trailers (to get around minimun square foot requirements). While I admire these people's desire and commitment to simplify their lives and not be so caught up in materialism, it would be pretty hard to raise a family in a Tiny House! In fact, the only family (couple with children) that the filmmakers interviewed had to buy a 500 square-foot house on the market and relegate the Tiny House to the back yard.  :lol: I think that it would be an excellent idea for single people, though, especially now that technology and appliances are so much smaller.

theres a lot of those which pop up on the off-the-grid websites and self sufficiency ones. they look pretty cool, but yeah not for families.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 30, 2014, 08:52:21 PM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on June 30, 2014, 10:30:22 PM
So Pon, what did you think of the movie?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 30, 2014, 10:46:41 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on June 30, 2014, 10:30:22 PM
So Pon, what did you think of the movie?

It was a bit "twee" for my tastes, but still okay.  The romance between the kids was nicely handled: it had an awkwardness that was believable, although I could've done without the cutesy acoustic indie ballads over some lovey-dovey montages.  Only the kids' characters, however, were well-developed; the adults were entirely two-dimensional, and Noah Taylor is a good actor who deserves better than playing a generic "sad sack dad."  He was in a much better coming-of-age movie when he himself was a kid.  I think I'll rate it three stars on Netflix.  Netflix considers a three-star rating to say "liked it."
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on July 01, 2014, 05:24:14 AM
I see the conversation has moved on to other things, but I just wanted to say, I love ewoks.

As you were...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 01, 2014, 07:17:41 AM
Jim Gaffigan: Obsessed. Very funny.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on July 01, 2014, 04:03:10 PM
The Numbers Station. My brother has been urging me to watch it for months and it was his birthday so he got to choose. It was okay.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 03, 2014, 08:16:12 AM
City by the Sea. Not bad.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on July 03, 2014, 11:16:25 AM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on July 03, 2014, 12:22:30 PM
Pon,
that looks really interesting; what is it about?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on July 03, 2014, 01:42:36 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on July 03, 2014, 12:22:30 PM
Pon,
that looks really interesting; what is it about?

It's a quartet of Lafcadio Hearn's Japanese ghost stories, directed by Masaki Kobayashi.  It's highly mannered and atmospheric and stylized.  It has some of the qualities of Noh and Kabuki, yet it's supremely cinematic.  Some of the best color photography I've ever seen.  I'd seen another of Kobayashi's movies, Harakiri, which was very good.  But this one is a massive leap ahead, and terrific.

The first and last acts are more like bookends; the two middle sequences are the best.  One is about a pale, wintry demon masquerading as a virtuous young wife, and the other is about a blind lute player who performs nightly for an audience of drowned spirits at their seaside tomb.  He lives on the charity of religious people at a rustic little temple, and the monks have to paint his body with exorcism texts to protect him from the ghosts.  They neglect an important aspect of the ritual, however.

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I rated it five stars on Netflix: "loved it."
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: verenaerin on July 03, 2014, 02:29:02 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on July 01, 2014, 07:17:41 AM
Jim Gaffigan: Obsessed. Very funny.

I love him. I got his book for Mr T for father's day.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 03, 2014, 02:59:07 PM
Werner Herzog's 1979 version of Nosferatu.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on July 03, 2014, 06:44:03 PM
Godzills vs. Space Godzilla. 

poignant. 
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Post by: Larry on July 04, 2014, 09:18:08 AM
You haven't lived until you've seen Godzilla's Revenge.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 04, 2014, 09:38:18 AM
I found the 1964 version of Mothra vs Godzilla  to be particularly compelling.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on July 05, 2014, 08:07:11 AM
Edge of Tomorrow

Saw it about a week ago.

I thought it would be a terrible movie because the concept of a time loop would have been too complicated to understand.

I was wrong. It was great!!!

Still, I have unanswered questions about the time loop...
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Post by: erin is nice on July 05, 2014, 09:40:04 AM
Moonrise Kingdom. I loved it.
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Post by: piabee on July 05, 2014, 02:52:36 PM
Gravity.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 05, 2014, 03:09:18 PM
Quote from: piabee on July 05, 2014, 02:52:36 PM
Gravity.
Just saw that too. It was wild.
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Post by: Larry on July 08, 2014, 10:05:27 AM
White Zombie with Bela Lugosi. The supporting cast is poor, but Lugosi is at his best. Great camerawork, cinematography and an interesting use of musical themes from the silent era. Good old fashioned Gothic horror, where love conquers all, and evil is destroyed.
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Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on July 12, 2014, 08:46:17 AM
Wes anderson Grand Budapest Hotel.....very best movie hes made...quite entertaining and beautifully shot and incredible art design.
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Post by: erin is nice on July 13, 2014, 07:44:36 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on July 12, 2014, 08:46:17 AM
Wes anderson Grand Budapest Hotel.....very best movie hes made...quite entertaining and beautifully shot and incredible art design.

You think it was better than The Royal Tennenbaums and Moonrise Kingdom?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Pius Papa Decimus on July 13, 2014, 07:48:20 AM
Quote from: erin is nice on July 13, 2014, 07:44:36 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on July 12, 2014, 08:46:17 AM
Wes anderson Grand Budapest Hotel.....very best movie hes made...quite entertaining and beautifully shot and incredible art design.

You think it was better than The Royal Tennenbaums and Moonrise Kingdom?
I really enjoyed the Grand Budapest Hotel, love the Royal Tannenbaums, and I liked Moonrise Kingdom too. I enjoy Wes Anderson's work. The humor in his films are right up my alley.
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Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on July 13, 2014, 09:37:56 AM
Quote from: erin is nice on July 13, 2014, 07:44:36 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on July 12, 2014, 08:46:17 AM
Wes anderson Grand Budapest Hotel.....very best movie hes made...quite entertaining and beautifully shot and incredible art design.

You think it was better than The Royal Tennenbaums and Moonrise Kingdom?
I liked both..but this movie never made me uncomfortable. Which is a first for Wes.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: SouthpawLink on July 13, 2014, 11:47:04 AM
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.  The apes are more compelling characters than the humans, and I also remember their names better than I do the humans'.
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Post by: red solo cup on July 13, 2014, 04:32:23 PM
American Hustle. OK but not great. Christian Bale was uninspiring but Jennifer Lawrence was very good.
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Post by: TeDeum on July 13, 2014, 07:10:36 PM
Last movie I have seen:

Don't cry for me Argentina
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Post by: totiusque on July 13, 2014, 09:25:45 PM
The Fighting Sullivans

Another little gem I can't believe I had never seen before.  The true story of what Saving Private Ryan was based off of, and was made just 2 years after the brothers died.  I can't begin to imagine what that family went through.  Special Features on the DVD were also very interesting.

* Side note - I couldn't get into The Royal Tenenbaums.  Just not my cup of tea, I guess.
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Post by: Michael Wilson on July 13, 2014, 09:38:43 PM
Just watched "The Hobbit; the Desolation of Smaug"  Peter Jackson does a great job transforming a somewhat boring chidren's book into a gripping epic.  Very exciting.
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Post by: Gardener on July 13, 2014, 10:32:23 PM
Honey, I Shrunk The Kids.
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Post by: RedCaves on July 14, 2014, 03:52:05 PM
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes!

LOVED IT!!

Better than the first one.

Looking forward to the third one. I wonder if they will incorporate the ICARUS crew for the next one?
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Post by: Revixit on July 14, 2014, 05:18:11 PM
Quote from: TeDeum on July 13, 2014, 07:10:36 PM
Last movie I have seen:

Don't cry for me Argentina

You're referring to "Evita," right?

Madonna gave a wonderful performance as Eva Peron.  I haven't really followed her career but I doubt she's done anything better than
"Evita."  I thought she deserved the Oscar for it that year, though I don't remember who won it.

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Post by: Heinrich on July 14, 2014, 07:04:49 PM
Quote from: Revixit on July 14, 2014, 05:18:11 PM
Quote from: TeDeum on July 13, 2014, 07:10:36 PM
Last movie I have seen:

Don't cry for me Argentina

You're referring to "Evita," right?

Madonna gave a wonderful performance as Eva Peron.  I haven't really followed her career but I doubt she's done anything better than
"Evita."  I thought she deserved the Oscar for it that year, though I don't remember who won it.

:rofl:
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Post by: Revixit on July 14, 2014, 07:42:00 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 14, 2014, 07:04:49 PM
Quote from: Revixit on July 14, 2014, 05:18:11 PM
Quote from: TeDeum on July 13, 2014, 07:10:36 PM
Last movie I have seen:

Don't cry for me Argentina

You're referring to "Evita," right?

Madonna gave a wonderful performance as Eva Peron.  I haven't really followed her career but I doubt she's done anything better than "Evita."  I thought she deserved the Oscar for it that year, though I don't remember who won it.

:rofl:

Have you seen "Evita"?  I'm guessing not.  It wasn't a comedy and Madonna's performance was not a joke.  Nor was I kidding.  She was very good in the part.
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Post by: Lydia Purpuraria on July 14, 2014, 07:45:36 PM
Quote from: Revixit on July 14, 2014, 07:42:00 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 14, 2014, 07:04:49 PM
Quote from: Revixit on July 14, 2014, 05:18:11 PM
Quote from: TeDeum on July 13, 2014, 07:10:36 PM
Last movie I have seen:

Don't cry for me Argentina

You're referring to "Evita," right?

Madonna gave a wonderful performance as Eva Peron.  I haven't really followed her career but I doubt she's done anything better than "Evita."  I thought she deserved the Oscar for it that year, though I don't remember who won it.

:rofl:

Have you seen "Evita"?  I'm guessing not.  It wasn't a comedy and Madonna's performance was not a joke.  Nor was I kidding.  She was very good in the part.

I've seen it. I agree with you that she actually was really good in that movie. It is amazing how much she looks like Eva Peron.
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Post by: Heinrich on July 14, 2014, 08:57:25 PM
 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Post by: Arun on July 14, 2014, 11:57:20 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on July 14, 2014, 03:52:05 PM
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes!

LOVED IT!!

Better than the first one.

Looking forward to the third one. I wonder if they will incorporate the ICARUS crew for the next one?

wasn't there a reference to it in the background on a tv at one point... sure i remember someting like that happening in there
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on July 15, 2014, 07:47:47 AM
Quote from: Lydia Purpuraria on July 14, 2014, 07:45:36 PM
Quote from: Revixit on July 14, 2014, 07:42:00 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 14, 2014, 07:04:49 PM
Quote from: Revixit on July 14, 2014, 05:18:11 PM
Quote from: TeDeum on July 13, 2014, 07:10:36 PM
Last movie I have seen:

Don't cry for me Argentina

You're referring to "Evita," right?

Madonna gave a wonderful performance as Eva Peron.  I haven't really followed her career but I doubt she's done anything better than "Evita."  I thought she deserved the Oscar for it that year, though I don't remember who won it.

:rofl:

Have you seen "Evita"?  I'm guessing not.  It wasn't a comedy and Madonna's performance was not a joke.  Nor was I kidding.  She was very good in the part.

I've seen it. I agree with you that she actually was really good in that movie. It is amazing how much she looks like Eva Peron.

She really should have stuck with acting, because she was good at it.
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Post by: Lydia Purpuraria on July 15, 2014, 08:38:22 AM
Quote from: erin is nice on July 15, 2014, 07:47:47 AM
Quote from: Lydia Purpuraria on July 14, 2014, 07:45:36 PM
Quote from: Revixit on July 14, 2014, 07:42:00 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 14, 2014, 07:04:49 PM
Quote from: Revixit on July 14, 2014, 05:18:11 PM
Quote from: TeDeum on July 13, 2014, 07:10:36 PM
Last movie I have seen:

Don't cry for me Argentina

You're referring to "Evita," right?

Madonna gave a wonderful performance as Eva Peron.  I haven't really followed her career but I doubt she's done anything better than "Evita."  I thought she deserved the Oscar for it that year, though I don't remember who won it.

:rofl:

Have you seen "Evita"?  I'm guessing not.  It wasn't a comedy and Madonna's performance was not a joke.  Nor was I kidding.  She was very good in the part.

I've seen it. I agree with you that she actually was really good in that movie. It is amazing how much she looks like Eva Peron.

She really should have stuck with acting, because she was good at it.

This is true.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on July 15, 2014, 09:12:39 AM
"The Conjuring"

Wonderfully directed based on truth horror film.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on July 15, 2014, 09:17:41 AM
Quote from: Older Salt on July 15, 2014, 09:12:39 AM
"The Conjuring"

Wonderfully directed based on truth horror film.

The couple who did the investigating(?) mentored an ex-cop who wrote "Deliver Us From Evil", a similar movie that is currently in the theatres...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on July 15, 2014, 11:02:20 AM
Quote from: Lynne on July 15, 2014, 09:17:41 AM
Quote from: Older Salt on July 15, 2014, 09:12:39 AM
"The Conjuring"

Wonderfully directed based on truth horror film.

The couple who did the investigating(?) mentored an ex-cop who wrote "Deliver Us From Evil", a similar movie that is currently in the theatres...
Interesting.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on July 15, 2014, 11:05:29 AM
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Post by: Larry on July 15, 2014, 11:09:51 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on July 15, 2014, 11:05:29 AM
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One of the funniest movies I ever saw.
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Post by: LouisIX on July 15, 2014, 11:10:26 AM
It's absolutely hilarious.  I wasn't expecting it to be so funny.
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Post by: Older Salt on July 15, 2014, 11:26:26 AM
My wife and I could not get past the impurity in the beginning of TIJ.
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Post by: LouisIX on July 15, 2014, 11:42:33 AM
There was a scene with some women in bikinis.  Is this what you're speaking about?
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Post by: Clare on July 15, 2014, 04:28:45 PM
The Fellowship of the Ring on Sunday, The Two Towers yesterday, and The Return of the King today.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on July 15, 2014, 05:38:37 PM
Quote from: Clare on July 15, 2014, 04:28:45 PM
The Fellowship of the Ring on Sunday, The Two Towers yesterday, and The Return of the King today.
The extended version is much better, and captures more of the books nuances.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on July 16, 2014, 02:34:05 AM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on July 15, 2014, 05:38:37 PM
Quote from: Clare on July 15, 2014, 04:28:45 PM
The Fellowship of the Ring on Sunday, The Two Towers yesterday, and The Return of the King today.
The extended version is much better, and captures more of the books nuances.
There's a longer version?? Of all of them?
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Post by: red solo cup on July 16, 2014, 05:34:41 AM
Unstoppable with Denzel Washington. Fairly exciting.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on July 16, 2014, 07:41:14 AM
Quote from: Clare on July 16, 2014, 02:34:05 AM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on July 15, 2014, 05:38:37 PM
Quote from: Clare on July 15, 2014, 04:28:45 PM
The Fellowship of the Ring on Sunday, The Two Towers yesterday, and The Return of the King today.
The extended version is much better, and captures more of the books nuances.
There's a longer version?? Of all of them?
Yes, they add many scenes from the book that aren't in the regular versions.
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Post by: The Harlequin King on July 16, 2014, 08:43:56 AM
Quote from: Clare on July 16, 2014, 02:34:05 AM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on July 15, 2014, 05:38:37 PM
Quote from: Clare on July 15, 2014, 04:28:45 PM
The Fellowship of the Ring on Sunday, The Two Towers yesterday, and The Return of the King today.
The extended version is much better, and captures more of the books nuances.
There's a longer version?? Of all of them?

Indeed. The extended edition of The Return of the King is a full hour longer. The additional scenes are totally worth it. For example, there's a flashback scene with Boromir in The Two Towers. Eowyn also sings a funeral dirge for Theoden's son.

Furthermore, I've watched both the theatrical version and Extended Edition Blu-rays, and the EE picture quality is ridiculously better. It's like the theatrical cut was filmed with vaseline smeared on the lens by comparison. If you think I'm just being a cranky videophile, see below:

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.darkhorizons.com%2Fassets%2F0014%2F7043%2Flotrb1.jpg&hash=9893762327ee4f33e9162468446019cf21cdf496)
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Post by: Maximilian on July 16, 2014, 09:55:08 AM
Quote from: Clare on July 16, 2014, 02:34:05 AM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on July 15, 2014, 05:38:37 PM
Quote from: Clare on July 15, 2014, 04:28:45 PM
The Fellowship of the Ring on Sunday, The Two Towers yesterday, and The Return of the King today.
The extended version is much better, and captures more of the books nuances.
There's a longer version?? Of all of them?

lol. Can a movie get longer?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on July 16, 2014, 10:04:48 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on July 16, 2014, 09:55:08 AM

lol. Can a movie get longer?

If you count parts 1 and 2 as a single film, there's the original cut of Red Cliff, which is in the vicinity of 4 and a half to 5 hours.
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Post by: Mono no aware on July 16, 2014, 10:47:40 AM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on July 16, 2014, 10:04:48 AMIf you count parts 1 and 2 as a single film, there's the original cut of Red Cliff, which is in the vicinity of 4 and a half to 5 hours.

Bela Tarr's Sátántangó (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111341/) is seven hours.  And that's the theatrical version.  It's notorious not only for its length but for a single-take ten-minute sequence of cat torture.  For both of those reasons I haven't seen it.  tmw89 may have, though.

Some YouTuber has set clips from the movie to Arvo Pärt's Salve Regina.  It proves that visually, at least, Bela Tarr is a real artist of the cinema.  He may nevertheless deserve to be thrown to hungry lions.  Now that I'd watch.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1CNNf9iU9Y[/yt]
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Post by: LouisIX on July 16, 2014, 01:16:09 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on July 16, 2014, 10:47:40 AM
Some YouTuber has set clips from the movie to Arvo Pärt's Salve Regina.

These scenes are stunning.

Quote from: Pon de Replay on July 16, 2014, 10:47:40 AMIt proves that visually, at least, Bela Tarr is a real artist of the cinema.  He may nevertheless deserve to be thrown to hungry lions.  Now that I'd watch.

Unfortunately, there are many, many directors who fit that bill.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on July 17, 2014, 01:21:06 AM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on July 16, 2014, 08:43:56 AM
Quote from: Clare on July 16, 2014, 02:34:05 AM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on July 15, 2014, 05:38:37 PM
Quote from: Clare on July 15, 2014, 04:28:45 PM
The Fellowship of the Ring on Sunday, The Two Towers yesterday, and The Return of the King today.
The extended version is much better, and captures more of the books nuances.
There's a longer version?? Of all of them?

Indeed. The extended edition of The Return of the King is a full hour longer....
:swoon1: Four hours!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 17, 2014, 03:40:51 AM
i watched paranormal activity the marked ones. the plot was ok, i guess. wasn't a real scary film or anything though. then i realised i never saw the original so i watched that. i liked the way they made that one, the subtlety works much better than over the top in your face stuff, or at least i thought so.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on July 17, 2014, 06:50:25 AM
Emperor on Netflix. About Gen. McArthur's decision not to try the Emperor of Japan as a war criminal. The love story seemed totally unnecessary.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on July 17, 2014, 10:50:46 AM
Most love stories are.

I last watched The Crater Lake Monster (1977).
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Post by: Older Salt on July 17, 2014, 12:14:01 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on July 16, 2014, 07:41:14 AM
Quote from: Clare on July 16, 2014, 02:34:05 AM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on July 15, 2014, 05:38:37 PM
Quote from: Clare on July 15, 2014, 04:28:45 PM
The Fellowship of the Ring on Sunday, The Two Towers yesterday, and The Return of the King today.
The extended version is much better, and captures more of the books nuances.
There's a longer version?? Of all of them?
Yes, they add many scenes from the book that aren't in the regular versions.
I wish they had added the whole Tom Bombadil part

Big gap in the films.

Tom would have made for beautiful cinematography and the River Daughter.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on July 17, 2014, 12:23:34 PM
Quote from: Older Salt on July 17, 2014, 12:14:01 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on July 16, 2014, 07:41:14 AM
Quote from: Clare on July 16, 2014, 02:34:05 AM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on July 15, 2014, 05:38:37 PM
Quote from: Clare on July 15, 2014, 04:28:45 PM
The Fellowship of the Ring on Sunday, The Two Towers yesterday, and The Return of the King today.
The extended version is much better, and captures more of the books nuances.
There's a longer version?? Of all of them?
Yes, they add many scenes from the book that aren't in the regular versions.
I wish they had added the whole Tom Bombadil part

Big gap in the films.

Tom would have made for beautiful cinematography and the River Daughter.
Peter Jackson did a wide range of interviews with LOTR fans before filming the movies; asking them: "What scene absolutely had to be in the movie. I guess that one didn't garner enough votes.  Its a shame that the whole book with all the dialogue couldn't have been made into a movie.  But I love the movies all the same.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 17, 2014, 09:43:20 PM
they should make a movie of the silmarillion. and then release an extended cut.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on July 17, 2014, 10:13:51 PM
Quote from: Arun on July 17, 2014, 09:43:20 PM
they should make a movie of the silmarillion. and then release an extended cut.
I agree, but the story would have to be worked on, to make it more coherent.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on July 18, 2014, 05:53:00 AM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on July 17, 2014, 12:23:34 PM
Quote from: Older Salt on July 17, 2014, 12:14:01 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on July 16, 2014, 07:41:14 AM
Quote from: Clare on July 16, 2014, 02:34:05 AM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on July 15, 2014, 05:38:37 PM
Quote from: Clare on July 15, 2014, 04:28:45 PM
The Fellowship of the Ring on Sunday, The Two Towers yesterday, and The Return of the King today.
The extended version is much better, and captures more of the books nuances.
There's a longer version?? Of all of them?
Yes, they add many scenes from the book that aren't in the regular versions.
I wish they had added the whole Tom Bombadil part

Big gap in the films.

Tom would have made for beautiful cinematography and the River Daughter.
Peter Jackson did a wide range of interviews with LOTR fans before filming the movies; asking them: "What scene absolutely had to be in the movie. I guess that one didn't garner enough votes.  Its a shame that the whole book with all the dialogue couldn't have been made into a movie.  But I love the movies all the same.
I gather Saruman takes over the Shire for a bit at the end of The Return of the King, but the film missed that out too. (I did start reading the book over a decade ago, but I only got half way through. I will try again though!)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on July 18, 2014, 08:18:51 AM
Yes, he doesn't get stabbed to death by Wormtoungue  when he was expelled by Gandalf from Orthanc.  He and Wormtoungue make their way to the shire with a gang of evil men, and they take it over, killing some of the Hobbits, and turning the place into an industrial wasteland.  Frodo and his companions return to find the Shire in ruins, and rally the hold-out Took and Brandybuck clans to help them reconquer the Shire. The men are defeated in the "Battle of Bywater"; The Hobbits wanted to kill Saruman, but Frodo prevented it.  He offers Wormtoungue amnesty, and a chance to leave Saruman's service, but Saruman reveals that Wormtoungue was the one that murdered the Mayor.  Wormtoungue then slits Saruman's throat; the Hobbits kiledl Wormtoungue before Frodo could prevent it. Then Saruman's spirit rises from his dead body,  looks longingly towards the West and is swept away Eastward, away from the Gray Havens.  The Hobbits  re-build the Shire, and Sam Gamgee becomes the new Mayor.  The rest is pretty much like the movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 18, 2014, 03:35:08 PM
The Rite with Anthony Hopkins. Very different from the book by Matt Boglio.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on July 18, 2014, 09:25:13 PM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 19, 2014, 01:05:21 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on July 18, 2014, 03:35:08 PM
The Rite with Anthony Hopkins. Very different from the book by Matt Boglio.

watched it a couple years ago, good flick.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 19, 2014, 08:14:23 AM
It was a little disconcerting with Hopkins. I kept expecting Fr. Lucas to start biting people in the face.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on July 19, 2014, 12:22:47 PM
Quote from: Arun on July 17, 2014, 09:43:20 PM
they should make a movie of the silmarillion. and then release an extended cut.

The Silmarillion would be hard because there's no over-arching story.  It's a series of story/histories thrown into one compilation.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on July 20, 2014, 11:16:54 AM
Peter Jackson's Tolkien movies fill me with anger and disgust. I'm glad that at least the Silmarillion is safe. I'm sorry that they let him pollute the Hobbit with his vomitous incompetence, however.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on July 20, 2014, 11:36:20 AM
Adeodatus,
why do you state the above?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: verenaerin on July 20, 2014, 11:37:24 AM
Quote from: Adeodatus on July 20, 2014, 11:16:54 AM
Peter Jackson's Tolkien movies fill me with anger and disgust. I'm glad that at least the Silmarillion is safe. I'm sorry that they let him pollute the Hobbit with his vomitous incompetence, however.

Tell us how you really feel.


;)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 20, 2014, 06:42:13 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on July 19, 2014, 12:22:47 PM
Quote from: Arun on July 17, 2014, 09:43:20 PM
they should make a movie of the silmarillion. and then release an extended cut.

The Silmarillion would be hard because there's no over-arching story.  It's a series of story/histories thrown into one compilation.

yep and a lot of people, myself included, have found it impossible to read. my comment, as usual, was a pisstake. sorry if i misled you bro.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on July 21, 2014, 12:18:36 AM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on July 20, 2014, 11:36:20 AM
Adeodatus,
why do you state the above?

Oy vey don't get me started. In essence, it is because most of the scenes in all of his movies are either not in the book at all or are drastically different in tone and meaning from what is in the book. I don't mean minor details like the balrog suddenly being the size of Godzilla. I don't care about all that. I mean characters or scenes being so different as to be unrecognizable.

I'll give you a few examples. I could actually carry on all day at acrimonious length, but these are mere samples. For example we have Elrond sputtering with disgust about "men", i.e. humankind. That's rich coming from Elrond "Half-Elven" (guess what the other half is...), whose ancestors were the greatest heroes of the human race. But if you change that character and make him haughty and imperious, you really change a point that Tolkien is subtly making. Virtually all the ancient elves you encounter in LotR, by the time they are at that advanced age, are wise and even-tempered. Glorfindel is an excellent example though he doesn't make it into the film: the Nazgul fear to engage this lone elf in battle (that should tell you something) but he is warm, friendly and sagacious in his manner. That's a comment about the nature of sagacity and how it relates to personality.

Here's another: when Theoden is roused to action by Gandalf. In the movie, Gandalf shoots magic into Theoden's face. Vintage Jackson. In the book, Gandalf actually rouses Theoden from his sullen state by good conversation about the deeds of previous days. Theoden wasn't covered by cobwebs due to some weird and obvious magic... he was lulled into quietude by bad and cynical advice. Gandalf rekindles the heroic spark in Theoden not but a gross wave of his staff, but by good conversation. Again, this is an observation about morality and culture. Totally stomped into the mud by Jackson.

We could consider the pivotal scene in the entire trilogy, when Sam puts on the ring at his point of lowest morale and in the very vestibule of Mordor. Overlooked by Jackson. We could consider (from the deleted scenes) the Mouth of Sauron... in the books a sere and inscrutable Atlantean sorcerer, somehow kept alive for eons by the dark witchcraft of the black tower... in the movie, a giant mouth. Who is then (in the movie) murdered by Aragorn during a parley, a horrific breach of chivalry and decorum.

OK, I'm getting started and I shouldn't. And I can barely even stand to think about the travesty of the Hobbit part 1, a three hour movie with something like 5 minutes of material from the book. They can't do the Misty Mountain song or the riddle game, but they can have a whole bunch of baloney with some white orc and an absurd chase through goblin town and a guy covered in bird crap riding a rabbit-drawn sled through a forest and... ugh.

I know there are a lot of bad movies in existence. These transcend badness. They are dark inspirations of seething hatred. Even if every copy were burned I don't think that would be sufficient.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 21, 2014, 05:21:40 AM
Battle Los Angeles. Nothing to write home about.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on July 21, 2014, 11:49:11 AM
Adeodatus,
thanks for your reply.
I just loved both the books and the movies; but I admit that they sometimes don't resemble each other.  You're very observant.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on July 21, 2014, 01:46:46 PM
Quote from: Arun on July 20, 2014, 06:42:13 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on July 19, 2014, 12:22:47 PM
Quote from: Arun on July 17, 2014, 09:43:20 PM
they should make a movie of the silmarillion. and then release an extended cut.

The Silmarillion would be hard because there's no over-arching story.  It's a series of story/histories thrown into one compilation.

yep and a lot of people, myself included, have found it impossible to read. my comment, as usual, was a pisstake. sorry if i misled you bro.

It went right over my head. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on July 21, 2014, 06:15:55 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on July 20, 2014, 11:36:20 AM
Adeodatus,
why do you state the above?

Because it's true.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on July 21, 2014, 08:46:01 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on July 21, 2014, 06:15:55 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on July 20, 2014, 11:36:20 AM
Adeodatus,
why do you state the above?

Because it's true.
I like to get people to elaborate on the reasons for or against an opinion they hold.  If I hadn't asked him, I wouldn't have ever found out. 
Btw. Every time I see your avatar, I crack up.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 24, 2014, 08:04:30 AM
13 Assassins directed by Takashi Miike. It was advertised as Tarantino meets Kurosawa. Miike isn't the director Kurosawa is but it was still a pretty good film.
Two hours. The first hour was setting the stage and backstory. The second hour was one continuous battle scene. Definitely a guy flick.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: angelcookie on July 25, 2014, 01:22:23 AM
Gravity. Totally over the top. I had to make up a better ending and shared it with my husband :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on July 25, 2014, 01:24:18 AM
Quote from: angelcookie on July 25, 2014, 01:22:23 AM
Gravity. Totally over the top. I had to make up a better ending and shared it with my husband :)

If it had been realistic it would have been a boring view. A bunch of eggheads go into space and come back wobbly-legged and go on to do motivational seminars.

Over the top was way cooler to watch.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 25, 2014, 03:13:56 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on July 24, 2014, 08:04:30 AM
13 Assassins directed by Takashi Miike. It was advertised as Tarantino meets Kurosawa. Miike isn't the director Kurosawa is but it was still a pretty good film.
Two hours. The first hour was setting the stage and backstory. The second hour was one continuous battle scene. Definitely a guy flick.

i saw this one a couple years ago, it is a frickin brilliant movie. really awesome.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on July 26, 2014, 08:38:46 AM
Snowpiercer Best film in ages. Surreal and violent at times. No nudism. Great concept. Tilda Swinton is brilliant.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on July 27, 2014, 09:21:04 AM
The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on July 27, 2014, 02:12:56 PM
I just saw Hercules.

It was alright.  I was disappointed at the needless f-bomb and the totally needless naked-buttocks-of-Hercules's wife.

The previews were somewhat disappointing, though.  Apparently they are remaking essentially The Ten Commandments, casting it as "Exodus: Gods and Kings".  Based on the preview, I want to see it (because all sorts of fun stuff happens), but I do not think it is anywhere near the biblical story, so why bother supporting it? 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on July 27, 2014, 08:43:01 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 27, 2014, 02:12:56 PM
I just saw Hercules.

It was alright.  I was disappointed at the needless f-bomb and the totally needless naked-buttocks-of-Hercules's wife.

The previews were somewhat disappointing, though.  Apparently they are remaking essentially The Ten Commandments, casting it as "Exodus: Gods and Kings".  Based on the preview, I want to see it (because all sorts of fun stuff happens), but I do not think it is anywhere near the biblical story, so why bother supporting it?

It seems the "f-bomb" is being deliberately mainstreamed in the U.S. media.  I noticed it in the most recent Transformers movie and it was in the latest X-Men very bluntly. These are movies a lot of kids want to see.  My guess is they want the kids to keep saying if they have been, start saying it if they don't and the adults to cave into it. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 29, 2014, 08:26:55 AM
Lonely Hearts with Travolta and Gandolfini. Not bad.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on July 29, 2014, 11:23:25 AM
One Upon a time in the West.  great movie. Never saw it b4.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Shadow Fox on July 30, 2014, 08:10:30 AM
I suffered through the Noah movie. It was way too long and way too boring.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on July 30, 2014, 11:36:12 AM
In other words, just like Bill Maher's Religulous.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on July 30, 2014, 04:32:07 PM
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on July 29, 2014, 11:23:25 AM
One Upon a time in the West.  great movie. Never saw it b4.
that was a good movie...except the annoying harmonica melody charles bronson was supposed to be playing...I understand it was integral to certain plot points....but damn annoying. My wife and were discussing the fact that some old movies are really good EXCEPT for the musical scores. The Magnificent seven was a good movie with a horrendous musical score.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Basilios on July 31, 2014, 08:00:24 AM
Guardians of the Galaxy. Would watch again loved it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on July 31, 2014, 08:10:43 AM
Going to see that tonight

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Sbyvl36 on July 31, 2014, 11:04:12 AM
The Scarlet and the Black.  That was my second time watching it.  Great movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on July 31, 2014, 11:55:14 AM
Quote from: Sbyvl36 on July 31, 2014, 11:04:12 AM
The Scarlet and the Black.  That was my second tie watching it.  Great movie.

Fantastic movie, one of my favorites as well.  Gregory Peck is great. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Sbyvl36 on July 31, 2014, 12:17:48 PM
Quote from: Archer on July 31, 2014, 11:55:14 AM
Quote from: Sbyvl36 on July 31, 2014, 11:04:12 AM
The Scarlet and the Black.  That was my second tie watching it.  Great movie.

Fantastic movie, one of my favorites as well.  Gregory Peck is great.

Have you seen the 2010 movie Under the Roman Sky? It's a similar story, but it focuses more on Pius XII.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on August 03, 2014, 05:13:48 PM
Quote from: Sbyvl36 on July 31, 2014, 12:17:48 PM
Quote from: Archer on July 31, 2014, 11:55:14 AM
Quote from: Sbyvl36 on July 31, 2014, 11:04:12 AM
The Scarlet and the Black.  That was my second tie watching it.  Great movie.

Fantastic movie, one of my favorites as well.  Gregory Peck is great.

Have you seen the 2010 movie Under the Roman Sky? It's a similar story, but it focuses more on Pius XII.

No I haven't.  I'll have to check it out. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on August 03, 2014, 09:21:41 PM
Quote from: Shakespeare, William.  Hamlet.  Act I, Scene 3.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

It came to my attention earlier this week that an old '90s movie, The Borrowers, would air on a cable station tonight.  I had seen the movie only when it originally ran in theaters, and thought of it recently while going over what I could recall offhand of the Studio Ghibli adaptation of the same source material (their animated version was released in 2009 or 2010), so I "tuned in" to see if it had aged well; for some time in my memory, I had looked fondly on the '90s version (at least the parts I thought I remembered) after seeing the Ghibli one, because Ghibli's effort came across as unusually weak.  Having re-watched the Borrowers movie from the '90s, I confess I look much more favorably on the Ghibli now:  the '90s Borrowers features blatant product placements, very confused sense of the era in which it is set, rather primitive computer effects integration, some not-so-great child acting, and a not at all insignificant amount of badly-scripted dialogue; in short, the Ghibli iteration looks a lot better by comparison.  John Goodman's acting holds up, but his character no longer comes across to me as simply villainous... no, there's something positively disturbed about him.  He's the real highlight of the movie, and despite having to deliver a few flat lines from the script-that-couldn't, he's much more interesting than the "villain" (if she can even be called that!) in the Ghibili movie.  Also, hadn't noticed Hugh Laurie in a bit part before.

Bottom line:  don't go digging around for a copy of the '90s Borrowers movie, if you saw it back then and remember it as good then you are misremembering it and quite mistaken, and if you haven't seen it already then your time would be better spent watching something else.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on August 03, 2014, 09:33:32 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on August 03, 2014, 09:21:41 PM

what I could recall offhand of the Studio Ghibli adaptation of the same source material (their animated version was released in 2009 or 2010), so I "tuned in" to see if it had aged well; for some time in my memory, I had looked fondly on the '90s version (at least the parts I thought I remembered) after seeing the Ghibli one, because Ghibli's effort came across as unusually weak.  Having re-watched the Borrowers movie from the '90s, I confess I look much more favorably on the Ghibli now: 


I disagree with criticisms of the Studio Ghibli movie. I thought it was beautiful. Every frame was a work of art. Also, it was a truly "G" rated movie. I was able to bring young children to see it at the theater without any objectionable content of any kind.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on August 03, 2014, 09:36:04 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on August 03, 2014, 09:33:32 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on August 03, 2014, 09:21:41 PM

what I could recall offhand of the Studio Ghibli adaptation of the same source material (their animated version was released in 2009 or 2010), so I "tuned in" to see if it had aged well; for some time in my memory, I had looked fondly on the '90s version (at least the parts I thought I remembered) after seeing the Ghibli one, because Ghibli's effort came across as unusually weak.  Having re-watched the Borrowers movie from the '90s, I confess I look much more favorably on the Ghibli now: 


I disagree with criticisms of the Studio Ghibli movie. I thought it was beautiful. Every frame was a work of art. Also, it was a truly "G" rated movie. I was able to bring young children to see it at the theater without any objectionable content of any kind.

Here's the movie by the way:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp2nb9Vq0yY
[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on August 03, 2014, 09:36:20 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on August 03, 2014, 09:33:32 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on August 03, 2014, 09:21:41 PM

what I could recall offhand of the Studio Ghibli adaptation of the same source material (their animated version was released in 2009 or 2010), so I "tuned in" to see if it had aged well; for some time in my memory, I had looked fondly on the '90s version (at least the parts I thought I remembered) after seeing the Ghibli one, because Ghibli's effort came across as unusually weak.  Having re-watched the Borrowers movie from the '90s, I confess I look much more favorably on the Ghibli now: 


I disagree with criticisms of the Studio Ghibli movie. I thought it was beautiful. Every frame was a work of art. Also, it was a truly "G" rated movie. I was able to bring young children to see it at the theater without any objectionable content of any kind.

In case it wasn't clear, the criticisms that follow your quote of my post are criticisms of the '90s version, not the Ghibli movie.  I only thought of the Ghibli movie as weak compared to their other works; in the Ghibli canon, I don't think a valid argument could be made to rank it in the top half of their output.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on August 03, 2014, 09:38:01 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on August 03, 2014, 09:36:04 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on August 03, 2014, 09:33:32 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on August 03, 2014, 09:21:41 PM

what I could recall offhand of the Studio Ghibli adaptation of the same source material (their animated version was released in 2009 or 2010), so I "tuned in" to see if it had aged well; for some time in my memory, I had looked fondly on the '90s version (at least the parts I thought I remembered) after seeing the Ghibli one, because Ghibli's effort came across as unusually weak.  Having re-watched the Borrowers movie from the '90s, I confess I look much more favorably on the Ghibli now: 


I disagree with criticisms of the Studio Ghibli movie. I thought it was beautiful. Every frame was a work of art. Also, it was a truly "G" rated movie. I was able to bring young children to see it at the theater without any objectionable content of any kind.

Here's the movie by the way:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp2nb9Vq0yY
[/yt]

Even the music is beautiful:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71jTioPAGtA[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on August 03, 2014, 09:39:45 PM
Modified my original post about it for clarity's sake.

The Ghibli is by comparison the better "over-all" movie.  But far, far from perfect.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on August 03, 2014, 11:40:19 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on August 03, 2014, 09:21:41 PM
It came to my attention earlier this week that an old '90s movie, The Borrowers, would air on a cable station tonight. I had seen the movie only when it originally ran in theaters, and thought of it recently while going over what I could recall offhand of the Studio Ghibli adaptation of the same source material

Have you read the books? The live one strays so far that I never bothered to watch it. The Studio Ghibli is an acceptably lovely adaptation. I should see it again.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on August 03, 2014, 11:56:58 PM
anybody else looking forward to "deliver us from evil" ?

was thinknig of watching this one called "the cloth" as well, looks ok.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on August 04, 2014, 12:01:51 PM
Speaking of Studio Ghibli, here is a news item from today:

Goodbye Studio Ghibli, your genius will endure

As Studio Ghibli's future looks uncertain, Robbie Collin pays tribute to the magic of Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki and Isao Takahata's animation studio, which produced Spirited Away and My Neighbour Totoro
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11009842/Goodbye-Studio-Ghibli-your-genius-will-endure.html

By Robbie Collin, Film Critic
8:53AM BST 04 Aug 2014

When work began on My Neighbour Totoro, the second film to be made at Studio Ghibli, the director,
Hayao Miyazaki, wrote the following notes on the first page of his project notebook.
"My Neighbour Totoro aims to be a happy and heartwarming film, a film that lets the audience go
home with pleasant, glad feelings. Lovers will feel each other to be more precious, parents will fondly
recall their childhoods, and children will start exploring in the thickets behind shrines and climbing
trees to try to find a totoro" – the benign, half-owlish, half-ursine woodland creatures invented by
Miyazaki who give the picture its title.

That's an ambitious remit for a children's cartoon – particularly at a time in which Japanese animation
was produced, sold and guzzled like fast-food. Further down the page, beneath some more preparatory
thoughts, Miyazaki wrote down three phrases, each one describing something he wanted cinema-goers
to see in his film: 'what we have forgotten', 'what we don't notice' and 'what we are convinced we have
lost'.


"Believing that we still have these things," he concluded, "I am proposing to make My Neighbour
Totoro."

Miyazaki wrote those words in December 1986, just a year and a half after he founded Ghibli with
Isao Takahata, a fellow artist he'd worked with on the shop floor of the great animation studio Toei
Doga, and Toshio Suzuki, a former tabloid journalist whose bloody-minded charm had been invaluable
in publishing Miyazaki's great manga work, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, five years earlier.
They named the studio after an Italian warplane: Miyazaki had been fascinated by flight since
childhood, and his father owned a factory that manufactured aeroplane parts during the Second World
War. The plane, in turn, had been named after the winds that blew from Africa across the
Mediterranean, and Ghibli would blow a cleansing wind through the animation industry.

What we have forgotten, what we don't notice, what we are convinced we have lost. Read back today,
after news of the studio's indefinite suspension of production broke late on Sunday night, you
could hardly think of a better summing-up of the unique wonderment of Ghibli's work than those three
phrases. Their films have a rare power that allows you to see the world not through fresh eyes, but
warmer, wiser ones than you knew you had.

My Neighbour Totoro is one of the greatest films ever made in any genre, medium, country or era, but
you could hardly call the studio's output since then slack. Astonishingly, it was originally released in
Japan as a double-bill with Grave of the Fireflies; a tragic, poetic-realist anti-war story directed by
Takahata, who had been inspired by Italian filmmakers such as Rossellini and De Sica and wanted to
make a Japanese Bicycle Thieves; a Rome, Open City that spoke of the devastation suffered by Kobe
in the Allied firebombing raids at the end of the Second World War.

Miyazaki and Takahata were opposites in almost every meaningful way. Miyazaki was so dedicated to
his studio's success that he worked 20-hour shifts at the studio, leaving his wife to raise their two
sons, Goro and Keisuke, single-handedly. Takahata, meanwhile, was significantly more laid-back:
Miyazaki nicknamed him 'Paku-san' – Mr Munch, from the same word as the video-game character
Pac-Man – for the way he would amble into the office every morning still eating breakfast, and would
joke that he was descended from a sloth.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on August 04, 2014, 12:49:33 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on August 03, 2014, 09:33:32 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on August 03, 2014, 09:21:41 PM

what I could recall offhand of the Studio Ghibli adaptation of the same source material (their animated version was released in 2009 or 2010), so I "tuned in" to see if it had aged well; for some time in my memory, I had looked fondly on the '90s version (at least the parts I thought I remembered) after seeing the Ghibli one, because Ghibli's effort came across as unusually weak.  Having re-watched the Borrowers movie from the '90s, I confess I look much more favorably on the Ghibli now: 


I disagree with criticisms of the Studio Ghibli movie. I thought it was beautiful. Every frame was a work of art. Also, it was a truly "G" rated movie. I was able to bring young children to see it at the theater without any objectionable content of any kind.

Have you seen Ponyo? I love Ponyo.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on August 04, 2014, 12:57:53 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on August 04, 2014, 12:49:33 PM
Have you seen Ponyo? I love Ponyo.

HAM
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on August 04, 2014, 01:19:41 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on August 04, 2014, 12:49:33 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on August 03, 2014, 09:33:32 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on August 03, 2014, 09:21:41 PM

what I could recall offhand of the Studio Ghibli adaptation of the same source material (their animated version was released in 2009 or 2010), so I "tuned in" to see if it had aged well; for some time in my memory, I had looked fondly on the '90s version (at least the parts I thought I remembered) after seeing the Ghibli one, because Ghibli's effort came across as unusually weak.  Having re-watched the Borrowers movie from the '90s, I confess I look much more favorably on the Ghibli now: 


I disagree with criticisms of the Studio Ghibli movie. I thought it was beautiful. Every frame was a work of art. Also, it was a truly "G" rated movie. I was able to bring young children to see it at the theater without any objectionable content of any kind.

Have you seen Ponyo? I love Ponyo.

No, I haven't seen Ponyo. I've wanted to watch it, but others with whom I usually watch movies have insisted that it is only for small children.

I highly recommend the overlooked Studio Ghibli gem, Kokurikozaka Kara, "From Up on Poppy Hill."
You can watch the whole movie here:

http://www.animeplus.tv/kokurikozaka-kara-episode-1-online

It's appropriate for adults and teens. There's nothing really bad in it, but it's not aimed at children, and they wouldn't understand a lot of the themes.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on August 04, 2014, 01:42:48 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on August 04, 2014, 12:49:33 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on August 03, 2014, 09:33:32 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on August 03, 2014, 09:21:41 PM

what I could recall offhand of the Studio Ghibli adaptation of the same source material (their animated version was released in 2009 or 2010), so I "tuned in" to see if it had aged well; for some time in my memory, I had looked fondly on the '90s version (at least the parts I thought I remembered) after seeing the Ghibli one, because Ghibli's effort came across as unusually weak.  Having re-watched the Borrowers movie from the '90s, I confess I look much more favorably on the Ghibli now: 


I disagree with criticisms of the Studio Ghibli movie. I thought it was beautiful. Every frame was a work of art. Also, it was a truly "G" rated movie. I was able to bring young children to see it at the theater without any objectionable content of any kind.

Have you seen Ponyo? I love Ponyo.

Here's where you can watch Ponyo on-line:

http://www.animeplus.tv/ponyo-on-a-cliff-by-the-sea-movie-online
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on August 04, 2014, 04:25:14 PM
Quote from: piabee on August 03, 2014, 11:40:19 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on August 03, 2014, 09:21:41 PM
It came to my attention earlier this week that an old '90s movie, The Borrowers, would air on a cable station tonight. I had seen the movie only when it originally ran in theaters, and thought of it recently while going over what I could recall offhand of the Studio Ghibli adaptation of the same source material

Have you read the books? The live one strays so far that I never bothered to watch it. The Studio Ghibli is an acceptably lovely adaptation. I should see it again.

I'm not sure if I read the books or not (weird as that may sound)... so, probably no.

But after seeing The Borrowers again, I feel like I have to give the Ghibli a re-watch.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on August 04, 2014, 04:35:04 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on August 04, 2014, 01:19:41 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on August 04, 2014, 12:49:33 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on August 03, 2014, 09:33:32 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on August 03, 2014, 09:21:41 PM

what I could recall offhand of the Studio Ghibli adaptation of the same source material (their animated version was released in 2009 or 2010), so I "tuned in" to see if it had aged well; for some time in my memory, I had looked fondly on the '90s version (at least the parts I thought I remembered) after seeing the Ghibli one, because Ghibli's effort came across as unusually weak.  Having re-watched the Borrowers movie from the '90s, I confess I look much more favorably on the Ghibli now: 


I disagree with criticisms of the Studio Ghibli movie. I thought it was beautiful. Every frame was a work of art. Also, it was a truly "G" rated movie. I was able to bring young children to see it at the theater without any objectionable content of any kind.

Have you seen Ponyo? I love Ponyo.

No, I haven't seen Ponyo. I've wanted to watch it, but others with whom I usually watch movies have insisted that it is only for small children.

It's practically required viewing; although not top-tier, the animation is something special.  Sosuke's mother might be one of the best characters Ghibli made in the 21st century.

Quote from: Maximilian on August 04, 2014, 01:19:41 PMI highly recommend the overlooked Studio Ghibli gem, Kokurikozaka Kara, "From Up on Poppy Hill."
You can watch the whole movie here:

http://www.animeplus.tv/kokurikozaka-kara-episode-1-online

It's appropriate for adults and teens. There's nothing really bad in it, but it's not aimed at children, and they wouldn't understand a lot of the themes.

I watched it a couple of weeks ago.  That scene in the auditorium, [spoiler]when they break out into song[/spoiler]... too great!  The non-diegetic music could have been better though.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on August 04, 2014, 06:16:01 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on August 04, 2014, 04:35:04 PM

Sosuke's mother might be one of the best characters Ghibli made in the 21st century.


And she looks a lot like Erin is Nice.

Quote from: tmw89 on August 04, 2014, 04:35:04 PM

I watched it a couple of weeks ago.  That scene in the auditorium, [spoiler]when they break out into song[/spoiler]... too great!  The non-diegetic music could have been better though.

What? The early sixties soundtrack was one of the best parts. Being introduced to songs like "Sukiyaki" (Ue o Muite Arukou) is worth the price of admission alone.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35DrtPlUbc[/yt]

[Answer posted only after checking dictionary to find out what "non-diegetic music" is.]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Daniel on August 04, 2014, 09:05:07 PM
I've seen most Studio Ghibli films (the well-known ones anyway) but I never did see The Secret World of Arrietty.  Was it any good?  I'll have to check it out sometime.  I never saw or read The Borrowers either so I guess I won't have anything to compare it to...

I did like Ponyo but I think my favourite Studio Ghibli film is Castle in the Sky.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on August 04, 2014, 09:38:37 PM
Quote from: Daniel on August 04, 2014, 09:05:07 PM
I've seen most Studio Ghibli films (the well-known ones anyway) but I never did see The Secret World of Arrietty.  Was it any good?  I'll have to check it out sometime.  I never saw or read The Borrowers either so I guess I won't have anything to compare it to...

I did like Ponyo but I think my favourite Studio Ghibli film is Castle in the Sky.
Castle in the sky was pretty good
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on August 04, 2014, 10:03:21 PM
I just finished watching Omoide Poro Poro "Only Yesterday." (The English title doesn't translate the Japanese at all which means something like "The Drip Drop of Memory."

It was outstanding. Very beautiful. Very moving. It perfectly fits the Ghibli motto of reminding people of "what we have forgotten," "what we fail to notice," "what we think we have lost."

It was made by Takahata, Studio Ghibli's other director. He didn't make as many movies as Miyazaki, but he made "Grave of the Fireflies."

You can watch the movie here:

http://www.animeplus.tv/only-yesterday-movie-online
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: tmw89 on August 04, 2014, 10:11:28 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on August 04, 2014, 10:03:21 PM
I just finished watching Omoide Poro Poro "Only Yesterday." (The English title doesn't translate the Japanese at all which means something like "The Drip Drop of Memory."

It was outstanding. Very beautiful. Very moving. It perfectly fits the Ghibli motto of reminding people of "what we have forgotten," "what we fail to notice," "what we think we have lost."

It was made by Takahata, Studio Ghibli's other director. He didn't make as many movies as Miyazaki, but he made "Grave of the Fireflies."

You can watch the movie here:

http://www.animeplus.tv/only-yesterday-movie-online

He also made Pom Poko, generally considered Ghibli's worst movie.

His fourth movie for the Studio, My Neighbors the Yamadas, felt very much like an hour and a half of animated yonkomas.

Haven't seen his latest, Princess Kaguya, yet.  It's supposed to have flopped at the Japanese box office, but I've read a bunch of favorable reviews for it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on August 05, 2014, 09:03:22 PM
I just finished watching Kokurikozaka Kara "From Up on Poppy Hill" again.

It was even more beautiful this time than last time. Everything about it was a stunning work of art. The drawings were gorgeous. The music was so perfectly suited to the time and the place and the mood. The movie was so incredibly heartfelt. It perfectly accomplishes the the goals of Studio Ghibli by reminding us of:
"What we have forgotten,"
"What we have failed to notice," and
"What we thought we have lost,"
while providing hope that perhaps all is not lost after all.

You can watch it on the internet here:
http://www.animeplus.tv/kokurikozaka-kara-episode-1-online

The theme of the movie is all about preserving our cultural heritage at a time when it is being bulldozed away. It's the perfect antidote for traditionalists who are depressed and ready to give up.

We watched it tonight to celebrate a young man who just scored 37 on the MCAT because the characters in the movie are young people who are full of hope and optimism and determined to do their best and overcome every adversity to accomplish their goals.

This is a recent Studio Ghibli movie made by Goro Miyazaki, the son of the famous Hayao Miyazaki. There is some criticism that he will not be able to carry on after his father, but this movie compares favorably with anything else that Studio Ghibli has made.

If Studio Ghibli shuts down, is anyone else making movies that are beautiful just for the sake of being beautiful? I can only think of something like "Days of Heaven," and that was 35 years ago.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Cesar_Augustus on August 06, 2014, 01:09:19 AM
I have read today that Studio Ghibli is not closing, instead, they are taking a pause.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on August 06, 2014, 03:33:07 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on August 04, 2014, 01:42:48 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on August 04, 2014, 12:49:33 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on August 03, 2014, 09:33:32 PM
Quote from: tmw89 on August 03, 2014, 09:21:41 PM

what I could recall offhand of the Studio Ghibli adaptation of the same source material (their animated version was released in 2009 or 2010), so I "tuned in" to see if it had aged well; for some time in my memory, I had looked fondly on the '90s version (at least the parts I thought I remembered) after seeing the Ghibli one, because Ghibli's effort came across as unusually weak.  Having re-watched the Borrowers movie from the '90s, I confess I look much more favorably on the Ghibli now: 


I disagree with criticisms of the Studio Ghibli movie. I thought it was beautiful. Every frame was a work of art. Also, it was a truly "G" rated movie. I was able to bring young children to see it at the theater without any objectionable content of any kind.

Have you seen Ponyo? I love Ponyo.

Here's where you can watch Ponyo on-line:

http://www.animeplus.tv/ponyo-on-a-cliff-by-the-sea-movie-online

Ooh, thank you!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on August 07, 2014, 08:08:48 AM
Star Trek Into Darkness. It was OK. Still can't figure out how young Spock can meet and talk with old Spock.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on August 07, 2014, 11:01:57 AM
Guardians of the Galaxy. Loads of fun!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Sbyvl36 on August 07, 2014, 04:04:57 PM
Charlie Chan and the Scarlet Clue.  Very intriguing.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on August 07, 2014, 11:03:17 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on August 07, 2014, 08:08:48 AM
Star Trek Into Darkness. It was OK. Still can't figure out how young Spock can meet and talk with old Spock.

I suppose that if they're from parallel universes they're numerically distinct.

Saw Guardians of the Galaxy with the wife. Lots of fun. Rocket Raccoon is the best.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on August 08, 2014, 05:10:45 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on August 07, 2014, 08:08:48 AM
Still can't figure out how young Spock can meet and talk with old Spock.

It was in the script.


Crappy movie I felt. Completely unmoved by it. Largely forgotten now.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: ConverteNosDeus on August 15, 2014, 04:03:09 PM
I saw dawn of the planet of the apes a couple of days ago. Not really my kind if movie. I laughed through the whole thing though
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on August 15, 2014, 05:11:13 PM
Quote from: Larry on August 07, 2014, 11:01:57 AM
Guardians of the Galaxy. Loads of fun!

I definitely want to see t.  Not the sort of thing my wife would see so will wait till it is on amazon
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on August 16, 2014, 06:59:28 AM
Divergent. - Quite good actually. A lot better than the book according to Mrs HR. In the vein of teen post collapse movies, a-la Hunger Games.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: angelcookie on August 16, 2014, 10:45:06 PM
Elysium- I liked it
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on August 17, 2014, 10:30:18 AM
Quote from: Adeodatus on August 07, 2014, 11:03:17 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on August 07, 2014, 08:08:48 AM
Star Trek Into Darkness. It was OK. Still can't figure out how young Spock can meet and talk with old Spock.

I suppose that if they're from parallel universes they're numerically distinct.

Saw Guardians of the Galaxy with the wife. Lots of fun. Rocket Raccoon is the best.
I've heard that it was a very enjoyable movie; Is there any truth to the rumor that Rocket is up for an Academy Award?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on August 17, 2014, 01:20:03 PM
Sweetwater (2013)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Cesar_Augustus on August 17, 2014, 08:17:00 PM
Guardians of the Galaxy, lots of fun moments.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on August 23, 2014, 11:18:47 PM
Amazing Spider-Man 2. Nowhere near as bad as I heard it was. It tries to do too much and there was obviously studio interference, but parts of it were actually very touching.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on August 24, 2014, 04:28:10 AM
Knuckle. very good documentary found it real interesting.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on August 24, 2014, 05:11:51 AM
The Giver...excellent...well made...great messages...attacks the culture of death in an interesting may. Plotline  isnt airtight but its science fiction
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on August 24, 2014, 08:28:54 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on August 24, 2014, 05:11:51 AM
The Giver...excellent...well made...great messages...attacks the culture of death in an interesting may. Plotline  isnt airtight but its science fiction

I saw a preview for that and look forward to seeing it now. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on August 24, 2014, 09:19:54 PM
The Awakening
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: voxxpopulisuxx on August 24, 2014, 09:22:12 PM
Quote from: Archer on August 24, 2014, 08:28:54 AM
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on August 24, 2014, 05:11:51 AM
The Giver...excellent...well made...great messages...attacks the culture of death in an interesting may. Plotline  isnt airtight but its science fiction

I saw a preview for that and look forward to seeing it now.
theres some liberal tropes and memes..but over all an intriguing meditation on the nature of Mankind
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on August 25, 2014, 01:46:52 AM
Guardians of the Galaxy. It was okay. I want Gamora's magenta dip-dyed hair now.

Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on August 24, 2014, 05:11:51 AM
The Giver...excellent...well made...great messages...attacks the culture of death in an interesting may. Plotline  isnt airtight but its science fiction

Seeing this next. The book is great, too.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Sbyvl36 on August 26, 2014, 05:57:05 PM
Maltese Falcon. Bogart.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on August 27, 2014, 03:39:59 AM
Divergent - decent dystopian flick

Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on August 24, 2014, 05:11:51 AM
The Giver...excellent...well made...great messages...attacks the culture of death in an interesting may. Plotline  isnt airtight but its science fiction

My in-laws saw this movie, and when they were explaining it to me, it sounded eerily similar to Equilibrium.  Have you seen both movies, and do they both pretty much have the same plots?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on August 27, 2014, 06:26:47 PM
Quote from: Sbyvl36 on August 26, 2014, 05:57:05 PM
Maltese Falcon. Bogart.

A fine choice.

EDIT: Got around to showing Breaker Morant to the wife. She liked it, as I predicted. I've watched it many times... never gets old.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: dymphna17 on August 27, 2014, 08:53:45 PM
TV and internet got knocked out by lightening so we had to watch movies for a couple of days.  The best was "The Lone Survivor".  I heard the story from Marcus Luttrell himself on the Glenn Beck show years ago.  It was better hearing it from him, but the movie wasn't bad.  It certainly shows how different the perception of honor can be.

The other movie that stood out was "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold" with Richard Burton.  A spy flick involving Communists was somewhat interesting.  The best line in the movie was when spy RB tells his Communist girlfriend, "Commies are all about peace and the rest of the world wants war?  Look around, Sweetheart.  Communism has many thousands of bodies laying on their path.  Think about that."  But then he ended up dying for her.  I couldn't tell if that meant he became a Communist too, or what.  It was a little confusing.

Edit: Corrected movie name.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on August 29, 2014, 05:40:59 PM
Quote from: zork on August 24, 2014, 09:19:54 PM
The Awakening

what did you think of it?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on August 29, 2014, 07:13:31 PM
Quote from: Arun on August 29, 2014, 05:40:59 PM
Quote from: zork on August 24, 2014, 09:19:54 PM
The Awakening

what did you think of it?

Well, I didn't like it much on account of the heroine; I hated her character. She was one of those anti-religious types, even scoffing at God and theists early on in the film, and ended up being a damsel in distress towards the end.

An unlikeable protagonist can really a ruin a story; an example would be the main guy in The Postman (1985) by David Brin. Just awful.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Sbyvl36 on August 30, 2014, 06:52:56 PM
I'm about to watch the original Maltese Falcon.  I haven't seen this one before.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on August 31, 2014, 08:02:04 AM
Saw Letters From Iwo Jima recently- that was excellent.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on September 05, 2014, 04:18:47 AM
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on September 05, 2014, 05:31:28 AM
The Raven. crap.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on September 05, 2014, 10:20:56 AM
"Here Comes the Boom" for the 10th time.

Funny as heck.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on September 05, 2014, 12:23:11 PM
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It's not bad. Pretty fun.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on September 06, 2014, 12:33:58 AM
Begin Again

Same writer-director that did Once.  Good movie, though be advised there were quite a few 'f' bombs being thrown around.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on September 06, 2014, 12:34:25 AM
I watched my two favourite movies today

Amadeus (the greatest scene in all of film):
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlPQD04tn88[/yt]

Immortal Beloved
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=524VlYD0PVw[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on September 06, 2014, 10:38:00 AM
I love that scene from Amadeus too :) I don't really like the rest of the movie though. The American accents annoyed me so much!  :hide: I think it also did a disservice to Salieri (sp?). Oh, the end scene from Don Giovanni was done really well too. It sparked me off looking for other performances, finding this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK1_vm0FMAU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK1_vm0FMAU)which is still my favorite because Kurt Moll sings it like a boss.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on September 06, 2014, 03:17:02 PM
Quote from: Rose on September 06, 2014, 10:38:00 AM
I love that scene from Amadeus too :) I don't really like the rest of the movie though. The American accents annoyed me so much!  :hide: I think it also did a disservice to Salieri (sp?). Oh, the end scene from Don Giovanni was done really well too. It sparked me off looking for other performances, finding this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK1_vm0FMAU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK1_vm0FMAU)which is still my favorite because Kurt Moll sings it like a boss.

Heretic.

Here's another awesome scene from Amadeus for you all

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaXQQbcgw0[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on September 12, 2014, 05:05:00 PM
Watching The Godfather.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on September 12, 2014, 06:32:05 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on September 12, 2014, 05:05:00 PM
Watching The Godfather.

I've never seen it, even though I have all 3 on BluRay....is it worth watching?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on September 12, 2014, 06:35:44 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on September 12, 2014, 06:32:05 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on September 12, 2014, 05:05:00 PM
Watching The Godfather.

I've never seen it, even though I have all 3 on BluRay....is it worth watching?

Absolutely. 

I've seen it half a dozen times.  Still good every time.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on September 12, 2014, 07:50:47 PM
The first 2 were superb. The 3rd one is only worth watching once.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on September 16, 2014, 06:26:39 AM
Hobson's Choice (1954). I love that movie! I signed up for a free week of Hulu Plus just to be able to watch it and Babette's Feast.  :P
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on September 16, 2014, 06:39:10 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on September 16, 2014, 06:26:39 AM
Hobson's Choice (1954). I love that movie! I signed up for a free week of Hulu Plus just to be able to watch it and Babette's Feast.  :P

I've never seen either of those and I have Hulu Plus... Guess I know what I'll be watching this week...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on September 20, 2014, 06:50:16 PM
Quote from: zork on September 12, 2014, 07:50:47 PM
The first 2 were superb. The 3rd one is only worth watching once.

2 is the best
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on September 20, 2014, 09:42:19 PM
Quote from: Arun on September 20, 2014, 06:50:16 PM
Quote from: zork on September 12, 2014, 07:50:47 PM
The first 2 were superb. The 3rd one is only worth watching once.

2 is the best

I agree. I found Michael Corleone's storyline in the late 1950s more interesting than the original Don Corleone's backstory, but it was good enough that it didn't ruin the film altogether.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on September 21, 2014, 03:37:02 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on September 16, 2014, 06:26:39 AM
Hobson's Choice (1954). I love that movie! I signed up for a free week of Hulu Plus just to be able to watch it and Babette's Feast.  :P

I haven't seen Babette's Feast, isn't it quite Catholic?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: TheButler on September 21, 2014, 04:35:10 PM
Lots of people disliked them, but I loved watching both Edge of Tomorrow, and Transformers: Extinction this month!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on September 22, 2014, 01:19:47 AM
Quote from: TheButler on September 21, 2014, 04:35:10 PM
Edge of Tomorrow

I really liked this one.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on September 22, 2014, 04:05:53 PM
We re-watched The 39 Steps recently, the 1978 version. It's a good mix of English (and Scottish!) pre-WWI class with a storyline that doesn't lose pace.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: angelcookie on September 22, 2014, 04:15:29 PM
Blended- terrible
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on September 22, 2014, 05:28:05 PM
the perfect host. interesting film.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LaramieHirsch on September 24, 2014, 02:08:47 AM
I just saw Godzilla (2014).  This movie was absolutely great. 

I just want to drag studio execs by their ties into a theater, sit them down to watch it, and tell them: "See?  Do you see how awesome a movie can be if you use realism?"

I saw the 1990's atrocity.  That Godzilla--the one with Ferris Beuller--was terrible.  I think of Batman and Robin when I think of 1990s Godzilla.  And I must say...Batman and Robin was terrible.  1998 Godzilla was a cutsey, smirking, SWPL piece of crap.  It's just so bad and stupid and whimsical and stupid.  Also, it's stupid. 


Anyway.  Godzilla 2014 is totally awesome in every way. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bl. Karl Hapsburg on September 30, 2014, 08:04:17 AM
I just watched the movie Calvary with my brother the other night. Not a bad film to see but it misses out on certain points of doctrine and the priest is no saint. It gets into some heavy topics so it's not for kids.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: sprungli on October 18, 2014, 09:29:19 AM
Magic in the Moonlight
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: sprungli on October 18, 2014, 11:02:49 AM
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: angelcookie on October 19, 2014, 11:51:47 PM
The Help- great movie!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on October 20, 2014, 02:23:55 AM
Quote from: Rose on September 22, 2014, 04:05:53 PM
We re-watched The 39 Steps recently, the 1978 version. It's a good mix of English (and Scottish!) pre-WWI class with a storyline that doesn't lose pace.

the book was real good, now i'm wondering where my copy has gotten to. keen on another read of it lol..
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on October 20, 2014, 11:31:11 AM
They're either free or really cheap on Kindle, if you have that. I read it recently and was surprised how the movies take liberties with the storyline!

There's a whole series of books, have you read any of the others?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: dymphna17 on October 20, 2014, 03:38:01 PM
Disney's "Frozen".  About 10 minutes of it.  It was on our premium free station.   :rolleyes:  What Hubby won't do for free anything.  lol
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on October 20, 2014, 05:51:50 PM
I saw The Hundred-Foot Journey with my mom. She had mentioned wanted to see it a month ago and I was surprised to see that it was still playing in town. It was better than I was expecting. So was The Judge, which I saw last weekend because there was nothing else worth watching.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Basilios on October 21, 2014, 09:32:22 AM
Fury. This post is 24 hours premature though. I can't wait.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: sprungli on October 25, 2014, 11:55:52 PM
The Maze Runner.
Stand By Me.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on October 26, 2014, 12:34:48 AM
How was the maze runner?

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: sprungli on October 26, 2014, 02:18:00 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on October 26, 2014, 12:34:48 AM
How was the maze runner?
I wouldn't rate it highly to be honest. It was kind of suspenseful, but also a bit predictable...not the kind of movie that I would usually see.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on October 26, 2014, 07:02:23 AM
That's what it seemed like...   good to know.  :)

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on October 26, 2014, 11:37:34 AM
"Fury". The first 75% of the movie was good, and then it became totally farcical.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Basilios on October 26, 2014, 02:36:24 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on October 26, 2014, 11:37:34 AM
"Fury". The first 75% of the movie was good, and then it became totally farcical.

Yes I agree. I really disliked the ending crap. It went from believable, awesomely realistic(ish) story to "MURICA SELF SACRIFICE BEST SUPERHERO ONE MAN ARMY" crap. Also the Germans largely had stormtrooper syndrome (especially as you say in last part of movie).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on October 26, 2014, 05:49:46 PM
Quote from: sprungli on October 26, 2014, 02:18:00 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on October 26, 2014, 12:34:48 AM
How was the maze runner?
I wouldn't rate it highly to be honest. It was kind of suspenseful, but also a bit predictable...not the kind of movie that I would usually see.

If you're into sci-fi/fantasy the books are decent. Page turning popcorn reads.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on October 27, 2014, 09:24:15 AM
Murder on the Home Front. A horrible waste of time.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on October 27, 2014, 05:46:20 PM
Quote from: Basilios on October 26, 2014, 02:36:24 PM
Quote from: Adeodatus on October 26, 2014, 11:37:34 AM
"Fury". The first 75% of the movie was good, and then it became totally farcical.

Yes I agree. I really disliked the ending crap. It went from believable, awesomely realistic(ish) story to "MURICA SELF SACRIFICE BEST SUPERHERO ONE MAN ARMY" crap. Also the Germans largely had stormtrooper syndrome (especially as you say in last part of movie).

Yeah, it's so realistic when the bad guys line up and jog directly into your bullets, while not even firing their weapons ever.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: totiusque on October 28, 2014, 03:36:19 AM
Get the Gringo
Django Unchained
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on October 29, 2014, 04:24:51 AM
The Contender.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on October 30, 2014, 05:44:40 PM
Watching The Book of Kells
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: sprungli on November 01, 2014, 03:42:13 AM
Fury.

Once I got past the gore & death, it was kind of interesting but also really sad.

Freedom Writers.

Highly recommended. A young teacher inspires her underprivileged students to complete high school.

Liyarn Ngarn

A documentary about the oppression and prejudice that Indigenous Peoples face.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Neopelagianus on November 01, 2014, 10:27:39 AM
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO27KELMvjU[/yt]


Tunay na Ina (The True Mother), 1939

One of the only five (5) Filipino films to survive World War II. The Spanish, Filipino, and the English-speaking people before the war are already making some high quality productions then. In fact, this country is the movie capital of Southeast Asia before the war.

Neopelagianus
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Neopelagianus on November 01, 2014, 10:31:37 AM
Quote from: Neopelagianus on November 01, 2014, 10:27:39 AM
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO27KELMvjU[/yt]


Tunay na Ina (The True Mother), 1939

One of the only five (5) Filipino films to survive World War II. The Spanish, Filipino, and the English-speaking people before the war are already making some high quality productions then. In fact, this country is the movie capital of Southeast Asia before the war.

Neopelagianus

May I add that the present Filipino movie industry is in shambles today, except for a few quality productions here and there usually by independent studios. Also, the morality present in some movies is distasteful and despicable since the 1970's.

Neopelagianus
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on November 01, 2014, 02:20:37 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on October 26, 2014, 12:34:48 AM
How was the maze runner?

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I thought it was really good actually. Very suspenseful and exciting. The story themes would probably be familiar to anyone used to the genre, but the ending holds some nice twists if you don't know the story. I would certainly recommend. Think Hunger Games and you're about there.

Anyone going to see Interstellar?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on November 01, 2014, 02:51:08 PM
Has anyone ever noticed that in Inglorious Basterds, the German Sergeant says, "Every one in the German army knows Hugo Stiglitz" but then when he walks into a bar full of German soldiers no one bats an eyelid?

Plot hole.

These are the sort of things that keep me up at night
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on November 01, 2014, 03:01:05 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 01, 2014, 02:51:08 PM
Has anyone ever noticed that in Inglorious Basterds, the German Sergeant says, "Every one in the German army knows Hugo Stiglitz" but then when he walks into a bar full of German soldiers no one bats an eyelid?

Plot hole.

These are the sort of things that keep me up at night

Knows, or knows of? I believe he meant knows of. He was after all speaking the glorious English language from the perspective of that pig latin travesty known as German...

:toth:

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on November 01, 2014, 03:04:58 PM
Quote from: Gardener on November 01, 2014, 03:01:05 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 01, 2014, 02:51:08 PM
Has anyone ever noticed that in Inglorious Basterds, the German Sergeant says, "Every one in the German army knows Hugo Stiglitz" but then when he walks into a bar full of German soldiers no one bats an eyelid?

Plot hole.

These are the sort of things that keep me up at night

Knows, or knows of? I believe he meant knows of. He was after all speaking the glorious English language from the perspective of that pig latin travesty known as German...

:toth:


We need an upvote or like feature on here.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on November 01, 2014, 03:10:03 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 01, 2014, 03:04:58 PM
Quote from: Gardener on November 01, 2014, 03:01:05 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 01, 2014, 02:51:08 PM
Has anyone ever noticed that in Inglorious Basterds, the German Sergeant says, "Every one in the German army knows Hugo Stiglitz" but then when he walks into a bar full of German soldiers no one bats an eyelid?

Plot hole.

These are the sort of things that keep me up at night

Knows, or knows of? I believe he meant knows of. He was after all speaking the glorious English language from the perspective of that pig latin travesty known as German...

:toth:


We need an upvote or like feature on here.

I accept accolades via paypal.

Please pm for address to which you may send 1's and 0's.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on November 02, 2014, 06:56:11 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 01, 2014, 03:04:58 PM
Quote from: Gardener on November 01, 2014, 03:01:05 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 01, 2014, 02:51:08 PM
Has anyone ever noticed that in Inglorious Basterds, the German Sergeant says, "Every one in the German army knows Hugo Stiglitz" but then when he walks into a bar full of German soldiers no one bats an eyelid?

Plot hole.

These are the sort of things that keep me up at night

Knows, or knows of? I believe he meant knows of. He was after all speaking the glorious English language from the perspective of that pig latin travesty known as German...

:toth:


We need an upvote or like feature on here.

You non-German dolts sicken me. :lol:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on November 03, 2014, 08:11:45 AM
Quote from: Gardener on November 01, 2014, 03:01:05 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 01, 2014, 02:51:08 PM
Has anyone ever noticed that in Inglorious Basterds, the German Sergeant says, "Every one in the German army knows Hugo Stiglitz" but then when he walks into a bar full of German soldiers no one bats an eyelid?

Plot hole.

These are the sort of things that keep me up at night

Knows, or knows of? I believe he meant knows of. He was after all speaking the glorious English language from the perspective of that pig latin travesty known as German...

:toth:

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg3.wikia.nocookie.net%2F__cb20130519214230%2Fadventuretimewithfinnandjake%2Fimages%2F2%2F2d%2FBack_away_slowly.gif&hash=354f8d126b80d38019dfce9342afa196ed0d7bc6)

............

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on November 03, 2014, 11:40:52 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on November 03, 2014, 08:11:45 AM
Quote from: Gardener on November 01, 2014, 03:01:05 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 01, 2014, 02:51:08 PM
Has anyone ever noticed that in Inglorious Basterds, the German Sergeant says, "Every one in the German army knows Hugo Stiglitz" but then when he walks into a bar full of German soldiers no one bats an eyelid?

Plot hole.

These are the sort of things that keep me up at night

Knows, or knows of? I believe he meant knows of. He was after all speaking the glorious English language from the perspective of that pig latin travesty known as German...

:toth:

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg3.wikia.nocookie.net%2F__cb20130519214230%2Fadventuretimewithfinnandjake%2Fimages%2F2%2F2d%2FBack_away_slowly.gif&hash=354f8d126b80d38019dfce9342afa196ed0d7bc6)

............

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German = KK's button.

Status: pushed

Success. :D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on November 03, 2014, 11:45:10 AM
:lol:

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: sprungli on November 04, 2014, 03:19:32 AM
I thought I posted this earlier, but nope, must have closed my computer.

Freedom Writers
Would recommend! A young teacher reaches out to underprivileged high school students.

Liyarn Ngarn
A documentary about Indigenous Peoples & the structural oppression they face.

Fury
Eh, won't be seeing that one again anytime soon.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on November 07, 2014, 07:34:46 PM
Interstellar. Needs to be seen in IMAX.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Pheo on November 07, 2014, 11:09:06 PM
Nightcrawler.  Quite possibly my least favourite movie of all time.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on November 08, 2014, 02:30:37 AM
Quote from: Gardener on November 03, 2014, 11:40:52 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on November 03, 2014, 08:11:45 AM
Quote from: Gardener on November 01, 2014, 03:01:05 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 01, 2014, 02:51:08 PM
Has anyone ever noticed that in Inglorious Basterds, the German Sergeant says, "Every one in the German army knows Hugo Stiglitz" but then when he walks into a bar full of German soldiers no one bats an eyelid?

Plot hole.

These are the sort of things that keep me up at night

Knows, or knows of? I believe he meant knows of. He was after all speaking the glorious English language from the perspective of that pig latin travesty known as German...

:toth:

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg3.wikia.nocookie.net%2F__cb20130519214230%2Fadventuretimewithfinnandjake%2Fimages%2F2%2F2d%2FBack_away_slowly.gif&hash=354f8d126b80d38019dfce9342afa196ed0d7bc6)

............

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German = KK's button.

Status: pushed

Success. :D

lol, for some reason just today i sat trhough the family guy/simpsons crossover episode. then come here and see this...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on November 10, 2014, 09:11:58 AM
Event Horizon. Started off ok but then got dumber and dumber as it went on.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Johnny Midnight on November 17, 2014, 08:08:13 PM
my friends and i put predator up on the big screen.  awesome.

best remedy for getting my afternoons with margueritte (with two t's) out of our minds.  they try to inculturate us with stuff like that and the battle of algiers no doubt under the assumption that if we have to read subtitles its almost like reading a book. oh, and charlie chaplin socialist propaganda, etc. theres nothing worse than being forced to sit thru a movie you dont want to watch. it makes you resent the movie and its painful.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on November 17, 2014, 08:19:56 PM
which Predator? was it the first one with Ah-nuld?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Johnny Midnight on November 17, 2014, 08:27:29 PM
Quote from: Arun on November 17, 2014, 08:19:56 PM
which Predator? was it the first one with Ah-nuld?

si.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on November 17, 2014, 08:30:46 PM
yeah thats a good film. i remember watching it when i was about 7 or 8 and thinking "this is the greatest frickin movie ever" lol, and then out on the schoolyard with the boys pretending we're all Predators cos they were cool lol.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Johnny Midnight on November 17, 2014, 08:53:15 PM
Quote from: Arun on November 17, 2014, 08:30:46 PM
yeah thats a good film. i remember watching it when i was about 7 or 8 and thinking "this is the greatest fuckin movie ever" lol, and then out on the schoolyard with the boys pretending we're all Predators cos they were cool lol.

they are cool. i had a friend when i was younger who could do the predator sound. creeped us right the eff out, especially when he'd do it in the woods. lol.

are we allowed to say the f word? i try not to say it irl but sometimes it fits ya know? i try to do better but at least i dont take the lords name in vain anymore or usually not too often. im weak.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on November 17, 2014, 09:01:04 PM
i swear a lot irl. then again i do a lot of things i wouldn't recommend others to imitate hahaha. i'd hate to think i was a bad influence on anyone...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Johnny Midnight on November 17, 2014, 09:10:51 PM
Quote from: Arun on November 17, 2014, 09:01:04 PM
i swear a lot irl. then again i do a lot of things i wouldn't recommend others to imitate hahaha. i'd hate to think i was a bad influence on anyone...

im surrounded by puritans. hard to be a worse influence than that.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on November 17, 2014, 10:27:22 PM
Hey, no big swears up in the forum. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on November 17, 2014, 10:35:58 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on November 17, 2014, 10:27:22 PM
Hey, no big swears up in the forum.

oh whoa sorry Kaese. i honestly thought i had written "frickin" lol. i'll edit it now.

Oh and now what Johnny was saying makes more sense.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on November 18, 2014, 12:56:56 AM
Interstellar
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on November 18, 2014, 06:51:12 AM
Quote from: Arun on November 17, 2014, 09:01:04 PM
i swear a lot irl. then again i do a lot of things i wouldn't recommend others to imitate hahaha. i'd hate to think i was a bad influence on anyone...

We should be friends.


Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on November 18, 2014, 12:08:29 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on November 17, 2014, 10:27:22 PM
Hey, no big swears up in the forum.

:bronx:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on November 18, 2014, 12:09:10 PM
Going to see Mockingjay this week or next. Hopefully they take some liberties with it...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on November 19, 2014, 02:57:36 PM
My cousin-in-law has got it into his head to watch this.

[yt]BqLfpp1GBk0[/yt]

How can I help him?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Johnny Midnight on November 21, 2014, 07:13:51 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on November 19, 2014, 02:57:36 PM
My cousin-in-law has got it into his head to watch this.

[yt]BqLfpp1GBk0[/yt]

How can I help him?

tell him since he's an adult he needs to put aside childish things.  its scriptural.   :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on November 21, 2014, 07:21:01 PM
My Mom never let me watch Ninja Mutant Turtles because after a couple of episodes I starting kicking the crap out of my much younger brother....a trend that continues to this day, turtles or not  8)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on November 21, 2014, 08:36:10 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 21, 2014, 07:21:01 PM
My Mom never let me watch Ninja Mutant Turtles because after a couple of episodes I starting kicking the crap out of my much younger brother....a trend that continues to this day, turtles or not  8)its teenagemutant ninja turtles....
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on November 22, 2014, 02:28:24 AM
Good point Johnny. That makes it an obligation.

Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 21, 2014, 07:21:01 PM
My Mom never let me watch Ninja Mutant Turtles because after a couple of episodes I starting kicking the crap out of my much younger brother....a trend that continues to this day, turtles or not  8)

How many days ago was this Laus?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on November 22, 2014, 02:37:09 AM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on November 22, 2014, 02:28:24 AM
Good point Johnny. That makes it an obligation.

Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 21, 2014, 07:21:01 PM
My Mom never let me watch Ninja Mutant Turtles because after a couple of episodes I starting kicking the crap out of my much younger brother....a trend that continues to this day, turtles or not  8)

How many days ago was this Laus?

...shouldn't you be getting ready for a tutorial instead of discussing mutant turtle movies on here?  8)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on November 22, 2014, 10:18:42 AM
"The Prince"


Absolute crap.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on November 22, 2014, 11:09:43 AM
Quote from: Older Salt on November 22, 2014, 10:18:42 AM
"The Prince"


Absolute crap.

It's Bruce Willis starring, right? I don't know how anyone could expect anything good. :)
----
I saw "Rumors of Wars". It was a very protestant-esque look at the end times. No rapture (proper) but they could remove the RFID chip/mark and it could be given involuntarily.

Director bro, do you even Bible?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on November 22, 2014, 11:14:07 AM
Quote from: Gardener on November 22, 2014, 11:09:43 AM
Quote from: Older Salt on November 22, 2014, 10:18:42 AM
"The Prince"


Absolute crap.

It's Bruce Willis starring, right? I don't know how anyone could expect anything good. :)
----
I saw "Rumors of Wars". It was a very protestant-esque look at the end times. No rapture (proper) but they could remove the RFID chip/mark and it could be given involuntarily.

Director bro, do you even Bible?
Jason Patric was actually the protagonist.

Willis had only about 20mins of screen time.

Willis has done good television at least.
But right, not quality films.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on November 22, 2014, 01:52:00 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on November 22, 2014, 02:28:24 AM
Good point Johnny. That makes it an obligation.

Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 21, 2014, 07:21:01 PM
My Mom never let me watch Ninja Mutant Turtles because after a couple of episodes I starting kicking the crap out of my much younger brother....a trend that continues to this day, turtles or not  8)

How many days ago was this Laus?

Hahaha..my brother and I are both in our 20s and we still come really close to fisticuffs at family dinners. 99.999% of the time it is hockey related.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on November 22, 2014, 03:34:29 PM
Quote from: Older Salt on November 22, 2014, 11:14:07 AM
Quote from: Gardener on November 22, 2014, 11:09:43 AM
Quote from: Older Salt on November 22, 2014, 10:18:42 AM
"The Prince"


Absolute crap.

It's Bruce Willis starring, right? I don't know how anyone could expect anything good. :)
----
I saw "Rumors of Wars". It was a very protestant-esque look at the end times. No rapture (proper) but they could remove the RFID chip/mark and it could be given involuntarily.

Director bro, do you even Bible?
Jason Patric was actually the protagonist.

Willis had only about 20mins of screen time.

Willis has done good television at least.
But right, not quality films.

you should really check out the first three die hard films sometime. they were brilliant.

last movie i watched was called knights of badassdom. it was funny as.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on November 22, 2014, 04:57:21 PM
Quote from: Rose on November 22, 2014, 02:37:09 AM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on November 22, 2014, 02:28:24 AM
Good point Johnny. That makes it an obligation.

Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 21, 2014, 07:21:01 PM
My Mom never let me watch Ninja Mutant Turtles because after a couple of episodes I starting kicking the crap out of my much younger brother....a trend that continues to this day, turtles or not  8)

How many days ago was this Laus?

...shouldn't you be getting ready for a tutorial instead of discussing mutant turtle movies on here?  8)

In your brother's defence, he is observing the proper order of priorities (unless the tutorial involves the Mutant Ninja Turtles, such as how best to navigate the Technodrome level in the 3rd game).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on November 22, 2014, 06:07:09 PM
Quote from: zork on November 22, 2014, 04:57:21 PM
Quote from: Rose on November 22, 2014, 02:37:09 AM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on November 22, 2014, 02:28:24 AM
Good point Johnny. That makes it an obligation.

Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 21, 2014, 07:21:01 PM
My Mom never let me watch Ninja Mutant Turtles because after a couple of episodes I starting kicking the crap out of my much younger brother....a trend that continues to this day, turtles or not  8)

How many days ago was this Laus?

...shouldn't you be getting ready for a tutorial instead of discussing mutant turtle movies on here?  8)

In your brother's defence, he is observing the proper order of priorities (unless the tutorial involves the Mutant Ninja Turtles, such as how best to navigate the Technodrome level in the 3rd game).

:laugh:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on November 22, 2014, 06:55:59 PM
The Art of Flight  :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh29_SERH0Y
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Pheo on November 22, 2014, 07:06:12 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 22, 2014, 06:55:59 PM
The Art of Flight  :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh29_SERH0Y

Aaaand it's on Netflix!  Yep, watching that one tonight.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on November 22, 2014, 07:12:40 PM
Do it man, it's awesome...makes me miss the West coast something fierce.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on November 22, 2014, 08:26:23 PM
Stonehearst Asylum
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Pheo on November 22, 2014, 08:32:28 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 22, 2014, 07:12:40 PM
Do it man, it's awesome...makes me miss the West coast something fierce.

Can't believe I hadn't seen that before.  BC kicked their arses lol.  Some incredible piloting too...

I can't stand the taste of red bull, but they're still one of my favourite companies because of stuff like this.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on November 22, 2014, 09:07:23 PM
Quote from: Pheo on November 22, 2014, 08:32:28 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 22, 2014, 07:12:40 PM
Do it man, it's awesome...makes me miss the West coast something fierce.

Can't believe I hadn't seen that before.  BC kicked their arses lol.  Some incredible piloting too...

I can't stand the taste of red bull, but they're still one of my favourite companies because of stuff like this.

Yeah man - I used to tend bar at a ski mountain and had a couple buddies who used to do this kind of thing - they were insane....but I guess years of smoking dope kills the part of your brain that says "Nope, not doing it" haha.

And you're right about Red Bull. Did you know a Google exec recently beat the skydive record? No one knows because they all think about the Red Bull jump.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on November 22, 2014, 09:45:00 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 22, 2014, 09:07:23 PM
I guess years of smoking dope kills the part of your brain that says "Nope, not doing it" haha.


no, marijuana has actually been shown to repair some kinds of brain damage. it doesn't cause any.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on November 23, 2014, 05:17:52 AM
QuoteIn your brother's defence, he is observing the proper order of priorities (unless the tutorial involves the Mutant Ninja Turtles, such as how best to navigate the Technodrome level in the 3rd game).

Thanks mate. Suscipe takes priority of course.  8)

Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 22, 2014, 01:52:00 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on November 22, 2014, 02:28:24 AM
Good point Johnny. That makes it an obligation.

Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 21, 2014, 07:21:01 PM
My Mom never let me watch Ninja Mutant Turtles because after a couple of episodes I starting kicking the crap out of my much younger brother....a trend that continues to this day, turtles or not  8)

How many days ago was this Laus?

Hahaha..my brother and I are both in our 20s and we still come really close to fisticuffs at family dinners. 99.999% of the time it is hockey related.
I bet Christmas must be fun.  ;)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on November 23, 2014, 08:45:14 PM
Melancholia (2011)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on November 23, 2014, 09:28:39 PM
Dracula Untold. pretty good fight scenes.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on November 24, 2014, 07:27:25 AM
Quote from: Arun on November 22, 2014, 03:34:29 PM
Quote from: Older Salt on November 22, 2014, 11:14:07 AM
Quote from: Gardener on November 22, 2014, 11:09:43 AM
Quote from: Older Salt on November 22, 2014, 10:18:42 AM
"The Prince"


Absolute crap.

It's Bruce Willis starring, right? I don't know how anyone could expect anything good. :)
----
I saw "Rumors of Wars". It was a very protestant-esque look at the end times. No rapture (proper) but they could remove the RFID chip/mark and it could be given involuntarily.

Director bro, do you even Bible?
Jason Patric was actually the protagonist.

Willis had only about 20mins of screen time.

Willis has done good television at least.
But right, not quality films.

you should really check out the first three die hard films sometime. they were brilliant.

last movie i watched was called knights of badassdom. it was funny as.
The Die Hard films are filled with the breaking of the 3rd Commandment over and over again as well as the first one showing topless women at least 3 times.

Garbage.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on November 24, 2014, 08:10:34 AM
Quote from: Arun on November 22, 2014, 09:45:00 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 22, 2014, 09:07:23 PM
I guess years of smoking dope kills the part of your brain that says "Nope, not doing it" haha.


no, marijuana has actually been shown to repair some kinds of brain damage. it doesn't cause any.

Don't know about marijuana, but weed (cannabis if you don't use that term outside of the UK?) can trigger severe mental health problems including schizophrenia, even in later life.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on November 24, 2014, 09:41:56 AM
Quote from: Older Salt on November 24, 2014, 07:27:25 AM
Quote from: Arun on November 22, 2014, 03:34:29 PM
Quote from: Older Salt on November 22, 2014, 11:14:07 AM
Quote from: Gardener on November 22, 2014, 11:09:43 AM
Quote from: Older Salt on November 22, 2014, 10:18:42 AM
"The Prince"


Absolute crap.

It's Bruce Willis starring, right? I don't know how anyone could expect anything good. :)
----
I saw "Rumors of Wars". It was a very protestant-esque look at the end times. No rapture (proper) but they could remove the RFID chip/mark and it could be given involuntarily.

Director bro, do you even Bible?
Jason Patric was actually the protagonist.

Willis had only about 20mins of screen time.

Willis has done good television at least.
But right, not quality films.

you should really check out the first three die hard films sometime. they were brilliant.

last movie i watched was called knights of badassdom. it was funny as.
The Die Hard films are filled with the breaking of the 3rd Commandment over and over again as well as the first one showing topless women at least 3 times.

Garbage.

They consistently miss Mass on Sundays? How dare they!   ;D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on November 24, 2014, 12:25:26 PM
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"The Prince"


Absolute crap.

It's Bruce Willis starring, right? I don't know how anyone could expect anything good. :)
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I saw "Rumors of Wars". It was a very protestant-esque look at the end times. No rapture (proper) but they could remove the RFID chip/mark and it could be given involuntarily.

Director bro, do you even Bible?
Jason Patric was actually the protagonist.

Willis had only about 20mins of screen time.

Willis has done good television at least.
But right, not quality films.

you should really check out the first three die hard films sometime. they were brilliant.

last movie i watched was called knights of badassdom. it was funny as.
The Die Hard films are filled with the breaking of the 3rd Commandment over and over again as well as the first one showing topless women at least 3 times.

Garbage.

They consistently miss Mass on Sundays? How dare they!   ;D
woops!
Mea Culpa.
The 2nd.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on November 24, 2014, 04:28:14 PM
Quote from: Rose on November 24, 2014, 08:10:34 AM
Quote from: Arun on November 22, 2014, 09:45:00 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 22, 2014, 09:07:23 PM
I guess years of smoking dope kills the part of your brain that says "Nope, not doing it" haha.


no, marijuana has actually been shown to repair some kinds of brain damage. it doesn't cause any.

Don't know about marijuana, but weed (cannabis if you don't use that term outside of the UK?) can trigger severe mental health problems including schizophrenia, even in later life.

no it doesn't. that theory has been completely disproved. marijuana is cannabis btw. medical marijuana has been shown to be highly effective in regenerative treatment for brain damage as well as highly effective in the treatment of some mental disorders.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Johnny Midnight on November 24, 2014, 06:56:45 PM
Quote from: Arun on November 24, 2014, 04:28:14 PM
Quote from: Rose on November 24, 2014, 08:10:34 AM
Quote from: Arun on November 22, 2014, 09:45:00 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 22, 2014, 09:07:23 PM
I guess years of smoking dope kills the part of your brain that says "Nope, not doing it" haha.


no, marijuana has actually been shown to repair some kinds of brain damage. it doesn't cause any.

Don't know about marijuana, but weed (cannabis if you don't use that term outside of the UK?) can trigger severe mental health problems including schizophrenia, even in later life.

no it doesn't. that theory has been completely disproved. marijuana is cannabis btw. medical marijuana has been shown to be highly effective in regenerative treatment for brain damage as well as highly effective in the treatment of some mental disorders.

can we smoke the marijuana? does the church allow that? i wonder if the puritans around here would let us keep that in our rooms since alcohol is out.

and bobs if youre reading this...its a joke.  just so you know.  :toth:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on November 24, 2014, 08:02:34 PM
Quote from: Johnny Midnight on November 24, 2014, 06:56:45 PM
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Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 22, 2014, 09:07:23 PM
I guess years of smoking dope kills the part of your brain that says "Nope, not doing it" haha.


no, marijuana has actually been shown to repair some kinds of brain damage. it doesn't cause any.

Don't know about marijuana, but weed (cannabis if you don't use that term outside of the UK?) can trigger severe mental health problems including schizophrenia, even in later life.

no it doesn't. that theory has been completely disproved. marijuana is cannabis btw. medical marijuana has been shown to be highly effective in regenerative treatment for brain damage as well as highly effective in the treatment of some mental disorders.

can we smoke the marijuana? does the church allow that? i wonder if the puritans around here would let us keep that in our rooms since alcohol is out.

and bobs if youre reading this...its a joke.  just so you know.  :toth:

The Church allows the responsible use of all things in moderation.  Not irresponsible, abusive, misuse, and excess.

The same goes with alcohol.  The same goes with marijuana. 

The same could not be said of cocaine, because cocaine has been processed into a superconcentrated from it's natural state as a coca leaf.  But the Church isn't against the moderate use of the natural coca leaves, as many indigenous tribes in South America chew them to get a sort of caffeine effect.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on November 24, 2014, 08:41:40 PM
Exactly what LoneWolf said.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on November 24, 2014, 08:42:24 PM
i would suggest if you are under 18 to avoid it though. alcohol too.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on November 24, 2014, 08:43:50 PM
Quote from: Arun on November 24, 2014, 08:42:24 PM
i would suggest if you are under 18 to avoid it though. alcohol too.

I'm all for under age drinking at home. Builds proper respect for alcohol and the virtue of temperance.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on November 24, 2014, 08:46:19 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 24, 2014, 08:43:50 PM
Quote from: Arun on November 24, 2014, 08:42:24 PM
i would suggest if you are under 18 to avoid it though. alcohol too.

I'm all for under age drinking at home. Builds proper respect for alcohol and the virtue of temperance.

a few glasses at the dinner table, yes. a young man at boarding school, yeah i'm inclined to think maybe not so much lol.

Johnny boy; focus on your studies lad. if you screw it up, you'll find yourself in ten years time winding up just... like... ME!! *dramatic music*
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Johnny Midnight on November 24, 2014, 09:22:31 PM
Quote from: Arun on November 24, 2014, 08:46:19 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on November 24, 2014, 08:43:50 PM
Quote from: Arun on November 24, 2014, 08:42:24 PM
i would suggest if you are under 18 to avoid it though. alcohol too.

I'm all for under age drinking at home. Builds proper respect for alcohol and the virtue of temperance.

a few glasses at the dinner table, yes. a young man at boarding school, yeah i'm inclined to think maybe not so much lol.

Johnny boy; focus on your studies lad. if you screw it up, you'll find yourself in ten years time winding up just... like... ME!! *dramatic music*

sounds like you have a pretty boss gig. wife, kids, summer weather.  sweet, cept i dont really care for kids. maybe if they were my own id feel diff. wife and summer would be tots awesome tho.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on November 24, 2014, 10:38:24 PM
yeah i got a lot of good things going on for me bro. lot of struggles too, but we all have those. :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on November 28, 2014, 04:34:46 PM
Watching Independence Day... .
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on November 30, 2014, 12:26:44 AM
Excellent movie

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Pheo on November 30, 2014, 07:00:15 AM
You Wisconsinites and your cheese...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on December 14, 2014, 04:22:12 AM
Watched Mockingjay Part 1 and Paddington. Yes, you read the last one correctly. Out of charity you would probably excuse me by suggesting it was in a moment of madness on a particularly immature day...but I went twice.  :P I regret nothing...

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on December 14, 2014, 01:46:56 PM
The Giver. At best a B rated movie.  It had some pro-life undertones, but also had a plot full of holes, a pathetic climax and an abrupt ending with little resolution.  Also, When speaking of love, feeling, and true emotion the movie whiffed badly.  Very new age/love of man type of stuff. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on December 14, 2014, 11:47:46 PM
how was Paddington
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: TPC on December 15, 2014, 03:03:24 PM
Metropolis.  Has occult overtones.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on December 17, 2014, 09:26:08 AM
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I want to see this one.  ;D

I saw It's a Wonderful Life the other night on TV. I have a strange love/hate relationship with that movie. George Bailey just never gets any breaks, and working at the loan company is presented as the only good, upstanding, worthwhile thing that he can do with his life. I understand that this is necessary to move the plot forward, but it always bothers me.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Johnny Midnight on December 18, 2014, 09:04:59 PM
watched the avengers.  felt like i came in right in the middle of a story that i knew nothing about and didnt really care to.  i dislike comic book movies anyways cuz they seem pretentious.  they r live action cartoons, get over yourself.

it was ok i suppose, tho how the guy in the robot suit qualifies as a superhero ill never know. or the guy with the arrows? or the girl whose only function was to show off her breasts? is that a super power?  lolwut?  sorry but it was dumb but i was watching it in an uncomfortable environment that made me grumpy so that didnt help.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on December 18, 2014, 10:23:01 PM
Quote from: Johnny Midnight on December 18, 2014, 09:04:59 PM
watched the avengers.  felt like i came in right in the middle of a story that i knew nothing about and didnt really care to. 

You did come right into the middle of story that you knew nothing about.  If you hadn't seen Iron Man, Iron Man 2, the Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America: the First Avenger, you missed most of the story. 

Quotei dislike comic book movies anyways cuz they seem pretentious.  they r live action cartoons, get over yourself.

I'm the same way with comedies that try to be funny.  If they aren't what I want them to be at that moment, they have no right to exist. 

Quoteit was ok i suppose, tho how the guy in the robot suit qualifies as a superhero ill never know.

The same way Batman or Green Lantern does. Or Perseus from the Greek myths, he gets some tech that enables him to do things he wouldn't normally be able to do. 

Quoteor the guy with the arrows?

Marksman, kind of like Robin Hood. 

Quoteor the girl whose only function was to show off her breasts?

She didn't really do that in that movie, nor in Iron Man 2.  She's a spy, her opening scene sort of demonstrates that when she escapes torture in a James Bond kind of way. 


Quoteis that a super power?  lolwut?

With Scarlett Johanson that's possible.  Another reviewer thought her thighs were the star of the movie.  More a reflection of the reviewers than her character or performance. 

Quotesorry but it was dumb but i was watching it in an uncomfortable environment that made me grumpy so that didnt help.

It wasn't dumb.  It was fun.  It didn't pretend to be profound, it tried to translate the character of the classic Marvel comics which are by the way better morality plays than most of what Hollywood or mass produced literature presents. 

The Avengers is about disparate people of unequal ability working together for a common goal.  (a noble one, protecting and defending the defenseless) 

The first three Spiderman films are actually very interesting in their themes. 

The first one demonstrates that power and responsibility go hand in hand. 

The second is about personal sacrifice for the greater good. 

And the third is about corruption and failure and contrition and forgiveness.   (How many times has the villain in a movie who killed the loved one of the hero said, "I'm sorry." and gotten the reply, "I forgive you."? Most of the time the villain is inevitably killed. ) 

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Johnny Midnight on December 18, 2014, 10:49:11 PM
i saw the incredible hulk starring the guy that was in fight club. i really really wish i had never seen fight club cuz some things you cant get out of your skull thats why i try to be careful about what i watch. i dont remember anything about the hulk movie tho so i might as well have skipped it.

yes it was dumb.  looks and boobs still arent a superpower no matter how stupid they make guys act. im not saying it wasnt fun, it was a nice distraction for two hours. but golly, they almsot destroyed a flying aircraft carrier with an exploding arrow.  my disbelief can only be suspended for so long. prob is i have trouble getting into most movies that rely heavily on cgi cuz most cgi looks uber fake to me.

i understand everything you say about nobility and protecting the innocent.  im not saying its a wicked movie. something like the ring is wicked. watched it with a group of my buddies a few years ago when i was a lot stupider. worst mistake of my life,  tots freaked me out. that thing reeks of the satanic.  avengers wasnt filthy and vile like that, but imo, still pretty silly.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on December 18, 2014, 11:47:32 PM
What person goes into a comic book movie expecting serious artistic movie making?

Its for entertainment.


Gerard. Great response with regards to the marvel franchise.  Good food for thought.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on December 19, 2014, 12:16:56 AM
Mockingjay Part 1
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on December 19, 2014, 06:26:30 AM
The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Meh.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on December 19, 2014, 04:41:36 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on December 19, 2014, 06:26:30 AM
The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Meh.

It wasn't bad...just not very realistic.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on December 20, 2014, 02:11:36 AM
Good stuff.

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Quote from: zork on December 19, 2014, 12:16:56 AM
Mockingjay Part 1

I don't understand why I haven't seen this yet.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on December 20, 2014, 07:46:35 AM
Quote from: Rose on December 19, 2014, 04:41:36 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on December 19, 2014, 06:26:30 AM
The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Meh.

It wasn't bad...just not very realistic.
Many of the scenes were so dark,  I couldn't tell what was happening. To the point that it detracted from the experience.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on December 20, 2014, 02:54:41 PM
Quote from: piabee on December 20, 2014, 02:11:36 AM
Good stuff.

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Quote from: zork on December 19, 2014, 12:16:56 AM
Mockingjay Part 1

I don't understand why I haven't seen this yet.

I thought you would've seen this already!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on December 20, 2014, 03:47:30 PM
Quote from: zork on December 20, 2014, 02:54:41 PM
Quote from: piabee on December 20, 2014, 02:11:36 AM
Quote from: zork on December 19, 2014, 12:16:56 AM
Mockingjay Part 1

I don't understand why I haven't seen this yet.

I thought you would've seen this already!

Me too!! I will probably go with my sister next week now that she's visiting.

Unless you mean the 30 Seconds to Mars doc, but I only just found out about it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on December 20, 2014, 04:57:16 PM
Nah, I did mean the Mockingjay bit. I can't comment on 30 Seconds on Mars (not into their music).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on December 21, 2014, 06:07:41 AM
Quote from: Chestertonian on December 14, 2014, 11:47:46 PM
how was Paddington
Sorry. Only use this on Sunday's during advent. It was brilliant. Really lovable. A little PC with messages about immigrants and all that but for the most part just good clean fun.

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I want to see this one.  ;D

I saw It's a Wonderful Life the other night on TV. I have a strange love/hate relationship with that movie. George Bailey just never gets any breaks, and working at the loan company is presented as the only good, upstanding, worthwhile thing that he can do with his life. I understand that this is necessary to move the plot forward, but it always bothers me.


You should see Paddington when it comes out. It's good fun. Even if it's a children's film, if it's well made and serves its purpose, it's not time wasted. I'm interested in the subject of Children's Literature anyway.
Quote from: piabee on December 20, 2014, 02:11:36 AM
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Quote from: zork on December 19, 2014, 12:16:56 AM
Mockingjay Part 1

I don't understand why I haven't seen this yet.
It's very good. The cleanest and most modest Hunger Games yet, so that was a relief.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on December 21, 2014, 09:17:28 AM
Outlander. James Caviezel as an alien who crash lands in 700 AD Norway. Not awful.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on December 21, 2014, 04:05:05 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on December 21, 2014, 09:17:28 AM
Outlander. James Caviezel as an alien who crash lands in 700 AD Norway. Not awful.
Started that one. Never finished though...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on December 21, 2014, 05:51:27 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on December 21, 2014, 06:07:41 AM
I'm interested in the subject of Children's Literature anyway.

A man after my own heart.  ;D I love children's literature, especially British- Kenneth Grahame, George MacDonald, Edith Nesbit, and of course, A. A. Milne.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Johnny Midnight on December 21, 2014, 08:00:00 PM
i just watched a movie called vanishing on 7th street on prime cuz it was free.  golly what an awful movie.  and it was rated r for some reason i guess cuz they drop the eff word a few times.  the guy who played darth vader was in it and he still cant act.  no explanation either for what was happening which i hate. i need closure.

the more movies i see the more convinced i am i need to do more spiritual reading.  saints > darth vader.  im just tired of books right now.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on December 21, 2014, 09:51:39 PM
Quote from: Johnny Midnight on December 21, 2014, 08:00:00 PM

the more movies i see the more convinced i am i need to do more spiritual reading.  saints > darth vader.  im just tired of books right now.

Have you tried audiobooks? I find them extremely helpful. :)

https://catholicaudiobooks.wordpress.com/
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Johnny Midnight on December 22, 2014, 12:01:13 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on December 21, 2014, 09:51:39 PM
Quote from: Johnny Midnight on December 21, 2014, 08:00:00 PM

the more movies i see the more convinced i am i need to do more spiritual reading.  saints > darth vader.  im just tired of books right now.

Have you tried audiobooks? I find them extremely helpful. :)

https://catholicaudiobooks.wordpress.com/

thank you for this.  i like free.   :) im going to load some of those on my mp and avoid awful free movies for awhile.

ok, i prob wont avoid awful free movies, but ill watch fewer of them.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on December 22, 2014, 07:55:54 AM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on December 22, 2014, 03:33:35 PM
The Theory of Everything. It was sad.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on December 22, 2014, 07:41:18 PM
Watching "The Sandlot" again.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on December 23, 2014, 02:11:05 PM
Into Great Silence. Film by Phillip Gröning.  This was a look inside a Carthusian Monastery where silence is  mostly maintained. Very good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: diaduit on December 23, 2014, 02:22:59 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on December 23, 2014, 02:11:05 PM
Into Great Silence. Film by Phillip Gröning.  This was a look inside a Carthusian Monastery where silence is  mostly maintained. Very good.

No subtitles needed then :D

Watched The Robe with Burt Reynolds, love the last scene where he and his beloved walk towards death and into heaven.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on December 23, 2014, 03:05:34 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on December 23, 2014, 02:11:05 PM
Into Great Silence. Film by Phillip Gröning.  This was a look inside a Carthusian Monastery where silence is  mostly maintained. Very good.

This was a good movie!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on December 23, 2014, 11:36:51 PM
Quote from: diaduit on December 23, 2014, 02:22:59 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on December 23, 2014, 02:11:05 PM
Into Great Silence. Film by Phillip Gröning.  This was a look inside a Carthusian Monastery where silence is  mostly maintained. Very good.

No subtitles needed then :D

Watched The Robe with Burt Reynolds, love the last scene where he and his beloved walk towards death and into heaven.

Burt Reynolds?  Did you mean Richard Burton?

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: diaduit on December 24, 2014, 01:06:54 AM
Could be , I switch off before the credits....ooops
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on December 25, 2014, 12:49:03 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on December 21, 2014, 05:51:27 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on December 21, 2014, 06:07:41 AM
I'm interested in the subject of Children's Literature anyway.

A man after my own heart.  ;D I love children's literature, especially British- Kenneth Grahame, George MacDonald, Edith Nesbit, and of course, A. A. Milne.
The Wind in the Willows is one of my all time favourite books. I agree about British literature (in general actually). Sorry USA, but we've got the books.  :-X
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MundaCorMeum on December 25, 2014, 01:50:29 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on December 22, 2014, 07:41:18 PM
Watching "The Sandlot" again.

You're killin me, smalls
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MundaCorMeum on December 25, 2014, 01:51:45 PM
Last movie I saw was Mocking Jay 1...I liked it.

I want to see The Hobbit soon...I've yet to see any of them
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on December 25, 2014, 03:59:31 PM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on December 25, 2014, 01:51:45 PM
Last movie I saw was Mocking Jay 1...I liked it.

I want to see The Hobbit soon...I've yet to see any of them
Mockingjay was really good. The Hobbit is okay (not a patch on LotR) and you really couldn't possibly watch Battle of the Fice Armies without seeing the previous two, or at least the second one. Trust me, I've seen it and there is no introduction. The middle film ends on a cliffhanger and the third picks up straight after.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on December 25, 2014, 05:29:14 PM
Unbroken
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on December 25, 2014, 05:35:57 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on December 25, 2014, 05:29:14 PM
Unbroken

We saw that too today. What did you think of it? It kind of dragged at points but overall I thought it was respectful of Christianity and the concept of forgiveness.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on December 25, 2014, 05:38:05 PM
Quote from: Lynne on December 25, 2014, 05:35:57 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on December 25, 2014, 05:29:14 PM
Unbroken

We saw that too today. What did you think of it? It kind of dragged at points but overall I thought it was respectful of Christianity and the concept of forgiveness.

I thought it was great!!!

Surprised by how well-written and how emotionally invested I was in the movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on December 25, 2014, 05:42:18 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on December 25, 2014, 05:38:05 PM
Quote from: Lynne on December 25, 2014, 05:35:57 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on December 25, 2014, 05:29:14 PM
Unbroken

We saw that too today. What did you think of it? It kind of dragged at points but overall I thought it was respectful of Christianity and the concept of forgiveness.

I thought it was great!!!

Surprised by how well-written and how emotionally invested I was in the movie.

Now I will read the book.  :)
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Post by: Kaesekopf on December 25, 2014, 09:11:01 PM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on December 25, 2014, 01:50:29 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on December 22, 2014, 07:41:18 PM
Watching "The Sandlot" again.

You're killin me, smalls

For-ev-er

For-ev-er

For-ev-er

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on December 25, 2014, 10:18:43 PM
Captain Phillips. Tom Hanks. Good movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MundaCorMeum on December 25, 2014, 10:36:30 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on December 25, 2014, 03:59:31 PM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on December 25, 2014, 01:51:45 PM
Last movie I saw was Mocking Jay 1...I liked it.

I want to see The Hobbit soon...I've yet to see any of them
Mockingjay was really good. The Hobbit is okay (not a patch on LotR) and you really couldn't possibly watch Battle of the Fice Armies without seeing the previous two, or at least the second one. Trust me, I've seen it and there is no introduction. The middle film ends on a cliffhanger and the third picks up straight after.

I haven't got around to seeing any of them, yet.  Maybe 2015 will be a Tolkien marathon year for me.  Could be a good New Year's resolution  :popcorn:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on December 26, 2014, 03:19:30 AM
Nightcrawler. pretty good movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on December 26, 2014, 05:37:41 AM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on December 25, 2014, 10:36:30 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on December 25, 2014, 03:59:31 PM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on December 25, 2014, 01:51:45 PM
Last movie I saw was Mocking Jay 1...I liked it.

I want to see The Hobbit soon...I've yet to see any of them
Mockingjay was really good. The Hobbit is okay (not a patch on LotR) and you really couldn't possibly watch Battle of the Fice Armies without seeing the previous two, or at least the second one. Trust me, I've seen it and there is no introduction. The middle film ends on a cliffhanger and the third picks up straight after.

I haven't got around to seeing any of them, yet.  Maybe 2015 will be a Tolkien marathon year for me.  Could be a good New Year's resolution  :popcorn:
You must have seen Lord of the Rings?!  :o
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MundaCorMeum on December 26, 2014, 02:22:23 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on December 26, 2014, 05:37:41 AM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on December 25, 2014, 10:36:30 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on December 25, 2014, 03:59:31 PM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on December 25, 2014, 01:51:45 PM
Last movie I saw was Mocking Jay 1...I liked it.

I want to see The Hobbit soon...I've yet to see any of them
Mockingjay was really good. The Hobbit is okay (not a patch on LotR) and you really couldn't possibly watch Battle of the Fice Armies without seeing the previous two, or at least the second one. Trust me, I've seen it and there is no introduction. The middle film ends on a cliffhanger and the third picks up straight after.

I haven't got around to seeing any of them, yet.  Maybe 2015 will be a Tolkien marathon year for me.  Could be a good New Year's resolution  :popcorn:
You must have seen Lord of the Rings?!  :o

I plead the fifth  8)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on December 26, 2014, 03:56:28 PM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on December 26, 2014, 02:22:23 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on December 26, 2014, 05:37:41 AM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on December 25, 2014, 10:36:30 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on December 25, 2014, 03:59:31 PM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on December 25, 2014, 01:51:45 PM
Last movie I saw was Mocking Jay 1...I liked it.

I want to see The Hobbit soon...I've yet to see any of them
Mockingjay was really good. The Hobbit is okay (not a patch on LotR) and you really couldn't possibly watch Battle of the Fice Armies without seeing the previous two, or at least the second one. Trust me, I've seen it and there is no introduction. The middle film ends on a cliffhanger and the third picks up straight after.

I haven't got around to seeing any of them, yet.  Maybe 2015 will be a Tolkien marathon year for me.  Could be a good New Year's resolution  :popcorn:
You must have seen Lord of the Rings?!  :o

I plead the fifth  8)

nah there's only three
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on December 26, 2014, 08:29:53 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on December 25, 2014, 10:18:43 PM
Captain Phillips. Tom Hanks. Good movie.

I'ts basically my biography. The SEALs part, not the starving Somalian part
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on December 26, 2014, 09:19:27 PM
Apollo 18 (not to be confused with Apollo 13). quite a cool little found-footage film. enjoyed it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Johnny Midnight on December 27, 2014, 12:07:58 AM
Quote from: Arun on December 26, 2014, 09:19:27 PM
Apollo 18 (not to be confused with Apollo 13). quite a cool little found-footage film. enjoyed it.

!!! lol. i saw that like two years ago. i thought it was apollo 13 and i usually hate historical movies cuz i find history boring cuz im not the smartest. so i started to complain and my buddy said just shut up and watch it, dummy. haha. nice surprise but i dont like shaky cams. makes me nauseous.  still it was the creeps.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on December 27, 2014, 01:08:37 AM
Quote from: Johnny Midnight on December 27, 2014, 12:07:58 AM
Quote from: Arun on December 26, 2014, 09:19:27 PM
Apollo 18 (not to be confused with Apollo 13). quite a cool little found-footage film. enjoyed it.

!!! lol. i saw that like two years ago. i thought it was apollo 13 and i usually hate historical movies cuz i find history boring cuz im not the smartest. so i started to complain and my buddy said just shut up and watch it, dummy. haha. nice surprise but i dont like shaky cams. makes me nauseous.  still it was the creeps.

yeah i liked it. i watched one called The Canal afterwards that i thought was kind of dumb.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on December 27, 2014, 07:42:15 AM
The Canal got pretty bad reviews. Did you find it "nuanced and moody"?  ;D
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Post by: Habitual_Ritual on December 27, 2014, 07:51:53 AM
Interstellar. Quite beautifully filmed. Enjoyed it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on December 27, 2014, 11:33:03 AM
Transformers: Age of Extinction.

Amazingly great movie.

10/10 would watch and be amazed again.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on December 27, 2014, 01:41:25 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on December 27, 2014, 07:42:15 AM
The Canal got pretty bad reviews. Did you find it "nuanced and moody"?  ;D

No, it
was built off a good concept for that kind of film but the twist was too obvious and the ending was dumb. The visual effects were lame and over played.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on December 27, 2014, 01:45:35 PM
St. Francis. Film by Michele Soavi. Filmed in and around Assissi in Italian with English subtitles. Pretty disappointing. The only miracle shown was when Francis returned a fallen nest to a tree. Hundreds of birds began to congregate. The dialogue was insipid perhaps because of the translation. It went like this:
"Is that you"?
"Yes"
"Your here"?
"I am" etc. That and three hours of his followers yelling "Francesco! Francesco!" I don't know what it is but it seems that Europeans can't make a movie without the obligatory surreal scenes. At one point Francis addressed a crowd of people while swinging back and forth from the end of a long rope which didn't appear to be attached to anything. I got this from the school library. Glad I didn't pay money to rent it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on December 27, 2014, 02:08:36 PM
Guardians of the Galaxy
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on December 27, 2014, 03:45:15 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on December 27, 2014, 01:45:35 PM
St. Francis. Film by Michele Soavi. Filmed in and around Assissi in Italian with English subtitles. Pretty disappointing. The only miracle shown was when Francis returned a fallen nest to a tree. Hundreds of birds began to congregate. The dialogue was insipid perhaps because of the translation. It went like this:
"Is that you"?
"Yes"
"Your here"?
"I am" etc. That and three hours of his followers yelling "Francesco! Francesco!" I don't know what it is but it seems that Europeans can't make a movie without the obligatory surreal scenes. At one point Francis addressed a crowd of people while swinging back and forth from the end of a long rope which didn't appear to be attached to anything. I got this from the school library. Glad I didn't pay money to rent it.

There's a good old one called Francis of Assisi my kids like.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on December 27, 2014, 07:18:23 PM
The Equalizer. 

Very satisfying, classic swift and terrible justice against the bad guys type of movie.  It did a good job of capturing the essence of the original TV show. 

Rated R mostly for "F" bombs, the violence is no worse than some television shows, with some bloody pictures from the coroner's office. 

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on December 27, 2014, 08:09:47 PM
Quote from: zork on December 27, 2014, 02:08:36 PM
Guardians of the Galaxy

Ditto
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on December 27, 2014, 08:30:23 PM
The Hobbit 3
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on December 27, 2014, 11:22:01 PM
Dark country. Still trying to figure it out.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Johnny Midnight on December 28, 2014, 12:39:18 AM
death of a president.  i guess george bush was a pretty bad guy but im not sure they had to kill him to make their point.  cheney was even worse anyways.  dont understand why they couldnt have killed a fictional president.

it was late and i was bored. that always leads me to bad movies.  :(
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on December 28, 2014, 08:41:13 AM
Snowpiercer. All the humans in a post-apocalyptic snowscape live on a train constantly circling the globe. The people in the back live in grubby half starved squalor. The closer to the front the higher the standard of living. The poors are always trying to revolt and take over the engine. I spent the first hour rolling my eyes and wondering why I was wasting my time. By the second hour I was glad I stuck with it.
It was crazy, weird, dark, at times very funny, violent and bizarre. I'm sure there were all kinds of metaphors that were over my head.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on December 28, 2014, 03:24:21 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on December 28, 2014, 08:41:13 AM
Snowpiercer. All the humans in a post-apocalyptic snowscape live on a train constantly circling the globe. The people in the back live in grubby half starved squalor. The closer to the front the higher the standard of living. The poors are always trying to revolt and take over the engine. I spent the first hour rolling my eyes and wondering why I was wasting my time. By the second hour I was glad I stuck with it.
It was crazy, weird, dark, at times very funny, violent and bizarre. I'm sure there were all kinds of metaphors that were over my head.

i'm going to give that one a watch tonight maybe then...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on December 28, 2014, 06:02:49 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on December 28, 2014, 08:41:13 AM
Snowpiercer. All the humans in a post-apocalyptic snowscape live on a train constantly circling the globe. The people in the back live in grubby half starved squalor. The closer to the front the higher the standard of living. The poors are always trying to revolt and take over the engine. I spent the first hour rolling my eyes and wondering why I was wasting my time. By the second hour I was glad I stuck with it.
It was crazy, weird, dark, at times very funny, violent and bizarre. I'm sure there were all kinds of metaphors that were over my head.

I didn't like the ending.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on December 29, 2014, 06:34:52 AM
Yes it was weak.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on December 29, 2014, 12:41:48 PM
The Tale of Despereaux.



Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MundaCorMeum on December 29, 2014, 01:33:39 PM
Quote from: Gardener on December 29, 2014, 12:41:48 PM
The Tale of Despereaux.

How was it?  Ok for the 10 and under crowd?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on December 29, 2014, 01:38:31 PM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on December 29, 2014, 01:33:39 PM
Quote from: Gardener on December 29, 2014, 12:41:48 PM
The Tale of Despereaux.

How was it?  Ok for the 10 and under crowd?

Well, there's one scene where the princess is about to be eaten by rats but overall, yeah I'd show it to a 10 year old.

I'm finding these days that most of the movies we get through without having to turn them off are intended for 10 and under... hooray progress.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on December 29, 2014, 02:31:57 PM
My kids used to have that movie. Soup! Mice! adventure! It's got it all.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on December 30, 2014, 06:59:53 AM
Dead Man Down. Not bad considering it was a Colin Farrell movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on December 31, 2014, 09:58:26 AM
Into the Woods. I liked it, except for the part where Cinderella tells Little Red Riding Hood: "You decide what's good, you decide what's true." Bad, bad phrasing. And the whole scene with the baker's wife and Prince Charming.  >:(
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on December 31, 2014, 01:48:23 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on December 31, 2014, 09:58:26 AM
Into the Woods. I liked it, except for the part where Cinderella tells Little Red Riding Hood: "You decide what's good, you decide what's true." Bad, bad phrasing. And the whole scene with the baker's wife and Prince Charming.  >:(
I read about it on Kids-in-Mind. To be honest, it is rather inappropriate for a children's fairytale to feature clear (soft) adultery. Why would they even do that in a kids film?! (Rhetorical question).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on December 31, 2014, 05:00:49 PM
City of ember

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on December 31, 2014, 11:43:13 PM
Mockingjay, finally. It didn't get the best reviews but I liked it. I always enjoy the middles of stories.

Quote from: AngloFalcon on December 31, 2014, 01:48:23 PM
Why would they even do that in a kids film?! (Rhetorical question).

It's not really a kids' film, but unless you were familiar with the musical it's based on you wouldn't know. I have friend who was upset by it because she didn't know what she was getting into. This is why reviews exist.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on January 01, 2015, 04:18:48 AM
Quote from: piabee on December 31, 2014, 11:43:13 PM
Mockingjay, finally. It didn't get the best reviews but I liked it. I always enjoy the middles of stories.

Quote from: AngloFalcon on December 31, 2014, 01:48:23 PM
Why would they even do that in a kids film?! (Rhetorical question).

It's not really a kids' film, but unless you were familiar with the musical it's based on you wouldn't know. I have friend who was upset by it because she didn't know what she was getting into. This is why reviews exist.
It is a PG in the UK (just one rating above 'suitable for everyone'), and the Disney name tagged onto it would mislead parents into assuming it was aimed at the Family audience. I still think it's funny business as reviewers (other than parent centred blow by blow account websites) wouldn't mention themes like that especially. It means we need to trust the media to warn us about the stuff they produce.
I agree that Mockingjay was really good though.  :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on January 02, 2015, 03:51:13 AM
The interview. It's funny as

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on January 02, 2015, 04:21:43 AM
Maleficent. I cried  :-[ AF hasn't seen it yet, so no spoilers. Not so sure about all of the costumes.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on January 02, 2015, 04:24:43 AM
Quote from: Arun on January 02, 2015, 03:51:13 AM
The interview. It's funny as

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I didn't find it funny at all, and I have a pretty immature sense of humour...maybe it was all the hype around it, I don't know, but I thought it was lame

I just watched Django Unchained...very Tarantino, but I didn't pay enough attention to really have an opinion on it :P
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on January 02, 2015, 04:32:41 AM
Django unchained was a good watch eh

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on January 02, 2015, 07:31:39 AM
I re-watched Goldfinger, From Russia... With Love, and the first 30 minutes of You Only Live Twice.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on January 02, 2015, 11:27:01 AM
The Babadook. It was original and very well done but it didn't scare me.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on January 02, 2015, 01:00:19 PM
Fury...

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09w9MTtZDEM[/yt]

Fury was interesting...

1) I cannot recall a WW2 movie focusing on the Armor side in a while. It's always Rangers or Infantry or something similar. Was neat to see a much less glamorous movie.

2) It was much darker than the trailer portrays. The action was merely a conduit to exploring the (spiritual) darkness of war; it was interesting how accurate the various reactions were amongst the characters.

3) Pitt's character was spot-on for a grizzled platoon sergeant.

4) Grady (character name) reminded me a lot of a guy I knew; just uncouth as can be, but good enough at his job that you're sickened by him because you can't justify sending him off to the mental ward in which he belongs, only to have it revealed as nothing more than an act to cope with trauma.

5) There's something satisfying about SS getting whacked.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on January 02, 2015, 02:14:50 PM
my mate was telling me a couple days ago that apparently on set during filming of Fury the director would pick two people each day to just go out back and have a fist fight. something about building the atmosphere and camaraderie that the characters would of had in the film... i dunno lol.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on January 03, 2015, 06:30:35 PM
Just started watching Fox catcher, it's pretty good so far. Steve Carrell plays a part unlike i've ever seen him in before.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on January 03, 2015, 06:37:26 PM
Kind Hearts and Coronets.  Brilliant.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on January 04, 2015, 09:16:09 AM
It's A Wonderful Life
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on January 04, 2015, 03:23:00 PM
Harvey
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Post by: Clare on January 05, 2015, 03:53:04 PM
Arsenic and Old Lace again. (I think I mentioned in this thread seeing it sometime last year too.)
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Post by: Arun on January 05, 2015, 03:55:13 PM
reasonable doubt. bit of a paint by numbers kind of movie, but entertaining enough.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on January 06, 2015, 06:01:44 AM
Wolf of Wall St. Three hours of hookers and blow. Should be rated XXX.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on January 06, 2015, 06:13:09 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on January 06, 2015, 06:01:44 AM
Wolf of Wall St. Three hours of hookers and blow. Should be rated XXX.
It's a turd of a movie. Gross. :bs:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on January 06, 2015, 12:38:04 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on January 06, 2015, 06:13:09 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on January 06, 2015, 06:01:44 AM
Wolf of Wall St. Three hours of hookers and blow. Should be rated XXX.
It's a turd of a movie. Gross. :bs:

I found it entertaining

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on January 06, 2015, 02:29:58 PM
Quote from: Arun on January 06, 2015, 12:38:04 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on January 06, 2015, 06:13:09 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on January 06, 2015, 06:01:44 AM
Wolf of Wall St. Three hours of hookers and blow. Should be rated XXX.
It's a turd of a movie. Gross. :bs:

I found it entertaining

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:ack: It was banned in Malaysia, Kenya and Nepal. Scorsese should be dropped in the ocean and run over by speed boats. After conversion of course... ;D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: samguk yusa on January 08, 2015, 02:25:30 AM
How about injecting him with monkey blood and firing him into the sun? :P
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on January 08, 2015, 03:06:10 AM
I saw The Imitation Game in theatres yesterday...it was pretty good if it weren't for the blatantly obvious pro-homosexual, anti-God agenda...Hollywood used to be subtle about that stuff, now it just seems they're out in the open no problem. I also don't know the history behind Turing and all that, so I can't comment on it's historical accuracy. Did make me hate Germans for 114 minutes though ;) 8) :P (I'm joking don't shoot me)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on January 08, 2015, 04:27:34 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on January 08, 2015, 03:06:10 AM
I saw The Imitation Game in theatres yesterday...it was pretty good if it weren't for the blatantly obvious pro-homosexual, anti-God agenda...Hollywood used to be subtle about that stuff, now it just seems they're out in the open no problem. I also don't know the history behind Turing and all that, so I can't comment on it's historical accuracy. Did make me hate Germans for 114 minutes though ;) 8) :P (I'm joking don't shoot me)
*headshot*
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Daniel on January 08, 2015, 07:46:46 PM
I just got back from The Hobbit 3.  It wasn't bad but it wasn't all that great either.  The whole movie lacked story and seemed to be about a war between 5 armies with not much interesting stuff going on.  The first two Hobbit movies were a lot better, and I still think that there should have just been a single movie rather than a trilogy...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on January 08, 2015, 09:57:50 PM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fia.media-imdb.com%2Fimages%2FM%2FMV5BMTY3MjUxNDUwNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzk1NDk1Mw%40%40._V1_SY317_CR2%2C0%2C214%2C317_AL_.jpg&hash=6c417691df79e2671f18826562bbd374cace4bfb)

A quiet movie. Worth watching for the understated performances of Robert Duvall and Bill Murray.

Also there are Christian themes of forgiveness with explicit references to God and Jesus and scenes in churches with crosses, all things that make the vampires in Hollywood shrivel up and die.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on January 08, 2015, 10:09:54 PM
Frontera. It was like the happier version of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on January 08, 2015, 11:04:29 PM
The book of life, with my kids

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on January 09, 2015, 06:07:06 AM
Quote from: Arun on January 08, 2015, 11:04:29 PM
The book of life, with my kids

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Any good?
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Post by: Arun on January 09, 2015, 02:14:52 PM
not bad. Completely un Catholic though.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on January 10, 2015, 04:57:11 AM
The kovak box

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on January 10, 2015, 05:59:08 AM
Quote from: Arun on January 10, 2015, 04:57:11 AM
The kovak box

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Did you ever watch Snowpiercer?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on January 10, 2015, 01:33:24 PM
I finally saw Insidious.

It's been a long time since I've seen a horror movie that is actually scary.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on January 10, 2015, 02:55:17 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on January 10, 2015, 05:59:08 AM
Quote from: Arun on January 10, 2015, 04:57:11 AM
The kovak box

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Did you ever watch Snowpiercer?

The ending sucked.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on January 10, 2015, 04:05:26 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on January 10, 2015, 05:59:08 AM
Quote from: Arun on January 10, 2015, 04:57:11 AM
The kovak box

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Did you ever watch Snowpiercer?

I forgot lol I'll watch it today

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on January 10, 2015, 04:46:24 PM
sleeping beauty
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on January 11, 2015, 02:20:11 AM
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.

I do not recall any sex scenes, though I did go to the kitchen for chips and salsa at one point -- perhaps I missed it. A few moments of blasphemy, unfortunately.

Not bad. Maybe not a date night sort of deal, but certainly a guy-alone or guys' night film.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MundaCorMeum on January 11, 2015, 08:54:56 AM
Quote from: Chestertonian on January 10, 2015, 04:46:24 PM
sleeping beauty

Same here  :). Well....I only watched bits and pieces, technically.  The kids had it on, and I watched in between fixing dinner and washing dishes
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on January 11, 2015, 09:09:58 AM
I'm about to go see my first Polish movie...and surprise, surprise...it's about a nun. I'll report back later  ;) FYI it's called Ida
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on January 11, 2015, 02:01:44 PM
In the middle of watching the extended edition of The Return of the King with the clan. Just got to Minas Tirith and a priest friend of the family called. The only type of person we can't hustle off the phone...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on January 12, 2015, 04:53:08 PM
Ida was a stupid movie in the end, but really well shot/acted so I recommend it, kind of....could've done without the nun sleeping with a saxophone player
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on January 17, 2015, 01:03:30 AM
"St John Bosco:  Mission to Love"

It was good.  Long, but good. 

I love being Catholic.  If only we had more saints on Earth....
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on January 17, 2015, 01:25:23 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 17, 2015, 01:03:30 AM
"St John Bosco:  Mission to Love"

It was good.  Long, but good. 

I love being Catholic.  If only we had more saints on Earth....

where did you get this movie

st don bosco is a favorite of mine
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on January 17, 2015, 01:26:07 AM
Rented it from the local Marian center.  They have a lending library of movies and books. 

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on January 17, 2015, 09:13:48 AM
Is that the American-dubbed Italian one with music by Marco Frisina, or the one with Ben thingy, or neither?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on January 17, 2015, 10:10:24 AM
Quote from: Rose on January 17, 2015, 09:13:48 AM
Is that the American-dubbed Italian one with music by Marco Frisina, or the one with Ben thingy, or neither?

Italian one with the subtitles.  Flavio Insinna is the saint.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on January 18, 2015, 02:41:27 PM
The smurfs and the magic flute

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on January 19, 2015, 12:02:21 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 17, 2015, 10:10:24 AM
Quote from: Rose on January 17, 2015, 09:13:48 AM
Is that the American-dubbed Italian one with music by Marco Frisina, or the one with Ben thingy, or neither?

Italian one with the subtitles.  Flavio Insinna is the saint.

I'd like to see it as St. John Bosco is my confirmation saint. Unfortunately, for a Brit, the accents are a bit grating to the point of distraction. I believe all movie actors should operate with an English accent - it would solve all misunderstandings and make the industry a better place.  ;)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on January 19, 2015, 12:06:19 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on January 19, 2015, 12:02:21 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 17, 2015, 10:10:24 AM
Quote from: Rose on January 17, 2015, 09:13:48 AM
Is that the American-dubbed Italian one with music by Marco Frisina, or the one with Ben thingy, or neither?

Italian one with the subtitles.  Flavio Insinna is the saint.

I'd like to see it as St. John Bosco is my confirmation saint. Unfortunately, for a Brit, the accents are a bit grating to the point of distraction. I believe all movie actors should operate with an English accent - it would solve all misunderstandings and make the industry a better place.  ;)

Yeah, doing it in a three-hour marathon made me want to talk-a like an Italian!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Johnny Midnight on January 24, 2015, 07:28:22 PM
saw that tom cruise movie edge of tomorrow. pretty cool. last scenes were pretty dark so i really couldnt tell what the heck was going on. we were watching it in a classroom so it wasnt high quality hd, but it shouldnt have been that dark. i got the gist of what happened tho. space aliens are pretty dumb, thats what i take away from these movies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on January 25, 2015, 10:39:00 AM
Mr Smith Goes To Washington
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on January 25, 2015, 02:43:24 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on January 19, 2015, 12:02:21 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 17, 2015, 10:10:24 AM
Quote from: Rose on January 17, 2015, 09:13:48 AM
Is that the American-dubbed Italian one with music by Marco Frisina, or the one with Ben thingy, or neither?

Italian one with the subtitles.  Flavio Insinna is the saint.

I'd like to see it as St. John Bosco is my confirmation saint. Unfortunately, for a Brit, the accents are a bit grating to the point of distraction. I believe all movie actors should operate with an English accent - it would solve all misunderstandings and make the industry a better place.  ;)
Q. Why did God create Men with English accents?
A. So that they could play the part of Roman nobles in Hollywood movies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Johnny Midnight on January 25, 2015, 07:10:23 PM
i saw the last hobbit movie. thought it was horribly boring and i dont remember any of it being in the book but its been years since i read the book. i think one of the hobbits is a homo that got married in england. tolkien would be so proud im sure.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: dymphna17 on January 25, 2015, 07:21:09 PM
Just watched the cutest movie from The Knights of the Immaculata et al's (66 boys in total), great north trip.  They went into the wilderness for ice fishing, skiing, and general Minnesota tundra good fun.  It was basically a super nice home movie of a bunch of good kids having a good time, along with a Priest, a seminarian, and a couple more adults.  I'd certainly better watch 45 minutes of kids having fun than most regular movies out there.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on January 25, 2015, 07:47:25 PM
American Sniper
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: dymphna17 on January 25, 2015, 07:49:00 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on January 25, 2015, 07:47:25 PM
American Sniper

How was it?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on January 25, 2015, 07:50:41 PM
Quote from: dymphna17 on January 25, 2015, 07:49:00 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on January 25, 2015, 07:47:25 PM
American Sniper

How was it?

It was good. However, I felt that the story was a bit rushed.

Very sad moments throughout the entire movie, though. :'(
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on January 25, 2015, 10:31:57 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on January 25, 2015, 07:50:41 PM
Quote from: dymphna17 on January 25, 2015, 07:49:00 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on January 25, 2015, 07:47:25 PM
American Sniper

How was it?

It was good. However, I felt that the story was a bit rushed.

Very sad moments throughout the entire movie, though. :'(

The book was a bunch of lies, I keep hearing. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on January 25, 2015, 11:53:04 PM
What are you hearing was lies? The part about him decking Ventura?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on January 26, 2015, 06:30:07 PM
There's a whole thread on Bullshido about the guy.
I dunno though, if there's some embellishment here or there I think he's entitled to it, he's a friggin hero after all. And that's a fact.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on January 29, 2015, 08:43:48 AM
The Adventures of Robin Hood

Olivia de Havilland is still alive! (98)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on January 29, 2015, 10:16:36 AM
Quote from: RedCaves on January 25, 2015, 07:50:41 PM
Quote from: dymphna17 on January 25, 2015, 07:49:00 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on January 25, 2015, 07:47:25 PM
American Sniper

How was it?

It was good. However, I felt that the story was a bit rushed.

Very sad moments throughout the entire movie, though. :'(
definitely want to see this

probably when it comes out on netflix or something
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 29, 2015, 11:25:01 AM
Quote from: Clare on January 29, 2015, 08:43:48 AM
The Adventures of Robin Hood

Olivia de Havilland is still alive! (98)

One of my favorite movies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on January 29, 2015, 02:39:08 PM
Step-Brothers... ugh, don't bother.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on January 30, 2015, 03:14:25 AM
The Adventures of Tintin. Animated series. Doesn't get better than this.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on January 30, 2015, 04:10:24 AM
Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on January 29, 2015, 02:39:08 PM
Step-Brothers... ugh, don't bother.

It had some pretty funny moments, man. Come on... "Did you touch my drumset?" and the bit where the old guy walks round like a dinosaur... It is what it is but Ferrell and Reilly make some great comedy together.

Just finished up watching Miller's Crossing. a timeless classic.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on January 30, 2015, 10:08:56 AM
Quote from: Arun on January 30, 2015, 04:10:24 AM
Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on January 29, 2015, 02:39:08 PM
Step-Brothers... ugh, don't bother.

It had some pretty funny moments, man. Come on... "Did you touch my drumset?" and the bit where the old guy walks round like a dinosaur... It is what it is but Ferrell and Reilly make some great comedy together.

Just finished up watching Miller's Crossing. a timeless classic.

The way he "touched" the drumset was disgusting.  He basically sexually abused it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on January 30, 2015, 05:54:37 PM
Yeah it ain't "high art" I'll give ya that... but i found it funny lol.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on January 31, 2015, 11:35:41 PM
I finally saw The Terminator for the first time.

I still can't get over the Predestination Paradox. I hate it with a passion.

Besides that, it was a great movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Adeodatus on February 01, 2015, 12:09:44 AM
American Sniper.

Amazing. Required.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on February 01, 2015, 08:22:49 AM
Quote from: Arun on January 30, 2015, 05:54:37 PM
Yeah it ain't "high art" I'll give ya that... but i found it funny lol.

Im with ya bro

I watched that movie on the plane and started losing it at the drumset part...little did I know the 85 year old granny beside me was watching and losing it too...hilarious
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on February 01, 2015, 03:35:05 PM
The bit at the end where the old guy walks round like a dinoasaur is hilarious too.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on February 27, 2015, 01:16:44 AM
What We Do in the Shadows. I laughed several times.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on February 27, 2015, 08:32:39 AM
The Fluffy Movie.  It's more standup comedy, but it's funny.  He drops alot of Lord's name in vain, though. :/
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on March 07, 2015, 07:01:29 PM
the boxtroll

luckily my son was so tired he feel asleep before the story picked up if you want to call it that,... Dark,grotesque with no redeeming value... Zcrossdressing characters... had to turn it off
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on March 08, 2015, 12:35:16 AM
Quote from: Chestertonian on March 07, 2015, 07:01:29 PM
the boxtroll

luckily my son was so tired he feel asleep before the story picked up if you want to call it that,... Dark,grotesque with no redeeming value... Zcrossdressing characters... had to turn it off

It seemed half worth seeing, glad I didn't waste the time or money

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on March 19, 2015, 07:14:56 PM
Easy Money with Rodney Dangerfield and Joe Pesci.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on March 19, 2015, 09:04:23 PM
planes.  meh.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on March 25, 2015, 10:32:52 AM
Zeffirelli's Hamlet.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on March 25, 2015, 10:58:41 AM
"What we do in the shadows" and "Rear Window."

Both pretty entertaining, in different ways.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on March 25, 2015, 11:03:31 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on March 25, 2015, 10:32:52 AM
Zeffirelli's Hamlet.

How did you like it? 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on March 25, 2015, 11:30:45 AM
I loved it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on March 25, 2015, 11:44:13 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on March 25, 2015, 10:58:41 AM
"Rear Window."

Classic Jimmy Stewart. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on March 25, 2015, 12:15:31 PM
Winter's Bone.  Jennifer Lawrence is impressive.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on March 25, 2015, 02:15:03 PM
Battle of the Five Armies.  I've always had a disgust for prequels.  Jackson should've done this, or the Silmarilion before the LOTR trilogy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on March 25, 2015, 05:26:45 PM
Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on March 25, 2015, 02:15:03 PM
Battle of the Five Armies.  I've always had a disgust for prequels.  Jackson should've done this, or the Silmarilion before the LOTR trilogy.

I for one am glad PJ will never get his hands on The Silmarillion.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on March 26, 2015, 12:27:36 AM
Quote from: Jacob on March 25, 2015, 05:26:45 PM
Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on March 25, 2015, 02:15:03 PM
Battle of the Five Armies.  I've always had a disgust for prequels.  Jackson should've done this, or the Silmarilion before the LOTR trilogy.

I for one am glad PJ will never get his hands on The Silmarillion.

Enough money gets pushed... it'll happen.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on March 27, 2015, 09:09:12 PM
Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on March 25, 2015, 02:15:03 PM
Battle of the Five Armies.  I've always had a disgust for prequels.  Jackson should've done this, or the Silmarilion before the LOTR trilogy.

It was more like watching a video game than a movie. It could have been so good too. One movie with solid acting that stuck to the plot of the book.... But no.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on March 28, 2015, 05:34:45 AM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on March 28, 2015, 08:12:27 AM
Quote from: Rose on March 28, 2015, 05:34:45 AM
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Yes, lol.

Despite what the LOTR purists say, I actually enjoyed the movies.  They probably strayed from Tolkien's vision but at least the plot was relatively in line with the books and there weren't too many added storylines. They made entertaining movies. 

The Hobbit was just poorly done and not even that entertaining to watch, even after trying to forget what it was supposed to represent. PJ definitely  lost his way. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on March 28, 2015, 10:21:55 AM
Web Junkie about addiction to online gaming among teenagers in China. Apparently China has declared it a full-on addiction, and built rehab centers all over the country. It was pretty scary, both the idea that someone could be so very addicted, and the "rehab center" itself.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on March 28, 2015, 11:34:08 AM
Quote from: Archer on March 28, 2015, 08:12:27 AM
Quote from: Rose on March 28, 2015, 05:34:45 AM
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Yes, lol.

Despite what the LOTR purists say, I actually enjoyed the movies.  They probably strayed from Tolkien's vision but at least the plot was relatively in line with the books and there weren't too many added storylines. They made entertaining movies. 

The Hobbit was just poorly done and not even that entertaining to watch, even after trying to forget what it was supposed to represent. PJ definitely  lost his way.

I think PJ starting with the Battle of Helm's Deep in the second movie just lost all perspective as a director telling a story.  He became a technician mapping out a CGI landscape with little figures and sweeping camera angles.  And then he did it again in the third movie with the Battle of the Pelennor.  I haven't seen any of the Hobbit movies, but everything I've read about it indicates PJ just lost all control of himself.

That's pretty much why I am glad that for now the Tolkien Estate won't be allowing any more movies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on March 30, 2015, 08:42:59 AM
Sliding Doors
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on March 30, 2015, 09:05:11 AM
Quote from: Jacob on March 28, 2015, 11:34:08 AM
I think PJ starting with the Battle of Helm's Deep in the second movie just lost all perspective as a director telling a story.  He became a technician mapping out a CGI landscape with little figures and sweeping camera angles.  And then he did it again in the third movie with the Battle of the Pelennor.  I haven't seen any of the Hobbit movies, but everything I've read about it indicates PJ just lost all control of himself.

That's pretty much why I am glad that for now the Tolkien Estate won't be allowing any more movies.

Tolkien didn't spend a lot of time on the wars and battles.  I haven't read LOTR in about 10 years, but I recall that he discussed them more from the 20,000 foot level rather than spending much time on the intricate maneuvers and details.  After FOTR, PJ seems to have reverted back to his King Kong/horror movie style with lot's of focus on the battles and killing moves. Also, and I haven't read much about it, but the equipment and technical way they filmed The Hobbit made it less realistic and harder to watch; more like a video game.  My opinion.     
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Christknight104 on April 05, 2015, 04:11:50 PM
Ida, a very good film, beautifully shot with deep and heavy themes.

It  seems that in general, films with nuns (i.e. The Sound of Music, The Nun's Story, Doubt) are really great.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on April 05, 2015, 04:19:03 PM
Quote from: Christknight104 on April 05, 2015, 04:11:50 PM
Ida, a very good film, beautifully shot with deep and heavy themes.

It  seems that in general, films with nuns (i.e. The Sound of Music, The Nun's Story, Doubt) are really great.

I've seen it too....I thought it was excellent; the cinematography was amazing. But her sleeping with the sax player was stupid
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on April 05, 2015, 06:08:34 PM
Going Clear
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on April 05, 2015, 07:15:08 PM
DeMille's King of Kings. Not the sappy Jeffrey Hunter version, but the silent with H.B. Warner.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on April 06, 2015, 06:25:54 AM
Flash Gordon
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 06, 2015, 07:05:14 AM
Interstellar.

I wanted to like it, but I'm not sure. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on April 06, 2015, 08:30:36 AM
Some movie I don't remember the name of that starred Emily Mortimer and Gerard Butler as a mom and a stranger respectively, the mom hiring the stranger to play dad for her son for a weekend since the real dad is out of the picture.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on April 06, 2015, 08:59:25 AM
I watched God is Not Dead on Netflix last night. It was okay, lots of evangelical Christians but no Catholics.

My browser here at work doesn't display all the formatting options... I was going to mention a spoiler but I don't see the spoiler formatting thingy so I'll wait till I get home tonight to add it.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 06, 2015, 09:24:12 AM
Quote from: Lynne on April 06, 2015, 08:59:25 AM
I watched God is Not Dead on Netflix last night. It was okay, lots of evangelical Christians but no Catholics.

My browser here at work doesn't display all the formatting options... I was going to mention a spoiler but I don't see the spoiler formatting thingy so I'll wait till I get home tonight to add it.

The best parts were the classroom discussion scenes.  The more I learn about authentic Catholicism the less patience I have for anyone selling the "all you have to do is personally accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior and then listen to my mediocre music." No. We're not even close to believing the same thing.

Prior to seeing it I was told by a traditional Catholic couple that this was a "must see movie." I don't get it.  It's like the world is so anti-God that as long as someone is OK with or "pro-God" we get pressured into supporting them. We as Catholics believe so much more that just because the movie/book/music/company/store mentions "God" doesn't make it something we automatically have to support.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on April 06, 2015, 09:34:24 AM
Quote from: Archer on April 06, 2015, 09:24:12 AM
Quote from: Lynne on April 06, 2015, 08:59:25 AM
I watched God is Not Dead on Netflix last night. It was okay, lots of evangelical Christians but no Catholics.

My browser here at work doesn't display all the formatting options... I was going to mention a spoiler but I don't see the spoiler formatting thingy so I'll wait till I get home tonight to add it.

The best parts were the classroom discussion scenes.  The more I learn about authentic Catholicism the less patience I have for anyone selling the "all you have to do is personally accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior and then listen to my mediocre music." No. We're not even close to believing the same thing.

Prior to seeing it I was told by a traditional Catholic couple that this was a "must see movie." I don't get it.  It's like the world is so anti-God that as long as someone is OK with or "pro-God" we get pressured into supporting them. We as Catholics believe so much more that just because the movie/book/music/company/store mentions "God" doesn't make it something we automatically have to support.

I'll phrase this carefully so it's not a spoiler but the thing that most disturbed me was when the 'ordained minister' was counseling someone who had just gotten hit by a car. The victim died. As the victim lay there, dying, the minister convinced the person that they would be saved if they accepted Jesus.

It reminded me of the movie, The Rite, where the priest absolved a hit-and-run victim of their sins. That victim was saved. The one in God is Not Dead...not so much. Very disturbing.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 06, 2015, 09:52:57 AM
Quote from: Lynne on April 06, 2015, 09:34:24 AM
Quote from: Archer on April 06, 2015, 09:24:12 AM
Quote from: Lynne on April 06, 2015, 08:59:25 AM
I watched God is Not Dead on Netflix last night. It was okay, lots of evangelical Christians but no Catholics.

My browser here at work doesn't display all the formatting options... I was going to mention a spoiler but I don't see the spoiler formatting thingy so I'll wait till I get home tonight to add it.

The best parts were the classroom discussion scenes.  The more I learn about authentic Catholicism the less patience I have for anyone selling the "all you have to do is personally accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior and then listen to my mediocre music." No. We're not even close to believing the same thing.

Prior to seeing it I was told by a traditional Catholic couple that this was a "must see movie." I don't get it.  It's like the world is so anti-God that as long as someone is OK with or "pro-God" we get pressured into supporting them. We as Catholics believe so much more that just because the movie/book/music/company/store mentions "God" doesn't make it something we automatically have to support.

I'll phrase this carefully so it's not a spoiler but the thing that most disturbed me was when the 'ordained minister' was counseling someone who had just gotten hit by a car. The victim died. As the victim lay there, dying, the minister convinced the person that they would be saved if they accepted Jesus.

It reminded me of the movie, The Rite, where the priest absolved a hit-and-run victim of their sins. That victim was saved. The one in God is Not Dead...not so much. Very disturbing.

I had the exact same thought - as a Catholic it was a truly disturbing scene. My wife and I left the theater with a very bad taste in our mouths.  These protestant teachings, movies, music, all the focus on feelings and people... they obscure the truth and lead people away from Heaven.  It's really sad.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on April 06, 2015, 11:17:38 AM
Quote from: Lynne on April 06, 2015, 08:59:25 AM
I watched God is Not Dead on Netflix last night. It was okay, lots of evangelical Christians but no Catholics.

My browser here at work doesn't display all the formatting options... I was going to mention a spoiler but I don't see the spoiler formatting thingy so I'll wait till I get home tonight to add it.

No.  There was not a single redeemable scene in that entire "film." 

It was absolute trash. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on April 06, 2015, 11:20:17 AM
Quote from: Archer on April 06, 2015, 09:24:12 AM
The best parts were the classroom discussion scenes.  The more I learn about authentic Catholicism the less patience I have for anyone selling the "all you have to do is personally accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior and then listen to my mediocre music." No. We're not even close to believing the same thing.

Prior to seeing it I was told by a traditional Catholic couple that this was a "must see movie." I don't get it.  It's like the world is so anti-God that as long as someone is OK with or "pro-God" we get pressured into supporting them. We as Catholics believe so much more that just because the movie/book/music/company/store mentions "God" doesn't make it something we automatically have to support.

They put the most of their movie budget into their sweet Powerpoint presentations.  No money was spent on the - and I am loathe to use this word to describe anything in that film - 'arguments' put forth for God.  I mean, really, in the movie, when you make me cheer for the rabid atheist, you know you have done something wrong.

I agree.  Long gone is the Church or decent Catholics supporting decently made films and Catholic works.

Just because something is "Christian" doesn't mean it has to suck.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on April 06, 2015, 11:21:07 AM
Quote from: Lynne on April 06, 2015, 09:34:24 AM
I'll phrase this carefully so it's not a spoiler but the thing that most disturbed me was when the 'ordained minister' was counseling someone who had just gotten hit by a car. The victim died. As the victim lay there, dying, the minister convinced the person that they would be saved if they accepted Jesus.

It reminded me of the movie, The Rite, where the priest absolved a hit-and-run victim of their sins. That victim was saved. The one in God is Not Dead...not so much. Very disturbing.

It's a corporal work of mercy to reveal the ending and save people from two hours of their life being wasted.  ;)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on April 06, 2015, 11:44:06 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 06, 2015, 11:21:07 AM

It's a corporal work of mercy to reveal the ending and save people from two hours of their life being wasted.  ;)

hahaha
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on April 06, 2015, 01:13:47 PM
I've just rented God's Not Dead on Amazon Lovefilm so it should be here in a couple of days. Reading the reviews, though, I'm not so sure whether that was a good idea... :-\
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Cesar_Augustus on April 06, 2015, 01:35:36 PM
Quote from: Archer on April 06, 2015, 09:24:12 AM
Quote from: Lynne on April 06, 2015, 08:59:25 AM
I watched God is Not Dead on Netflix last night. It was okay, lots of evangelical Christians but no Catholics.

My browser here at work doesn't display all the formatting options... I was going to mention a spoiler but I don't see the spoiler formatting thingy so I'll wait till I get home tonight to add it.

The best parts were the classroom discussion scenes.  The more I learn about authentic Catholicism the less patience I have for anyone selling the "all you have to do is personally accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior and then listen to my mediocre music." No. We're not even close to believing the same thing.

Prior to seeing it I was told by a traditional Catholic couple that this was a "must see movie." I don't get it.  It's like the world is so anti-God that as long as someone is OK with or "pro-God" we get pressured into supporting them. We as Catholics believe so much more that just because the movie/book/music/company/store mentions "God" doesn't make it something we automatically have to support.

Yes, I have noticed too the (sometimes excessive) enthusiasm for whatever crumbs appear on pop culture productions.

With that movie, I guess is something similar for some people.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Cesar_Augustus on April 06, 2015, 01:38:32 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 06, 2015, 11:20:17 AM
Quote from: Archer on April 06, 2015, 09:24:12 AM
The best parts were the classroom discussion scenes.  The more I learn about authentic Catholicism the less patience I have for anyone selling the "all you have to do is personally accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior and then listen to my mediocre music." No. We're not even close to believing the same thing.

Prior to seeing it I was told by a traditional Catholic couple that this was a "must see movie." I don't get it.  It's like the world is so anti-God that as long as someone is OK with or "pro-God" we get pressured into supporting them. We as Catholics believe so much more that just because the movie/book/music/company/store mentions "God" doesn't make it something we automatically have to support.

They put the most of their movie budget into their sweet Powerpoint presentations.  No money was spent on the - and I am loathe to use this word to describe anything in that film - 'arguments' put forth for God.  I mean, really, in the movie, when you make me cheer for the rabid atheist, you know you have done something wrong.

I agree.  Long gone is the Church or decent Catholics supporting decently made films and Catholic works.

Just because something is "Christian" doesn't mean it has to suck.

That goes with the stereotype of the moral substitutes with low quality too

What a shame that there aren't many Catholic productions... or even decent ones.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on April 06, 2015, 02:39:52 PM
Quote from: Jacob on April 06, 2015, 08:30:36 AM
Some movie I don't remember the name of that starred Emily Mortimer and Gerard Butler as a mom and a stranger respectively, the mom hiring the stranger to play dad for her son for a weekend since the real dad is out of the picture.

Dear Frankie! One of my favorites.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on April 06, 2015, 02:58:53 PM
Quote from: Archer on April 06, 2015, 09:24:12 AM
Quote from: Lynne on April 06, 2015, 08:59:25 AM
I watched God is Not Dead on Netflix last night. It was okay, lots of evangelical Christians but no Catholics.

My browser here at work doesn't display all the formatting options... I was going to mention a spoiler but I don't see the spoiler formatting thingy so I'll wait till I get home tonight to add it.

The best parts were the classroom discussion scenes.  The more I learn about authentic Catholicism the less patience I have for anyone selling the "all you have to do is personally accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior and then listen to my mediocre music." No. We're not even close to believing the same thing.

Prior to seeing it I was told by a traditional Catholic couple that this was a "must see movie." I don't get it.  It's like the world is so anti-God that as long as someone is OK with or "pro-God" we get pressured into supporting them. We as Catholics believe so much more that just because the movie/book/music/company/store mentions "God" doesn't make it something we automatically have to support.

Yes, this is an insidious (albeit tempting) inclination.  The problem is that it necessarily waters down the richness and complexity of authentic Christianity.  And, on a purely anecdotal level, I find this to be a very unsuccessful conversion tactic.  The average non-Christian or apathetic American links Catholicism to all other forms of Protestantism.  They see a caricature of irrational and fideistic evangelism.  These people are right in viewing such nonsense as nonsense.  The goal ought to be to show them the distance between the True Faith and these heretical or superficial sects. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: GeorgeT on April 06, 2015, 03:18:31 PM
Quote from: Clare on April 06, 2015, 06:25:54 AM
Flash Gordon
The 70s one? With QUEEN doing the soundtrack? That was so funny!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 06, 2015, 04:41:04 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00-6OyXVA0M
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 06, 2015, 04:45:10 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 06, 2015, 11:20:17 AM
I agree.  Long gone is the Church or decent Catholics supporting decently made films and Catholic works.

Just because something is "Christian" doesn't mean it has to suck.

The last authentically Catholic movie that made a splash was The Passion.

For Greater Glory was pretty good, although if I remember there are some issues regarding religious liberty.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on April 06, 2015, 04:48:14 PM
Quote from: Archer on April 06, 2015, 04:45:10 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 06, 2015, 11:20:17 AM
I agree.  Long gone is the Church or decent Catholics supporting decently made films and Catholic works.

Just because something is "Christian" doesn't mean it has to suck.

The last authentically Catholic movie that made a splash was The Passion.

For Greater Glory was pretty good, although if I remember there are some issues regarding religious liberty.

I think that is how is was promoted around the latest Republican-whipped up Obama sucks propaganda. The Cristeros certainly wanted a Catholic state.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 06, 2015, 04:55:40 PM
Absolutely. My comment was directed at the film's producers, certainly not at the Cristeros.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 06, 2015, 05:02:23 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on April 06, 2015, 02:58:53 PM
Yes, this is an insidious (albeit tempting) inclination.  The problem is that it necessarily waters down the richness and complexity of authentic Christianity.  And, on a purely anecdotal level, I find this to be a very unsuccessful conversion tactic.  The average non-Christian or apathetic American links Catholicism to all other forms of Protestantism.  They see a caricature of irrational and fideistic evangelism.  These people are right in viewing such nonsense as nonsense.  The goal ought to be to show them the distance between the True Faith and these heretical or superficial sects.

I couldn't agree with you more. What reason is there to convert if all that is required is to make a couple empty promises? Faith without works is a sham. There could only be a couple reasons for converting to protestantism - namely to check a box, (kind of like voting straight Republican), or for purely social reasons. Outside of a watered down version of the Bible there's just nothing else there. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on April 06, 2015, 05:45:44 PM
Quote from: piabee on April 06, 2015, 02:39:52 PM
Quote from: Jacob on April 06, 2015, 08:30:36 AM
Some movie I don't remember the name of that starred Emily Mortimer and Gerard Butler as a mom and a stranger respectively, the mom hiring the stranger to play dad for her son for a weekend since the real dad is out of the picture.

Dear Frankie! One of my favorites.

Yep.  I enjoyed it.  And the end was nice.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on April 07, 2015, 09:07:22 AM
Quote from: Jacob on April 06, 2015, 05:45:44 PM
Quote from: piabee on April 06, 2015, 02:39:52 PM
Quote from: Jacob on April 06, 2015, 08:30:36 AM
Some movie I don't remember the name of that starred Emily Mortimer and Gerard Butler as a mom and a stranger respectively, the mom hiring the stranger to play dad for her son for a weekend since the real dad is out of the picture.

Dear Frankie! One of my favorites.

Yep.  I enjoyed it.  And the end was nice.

I remember that movie! It was good! I'll have to hunt for it on Netflix and watch it again.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on April 07, 2015, 10:09:39 AM
Quote from: Archer on April 06, 2015, 04:55:40 PM
Absolutely. My comment was directed at the film's producers, certainly not at the Cristeros.

No!  The Cristeros were fighting for the God-given right of Muslims to open mosques in Mexico!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 07, 2015, 11:00:14 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on April 07, 2015, 10:09:39 AM
Quote from: Archer on April 06, 2015, 04:55:40 PM
Absolutely. My comment was directed at the film's producers, certainly not at the Cristeros.

No!  The Cristeros were fighting for the God-given right of Muslims to open mosques in Mexico!

It appears I need to check my history, unless you're being sarcastic.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on April 07, 2015, 11:16:25 AM
I watched Juana la Loca (Mad Love in the US) last night.  I had only seen the last third of the movie the first time I saw it on IFC (back when IFC still showed serious movies) ~ten years ago.

The first two-thirds of the movie were...  Not what I was expecting.  :o

It isn't a bad movie, but it definitely has pacing issues and the motivations of certain characters aren't clear.  And there's a lot of sex.  As a costume drama, it's a beautiful movie and yeah, the last third of the movie is good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on April 07, 2015, 01:45:22 PM
Quote from: GeorgeT on April 06, 2015, 03:18:31 PM
Quote from: Clare on April 06, 2015, 06:25:54 AM
Flash Gordon
The 70s one? With QUEEN doing the soundtrack? That was so funny!
The very same!

"Flash! Flash! I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the earth!"
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on April 07, 2015, 03:03:54 PM
Quote from: Archer on April 07, 2015, 11:00:14 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on April 07, 2015, 10:09:39 AM
Quote from: Archer on April 06, 2015, 04:55:40 PM
Absolutely. My comment was directed at the film's producers, certainly not at the Cristeros.

No!  The Cristeros were fighting for the God-given right of Muslims to open mosques in Mexico!

It appears I need to check my history, unless you're being sarcastic.

I was being sarcastic.  But I wouldn't be surprised if the USCCB said something akin to the above.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mattock on April 07, 2015, 03:13:06 PM
Quote from: Clare on April 07, 2015, 01:45:22 PM
Quote from: GeorgeT on April 06, 2015, 03:18:31 PM
Quote from: Clare on April 06, 2015, 06:25:54 AM
Flash Gordon
The 70s one? With QUEEN doing the soundtrack? That was so funny!
The very same!

"Flash! Flash! I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the earth!"

[yt]MS4_Z84-rRE[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on April 07, 2015, 05:07:03 PM
Quote from: Clare on April 07, 2015, 01:45:22 PM
Quote from: GeorgeT on April 06, 2015, 03:18:31 PM
Quote from: Clare on April 06, 2015, 06:25:54 AM
Flash Gordon
The 70s one? With QUEEN doing the soundtrack? That was so funny!
The very same!

"Flash! Flash! I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the earth!"

Those viking dudes with wings were pretty cool.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on April 09, 2015, 12:09:32 AM
'71
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on April 09, 2015, 06:27:54 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on April 07, 2015, 03:03:54 PM
Quote from: Archer on April 07, 2015, 11:00:14 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on April 07, 2015, 10:09:39 AM
Quote from: Archer on April 06, 2015, 04:55:40 PM
Absolutely. My comment was directed at the film's producers, certainly not at the Cristeros.

No!  The Cristeros were fighting for the God-given right of Muslims to open mosques in Mexico!

It appears I need to check my history, unless you're being sarcastic.

I was being sarcastic.  But I wouldn't be surprised if the USCCB said something akin to the above.

Yep.  The sacrifice of many being thrown on the wrong altar.  I wouldn't put it past the USCCB.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on April 11, 2015, 12:52:22 PM
A Night in Old Mexico with Robert Duvall. Not bad.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on April 18, 2015, 10:24:35 AM
Captain America, The Winter Soldier.
I thought it was pretty entertaining.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on April 18, 2015, 12:55:01 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on April 11, 2015, 12:52:22 PM
A Night in Old Mexico with Robert Duvall. Not bad.

I love Robert Duvall - really good actor.  The Apostle is a good movie of his.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on April 18, 2015, 02:22:51 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on April 18, 2015, 12:55:01 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on April 11, 2015, 12:52:22 PM
A Night in Old Mexico with Robert Duvall. Not bad.

I love Robert Duvall - really good actor.  The Apostle is a good movie of his.

Yes, on both counts.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on April 19, 2015, 03:52:18 AM
Agreed. I thought The Apostle was marvelous. Especially at the beginning when that person was dying in the car accident.
I read that later in the movie when the little old black ladies where taking the bus to church, that they were real people not actors.
That they were genuine in what they were saying. Very cool.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on April 19, 2015, 10:15:53 AM
Big Hero Six
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on April 19, 2015, 01:16:02 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on April 19, 2015, 10:15:53 AM
Big Hero Six

How was it?   It looked cute.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on April 19, 2015, 01:30:26 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 19, 2015, 01:16:02 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on April 19, 2015, 10:15:53 AM
Big Hero Six

How was it?   It looked cute.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk

I liked it. The robot, Baymax, is cute.

Check it out.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on April 20, 2015, 07:13:32 AM
Ender's Game, repeat viewing. It's pretty entertaining :)


Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 20, 2015, 07:22:20 AM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.soundtrackcollector.com%2Fmovie%2Flarge%2FScarlet_and_the_black.jpg&hash=cceee8e751ce866bca3cb7bb6ec009ecd5e82b0a)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on April 20, 2015, 08:31:46 AM
I have seen the little bits over the years showing the most famous parts, the shadows, the sewer, etc.  But I had never sat down to watch it all the way through until yesterday.

The Third Man... Wow!

Yet another movie I should have seen twenty years ago, but always put aside for another day...  Shame on me.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on April 25, 2015, 01:26:12 PM
Archer,

Thanks for promoting Scarlet. I would like to see it again.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on April 25, 2015, 03:52:46 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on April 25, 2015, 01:26:12 PM
Archer,

Thanks for promoting Scarlet. I would like to see it again.
Great flick. Only part I dislike is the portrayal of the relationship between O'Flaherty and Mrs. Lambardo. She is far too familiar with him - probably a 'Hollywood defect.'
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on April 26, 2015, 02:08:21 AM
I love that movie :) only thing I would add is that I don't like Gregory Peck's frequent use of "Holy Mother!" etc...not really used as a prayer but as an "oh boy!" kind of expression.

AF and I watched "Saving Mr Banks" yesterday. Emma Thompson is possibly my favourite actress ever and this was one of her finest.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on April 26, 2015, 10:24:07 AM
An Unexpected Journey
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Christknight104 on April 27, 2015, 06:39:52 PM
Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) 

A truly unique and morbid musical.

I Peel you Banana  ;D

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on April 28, 2015, 05:34:09 AM
Her with Joaquin Phoenix. Horrible. Just horrible.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on April 30, 2015, 09:49:43 PM
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

SO GOOD.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on April 30, 2015, 10:38:01 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 30, 2015, 09:49:43 PM
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

SO GOOD.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk
really need to see this
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on May 01, 2015, 09:56:53 AM
Hulk (2003). Meh.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on May 01, 2015, 10:35:08 AM
Quote from: Christknight104 on April 27, 2015, 06:39:52 PM


I Peel you Banana  ;D


LOL   ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on May 01, 2015, 11:18:21 AM
Quote from: zork on May 01, 2015, 09:56:53 AM
Hulk (2003). Meh.

It was very meh.

Unlike Avengers: Age of Ultron.

:lol:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on May 01, 2015, 11:35:17 AM
my son is obsessed with The Hulk

one day my wife walked in on him butt naked in his room coloring all over himself with a green marker he got the front part of his legs his tummy his arms...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on May 02, 2015, 05:19:00 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on May 01, 2015, 11:35:17 AM
my son is obsessed with The Hulk

one day my wife walked in on him butt naked in his room coloring all over himself with a green marker he got the front part of his legs his tummy his arms...
Har! Har!
My brother got a Superman outfit for Christmas one year; he decided to "try it out" by jumping off of a low balcony (just to make sure, before moving to the roof); jumped off and did a "belly flop" on the ground. He was very disappointed that he really couldn't fly.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on May 02, 2015, 05:25:38 PM
Quote from: zork on May 01, 2015, 09:56:53 AM
Hulk (2003). Meh.

What were you thinking?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on May 02, 2015, 08:58:46 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on May 01, 2015, 11:35:17 AM
my son is obsessed with The Hulk

one day my wife walked in on him butt naked in his room coloring all over himself with a green marker he got the front part of his legs his tummy his arms...


:grin: :grin: :grin: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on May 03, 2015, 01:24:40 AM
The Desolation of Smaug
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on May 03, 2015, 07:43:47 AM
Avengers and Cinderella. Busy weekend hanging out with the nieces. Both movies were great.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on May 05, 2015, 05:16:27 AM
The Battle of the Five Armies
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on May 05, 2015, 08:19:54 PM
Just saw Furious 7.

This is what I said on Facebook:
QuoteMan, that movie was off the hook.

Ridiculous plotline, ridiculous acting, ridiculous scenes.

One of the more enjoyable films I've seen. It's no pinnacle of cinema, but man was it fun to watch.

Also, that closing scene was probably the most touching I've ever seen. I was/am really impressed with how they ended it.

10/10, would see again.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on May 05, 2015, 08:40:59 PM
a fast and furious movie with a plotline? 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on May 05, 2015, 08:42:12 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on May 05, 2015, 08:40:59 PM
a fast and furious movie with a plotline?

Yeah.

"Race cars in a more ridiculous and mind-blowing way than last time."

Mission accomplished.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on May 05, 2015, 08:45:00 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on May 05, 2015, 08:42:12 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on May 05, 2015, 08:40:59 PM
a fast and furious movie with a plotline?

Yeah.

"Race cars in a more ridiculous and mind-blowing way than last time."

Mission accomplished.
lol

with more explosions than last time?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on May 05, 2015, 08:50:12 PM
Absolutely.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MundaCorMeum on May 05, 2015, 08:54:08 PM
Wait...there's 7 of those films now?!  And you guys think chick flicks are obnoxious  ::)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on May 05, 2015, 09:03:21 PM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on May 05, 2015, 08:54:08 PM
Wait...there's 7 of those films now?!  And you guys think chick flicks are obnoxious  ::)

loss of those movies don't have plots either is just the same hugh grant / drew barrymore love story drinking cosmos taljing about shoes until they get married or their ocean liner sinks
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MundaCorMeum on May 06, 2015, 05:46:24 AM
Quote from: Chestertonian on May 05, 2015, 09:03:21 PM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on May 05, 2015, 08:54:08 PM
Wait...there's 7 of those films now?!  And you guys think chick flicks are obnoxious  ::)

loss of those movies don't have plots either is just the same hugh grant / drew barrymore love story drinking cosmos taljing about shoes until they get married or their ocean liner sinks

I know...I was just joking/being sarcastic  :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Older Salt on May 06, 2015, 10:39:42 AM
"Out of the Past"

Robert Mitchum
Jane Greer,
Kirk Douglas.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on May 06, 2015, 10:44:45 AM
Quote from: Older Salt on May 06, 2015, 10:39:42 AM
"Out of the Past"

Robert Mitchum
Jane Greer,
Kirk Douglas.

Great movie!


I saw Avengers 2 yesterday. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on May 06, 2015, 11:16:04 AM
Quote from: Older Salt on May 06, 2015, 10:39:42 AM
"Out of the Past"

Robert Mitchum
Jane Greer,
Kirk Douglas.

Gotta check that one out - great cast.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: JubilateDeo on May 06, 2015, 07:54:05 PM
The Wizard of Oz, for the 10th time...

and we are listening to the soundtrack in the car, too.   :whistling:

My little girl is going to be a munchkin in her school play, so she wants to make sure she knows her part.  Being in the Lullaby League is hard work!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on May 08, 2015, 09:52:04 AM
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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on May 08, 2015, 02:03:12 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on May 08, 2015, 09:52:04 AM
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The previews for this looked intriguing. How was it?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on May 09, 2015, 09:56:53 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on May 08, 2015, 02:03:12 PM
The previews for this looked intriguing. How was it?

Provocative and fascinating.  The previews suggest more action than is actually there.  It's a pretty cerebral film.  A great meditation on A.I. and androids.

I saw it at a showing where there was some runoff from a sold-out showing of Avengers 2: Age of Ultron, so for some of the audience it was a hastily-improvised second choice.  You know the type: these fat people with their "Life is good." t-shirts and shin-length shorts and adidas sandals, shuffling in with a plate of nachos resting on their protruding belly while they chat on their cellphones.   I was worried that they might either talk throughout it or offer commentary.  But the movie really shut them down.  It gets unnerving and disturbing early on, and it proceeds with an eerie self-confidence.  At one point one of the characters beings to coolly describe the, um, "gynecological aspect" of an android he's created.  That's material that could easily flunk, and get unintentional laughs.  But instead, you could hear a pin drop.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on May 14, 2015, 06:56:20 AM
I went to a very fancy movie theater last night to see Heaven Adores You, the new Elliott Smith documentary. My sister said 'why do you want to see that? It's going to be so depressing' — but it wasn't depressing at all. I really enjoyed it.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on May 14, 2015, 09:47:23 AM
The Tempest, with Helen Mirren as "Prospera". Some liberties taken there!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on May 15, 2015, 10:32:17 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 14, 2015, 06:56:20 AM
I went to a very fancy movie theater last night to see Heaven Adores You, the new Elliott Smith documentary. My sister said 'why do you want to see that? It's going to be so depressing' — but it wasn't depressing at all. I really enjoyed it.

I almost saw it this week but I could barely make it through a clip. As my sister put it, "so far seems like ugly men talking about chords. boring."
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on May 16, 2015, 05:36:49 PM
Watching Becket :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on May 17, 2015, 02:21:43 AM
Paddington
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on May 17, 2015, 03:50:43 PM
Quote from: piabee on May 15, 2015, 10:32:17 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 14, 2015, 06:56:20 AM
I went to a very fancy movie theater last night to see Heaven Adores You, the new Elliott Smith documentary. My sister said 'why do you want to see that? It's going to be so depressing' — but it wasn't depressing at all. I really enjoyed it.

I almost saw it this week but I could barely make it through a clip. As my sister put it, "so far seems like ugly men talking about chords. boring."

Well I guess if you only go to movies for eye-candy you won't like it. The people who were instrumental in the 90s Portland music scene aren't exactly young anymore. It was very interesting to me as a die-hard Elliott Smith fan, and yes there was a lot about chords since his were so unique and difficult to play.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on May 18, 2015, 12:30:21 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 17, 2015, 03:50:43 PM
Well I guess if you only go to movies for eye-candy you won't like it. The people who were instrumental in the 90s Portland music scene aren't exactly young anymore. It was very interesting to me as a die-hard Elliott Smith fan, and yes there was a lot about chords since his were so unique and difficult to play.

I'm sure I'll watch in spurts on DVD at some point. There's a pretty far distance from "only go[ing] to movies for eye-candy" and deciding not to invest an entire evening taking a trip back into the city for a moderately dry doc. ::)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on May 19, 2015, 06:49:59 AM
Quote from: piabee on May 18, 2015, 12:30:21 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 17, 2015, 03:50:43 PM
Well I guess if you only go to movies for eye-candy you won't like it. The people who were instrumental in the 90s Portland music scene aren't exactly young anymore. It was very interesting to me as a die-hard Elliott Smith fan, and yes there was a lot about chords since his were so unique and difficult to play.

I'm sure I'll watch in spurts on DVD at some point. There's a pretty far distance from "only go[ing] to movies for eye-candy" and deciding not to invest an entire evening taking a trip back into the city for a moderately dry doc. ::)

It probably won't appeal to the casual fan and it definitely won't appeal to those looking for something with a lot of drama/scandal.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Basilios on May 19, 2015, 08:08:34 AM
Age of Ultron

It was okay.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on May 28, 2015, 08:52:17 AM
Watched Last Samurai with Tom Cruise. I usually don't care for Cruise but this movie was decent.  The I made the mistake of watching Noah with Russell Crowe. A truly awful experience. Just terrible.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on May 29, 2015, 03:42:25 PM
Quote from: Basilios on May 19, 2015, 08:08:34 AM
Age of Ultron

It was okay.

Yeah.  It's setting up Civil War.  Subtly, but it is.

I hope they settle the whole XMen thing so we can see more mutants. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on May 30, 2015, 06:25:41 AM
Open Windows. it was actually a pretty good movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on May 30, 2015, 05:22:56 PM
Dark Water  :ghost1: :hide:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on May 30, 2015, 05:51:22 PM
Quote from: Rose on May 30, 2015, 05:22:56 PM
Dark Water  :ghost1: :hide:

if you want to get even more scared about it, look up Elisa Lam....
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on May 30, 2015, 11:21:17 PM
Nope nope nope

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Miriam_M on May 31, 2015, 12:53:16 AM
Late to the party, because it wasn't a very recent viewing, but it explains why I seldom see movies and why this last one was almost 6 months ago.   I hated Mr. Turner.  Went with my daughter.  Both of us love art, and I love biography as well, so we expected something more tasteful than scene after scene of gratuitous sex.  I notice that in none of the reviews or synopses is there any mention of that.  Why?  Because audiences and critics alike have come to expect gratuitous sex as the norm.  I'm sure the critics would have howled if there weren't lots of gratuitous sex.

We both walked away feeling angry.

I'll stick with Turner Classic Movies, thank you.  Nice and safe.  And usually a lot more interesting.

Call me boring, I don't care.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on May 31, 2015, 06:02:21 AM
Starship Troopers.

Would you like to know more?

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on May 31, 2015, 06:31:47 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on May 31, 2015, 06:02:21 AM
Starship Troopers.

Would you like to know more?

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I would as a matter of fact.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on May 31, 2015, 09:06:36 AM
It's a joke from the movie. ;)

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on May 31, 2015, 11:22:07 AM
Quote from: Miriam_M on May 31, 2015, 12:53:16 AM
Late to the party, because it wasn't a very recent viewing, but it explains why I seldom see movies and why this last one was almost 6 months ago.   I hated Mr. Turner.  Went with my daughter.  Both of us love art, and I love biography as well, so we expected something more tasteful than scene after scene of gratuitous sex.  I notice that in none of the reviews or synopses is there any mention of that.  Why?  Because audiences and critics alike have come to expect gratuitous sex as the norm.  I'm sure the critics would have howled if there weren't lots of gratuitous sex.

We both walked away feeling angry.

I'll stick with Turner Classic Movies, thank you.  Nice and safe.  And usually a lot more interesting.

Call me boring, I don't care.

If we're not watching sports, we're watching TCM, thank goodness...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on May 31, 2015, 03:20:19 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on May 31, 2015, 06:02:21 AM
Starship Troopers.

Would you like to know more?

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i heard the book is meant to be a must-read book, but it's different from the movie because the screen writer that adapted it only read a couple chapters. the book is meant to be a vehicle for explaining the concepts and responsibilities of citizenship in a free country and the requirement for constant vigilance. i gotta remember to try find the book...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on June 01, 2015, 09:54:36 AM
San Andreas
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on June 01, 2015, 10:15:39 AM
Quote from: Arun on May 31, 2015, 03:20:19 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on May 31, 2015, 06:02:21 AM
Starship Troopers.

Would you like to know more?

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i heard the book is meant to be a must-read book, but it's different from the movie because the screen writer that adapted it only read a couple chapters. the book is meant to be a vehicle for explaining the concepts and responsibilities of citizenship in a free country and the requirement for constant vigilance. i gotta remember to try find the book...

I would not compare the movie to the book outside of the name.  Things were already in production by the time the director knew there was a book with a kinda-similar plotline.

The movie is a great watch for some biting satire.  It's really remarkable especially in our post-9/11 world.  Because the only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on June 01, 2015, 10:26:25 AM
Quote from: piabee on June 01, 2015, 09:54:36 AM
San Andreas

How was it? I've been wanting to see this for ages!

In terms of family-friendliness, how is it visually- I know there's nothing particularly outrageous in the storyline, but what about the women's outfits if younger lads are watching it?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on June 01, 2015, 03:08:38 PM
Quote from: Rose on June 01, 2015, 10:26:25 AM
Quote from: piabee on June 01, 2015, 09:54:36 AM
San Andreas

How was it? I've been wanting to see this for ages!

In terms of family-friendliness, how is it visually- I know there's nothing particularly outrageous in the storyline, but what about the women's outfits if younger lads are watching it?

It absolutely delivers everything you would expect and more. There is one short lounging-poolside-in-a-bikini scene but otherwise nothing too scandalous.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on June 01, 2015, 03:59:33 PM
Quote from: Miriam_M on May 31, 2015, 12:53:16 AM
Late to the party, because it wasn't a very recent viewing, but it explains why I seldom see movies and why this last one was almost 6 months ago.   I hated Mr. Turner.  Went with my daughter.  Both of us love art, and I love biography as well, so we expected something more tasteful than scene after scene of gratuitous sex.  I notice that in none of the reviews or synopses is there any mention of that.  Why?  Because audiences and critics alike have come to expect gratuitous sex as the norm.  I'm sure the critics would have howled if there weren't lots of gratuitous sex.

We both walked away feeling angry.

I'll stick with Turner Classic Movies, thank you.  Nice and safe.  And usually a lot more interesting.

Call me boring, I don't care.

I look up moves on http://www.kids-in-mind.com/ — it will tell you exactly what you are going to see/hear in a movie without giving away the story.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on June 01, 2015, 05:31:57 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on June 01, 2015, 03:59:33 PM

I look up moves on http://www.kids-in-mind.com/ — it will tell you exactly what you are going to see/hear in a movie without giving away the story.

Wow, thanks for that link.
The site looks really useful.
I've bookmarked it for future reference.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on June 07, 2015, 07:44:19 AM
Thorne: Sleepyhead. Not bad.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: dymphna17 on June 07, 2015, 10:55:53 AM
Finally got to see American Sniper.  Now I understand why all the whiners don't want it to be seen at the Universities.  Good movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on June 07, 2015, 02:13:11 PM
Quote from: dymphna17 on June 07, 2015, 10:55:53 AM
Finally got to see American Sniper.  Now I understand why all the whiners don't want it to be seen at the Universities.  Good movie.

yeah i love that one.

been trying to watch Coherence but stuff keeps happening so i only made it about halfway in. awesome movie so far.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Elizabeth on June 07, 2015, 04:31:36 PM
Quote from: dymphna17 on June 07, 2015, 10:55:53 AM
Finally got to see American Sniper.  Now I understand why all the whiners don't want it to be seen at the Universities.  Good movie.
Is it on Netflix?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: dymphna17 on June 07, 2015, 04:52:43 PM
Quote from: Elizabeth on June 07, 2015, 04:31:36 PM
Quote from: dymphna17 on June 07, 2015, 10:55:53 AM
Finally got to see American Sniper.  Now I understand why all the whiners don't want it to be seen at the Universities.  Good movie.
Is it on Netflix?

I don't know, it might be since you can buy it in the stores right now.  We don't have Netflix.  We went to the $2.00 theater.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on June 08, 2015, 05:24:35 AM
Quote from: Elizabeth on June 07, 2015, 04:31:36 PM
Quote from: dymphna17 on June 07, 2015, 10:55:53 AM
Finally got to see American Sniper.  Now I understand why all the whiners don't want it to be seen at the Universities.  Good movie.
Is it on Netflix?
Yes. On disc not instant watch.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on June 11, 2015, 12:44:50 PM
Dark Water (2003 Japanese version). Really good. Quite scary. Emotional too.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on June 11, 2015, 02:01:28 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on June 11, 2015, 12:44:50 PM
Dark Water (2003 Japanese version). Really good. Quite scary. Emotional too.

as mentioned upthread, now go google elisa lam.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on June 12, 2015, 09:26:29 AM
The Plague Dogs.
British animated movie based on the book of the same name by Richard Adams (author of Watership Down). Well animated. Good voice acting from sturdy old UK standbys; such as John Hurt and Nigel Hawthorne. Some bloody and intense scenes involving animal experimentation. One use of strong language. Possible one misuse of Our Lord's name, but nearly impossible to tell fully.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on June 12, 2015, 07:37:34 PM
Has anyone mentioned this one:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItfesHOjpwE[/yt]

?

Gonna get Amazonprimetime wit it tonight.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on June 12, 2015, 09:16:37 PM
Jurassic world.

Pretty good.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on June 12, 2015, 09:27:06 PM
A good documentary, especially if you are a cold war baby.

Some things:

a) if  you are Canadian, be aware. The outcome was not good.
b) Ggregg, I think you and the Mrs.(along with the older kids) will like this
c) if you are an historian and want interpersonal historiography, this is a good addendum(codicil)
d) go Avalanche!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on June 13, 2015, 07:02:35 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on June 12, 2015, 07:37:34 PM
Has anyone mentioned this one:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItfesHOjpwE[/yt]

?

Gonna get Amazonprimetime wit it tonight.
Fred Shero won a couple of Stanley Cups with the Philadelphia Flyers supposedly using the Red Army system.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: erin is nice on June 13, 2015, 10:57:03 AM
Watched Big Hero 6 with the kids- loved it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on June 13, 2015, 11:42:04 AM
Jurassic World. Good dopey fun.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Rose on June 13, 2015, 03:17:48 PM
The Assault, French movie based on the hijacking of a plane in Algiers in 1994. Really good film and tense all the way through. One use of the "F" word though and quite brutal so not one for the family.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on June 14, 2015, 12:08:02 AM
Quote from: erin is nice on June 13, 2015, 10:57:03 AM
Watched Big Hero 6 with the kids- loved it.
we still haven't seen it

my son has been wanting tk
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on June 14, 2015, 12:22:01 AM
Quote from: Chestertonian on June 14, 2015, 12:08:02 AM
Quote from: erin is nice on June 13, 2015, 10:57:03 AM
Watched Big Hero 6 with the kids- loved it.
we still haven't seen it

my son has been wanting tk

the kids were watching that one awhile ago. they tell me its good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on June 14, 2015, 10:54:18 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on June 12, 2015, 09:27:06 PM
A good documentary, especially if you are a cold war baby.

Some things:

a) if  you are Canadian, be aware. The outcome was not good.
b) Ggregg, I think you and the Mrs.(along with the older kids) will like this
c) if you are an historian and want interpersonal historiography, this is a good addendum(codicil)
d) go Avalanche!

Looks like a good movie. Unlike Don Cherry, I've always been able to appreciate the Soviet Russian system. Apparently some Canadian went over there years before the Summit Series and invented it because everyone in Canada thought he was a quack.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on June 15, 2015, 09:38:47 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 14, 2015, 10:54:18 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on June 12, 2015, 09:27:06 PM
A good documentary, especially if you are a cold war baby.

Some things:

a) if  you are Canadian, be aware. The outcome was not good.
b) Ggregg, I think you and the Mrs.(along with the older kids) will like this
c) if you are an historian and want interpersonal historiography, this is a good addendum(codicil)
d) go Avalanche!

Looks like a good movie. Unlike Don Cherry, I've always been able to appreciate the Soviet Russian system. Apparently some Canadian went over there years before the Summit Series and invented it because everyone in Canada thought he was a quack.

I don't think that is true. Anatoli Tarasov established Russian hockey after WWII. Prior to that, hockey was not played in Russia as it is known now. It was some hybrid game.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on June 15, 2015, 11:32:35 AM
Divergent. I had zero emotional connection to this movie. I wasn't even annoyed by its terribleness. Just thought, "Well, that's over."
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on June 15, 2015, 02:09:04 PM
Age of ultron. Really enjoyed the humour. "Good talk" "no it wasn't!" lmfao

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on June 18, 2015, 04:08:21 AM
Rounders
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on June 18, 2015, 04:03:57 PM
jurassic world. thought it was lame and also an improper use of a Chris Pratt. basically just another one of these nostalgia vehicles designed to keep people in a state of man-childness really.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on June 19, 2015, 02:12:11 AM
I just saw American Sniper....I thought it was garbage
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on June 19, 2015, 02:20:26 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 19, 2015, 02:12:11 AM
I just saw American Sniper....I thought it was garbage

really? i thought it was awesome.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on June 19, 2015, 02:24:13 AM
Quote from: Arun on June 19, 2015, 02:20:26 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 19, 2015, 02:12:11 AM
I just saw American Sniper....I thought it was garbage

really? i thought it was awesome.

Id heard that from a lot of people, so maybe my rxoectations were too high
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: dymphna17 on June 19, 2015, 03:36:29 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 19, 2015, 02:24:13 AM
Quote from: Arun on June 19, 2015, 02:20:26 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 19, 2015, 02:12:11 AM
I just saw American Sniper....I thought it was garbage

really? i thought it was awesome.

Id heard that from a lot of people, so maybe my rxoectations were too high

What was garbage?  The military aspect?  The life at home aspect?  Too fake?  Or just the whole movie?  I ask because you are the first person with a military background I've heard of that didn't like it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on June 20, 2015, 12:23:30 AM
Quote from: dymphna17 on June 19, 2015, 03:36:29 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 19, 2015, 02:24:13 AM
Quote from: Arun on June 19, 2015, 02:20:26 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 19, 2015, 02:12:11 AM
I just saw American Sniper....I thought it was garbage

really? i thought it was awesome.

Id heard that from a lot of people, so maybe my rxoectations were too high

What was garbage?  The military aspect?  The life at home aspect?  Too fake?  Or just the whole movie?  I ask because you are the first person with a military background I've heard of that didn't like it.

I was told it was neocon propaganda.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lydia Purpuraria on June 20, 2015, 07:23:42 AM
Quote from: erin is nice on June 13, 2015, 10:57:03 AM
Watched Big Hero 6 with the kids- loved it.

We just watched this last night.  Very cute.  A couple of inappropriate things said that definitely did not need to be in the movie (why do they do that!!?), but none of the kids seemed to catch it...so overall we liked it a lot.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on June 20, 2015, 07:29:36 AM
Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on June 20, 2015, 12:23:30 AM
Quote from: dymphna17 on June 19, 2015, 03:36:29 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 19, 2015, 02:24:13 AM
Quote from: Arun on June 19, 2015, 02:20:26 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 19, 2015, 02:12:11 AM
I just saw American Sniper....I thought it was garbage

really? i thought it was awesome.

Id heard that from a lot of people, so maybe my rxoectations were too high

What was garbage?  The military aspect?  The life at home aspect?  Too fake?  Or just the whole movie?  I ask because you are the first person with a military background I've heard of that didn't like it.

I was told it was neocon propaganda.

How so? It's essentially an anti-war film when it gets down to it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on June 20, 2015, 01:30:18 PM
I just thought it was boring really. The guy's an insufferable dick....there was almost no plot to it at all...except for the little bit of trying to get that other sniper I couldn't really tell you what the movie was about. I just straight up didn't like it. Contrast it to Saving Private Ryan for example...that movie had purpose, it had a solid plot, it made sense, some people did some stupid stuff but all in all I feel like that's how people would act 90% of the time in that situation. American Sniper was just that...American. Far too much for my tastes.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on June 20, 2015, 02:06:40 PM
Quote from: Gardener on June 20, 2015, 07:29:36 AM
Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on June 20, 2015, 12:23:30 AM
Quote from: dymphna17 on June 19, 2015, 03:36:29 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 19, 2015, 02:24:13 AM
Quote from: Arun on June 19, 2015, 02:20:26 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 19, 2015, 02:12:11 AM
I just saw American Sniper....I thought it was garbage

really? i thought it was awesome.

Id heard that from a lot of people, so maybe my rxoectations were too high

What was garbage?  The military aspect?  The life at home aspect?  Too fake?  Or just the whole movie?  I ask because you are the first person with a military background I've heard of that didn't like it.

I was told it was neocon propaganda.

How so? It's essentially an anti-war film when it gets down to it.

I think the American public missed that, then.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: dymphna17 on June 20, 2015, 09:48:03 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 20, 2015, 02:06:40 PM
Quote from: Gardener on June 20, 2015, 07:29:36 AM
Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on June 20, 2015, 12:23:30 AM
Quote from: dymphna17 on June 19, 2015, 03:36:29 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 19, 2015, 02:24:13 AM
Quote from: Arun on June 19, 2015, 02:20:26 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 19, 2015, 02:12:11 AM
I just saw American Sniper....I thought it was garbage

really? i thought it was awesome.

Id heard that from a lot of people, so maybe my rxoectations were too high

What was garbage?  The military aspect?  The life at home aspect?  Too fake?  Or just the whole movie?  I ask because you are the first person with a military background I've heard of that didn't like it.

I was told it was neocon propaganda.

How so? It's essentially an anti-war film when it gets down to it.

I think the American public missed that, then.

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Not the people I know that have seen it.  Especially the military ones.  I thought it was loud and clear.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on June 21, 2015, 12:41:46 PM
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on June 21, 2015, 04:17:45 PM
Quote from: zork on June 21, 2015, 12:41:46 PM
Apocalypse Now (1979)

great film
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on June 21, 2015, 04:25:58 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 20, 2015, 01:30:18 PM
I just thought it was boring really. The guy's an insufferable dick....there was almost no plot to it at all...except for the little bit of trying to get that other sniper I couldn't really tell you what the movie was about. I just straight up didn't like it. Contrast it to Saving Private Ryan for example...that movie had purpose, it had a solid plot, it made sense, some people did some stupid stuff but all in all I feel like that's how people would act 90% of the time in that situation. American Sniper was just that...American. Far too much for my tastes.

Haven't seen it yet, probably won't. Mainly because the only time I watch movies is with my better half and I doubt she'd sit through it.

I did like the Saving Private Ryan shout out. That's a well done movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on June 21, 2015, 04:37:46 PM
Quote from: Archer on June 21, 2015, 04:25:58 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 20, 2015, 01:30:18 PM
I just thought it was boring really. The guy's an insufferable dick....there was almost no plot to it at all...except for the little bit of trying to get that other sniper I couldn't really tell you what the movie was about. I just straight up didn't like it. Contrast it to Saving Private Ryan for example...that movie had purpose, it had a solid plot, it made sense, some people did some stupid stuff but all in all I feel like that's how people would act 90% of the time in that situation. American Sniper was just that...American. Far too much for my tastes.

Haven't seen it yet, probably won't. Mainly because the only time I watch movies is with my better half and I doubt she'd sit through it.

I did like the Saving Private Ryan shout out. That's a well done movie.

Saving Private Ryan was awesome, just like Band of Brothers.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on June 21, 2015, 04:39:31 PM
Quote from: Arun on June 21, 2015, 04:37:46 PM
Quote from: Archer on June 21, 2015, 04:25:58 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 20, 2015, 01:30:18 PM
I just thought it was boring really. The guy's an insufferable dick....there was almost no plot to it at all...except for the little bit of trying to get that other sniper I couldn't really tell you what the movie was about. I just straight up didn't like it. Contrast it to Saving Private Ryan for example...that movie had purpose, it had a solid plot, it made sense, some people did some stupid stuff but all in all I feel like that's how people would act 90% of the time in that situation. American Sniper was just that...American. Far too much for my tastes.

Haven't seen it yet, probably won't. Mainly because the only time I watch movies is with my better half and I doubt she'd sit through it.

I did like the Saving Private Ryan shout out. That's a well done movie.

Saving Private Ryan was awesome, just like Band of Brothers.

That's my point....those two are awesome. American Sniper is shite in comparison...all this "I have to protect America because the savages are attacking us!!!!"...yawn...that trope is so 2002 (Granted that's about the time frame of this movie, but still).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on June 21, 2015, 04:41:24 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 21, 2015, 04:39:31 PM
Quote from: Arun on June 21, 2015, 04:37:46 PM
Quote from: Archer on June 21, 2015, 04:25:58 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 20, 2015, 01:30:18 PM
I just thought it was boring really. The guy's an insufferable dick....there was almost no plot to it at all...except for the little bit of trying to get that other sniper I couldn't really tell you what the movie was about. I just straight up didn't like it. Contrast it to Saving Private Ryan for example...that movie had purpose, it had a solid plot, it made sense, some people did some stupid stuff but all in all I feel like that's how people would act 90% of the time in that situation. American Sniper was just that...American. Far too much for my tastes.

Haven't seen it yet, probably won't. Mainly because the only time I watch movies is with my better half and I doubt she'd sit through it.

I did like the Saving Private Ryan shout out. That's a well done movie.

Saving Private Ryan was awesome, just like Band of Brothers.

That's my point....those two are awesome. American Sniper is shite in comparison...all this "I have to protect America because the savages are attacking us!!!!"...yawn...that trope is so 2002 (Granted that's about the time frame of this movie, but still).

I like American Sniper because it told the tale of a legendary true hero, but the war scenes were a little lackluster in places. Not a lot of good films on the Iraq war really. Hurt Locker was real good but most people i know never actually watched it lol.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on June 21, 2015, 04:45:04 PM
Again, I disagree...I don't think he was much of a hero, more of a self-absorbed moron blinded by his American patriotism
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on June 21, 2015, 05:04:56 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 21, 2015, 04:39:31 PM
Quote from: Arun on June 21, 2015, 04:37:46 PM
Quote from: Archer on June 21, 2015, 04:25:58 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 20, 2015, 01:30:18 PM
I just thought it was boring really. The guy's an insufferable dick....there was almost no plot to it at all...except for the little bit of trying to get that other sniper I couldn't really tell you what the movie was about. I just straight up didn't like it. Contrast it to Saving Private Ryan for example...that movie had purpose, it had a solid plot, it made sense, some people did some stupid stuff but all in all I feel like that's how people would act 90% of the time in that situation. American Sniper was just that...American. Far too much for my tastes.

Haven't seen it yet, probably won't. Mainly because the only time I watch movies is with my better half and I doubt she'd sit through it.

I did like the Saving Private Ryan shout out. That's a well done movie.

Saving Private Ryan was awesome, just like Band of Brothers.

That's my point....those two are awesome. American Sniper is shite in comparison...all this "I have to protect America because the savages are attacking us!!!!"...yawn...that trope is so 2002 (Granted that's about the time frame of this movie, but still).

Bad wars don't produce good movies. The book is not exactly going to win the Nobel prize for Literature either. I didn't even finish it, as it was so poorly written.

But, I have met Chris Kyle at SHOT Show, and I don't think he was a self-absorbed moron by any stretch. I think he was just a guy from Texas who was really good at killing people, who was given a target-rich environment, and wanted to move on with his life at the end of it all. He was very gracious and, well, "normal" when I met him. He was very into helping other vets. He was very into Texas. He was very into the American ideal. I honestly believe if he could have achieved the end of financing his chosen causes without putting himself out there post-service, he would have.

ETA: Two interviews that are in line with the Chris Kyle I met:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB_h_fpUMZM[/yt]
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llLVMUlDpaE[/yt]

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on June 21, 2015, 05:20:23 PM
I don't doubt your experiences at all Gardener and I'm not trying to rag on Chris Kyle....I just thought the movie was kind of dumb.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on June 21, 2015, 05:22:38 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on June 21, 2015, 05:20:23 PM
I don't doubt your experiences at all Gardener and I'm not trying to rag on Chris Kyle....I just thought the movie was kind of dumb.

Bad books don't produce good movies. ;)

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on June 21, 2015, 05:25:12 PM
Fair point
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Post by: Arun on June 21, 2015, 05:55:35 PM
Quote from: Gardener on June 21, 2015, 05:04:56 PM

Bad wars don't produce good movies.

vietnam?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on June 21, 2015, 05:58:34 PM
Quote from: Arun on June 21, 2015, 05:55:35 PM
Quote from: Gardener on June 21, 2015, 05:04:56 PM

Bad wars don't produce good movies.

vietnam?

Touche. We Were Soldiers is a top notch movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on June 21, 2015, 06:00:06 PM
Quote from: Archer on June 21, 2015, 05:58:34 PM
Quote from: Arun on June 21, 2015, 05:55:35 PM
Quote from: Gardener on June 21, 2015, 05:04:56 PM

Bad wars don't produce good movies.

vietnam?

Touche. We Were Soldiers is a top notch movie.

love that movie
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on June 21, 2015, 06:04:19 PM
Quote from: Archer on June 21, 2015, 05:58:34 PM
Quote from: Arun on June 21, 2015, 05:55:35 PM
Quote from: Gardener on June 21, 2015, 05:04:56 PM

Bad wars don't produce good movies.

vietnam?

Touche. We Were Soldiers is a top notch movie.

Don't forget Tropic Thunder. That movie was hilarious
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on June 21, 2015, 06:05:04 PM
Yeah it was pretty crack up
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on June 21, 2015, 09:40:24 PM
Quote from: Archer on June 21, 2015, 05:58:34 PM
Quote from: Arun on June 21, 2015, 05:55:35 PM
Quote from: Gardener on June 21, 2015, 05:04:56 PM

Bad wars don't produce good movies.

vietnam?

Touche. We Were Soldiers is a top notch movie.

I'm not so sure Vietnam was a bad war, like Iraq and perhaps even Afghanistan; the left has drawn comparisons, but tactically they are different -- even the human terrain is just so different. Plus, the situation in the Ia Drang valley was a bit different from a tactical point of view than the experience in Iraq. Ia Drang was far more conventional, and a single event.

Also, Moore's book was actually worth reading from a literary standpoint. Same with Col. David Hackworth's books, also about Vietnam.

And neither of their works focused particularly on a single individual's experience, who was a sometimes roughly-spoken Texan with bad compiling.

A good book about Iraq, though not written by a military man, is "The Fall of Baghdad" by Jon Lee Anderson.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on June 22, 2015, 12:16:20 AM
Non-Stop.

Quote from: Arun on June 21, 2015, 04:41:24 PMHurt Locker was real good but most people i know never actually watched it lol.

I liked it!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on June 22, 2015, 05:13:07 AM
I watched Hurt Locker too. Thought it was great.
Just saw A Clear and Present Danger. It was hilarious to see what was considered high-tech computers in '94.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on June 22, 2015, 06:35:20 AM
Just finally watched the Maltese falcon for the first time. Always been a huge neo-noir fan si I wants to check it out. Ending sucked harder than Kirby. Would of made a good HBO mini series if the movie was the premiere then e2 kicked off in istanvul

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on June 22, 2015, 10:30:48 AM
Quote from: Arun on June 21, 2015, 04:17:45 PM
Quote from: zork on June 21, 2015, 12:41:46 PM
Apocalypse Now (1979)

great film

I liked it much better than I thought I would.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on June 22, 2015, 10:38:16 AM
Quote from: Arun on June 22, 2015, 06:35:20 AM
Just finally watched the Maltese falcon for the first time. Always been a huge neo-noir fan si I wants to check it out. Ending sucked harder than Kirby. Would of made a good HBO mini series if the movie was the premiere then e2 kicked off in istanvul

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Loove that movie - need to rewatch it.

Star Trek 5 (AKA The search for God.)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on June 22, 2015, 10:59:08 AM
Jurassic Park.

First twenty minutes of The Sandlot.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on June 23, 2015, 10:53:02 AM
Quote from: Arun on June 22, 2015, 06:35:20 AM
Just finally watched the Maltese falcon for the first time. Always been a huge neo-noir fan si I wants to check it out. Ending sucked harder than Kirby. Would of made a good HBO mini series if the movie was the premiere then e2 kicked off in istanvul

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y

Oh, man, I love the Maltese Falcon, ending and all. Mary Astor was such a manipulative witch, and I love watching her face as Bogey turns her over to the cops. I do kind of wish that Greenstreet and Lorre would have gotten away, though. They were pretty funny.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on June 23, 2015, 03:07:59 PM
Quote from: Arun on June 18, 2015, 04:03:57 PM
jurassic world. thought it was lame and also an improper use of a Chris Pratt. basically just another one of these nostalgia vehicles designed to keep people in a state of man-childness really.
yrah ive noticed that too

the transformers movies i got all excited then new optimus prime
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on June 23, 2015, 03:25:10 PM
Quote from: Larry on June 23, 2015, 10:53:02 AM
Quote from: Arun on June 22, 2015, 06:35:20 AM
Just finally watched the Maltese falcon for the first time. Always been a huge neo-noir fan si I wants to check it out. Ending sucked harder than Kirby. Would of made a good HBO mini series if the movie was the premiere then e2 kicked off in istanvul

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y

Oh, man, I love the Maltese Falcon, ending and all. Mary Astor was such a manipulative witch, and I love watching her face as Bogey turns her over to the cops. I do kind of wish that Greenstreet and Lorre would have gotten away, though. They were pretty funny.

i dunno, i started watching film noir cos i like neo noir but i'm starting to think i prefer neo noir personally. film noir movies often set you up for a whole lot of nothing. i was going to watch a film of the 39 steps because i like the book but then i don't wanna watch it because i like the book.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on June 24, 2015, 05:25:54 AM
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The new one with Gary Oldman.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on June 24, 2015, 03:57:41 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on June 24, 2015, 05:25:54 AM
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The new one with Gary Oldman.

i like le carre's books better than the movies made from his books
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on June 25, 2015, 07:40:45 AM
Quote from: Arun on June 24, 2015, 03:57:41 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on June 24, 2015, 05:25:54 AM
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The new one with Gary Oldman.

i like le carre's books better than the movies made from his books
Agreed. No comparison.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on June 25, 2015, 04:31:20 PM
Saw Jurassic World the week after it came out.

But more recently, I finally saw I Am Legend.  Eh, I can see the inspiration from Charleton Heston's adaptation, but each is too different from the other to really compare.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on June 25, 2015, 04:43:08 PM
Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on June 25, 2015, 04:31:20 PM
Saw Jurassic World the week after it came out.

But more recently, I finally saw I Am Legend.  Eh, I can see the inspiration from Charleton Heston's adaptation, but each is too different from the other to really compare.

another film that really let the book down eh
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: BibleSteve on June 25, 2015, 11:15:36 PM
Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock. Good times.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on June 28, 2015, 06:23:50 AM
A Most Wanted Man. Seymour Hoffman's last movie. It was alright. Kind of cerebral i.e. no gun play or car chases.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on June 28, 2015, 06:40:35 AM
Quote from: BibleSteve on June 25, 2015, 11:15:36 PM
Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock. Good times.

A classic. One of my favorites.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on June 28, 2015, 10:55:44 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on May 28, 2015, 08:52:17 AM
I made the mistake of watching Noah with Russell Crowe. A truly awful experience. Just terrible.

I tried watching it but shut it off. I couldn't get past the overwhelming environmentalism and transformer-like rock creatures.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on June 29, 2015, 01:48:05 PM
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 01, 2015, 09:19:56 AM
Nightcrawler. Pretty entertaining. Gyllenhaal did a good job.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on July 01, 2015, 10:40:44 AM
Saw Ida again because I was bored.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on July 01, 2015, 03:03:31 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on July 01, 2015, 10:40:44 AM
Saw Ida again because I was bored.

I just looked it up and want to watch it, but I am not sure as of yet if it is available in the US. Wiki says that it is available in the (NWO speak) English speaking regions 1 and 2.

Has this movie strengthened your Faith?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on July 01, 2015, 03:05:12 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 01, 2015, 03:03:31 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on July 01, 2015, 10:40:44 AM
Saw Ida again because I was bored.

I just looked it up and want to watch it, but I am not sure as of yet if it is available in the US. Wiki says that it is available in the (NWO speak) English speaking regions 1 and 2.

Has this movie strengthened your Faith?

No, it was stupid lol. The to-be nun ends up sleeping with a sax player (you don't see nothing though, it's implied [albeit very clearly]). I still remember liking the film overall and the cinematography in it was fantastic.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on July 01, 2015, 10:14:54 PM
City of Ember.  Never heard of it til today when I saw it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 02, 2015, 04:29:42 AM
Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on July 01, 2015, 10:14:54 PM
City of Ember.  Never heard of it til today when I saw it.

watched that with the kids a while ago. not bad.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 02, 2015, 08:53:32 AM
A Streetcar Named Desire. One of those movies it's going to take a long time for me to forget. One of the best I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on July 02, 2015, 09:30:10 AM
Quote from: Larry on July 02, 2015, 08:53:32 AM
A Streetcar Named Desire. One of those movies it's going to take a long time for me to forget. One of the best I've ever seen.

I've never seen that! I love the name, though...Stella!!!!!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on July 02, 2015, 11:01:46 AM
Quote from: Larry on July 02, 2015, 08:53:32 AM
A Streetcar Named Desire. One of those movies it's going to take a long time for me to forget. One of the best I've ever seen.

Is it the one with Marlon Brando? And Vivian Leigh as Blanche...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 02, 2015, 03:08:49 PM
Quote from: Larry on July 02, 2015, 08:53:32 AM
A Streetcar Named Desire. One of those movies it's going to take a long time for me to forget. One of the best I've ever seen.

I might get that for the Mrs actually.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 03, 2015, 01:09:40 PM
It's great, but I don't know if I'd buy it for your wife, Arun. The "Stella!" line out of context is hilarious, but in the movie...let's just say that Brando plays a nearly inhuman animal. Vivian Leigh's Blanche is a very delicate soul, and is near insanity. What Brando does to her is, from a human perspective, unforgivable. Don't get me wrong, Blanche can be an annoying character, but she's just a lonely lady desperate for love. What these people need is Christ, but they don't know it.

Interestingly enough, Tennessee Williams(the author of Streetcar and many other great works) became a Roman Catholic in his last years despite his struggles with homosexuality; his plays and films all deal with God in some way, even when not officially acknowledged in the narrative. His death was mysterious; he died of an accidental drug and alcohol overdose. I pray that his soul has now found the peace and love he so desperately sought in this life.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 03, 2015, 03:05:09 PM
Quote from: Larry on July 03, 2015, 01:09:40 PM
It's great, but I don't know if I'd buy it for your wife, Arun. The "Stella!" line out of context is hilarious, but in the movie...let's just say that Brando plays a nearly inhuman animal. Vivian Leigh's Blanche is a very delicate soul, and is near insanity. What Brando does to her is, from a human perspective, unforgivable. Don't get me wrong, Blanche can be an annoying character, but she's just a lonely lady desperate for love. What these people need is Christ, but they don't know it.

Interestingly enough, Tennessee Williams(the author of Streetcar and many other great works) became a Roman Catholic in his last years despite his struggles with homosexuality; his plays and films all deal with God in some way, even when not officially acknowledged in the narrative. His death was mysterious; he died of an accidental drug and alcohol overdose. I pray that his soul has now found the peace and love he so desperately sought in this life.

well she likes that movie The Color Purple so it should be ok. but thanks for the heads up.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on July 03, 2015, 10:06:15 PM
Young Fronkensteen.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 03, 2015, 10:59:51 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 03, 2015, 10:06:15 PM
Young Fronkensteen.

Mel Brooks humour. Gotta love it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on July 04, 2015, 03:32:02 AM
Quote from: Arun on July 03, 2015, 10:59:51 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 03, 2015, 10:06:15 PM
Young Fronkensteen.

Mel Brooks humour. Gotta love it.

Candy gram for mongo
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 04, 2015, 03:34:35 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on July 04, 2015, 03:32:02 AM
Quote from: Arun on July 03, 2015, 10:59:51 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 03, 2015, 10:06:15 PM
Young Fronkensteen.

Mel Brooks humour. Gotta love it.

Candy gram for mongo

imagine if they made that movie nowdays...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on July 04, 2015, 03:35:54 AM
Oh man, the triggering the SJWs would get would be off the charts
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Post by: Arun on July 04, 2015, 03:39:15 AM
i tend to think of Chevy Chase more when i think of candygrams anyway...























...landshark.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 04, 2015, 01:43:47 PM
The first Mel Brooks movie I saw as a kid was Silent Movie. It was probably inappropriate for my age,  but I laughed my ass off. All of his movies, up until the nineties are great. My favorite is still the original version of The Producers.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on July 04, 2015, 03:30:34 PM
Quote from: Larry on July 04, 2015, 01:43:47 PM
The first Mel Brooks movie I saw as a kid was Silent Movie. It was probably inappropriate for my age,  but I laughed my ass off. All of his movies, up until the nineties are great. My favorite is still the original version of The Producers.

I watched the end of Blazing Saddles a few weeks ago. Watching through the lens of Truth, the movie is scandalous.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on July 04, 2015, 03:37:27 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 04, 2015, 03:30:34 PM
Quote from: Larry on July 04, 2015, 01:43:47 PM
The first Mel Brooks movie I saw as a kid was Silent Movie. It was probably inappropriate for my age,  but I laughed my ass off. All of his movies, up until the nineties are great. My favorite is still the original version of The Producers.

I watched the end of Blazing Saddles a few weeks ago. Watching through the lens of Truth, the movie is scandalous.

Besides stampeding cattle through the Vatican, can you elaborate as to why?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 04, 2015, 10:51:16 PM
Pitch Perfect 2. as crap as the first one.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on July 04, 2015, 11:37:30 PM
Quote from: Arun on July 04, 2015, 10:51:16 PM
Pitch Perfect 2. as crap as the first one.

Still great.  :lol:

My favorite part was with the Green Bay Packers.

#gopackgo
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 05, 2015, 12:45:58 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 04, 2015, 11:37:30 PM
Quote from: Arun on July 04, 2015, 10:51:16 PM
Pitch Perfect 2. as crap as the first one.

Still great.  :lol:

My favorite part was with the Green Bay Packers.

#gopackgo

Yeah that part was pretty funny. Both movies had their funny moments, but i'm pretty sick of Rebel Wilson trying to be funy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on July 05, 2015, 09:31:19 AM
Today, we are watching the latest Hobbit film.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on July 05, 2015, 09:33:15 AM
Quote from: Gardener on July 05, 2015, 09:31:19 AM
Today, we are watching the latest Hobbit film.

How are they?

I refuse to watch the Hobbit/LOTR films until I've read the books, and I've never read the books so I've never seen the movies lol. I really should get around to that
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on July 05, 2015, 09:37:33 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on July 05, 2015, 09:33:15 AM
Quote from: Gardener on July 05, 2015, 09:31:19 AM
Today, we are watching the latest Hobbit film.

How are they?

I refuse to watch the Hobbit/LOTR films until I've read the books, and I've never read the books so I've never seen the movies lol. I really should get around to that

LOTR is better than the Hobbit, as far as the films go, but the Hobbit series is still more watchable than many things today.

I've never read the books, but my wife has.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on July 05, 2015, 01:25:03 PM
you haven't read the books?!
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Post by: MundaCorMeum on July 05, 2015, 03:26:48 PM
The kids and I just finished The Hobbit as a read aloud this past week.  I won't lie....I choked up at the end!  I first read the book in eight grade, though
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 05, 2015, 04:49:47 PM
Get Hard. it was complete and utter shite. Will Ferrell has lost it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on July 05, 2015, 04:58:47 PM
Quote from: Arun on July 05, 2015, 04:49:47 PM
Get Hard. it was complete and utter shite. Will Ferrell has lost it.

He was never that funny tbh
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: INPEFESS on July 05, 2015, 11:58:33 PM
I watched Jurassic World recently. My expectations weren't that high and I was still disappointed. There were too many plot pitfalls I couldn't ignore even when I tried.

I came to the conclusion that the movie was entertaining....when I turned my brain off.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: VeraeFidei on July 06, 2015, 07:38:08 AM
I watched The Guardian last night - seen it several times before. Coast Guard rescue swimmers are pretty amazing.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Archer on July 06, 2015, 07:42:59 AM
Quote from: Gardener on July 05, 2015, 09:37:33 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on July 05, 2015, 09:33:15 AM
Quote from: Gardener on July 05, 2015, 09:31:19 AM
Today, we are watching the latest Hobbit film.

How are they?

I refuse to watch the Hobbit/LOTR films until I've read the books, and I've never read the books so I've never seen the movies lol. I really should get around to that

LOTR is better than the Hobbit, as far as the films go, but the Hobbit series is still more watchable than many things today.

I've never read the books, but my wife has.

I dunno. Even ignoring the complete trainwrecked plot, the Hobbit felt like you were watching a video game. Way too many special effects.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 06, 2015, 09:25:00 PM
Quote from: VeraeFidei on July 06, 2015, 07:38:08 AM
I watched The Guardian last night - seen it several times before. Coast Guard rescue swimmers are pretty amazing.

is that the one with ashton kutcher? pretty good film.

Quote from: Archer on July 06, 2015, 07:42:59 AM
Quote from: Gardener on July 05, 2015, 09:37:33 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on July 05, 2015, 09:33:15 AM
Quote from: Gardener on July 05, 2015, 09:31:19 AM
Today, we are watching the latest Hobbit film.

How are they?

I refuse to watch the Hobbit/LOTR films until I've read the books, and I've never read the books so I've never seen the movies lol. I really should get around to that

LOTR is better than the Hobbit, as far as the films go, but the Hobbit series is still more watchable than many things today.

I've never read the books, but my wife has.

I dunno. Even ignoring the complete trainwrecked plot, the Hobbit felt like you were watching a video game. Way too many special effects.

peter jackson fluked LOTR, basically. somehow they were pretty good movies. everything else he's ever made is crap. he's just no talented and it really seems somewhere along the line he just stopped giving a shit. at least his early stuff, like meet the feebles for example, smacked of effort. the hobbit just seemed like everyone phoned it in.

i really don't like how he used so many kiwi actors in the films either, NZers just plain can't act.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: VeraeFidei on July 06, 2015, 09:35:10 PM
Quote from: Arun on July 06, 2015, 09:25:00 PM
Quote from: VeraeFidei on July 06, 2015, 07:38:08 AM
I watched The Guardian last night - seen it several times before. Coast Guard rescue swimmers are pretty amazing.

is that the one with ashton kutcher? pretty good film.
Yeah, it is. It's the only good movie/show I have seen him in. He actually does quite well in it, in my opinion.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 06, 2015, 09:37:32 PM
Quote from: VeraeFidei on July 06, 2015, 09:35:10 PM
Quote from: Arun on July 06, 2015, 09:25:00 PM
Quote from: VeraeFidei on July 06, 2015, 07:38:08 AM
I watched The Guardian last night - seen it several times before. Coast Guard rescue swimmers are pretty amazing.

is that the one with ashton kutcher? pretty good film.
Yeah, it is. It's the only good movie/show I have seen him in. He actually does quite well in it, in my opinion.

we watched a comedy he was in recently, the killers i think it was called. that was a pretty good film.

i'd definitely like to see him in more action-oriented roles, especially given that he's a Rigan Machado purple belt it'd be cool to see him show off some skills in some fight scenes.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on July 06, 2015, 10:45:55 PM
Well, we ended up finishing The Hobbit tonight. Certainly not LOTR. But I've never read the books, so I have nothing to be disappointed about. Probably won't read the books even though I have the LOTR set.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 07, 2015, 03:39:43 AM
Quote from: Gardener on July 06, 2015, 10:45:55 PM
Well, we ended up finishing The Hobbit tonight. Certainly not LOTR. But I've never read the books, so I have nothing to be disappointed about. Probably won't read the books even though I have the LOTR set.

the hobbit book is way better. lotr movies left a lot out too. would have been hilarious for the naked singing forest guy to be in there.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on July 07, 2015, 06:32:12 AM
Quote from: Arun on July 07, 2015, 03:39:43 AM
Quote from: Gardener on July 06, 2015, 10:45:55 PM
Well, we ended up finishing The Hobbit tonight. Certainly not LOTR. But I've never read the books, so I have nothing to be disappointed about. Probably won't read the books even though I have the LOTR set.

the hobbit book is way better. lotr movies left a lot out too. would have been hilarious for the naked singing forest guy to be in there.

btw, "'e kilt the dregon wit th' bleck arrow!" lol... you're right, Kiwi actors are... wow.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 07, 2015, 06:06:45 PM
Quote from: Gardener on July 07, 2015, 06:32:12 AM
Quote from: Arun on July 07, 2015, 03:39:43 AM
Quote from: Gardener on July 06, 2015, 10:45:55 PM
Well, we ended up finishing The Hobbit tonight. Certainly not LOTR. But I've never read the books, so I have nothing to be disappointed about. Probably won't read the books even though I have the LOTR set.

the hobbit book is way better. lotr movies left a lot out too. would have been hilarious for the naked singing forest guy to be in there.

btw, "'e kilt the dregon wit th' bleck arrow!" lol... you're right, Kiwi actors are... wow.

yep. some of the kiwi dwarves have some lame accents too. it's embarrasing...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on July 08, 2015, 12:52:46 AM
Mon Oncle
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on July 08, 2015, 04:06:17 PM
New Terminator.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on July 08, 2015, 06:34:07 PM
Red Dawn. The new one.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Revixit on July 08, 2015, 09:36:39 PM

Non-Stop

You won't want to ever fly again, but I was already there so no matter.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on July 09, 2015, 09:07:29 AM
Quote from: Revixit on July 08, 2015, 09:36:39 PM

Non-Stop

You won't want to ever fly again, but I was already there so no matter.

Man British royalty really took a hit in the 20th century if Lady Mary's a flight attendant now!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 17, 2015, 06:13:23 AM
Finally saw American Sniper. Kind of average. Wasn't great. Wasn't bad. Not a particularly challenging role for Cooper. All he had to do was be stoic and patriotic.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on July 17, 2015, 10:20:58 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on July 17, 2015, 06:13:23 AM
Finally saw American Sniper. Kind of average. Wasn't great. Wasn't bad. Not a particularly challenging role for Cooper. All he had to do was be stoic and patriotic.

That's extremely hard for a Hollywood type.

But, he did have to learn Chris' mannerisms and such. One doesn't simply Texan.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on July 18, 2015, 06:25:39 PM
I just saw "Into The Hornets Nest"; a war correspondent and his son implant themselves into two U.S. Military units in N.E. Afghanistan; The 101 Airborne, and a Marine unit. Following them in their routine patrols; everything is "normal" until they have to fly into the Marjah valley and seize control of it from the Taliban.  There is a lot of profanity from the soldiers, but I didn't catch a single time when the name of God or of Our Lord was taken in vain. Very riveting. The soldiers dialogue is funny. This is not really a movie, but a documentary.
Here is a summary: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2611026/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl
QuoteOn February 13, 2010, American-led coalition forces launched the biggest military operation since the beginning of the Afghanistan War. Their target was the town of Marjah, a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. There, the Marines had four tasks: remove the Taliban, hold all ground seized, build infrastructure and governance, and transfer control to Afghan security forces. In this powerful account, award-winning journalist Ben Anderson tells the story of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, and its commanding officer, Captain Ryan Sparks. At the battle's outset, Sparks and the 272 men of Bravo are flown 12 miles and dropped into the center of Marjah, where the Taliban lie in wait. For the young Marines, their first task begins. Embedded with Bravo Company, Anderson provides an intimate and sobering look at the realities of counterinsurgency warfare.
Here is another note
QuoteWhile the main story is focused on members of the 327th Infantry Regiment, of the 101st Airborne Division, some of the early units shown include members of the 25th Infantry Division, and the 187th Infantry Regiment, the Rakkasans, also of the 101st Airborne Div.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 18, 2015, 07:27:21 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on July 18, 2015, 06:25:39 PM
I just saw "Into The Hornets Nest"; a war correspondent and his son implant themselves into two U.S. Military units in N.E. Afghanistan; The 101 Airborne, and a Marine unit. Following them in their routine patrols; everything is "normal" until they have to fly into the Marjah valley and seize control of it from the Taliban.  There is a lot of profanity from the soldiers, but I didn't catch a single time when the name of God or of Our Lord was taken in vain. Very riveting. The soldiers dialogue is funny. This is not really a movie, but a documentary.
Here is a summary: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2611026/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl
QuoteOn February 13, 2010, American-led coalition forces launched the biggest military operation since the beginning of the Afghanistan War. Their target was the town of Marjah, a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. There, the Marines had four tasks: remove the Taliban, hold all ground seized, build infrastructure and governance, and transfer control to Afghan security forces. In this powerful account, award-winning journalist Ben Anderson tells the story of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, and its commanding officer, Captain Ryan Sparks. At the battle's outset, Sparks and the 272 men of Bravo are flown 12 miles and dropped into the center of Marjah, where the Taliban lie in wait. For the young Marines, their first task begins. Embedded with Bravo Company, Anderson provides an intimate and sobering look at the realities of counterinsurgency warfare.
Here is another note
QuoteWhile the main story is focused on members of the 327th Infantry Regiment, of the 101st Airborne Division, some of the early units shown include members of the 25th Infantry Division, and the 187th Infantry Regiment, the Rakkasans, also of the 101st Airborne Div.

doesn't 101's marching chant have a GD in it? good thing they didn't include it then...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Michael Wilson on July 18, 2015, 07:33:31 PM
No, there was no marching chant in it. There is a very moving scene at the end of the movie, where they hold funeral services for the men who died in the Marjah valley operation. At least it got me.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 18, 2015, 07:55:50 PM
Quote from: Michael Wilson on July 18, 2015, 07:33:31 PM
No, there was no marching chant in it. There is a very moving scene at the end of the movie, where they hold funeral services for the men who died in the Marjah valley operation. At least it got me.

sounds like its worth a watch eh. i'll check it out.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on July 18, 2015, 08:28:19 PM
No Division song has profanity at any official level.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on July 19, 2015, 02:44:36 PM
I watched Hornet's Nest two weeks ago. I am glad I did. It gave me a great perspective of what many of my neighbors and some acquaintances have experienced. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 19, 2015, 04:04:33 PM
watching these ones on rotation at home for the fams;

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCA5ylpRbhc[/yt]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjokO41yjq4[/yt]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndUfgHopiPI[/yt]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2O8WmVlOUk[/yt]

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltUxyOUN6Y[/yt]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy7kishOwv8[/yt]



the St Patrick one i actually saw one St Patrick's Day on secular tv here in NZ about 12 years ago. pretty surprising; the majority of kiwis assume it's got nothing to do with religion and everything to do with buying the stalest, cheapest keg beer the bar has to get rid of quickly that's been dyed green, slutty leprechauns and raving on about how your "totally 1/32th Irish on your mother's uncl;e's cousin's side bro..." :rolleyes:

eta: the St Augustine pt 1 isn't showing up for some reason
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on July 19, 2015, 05:16:51 PM
thanks for those man, never heard of 'em before
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 19, 2015, 05:20:11 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on July 19, 2015, 05:16:51 PM
thanks for those man, never heard of 'em before

the reluctant saint is a good one, there was a real, real bad old copy of a copy VHS dub going around our parish years ago that i saw of it but the YT one is more clearer.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 20, 2015, 05:51:23 AM
Lone Survivor.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on July 21, 2015, 10:38:03 AM
The Hunt For Red October (1990)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on July 21, 2015, 11:34:42 AM
Quote from: zork on July 21, 2015, 10:38:03 AM
The Hunt For Red October (1990)

Love that movie.  :):)  And the book.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 22, 2015, 09:46:19 AM
A Gang Story. A film by Olivier Marchal about a criminal gang. I don't usually care for films that are subtitled but this was very good. You could tell they were French. Everyone had a two day old beard and smoked like chimneys. The police included.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on July 22, 2015, 09:57:35 AM
Ant-Man. 

Fun summer comicbook movie.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on July 22, 2015, 10:24:51 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on July 22, 2015, 09:46:19 AM
A Gang Story. A film by Olivier Marchal about a criminal gang.

Never would have guessed it was about a criminal gang by the title.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 22, 2015, 01:44:19 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 22, 2015, 10:24:51 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on July 22, 2015, 09:46:19 AM
A Gang Story. A film by Olivier Marchal about a criminal gang.

Never would have guessed it was about a criminal gang by the title.
I was aiming for Eindeutigkeit.  ;)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on July 22, 2015, 02:41:53 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on July 22, 2015, 01:44:19 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 22, 2015, 10:24:51 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on July 22, 2015, 09:46:19 AM
A Gang Story. A film by Olivier Marchal about a criminal gang.

Never would have guessed it was about a criminal gang by the title.
I was aiming for Eindeutigkeit.  ;)

You nailed it. And thanks for teaching/reteaching me a German word.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on July 23, 2015, 09:19:08 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 22, 2015, 02:41:53 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on July 22, 2015, 01:44:19 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 22, 2015, 10:24:51 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on July 22, 2015, 09:46:19 AM
A Gang Story. A film by Olivier Marchal about a criminal gang.

Never would have guessed it was about a criminal gang by the title.
I was aiming for Eindeutigkeit.  ;)

You nailed it. And thanks for teaching/reteaching me a German word.

Dang, I thought you knew them all! [Not sarcasm]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on July 23, 2015, 09:19:48 PM
Europa Report (2013)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 24, 2015, 09:45:07 AM
Lawless with Shia LeBeouf. Very good. Based on a true story about the Bondurant brothers who ran moonshine in Virginia during Prohibition. There was one scene in a church who I think are Old Order German Baptist. They had a way of raising a hand to either mark time or to note where they were in the hymn.
Plus they washed each others feet. Kind of interesting. You can see the scene on YouTube under "Do Not I love Thee" from Lawless.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on July 24, 2015, 10:02:32 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on July 24, 2015, 09:45:07 AM
Lawless with Shia LeBeouf. Very good. Based on a true story about the Bondurant brothers who ran moonshine in Virginia during Prohibition. There was one scene in a church who I think are Old Order German Baptist. They had a way of raising a hand to either mark time or to note where they were in the hymn.
Plus they washed each others feet. Kind of interesting. You can see the scene on YouTube under "Do Not I love Thee" from Lawless.

The hand-raising is for keeping time. It's used in congregational shape-note/four-square singing, usually from the hymnal "Sacred Harp".

It's fascinating stuff, primarily from the South -- but it's caught on around the world.

I think it first came to the public awareness in Cold Mountain on a larger scale.

Here's a trailer for a documentary about it:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHUfHNEZDPc[/yt]

The shape-note convention is fascinating, since one does not need notation paper to write it down. One can simply write out a line and a shape above it, and it's instantly readable in a moveable-do manner (meaning, not fixed do). It's analogous to chant in this regard.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 24, 2015, 11:39:42 AM
Quote from: Gardener on July 24, 2015, 10:02:32 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on July 24, 2015, 09:45:07 AM
Lawless with Shia LeBeouf. Very good. Based on a true story about the Bondurant brothers who ran moonshine in Virginia during Prohibition. There was one scene in a church who I think are Old Order German Baptist. They had a way of raising a hand to either mark time or to note where they were in the hymn.
Plus they washed each others feet. Kind of interesting. You can see the scene on YouTube under "Do Not I love Thee" from Lawless.

The hand-raising is for keeping time. It's used in congregational shape-note/four-square singing, usually from the hymnal "Sacred Harp".

It's fascinating stuff, primarily from the South -- but it's caught on around the world.

I think it first came to the public awareness in Cold Mountain on a larger scale.

Here's a trailer for a documentary about it:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHUfHNEZDPc[/yt]

The shape-note convention is fascinating, since one does not need notation paper to write it down. One can simply write out a line and a shape above it, and it's instantly readable in a moveable-do manner (meaning, not fixed do). It's analogous to chant in this regard.
Yep that's it. It IS an interesting sound. Thanks.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 27, 2015, 09:09:14 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on July 24, 2015, 09:45:07 AM
Lawless with Shia LeBeouf. Very good. Based on a true story about the Bondurant brothers who ran moonshine in Virginia during Prohibition. There was one scene in a church who I think are Old Order German Baptist. They had a way of raising a hand to either mark time or to note where they were in the hymn.
Plus they washed each others feet. Kind of interesting. You can see the scene on YouTube under "Do Not I love Thee" from Lawless.

i remember seeing that movie couple years back. quite a good one eh.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on July 27, 2015, 09:13:35 PM
Paul Blart Mall Cop 2. Was clean. Kevin James is absurd as ever.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 27, 2015, 09:34:05 PM
Quote from: Gardener on July 27, 2015, 09:13:35 PM
Paul Blart Mall Cop 2. Was clean. Kevin James is absurd as ever.

i really liked that Here Comes the Boom one he was in. Mayhem Miller was hilarious in that too, and Bas as always.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on July 29, 2015, 06:52:35 AM
Watched about an hour of Shooting Dogs - a film about a Catholic school during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Excellent performances from all the actors, and very moving and powerful footage. Stopped halfway through though because sadly they misused Our Lord's name as an exclamation (just when it was getting really good  >:(), which I do not agree with, and for this reason I can't recommend it.  :(

Ho-hum. Back to mediocre movies about non-real epic heroes running around in silly, multicoloured tights.

...

Actually, nah. Back to reading.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on July 29, 2015, 07:13:45 PM
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-BExc9SS68[/yt]

i got this the day it came out, it's a good watch. Chris Haueter says some really cool stuff on here that stood out a lot for me.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on July 29, 2015, 09:01:36 PM
ANTMAN
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on July 29, 2015, 09:09:37 PM
Quote from: MilesChristi on July 29, 2015, 09:01:36 PM
ANTMAN

Yes

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on July 30, 2015, 06:58:37 AM
Quote from: Gardener on July 24, 2015, 10:02:32 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on July 24, 2015, 09:45:07 AM
Lawless with Shia LeBeouf. Very good. Based on a true story about the Bondurant brothers who ran moonshine in Virginia during Prohibition. There was one scene in a church who I think are Old Order German Baptist. They had a way of raising a hand to either mark time or to note where they were in the hymn.
Plus they washed each others feet. Kind of interesting. You can see the scene on YouTube under "Do Not I love Thee" from Lawless.

The hand-raising is for keeping time. It's used in congregational shape-note/four-square singing, usually from the hymnal "Sacred Harp".

It's fascinating stuff, primarily from the South -- but it's caught on around the world.

I think it first came to the public awareness in Cold Mountain on a larger scale.

Here's a trailer for a documentary about it:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHUfHNEZDPc[/yt]

The shape-note convention is fascinating, since one does not need notation paper to write it down. One can simply write out a line and a shape above it, and it's instantly readable in a moveable-do manner (meaning, not fixed do). It's analogous to chant in this regard.
there are sacred harp singing groups here in nyc
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on July 31, 2015, 10:44:38 AM
The Big Heat with Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Lee Marvin. Incredible movie from beginning to end.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on August 02, 2015, 03:19:52 PM
over the weekend we had somebody's external hard drive on loan so we watched quite a few movies. saw Paul Blart 2, not too bad. Black Sea which was pretty good. Big Ass Spider which was stupid. Home which was kind of ok. Rise, an Aussie film which is a true story about a guy falsely accused of rape who serves time in a maximum security prison; actually a very good movie, strong representation of Faith in it (although it's not explicitly Catholic which does detract from it hugely, but still better than many other films). Tomorrowland which was a snoozefest, i couldn't even sit through it.

last thing i watched was a short documentary called Slipknot Audiobiography... kinda sad that my favourite of their albums is considered the worst album by most of the band members... Clown said he hated it, it was a piece of crap... hahaha. it's quite amazing to see how positive the mission and message of the band and their music actually is, especially given people listen to them or see them and immediately start labelling them as "negative"...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on August 03, 2015, 05:06:32 AM
Equilibrium with Christian Bale and Sean Bean. It's the future where feelings and emotions have been outlawed as the cause of wars and strife. The whole thing was pretty bad. Didn't even finish watching it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on August 03, 2015, 12:43:07 PM
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. My friend had some ridiculous Netflix criteria that a movie had to be more than three starts and only an hour and a half. She actually has the DVD and we used to watch it all the time. I wonder how Netflix knew...

Quote from: red solo cup on August 03, 2015, 05:06:32 AM
Equilibrium with Christian Bale and Sean Bean. It's the future where feelings and emotions have been outlawed as the cause of wars and strife. The whole thing was pretty bad. Didn't even finish watching it.

BLASPHEMY. Great movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on August 03, 2015, 01:14:27 PM
Quote from: piabee on August 03, 2015, 12:43:07 PM
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. My friend had some ridiculous Netflix criteria that a movie had to be more than three starts and only an hour and a half. She actually has the DVD and we used to watch it all the time. I wonder how Netflix knew...

Quote from: red solo cup on August 03, 2015, 05:06:32 AM
Equilibrium with Christian Bale and Sean Bean. It's the future where feelings and emotions have been outlawed as the cause of wars and strife. The whole thing was pretty bad. Didn't even finish watching it.

BLASPHEMY. Great movie.
Don't get exited. Have you taken your Prosium today?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: AngloFalcon on August 03, 2015, 02:28:20 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on August 03, 2015, 05:06:32 AM
Equilibrium with Christian Bale and Sean Bean. It's the future where feelings and emotions have been outlawed as the cause of wars and strife. The whole thing was pretty bad. Didn't even finish watching it.

Good grief man! How could you say a thing like that?!  :madsmiley:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on August 03, 2015, 03:20:21 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on August 03, 2015, 02:28:20 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on August 03, 2015, 05:06:32 AM
Equilibrium with Christian Bale and Sean Bean. It's the future where feelings and emotions have been outlawed as the cause of wars and strife. The whole thing was pretty bad. Didn't even finish watching it.

Good grief man! How could you say a thing like that?!  :madsmiley:

must not of got to the gun kata stuff yet...  :shrug:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hiero of Syracuse on August 05, 2015, 11:30:09 AM
I recently saw Princess Bride on TV. It's an older movie, but I still enjoy watching it. It is an affectionate parody of the fantasy genre. I highly recommend it to those who have not seen it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MundaCorMeum on August 05, 2015, 11:56:07 AM
Quote from: Hiero of Syracuse on August 05, 2015, 11:30:09 AM
I recently saw Princess Bride on TV. It's an older movie, but I still enjoy watching it. It is an affectionate parody of the fantasy genre. I highly recommend it to those who have not seen it.

That is my favorite movie of all time! 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on August 05, 2015, 02:50:59 PM
Quote from: Hiero of Syracuse on August 05, 2015, 11:30:09 AM
It is an affectionate parody of the fantasy genre. I highly recommend it to those who have not seen it.

as you wish
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: INPEFESS on August 16, 2015, 10:08:34 AM
test post
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Harlequin King on August 16, 2015, 11:29:36 AM
Quote from: piabee on August 03, 2015, 12:43:07 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on August 03, 2015, 05:06:32 AM
Equilibrium with Christian Bale and Sean Bean. It's the future where feelings and emotions have been outlawed as the cause of wars and strife. The whole thing was pretty bad. Didn't even finish watching it.

BLASPHEMY. Great movie.

Yes, this post just makes me want to dig up a copy of Equilibrium and watch it right now!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on August 20, 2015, 02:04:27 PM
Fed Up:The Childhood Obesity Epidemic It was pretty shocking, especially the part about government subsidies of corn for high fructose corn syrup, and how reports were changed at the urging of food companies' lobbies. The main point was that processed food is evil. The bit about sugar being more addictive than cocaine was pretty shocking, too.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on August 20, 2015, 03:07:26 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on August 20, 2015, 02:04:27 PM
Fed Up:The Childhood Obesity Epidemic It was pretty shocking, especially the part about government subsidies of corn for high fructose corn syrup, and how reports were changed at the urging of food companies' lobbies. The main point was that processed food is evil. The bit about sugar being more addictive than cocaine was pretty shocking, too.

for teens and young adults, the eneergy drinks like V and monster are real bad cos of a ll the sugar but what some people don't realise is that the RTD drink mixes (we call em lolly waters) generally have the same amount of sugar in them as a V does. difference being you wouldn't sit down and drink 18 or 24 500ml cans of V, but you could easily sit down and drink 18 or 24 500ml cans of Woodstock bourbon and cola RTD cans in a night...

that's a lot of sugar.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on August 21, 2015, 02:58:52 AM
anybody seen Straight Outta Compton yet? i've heard its pretty gud
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Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on August 21, 2015, 09:55:14 PM
Quote from: Arun on August 21, 2015, 02:58:52 AM
anybody seen Straight Outta Compton yet? i've heard its pretty gud

Not yet, but I do wanna see it.  If it wasn't for Dr. Dre, I may have ended up just some other idiot listening to crappy pop artists.  I mean, I don't listen to rap very much nowadays, but because of him and the artists he took under his wing, I realized there were talented artists and there were... the boy bands and pop divas.  Talentless hacks.

I mostly listen to rock now, but if it wasn't for Dre, I wouldn't know quality music.
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Post by: Heinrich on August 22, 2015, 10:16:38 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on August 20, 2015, 02:04:27 PM
Fed Up:The Childhood Obesity Epidemic It was pretty shocking, especially the part about government subsidies of corn for high fructose corn syrup, and how reports were changed at the urging of food companies' lobbies. The main point was that processed food is evil. The bit about sugar being more addictive than cocaine was pretty shocking, too.

I suspect this is all done with the lobbying of the AMA and Big Pharma, viz. keep people fat and unhealthy, and they'll go to the doctor more and buy more drugs.
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Post by: red solo cup on August 23, 2015, 02:35:04 PM
Lord of War with Nicolas Cage. Meh. Still better than that awful Equalibrium.  :)
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Post by: VeraeFidei on August 23, 2015, 02:46:58 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on August 23, 2015, 02:35:04 PM
Lord of War with Nicolas Cage. Meh. Still better than that awful Equalibrium.  :)
Lol...Nicholas Cage is such an awful actor. National Treasure...
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Post by: Arun on August 23, 2015, 03:05:22 PM
Quote from: VeraeFidei on August 23, 2015, 02:46:58 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on August 23, 2015, 02:35:04 PM
Lord of War with Nicolas Cage. Meh. Still better than that awful Equalibrium.  :)
Lol...Nicholas Cage is such an awful actor. National Treasure...

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Post by: Bernadette on August 23, 2015, 07:41:34 PM
Please tell me that's not his real hair. Please. 😖
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Post by: Kaesekopf on August 23, 2015, 08:39:43 PM
Inglorious Basterds.
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Post by: piabee on August 24, 2015, 01:10:04 AM
Quote from: VeraeFidei on August 23, 2015, 02:46:58 PM
National Treasure...

...is a fun movie.
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Post by: erin is nice on August 26, 2015, 08:49:26 AM
Last movie I saw was the Shaun the Sheep movie. We all loved it, and I'm pretty sure all the adults in the theater were laughing as loud as the kids.
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Post by: zork on August 26, 2015, 11:07:44 AM
The Conflict (1973)
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Post by: Arun on August 26, 2015, 05:22:50 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on August 26, 2015, 08:49:26 AM
Last movie I saw was the Shaun the Sheep movie. We all loved it, and I'm pretty sure all the adults in the theater were laughing as loud as the kids.

we had that on the pen drive for awhile not long ago. my toddler loved it; i apreciated the way that not using any actual spoken words made the characters communicate in ways a toddler could understand. kinda cool.

i still remember shaun the sheep from when he was on wallace and grommit lol...
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Post by: Arun on August 27, 2015, 07:08:38 PM
John Wick. i thought it was awesome. the missus wasn't overly impressed. she kept complaining about how all these people were dying over a dog and a car. but from there herself and myself got into a discussion about the way Wick was portrayed in the film and how certain scenes or events were shot that were probably done that way by the filmmakers to give him hero appeal to us the audience, while others were done to help us feel no empathy for the bad guys. like how when Wick pistol whips a female assassin, we see him swing the pistol then it cuts away to black and makes the sound of contact but we never visually actually see him strike a woman with a pistol because it would make him seem like a douchebag to us.

yeah psychoanalysing movies is kinda fun.
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Post by: piabee on August 31, 2015, 01:20:11 PM
Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation

Edited for stupid stylization. Where's the M-dash when you need one?
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Post by: Older Salt on August 31, 2015, 02:02:42 PM
"Deliver us from Evil"
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Post by: Arun on August 31, 2015, 02:54:14 PM
Quote from: Older Salt on August 31, 2015, 02:02:42 PM
"Deliver us from Evil"

my brother in law loaned us that on dvd. i thought it was a good film. the missus made it about 20 minutes in before she stopped watching.

fun fact; that Padre still drinks because he's "in NA not AA" but NA don't let you drink either.
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Post by: zork on August 31, 2015, 08:52:07 PM
War Games (1983)
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Post by: Kaesekopf on August 31, 2015, 09:28:31 PM
Quote from: zork on August 31, 2015, 08:52:07 PM
War Games (1983)

Recently watched that.

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Post by: Larry on August 31, 2015, 10:31:43 PM
The 1939 version of Wuthering Heights.
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Post by: red solo cup on September 05, 2015, 01:12:35 PM
Thief with James Caan.
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Post by: Arun on September 06, 2015, 02:03:52 AM
anybody ever seen that Czech film where they steal a Leonardo da Vinci painting? i think it was just called "Vinci". i saw it years ago on the Rialto channel at someone's house, wouldn't mind watching that one again.
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Post by: Heinrich on September 06, 2015, 11:15:23 AM
Why don't you check it out of the library.
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Post by: Arun on September 06, 2015, 02:12:17 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on September 06, 2015, 11:15:23 AM
Why don't you check it out of the library.

i don't think the library has it man. i don't know. i only go to the library for free wifi anyway.
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Post by: red solo cup on September 07, 2015, 08:23:52 AM
Saints and Soldiers. Not too bad.
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Post by: AngloFalcon on September 10, 2015, 03:11:34 PM
Went to watch Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials with my brother (because we awesome Brits get to watch it long before you yanks).
The most exciting 45 minutes of my recent cinema going life, not to mention the first time I've been to the cinema in 2015. Something like The Hunger Games meets World War Z meets I Am Legend. More action than the first one. About the same violence. A couple of innuendos (nothing major). More profanity than the first film and one vulgar hand gesture.

Then there was a misuse of 'Jesus' and that was my afternoon ruined.

Hollywood be like -
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Post by: Arun on September 10, 2015, 03:55:02 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on September 10, 2015, 03:11:34 PM


Then there was a misuse of 'Jesus' and that was my afternoon ruined.


it's good to memorise the Golden Arrow so that you can quietly utter it when you hear these things in movies.

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Post by: AngloFalcon on September 11, 2015, 04:07:54 AM
Good tip. Thanks. I try to say it each time I hear a misuse, but unfortunately I'm not comfortable continuing with a film after that.
Next up on my list - Everest, Mockingjay part II, Macbeth, The Revenant.
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Post by: red solo cup on September 11, 2015, 02:16:54 PM
Next with Nicholas Cage. The acting was putrid.
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Post by: Bernadette on September 16, 2015, 08:05:33 PM
Fried Green Tomatoes Love that movie. :)
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Post by: Arun on September 20, 2015, 05:33:52 AM
The Son of No One.

it was pretty good.
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Post by: Larry on September 20, 2015, 09:43:41 PM
Absolute Beginners last night, Dr. No tonight.
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Post by: red solo cup on September 22, 2015, 08:17:59 AM
Seal Team Six. Meh.
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Post by: Bernadette on September 24, 2015, 08:54:47 AM
Places in the Heart, about a cotton-farming widow and her household in Depression-era Texas.
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Post by: Larry on September 24, 2015, 10:43:02 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on September 24, 2015, 08:54:47 AM
Places in the Heart, about a cotton-farming widow and her household in Depression-era Texas.

That was a great movie.
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Post by: Larry on September 25, 2015, 12:46:23 PM
The Bicycle Thief.
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Post by: Jacob on September 25, 2015, 06:33:47 PM
Diary of a Country Priest.  It is even better in repeat viewings.
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Post by: LausTibiChriste on September 26, 2015, 10:17:29 AM
Free Willy


Havent seen it since I was oh, 10? Still just as good
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Post by: Bernadette on September 26, 2015, 12:28:10 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on September 26, 2015, 10:17:29 AM
Free Willy


Havent seen it since I was oh, 10? Still just as good

Awww, I remember that one! :)
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Post by: Bonaventure on September 27, 2015, 01:29:39 AM
Ant Man
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Post by: Kaesekopf on September 27, 2015, 09:06:52 AM
Fun movie

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Post by: AngloFalcon on September 28, 2015, 03:42:40 PM
Everest.
North Face.
Coriolanus (Tom Hiddleston - technically live theatre but broadcast to cinemas).
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Post by: piabee on September 29, 2015, 12:16:49 PM
Everest, in Imax 3D.
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Post by: AngloFalcon on September 29, 2015, 02:40:50 PM
Quote from: piabee on September 29, 2015, 12:16:49 PM
Everest, in Imax 3D.

I see your one-upmanship and raise you one emoticon -  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Arun on September 29, 2015, 07:48:17 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on September 29, 2015, 02:40:50 PM
Quote from: piabee on September 29, 2015, 12:16:49 PM
Everest, in Imax 3D.

I see your one-upmanship and raise you one emoticon -  :thumbsup:

seeing as your from the UK i'm gonna assume this is brag, not poker. i happen to be a keen brag player. i'm playing blind this round so i'll raise three emoticons which mean's y'all have to kick in six...  ;D :P ;)
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Post by: Clare on September 30, 2015, 12:43:01 AM
Quote from: Arun on September 29, 2015, 07:48:17 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on September 29, 2015, 02:40:50 PM
Quote from: piabee on September 29, 2015, 12:16:49 PM
Everest, in Imax 3D.

I see your one-upmanship and raise you one emoticon -  :thumbsup:

seeing as your from the UK i'm gonna assume this is brag, not poker....
I'm from the UK and I've played poker. Never played brag though. Don't know what it is.

(Although I've played poker (ages ago) I've never said "I see your.... and raise you a... " during it. Can't really remember how to play it.)
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Post by: Arun on September 30, 2015, 02:33:12 AM
Quote from: Clare on September 30, 2015, 12:43:01 AM
Quote from: Arun on September 29, 2015, 07:48:17 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on September 29, 2015, 02:40:50 PM
Quote from: piabee on September 29, 2015, 12:16:49 PM
Everest, in Imax 3D.

I see your one-upmanship and raise you one emoticon -  :thumbsup:

seeing as your from the UK i'm gonna assume this is brag, not poker....
I'm from the UK and I've played poker. Never played brag though. Don't know what it is.

(Although I've played poker (ages ago) I've never said "I see your.... and raise you a... " during it. Can't really remember how to play it.)

3-card brag. never heard of it? really?? the UK is the home of 3-card brag. learn it. now. we'll wait.
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Post by: Clare on September 30, 2015, 02:38:05 AM
Quote from: Arun on September 30, 2015, 02:33:12 AM
Quote from: Clare on September 30, 2015, 12:43:01 AM
I'm from the UK and I've played poker. Never played brag though. Don't know what it is.

(Although I've played poker (ages ago) I've never said "I see your.... and raise you a... " during it. Can't really remember how to play it.)

3-card brag. never heard of it? really?? the UK is the home of 3-card brag. learn it. now. we'll wait.
I think I've heard the name before. Three cards? Is it like Pontoon? If I remember rightly, that involved three cards. I've played that. Or was that Trumps?

I can play Snap and Patience/Solitaire!
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Post by: Arun on September 30, 2015, 03:15:43 AM
Quote from: Clare on September 30, 2015, 02:38:05 AM
Quote from: Arun on September 30, 2015, 02:33:12 AM
Quote from: Clare on September 30, 2015, 12:43:01 AM
I'm from the UK and I've played poker. Never played brag though. Don't know what it is.

(Although I've played poker (ages ago) I've never said "I see your.... and raise you a... " during it. Can't really remember how to play it.)

3-card brag. never heard of it? really?? the UK is the home of 3-card brag. learn it. now. we'll wait.
I think I've heard the name before. Three cards? Is it like Pontoon? If I remember rightly, that involved three cards. I've played that. Or was that Trumps?

I can play Snap and Patience/Solitaire!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_card_brag
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Post by: AngloFalcon on September 30, 2015, 05:45:55 AM
Quote from: Arun on September 29, 2015, 07:48:17 PM
Quote from: AngloFalcon on September 29, 2015, 02:40:50 PM
Quote from: piabee on September 29, 2015, 12:16:49 PM
Everest, in Imax 3D.

I see your one-upmanship and raise you one emoticon -  :thumbsup:

seeing as your from the UK i'm gonna assume this is brag, not poker. i happen to be a keen brag player. i'm playing blind this round so i'll raise three emoticons which mean's y'all have to kick in six...  ;D :P ;)
:huh: :'( :-X :P ::) :( >:( :D ;) :( ::) :P :-[ :-X :violin: :rofl: :coffee: :beer: :censor: :cheeseheadbeer: :laugh: :whistling: :deadhorse: :canada: :confused: :grouphug: :hide: :knit:
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Post by: Arun on October 02, 2015, 08:15:27 PM
the visit. it was pretty dumb.
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Post by: zork on October 02, 2015, 10:38:20 PM
The Big Lebowski (1998)
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Post by: Arun on October 02, 2015, 11:27:11 PM
Quote from: zork on October 02, 2015, 10:38:20 PM
The Big Lebowski (1998)

classic
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Post by: Hiero of Syracuse on October 03, 2015, 09:49:06 AM
Jumanji. Yeah that movie.
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Post by: Bonaventure on October 03, 2015, 10:02:58 AM
Get the Gringo
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Post by: piabee on October 03, 2015, 01:21:56 PM
Goodnight Mommy
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Post by: Arun on October 03, 2015, 05:09:03 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on October 03, 2015, 10:02:58 AM
Get the Gringo

that was a pretty good movie eh.
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on October 03, 2015, 06:34:27 PM
The Lion in Winter
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Post by: Bonaventure on October 03, 2015, 08:36:10 PM
Training Day

Quote from: Arun on October 03, 2015, 05:09:03 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on October 03, 2015, 10:02:58 AM
Get the Gringo

that was a pretty good movie eh.

Outstanding!
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Post by: Jacob on October 04, 2015, 10:08:08 AM
The Martian, with Matt Damon as astronaut Mark Watney.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on October 04, 2015, 10:54:55 AM
How was it

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Post by: MilesChristi on October 04, 2015, 12:18:25 PM
Quote from: Jacob on October 04, 2015, 10:08:08 AM
The Martian, with Matt Damon as astronaut Mark Watney.
Was that movie just basically Spoiler Origins?
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Post by: Jacob on October 04, 2015, 06:11:06 PM
The Martian is a quality production with entertaining performances from the ensemble cast.  Matt Damon's performance as Mark Watney is excellent.

The special effects are excellent as well.  The space stuff is maybe a little fakey with CGI rather than taking a camera up in NASA's vomit comet plane to do zero-g scenes, but overall, it's great work.  There's only one bit that did not work for me as far as serious science fiction, but that's Hollywood. :)  The Mars stuff is mind-blowingly awesome.  Extremely convincing.  You can't tell Matt Damon is in some sound stage or standing in front of a green screen.

If you've read the book, you know it is very much a hard science fiction book and obviously a lot of that isn't going to make the book to movie transition, but the movie does a great job of explaining the basics of Mark's most pressing problems and what he has to do to solve them to stay alive and fed.

Like I said above, the cast is great.  Matt is a solid Mark Watney.  There is not anyone in the film I felt was miscast.

Probably the only downside is that the movie crams a lot into two-plus hours, so the movie moves right along.  My brother thinks it could have benefited from being a duology.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on October 04, 2015, 06:16:41 PM
Quote from: Jacob on October 04, 2015, 06:11:06 PM
The Martian is a quality production with entertaining performances from the ensemble cast.  Matt Damon's performance as Mark Watney is excellent.

The special effects are excellent as well.  The space stuff is maybe a little fakey with CGI rather than taking a camera up in NASA's vomit comet plane to do zero-g scenes, but overall, it's great work.  There's only one bit that did not work for me as far as serious science fiction, but that's Hollywood. :)  The Mars stuff is mind-blowingly awesome.  Extremely convincing.  You can't tell Matt Damon is in some sound stage or standing in front of a green screen.

If you've read the book, you know it is very much a hard science fiction book and obviously a lot of that isn't going to make the book to movie transition, but the movie does a great job of explaining the basics of Mark's most pressing problems and what he has to do to solve them to stay alive and fed.

Like I said above, the cast is great.  Matt is a solid Mark Watney.  There is not anyone in the film I felt was miscast.

Probably the only downside is that the movie crams a lot into two-plus hours, so the movie moves right along.  My brother thinks it could have benefited from being a duology.

I really liked the book, so it sounds like I'll have to see this.
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on October 05, 2015, 12:29:27 PM
Gonna put that one on my watch list. I have a hold on the book at the library.
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Post by: Arun on October 10, 2015, 04:39:04 PM
Quote from: Hiero of Syracuse on October 03, 2015, 09:49:06 AM
Jumanji. Yeah that movie.

the kids have been watching the sequel to that a lot lately. zathura. not bad.
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Post by: red solo cup on October 11, 2015, 06:24:52 PM
Batman Begins. Kind of dopey.
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Post by: Spooky on October 11, 2015, 06:29:45 PM
I watched "Oculus" last night on Netflix. It was pretty good.

Then I watched "The Taking of Deborah Logan" and it was not as good.
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Post by: Clare on October 12, 2015, 03:08:30 AM
Will Hay's Boys Will Be Boys

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Post by: Heinrich on October 12, 2015, 01:40:40 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on October 11, 2015, 06:24:52 PM
Batman Begins. Kind of dopey.

Your kidding, right? The Batmobile makes up for any deficiencies of the exposition at the beginning.
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Post by: red solo cup on October 12, 2015, 03:26:50 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on October 12, 2015, 01:40:40 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on October 11, 2015, 06:24:52 PM
Batman Begins. Kind of dopey.

Your kidding, right? The Batmobile makes up for any deficiencies of the exposition at the beginning.
You knew which part I was referring to without my saying it. 8)
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Post by: Arun on October 12, 2015, 04:01:09 PM
i just watched Batman Begins again last night. dozed off through a lot of it.
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Post by: Arun on October 13, 2015, 03:09:15 AM
Welcome to the Punch.

real good film. liked it a bunch.
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Post by: Arun on October 13, 2015, 05:49:57 AM
The Dark Horse. Nz film with Cliff Curtis. Really good movie, watch it if you get a chance.

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Post by: Heinrich on October 13, 2015, 07:11:42 AM
Quote from: Arun on October 12, 2015, 04:01:09 PM
i just watched Batman Begins again last night. dozed off through a lot of it.

Hard day of training?
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Post by: Arun on October 14, 2015, 04:06:00 AM
i just got finished watching this old Mickey Rourke movie, called Angel Heart. helluva film, man. whoa. just... whoa.
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Post by: Clare on October 14, 2015, 04:19:22 AM
Quote from: Arun on October 14, 2015, 04:06:00 AM
i just got finished watching this old Mickey Rourke movie, called Angel Heart. helluva film, man. whoa. just... whoa.
I saw that years ago. I always thought he had a similar mouth to Bruce Willis, back then.
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Post by: Arun on October 14, 2015, 04:19:53 AM
Quote from: Clare on October 14, 2015, 04:19:22 AM
Quote from: Arun on October 14, 2015, 04:06:00 AM
i just got finished watching this old Mickey Rourke movie, called Angel Heart. helluva film, man. whoa. just... whoa.
I saw that years ago. I always thought he had a similar mouth to Bruce Willis, back then.

similar voice too
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Post by: red solo cup on October 14, 2015, 05:28:07 AM
Enemy at the Gates. Meh
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Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on October 14, 2015, 12:00:34 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on October 14, 2015, 05:28:07 AM
Enemy at the Gates. Meh

Didn't like it?

I saw Corpse Bride.  It was ok. 
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Post by: Melanie_T on October 14, 2015, 09:19:08 PM
The Martian with Matt Damon as lead. Whilst very improbable in places, it was very very well done. I loved it, the comic lines were amusing as it was very much a tense thriller!


Mel
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Post by: red solo cup on October 15, 2015, 05:17:58 AM
The Way with Martin Sheen. I thought it was very good and the Mrs. loved it. TIL Sheen is a stage name he took out of admiration for Fulton Sheen.
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Post by: Arun on October 15, 2015, 02:13:07 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on October 15, 2015, 05:17:58 AM
The Way with Martin Sheen. I thought it was very good and the Mrs. loved it. TIL Sheen is a stage name he took out of admiration for Fulton Sheen.

yeah only Emilio kept their real name; Martin and Charlie figured they'd do better in Hollywood with non-Hispanic sounding names or sometjhing
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Post by: red solo cup on October 19, 2015, 09:16:47 AM
The Poisoner's Handbook. Fascinating.

Arun your little jumping spinning wrestler dude is giving me motion sickness.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Arun on October 19, 2015, 01:34:55 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on October 19, 2015, 09:16:47 AM
The Poisoner's Handbook. Fascinating.

Arun your little jumping spinning wrestler dude is giving me motion sickness.

ZANGIEF CRUUUUUUUUSSSSHHHH YUUUUUUU!!!!!

i'll end up changing him to Ryu or Sagat or soemthing in the end lol.
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Post by: piabee on October 30, 2015, 11:19:43 AM
The Joss Whedon Much Ado about Nothing. Why did I wait so long?
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Post by: Anastasia on October 30, 2015, 11:55:35 AM
Quote from: piabee on October 30, 2015, 11:19:43 AM
The Joss Whedon Much Ado about Nothing. Why did I wait so long?
Nathan Fillion as Dogberry alone makes it worth watching.
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Post by: zork on October 30, 2015, 09:35:16 PM
Jurassic World (2015)
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Post by: zork on November 03, 2015, 11:04:31 PM
Double feature: Class of 1984 (1982) and Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983)
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Post by: zork on November 04, 2015, 11:05:45 PM
Sleepaway Camp (1983)
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Post by: MilesChristi on November 05, 2015, 08:03:15 AM
Quote from: zork on November 04, 2015, 11:05:45 PM
Sleepaway Camp (1983)
Truly a movie for our time
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Post by: red solo cup on November 06, 2015, 06:01:20 AM
The Gunman with Sean Penn. Just awful.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on November 08, 2015, 08:14:59 PM
The X Files: Fight the Future. I'M SO EXCITED. Four seasons and a movie to go.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on November 09, 2015, 09:43:11 AM
Quote from: piabee on November 08, 2015, 08:14:59 PM
The X Files: Fight the Future. I'M SO EXCITED. Four seasons and a movie to go.

You'd better hurry.  New episodes coming in January. 

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1SmJUBT5q0[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on November 09, 2015, 01:01:16 PM
Quote from: Gerard on November 09, 2015, 09:43:11 AM
Quote from: piabee on November 08, 2015, 08:14:59 PM
The X Files: Fight the Future. I'M SO EXCITED. Four seasons and a movie to go.

You'd better hurry.  New episodes coming in January.

Yeah... I've been doing the rewatch for months.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on November 16, 2015, 01:15:25 PM
Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp. Silly.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on November 22, 2015, 09:34:16 AM
Mockingjay pt 2... it's ok.  They really didn't need to stretch one book into two movies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on November 22, 2015, 02:41:36 PM
Quote from: Gerard on November 09, 2015, 09:43:11 AM
Quote from: piabee on November 08, 2015, 08:14:59 PM
The X Files: Fight the Future. I'M SO EXCITED. Four seasons and a movie to go.

You'd better hurry.  New episodes coming in January. 

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1SmJUBT5q0[/yt]

They're putting the band back together!  ::)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on November 22, 2015, 03:14:41 PM
Saw Spectre tonight. It was rather good
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on November 25, 2015, 12:27:55 PM
Spectre
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on November 25, 2015, 12:29:27 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on November 25, 2015, 12:27:55 PM
Spectre

What did you think?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on November 25, 2015, 06:08:01 PM
I liked it. The only criticism I have comes from what others say, what it could have been.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on November 26, 2015, 12:03:12 PM
Creed. A symphony acted out. Great movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on November 27, 2015, 10:25:05 PM
The 'Burbs (1989)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on December 06, 2015, 10:26:10 PM
Brooklyn.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on December 07, 2015, 08:30:50 AM
The Butler.  I didn't like it.  It was too disjointed and the pro-Obama PSA that was the conclusion turned me off.  Tom Hanks pulled off the "Forrest Gump" concept better twenty years ago.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on December 14, 2015, 10:34:06 PM
Mockingjay Part 2 (2015)

Saw it last week, but wanted to mention it. Right on.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on December 14, 2015, 10:34:36 PM
The Guy From Harlem (1977)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on December 15, 2015, 04:18:48 AM
Escape from LA.  Entertaining.

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Post by: Larry on December 16, 2015, 03:36:53 PM
I saw Creed the other day. One of the best Rocky movies since the original.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: diaduit on December 20, 2015, 09:21:07 AM
Valkyrie....
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on December 20, 2015, 03:14:58 PM
THE FORCE AWAKENS
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on December 20, 2015, 03:20:28 PM
Quote from: Larry on December 16, 2015, 03:36:53 PM
I saw Creed the other day. One of the best Rocky movies since the original.

IV, Creed, original. That's my order. What be yerz?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: INPEFESS on December 20, 2015, 05:31:28 PM
Quote from: MilesChristi on December 20, 2015, 03:14:58 PM
THE FORCE AWAKENS

What did you think?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on December 20, 2015, 06:49:15 PM
It was awesome. I don't want to ruin any surprise. I don't even want to spoil the text crawl.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on December 21, 2015, 05:48:38 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on December 20, 2015, 03:20:28 PM
Quote from: Larry on December 16, 2015, 03:36:53 PM
I saw Creed the other day. One of the best Rocky movies since the original.

IV, Creed, original. That's my order. What be yerz?

Rocky
Creed
Rocky II
Rocky III
Rocky IV
Rocky V

I just can't get into 4 that much. Rocky seems like a different character in that movie, and it's edited like an eighties music video. Having said that, I haven't seen it a long time, and just got the whole set on Blu-ray for an early Christmas gift. Since Creed relies so much on what happens in IV, I might gain a new appreciation.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on December 21, 2015, 05:49:14 PM
And I saw The Force Awakens today. Excellent.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on December 21, 2015, 08:39:08 PM
Quote from: Larry on December 21, 2015, 05:48:38 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on December 20, 2015, 03:20:28 PM
Quote from: Larry on December 16, 2015, 03:36:53 PM
I saw Creed the other day. One of the best Rocky movies since the original.

IV, Creed, original. That's my order. What be yerz?

Rocky
Creed
Rocky II
Rocky III
Rocky IV
Rocky V

I just can't get into 4 that much. Rocky seems like a different character in that movie, and it's edited like an eighties music video. Having said that, I haven't seen it a long time, and just got the whole set on Blu-ray for an early Christmas gift. Since Creed relies so much on what happens in IV, I might gain a new appreciation.

What about VI? IV is a great Cold War allegory with the best training montage of THW Franchise.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on December 21, 2015, 09:37:44 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on December 21, 2015, 08:39:08 PM
Quote from: Larry on December 21, 2015, 05:48:38 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on December 20, 2015, 03:20:28 PM
Quote from: Larry on December 16, 2015, 03:36:53 PM
I saw Creed the other day. One of the best Rocky movies since the original.

IV, Creed, original. That's my order. What be yerz?

Rocky
Creed
Rocky II
Rocky III
Rocky IV
Rocky V

I just can't get into 4 that much. Rocky seems like a different character in that movie, and it's edited like an eighties music video. Having said that, I haven't seen it a long time, and just got the whole set on Blu-ray for an early Christmas gift. Since Creed relies so much on what happens in IV, I might gain a new appreciation.

What about VI? IV is a great Cold War allegory with the best training montage of THW Franchise.

Forgot about 6. I'd put it around the same as 3 or 4.

The training montage in 4 is great, the best part of the movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on December 22, 2015, 02:26:39 PM
Quote from: Larry on December 21, 2015, 09:37:44 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on December 21, 2015, 08:39:08 PM
Quote from: Larry on December 21, 2015, 05:48:38 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on December 20, 2015, 03:20:28 PM
Quote from: Larry on December 16, 2015, 03:36:53 PM
I saw Creed the other day. One of the best Rocky movies since the original.

IV, Creed, original. That's my order. What be yerz?

Rocky
Creed
Rocky II
Rocky III
Rocky IV
Rocky V

I just can't get into 4 that much. Rocky seems like a different character in that movie, and it's edited like an eighties music video. Having said that, I haven't seen it a long time, and just got the whole set on Blu-ray for an early Christmas gift. Since Creed relies so much on what happens in IV, I might gain a new appreciation.

What about VI? IV is a great Cold War allegory with the best training montage of THW Franchise.

Forgot about 6. I'd put it around the same as 3 or 4.

The training montage in 4 is great, the best part of the movie.

You include "5" and say forget about 6? What sayeth the other Ricky Fans Herr?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on December 23, 2015, 10:32:44 PM
Going to see SW7: The Force Awakens this weekend.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on December 23, 2015, 10:33:26 PM
Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on December 23, 2015, 10:35:10 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on December 22, 2015, 02:26:39 PM
Quote from: Larry on December 21, 2015, 09:37:44 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on December 21, 2015, 08:39:08 PM
Quote from: Larry on December 21, 2015, 05:48:38 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on December 20, 2015, 03:20:28 PM
Quote from: Larry on December 16, 2015, 03:36:53 PM
I saw Creed the other day. One of the best Rocky movies since the original.

IV, Creed, original. That's my order. What be yerz?

Rocky
Creed
Rocky II
Rocky III
Rocky IV
Rocky V

I just can't get into 4 that much. Rocky seems like a different character in that movie, and it's edited like an eighties music video. Having said that, I haven't seen it a long time, and just got the whole set on Blu-ray for an early Christmas gift. Since Creed relies so much on what happens in IV, I might gain a new appreciation.

What about VI? IV is a great Cold War allegory with the best training montage of THW Franchise.

Forgot about 6. I'd put it around the same as 3 or 4.

The training montage in 4 is great, the best part of the movie.

You include "5" and say forget about 6? What sayeth the other Ricky Fans Herr?

Rocky Balboa was made so long after the others that I barely noticed it when it came out. I rented it on DVD and it's the only Rocky I didn't see in the theater.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on December 23, 2015, 10:51:39 PM
Quote from: zork on December 23, 2015, 10:33:26 PM
Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

I fell asleep during that movie

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on December 24, 2015, 06:33:21 PM
The Force Awakens

Rocky IV is my favorite.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on December 24, 2015, 06:54:25 PM
The Quiet Man
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on December 25, 2015, 10:12:35 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on December 24, 2015, 06:33:21 PM
The Force Awakens

Rocky IV is my favorite.

have you seen Creed yet?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on December 25, 2015, 11:15:22 AM
The Detective (- Alec Guinness as Fr Brown)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Miriam_M on December 27, 2015, 12:29:52 AM
Just came back from seeing Brooklyn.  Sobbed all through it.   Excellent.  (Wouldn't watch the one sex scene.)  Everything else was perfect.

And yes, there were LOTS of men at the movie.  About 50% were men.   Theater was packed.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on December 27, 2015, 12:25:27 PM
Chinatown (1974)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: GeorgeT on December 27, 2015, 08:26:34 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on December 23, 2015, 10:51:39 PM
Quote from: zork on December 23, 2015, 10:33:26 PM
Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

I fell asleep during that movie

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No way! Bogus!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on December 27, 2015, 10:45:03 PM
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on December 28, 2015, 12:37:18 AM
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)

You nerdy naysayers are wrong on that one. ;) It's actually pretty good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on December 31, 2015, 05:12:38 PM
Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on January 02, 2016, 12:20:47 PM
The Best of Men (Netflix). It was good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on January 02, 2016, 01:45:19 PM
Ex Machina - Not nearly as good as everyone said

Kingsman - Only got about 3/4s of the way through it, but I liked it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on January 02, 2016, 03:42:59 PM
The Roaring Twenties
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on January 03, 2016, 01:46:01 AM
Vertigo, at the Castro Theatre.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on January 03, 2016, 08:53:43 AM
Avengers Age of Ultron we got from Redbox. A few words, but nothing I haven't been known to say loudly after reading Rorate Caeli or other coverage of the VerbalDiarrhea.va
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on January 03, 2016, 11:53:43 AM
Quote from: piabee on January 03, 2016, 01:46:01 AM
Vertigo, at the Castro Theatre.

That had to be an experience.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on January 03, 2016, 01:57:46 PM
Bone Tomahawk with Kirk Russell. Some of it was good. Some of it was dumb.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on January 03, 2016, 02:44:16 PM
Smile, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Bruce Dern and Barbara Felton.

Excellent movie about the hypocrisy surrounding a beauty pageant in southern California.  This is one of those movies that brings out that American 70s vibe that I find so weird.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on January 03, 2016, 03:51:35 PM
Quote from: Larry on January 03, 2016, 11:53:43 AM
Quote from: piabee on January 03, 2016, 01:46:01 AM
Vertigo, at the Castro Theatre.

That had to be an experience.

The "San Francisco's changed" line got a laugh.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on January 04, 2016, 06:36:34 AM
Tried to watch The Keep. Only made it through twenty minutes or so. Just awful. Then watched The Gambler with Mark Wahlberg. Better than nothing.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: misericonfit on January 05, 2016, 06:26:07 PM
Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens. I will need to watch it again to understand it, because its relation to the first 6 films is not too clear.   
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hiero of Syracuse on January 05, 2016, 06:40:54 PM
How so? They're sequels. A new chapter in the saga.

Anyway, the last film I saw in theatres was the Force Awakens. Though the last film I watched was Beckett.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: misericonfit on January 05, 2016, 07:27:07 PM
Quote from: Hiero of Syracuse on January 05, 2016, 06:40:54 PM
How so? They're sequels. A new chapter in the saga.

## True, but as 40 years or so pass between the end of 6 & the beginning of 7, the relation of the events that begin 7 to the events that close 6 is not clear. I *assume* that the Thrawn Trilogy would fill in some of the gap - but those are books, not films; and might not be canon. Reading the SW wikia, though interesting, has complicated things. At least SW 8 & 9, if ever they are made, should explain things.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hiero of Syracuse on January 05, 2016, 08:16:02 PM
I believe that the old expanded universe (now dubbed "Legends") has now been made non-canonical. They are only part of the Star Wars canon insofar as they agree with the new material coming out.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on January 06, 2016, 12:21:14 PM
The November Man (2014)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on January 07, 2016, 09:51:14 AM
Elite Squad: Enemy Within starring Wagner Moura, the guy who played Pablo Escobar in Narcos. Surprisingly watchable.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on January 07, 2016, 08:40:00 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on January 07, 2016, 09:51:14 AM
Elite Squad: Enemy Within starring Wagner Moura, the guy who played Pablo Escobar in Narcos. Surprisingly watchable.

Great movie. Stupid title.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Sagradocorazon on January 08, 2016, 12:34:43 AM
The Passion of Joan of Arc.It is a silent film from 1928 and is such an amazing and moving film. It has quickly become my favorite movie of all time! And it's also the only movie that i've watched over and over again and still haven't gotten tired of it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on January 10, 2016, 11:11:56 AM
Anchorman 2: The Legend continues. I usually don't care for Will Farrell but this was funny. I actually laughed out loud.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hiero of Syracuse on January 10, 2016, 01:07:50 PM
Quote from: Sagradocorazon on January 08, 2016, 12:34:43 AM
The Passion of Joan of Arc.It is a silent film from 1928 and is such an amazing and moving film. It has quickly become my favorite movie of all time! And it's also the only movie that i've watched over and over again and still haven't gotten tired of it.

An amazing film!

I've also been rewatching a large number of classic Catholic movies. I'm hoping to start Quo Vadis fairly soon. I've already seen the 1948(?) film about Joan, and I've watched "A Man of All Seasons," and Beckett (and I highly recommend that those who have not seen them do so; and those who have, to see them again).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: dymphna17 on January 10, 2016, 08:21:55 PM
The Aviator - the life story of Howard Hughes, released in 2004.  Leonardo DiCaprio played Mr Hughes.  I just don't care for Leonardo DiCaprio's acting and showing Mr Hughes as having bright blue eyes, when they were actually brown, was a little off putting.   From what I remember of the 1977 movie The Amazing Howard Hughes, I prefer Tommy Lee Jones playing Howard Hughes.   His life story really is quite interesting.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Elizabeth on January 12, 2016, 05:14:52 PM
Just watched Nanny McFee for the first time, and cried the whole way through.  It was so beautiful.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on January 12, 2016, 05:52:46 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on January 10, 2016, 11:11:56 AM
Anchorman 2: The Legend continues. I usually don't care for Will Farrell but this was funny. I actually laughed out loud.

Cats are the chickens of the railyard
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 13, 2016, 02:03:52 AM
The Revenant
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on January 14, 2016, 03:02:45 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 13, 2016, 02:03:52 AM
The Revenant
Was it as good as the previews?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on January 15, 2016, 10:15:47 AM
Interstellar with Mathew McConaughey. Not bad. Made me think.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hiero of Syracuse on January 15, 2016, 11:49:55 AM
The last movie I saw was Jurassic World. I actually liked it, even though the premise of the film was idiotic. I think the reason the movie worked was because it was self-aware of what kind of movie it was and just had fun with it.The film basically ended with a kaiju-battle, so that should give you an idea of what I'm talking about.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MundaCorMeum on January 15, 2016, 02:16:03 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on January 15, 2016, 10:15:47 AM
Interstellar with Mathew McConaughey. Not bad. Made me think.

That movie made my brain hurt. My husband enjoyed it, though...or, he did until the ipad died with 10 minutes left in the move  ;D
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on January 16, 2016, 02:48:43 PM
Brigadoon.

Gene Kelly is da bomb. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Prayerful on January 17, 2016, 08:04:15 AM
The latest Star Wars, pretty good, but not sublime.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 22, 2016, 12:06:55 PM
Kreuzweg
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on January 23, 2016, 07:58:08 PM
Watching Brideshead Revisited 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on January 24, 2016, 12:03:52 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 22, 2016, 12:06:55 PM
Kreuzweg

Same!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on January 24, 2016, 12:16:04 AM
Uncle John (2015)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on January 24, 2016, 02:14:49 AM
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on January 26, 2016, 08:28:33 PM
Goon. Such a (highly inappropriate) classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq1N7knp2tI
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Duchamp on January 26, 2016, 11:26:31 PM
Quote from: piabee on January 24, 2016, 02:14:49 AM
The X-Files: I Want to Believe

I love the cello piece in that: "The Surgery".

[would someone pm me how to add youtube clips sometime?].
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on January 30, 2016, 01:52:30 AM
Mockingjay Part 2. About time!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on January 30, 2016, 11:30:56 PM
I'll say! I figured you would've seen that by December.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 31, 2016, 01:19:58 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on January 14, 2016, 03:02:45 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 13, 2016, 02:03:52 AM
The Revenant
Was it as good as the previews?

Yes.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 31, 2016, 01:20:14 AM
John Wick
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on January 31, 2016, 11:33:05 PM
Inside Out (2015)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on February 13, 2016, 04:35:25 PM
Hachi

Super sappy, but me lady wanted to watch it and it's basically V-Day so I acquiesced. Would not recommend for a second viewing.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on February 13, 2016, 07:18:54 PM
The Hateful Eight.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on February 13, 2016, 07:57:13 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on February 13, 2016, 07:18:54 PM
The Hateful Eight.

How was it?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on February 13, 2016, 09:09:16 PM
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on February 13, 2016, 10:34:26 PM
Deadpool
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on February 14, 2016, 12:01:48 AM
Hombre (1967)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on February 14, 2016, 07:23:50 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on February 13, 2016, 07:57:13 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on February 13, 2016, 07:18:54 PM
The Hateful Eight.

How was it?

It's a bit messed up.

You got racist, foul language; ridiculous amounts of blood being used, painful gunshot wounds, and a sense of retributive justice at the end. Oh, and you had Samuel L. Jackson.

Typical Tarantino movie, but I was entertained. It was the first Tarantino movie I saw in theaters. Had no idea what to expect. =P
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on February 14, 2016, 07:40:22 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on February 14, 2016, 07:23:50 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on February 13, 2016, 07:57:13 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on February 13, 2016, 07:18:54 PM
The Hateful Eight.

How was it?

It's a bit messed up.

You got racist, foul language; ridiculous amounts of blood being used, painful gunshot wounds, and a sense of retributive justice at the end. Oh, and you had Samuel L. Jackson.

Typical Tarantino movie, but I was entertained. It was the first Tarantino movie I saw in theaters. Had no idea what to expect. =P

Is that a movie a Catholic gentleman should see?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on February 18, 2016, 09:28:29 AM
I stayed up way too late to watch The Deer Hunter with Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and Meryl Streep.  Interesting film.  Still pondering it this morning.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on February 18, 2016, 10:25:47 AM
Quote from: Jacob on February 18, 2016, 09:28:29 AM
I stayed up way too late to watch The Deer Hunter with Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and Meryl Streep.  Interesting film.  Still pondering it this morning.
An intense film. Particularly the Russian Roulette scene with the Viet Cong.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on February 18, 2016, 03:33:45 PM
Quote from: Jacob on February 18, 2016, 09:28:29 AM
I stayed up way too late to watch The Deer Hunter with Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and Meryl Streep.  Interesting film.  Still pondering it this morning.

The theme song (Cavatina) is such a beautiful piece it really contrasts with some of the dark subject matter in the film!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on February 18, 2016, 05:29:22 PM
I've seen parts of it before, but last night was the first time I have seen it all the way through start to finish.

The wedding is brilliantly done.  The stuff in Vietnam is excellent as well, though there are a few things I needed fleshed out more.  The conclusion and coda were very powerful, yes.  They were the parts I had not seen before.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on February 18, 2016, 11:15:03 PM
I saw Deadpool.

It was a lot more raunchy/adult than I expected.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on February 18, 2016, 11:36:18 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 18, 2016, 11:15:03 PM
I saw Deadpool.

It was a lot more raunchy/adult than I expected.

It's a pretty grown up franchise. I like how the picture memes are circulating on Facebook lately reminding parents of this fact!

I am still waiting to go see it, but looking forward to seeing how good of a job they did of the film!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on February 18, 2016, 11:41:04 PM
Quote from: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on February 18, 2016, 11:36:18 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 18, 2016, 11:15:03 PM
I saw Deadpool.

It was a lot more raunchy/adult than I expected.

It's a pretty grown up franchise. I like how the picture memes are circulating on Facebook lately reminding parents of this fact!

I am still waiting to go see it, but looking forward to seeing how good of a job they did of the film!

It is.  I knew it was rather "mature"-aimed, but I found a number of scenes/settings to be completely unnecessary to the furthering of the plot.
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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on February 19, 2016, 01:28:38 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 18, 2016, 11:41:04 PM
Quote from: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on February 18, 2016, 11:36:18 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 18, 2016, 11:15:03 PM
I saw Deadpool.

It was a lot more raunchy/adult than I expected.

It's a pretty grown up franchise. I like how the picture memes are circulating on Facebook lately reminding parents of this fact!

I am still waiting to go see it, but looking forward to seeing how good of a job they did of the film!

It is.  I knew it was rather "mature"-aimed, but I found a number of scenes/settings to be completely unnecessary to the furthering of the plot.

Was it still done in typical Deadpool fashion? Or do you mean it was unnecessary as in it shouldn't have been there at all? Without spoiling anything, of course? It's considered a quite "lowbrow" premise in a lot of ways I think... I like the comics, but it can be very crass at times so not everybody would appreciate it.
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Post by: LausTibiChriste on February 19, 2016, 03:08:54 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 18, 2016, 11:41:04 PM
Quote from: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on February 18, 2016, 11:36:18 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 18, 2016, 11:15:03 PM
I saw Deadpool.

It was a lot more raunchy/adult than I expected.

It's a pretty grown up franchise. I like how the picture memes are circulating on Facebook lately reminding parents of this fact!

I am still waiting to go see it, but looking forward to seeing how good of a job they did of the film!

It is.  I knew it was rather "mature"-aimed, but I found a number of scenes/settings to be completely unnecessary to the furthering of the plot.


You must never have seen a made-in-Hollywood movie before!
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Post by: Larry on February 19, 2016, 01:12:31 PM
"Pretty grown up" in Hollywood means catering to the sensibilities of high school boys.
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Post by: LouisIX on February 19, 2016, 01:29:52 PM
The Revenant. Very well done. Quite Christian in many regards. It's probably too brutal for some, however.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on February 19, 2016, 05:24:14 PM
Quote from: Larry on February 19, 2016, 01:12:31 PM
"Pretty grown up" in Hollywood means catering to the sensibilities of high school boys.

I suppose in some ways you may be right; it is somewhat contradictory in that it is simultaneously "grown up" and "completely immature" in much of the humor throughout the franchise.
I wouldn't show Deadpool comics to high school boys, personally. I'm in my 30s and enjoy the comics though. A man must have some guilty pleasures; something as innocuous as crassly oriented comic books is, in my case, a pertinent choice...
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Post by: LausTibiChriste on February 20, 2016, 01:56:46 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on February 19, 2016, 01:29:52 PM
The Revenant. Very well done. Quite Christian in many regards. It's probably too brutal for some, however.

Do you think Leo will finally get his Oscar?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on February 20, 2016, 04:28:02 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on February 20, 2016, 01:56:46 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on February 19, 2016, 01:29:52 PM
The Revenant. Very well done. Quite Christian in many regards. It's probably too brutal for some, however.

Do you think Leo will finally get his Oscar?

It was a very gripping film, I hope he does.
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Post by: red solo cup on February 20, 2016, 05:25:12 AM
The Martian with Matt Damon. Not bad.
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Post by: RedCaves on February 20, 2016, 07:52:27 AM
Quote from: Larry on February 19, 2016, 01:12:31 PM
"Pretty grown up" in Hollywood means catering to the sensibilities of high school boys.

Michael Bay does a good job at this. =P
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on February 20, 2016, 02:41:45 PM
The Age of Adeline
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Post by: LoneWolfRadTrad on February 23, 2016, 09:32:22 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on February 19, 2016, 03:08:54 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 18, 2016, 11:41:04 PM
Quote from: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on February 18, 2016, 11:36:18 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 18, 2016, 11:15:03 PM
I saw Deadpool.

It was a lot more raunchy/adult than I expected.

It's a pretty grown up franchise. I like how the picture memes are circulating on Facebook lately reminding parents of this fact!

I am still waiting to go see it, but looking forward to seeing how good of a job they did of the film!

It is.  I knew it was rather "mature"-aimed, but I found a number of scenes/settings to be completely unnecessary to the furthering of the plot.


You must never have seen a made-in-Hollywood movie before!

A long time buddy of mine who reads Deadpool comics told me that it was far too foul mouthed.  That even in the comics, Deadpool isn't so potty mouthed.  Much less sexualized too from comics he's shown me.
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Post by: Jacob on February 23, 2016, 09:57:46 AM
I watched Cinderella last night for my language therapy (we watch movies and then discuss them using language in our sessions).

There are parts of it I like.  There are parts of it that I don't like.  A lot of the shots had an overly CGI feel to them that I don't care for.  If it's going to be live action, make it live action.

Lily James is very nice as the title character and Cate is fine as the stepmother.  I like more though the relationship in the palace between the prince, the king, the captain of the guard, and the grand duke.  Great casting there with Derek Jacobi, Skellan, and that young who who looks like Hugh Jackman as the prince.

The major thing I don't care for in the movie is how it handles Cinderella's situation.  Self-imposed suffering is fine, but sliding into it because the character is too passive to resist what's going on around her is annoying.
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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on February 23, 2016, 03:48:24 PM
Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on February 23, 2016, 09:32:22 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on February 19, 2016, 03:08:54 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 18, 2016, 11:41:04 PM
Quote from: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on February 18, 2016, 11:36:18 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 18, 2016, 11:15:03 PM
I saw Deadpool.

It was a lot more raunchy/adult than I expected.

It's a pretty grown up franchise. I like how the picture memes are circulating on Facebook lately reminding parents of this fact!

I am still waiting to go see it, but looking forward to seeing how good of a job they did of the film!

It is.  I knew it was rather "mature"-aimed, but I found a number of scenes/settings to be completely unnecessary to the furthering of the plot.


You must never have seen a made-in-Hollywood movie before!

A long time buddy of mine who reads Deadpool comics told me that it was far too foul mouthed.  That even in the comics, Deadpool isn't so potty mouthed.  Much less sexualized too from comics he's shown me.

Oh, that sounds bad... I read the comics, and they can get pretty obscene sometimes. I wouldn't show them to women or children for example...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on March 12, 2016, 11:52:18 PM
10 Cloverfield Lane
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Post by: Kaesekopf on March 12, 2016, 11:53:06 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on March 12, 2016, 11:52:18 PM
10 Cloverfield Lane

How was it? 

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Post by: Bonaventure on March 12, 2016, 11:57:15 PM
It was astounding. Watch it.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on March 13, 2016, 12:08:25 AM
Awesome. 

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Post by: aquinas138 on March 13, 2016, 09:24:11 AM
Haven't been to the theater in a long time, but I watched Man of Steel with the kiddos last night.
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Post by: zork on March 13, 2016, 01:49:17 PM
The Martian (2015)
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Post by: red solo cup on March 30, 2016, 03:56:23 PM
Cavalry. Very good. Didn't care for the ending though.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on March 30, 2016, 04:20:19 PM
Saw Batman v Superman.  It was ok.  Kinda long, tried to do a lot.  Shoulda been shorter.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on March 30, 2016, 04:22:53 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on March 30, 2016, 04:20:19 PM
Saw Batman v Superman.  It was ok.  Kinda long, tried to do a lot.  Shoulda been shorter.
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Post by: zork on March 31, 2016, 11:00:11 AM
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2009, Swedish version)
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Post by: Heinrich on March 31, 2016, 02:35:13 PM
Creed. Again.

Anyone see The Revenant?
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Post by: Bonaventure on March 31, 2016, 03:57:33 PM
Prescription Thugs
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: aquinas138 on April 01, 2016, 05:53:55 PM
Quote from: zork on March 31, 2016, 11:00:11 AM
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2009, Swedish version)

Oof. It's good, but it's certainly not a pleasant movie...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: zork on April 01, 2016, 10:12:40 PM
Quote from: aquinas138 on April 01, 2016, 05:53:55 PM
Quote from: zork on March 31, 2016, 11:00:11 AM
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2009, Swedish version)

Oof. It's good, but it's certainly not a pleasant movie...

Yeah, it was a bit much at some points, but I ended up really liking Lisbeth Salander anyway.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Habitual_Ritual on April 02, 2016, 05:15:08 AM
Saw the new Batman last night. I thought it was actually quite excellent, up until the Wonder Woman fight, when the movie turned into a video game. The first 3/4s however were very watchable.
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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on April 03, 2016, 04:41:09 AM
Dorian Grey.
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Post by: RedCaves on April 08, 2016, 07:15:38 PM
Hardcore Henry.

Haha-haha-ha.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on April 11, 2016, 01:33:59 AM
I Smile Back

Hateful Eight
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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on April 11, 2016, 02:10:57 AM
Kung Fury
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Post by: Larry on April 11, 2016, 11:45:32 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on April 11, 2016, 01:33:59 AM
Hateful Eight

How was it?
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Post by: LausTibiChriste on April 11, 2016, 01:10:23 PM
Quote from: Larry on April 11, 2016, 11:45:32 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on April 11, 2016, 01:33:59 AM
Hateful Eight

How was it?

I'm also curious
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on April 11, 2016, 03:47:21 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on April 11, 2016, 01:10:23 PM
Quote from: Larry on April 11, 2016, 11:45:32 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on April 11, 2016, 01:33:59 AM
Hateful Eight

How was it?

I'm also curious

I saw this a while ago, I didn't think it was very good. It felt too much like Tarantino was just "phoning it in" I think you say, and quite formulaic as though he was simply trying to cobble together a hit film based on what made his previous films successful. I could be entirely wrong about this, but it was how it came across to me when I saw it.
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Post by: Bernadette on April 11, 2016, 04:59:09 PM
My Neighbors, the Yamadas. Hilarious and quirky.

https://kissanime.to/Anime/My-Neighbors-the-Yamadas/Movie?id=33986
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Post by: Jacob on April 11, 2016, 06:55:33 PM
Sicario with Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, and Benicio Del Toro.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on April 12, 2016, 08:48:03 AM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on April 11, 2016, 01:10:23 PM
Quote from: Larry on April 11, 2016, 11:45:32 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on April 11, 2016, 01:33:59 AM
Hateful Eight

How was it?

I'm also curious

Enjoyable, but far from his best.
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Post by: red solo cup on April 14, 2016, 04:40:34 AM
Children of Men. Not bad.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on April 14, 2016, 10:18:34 AM
Quote from: Jacob on April 11, 2016, 06:55:33 PM
Sicario with Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, and Benicio Del Toro.

Is it good? I really want to watch it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mac_Benny on April 14, 2016, 03:14:14 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on April 14, 2016, 10:18:34 AM
Quote from: Jacob on April 11, 2016, 06:55:33 PM
Sicario with Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, and Benicio Del Toro.

Is it good? I really want to watch it.

Not really

What until it is on Netflix/Amazon

Same tired plot line of idealistic main FBI character and supporting DOD/CIA characters increasingly become the bad guys in main characters view until she tries to stop them.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mac_Benny on April 14, 2016, 03:17:55 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on March 31, 2016, 02:35:13 PM
Creed. Again.

Anyone see The Revenant?

I did not care for the The Revenant, but others I went with liked it and thought it was a good commentary on the nature of revenge. I guess I did not get that part.
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Post by: Non Nobis on April 15, 2016, 12:12:15 AM
Little Boy
Something simple and sweet after finishing Taxes 2015.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on April 15, 2016, 08:20:47 AM
The Tale of Princess Kaguya:

https://kissanime.to/Anime/Kaguya-hime-no-Monogatari/Movie-720p?id=83272

SO good!  ;D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on April 15, 2016, 04:38:59 PM
Band of Robbers. Many many years ago, among the first books I ever read in English were Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, so I thought this movie was a relatively well done transposition of those characters into an alternative modern setting. Often when they try to do this in film it can be quite gimmicky and lame, but I thought this one wasn't too bad.
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on April 15, 2016, 05:59:44 PM
Working my way through The Adams Chronicles on Youtube
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Post by: red solo cup on April 15, 2016, 07:02:44 PM
Book of Eli. Very good.
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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on April 15, 2016, 07:50:49 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on April 15, 2016, 07:02:44 PM
Book of Eli. Very good.

I did not like that it was the KJV, or that at the end the Bible is placed on equal footing with the koran.
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Post by: zork on April 16, 2016, 12:31:04 AM
Hush (2016)
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Post by: red solo cup on April 16, 2016, 05:30:42 AM
Quote from: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on April 15, 2016, 07:50:49 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on April 15, 2016, 07:02:44 PM
Book of Eli. Very good.

I did not like that it was the KJV, or that at the end the Bible is placed on equal footing with the koran.
Agreed. I thought the ending was poor.
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Post by: Bernadette on April 20, 2016, 05:38:37 PM
Wolf Children. Slice-of-life with a fantastical streak. Overall, well done.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 01:52:20 AM
Song of Bernadette (1943)

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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on April 21, 2016, 02:11:58 AM
Super
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Post by: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 03:03:59 AM
Quote from: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on April 21, 2016, 02:11:58 AM
Super

How was it and who is in it?

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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on April 21, 2016, 03:14:34 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 03:03:59 AM
Quote from: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on April 21, 2016, 02:11:58 AM
Super

How was it and who is in it?

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It is a little graphic in places, but I thought the end "take home" message of the whole film was quite good, you would have to see it to get what I mean. It has Rainn Wilson, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon, and Ellen Page.

I watch a lot of English language films with the subtitles on in English also, as although my English isn't too bad it helps me keep the grammar and syntax in mind also.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on April 21, 2016, 06:37:06 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 01:52:20 AM
Song of Bernadette (1943)

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Love that one. 
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Post by: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 08:23:05 AM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on April 21, 2016, 06:37:06 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 01:52:20 AM
Song of Bernadette (1943)

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Love that one.

It was pretty good.  Kinda disappointed in the fictionalized account, since I usually find history far more intriguing than a novelization, but oh well, still good.

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Post by: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 08:23:38 AM
Quote from: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on April 21, 2016, 03:14:34 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 03:03:59 AM
Quote from: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on April 21, 2016, 02:11:58 AM
Super

How was it and who is in it?

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It is a little graphic in places, but I thought the end "take home" message of the whole film was quite good, you would have to see it to get what I mean. It has Rainn Wilson, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon, and Ellen Page.

I watch a lot of English language films with the subtitles on in English also, as although my English isn't too bad it helps me keep the grammar and syntax in mind also.

Neat. I thought you were kidding, :lol:  It didn't sound like a movie name

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Post by: Bernadette on April 21, 2016, 09:06:28 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 08:23:05 AM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on April 21, 2016, 06:37:06 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 01:52:20 AM
Song of Bernadette (1943)

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Love that one.

It was pretty good.  Kinda disappointed in the fictionalized account, since I usually find history far more intriguing than a novelization, but oh well, still good.

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The book is better.  :)
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on April 21, 2016, 10:10:36 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on April 21, 2016, 09:06:28 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 08:23:05 AM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on April 21, 2016, 06:37:06 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 01:52:20 AM
Song of Bernadette (1943)

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Love that one.

It was pretty good.  Kinda disappointed in the fictionalized account, since I usually find history far more intriguing than a novelization, but oh well, still good.

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The book is better.  :)

I'll have to look for the book.  I love the movie...it's definitely the Hollywood version, but so much different from what movies are today.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on April 21, 2016, 12:56:48 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on April 21, 2016, 10:10:36 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on April 21, 2016, 09:06:28 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 08:23:05 AM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on April 21, 2016, 06:37:06 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 01:52:20 AM
Song of Bernadette (1943)

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Love that one.

It was pretty good.  Kinda disappointed in the fictionalized account, since I usually find history far more intriguing than a novelization, but oh well, still good.

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The book is better.  :)

I'll have to look for the book.  I love the movie...it's definitely the Hollywood version, but so much different from what movies are today.

I can send you the book, if you want. I have the audiobook from audible now, so I don't need the print book anymore. 😊
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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on April 21, 2016, 02:14:21 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 08:23:38 AM
Quote from: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on April 21, 2016, 03:14:34 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 03:03:59 AM
Quote from: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on April 21, 2016, 02:11:58 AM
Super

How was it and who is in it?

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It is a little graphic in places, but I thought the end "take home" message of the whole film was quite good, you would have to see it to get what I mean. It has Rainn Wilson, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon, and Ellen Page.

I watch a lot of English language films with the subtitles on in English also, as although my English isn't too bad it helps me keep the grammar and syntax in mind also.

Neat. I thought you were kidding, :lol:  It didn't sound like a movie name

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Oh, yes I can see how you would get this impression!
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Post by: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 02:15:17 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on April 21, 2016, 09:06:28 AM
The book is better.  :)

It always is!
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Post by: Bernadette on April 21, 2016, 04:40:19 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 02:15:17 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on April 21, 2016, 09:06:28 AM
The book is better.  :)

It always is!

Actually, no. How Green Was My Valley was better as a movie. Shocking, but true. The character development in the book was terrible.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 10:37:28 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on April 21, 2016, 04:40:19 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 02:15:17 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on April 21, 2016, 09:06:28 AM
The book is better.  :)

It always is!

Actually, no. How Green Was My Valley was better as a movie. Shocking, but true. The character development in the book was terrible.

Quite the title... 

:lol:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on April 21, 2016, 11:16:40 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 10:37:28 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on April 21, 2016, 04:40:19 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 02:15:17 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on April 21, 2016, 09:06:28 AM
The book is better.  :)

It always is!

Actually, no. How Green Was My Valley was better as a movie. Shocking, but true. The character development in the book was terrible.

Quite the title... 

:lol:

:-[ I can't even change it now that you've quoted it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on April 21, 2016, 11:18:40 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on April 21, 2016, 11:16:40 PM
:-[ I can't even change it now that you've quoted it.

Bwahaha.
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Post by: red solo cup on April 26, 2016, 04:34:04 AM
God's Pocket with Seymour Hoffman. Not bad. Kind of grim.
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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on April 26, 2016, 02:12:49 PM
Wolf (2013). Pretty good film, I think. It was, like, popcorn entertainment.
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Post by: piabee on April 29, 2016, 12:24:37 AM
I watched the first hour of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but then the sprinklers came on so I left.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on April 30, 2016, 07:12:34 PM
Jane Got a Gun.

Shitty western movie with natalie portman.  About some feminist broad protecting an outlaw.  And not even the good kind of outlaw. 

Overall meh.  Not worth the $2/2hrs.

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Post by: red solo cup on May 01, 2016, 09:30:15 AM
Firewall with Harrison Ford. Meh.
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Post by: Bernadette on May 02, 2016, 05:46:22 PM
My Neighbor Totoro Subbed, of course. Excellent.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on May 04, 2016, 01:27:50 PM
Birdman with Michael Keaton and Ed Norton. It flew off the screen and right up it's own ass.
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Post by: Bonaventure on May 04, 2016, 11:08:26 PM
How to Be a Man
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Post by: Kaesekopf on May 04, 2016, 11:15:21 PM
The Agony and the Ecstasy, with Charlton Heston.

Pretty good.  Enjoyable. 
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Post by: Elizabeth on May 08, 2016, 08:28:37 PM
Quote from: zork on April 16, 2016, 12:31:04 AM
Hush (2016)
It was too scary so I had to quit it.  What happened?  How did it end?
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Post by: red solo cup on May 09, 2016, 03:55:55 AM
Kilo Two Bravo
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on May 09, 2016, 09:27:24 AM
Groundhog Day
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Post by: Lynne on May 09, 2016, 09:58:22 AM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on May 09, 2016, 09:27:24 AM
Groundhog Day

I love that! I could watch it over and over...  :laugh:
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Post by: zork on May 09, 2016, 11:06:18 AM
Blade Runner (1982)
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Post by: red solo cup on May 10, 2016, 05:07:18 AM
The Drop with James Gandolfini. Very good. The main character always went to Mass but didn't take communion because he was a criminal.

And a PS: Blade Runner is one of the great all time movies.
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Post by: RedCaves on May 10, 2016, 01:59:58 PM
Captain America: Civil War
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Post by: GeorgeT on May 10, 2016, 08:44:11 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on May 10, 2016, 01:59:58 PM
Captain America: Civil War
I saw that one opening night. Pretty good. Had to watch it in 3d for lack of a better option. Oddly enough the 3d made it look less real.
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Post by: Bonaventure on May 11, 2016, 01:04:43 AM
Civil War
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Post by: piabee on May 11, 2016, 02:48:30 PM
Pitch Perfect 2
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Post by: Kaesekopf on May 11, 2016, 02:53:10 PM
Quote from: piabee on May 11, 2016, 02:48:30 PM
Pitch Perfect 2

Great movie.
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Post by: red solo cup on May 15, 2016, 03:17:08 PM
The Water Diviner with Russell Crowe. Very watchable though it's sympathy for the Turks might put some people off.
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Post by: Spade on May 16, 2016, 01:10:27 AM
Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

It was pretty good! I saw a lot of complaints that it was too much like Episode IV, but I think that may have been kind of the point? Anyway, I'm glad Abrams didn't go all Jar-Jar Binks on us.

I really liked Rey. She is a Mary Sue for sure, but Skywalkers tend to be Mary Sues. Luke was a Sue. Anakin was one of the Sue-iest Sues ever. So it's just genetics.

Finn was extra adorable. I hope Rey and Finn get married and run a cake shop or something.

I want a pet BB-8.

Emo Ren.

Princess Leia is gradually evolving into Louis Armstrong.

The space battles were pretty great. I liked all the dead ships on Jakku.

Luke's quoting St. Joseph was cool.

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Post by: Mac_Benny on May 16, 2016, 09:59:41 AM
Look Whose Back

Not any good tailers to post. It is German movie, that is a Hitler comedy/mockumentary. Very funny and thought provoking. On Netflix if anyone is looking for something good on there.

There is also a book that was a bestseller. The plot is Hitler reappears in Germany 2014 at the spot his body was burned at. Goes on to show how he might of adapted to modern times and goes on a cross country tour talking to people (real and staged). I give it a 7/10.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on May 16, 2016, 12:52:04 PM
Blade Runner.

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Post by: zork on May 16, 2016, 09:23:51 PM
Just saw that a few days ago, myself. About to expire from Netflix in about 35 minutes for those of us in the Eastern Time Zone!
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Post by: zork on May 16, 2016, 09:24:31 PM
We Were Soldiers (2002)
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Post by: Kaesekopf on May 16, 2016, 09:43:10 PM
Quote from: zork on May 16, 2016, 09:23:51 PM
Just saw that a few days ago, myself. About to expire from Netflix in about 35 minutes for those of us in the Eastern Time Zone!

Picked a good time to watch it, then.  :lol:

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Post by: zork on May 16, 2016, 09:43:47 PM
For sure!
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Post by: Kaesekopf on May 16, 2016, 11:17:27 PM
What'd you think about it?

I really wanna see the final cut now. 

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Post by: zork on May 17, 2016, 12:20:01 AM
I liked it, and thought it was very interesting. I'd like to see the final cut, as well; of that, and of Ridley Scott's other seminal sci-fi classic, Alien.
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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on May 17, 2016, 03:59:06 AM
That end speech in Blade Runner is excellent.
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Post by: Jacob on May 17, 2016, 07:59:24 AM
Did the Blade Runner you guys just watched have the voice-over by Harrison Ford?
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Post by: Kaesekopf on May 17, 2016, 09:21:13 AM
Yes

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Post by: Jacob on May 17, 2016, 09:55:59 AM
There is more than just the final cut.   There are several intermediate versions as well.  The director's cut of 1992 is good.  I don't care for the later ones due to Scott meddling with certain character elements.
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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on May 17, 2016, 03:20:13 PM
Quote from: Jacob on May 17, 2016, 09:55:59 AM
There is more than just the final cut.   There are several intermediate versions as well.  The director's cut of 1992 is good.  I don't care for the later ones due to Scott meddling with certain character elements.

There used to be a box set available with four different versions of the film. Sadly, my copy was lost in time. Like tears in rain.
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Post by: RedCaves on May 17, 2016, 05:46:25 PM
Quote from: zork on May 17, 2016, 12:20:01 AM
I liked it, and thought it was very interesting. I'd like to see the final cut, as well; of that, and of Ridley Scott's other seminal sci-fi classic, Alien.

A movie that is, subconsciously, about homosexual rape. At least, that's what Cracked.com says...

Never saw the movie. I suppose I'm more discouraged in seeing it.
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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on May 17, 2016, 05:52:03 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on May 17, 2016, 05:46:25 PM
Quote from: zork on May 17, 2016, 12:20:01 AM
I liked it, and thought it was very interesting. I'd like to see the final cut, as well; of that, and of Ridley Scott's other seminal sci-fi classic, Alien.

A movie that is, subconsciously, about homosexual rape. At least, that's what Cracked.com says...

Never saw the movie. I suppose I'm more discouraged in seeing it.

That site is so full of BS, man.
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Post by: zork on May 18, 2016, 11:32:39 AM
Cracked was so much better as its initial incarnation as a mediocre humor magazine from 1958-2004.
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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on May 18, 2016, 04:03:24 PM
Yes, now it is simply a liberalist indoctrination vehicle veiled in hipsterisms.
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Post by: MilesChristi on May 18, 2016, 05:20:30 PM
Civil War
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Post by: red solo cup on May 19, 2016, 05:05:26 AM
A Walk Among the Tombstones with Liam Neeson. Meh.
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Post by: zork on May 24, 2016, 10:45:58 PM
Way of the Dragon (1972)

Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris in the finale, plus hilariously bad dubbing throughout.
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Post by: piabee on May 29, 2016, 12:00:05 AM
Love & Friendship
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Post by: zork on May 29, 2016, 08:16:58 AM
Miami Connection (1987)

Awesomely bad and unintentionally hilarious, yet oddly watchable.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on May 29, 2016, 12:04:17 PM
The Finest Hours
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Post by: zork on May 29, 2016, 02:12:54 PM
Out For Justice (1991)
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Post by: red solo cup on June 05, 2016, 12:14:54 PM
Sicario. Pretty good.
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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on June 05, 2016, 04:38:37 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on May 19, 2016, 05:05:26 AM
A Walk Among the Tombstones with Liam Neeson. Meh.

TIL that Liam Neeson was once working as a school teacher in Northern Ireland when a student tried to stab him, so he punched the student in the face and got fired.

Liam Neeson is Liam Neeson in real life!
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Post by: Bonaventure on June 06, 2016, 02:08:44 PM
Age of Apocalypse
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Post by: Mac_Benny on June 07, 2016, 12:43:50 PM
Quote from: piabee on May 29, 2016, 12:00:05 AM
Love & Friendship

Was it good? I'm a fan of Whit's work, but he just doesn't have the editing polish to make commercially successful movies.
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Post by: Bonaventure on June 14, 2016, 11:58:26 PM
Big Game
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Post by: zork on June 17, 2016, 11:09:28 AM
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
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Post by: Carleendiane on June 17, 2016, 12:36:46 PM
The Endurance...a documentary about a disastrous trip to Antartica in 1914. This expedition was headed by Sir Ernest Shackelton. Was one of the best survival documentaries I have ever seen. Has footage and photography done during the expedition. Very well done and quite moving.  Certainly a great example of man's will to survive. The Endurance...I recommend it. You will find it on youtube.
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Post by: zork on June 17, 2016, 07:36:17 PM
Dreamscape (1983)
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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on June 17, 2016, 08:31:12 PM
Ong Bak. Some incredible athleticism and acrobatics in the choreography for this film.
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Post by: alicewyf on June 17, 2016, 09:40:05 PM
Meet the Patels. It was "meh". I felt really bad for the mom.
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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on June 20, 2016, 04:27:04 PM
The Fear of 13. It was actually very good, the man in it is an excellent storyteller.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on June 20, 2016, 05:08:46 PM
"Hello, My Name is Doris". 

Terrible, terrible, terrible movie.

Now im rewatching From the Earth to the moon".  Great docudrama.

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Post by: Jacob on June 20, 2016, 08:03:08 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 20, 2016, 05:08:46 PM
Now im rewatching From the Earth to the moon".  Great docudrama.

Have you seen the documentary For All Mankind?

I watched Brooklyn on Sunday.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on June 20, 2016, 09:16:40 PM
No, whats it about?

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Post by: piabee on June 20, 2016, 11:41:35 PM
John Wick

Quote from: Mac_Benny on June 07, 2016, 12:43:50 PM
Quote from: piabee on May 29, 2016, 12:00:05 AM
Love & Friendship

Was it good? I'm a fan of Whit's work, but he just doesn't have the editing polish to make commercially successful movies.

Yes, his style worked for Jane Austen. The book (Lady Susan) is made up of letters, and the movie loosely follows that format. The scenes almost feel like a series of vignettes.

Quote from: Jacob on June 20, 2016, 08:03:08 PM
I watched Brooklyn on Sunday.

Was not a fan.
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Post by: Jacob on June 21, 2016, 09:30:36 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 20, 2016, 09:16:40 PM
No, whats it about?

Quote from: WikipediaThe film provides 80 minutes of real NASA footage, mostly taken on the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. The focus of the documentary is on the human views of the space flights, and the original mission footage is provided along with the voices of the astronauts, from interviews and from the actual mission recordings.

Quote from: piabee on June 20, 2016, 11:41:35 PM
Quote from: Jacob on June 20, 2016, 08:03:08 PM
I watched Brooklyn on Sunday.

Was not a fan.

It definitely had issues.  Eilis' choice was an artificial choice.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on June 21, 2016, 11:00:17 AM
Awesome. I'll give it a look.

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Post by: zork on June 21, 2016, 11:13:12 AM
BMX Bandits (1983)

Notable for being Nicole Kidman's first film, but nothing else.
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Post by: CMTV on June 25, 2016, 02:10:52 PM
A forbidden God (2013) (Bluray version, Amazon purchase)

https://www.amazon.com/Forbidden-Dios-prohibido-Blu-Ray-Reg/dp/B00I0WHS2S (https://www.amazon.com/Forbidden-Dios-prohibido-Blu-Ray-Reg/dp/B00I0WHS2S)
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36E99tm0svM[/yt]
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Post by: Jacob on June 25, 2016, 07:17:35 PM
Blackbeard the Pirate with Linda Darnell.  Mmmm, costume swashbuckler!
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Post by: Kaesekopf on June 25, 2016, 10:06:10 PM
The Replacements. 

Man, I miss football.  I also miss Madden and Summerall.  I do NOT miss Aikman/Buck.  They can stay on their break.  :lol:

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Post by: Heinrich on June 25, 2016, 10:19:15 PM
CFL is awn
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Post by: RedCaves on June 26, 2016, 10:30:50 AM
Independence Day 2: Resurgence
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Post by: red solo cup on July 02, 2016, 06:27:35 PM
Monuments Men. Awful.
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on July 02, 2016, 09:18:56 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on June 26, 2016, 10:30:50 AM
Independence Day 2: Resurgence

Any good?
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Post by: zork on July 03, 2016, 01:00:54 AM
Rocky IV (1985)
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Post by: Kaesekopf on July 03, 2016, 08:23:09 AM
The best rocky.

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Post by: Heinrich on July 03, 2016, 02:29:42 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 03, 2016, 08:23:09 AM
The best rocky.

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Better than Creed?
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Post by: RedCaves on July 03, 2016, 02:44:13 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on July 02, 2016, 09:18:56 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on June 26, 2016, 10:30:50 AM
Independence Day 2: Resurgence

Any good?

Not much of a good story, to be honest. However, I thought it was entertaining due to the effects and action scenes.

I kind of want to see another sequel, though.

Go humans! Whoop, whoop, whoop!
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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on July 03, 2016, 05:24:08 PM
Do they reprise the famous "welcome to Urf" line?
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Post by: Kaesekopf on July 03, 2016, 07:57:06 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 03, 2016, 02:29:42 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 03, 2016, 08:23:09 AM
The best rocky.

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Better than Creed?

Creed was trying to make the rocky movies appeal to the black community.

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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on July 03, 2016, 09:37:32 PM
Hahahahaha "community"...
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Post by: Jacob on July 04, 2016, 09:24:45 AM
Last night I watched the second half of Barry Lyndon.  Such a beautiful movie.
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Post by: Heinrich on July 04, 2016, 10:11:01 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 03, 2016, 07:57:06 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 03, 2016, 02:29:42 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 03, 2016, 08:23:09 AM
The best rocky.

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Better than Creed?

Creed was trying to make the rocky movies appeal to the black community.

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OK. Not sure if I looked at it that way. But this marketing doesn't deaden its overall awesome defness.  And for what it is worth, if the "black community" was indeed the intended audience, I hope they are able to take away the (probably unintended) pro life aspect of the film.
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Post by: alicewyf on July 04, 2016, 11:16:15 AM
I watched Spotlight this past week. It wasn't as anti-Catholic as I thought it would be. I remember when all that came out. My mom had just filed for divorce, 9-11 had recently happened, then JPII died a few years later. It felt like the world was falling apart. I'm glad it didn't.  :) And I am glad to say I do feel safe with my kids in church. You need a background check to even join the choir now. I don't think that's a bad thing.
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Post by: zork on July 04, 2016, 12:19:10 PM
Forsaken (2015)

Kiefer Sutherland and Donald Sutherland play an estranged son and father in 1870s Alberta. Demi Moore rounds out the cast.
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Post by: red solo cup on July 04, 2016, 01:53:03 PM
Green Zone with Matt Damon. Not bad.
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Post by: Mono no aware on July 04, 2016, 04:07:32 PM
The Valley of the Bees (1968)

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Post by: GeorgeT on July 04, 2016, 11:07:13 PM
The Passion of Joan of Arc. I need to watch it more. So much great symbolism.
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Post by: Heinrich on July 05, 2016, 10:18:30 AM
Quote from: GeorgeT on July 04, 2016, 11:07:13 PM
The Passion of Joan of Arc. I need to watch it more. So much great symbolism.

Where available? What language?
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Post by: GeorgeT on July 05, 2016, 02:56:17 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 05, 2016, 10:18:30 AM
Quote from: GeorgeT on July 04, 2016, 11:07:13 PM
The Passion of Joan of Arc. I need to watch it more. So much great symbolism.

Where available? What language?

Right here:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Q6FVhqLY0[/yt]

It's the French version, but youtube has subtitles.

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Post by: Mono no aware on July 07, 2016, 09:06:02 PM
Risen (2016)

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Post by: Chestertonian on July 07, 2016, 09:09:40 PM
Was it any good
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Post by: Mono no aware on July 07, 2016, 09:17:45 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on July 07, 2016, 09:09:40 PM
Was it any good

No.  It was pretty lousy.  The casting was atrocious.  Joseph Fiennes was the only good choice, but the script gave him little to do.  If you're making a movie about a Roman skeptic, it would behoove you to make the tension between faith and doubt really palpable.  Give the character an intellect, imbue him with some snippets of Stoic or Epicurean philosophy which even a tribune would plausibly have.  It was devoid of substance.  I rated it two stars on Netflix: "did not like it."

I agree with Older Salt's review in the other thread.
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Post by: Carleendiane on July 09, 2016, 06:51:31 PM
Paladin. Old series on TV. Gunfighter for just causes.
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Post by: Chestertonian on July 09, 2016, 07:13:17 PM
my neighbor totoro
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Post by: MilesChristi on July 09, 2016, 11:18:34 PM
Lethal Weapon. So weird to see Murtaugh played by a black man.
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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on July 10, 2016, 12:55:35 AM
Quote from: MilesChristi on July 09, 2016, 11:18:34 PM
Lethal Weapon. So weird to see Murtaugh played by a black man.

Murtaugh was always black..?
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Post by: Clare on July 13, 2016, 10:33:27 AM
Quote from: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on July 10, 2016, 12:55:35 AM
Quote from: MilesChristi on July 09, 2016, 11:18:34 PM
Lethal Weapon. So weird to see Murtaugh played by a black man.
Murtaugh was always black..?
I thought so.
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Post by: zork on July 19, 2016, 11:01:00 PM
The Running Man (1987)
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Post by: Prayerful on July 20, 2016, 03:45:59 AM

For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada (2012), and a little before that Scarface (1983).
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Post by: Heinrich on July 21, 2016, 09:52:39 AM
Quote from: zork on July 19, 2016, 11:01:00 PM
The Running Man (1987)

Ein toller Film!
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Post by: MilesChristi on July 25, 2016, 09:39:05 PM
Lights Out.

It was stupid.
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Post by: Carleendiane on July 26, 2016, 07:44:32 AM
Twilight Zone...the Devils Apprentice. Burgess Meredeth, excellant, would recommend to anyone Best Serling had to offer!
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Post by: Bl. Karl Hapsburg on July 26, 2016, 07:59:47 AM
I watched Kingdom of Heaven Directors Cut this weekend for the first time. The religious debate was frustrating to listen to but the cinematography was beautiful.
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Post by: Heinrich on July 30, 2016, 08:39:27 PM
Has anyone Seen Raid or Raid 2?
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Post by: LausTibiChriste on July 31, 2016, 02:31:06 AM
Quote from: Bl. Karl Hapsburg on July 26, 2016, 07:59:47 AM
I watched Kingdom of Heaven Directors Cut this weekend for the first time. The religious debate was frustrating to listen to but the cinematography was beautiful.

That movie would be so sick if it wasn't for the obvious anti-Catholicism
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Post by: LausTibiChriste on July 31, 2016, 02:31:50 AM
I watched the Big Short three times in the last two weeks. That movie is so good.
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Post by: piabee on August 01, 2016, 12:42:26 PM
Jason Bourne this weekend. Lights Out last weekend.
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Post by: red solo cup on August 05, 2016, 07:52:39 AM
Prometheus. Formulaic and derivative.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on August 05, 2016, 11:02:15 AM
Suicide squad last night, star trek at the start of the week, Jason Bourne last week.  Been a movie filled week lol

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Post by: erin is nice on August 11, 2016, 10:41:02 AM
Coraline! I know it's old, but I had never seen it. I loved it.
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Post by: Southern Ascetic on August 12, 2016, 03:06:17 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on July 07, 2016, 09:06:02 PM
Risen (2016)

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LET ME SHOW YOU WHERE THE MAJOR IS VASILY! BANG!
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Post by: MilesChristi on August 13, 2016, 08:12:30 AM
Suicide Squad, not bad, not spectacular. No rocks were thrown
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Post by: Bernadette on August 14, 2016, 04:22:48 AM
A Simple Life on hulu. It was so sad. Though the backstory was fascinating, so I would have liked a whole book about that (woman works as a servant in a family over 60 years and 4 generations).
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Post by: Carleendiane on August 16, 2016, 12:20:06 PM
SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISHER about a 7 you old Master chess player. True story. Fantastic.
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Post by: Bernadette on August 16, 2016, 12:37:29 PM
I love that movie. I recorded it off cable years ago. :)
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Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on August 16, 2016, 08:13:04 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on August 16, 2016, 12:37:29 PM
I love that movie. I recorded it off cable years ago. :)

It's one of few that I can watch repeatedly. 

I just finished watching When the Game Stands Tall - an inspiring true story with Jim Caviezel as Bob Ladouceur.  I heartily recommend.
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Post by: Lydia Purpuraria on August 25, 2016, 05:45:43 PM
Question:

Any opinions on which Blade Runner to watch: Director's Cut, or Final Cut? 

(Or... maybe it doesn't really matter? :-\)
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Post by: Kaesekopf on August 25, 2016, 05:58:30 PM
The longer one?  There's a lot of opinions on which cut to watch.  I watched...  final?  On Netflix. 

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Post by: Lydia Purpuraria on August 25, 2016, 07:50:45 PM
Yeah, there probably are a lot of varying opinions (which I don't mind hearing).  Someone lent me the Director's Cut today... but then said they think they actually have the Final Cut, too, if I wanted to borrow that one instead (it's not on Netflix anymore).  They couldn't really remember the difference between the two to recommend one over the other, however, so I figured I'd ask around a bit before watching. 


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Post by: zork on August 26, 2016, 09:48:26 PM
I read somewhere that the Final Cut and Director's Cut of Blade Runner each have scenes cut from and added to both. So if you want the full Blade Runner experience, you'll probably have to watch both versions. Which probably isn't a bad thing, considering the 'regular' version itself is pretty good.
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Post by: Prayerful on August 27, 2016, 04:11:06 AM
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZEKSHBJtdc[/yt]

Molokoi: The True Story of Fr Damien

Saw this on DVD yesterday and here it is on Youtube. Fr Damien brought the Mass and extraordinary improvement to the lives of the lepers of Moloko'i (now called Hansen's Disease (http://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/) and curable since 1940).
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Post by: LausTibiChriste on August 27, 2016, 04:18:04 AM
Quote from: Carleendiane on August 16, 2016, 12:20:06 PM
SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISHER about a 7 you old Master chess player. True story. Fantastic.

I read his book The Art of Learning. The guy is something else.
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Post by: red solo cup on August 28, 2016, 03:50:33 AM
Mud with Matthew McConaughy. Not bad.
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Post by: Bernadette on September 05, 2016, 02:53:25 PM
The War of the Buttons (remake) on Netflix. It was pretty good. But man, the French movies really lay it on thick about the resistance groups. Seriously, the whole village?  ::)
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Post by: martin88nyc on September 05, 2016, 06:49:14 PM
The Flowers of War
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV5rw3oTJMw[/yt]
This isn't the last movie I saw but I really loved this one.
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Post by: zork on September 05, 2016, 08:46:29 PM
Nevada Smith (1965 or 1966)
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Post by: red solo cup on September 14, 2016, 04:38:22 PM
Hereafter with Matt Damon. Slow paced and kind of sad but watchable.
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Post by: Optatus on September 14, 2016, 05:20:59 PM
The Conjuring 2. Surprisingly good for a sequel, though not as good as the first.
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Post by: Elizabeth on September 14, 2016, 06:05:09 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on September 05, 2016, 06:49:14 PM
The Flowers of War
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV5rw3oTJMw[/yt]
This isn't the last movie I saw but I really loved this one.
So did I.
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Post by: red solo cup on September 30, 2016, 04:50:41 AM
The Revenant. Pretty good.
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Post by: martin88nyc on September 30, 2016, 06:07:27 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on September 30, 2016, 04:50:41 AM
The Revenant. Pretty good.
Watched it too. the bear attack scene was stupendous.
I'm planning to see War and Peace(2016) miniseries tonight and tomorrow.
Changed my mind, I just found a good old movie I like: "Around the World in Eighty Days" with Pierce Brosnan.   :)
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Post by: Carleendiane on October 01, 2016, 07:55:02 AM
Going to see "Snowden" tonight. Bill Still said it was riveting.
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Post by: Jacob on October 01, 2016, 08:20:59 AM
Last night on TCM I watched Reds with Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton.  Over three hours, but it didn't feel like it dragged except in just a few spots.  Beatty and Keaton are excellent in their roles and the witnesses are very interesting.  Not the first time I've seen the movie, but it was the first time I've seen it all the way through.
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Post by: Carleendiane on October 01, 2016, 08:06:22 PM
Can't recommend snowden. Pornographic scene.
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Post by: Bonaventure on October 02, 2016, 12:19:17 AM
Terminator 1 & 2
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Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on October 04, 2016, 09:00:25 PM
La Jetée.

Highly recommended.
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Post by: Bernadette on October 04, 2016, 10:05:12 PM
The Giver. It was such tripe that I stopped watching it.
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Post by: martin88nyc on October 04, 2016, 10:11:48 PM
Any Louis de Funes fans here. He was a French actor who generously supported SSPX financially. His films were mostly slapstick comedy.
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Post by: red solo cup on October 05, 2016, 04:41:09 AM
Winter's Bone. Very good.
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Post by: Jacob on October 05, 2016, 09:14:48 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on October 05, 2016, 04:41:09 AM
Winter's Bone. Very good.

J Law is excellent in that, yes.  If she picks some good roles over the years, she could be the next Streep.  John Hawking is excellent too.
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Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on October 05, 2016, 10:00:53 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on October 05, 2016, 04:41:09 AM
Winter's Bone. Very good.

Not bad, but Sling Blade, to which I see Winter's Bone as a spiritual sequel, was much better.
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Post by: piabee on October 07, 2016, 03:29:02 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on October 04, 2016, 10:05:12 PM
The Giver. It was such tripe that I stopped watching it.

I thought it was faithful to the book.
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Post by: Optatus on October 07, 2016, 11:36:13 PM
Bone Tomahawk. Pretty gruesome at times but I love westerns and horror so this was right up my alley.
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Post by: red solo cup on October 09, 2016, 04:18:37 AM
10 Cloverfield Lane. The last 15 minutes was NOT what I expected.
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Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on October 13, 2016, 07:28:16 PM
Au Hasard Balthazar

Thoroughly heartbreaking in a very desperate way.
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Post by: martin88nyc on October 13, 2016, 07:49:01 PM
Hoovey (2015)
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Post by: Jerome on October 14, 2016, 05:20:13 AM
The following examples below is a good demonstration of why the majority of people who obstinately watch the media (as demonstrated in this thread) are in mortal sin (even if they don't think they are) since they refuse to avoid the occasion of sinning. (And I only went through one page of this horrific thread).

Consider that I only make mention of the explicit sexual content, without taking into consideration all other evil things, such as occultism, ungodliness, profanity, blasphemy and immodest dress (which is not considered in "Sex and Nudity" category, unless the likes of bikini.

To you who read this: I tell you frankly, you will go to Hell if you don't stop watching media and putting yourself in the occasion of sinning, since the Church teaches that those who do this cannot be absolved and hence cannot be saved:

Pope Innocent XI, Various Errors on Moral Matters #61, March 4, 1679: "He can sometimes be absolved, who remains in a proximate occasion of sinning, which he can and does not wish to omit, but rather directly and professedly seeks or enters into." – Condemned statement by Pope Innocent XI.

Get this through your obstinate head. Perhaps if I tell it more forcefully, it will get through to some...


Quote from: Carleendiane on October 01, 2016, 07:55:02 AM
Going to see "Snowden" tonight. Bill Still said it was riveting.

Quote from: Carleendiane on October 01, 2016, 08:06:22 PM
Can't recommend snowden. Pornographic scene.

Quote from: Jacob on October 01, 2016, 08:20:59 AM
Last night on TCM I watched Reds with Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton.  Over three hours, but it didn't feel like it dragged except in just a few spots.  Beatty and Keaton are excellent in their roles and the witnesses are very interesting.  Not the first time I've seen the movie, but it was the first time I've seen it all the way through.

Sex & Nudity [Reds]
Some sexual dialogue, occasionally profane, tasteful nude photographs, characters in open relationships

Quote from: red solo cup on October 09, 2016, 04:18:37 AM
10 Cloverfield Lane. The last 15 minutes was NOT what I expected.

Sex & Nudity [10 Cloverfield Lane]
A woman is shown lying on a bed in her underwear for a few minutes, before she dresses. Nothing sexual.

A woman wears a tight white tank top with a black bra beneath it and shows some cleavage.

We see a photo of a woman in a bikini in a magazine.

QuoteThat one must avoid the proximate occasion of sin in order to be Saved and receive Forgiveness of one's sins from God is a certain fact of the Natural and Divine law that has always been taught by the Church and Her Saints. For instance, Blessed Pope Innocent XI during his papacy, condemned three propositions that denied this truth:

Pope Innocent XI, Various Errors on Moral Matters #61, March 4, 1679: "He can sometimes be absolved, who remains in a proximate occasion of sinning, which he can and does not wish to omit, but rather directly and professedly seeks or enters into." – Condemned statement by Pope Innocent XI.

Pope Innocent XI, Various Errors on Moral Matters #62, March 4, 1679: "The proximate occasion for sinning is not to be shunned when some useful and honorable cause for not shunning it occurs." – Condemned statement by Pope Innocent XI.

Pope Innocent XI, Various Errors on Moral Matters #63, March 4, 1679: "It is permitted to seek directly the proximate occasion for sinning for a spiritual or temporal good of our own or of a neighbor." – Condemned statement by Pope Innocent XI.

Here we see that the Church confirms that the opinion that "It is permitted to seek directly the proximate occasion for sinning for a spiritual or temporal good of our own or of a neighbor" is directly condemned. And this condemnation is about those who "seek directly the proximate occasion for sinning" for a good cause, rather than for a selfish cause. But most people in this world do not even watch or listen to evil and ungodly media for a good cause but rather for the sake of pleasure or for other unnecessary reasons, and it is certainly not necessary "for a spiritual or temporal good of our own or of a neighbor." This shows us that the Church and the Natural Law absolutely abhors and condemns the opinion that one can watch or listen to media that can tempt a person to sin. Indeed, not only the occasions of sin, like evil, worldly and ungodly media, but also the "the proximate occasion for sinning for a spiritual or temporal good of our own or of a neighbor" must be totally rejected and shunned if one wants to attain salvation.

People who reject this advice and continue to put themselves in a proximate or near occasion of sin will undoubtedly lose their souls, since God will allow the devil to fool them in some way since they rejected the Word of God, and chose to put themselves in the way of temptation. Many there are, indeed, who presumptuously claim that they won't get tempted by watching or listening to worldly media, or that they will be able to control it, but here we see in the condemnations of Blessed Pope Innocent XI that one may not even put oneself in "the proximate occasion for sinning for a spiritual or temporal good of our own or of a neighbor". God will undoubtedly leave a person who is presumptuous and prideful, and the Church and Her Saints have always condemned such individuals that trusts in their own strength.

As a matter of fact, one can even understand from the light of natural reason that one is not allowed to put oneself in the occasion of sin, so those who do this act will have no excuse whatsoever on the day of judgment. In addition, a person who watches bad, worldly or ungodly media, tempts his fellow man to watch these evil things also, and thus, by his bad example, puts both himself and others in the way of damnation by his selfishness and presumption. So in addition to damning himself if he obstinately continues in such a course of life, such a person also actually tries to damn others by his bad example, trying to drag others with him into the eternal darkness and fire of hell. This is a kind of evil that is breathtaking to behold! It is thus a fact "that when men avoid the occasions of sin, God preserves them; but when they expose themselves to danger, they are justly abandoned by the Lord, and easily fall into some grievous transgressions." (St. Alphonsus Liguori, The True Spouse of Jesus Christ, Mortification of the Eyes, p. 221)

The pitiful and unreasonable addiction to media by so many "Catholics" or "Christians" today is something new, and almost no one before the 20th century was so miserably addicted to it as the weak and bad willed population of our own times! The amount of pitiful and pathetic excuses that we have had to hear from bad willed people who try to excuse their act of putting themselves in the proximate or near occasion of sin is, simply said, almost endless. Even though they understand that they are not allowed to endanger their souls, they just couldn't care since they are hooked on the media, just like a drug addict, who need his daily "fix" to endure the day. For about a hundred years ago, almost no media existed as compared to today, and people thrived and the crime rates was as nothing when compared to today. So the unreasonable addiction to media cannot be excused, for man does not need media at all to survive, and putting oneself in the near or "the proximate occasion for sinning for a spiritual or temporal good of our own or of a neighbor" is directly condemned by the Church.

If the priests as well as the laypeople that lived in a more virtuous time when the Catholic Church's Law was followed by people in Europe would have seen any of the things we human today see through either media or even walking outside and seeing billboards or lasciviously clothed men or women walking in the street, they would have been outraged and would have fled from every such thing, for their conscience had not been perverted through the media so that their sense of modesty was totally crushed as is the case with us modern humans. God's standard of modesty never changes, and the Church's teaching that "the proximate occasion for sinning for a spiritual or temporal good of our own or of a neighbor" must always be avoided is not allowed to be flouted in the 21st century however much modern man thinks that God allows their novelties and abominations.

Read more: http://www.catholic-saints.net/spiritual/#How-to-control-your-eyes (http://www.catholic-saints.net/spiritual/#How-to-control-your-eyes)
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Post by: Prayerful on October 14, 2016, 08:08:00 AM
Mine was Siege of Jadotville (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jadotville) on Netflix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Siege_of_Jadotville) recounting how the 155 men of A COY of the Irish Army serving with the UN in the Congo held out against the overwhelming attacks on Katangan mercenaries. You see a moment of a priest in green vestments offering Mass while the soldiers sing a hymn. There are one or two instances of bad or blasphemous language, little enough for a company of soldiers. It shows a heroic band of men with outdated weapons holding a barely defensible shed and service station.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on October 14, 2016, 10:10:02 AM
I made a separate thread on the same topic and with more info which have generated many responses. I advice everyone watching media to read it:

http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.0 (http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.0)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Carleendiane on October 14, 2016, 10:32:45 AM
Quote from: Jerome on October 14, 2016, 10:10:02 AM
I made a separate thread on the same topic and with more info which have generated many responses. I advice everyone watching media to read it:

http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.0 (http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.0)

Thanks St. Jerome. Just thanks. I have seen the light.
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Post by: martin88nyc on October 15, 2016, 09:59:55 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on October 04, 2016, 10:11:48 PM
Any Louis de Funes fans here. He was a French actor who generously supported SSPX financially. His films were mostly slapstick comedy.
Sorry to repeat myself but is there anyone familiar with him?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Dafrenchman on October 16, 2016, 06:06:11 AM
I know Monsieur Louis De Funes. Funny french actor of my youth in Quebec....
He made many movies...

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Post by: martin88nyc on October 16, 2016, 10:01:02 AM
My favorite comedian. He was one of a kind. French comedies are best, IMO. Perhaps I have some french blood in me. ;)
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Post by: Dafrenchman on October 16, 2016, 02:19:15 PM
He died early eighties i think.
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Post by: martin88nyc on October 16, 2016, 06:44:53 PM
Quote from: Dafrenchman on October 16, 2016, 02:19:15 PM
He died early eighties i think.
Yes
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Post by: Chestertonian on October 16, 2016, 08:33:20 PM
big hero six,  with my six year old it's one of his favorites
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Post by: red solo cup on October 17, 2016, 05:29:10 AM
Emperor with Tommy Lee Jones. Not very good. Fortunately there were no images of women in their underwear.
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Post by: martin88nyc on October 19, 2016, 12:01:50 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on October 16, 2016, 10:01:02 AM
My favorite comedian. He was one of a kind. French comedies are best, IMO. Perhaps I have some french blood in me. ;)
This is one of his best roles. Here he played an rabbi impersonator. Very funny.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5QAU63oVHE[/yt]
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Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on October 19, 2016, 01:15:20 PM
Watched Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent the other night.  Good, but I preferred his The 39 Steps as an espionage thriller.

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Post by: maryslittlegarden on October 19, 2016, 02:11:02 PM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on October 19, 2016, 01:15:20 PM
Watched Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent the other night.  Good, but I preferred his The 39 Steps as an espionage thriller.

Shadow of a Doubt is my favorite Hitchcock movie.
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Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on October 19, 2016, 02:19:17 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on October 19, 2016, 02:11:02 PM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on October 19, 2016, 01:15:20 PM
Watched Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent the other night.  Good, but I preferred his The 39 Steps as an espionage thriller.

Shadow of a Doubt is my favorite Hitchcock movie.

I'll have to make a point to see it.  Rope is probably my favorite.  I'm a sucker for long takes, and Rope is all a single take; Hitchcock will occasionally zoom in on an actor's back-- that's him changing film reels.  The writing in Rope is among his best, and the tension he creates without any soundtrack is phenomenal.
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on October 19, 2016, 02:33:53 PM
I'll look for that one.
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Post by: Carleendiane on October 19, 2016, 03:22:03 PM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on October 19, 2016, 01:15:20 PM
Watched Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent the other night.  Good, but I preferred his The 39 Steps as an espionage thriller.

Favorite Alfred Hitchcock was"I Confess". About seal of the confessional.
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Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on October 19, 2016, 04:25:17 PM
Quote from: Carleendiane on October 19, 2016, 03:22:03 PM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on October 19, 2016, 01:15:20 PM
Watched Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent the other night.  Good, but I preferred his The 39 Steps as an espionage thriller.

Favorite Alfred Hitchcock was"I Confess". About seal of the confessional.

I know that he once said that one of his primary influences for his subject matter was the fact that the Jesuits scared the hell out of him during school, and now it was his turn to scare the hell out of people.

I'm not sure how good of a Catholic he was, though on the other hand, English Catholic artists in particular seem to have a reputation for and propensity toward sordid storytelling and uncouth characters.  Might be more of a reflection of being thoroughly English than being a bad Catholic.
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Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on October 20, 2016, 02:27:54 AM
More Hitchcock tonight; this time it was Sabotage.  More of his pre-American work.  Quite good, and emblematically dark.

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Post by: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on October 20, 2016, 03:56:04 PM
Quote from: Carleendiane on October 19, 2016, 03:22:03 PM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on October 19, 2016, 01:15:20 PM
Watched Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent the other night.  Good, but I preferred his The 39 Steps as an espionage thriller.

Favorite Alfred Hitchcock was"I Confess". About seal of the confessional.

Yes, this was a good film. I enjoyed it also.
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Post by: red solo cup on October 21, 2016, 04:26:06 PM
Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day-Lewis. Interesting choice having Russell Means play Chingachgook.
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Post by: Jacob on October 21, 2016, 08:14:02 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on October 21, 2016, 04:26:06 PM
Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day-Lewis. Interesting choice having Russell Means play Chingachgook.

I saw this in the theater when it first came out.  Excellent movie.  It is the movie that convinced me that DDL would have been perfect as Aragorn in LotR.
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Post by: martin88nyc on October 21, 2016, 08:24:05 PM
But no one beats Mortensen ;D
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Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on October 21, 2016, 08:41:04 PM
Mortensen was too pretty, IMO.  I know it catches a lot of flack, but I think that Bakshi's Lord of the Rings is superior to Jackson's inasmuch as character portrayals are concerned.  Aragorn was too pretty, Gandalf was too grandfatherly.   Being a combination of the first book and a half, Bakshi's vision is heavily abridged and incomplete, but the dialogue is more or less lifted right from the book, and it's free from Jackson's goofy deviations from the story, like Faramir being tempted by the ring or Samwise being sent away from Frodo (not to mention the imposition of Arwen who, though present in the histories, is not in the trilogy!).  Alas, neither versions include the too oft-neglected Glorfindel nor the enigmatic Tom Bombadil.

I think Jackson's vision was overall commendable, engaging, and the most complete rendition of LotR that we're to see short of an HBO series (overall it's better than Bakshi's)--  and I'm a proud owner of the extended version blu-ray box set, but it's far from perfect.

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages2.static-bluray.com%2Freviews%2F4445_1.jpg&hash=32f233759946718ef5d2d9330afe2e6e753f5d7a)

Here's a brief clip of Aragorn according to Bakshi's rendition:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJpkg8wMEbE

ETA: Mods, the link would not post as https.  Is this WAD?
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Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on October 21, 2016, 08:47:30 PM
Anyways, the last movie I watched was Hitchock's Secret Agent.  Told you more was coming!  Excellent, as usual.  Probably better than Sabotage (barely) and better than Foreign Correspondent, still trailing behind The 39 Steps though, which is more or less my standard for Hitchock espionage thrillers now.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on October 21, 2016, 08:48:00 PM
Right, https doesn't work.  Gotta be http

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Post by: martin88nyc on October 21, 2016, 09:09:44 PM
I still have the animated version stuck in my bookmarks....maybe one day I will get a chance to watch it.
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Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on October 22, 2016, 11:57:14 AM
Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn.  Definitely a change of pace from the last four or five of his works that I've watched.
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Post by: Chestertonian on October 22, 2016, 08:40:15 PM
once
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on October 31, 2016, 09:46:04 AM
The Finest Hour(2016) very very good
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Post by: piabee on October 31, 2016, 11:20:38 PM
The Innkeepers. Good little indie horror.
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Post by: red solo cup on November 01, 2016, 05:32:28 AM
Spy with Mellisa McCarthy and Rose Byrne. Funny but with lots of profanity.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 01, 2016, 08:46:03 AM
Oh you all who keep watching immoral and bad and dangerous movies, you will be judged for your folly. If even every word will be judged, then what with our thoughts and actual deeds?

I need to stop looking up the films people watch on imdb, since this could be an occasion of sinning for me, or at least, it disturbs me. Yes some film are horrible to say the least, oh what folly people watch, and still watch!

Yes, you know who you are... and God knows it also.

Even after having seen the Church's teaching, people still just don't care, and this scandalous film thread will continue to be filled with filth, crap, sin, mortal sins, scandals, immoralities, and immodesties, and the people who watch them will, to their own shame, also speak openly about them, thus promoting them. Shame on you!


It is impossible to watch the television or the secular movies, tv series, media etc. in a casual (even if careful) without being exposed to something immodest or worse every day, however careful you think you are. You can't decide what scenes will pop up!

Anyone who has ever watched the television and secular movies and even youtube (and especially when surfing the internet with images on*) knows this. I know it, you know it, everyone knows it.

The Church's teaching as presented in this thread is clear on that:

http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.0 (http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.0)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on November 01, 2016, 09:21:18 AM
No Jerome.The Finest Hour(2016) is actually a clean movie. Very good. It shows human valor and courage to face impossible. You should watch this movie and find out for yourself.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2025690/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2025690/)

QuoteThe Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 01, 2016, 09:31:52 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on November 01, 2016, 09:21:18 AM
No Jerome.The Finest Hour(2016) is actually a clean movie. Very good. It shows human valor and courage to face impossible. You should watch this movie and find out for yourself.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2025690/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2025690/)

QuoteThe Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.

I was not referring to you.

That is why I said they will know who they are.


P.S.
I would be more happy about this thread if this was the kind of films most people watched. But that is not the case. Oh no, I don't even want to mention some of the things imdb writes... Although, some have already been mentioned!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 01, 2016, 09:37:03 AM
Oh, and imdb has a parental guide so that people can understand what kind of film it is.

Not that I want anyone to watch media and expose themselves like almost everyone does today, but at least be more careful about what you watch, whosoever is reading this.

I'm sure there are other sites too that can be consulted.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on November 01, 2016, 09:37:32 AM
I tried to watch Lady Jane, with Helena Bonham Carter and Carey Elwes. But the fanatical Protestantism got the better of me, and I had to turn it off. Poor Lady Jane, though. :(
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 01, 2016, 09:55:10 AM
Lady Jayne also is immodest and has lascivious scenes!

And so does Spy with Mellisa McCarthy and Rose Byrne

And also The Innkeepers, although, not as severe as those above.


*It's impossible to watch the television or the secular movies, tv series, media etc. in a casual (even if careful) without being exposed to something immodest or worse every day, however careful you think you are. You can't decide what scenes will pop up!

Anyone who has ever watched the television and secular movies and even youtube (and especially when surfing the internet with images on*) knows this. I know it, you know it, everyone knows it.

The Church's teaching as presented in this thread is clear:

http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.0 (http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.0)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on November 01, 2016, 10:04:46 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 01, 2016, 09:55:10 AM
Lady Jayne also is immodest and has lascivious scenes!


It's been years since I've seen the whole movie, but in the part that I watched, Lady Jane and her husband had agreed to live as cousins. And Sir Patrick Stewart was walking around in what looked like a skirt and leggings. So.  :shrug:

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on November 01, 2016, 10:18:14 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on November 01, 2016, 09:21:18 AM
No Jerome.The Finest Hour(2016) is actually a clean movie. Very good. It shows human valor and courage to face impossible. You should watch this movie and find out for yourself.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2025690/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2025690/)

QuoteThe Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.

I don't believe Jerome was referring to this movie.  He's providing general words of caution for us.  All of us, even the best of trads, are vaccinated in the culture and have quite a high level of tolerance for immorality.  We've convinced ourselves that we can handle it / to be too strict is prudish.  Those, like Jerome, who have a higher level of Catholic consciousness are one percenters and walk the talk much better than I.  We really need to own up to our modernist bent in many areas. None of my confessors (traditional that is) have ever encouraged compromise in regard to Hollywood, yet I would still tempt fate, deciding for myself what was acceptable vs what the Church encourages for edification, let alone the state of my soul.

I appreciate the Jeromes who remind us to be ever vigilant.  I know I've made excuses for viewing something that crosses the line in language, humor or gratuitous violence if the "message" is good.  I try very hard to filter these now through Church guidelines, which means we view much less.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 01, 2016, 10:58:03 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 01, 2016, 10:04:46 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 01, 2016, 09:55:10 AM
Lady Jayne also is immodest and has lascivious scenes!


It's been years since I've seen the whole movie, but in the part that I watched, Lady Jane and her husband had agreed to live as cousins. And Sir Patrick Stewart was walking around in what looked like a skirt and leggings. So.  :shrug:

If you go to the imdb page (with images disabled of course), you will see a parental guide link if you look closely - it is called Parents Guide: View content advisory » (every film on IMDB has such a link, although, not all of them have something written in it).

If you read it, you will see what kind of nudeness and lascivious scenes this movie contains; since you are a woman, you would probably be less disturbed by even "thinking" or "reading" about it than I am.

Oh yes, if people got more disturbed about these kinds of things, like I do, more people would evidently flee from these kinds of occasions because they would truly fear to fall into sin and and of offending God.

            St. Alphonsus: "Hence, whosoever had done good, or has abstained from great sins, should say with St. Paul, 'By the grace of God I am what I am.' (1 Cor 15:10), and ought to tremble, lest on the first occasion he should fall. 'Wherefore he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed lest he fall.' (1 Cor 10:12). By these words the apostle insinuates that he who considers himself secure, is in very great danger of falling. For in another place he says, 'if any man think himself to be something, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.' (Gal. 6:3). Hence St. Augustine wisely observes, 'The presumption of stability renders many unstable; no one will be so strong as he who feels his own weakness.' (Ser. 13 de verb. Dom). Whosoever says that he entertains no fear of being lost, betrays a pernicious self-confidence and security by which he deceives himself. For, confiding in his own strength, he ceases to tremble, and being free from fear, he neglects to recommend himself to God, and left to his own weakness, he infallibly falls. For the same reason, every one should be careful to abstain from indulging vain glory at not having committed the sins into which others have fallen; and should even esteem himself worse than them, saying, Lord if you had not assisted me, I would have been guilty of much more grievous transgressions. But if any one glory in his own works, and prefer himself before others, the Almighty, in chastisement of his pride, will permit him to fall into the most grievous and horrible crimes. The apostle says, 'With fear and trebling work out your salvation.' (Phil. 2:12). The timid distrust their own powers, and placing all their confidence in God fly to His protection in all dangers. He will enable them to overcome the temptations to which they are exposed, and they shall be saved. St. Philip Neri walking one day through Rome, was heard frequently to say, 'I despair.' Being corrected by a religious, he replied; 'Father, I despair of being saved by myself, but trust in God.' We should continually distrust ourselves, and thus we shall imitate St. Philip, who was accustomed to say every morning as soon as he awoke. 'Lord preserve me this day, otherwise I will betray you.'" (St. Alphonsus, A Short Treatise on Prayer, Chapter IV, "Of the Humility of with Which We Ought to Pray")

Considering the above underlining, this is why I am so careful about exposing my self to the dangers of all forms of media, since I know I can and even will fall if I expose my self. And I do not excuse my self with that I am "strong in faith or morals", since I do not presume on my own strength.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on November 01, 2016, 11:05:32 AM
The imdb parental guide is superb. From now on I will always evaluate movies according to this guide. Thanks Jerome.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on November 01, 2016, 11:30:22 AM
I use the imdb parents guide for tv shows also.  We don't have a television, but download certain shows that are interesting and acceptable  :P.   As J pointed out, sometimes the guide has not been populated with information however, so you must resort to other sources.  Not easy to find, but worth the effort.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on November 01, 2016, 12:27:44 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 01, 2016, 10:58:03 AM

If you go to the imdb page (with images disabled of course), you will see a parental guide link if you look closely - it is called Parents Guide: View content advisory » (every film on IMDB has such a link, although, not all of them have something written in it).

If you read it, you will see what kind of nudeness and lascivious scenes this movie contains; since you are a woman, you would probably be less disturbed by even "thinking" or "reading" about it than I am.

Oh yes, if people got more disturbed about these kinds of things, like I do, more people would evidently flee from these kinds of occasions because they would truly fear to fall into sin and and of offending God.

Well, since I don't plan on watching it again, I don't think I really need to find out what kind of nude and lascivious scenes it contains. And if it makes you feel any better, I watch movies while sewing: most of my attention during Lady Jane was focused on sewing darts of even length, with an occasional glance at the movie. I don't like to watch movies without doing some kind of hobby at the same time. I pay more attention to subtitled movies, but then I'm reading the subtitles rather than focusing on what's happening.

And I do fear falling into sin and offending God. But not when I'm not actually sinning.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: clau clau on November 01, 2016, 12:57:06 PM
Don't mention "The Sound of Music".  I did but I think I got away with it.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW0[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on November 03, 2016, 05:09:56 AM
Lincoln Lawyer with Mathew McConaughey. Entertaining.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 03, 2016, 07:10:58 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on November 03, 2016, 05:09:56 AM
Lincoln Lawyer with Mathew McConaughey. Entertaining.

Can you please stop writing about the evil and completely lascivious movies you keep sinfully watching (yes, I looked it up) and promoting unto your own judgment? Have you no shame or decency at all? Have your conscience become so seared so that you do not even care anymore what you do or watch or promote?

Oh how I hope this thread could be drowned in the depth of the see and forgotten!

Also, did you miss what I wrote before? Well, now I hope you will not. But perhaps you just don't care? Such a thing would not surprise me also, since according to Jesus, many goes on to broad way down to Hell quite willingly!

Oh you all who keep watching immoral and bad and dangerous movies, you will be judged for your folly. If even every word will be judged, then what with our thoughts and actual deeds?

Many of the films people watch are so horrible and filthy to say the least, and it makes me angry, oh what folly people watch, and still watch!

Yes, you know who you are... and God knows it also.

Even after having seen the Church's teaching, people still just don't care, and this scandalous film thread will continue to be filled with filth, crap, sin, mortal sins, scandals, immoralities, and immodesties, and the people who watch them will, to their own shame, also speak openly about them, thus promoting them. Shame on you!

It is impossible to watch the television or the secular movies, tv series, media etc. in a casual (even if careful) without being exposed to something immodest or worse every day, however careful you think you are. You can't decide what scenes will pop up!

Anyone who has ever watched the television and secular movies and even youtube (and especially when surfing the internet with images on*) knows this. I know it, you know it, everyone knows it.

The Church's teaching as presented in this thread is clear on that:

http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.0 (http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.0)

For those who don't care or care almost nothing, St. Vianney has the perfect words for you:

"There is not a commandment of God which dancing [or media] does not cause men to break! Mothers may indeed say: 'Oh, I keep an eye on their dress [or what they watch (you cannot know all content!)]; [but] you cannot keep guard over their heart.' Go, you wicked parents, go down to Hell where the wrath of God awaits you, because of your conduct when you gave free scope to your children; GO! It will not be long before they join you, seeing that you have shown them the way so well! Then you will see whether your pastor was right in forbidding those Hellish amusements." (The Curé D'Ars, St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney, p. 146)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on November 03, 2016, 10:44:21 AM
Any Poirot fans. One of my best long time TV series.
this one:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535120/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535120/)
is relevant to the current liturgical season, however there are few references to religion. anyhow I love Poirot series and just about any British series. Brits are known for this. ;)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on November 03, 2016, 11:31:35 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on November 03, 2016, 10:44:21 AM
Any Poirot fans.

:seeya: I've just discovered him on Netflix. Not as good as Sherlock Holmes, but the best that I can get, I suppose.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on November 03, 2016, 12:23:58 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 03, 2016, 07:10:58 AM
Can you please stop writing about the evil and completely lascivious movies you keep sinfully watching

Can you please stop checking this thread if it's such a problem for you?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on November 03, 2016, 12:25:11 PM
IMDB is often just a slightly more specific MPAA.  The MPAA is worthless.  I've watched movies based on the MPAA advisory of "Rated R for language" and found there to be much more objectionable content within.  And then on the other hand, I could go to another movie rated R for this, that, or the other thing and find nothing objectionable.  By the same token, IMDB frequently fails to mention things that would be found offensive to Catholic eyes.

I cannot recommend more highly the site http://www.kids-in-mind.com/

They are infinitely better than IMDB at providing "parent's guides."  I always check there first.  The only problem is that they are a small operation, so they don't have as many entries as IMDB.

What makes them so reliable is that they basically assume that you'll be offended by anything.  I think they're evangelicals or something.  They rate each movie according to sex, violence, and language (and also include a moral section at the end for philosophical implications of certain movies; e.g., maybe a movie doesn't have any sex, violence, or language but its subject matter is still offense).  For instance, I think they rated Finding Nemo as 3 on a scale of 1-10 measuring the amount of sex involved, because of flirtatious undertones between a couple fish.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on November 03, 2016, 12:26:55 PM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on November 03, 2016, 12:25:11 PM
I cannot recommend more highly the site kids-in-mind.org

I stopped checking kids-in-mind because their descriptions got too detailed and were frequently worse than the movies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on November 03, 2016, 12:29:12 PM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on November 03, 2016, 12:25:11 PM

I cannot recommend more highly the site http://www.kids-in-mind.com/

They are infinitely better than IMDB at providing "parent's guides."  I always check there first.  The only problem is that they are a small operation, so they don't have as many entries as IMDB.

What makes them so reliable is that they basically assume that you'll be offended by anything.  I think they're evangelicals or something.  They rate each movie according to sex, violence, and language (and also include a moral section at the end for philosophical implications of certain movies; e.g., maybe a movie doesn't have any sex, violence, or language but its subject matter is still offense)

Handy. I remember being so disgusted by the second half of Disney's Into the Woods.  :vomit:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on November 03, 2016, 12:29:29 PM
Quote from: piabee on November 03, 2016, 12:26:55 PM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on November 03, 2016, 12:25:11 PM
I cannot recommend more highly the site kids-in-mind.org

I stopped checking kids-in-mind because their descriptions got too detailed and were frequently worse than the movies.

They do get pretty detailed.

So here's the caveat.  Probably don't even bother with a movie, for instance, that's rated a 5 or higher on the sex scale.  Their ratings are very sensitive, their 5 would be most people's 10.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 03, 2016, 01:42:04 PM
Quote from: piabee on November 03, 2016, 12:23:58 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 03, 2016, 07:10:58 AM
Can you please stop writing about the evil and completely lascivious movies you keep sinfully watching

Can you please stop checking this thread if it's such a problem for you?

You obviously did not get my point.

My point is not that it is a problem for me first and foremost (even though it could be), but rather that people commit sin by watching sinful movies which they must not do and if they continue to do so, they will not be saved (and it appears many don't care about salvation almost at all); and then on top of this, they write about it ON A TRADITIONAL FORUM and in a way encourages others to watch it as well by their approval.

This I cannot tolerate. Is this a religious forum or not? Why then this impiety and promotion of manifest evil?

Sadly, this kind of work is the devils work and he loves it. Satan loves bad examples, occasions of sinning, scandals, immoralities, lasciviousnesses. This is not of God, but of satan.

St. Alphonsus rightly speaks of such people giving bad examples and scandals when he wrote:

St. Alphonsus Liguori, On Bad Examples and the Sin of Scandal: "Jesus Christ said to the Pharisees, who by their bad example scandalized the people, that they were children of the devil, who was from the beginning a murderer of souls. "You are of your father, the devil: he was a murderer from the beginning." (John 8.44) ... And, in reality, what other office do the authors of scandal perform, than that of a minister of the devil? If he were not assisted by such impious ministers, he certainly would not succeed in gaining so many souls. A scandalous companion does more injury than a hundred devils."
"But the Lord says: "Woe to that man by whom the scandal comes." (Matt. 18.7) Woe to him who gives scandal, and causes others to lose the grace of God. Origen says that "a person who impels another to sin, sins more grievously than the other." ... It is enough to say that they who give scandal rob God of a child, and murder a soul, for whose salvation he has spent his blood and his life. Hence, St. Leo calls the authors of scandals murderers. ... For the sin of scandal hell was created. " (St. Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons (nn. 2-4) taken from Ascetical Works, Volume XVI: Sermons for all Sundays in the Year (1882) pp. 152-173)

Quote from: piabee on November 03, 2016, 12:26:55 PM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on November 03, 2016, 12:25:11 PM
I cannot recommend more highly the site kids-in-mind.org

I stopped checking kids-in-mind because their descriptions got too detailed and were frequently worse than the movies.

It is both better and safer to cut of the media completely. One must not put oneself in occasions of sinning.

See this thread talking about this: http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.0 (http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.0)

The kind of sex descriptions in such film caution websites of today would before in time have been considered by the people and priests an occasion of sinning, and as the porn and lascivious books and magazines of their time.

My advice when advising people to imdb's parental guide was to make people be careful about what they watch, but it is really sad that such sites themselves can be so evil and problematic! Oh what the world has come to just because people refuse to watch this evil media!

"Now, says St. John Chrysostom, if all flesh is grass, it is as foolish for a man who exposes himself to the occasion of sin to hope to preserve the virtue of purity, as to expect that hay, into which a torch has been thrown, will not catch fire. "Put a torch into hay, and then dare to deny that the hay will burn." No, says St. Cyprian; it is impossible to stand in the midst of flames, and not to burn. "Impossibile est flammis circumdari et non ardere." (De Sing. Cler.) "Can a man," says the Holy Spirit, "hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn? or can he walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt?" (Prov. 6.27, 28) Not to be burnt in such circumstances would be a miracle. St. Bernard teaches that to preserve chastity, and, at the same time, to expose oneself to the proximate occasion of sin, "is a greater miracle than to raise a dead man to life." In explaining the fifth Psalm, St. Augustine says that "he who is unwilling to fly from danger, wishes to perish in it."" (Hell's Widest Gate: Impurity, by St. Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons (nn. 2-4) taken from Ascetical Works, Volume XVI: Sermons for all Sundays in the Year (1882) pp. 152-173)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on November 03, 2016, 02:19:37 PM
Jerome, please see your PM. 

If you do not cease posting in this manner, you will be permanently banned. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 03, 2016, 02:36:11 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on November 03, 2016, 02:19:37 PM
Jerome, please see your PM. 

If you do not cease posting in this manner, you will be permanently banned. 


You said: "You are not teaching what the Church teaches."

If I do not teach what the Church teaches, as you said in the pm, then it means that the Church teaches the opposite of what I teaches, which means that the Church approves of watching lascivious and sinful movies, approves of putting oneself in the occasion of sinning, approves of giving scandal to others, approves of promoting and encouraging evil, etc.

I don't think anyone here really believes that; and in fact, we have already seen many agree with the points Iv'e made, although I'm sure some think I am too strict. Well, God is even stricter!

You want to silence me, that is obvious. But why?

We have many examples in the Bible also of people not wanting to be admonished. That is not a good sign.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on November 03, 2016, 03:02:58 PM
"giving scandal to others" means leading others to commit sin. So someone would actually have to commit sin, as a result of this thread, in order for anyone posting in it to be guilty of giving scandal. Watching an R-rated movie and skipping past the objectionable content isn't an occasion of sin for everyone, across the board. As for God being strict, He knows men's hearts: their intentions, temptations, weaknesses; and He is perfectly just. He understands more about our culpability than we ourselves do. Consider St. Bernadette's definition of a sinner: "One who loves evil." Motivation, intention, and the movement of the will, Jerome, are all incredibly important in matters of morality that don't involve intrinsic evil.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on November 03, 2016, 03:08:32 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 03, 2016, 02:36:11 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on November 03, 2016, 02:19:37 PM
Jerome, please see your PM. 

If you do not cease posting in this manner, you will be permanently banned. 


You said: "You are not teaching what the Church teaches."

If I do not teach what the Church teaches, as you said in the pm, then it means that the Church teaches the opposite of what I teaches, which means that the Church approves of watching lascivious and sinful movies, approves of putting oneself in the occasion of sinning, approves of giving scandal to others, approves of promoting and encouraging evil, etc.

I don't think anyone here really believes that; and in fact, we have already seen many agree with the points Iv'e made, although I'm sure some think I am too strict. Well, God is even stricter!

You want to silence me, that is obvious. But why?

We have many examples in the Bible also of people not wanting to be admonished. That is not a good sign.

This isnt a discussion, Jerome.  I am instructing you as to how you are to post on this forum.  If you dont like it, leave. 

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on November 03, 2016, 03:10:54 PM
No one has any interest in taking moral advice from some random layman on the Internet.  You are WHOLLY unqualified to render such advice, besides.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on November 03, 2016, 03:25:58 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on November 03, 2016, 03:10:54 PM
No one has any interest in taking moral advice from some random layman on the Internet.  You are WHOLLY unqualified to render such advice, besides.

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I really hope you're not talking to me!  :lol:  :-[ Maybe I should delete my post?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on November 03, 2016, 03:39:15 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 03, 2016, 03:25:58 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on November 03, 2016, 03:10:54 PM
No one has any interest in taking moral advice from some random layman on the Internet.  You are WHOLLY unqualified to render such advice, besides.

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I really hope you're not talking to me!  :lol:  :-[ Maybe I should delete my post?

To Jerome, not you

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on November 03, 2016, 06:10:34 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on November 03, 2016, 03:10:54 PM

No one has any interest in taking moral advice from some random layman on the Internet. 


I disagree. In fact, your statement more or less describes the raison d'etre of SD.

"From some random layman on the internet" is where I learned a lot more about the Catholic Faith than I ever did from the institutional church.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 01:48:38 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 03, 2016, 03:02:58 PM
"giving scandal to others" means leading others to commit sin. So someone would actually have to commit sin, as a result of this thread, in order for anyone posting in it to be guilty of giving scandal.

Giving to others a scandal does not only necessarily mean that it led to an actual sin, but it can also be an encouragement to sin even if no sin occurs.

The Catholic Encyclopedia explains Scandal thus:

"According to St. Thomas (II-II:43:1) scandal is a word or action evil in itself, which occasions another's spiritual ruin. It is a word or action, that is either an external act... or the omission of an external act, because to omit what one should do is equivalent to doing what is forbidden... It is not the physical cause of a neighbor's sin, but only the moral cause, or occasion; further, this moral causality may be understood in a strict sense, as when one orders, requests, or advises another to commit the sin [such as watching sinful movies]... it is not necessary that the neighbour should actually fall into sin;..."


Quote from: Bernadette on November 03, 2016, 03:02:58 PM
Watching an R-rated movie and skipping past the objectionable content isn't an occasion of sin for everyone, across the board.

By your own words here you admit it is, or could be, an occasion of sin for some. So is this then something that should be recommended to others or be written in a positive way as if it was anything good with it? Certainly not.

Besides, how do one safely skip lascivious scenes? Normal fast forwarding still makes you see everything. Skipping on chance can land you right into anything.

And even if one try to skip, it is impossible to skip those lascivious scenes that just pop up in your face immediately or relativly fast, such as nakednesses, lascivious scenes and woman's breasts, or scantily clothed and inciting women -- and they are many and frequent in modern day media.

From all this we can see the danger of watching media in general, but when it concerns an r-rater movie nonetheless, then it is not only dangerous and playing with fire, but even to have entered into the fire. And those who do so will get burned.

Besides, does the fact that some have hardened themselves with the result that they don't have as much problems as other in seeing lascivious material make it lawful to watch? No. St. Alphonsus and Pope St. Gregory is clear when they say: "'It is not lawful,' says [Pope] St. Gregory, 'to behold what it is not lawful to covet.' The evil thought which proceeds from looks, though it should be rejected, never fails to leave a stain upon the soul." (St. Alphonsus Liguori, The True Spouse of Jesus Christ, Mortification of the Eyes, p. 221)

St. Alphonsus goes on to say – and notice carefully, dear reader, how this compares with what people wilfully "watch" and "behold" these days: "But I do not see how looks at young persons of a different sex can be excused from the guilt of a venial fault, or even from mortal sin, when there is proximate danger of criminal consent." (Ibid)

St. Vianney says this concerning the fact that some are not tempted even though they expose themselves: "The greatest of all evils is to be not tempted, because then there are grounds for believing that the Devil looks upon us as his property. The Devil only tempts those souls that wish to abandon sin and those that are in a state of grace. The others belong to him; he has no need to tempt them."


Quote from: Bernadette on November 03, 2016, 03:02:58 PM
As for God being strict, He knows men's hearts: their intentions, temptations, weaknesses; and He is perfectly just. He understands more about our culpability than we ourselves do. Consider St. Bernadette's definition of a sinner: "One who loves evil." Motivation, intention, and the movement of the will, Jerome, are all incredibly important in matters of morality that don't involve intrinsic evil.

God knows our intentions, true. But what are the intentions of a person who willfully puts himself into bad situations and occasions of sinning? Are they sinful and unlawful intentions, which the Church also refuses to absolve? Yes, certainly. "Now, no one can receive absolution unless he purpose firmly to avoid the occasion of sin..."  (The complete ascetical works of St. Alphonsus, vol. 15, p. 543)

God has compassion with our weaknesses and failings only when we do what we can. But if we do not even try to do what we can, but even willfully seek to enter into the danger and the sin itself (whether it be venial or mortal), think you God has compassion and understanding with such a disposition? Certainly not.

Jesus Christ speaking to St. Bridget, says about this: "God hates nothing so much as when you know you have sinned but do not care, trusting to your other meritorious actions, as if, because of them, God would put up with your sin, as if he could not be glorified without you, or as if he would let you do something evil with his permission, seeing all the good deeds you have done, since, even if you did a hundred good deeds for each wicked one, you still would not be able to pay God back for his goodness and love." (The Revelations of St. Bridget of Sweden, Book 3, Chapter 19)

Also:

Jesus Christ speaking to St. Bridget: "But if you take pleasure in committing even a slight sin, which you know to be a sin, and you do so trusting to your own abstinence and presuming on grace, without doing penance and reparation for it, know that it can become a mortal sin." (The Revelations of St. Bridget of Sweden, Book 3, Chapter 19)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on November 04, 2016, 01:59:45 PM
Quote from: Jerome on September 07, 1974, 05:34:51 PM
So is this then something that should be recommended to others or be written in a positive way as if it was anything good with it?

The majority of posts here are completely neutral; it's just what people have watched most recently. Few films are actively recommended. Carleendiane even returned to the thread once to revoke her recommendation after seeing a film, yet you still took offense at her post.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: JubilateDeo on November 04, 2016, 02:12:15 PM
If you fast forward through something on Netflix you don't actually see the scene. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 02:14:55 PM
Quote from: piabee on November 04, 2016, 01:59:45 PM
Quote from: Jerome on September 07, 1974, 05:34:51 PM
So is this then something that should be recommended to others or be written in a positive way as if it was anything good with it?

The majority of posts here are completely neutral; it's just what people have watched most recently. Few films are actively recommended. Carleendiane even returned to the thread once to revoke her recommendation after seeing a film, yet you still took offense at her post.

It seems you still do not understand the points. Perhaps you should read this thread:

http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.0 (http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.0)

And read what I just wrote again above more carefully. I think what I wrote and the teaching I presented was clear.

Thanks.


P.S.
"Most" film posts are not neutral, I fear. The few pages of films I have seen have been some really bad one's and with bad scenes in them. That is not neutral. And this thread has 160+ pages. Take a guess!

And the fact that this person took back his recommendation did not take away the fact that he exposed himself to it in the first place. That is also one of the points you seem to miss. I think I have been clear about what the Church teaches concerning doing things just like that, and we are not ignorant about how the media works today.

We must be responsible of our Souls that God gave us. He wants them back pure from us. If we fail in this, we have to account for it later.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on November 04, 2016, 02:19:27 PM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on November 01, 2016, 10:18:14 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on November 01, 2016, 09:21:18 AM
No Jerome.The Finest Hour(2016) is actually a clean movie. Very good. It shows human valor and courage to face impossible. You should watch this movie and find out for yourself.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2025690/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2025690/)

QuoteThe Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.

I don't believe Jerome was referring to this movie.  He's providing general words of caution for us.  All of us, even the best of trads, are vaccinated in the culture and have quite a high level of tolerance for immorality.  We've convinced ourselves that we can handle it / to be too strict is prudish.  Those, like Jerome, who have a higher level of Catholic consciousness are one percenters and walk the talk much better than I.  We really need to own up to our modernist bent in many areas. None of my confessors (traditional that is) have ever encouraged compromise in regard to Hollywood, yet I would still tempt fate, deciding for myself what was acceptable vs what the Church encourages for edification, let alone the state of my soul.

I appreciate the Jeromes who remind us to be ever vigilant.  I know I've made excuses for viewing something that crosses the line in language, humor or gratuitous violence if the "message" is good.  I try very hard to filter these now through Church guidelines, which means we view much less.

I realize Jerome's style is black and white, and some are put off by it, but I've not read anything contrary to Church teaching in his comments.  Of course I'm open to correction.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: JubilateDeo on November 04, 2016, 02:23:01 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 02:14:55 PM
"Most" film posts are not neutral, I fear. The few pages of films I have seen have been some really bad one's and with bad scenes in them. That is not neutral. And this thread has 160+ pages. Take a guess!

You seem very preoccupied with what other people are watching and doing. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: JubilateDeo on November 04, 2016, 02:34:48 PM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on November 04, 2016, 02:19:27 PM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on November 01, 2016, 10:18:14 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on November 01, 2016, 09:21:18 AM
No Jerome.The Finest Hour(2016) is actually a clean movie. Very good. It shows human valor and courage to face impossible. You should watch this movie and find out for yourself.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2025690/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2025690/)

QuoteThe Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.

I don't believe Jerome was referring to this movie.  He's providing general words of caution for us.  All of us, even the best of trads, are vaccinated in the culture and have quite a high level of tolerance for immorality.  We've convinced ourselves that we can handle it / to be too strict is prudish.  Those, like Jerome, who have a higher level of Catholic consciousness are one percenters and walk the talk much better than I.  We really need to own up to our modernist bent in many areas. None of my confessors (traditional that is) have ever encouraged compromise in regard to Hollywood, yet I would still tempt fate, deciding for myself what was acceptable vs what the Church encourages for edification, let alone the state of my soul.

I appreciate the Jeromes who remind us to be ever vigilant.  I know I've made excuses for viewing something that crosses the line in language, humor or gratuitous violence if the "message" is good.  I try very hard to filter these now through Church guidelines, which means we view much less.

I realize Jerome's style is black and white, and some are put off by it, but I've not read anything contrary to Church teaching in his comments.  Of course I'm open to correction.
There's a difference between reminding people to be vigilant, and accusing people of being in mortal sin if they don't subscribe to their particular way of limiting their exposure to indecency in media.  I think that people are not just annoyed with what Jerome says, but the irritaing way in which he says it.  His posting behavior also seems very similar to this guy:

http://www.fisheaters.com/forums/index.php?topic=3436688.0

I can be edified when someone says "This is what our family does..." and explains what they do and why they do it, but it is another thing when people act as if they are on some high and mighty throne looking down on everyone else.  Notice that he doesn't participate in threads about anything else, it's just long posts lecturing people.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 02:44:33 PM
Quote from: JubilateDeo on November 04, 2016, 02:34:48 PM
There's a difference between reminding people to be vigilant, and accusing people of being in mortal sin if they don't subscribe to their particular way of limiting their exposure to indecency in media.  I think that people are not just annoyed with what Jerome says, but the irritaing way in which he says it.  His posting behavior also seems very similar to this guy:

http://www.fisheaters.com/forums/index.php?topic=3436688.0

I can be edified when someone says "This is what our family does..." and explains what they do and why they do it, but it is another thing when people act as if they are on some high and mighty throne looking down on everyone else.  Notice that he doesn't participate in threads about anything else, it's just long posts lecturing people.

I take it that you don't agree.
Tell me, what Church teaching, saint etc. can you quote approving of watching or reading such kind of material that I, the saints and the Church's own teaching speak against and condemn?
That you just don't want to agree, will that excuse you, if you are wrong, you think?

Books, Etc. Contrary to Catholic Doctrine, Not to be Praised (AAS 15-152)

The Holy Office issued the following Monitum to Ordinaries of places:

        "It not infrequently happens that in daily papers or magazines, writers even among those commonly regarded as good Catholics praise, extol, approve certain books, writings [movies etc.], pictures, sculptures, and other such works of literature and art, which are contrary to Catholic doctrine and the Christian spirit[/u], and even sometimes expressly condemned by the Holy See.
        "It will easily be seen what grave scandal to the faithful and what harm to faith and morals may be done if the shepherds of souls allow such things to pass unnoticed and uncorrected. Lest this should occur, the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, with the approval of His Holiness, Pius XI, deems it opportune to admonish the Ordinaries of places that if they find any writers [books, movies etc.] of this sort among their subjects, and especially among the clergy, secular or regular, the do not fail to take action either by themselves or through the Council of Vigilance, and to take such measures in their regard as they may judge more effective in the Lord."

        AAS 15-152; Holy Office, Monitum, 15 Mar, 1923
        Periodica, 12-33.
        From 'The Canon Law Digest'
        Officially Published Documents Affecting the Code of Canon Law
        1917-1933
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: JubilateDeo on November 04, 2016, 02:57:53 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 02:44:33 PM
Tell me, what Church teaching, saint etc. can you quote approving of watching or reading such kind of material that I, the saints and the Church's own teaching speak against and condemn?

None of the saints that you quote were talking about TV, films, or the internet.  They didn't even have lightbulbs.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 02:59:37 PM
Quote from: JubilateDeo on November 04, 2016, 02:34:48 PMThere's a difference between reminding people to be vigilant, and accusing people of being in mortal sin if they don't subscribe to their particular way of limiting their exposure to indecency in media.  I think that people are not just annoyed with what Jerome says, but the irritaing way in which he says it.

Concerning "annoying" people, St. John Chrysostom put in in this way:

"Do you find it an oppressive burden to denounce those who commit these sins? It is an oppressive burden to remain silent. For this silence makes you an enemy to God and brings destruction both to you who conceal such sinners and to those whose sins go unrevealed. How much better it is to become hateful to our fellow servants for saving them to provoke God's anger against yourselves. Even if your fellow servant be vexed with you now, he will not be able to harm you but will be grateful later on for his cure. But if you seek to win your fellow servant's favor, if you remain silent and hurt him by concealing his sin, God will exact from you the ultimate penalty."

St. John Chrysostom
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: JubilateDeo on November 04, 2016, 03:00:32 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 02:44:33 PM
Books, Etc. Contrary to Catholic Doctrine, Not to be Praised (AAS 15-152)

The Holy Office issued the following Monitum to Ordinaries of places:

        "It not infrequently happens that in daily papers or magazines, writers even among those commonly regarded as good Catholics praise, extol, approve certain books, writings [movies etc.], pictures, sculptures, and other such works of literature and art, which are contrary to Catholic doctrine and the Christian spirit[/u], and even sometimes expressly condemned by the Holy See.
        "It will easily be seen what grave scandal to the faithful and what harm to faith and morals may be done if the shepherds of souls allow such things to pass unnoticed and uncorrected. Lest this should occur, the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, with the approval of His Holiness, Pius XI, deems it opportune to admonish the Ordinaries of places that if they find any writers [books, movies etc.] of this sort among their subjects, and especially among the clergy, secular or regular, the do not fail to take action either by themselves or through the Council of Vigilance, and to take such measures in their regard as they may judge more effective in the Lord."

You are not a shepherd.  You are a sheep.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 03:03:48 PM
Quote from: JubilateDeo on November 04, 2016, 02:57:53 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 02:44:33 PM
Tell me, what Church teaching, saint etc. can you quote approving of watching or reading such kind of material that I, the saints and the Church's own teaching speak against and condemn?

None of the saints that you quote were talking about TV, films, or the internet.  They didn't even have lightbulbs.

Are you trying to argue that they would not have condemned the lasciviousness in the tv, films or the internet? I am sure even you understand that their principle applies as much to this as to everything else they spoke up against.

All their quotes talks about similar things, such as books, or paintings, or sculptures; or about exposing oneself to women, or beholding things one must not watch; or exposing oneself to occasions of sinning, whatever it may be -- which are all the same thing.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: JubilateDeo on November 04, 2016, 03:06:13 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 02:59:37 PM
Quote from: JubilateDeo on November 04, 2016, 02:34:48 PMThere's a difference between reminding people to be vigilant, and accusing people of being in mortal sin if they don't subscribe to their particular way of limiting their exposure to indecency in media.  I think that people are not just annoyed with what Jerome says, but the irritaing way in which he says it.

Concerning "annoying" people, St. John Chrysostom put in in this way:

"Do you find it an oppressive burden to denounce those who commit these sins? It is an oppressive burden to remain silent. For this silence makes you an enemy to God and brings destruction both to you who conceal such sinners and to those whose sins go unrevealed. How much better it is to become hateful to our fellow servants for saving them to provoke God's anger against yourselves. Even if your fellow servant be vexed with you now, he will not be able to harm you but will be grateful later on for his cure. But if you seek to win your fellow servant's favor, if you remain silent and hurt him by concealing his sin, God will exact from you the ultimate penalty."

St. John Chrysostom

St. John Chrysostom wasn't talking about online trolls like you when he said this. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 03:07:45 PM
Quote from: JubilateDeo on November 04, 2016, 03:06:13 PM
You are not a shepherd.  You are a sheep.

Yes.


Quote from: JubilateDeo on November 04, 2016, 03:06:13 PM
St. John Chrysostom wasn't talking about online trolls like you when he said this.

And it is obvious that you don't want an answer, but only question and explain away everything.

At least when I was black and white I could avoid these kinds of silly discussions...

When one speaks frankly and black and white so to speak, the real trolls go into hiding.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: JubilateDeo on November 04, 2016, 03:09:40 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 03:03:48 PM
Quote from: JubilateDeo on November 04, 2016, 02:57:53 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 02:44:33 PM
Tell me, what Church teaching, saint etc. can you quote approving of watching or reading such kind of material that I, the saints and the Church's own teaching speak against and condemn?

None of the saints that you quote were talking about TV, films, or the internet.  They didn't even have lightbulbs.

Are you trying to argue that they would not have condemned the lasciviousness in the tv, films or the internet? I am sure even you understand that their principle applies as much to this as to everything else they spoke up against.

All their quotes talks about similar things, such as books, or paintings, or sculptures; or about exposing oneself to women, or beholding things one must not watch; or exposing oneself to occasions of sinning, whatever it may be -- which are all the same thing.

I think they would laugh at the idea of some layman telling other laymen what to do on an internet forum and being an annoying little troll.
You have no authority.  Consider the plank in your own eye before obsessing about the speck in someone else's.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on November 04, 2016, 03:13:55 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 02:14:55 PM
"Most" film posts are not neutral, I fear. The few pages of films I have seen have been some really bad one's and with bad scenes in them. That is not neutral. And this thread has 160+ pages. Take a guess!

I didn't say that the films are neutral. I said that the posts are. So you're the one not understanding.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Greg on November 04, 2016, 03:15:53 PM
Saw The Imitation Game, which was all about Alan Turing and the code breakers at Bletchley Park.

It was a little slow, but watchable.  Had references to his homosexuality in it but no homo or other sex scenes as far as I can remember.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Greg on November 04, 2016, 03:23:08 PM
I hyper fast forwarded through the entire movie " Once Upon a Time in the West"

Almost went back in time.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on November 04, 2016, 03:49:13 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 01:48:38 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 03, 2016, 03:02:58 PM
"giving scandal to others" means leading others to commit sin. So someone would actually have to commit sin, as a result of this thread, in order for anyone posting in it to be guilty of giving scandal.

Giving to others a scandal does not only necessarily mean that it led to an actual sin, but it can also be an encouragement to sin even if no sin occurs.

The Catholic Encyclopedia explains Scandal thus:

"According to St. Thomas (II-II:43:1) scandal is a word or action evil in itself, which occasions another's spiritual ruin. It is a word or action, that is either an external act... or the omission of an external act, because to omit what one should do is equivalent to doing what is forbidden... It is not the physical cause of a neighbor's sin, but only the moral cause, or occasion; further, this moral causality may be understood in a strict sense, as when one orders, requests, or advises another to commit the sin [such as watching sinful movies]... it is not necessary that the neighbour should actually fall into sin;..."

I'll concede the definition of scandal. But watching movies and skipping the objectionable content isn't evil.

Quote
Quote from: Bernadette on November 03, 2016, 03:02:58 PM
Watching an R-rated movie and skipping past the objectionable content isn't an occasion of sin for everyone, across the board.

By your own words here you admit it is, or could be, an occasion of sin for some. So is this then something that should be recommended to others or be written in a positive way as if it was anything good with it? Certainly not.

It can be an occasion of sin. That doesn't mean that it always is. You're writing as though you believe that watching practically any media is an occasion of sin. If watching media (and fast-forwarding as necessary) actually is an occasion of sin for you, and would tempt you to commit sin, then you're obliged to avoid it. But that doesn't mean that I am obliged to avoid it, or that anyone else, for whom watching media is not an occasion of sin, is obliged to avoid it.

QuoteBesides, how do one safely skip lascivious scenes? Normal fast forwarding still makes you see everything. Skipping on chance can land you right into anything.

And even if one try to skip, it is impossible to skip those lascivious scenes that just pop up in your face immediately or relativly fast, such as nakednesses, lascivious scenes and woman's breasts, or scantily clothed and inciting women -- and they are many and frequent in modern day media.

I'm not talking about fast forwarding with a VCR; I'm talking about moving to a different point in the film with your mouse cursor, like with Youtube, Netflix, or watching an actual DVD with an app on your computer. The media re-loads at the point chosen.


QuoteFrom all this we can see the danger of watching media in general, but when it concerns an r-rater movie nonetheless, then it is not only dangerous and playing with fire, but even to have entered into the fire. And those who do so will get burned.

Besides, does the fact that some have hardened themselves with the result that they don't have as much problems as other in seeing lascivious material make it lawful to watch? No. St. Alphonsus and Pope St. Gregory is clear when they say: "'It is not lawful,' says [Pope] St. Gregory, 'to behold what it is not lawful to covet.' The evil thought which proceeds from looks, though it should be rejected, never fails to leave a stain upon the soul." (St. Alphonsus Liguori, The True Spouse of Jesus Christ, Mortification of the Eyes, p. 221)

St. Alphonsus goes on to say – and notice carefully, dear reader, how this compares with what people wilfully "watch" and "behold" these days: "But I do not see how looks at young persons of a different sex can be excused from the guilt of a venial fault, or even from mortal sin, when there is proximate danger of criminal consent." (Ibid)

St. Vianney says this concerning the fact that some are not tempted even though they expose themselves: "The greatest of all evils is to be not tempted, because then there are grounds for believing that the Devil looks upon us as his property. The Devil only tempts those souls that wish to abandon sin and those that are in a state of grace. The others belong to him; he has no need to tempt them."

Is that quote from St. John Vianney about being tempted to sexual sins, or being tempted to any sin at all? 

Quote
Quote from: Bernadette on November 03, 2016, 03:02:58 PM
As for God being strict, He knows men's hearts: their intentions, temptations, weaknesses; and He is perfectly just. He understands more about our culpability than we ourselves do. Consider St. Bernadette's definition of a sinner: "One who loves evil." Motivation, intention, and the movement of the will, Jerome, are all incredibly important in matters of morality that don't involve intrinsic evil.

God knows our intentions, true. But what are the intentions of a person who willfully puts himself into bad situations and occasions of sinning? Are they sinful and unlawful intentions, which the Church also refuses to absolve? Yes, certainly. "Now, no one can receive absolution unless he purpose firmly to avoid the occasion of sin..."  (The complete ascetical works of St. Alphonsus, vol. 15, p. 543)

God has compassion with our weaknesses and failings only when we do what we can. But if we do not even try to do what we can, but even willfully seek to enter into the danger and the sin itself (whether it be venial or mortal), think you God has compassion and understanding with such a disposition? Certainly not.

But I'm not talking about someone willfully choosing to sin. We're talking about completely different things here.

Quote
Jesus Christ speaking to St. Bridget, says about this: "God hates nothing so much as when you know you have sinned but do not care, trusting to your other meritorious actions, as if, because of them, God would put up with your sin, as if he could not be glorified without you, or as if he would let you do something evil with his permission, seeing all the good deeds you have done, since, even if you did a hundred good deeds for each wicked one, you still would not be able to pay God back for his goodness and love." (The Revelations of St. Bridget of Sweden, Book 3, Chapter 19)

Also:

Jesus Christ speaking to St. Bridget: "But if you take pleasure in committing even a slight sin, which you know to be a sin, and you do so trusting to your own abstinence and presuming on grace, without doing penance and reparation for it, know that it can become a mortal sin." (The Revelations of St. Bridget of Sweden, Book 3, Chapter 19)

I'm still not talking about that. Never have I mentioned "taking pleasure in committing a sin." You're replying to arguments that no one is making.

I'll try to be very clear:

1. Not everyone's occasions of sin are the same. So it doesn't make sense to rail against something as an occasion of sin (let alone as an occasion of mortal sin) for everyone, everywhere, indiscriminately.

2. If watching media is an occasion of sin for you, don't do it. But don't try to tell other people that they're offending God because they don't shun the same things that you do. It's not necessary for them to go to the same lengths that you do, in order not to be tempted: if it were necessary, they would do it. But for them, obviously, fast-forwarding is enough to remove the occasion of sin. It may be that this temptation regarding media is a particular cross that the Lord has given you; but He has given other people different crosses.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: JubilateDeo on November 04, 2016, 03:58:26 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 04, 2016, 03:49:13 PMIf watching media is an occasion of sin for you, don't do it. But don't try to tell other people that they're offending God because they don't shun the same things that you do. It's not necessary for them to go to the same lengths that you do, in order not to be tempted: if it were necessary, they would do it. But for them, obviously, fast-forwarding is enough to remove the occasion of sin. It may be that this temptation regarding media is a particular cross that the Lord has given you; but He has given other people different crosses.

I find this is common with certain men (usually former porn addicts) who struggle a lot with lust.  They assume that everyone else has the same struggle.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on November 04, 2016, 04:33:22 PM
Shin Godzilla.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 05, 2016, 07:29:56 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 04, 2016, 03:49:13 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 01:48:38 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 03, 2016, 03:02:58 PM
"giving scandal to others" means leading others to commit sin. So someone would actually have to commit sin, as a result of this thread, in order for anyone posting in it to be guilty of giving scandal.

Giving to others a scandal does not only necessarily mean that it led to an actual sin, but it can also be an encouragement to sin even if no sin occurs.

The Catholic Encyclopedia explains Scandal thus:

"According to St. Thomas (II-II:43:1) scandal is a word or action evil in itself, which occasions another's spiritual ruin. It is a word or action, that is either an external act... or the omission of an external act, because to omit what one should do is equivalent to doing what is forbidden... It is not the physical cause of a neighbor's sin, but only the moral cause, or occasion; further, this moral causality may be understood in a strict sense, as when one orders, requests, or advises another to commit the sin [such as watching sinful movies]... it is not necessary that the neighbour should actually fall into sin;..."

I'll concede the definition of scandal. But watching movies and skipping the objectionable content isn't evil.

Would you consider reading worldly romances written with the modesty standard of 300 years ago "evil" according to modern day standards? or going to the kind of plays children went to before in time as "evil" according to modern day standards? Presumably not. These things would be infinitely far less dangerous than the media people and children expose themselves to today.

Yet this is what St. Alphonsus thought virtuous parents must do when it comes to these things no one even would be thinking about today:

St. Alphonsus: "Fathers should not allow their children to read romances. These sometimes do more harm than even obscene books; they put fantastical notions and affections into young persons heads, which destroy all devotion, and afterwards impel them to give themselves up to sin. "Vain reading," says St. Bonaventure, "begets vain thoughts and extinguishes devotion." Make your children read spiritual books, ecclesiastical histories, and the lives of the saints. And here I repeat: Do not allow your daughters to be taught their lessons by a man [or the media], though he be a St. Paul or a St. Francis of Assisi. The saints are in heaven." (The complete ascetical works of St. Alphonsus, vol. 15, pp. 480-482)

Note: Reading the kind of worldly romances written 300 years ago cannot even remotely in any way be compared with the evil and filth found in the media of today.

St. Alphonsus: "With regard to removing evil. 1. A father must prevent his children from associating with bad company [such as the bad company of media]... 2. He must remove from his house any male or female servant that may be a source of temptation to his daughters or sons [such as that found throughout the media]. Virtuous parents do not admit into their house young female servants when their sons are grown up [well, what do the media bring to our children every day?]. 3. He should banish from his house all books that treat on obscene subjects, or on profane love, romances, and all similar works [such as found throughout the daily media!]; such books [and media] are the ruin of innocent young persons." (The complete ascetical works of St. Alphonsus, vol. 15, pp. 451-453)

You just have to accept the fact that the saints are even stricter than me; and God again is stricter still. If you cannot see the wisdom in what St. Alphonsus teaches and why parents need to follow this and avoid exposing themselves and their children, then I fear nothing I will say will help you see it. If you can't see it when it comes from St. Alphonsus, a doctor of the Church, why would you accept it when it comes from me?

St. Alphonsus: "Be careful, also, not to permit your sons to act plays [or watch media], nor even to be present at an immodest comedy [almost all media today without exception, even children cartoons, are immodest, yet many parents expose themselves to it and even let their children be present and exposed to it daily]. St. Cyprian says: "Who went chaste to the play [or theater, cinema etc.], returned unchaste." A young man or woman goes to the play full of modesty and in the grace of God, and returns home without modesty and at enmity with God. Do not allow your children to go to those feasts of the devil where there is dancing, courting, immodest singing, and sinful amusements [such as found throughout the daily media]. "Where there is dancing," says St. Ephrem, "there a feast of the devil is celebrated." But you will say: "What harm is there in a little relaxation and amusement?" St. Peter Chrysologus says: "They are not amusements, but grievous offences against God."" (The complete ascetical works of St. Alphonsus, vol. 15, pp. 480-482)


Quote from: Bernadette on November 04, 2016, 03:49:13 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 01:48:38 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 03, 2016, 03:02:58 PM
Watching an R-rated movie and skipping past the objectionable content isn't an occasion of sin for everyone, across the board.

By your own words here you admit it is, or could be, an occasion of sin for some. So is this then something that should be recommended to others or be written in a positive way as if it was anything good with it? Certainly not.

It can be an occasion of sin. That doesn't mean that it always is. You're writing as though you believe that watching practically any media is an occasion of sin. If watching media (and fast-forwarding as necessary) actually is an occasion of sin for you, and would tempt you to commit sin, then you're obliged to avoid it. But that doesn't mean that I am obliged to avoid it, or that anyone else, for whom watching media is not an occasion of sin, is obliged to avoid it.

If people don't get affected by exposing themselves to lascivious material, that still does not mean it is lawful to indulge in it. The quotes from St. Alphonsus above is absolutely clear on that. Parents must take these things away from their children, and obviously not expose themselves to it themselves.

But instead of avoiding these bad things, people today choose to indulge in them, with the excuse that they try to skip the sinful scenes.

In all honesty, I would fear the fire of Hell if I let my children watch the television, knowing well as I do all the evil content it contains.


Quote from: Bernadette on November 04, 2016, 03:49:13 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 03, 2016, 03:02:58 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 01:48:38 PM
Besides, how do one safely skip lascivious scenes? Normal fast forwarding still makes you see everything. Skipping on chance can land you right into anything.

And even if one try to skip, it is impossible to skip those lascivious scenes that just pop up in your face immediately or relativly fast, such as nakednesses, lascivious scenes and woman's breasts, or scantily clothed and inciting women -- and they are many and frequent in modern day media.

I'm not talking about fast forwarding with a VCR; I'm talking about moving to a different point in the film with your mouse cursor, like with Youtube, Netflix, or watching an actual DVD with an app on your computer. The media re-loads at the point chosen.

I find it interesting that you avoided my points about the impossibility of avoiding the lascivious scenes that just pop up in your face. They are innumerable, and unavoidable, whether it be nudenesses, lascivious clothing, or worse. Before people have even taken the action to fast forward, they have already exposed themselves and perhaps even their children.

Anyone who watches media, however careful he is, knows that he cannot avoid being exposed completely. And those who expose themselves will get burned. This is the teaching of the bible and of all the saints, but is rejected by modern day man.

If you think you cannot fall, think again. Those who expose themselves will fall sooner or later; if they haven't fallen already, that is.

"Now, says St. John Chrysostom, if all flesh is grass, it is as foolish for a man who exposes himself to the occasion of sin to hope to preserve the virtue of purity, as to expect that hay, into which a torch has been thrown, will not catch fire. "Put a torch into hay, and then dare to deny that the hay will burn." No, says St. Cyprian; it is impossible to stand in the midst of flames, and not to burn. "Impossibile est flammis circumdari et non ardere." (De Sing. Cler.) "Can a man," says the Holy Spirit, "hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn? or can he walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt?" (Prov. 6.27, 28) Not to be burnt in such circumstances would be a miracle. St. Bernard teaches that to preserve chastity, and, at the same time, to expose oneself to the proximate occasion of sin, "is a greater miracle than to raise a dead man to life." In explaining the fifth Psalm, St. Augustine says that "he who is unwilling to fly from danger, wishes to perish in it."" (Hell's Widest Gate: Impurity, by St. Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons (nn. 2-4) taken from Ascetical Works, Volume XVI: Sermons for all Sundays in the Year (1882) pp. 152-173)

Do you think you cannot fall, or cannot get burned? Do you think you know better then the Saints or even the Word of God? Oh, what presumtion!


Quote from: Bernadette on November 03, 2016, 03:02:58 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 03, 2016, 03:02:58 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 01:48:38 PM
From all this we can see the danger of watching media in general, but when it concerns an r-rater movie nonetheless, then it is not only dangerous and playing with fire, but even to have entered into the fire. And those who do so will get burned.

Besides, does the fact that some have hardened themselves with the result that they don't have as much problems as other in seeing lascivious material make it lawful to watch? No. St. Alphonsus and Pope St. Gregory is clear when they say: "'It is not lawful,' says [Pope] St. Gregory, 'to behold what it is not lawful to covet.' The evil thought which proceeds from looks, though it should be rejected, never fails to leave a stain upon the soul." (St. Alphonsus Liguori, The True Spouse of Jesus Christ, Mortification of the Eyes, p. 221)

St. Alphonsus goes on to say – and notice carefully, dear reader, how this compares with what people wilfully "watch" and "behold" these days: "But I do not see how looks at young persons of a different sex can be excused from the guilt of a venial fault, or even from mortal sin, when there is proximate danger of criminal consent." (Ibid)

St. Vianney says this concerning the fact that some are not tempted even though they expose themselves: "The greatest of all evils is to be not tempted, because then there are grounds for believing that the Devil looks upon us as his property. The Devil only tempts those souls that wish to abandon sin and those that are in a state of grace. The others belong to him; he has no need to tempt them."

Is that quote from St. John Vianney about being tempted to sexual sins, or being tempted to any sin at all?

Probably sexual sins first and foremost, since most people are damned because of sins of the flesh (Our Lady of Fatima). There are many varieties of sexual sins people today practise, especially contraception, and other unnatural sexual acts, which they have learned to imitate from the media.

St. Barnabas, Letter of Barnabas, Chapter 10:8, A.D. 74: "Moreover, he [Moses] has rightly detested the weasel [Leviticus 11:29]. For he means, 'Thou shalt not be like to those whom we hear of as committing wickedness with the mouth through uncleanness [oral sex]; nor shalt thou be joined to those impure women who commit iniquity with the mouth with the body through uncleanness.'" (Chapter X.--Spiritual Significance of the Precepts of Moses Respecting Different Kinds of [Forbidden] Food)

St. Vianney says this concerning the fact that some are not tempted even though they expose themselves: "The greatest of all evils is to be not tempted, because then there are grounds for believing that the Devil looks upon us as his property. The Devil only tempts those souls that wish to abandon sin and those that are in a state of grace. The others belong to him; he has no need to tempt them."

Life of the Holy Fathers, Book 5, On Sexual Temptation: "Syrus Alexandrinus, when asked about sexual thoughts replied thus, "If you didn't have thoughts you would be a hopeless case, since those who are freed from thoughts are those who have moved into deeds, that is, those who have sinned in the body are the ones who have not fought against thoughts of sin, or turned them down. The one who sins in the body has gone beyond being troubled by thoughts.""


Quote from: Bernadette on November 03, 2016, 03:02:58 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 04, 2016, 01:48:38 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 03, 2016, 03:02:58 PM
As for God being strict, He knows men's hearts: their intentions, temptations, weaknesses; and He is perfectly just. He understands more about our culpability than we ourselves do. Consider St. Bernadette's definition of a sinner: "One who loves evil." Motivation, intention, and the movement of the will, Jerome, are all incredibly important in matters of morality that don't involve intrinsic evil.

God knows our intentions, true. But what are the intentions of a person who willfully puts himself into bad situations and occasions of sinning? Are they sinful and unlawful intentions, which the Church also refuses to absolve? Yes, certainly. "Now, no one can receive absolution unless he purpose firmly to avoid the occasion of sin..."  (The complete ascetical works of St. Alphonsus, vol. 15, p. 543)

God has compassion with our weaknesses and failings only when we do what we can. But if we do not even try to do what we can, but even willfully seek to enter into the danger and the sin itself (whether it be venial or mortal), think you God has compassion and understanding with such a disposition? Certainly not.

Jesus Christ speaking to St. Bridget, says about this: "God hates nothing so much as when you know you have sinned but do not care, trusting to your other meritorious actions, as if, because of them, God would put up with your sin, as if he could not be glorified without you, or as if he would let you do something evil with his permission, seeing all the good deeds you have done, since, even if you did a hundred good deeds for each wicked one, you still would not be able to pay God back for his goodness and love." (The Revelations of St. Bridget of Sweden, Book 3, Chapter 19)

Also:

Jesus Christ speaking to St. Bridget: "But if you take pleasure in committing even a slight sin, which you know to be a sin, and you do so trusting to your own abstinence and presuming on grace, without doing penance and reparation for it, know that it can become a mortal sin." (The Revelations of St. Bridget of Sweden, Book 3, Chapter 19)

But I'm not talking about someone willfully choosing to sin. We're talking about completely different things here.

...

I'm still not talking about that. Never have I mentioned "taking pleasure in committing a sin." You're replying to arguments that no one is making.

I'll try to be very clear:

1. Not everyone's occasions of sin are the same. So it doesn't make sense to rail against something as an occasion of sin (let alone as an occasion of mortal sin) for everyone, everywhere, indiscriminately.

2. If watching media is an occasion of sin for you, don't do it. But don't try to tell other people that they're offending God because they don't shun the same things that you do. It's not necessary for them to go to the same lengths that you do, in order not to be tempted: if it were necessary, they would do it. But for them, obviously, fast-forwarding is enough to remove the occasion of sin. It may be that this temptation regarding media is a particular cross that the Lord has given you; but He has given other people different crosses.

To expose oneself to the danger is sinful, and especially more so when it is done merely for the sake of pleasure and without any valid reason. All the saint quotes and the teaching of the Church is clear on that: "Now, no one can receive absolution unless he purpose firmly to avoid the occasion of sin..."  (The complete ascetical works of St. Alphonsus, vol. 15, p. 543) "St. Cyprian: it is impossible to stand in the midst of flames, and not to burn. "Impossibile est flammis circumdari et non ardere." (De Sing. Cler.) "Can a man," says the Holy Spirit, "hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn? or can he walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt?"" (Prov. 6.27, 28)

If St. Alphonsus forbids and condemns even less harmful things in his writings than what people watch in the media today or let their children watch, what think you he would say about the evil media itself?

But you will say: "What harm is there in a little relaxation and amusement?" St. Peter Chrysologus says: "They are not amusements, but grievous offences against God." (St. Alphonsus)

I have tried to explain what the harm is, and what it is people and their children willfully expose themselves to. The majority of people however, reject this explanation.

Perhaps the words of St. Vianney will have more effect:

"There is not a commandment of God which dancing [or media] does not cause men to break! Mothers may indeed say: 'Oh, I keep an eye on their dress [or what we watch]; [but] you cannot keep guard over their heart[/b].' Go, you wicked parents, go down to Hell where the wrath of God awaits you, because of your conduct when you gave free scope to your children; GO! It will not be long before they join you, seeing that you have shown them the way so well! Then you will see whether your pastor was right in forbidding those Hellish amusements." (The Curé D'Ars, St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney, p. 146)

Only a fool would say that watching the modern day media, however careful you think you are, is any less dangerous than the things mentioned by St. Vianney or St. Alphonsus! (As a matter of fact, they are infinitely more dangerous!)

If you want to read more about the dangers of the media, I can recommend this article, which I find great:

http://www.catholic-saints.net/media-violence/ (http://www.catholic-saints.net/media-violence/)

Consider this: You loose absolutely nothing from cutting of these "Hellish amusements" completely; whereas on the other hand you can risk to loose everything from keeping this "Hellish amusements" available in your home, including your soul and souls of your children.

Consider this: Mortal sin in thought can happen easily; and especially more so to those who expose themselves to the danger, since it is a biblical and the the teaching of the saints that those who do so will fall.

Dare you presume to trust in your own strength? Those who do so will also fall, since "when men avoid the occasions of sin, God preserves them; but when they expose themselves to danger, they are justly abandoned by the Lord, and easily fall into some grievous transgressions." (St. Alphonsus, The True Spouse of Jesus Christ, Mortification of the Eyes, p. 221)

Consider this: The example below shows us what happened to a young man who consented to a wicked thought in his mind, and this man did not have the evil media to help him into committing this sin by having previously been tempted by lascivious clothing (even cartoons is filled with this lasciviousness) or nudenesses or worse as found throughout the daily media.

St. Alphonsus explains how one single bad thought – yes one single bad thought – consented too was enough to damn this person (a child -- a parent's child!) who previously had never committed a single mortal sin!

Quote        St. Alphonsus: "Listen to this example: A boy used often to go to confession; and every one took him to be a saint. One night he had a hemorrhage, and he was found dead. His parents went at once to his confessor, and crying begged him to recommend him to God; and he said to them: "Rejoice; your son, I know, was a little angel; God wished to take him from this world, and he must now be in heaven; should he, however, be still in purgatory, I will go to say Mass for him." He put on his vestments to go to the altar; but before leaving the sacristy, he saw himself in the presence of a frightful spectre, whom he asked in the name of God who he was. The phantom answered that he was the soul of him that had just died. Oh! is it you? exclaimed the priest; if you are in need of prayers, I am just going to say Mass for you. Alas! Mass! I am damned, I am in hell! And why? "Hear," said the soul: "I had never yet committed a mortal sin; but last night a bad thought came to my mind; I gave consent to it, and God made me die at once, and condemned me to hell as I have deserved to be. Do not say Mass for me; it would only increase my sufferings." Having spoken thus, the phantom disappeared." (The complete ascetical works of St. Alphonsus, vol. 15, p. 167)

If one meditates on this seriously, one will quickly understand how serious this is. It is not a joke, and when one understands that one can be damned for even a single thought (or that one's child could be damned for having consented to a single wicked thought through the media that you perhaps even allow them to watch or surf) and that this happens to people, then one must necessarily start to fear for oneself and others and make changes for oneself and them; for "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." (Psalm 110:10), but "The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools [and damned people] is infinite" (Ecclesiastes 1:15)

I have said this before, and will say it again; it is highly important that people avoid watching media and start to surf the internet with images off with image-blockers (http://against-all-heresies-and-errors.blogspot.com/2016/11/best-and-safest-image-blockers-for-google-chrome.html) and with ad-blocks (http://against-all-heresies-and-errors.blogspot.com/2016/11/best-ad-blockers-for-google-chrome-opera-safari-and-microsoft-egde.html) and flash-blocks (http://against-all-heresies-and-errors.blogspot.com/2016/11/best-flash-and-html5-blockers-for-google-chrome.html) so as not to expose themselves or their children to countless of lascivious images, ads or videos daily.

This article has all the information:

Is it a sin to willfully look at persons or things that one are sexually attracted to and that arouse one's sexual desire? Is it permitted to seek directly the proximate occasion for sinning for a spiritual or temporal good of our own or of a neighbor? (http://www.catholic-saints.net/spiritual/#How-to-control-your-eyes)

It is up to you, dear reader, to now make all the changes necessary for the safety of yourself and your children.


P.S.
I made a separate thread for this post. It can be found here:

http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15925.0 (http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15925.0)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 05:02:10 AM
Jerome, I think you have good intentions, but incorrect conclusions. I'm glad that you take such care of your soul, but I think it would be wisest for you to consult a priest about whether you should admonish others, particularly in the way you've been doing: sometimes a more gentle approach is more effective.

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Quote from: Jerome on November 05, 2016, 07:29:56 AM
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St. Vianney says this concerning the fact that some are not tempted even though they expose themselves: "The greatest of all evils is to be not tempted, because then there are grounds for believing that the Devil looks upon us as his property. The Devil only tempts those souls that wish to abandon sin and those that are in a state of grace. The others belong to him; he has no need to tempt them."

Quote Bernadette: Is that quote from St. John Vianney about being tempted to sexual sins, or being tempted to any sin at all?

Probably sexual sins first and foremost, since most people are damned because of sins of the flesh (Our Lady of Fatima). There are many varieties of sexual sins people today practise, especially contraception, and other unnatural sexual acts, which they have learned to imitate from the media.


But it doesn't make sense that that quote would be about only being tempted to sexual sins. If the devil doesn't tempt us to sexual sins, it's because he considers us His property?!  :o Not thinking that one is tempted at all, to any sin, would indeed be a bad sign (if it were even possible); but I can't see that not being tempted to a particular sin is a sign that one is in the grasp of the devil. 

Edit #2: As for your point about sudden, unavoidable objectionable content: Martin88 has already said that it's pretty easy to judge when sexual scenes are going to occur and thus avoid them. I genuinely can't imagine something that would tempt one to serious sin popping up in a movie so suddenly that it's impossible to avoid. Now, it could happen, but I think it would be more accurate to describe such an occurrence as unusual, rather than as the norm. By all means, avoid media if it helps you to save your soul; just don't present it as necessary for everyone else to do the same.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 06, 2016, 05:32:17 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 05:02:10 AM
Jerome, I think you have good intentions, but incorrect conclusions. I'm glad that you take such care of your soul, but I think it would be wisest for you to consult a priest about whether you should admonish others, particularly in the way you've been doing: sometimes a more gentle approach is more effective.

Hi

I tried to be very calm and gentle in my above post.

I hope the information will be of help to someone. That is what matters, ultimately.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on November 06, 2016, 07:08:21 AM
st jrrome you know wrath is a mortal sin right?

You wouldn't want to be a near occasion of wrath for others.  With your logic it's thoroughly necessary to put you on ignore because your posts are a temptation to rage

Everyone must be equally given to rage as I am, if you're never tempted to wrath then the devil has hos hold on you

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on November 06, 2016, 08:13:19 AM
Quote from: Greg on November 04, 2016, 03:15:53 PM
Saw The Imitation Game, which was all about Alan Turing and the code breakers at Bletchley Park.

It was a little slow, but watchable.  Had references to his homosexuality in it but no homo or other sex scenes as far as I can remember.

Bletchley Park makes for some very very interesting reading and film.  Thanks for the recommendation.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 06, 2016, 08:59:52 AM
Quote from: Chestertonian on November 06, 2016, 07:08:21 AM
st jrrome you know wrath is a mortal sin right?

You wouldn't want to be a near occasion of wrath for others.  With your logic it's thoroughly necessary to put you on ignore because your posts are a temptation to rage

Everyone must be equally given to rage as I am, if you're never tempted to wrath then the devil has hos hold on you

Unjustified wrath, or wrath lacking all charity, is a mortal sin.

I can assure you that I get wrath when people promote impieties and lasciviousness.

Every word I write I have tried to back up with some traditional, biblical or saint teaching. I am very careful to quote numerous saints and Church teachings in support of everything I say. Yet you say you rage against it.

         "How much better it is to become hateful to our fellow servants for saving them to provoke God's anger against yourselves. Even if your fellow servant be vexed with you now, he will not be able to harm you but will be grateful later on for his cure. But if you seek to win your fellow servant's favor, if you remain silent and hurt him by concealing his sin, God will exact from you the ultimate penalty." St. John Chrysostom

         "It is not surprising, therefore, that all Bishops and other ordinaries, as is the duty of ministers of Christ, should in their own dioceses have unanimously opposed their depraved licentiousness and promiscuity of manners, often bearing with fortitude the derision and mockery leveled against them for this cause." (Letter of the Congregation of the Council. Vigilance: To Treat of Modesty in Women's Dress (Instruction, S. C. Conc.) AAS 22-26)

         "The animal's hide is like flint and must be assailed with hammer and fire. The hide denotes the show and simulation of justice. Wicked people, who do not want to be good, do desire to seem to be what they are not. Because they want to be called praiseworthy but not to live in a praiseworthy way, they make an outward show of holiness and feign justice, although they never give justice a thought. This is how they become so proud and hard as flint in their appearance of simulated holiness that they are not softened by rebukes or clear reasoning.
         "Accordingly, God's servant must use the hammer of harsh rebuke and the fire of divine prayer on such as these in order to convince the wicked with the word of truth and gradually soften them up from their hardness and warm them through their prayers and enkindle them with respect to knowledge of God and of themselves, just as Stephen did." (Our Lord speaking to St. Bridget, Book 4, Chapter 129)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 06, 2016, 03:12:17 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 05:02:10 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 05, 2016, 07:29:56 AM
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St. Vianney says this concerning the fact that some are not tempted even though they expose themselves: "The greatest of all evils is to be not tempted, because then there are grounds for believing that the Devil looks upon us as his property. The Devil only tempts those souls that wish to abandon sin and those that are in a state of grace. The others belong to him; he has no need to tempt them."

Quote Bernadette: Is that quote from St. John Vianney about being tempted to sexual sins, or being tempted to any sin at all?

Probably sexual sins first and foremost, since most people are damned because of sins of the flesh (Our Lady of Fatima). There are many varieties of sexual sins people today practise, especially contraception, and other unnatural sexual acts, which they have learned to imitate from the media.

But it doesn't make sense that that quote would be about only being tempted to sexual sins. If the devil doesn't tempt us to sexual sins, it's because he considers us His property?!  :o Not thinking that one is tempted at all, to any sin, would indeed be a bad sign (if it were even possible); but I can't see that not being tempted to a particular sin is a sign that one is in the grasp of the devil.

I did not say it "only" apply to sexual sin. One can be fallen in many ways and hence the devil might not tempt a person in this way or that way in order that he might not stop with doing whatever he is doing that he should not be doing.

One thing is sure though, the less one exposes oneself, the more one will get affected by seeing even "lesser" immodesties. Similarly, the more one exposes oneself, the more hardened one will become (by having grown accustomed to it so to speak). But becoming "hardened" or "accustomed" to it, as we all know, is not actually a good thing, since it makes people become careless. Had they more temptations etc., they would obviously flee from those things like the "fire" that it really is and be hence more careful about themselves.

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (Proverbs 9:10), and "For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth; and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth." (Hebrews 12:6)

Haydock Catholic Commentary on Hebrews 12: "In these last four verses we may observe as many subjects of consolation under afflictions. God, our Father, is the author of them; the chastisement he inflicts is the proof of his love; it is the sign or mark of our divine adoption; it is a necessary condition of our being adopted."

That is why not being punished in this life for one's sins by God is a sign of damnation, and why one must constantly fear if one wants to be saved. So if we are suffering much sicknesses and afflictions etc., this is a good sign and that we are not yet abandoned yet by God. But if we live in all pleasures and have no sufferings although we indulge in sin, this is a very bad sign.

The same is generally true for temptations, as the saint quotes already quoted showed.

St. Vianney: "The greatest of all evils is to be not tempted, because then there are grounds for believing that the Devil looks upon us as his property. The Devil only tempts those souls that wish to abandon sin and those that are in a state of grace. The others belong to him; he has no need to tempt them."


Quote from: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 05:02:10 AM
Edit #2: As for your point about sudden, unavoidable objectionable content: Martin88 has already said that it's pretty easy to judge when sexual scenes are going to occur and thus avoid them. I genuinely can't imagine something that would tempt one to serious sin popping up in a movie so suddenly that it's impossible to avoid. Now, it could happen, but I think it would be more accurate to describe such an occurrence as unusual, rather than as the norm. By all means, avoid media if it helps you to save your soul; just don't present it as necessary for everyone else to do the same.

You just admitted "unavoidable objectionable content... could happen... so suddenly that it's impossible to avoid... that would tempt one to serious sin".

But it seems you are downplaying the media very much, making it less dangerous than it is. As if nude women never just pop up without notice, womens breasts etc. lascivious clothed women, or worse.

Do you think I haven't watch the media my self? Even in religious movies and shows this is a problem. What then are one to say about the more secular movies and tv shows and even news (and magazines etc, internet surfing etc.)?

Either way, you admit it could happen and therefore that it does happen. You might say, however, that it is not a problem for you. But do you know it is not a problem for your neighbor, spouse, or children?

And do you really dare trust in your own strength and that you will not fall even though you willfully expose yourself?

St. Alphonsus Liguori: "The Almighty does not hear the supplications of the proud who trust in their own strength, but leaves them to their own weakness and misery, which, when they are abandoned by divine grace, will infallibly lead them to perdition." (Short Treatise on Prayer, Chapter IV)

What does the bible, the saints and reason tell us concerning exposing oneself? Let's see:

"He that loves danger shall perish in it." (Ecclus. 3.27) "When," says St. Thomas, in his comment on this passage, "we expose ourselves to danger, God abandons us in it." St. Bernardine of Siena teaches that the counsel of avoiding the occasions of sin is the best of all counsel, and as it were the foundation of religion.  (St. Alphonsus Liguori, Ascetical Works, Volume XVI, pp. 152-173)

"The Holy Ghost reminds us that he who loves the danger will fall into sin, will perish; 'He that loveth danger shall perish in it.' [Eccl. 3:26] St. Thomas explains to us the reason; commenting on this text, he says that when we voluntarily expose ourselves to danger, or when we neglect to keep from it, God abandons us in it. And St. Bernardine of Sienna assures us that among the counsels of Jesus Christ the counsel of fleeing from the occasion of sin is the most important, is, as it were, the foundation of religion. (St. Alphonsus Liguori, Complete Ascetical Works, par. 4. The Flight from Dangerous Occasions)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 03:42:50 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 06, 2016, 03:12:17 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 05:02:10 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 05, 2016, 07:29:56 AM
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St. Vianney says this concerning the fact that some are not tempted even though they expose themselves: "The greatest of all evils is to be not tempted, because then there are grounds for believing that the Devil looks upon us as his property. The Devil only tempts those souls that wish to abandon sin and those that are in a state of grace. The others belong to him; he has no need to tempt them."

Quote Bernadette: Is that quote from St. John Vianney about being tempted to sexual sins, or being tempted to any sin at all?

Probably sexual sins first and foremost, since most people are damned because of sins of the flesh (Our Lady of Fatima). There are many varieties of sexual sins people today practise, especially contraception, and other unnatural sexual acts, which they have learned to imitate from the media.

But it doesn't make sense that that quote would be about only being tempted to sexual sins. If the devil doesn't tempt us to sexual sins, it's because he considers us His property?!  :o Not thinking that one is tempted at all, to any sin, would indeed be a bad sign (if it were even possible); but I can't see that not being tempted to a particular sin is a sign that one is in the grasp of the devil.

I did not say it "only" apply to sexual sin. One can be fallen in many ways and hence the devil might not tempt a person in this way or that way in order that he might not stop with doing whatever he is doing that he should not be doing.

One thing is sure though, the less one exposes oneself, the more one will get affected by seeing even "lesser" immodesties. Similarly, the more one exposes oneself, the more hardened one will become (by having grown accustomed to it so to speak). But becoming "hardened" or "accustomed" to it, as we all know, is not actually a good thing, since it makes people become careless. Had they more temptations etc., they would obviously flee from those things like the "fire" that it really is and be hence more careful about themselves.

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (Proverbs 9:10), and "For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth; and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth." (Hebrews 12:6)

Haydock Catholic Commentary on Hebrews 12: "In these last four verses we may observe as many subjects of consolation under afflictions. God, our Father, is the author of them; the chastisement he inflicts is the proof of his love; it is the sign or mark of our divine adoption; it is a necessary condition of our being adopted."

That is why not being punished in this life for one's sins by God is a sign of damnation, and why one must constantly fear if one wants to be saved. So if we are suffering much sicknesses and afflictions etc., this is a good sign and that we are not yet abandoned yet by God. But if we live in all pleasures and have no sufferings although we indulge in sin, this is a very bad sign.

The same is generally true for temptations, as the saint quotes already quoted showed.

St. Vianney: "The greatest of all evils is to be not tempted, because then there are grounds for believing that the Devil looks upon us as his property. The Devil only tempts those souls that wish to abandon sin and those that are in a state of grace. The others belong to him; he has no need to tempt them."

You just can't see that there are some sins that some people are not tempted to. They're just not tempted to them. I've already given you the examples pertaining to myself (regarding nudity and alcohol); Greg has some other, more...unsavory examples, which illustrate the point, and which I am sure he would be glad to repeat here for you.

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Quote from: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 05:02:10 AM
Edit #2: As for your point about sudden, unavoidable objectionable content: Martin88 has already said that it's pretty easy to judge when sexual scenes are going to occur and thus avoid them. I genuinely can't imagine something that would tempt one to serious sin popping up in a movie so suddenly that it's impossible to avoid. Now, it could happen, but I think it would be more accurate to describe such an occurrence as unusual, rather than as the norm. By all means, avoid media if it helps you to save your soul; just don't present it as necessary for everyone else to do the same.

You just admitted "unavoidable objectionable content... could happen... so suddenly that it's impossible to avoid... that would tempt one to serious sin".

This is just...laughable. Cherry-picking my words and stringing them together by relying on elipses so that they say what you want them to say is not a convincing counterargument. You do yourself a serious disservice by doing this, and place your own credibility in question.

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But it seems you are downplaying the media very much, making it less dangerous than it is. As if nude women never just pop up without notice, womens breasts etc. lascivious clothed women, or worse.

Jerome, I'm a woman. It would be unnatural for me to be tempted by these things, even if I consented to seeing them (which I don't).

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Do you think I haven't watch the media my self? Even in religious movies and shows this is a problem. What then are one to say about the more secular movies and tv shows and even news (and magazines etc, internet surfing etc.)?

Either way, you admit it could happen and therefore that it does happen. You might say, however, that it is not a problem for you. But do you know it is not a problem for your neighbor, spouse, or children?

No, that's not the logical conclusion for saying that something could happen. And I'm not married, and thus have no children. As for others: I have never promoted just watching objectionable content without taking reasonable precautions to avoid it. You are trying to apply your own interpretation of what is strictly necessary to everyone, and that's just not correct. You go the extra mile in order to avoid these things which are an occasion of sin for you, which is right and commendable; but why should other people have to take the same extra precautions, when they're not necessary for them?

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And do you really dare trust in your own strength and that you will not fall even though you willfully expose yourself?

See reply above. With regard to these sins, I would have to actually go against my personal aversion to such things, in order to be tempted by them. Hence my conviction that all people aren't tempted to the same sins, to the same degree.

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St. Alphonsus Liguori: "The Almighty does not hear the supplications of the proud who trust in their own strength, but leaves them to their own weakness and misery, which, when they are abandoned by divine grace, will infallibly lead them to perdition." (Short Treatise on Prayer, Chapter IV)

What does the bible, the saints and reason tell us concerning exposing oneself? Let's see:

"He that loves danger shall perish in it." (Ecclus. 3.27) "When," says St. Thomas, in his comment on this passage, "we expose ourselves to danger, God abandons us in it." St. Bernardine of Siena teaches that the counsel of avoiding the occasions of sin is the best of all counsel, and as it were the foundation of religion.  (St. Alphonsus Liguori, Ascetical Works, Volume XVI, pp. 152-173)

"The Holy Ghost reminds us that he who loves the danger will fall into sin, will perish; 'He that loveth danger shall perish in it.' [Eccl. 3:26] St. Thomas explains to us the reason; commenting on this text, he says that when we voluntarily expose ourselves to danger, or when we neglect to keep from it, God abandons us in it. And St. Bernardine of Sienna assures us that among the counsels of Jesus Christ the counsel of fleeing from the occasion of sin is the most important, is, as it were, the foundation of religion. (St. Alphonsus Liguori, Complete Ascetical Works, par. 4. The Flight from Dangerous Occasions)

But I don't "love the danger" here. To use an analogy: it's as though you are speaking of a particular highway, where accidents have occurred because drivers have been speeding and have run off the road at a particular curve. Most drivers are able to avoid this danger by not speeding: the road isn't dangerous for them. But you are saying that that is not enough, that in order to avoid the danger of having an accident on this highway, one must never, ever use the highway, although it is possible to use it safely by exercising reasonable caution.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Greg on November 06, 2016, 04:16:09 PM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on November 06, 2016, 08:13:19 AM
Quote from: Greg on November 04, 2016, 03:15:53 PM
Saw The Imitation Game, which was all about Alan Turing and the code breakers at Bletchley Park.

It was a little slow, but watchable.  Had references to his homosexuality in it but no homo or other sex scenes as far as I can remember.

Bletchley Park makes for some very very interesting reading and film.  Thanks for the recommendation.

If you are into piracy, like me, you can watch it on putlocker-4k in HD for free
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on November 06, 2016, 06:17:54 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 06, 2016, 03:12:17 PM

St. Vianney: "The greatest of all evils is to be not tempted, because then there are grounds for believing that the Devil looks upon us as his property. The Devil only tempts those souls that wish to abandon sin and those that are in a state of grace. The others belong to him; he has no need to tempt them."

lust isn't the only temptation out there though

some of us might be tempted to lust easily,and have to make special precautions to protect their soul.  they might have to avoid things ordinary people do not.  for example, surfing with imagees off might be necessary for certain people fighting off a porn addiction.  but many other people can exercise custody of the eyes,which is something you can develop over time...the ability to look away.  it's sort of like having a healthy "spiritual immune system" some people are indeed strong enough to look away, some people aren't, and it's important to be aware of your strengths and your weaknesses (or have a spiritual father who can coach you on these things

i'd say lust is prettty low on the list of sins i deal with.  it's ben difficult at other times in my life but...right now,not really an issue.  Temptation to gluttony is non existent :)  Does the fact that I'm not the slightest bit tempted to gluttony mean that thedevil has a hold on me?  no, it just means that   i have different temptations.  despair is a big one for me.  There were times I couldn't be left alone with a glass of water.  i've been suicidally depressedbefore and have had to take precautions to avoidcertain temptations but other people dont have to take such precautions because they dont struggle with the same types of sins i do.

i have a poor immune system so i have to limit my exposure to germs, i avoid crowds, i insist that people who come to visit use hand sanitizer and wash their hands, i ask people who visit me not to come if they're getting over a cold or stomach virus.  Other people have functioning immune systems and their bodies can fight all the viruses and bacteria that their bodies are exposed to every day.  THey can deal with being around crowds and shaking hands with strangers.   we all need to work at building up our own "spiritual immune system"

our lord said if your eye causes you to sin, cut it out

there are lots of things ive cut out of my own life because they were near occasions of various things.  i got off facebook because to me, it was a near occasion of envy.  i found myself scrolling down a long stream of friends and aquaintences and thinking to myself "God why do you always give me the short end of the stick when everyone else in my life are blessed with a constant stream of promotions, new babies, marital bliss, new jobs, new ten passenger vans, and trips to europe?  why did you give me a crappy life that sucks, and why is everyone else's life so awesome"  so i cut out facebook, havent gone back since.  bt you dont see me posting thread after thread, quoting saints who never lived in the time of facebook trying to convince others to give up facebook because it's a near occasion of envy, pride, narcissism, lust, and so on.  hey maybe some people here use facebook and get a lot out of it, and dont find it to be a near occasion of envy,narcissism etc

if your eye causes you to sin,you have to cut it out... figuratively speaking.  but our lord didnt say "and then cut your neighbor's eye out too, and convince people on internet forums that they too must cut their eye out"
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 03:42:50 PM
You just can't see that there are some sins that some people are not tempted to. They're just not tempted to them. I've already given you the examples pertaining to myself (regarding nudity and alcohol); Greg has some other, more...unsavory examples, which illustrate the point, and which I am sure he would be glad to repeat here for you.

Media is probably far less harmful for women than men, I can agree with that. But many scenes probably would or is an occasion for sin for them too. Men are not always exactly depicted as modest in the media.

But would that make it morally permissible to indulge in because of that? I already showed you what Alphonsus taught parents and people ought to do with even less harmful things. Since we are not angels yet but mere men, we ought to be as careful as we possibly can. Better safe than sorry; and those who take chances may or will fall eventually.

Women, especially young women, have a fanatical tendency to fall in love with people they adore, watch or behold in the media, that they read about, or listen too, such as tv-stars, or music-stars.

That is why, when considered in this light and how media effects children, the media may be even more dangerous for them even if not immodest, as St. Alphonsus teaches:

St. Alphonsus: "Fathers should not allow their children to read romances. These sometimes do more harm than even obscene books; they put fantastical notions and affections into young persons heads, which destroy all devotion, and afterwards impel them to give themselves up to sin. "Vain reading," says St. Bonaventure, "begets vain thoughts and extinguishes devotion." Make your children read spiritual books, ecclesiastical histories, and the lives of the saints. And here I repeat: Do not allow your daughters to be taught their lessons by a man [or the media], though he be a St. Paul or a St. Francis of Assisi. The saints are in heaven." (The complete ascetical works of St. Alphonsus, vol. 15, pp. 480-482)


Quote from: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 03:42:50 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 06, 2016, 03:12:17 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 05:02:10 AM
Edit #2: As for your point about sudden, unavoidable objectionable content: Martin88 has already said that it's pretty easy to judge when sexual scenes are going to occur and thus avoid them. I genuinely can't imagine something that would tempt one to serious sin popping up in a movie so suddenly that it's impossible to avoid. Now, it could happen, but I think it would be more accurate to describe such an occurrence as unusual, rather than as the norm. By all means, avoid media if it helps you to save your soul; just don't present it as necessary for everyone else to do the same.

You just admitted "unavoidable objectionable content... could happen... so suddenly that it's impossible to avoid... that would tempt one to serious sin".

This is just...laughable. Cherry-picking my words and stringing them together by relying on elipses so that they say what you want them to say is not a convincing counterargument. You do yourself a serious disservice by doing this, and place your own credibility in question.

If you read your own words in context, you will see that your words says exactly this. All I did was remove all the irrelevant insertions made by you to downplay it. You said:

"As for your point about sudden, unavoidable objectionable content: Martin88 has already said that it's pretty easy to judge when sexual scenes are going to occur and thus avoid them. I genuinely can't imagine something that would tempt one to serious sin popping up in a movie so suddenly that it's impossible to avoid. Now, it could happen, but I think it would be more accurate to describe such an occurrence as unusual, rather than as the norm. By all means, avoid media if it helps you to save your soul; just don't present it as necessary for everyone else to do the same."

Whether or not you want to see, you did admit above that it is and can be an occasion for grave sin for some.

And it is dishonest to say that grave matters in media don't just pop up immediately, or that it "would be more accurate to describe such an occurrence as unusual, rather than as the norm". Everyone who has ever watched the media knows that one scene just skips to another immediately and that people just tend to enter the screen without notice. The film may skip to a beach scene, a sex scene, a lascivious scene, an immodest scene; and the news may skip to a public place were people are dressed immodest and in an enticing manner, or even be focusing the camera lens on a billboard with an enticingly clothed woman displayed. I really shouldn't have to tell you this since you already should be aware of this and how it works.

I already did give a few examples of the kind of scenes that was contained in the films people watch in another thread. It is absurd to think that there would be some kind warning or foreknowledge in the film before (to give just one example) the pornographic cover of a porn magazine with a woman enticingly exposing her breasts, was shown in the film. That is not how it works in the media. Almost all such scenes comes without warning or notice.

If you claim one can always know when the immodest scenes will occur, or that it is always the norm to be able to know when they will occur, then I don't think you are arguing honestly.


Quote from: Jerome on November 06, 2016, 03:12:17 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 05:02:10 AM
But it seems you are downplaying the media very much, making it less dangerous than it is. As if nude women never just pop up without notice, womens breasts etc. lascivious clothed women, or worse.

Jerome, I'm a woman. It would be unnatural for me to be tempted by these things, even if I consented to seeing them (which I don't).

I agree you should not be tempted by women. But does that make any difference? If it is immodest and offensive to God and our neighbor, it is still immodest, offensive etc. and should be rejected. If we want to please ourselves more than pleasing God, then there is an issue of being divided.


Quote from: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 05:02:10 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 06, 2016, 03:12:17 PM
Do you think I haven't watch the media my self? Even in religious movies and shows this is a problem. What then are one to say about the more secular movies and tv shows and even news (and magazines etc, internet surfing etc.)?

Either way, you admit it could happen and therefore that it does happen. You might say, however, that it is not a problem for you. But do you know it is not a problem for your neighbor, spouse, or children?

No, that's not the logical conclusion for saying that something could happen. And I'm not married, and thus have no children. As for others: I have never promoted just watching objectionable content without taking reasonable precautions to avoid it. You are trying to apply your own interpretation of what is strictly necessary to everyone, and that's just not correct. You go the extra mile in order to avoid these things which are an occasion of sin for you, which is right and commendable; but why should other people have to take the same extra precautions, when they're not necessary for them?

There might occur scenes that you do find occasions of sinning in the media. Men are not exactly modestly depicted in the media. No woman, just because the media is infinitely more dangerous to men, must believe herself beyond the possibility of falling when exposing herself to this completely unnecessary danger.

"Brother Roger, a Franciscan of singular purity, being once asked why he was so reserved in his intercourse with women, replied, that when men avoid the occasions of sin, God preserves them; but when they expose themselves to danger, they are justly abandoned by the Lord, and easily fall into some grievous transgressions." (St. Alphonsus Liguori, The True Spouse of Jesus Christ, Mortification of the Eyes, p. 221)

Surfing the internet without ad-blocks and image blocks I would say is an even greatest occasion of sinning to both men and women. For example, not long ago I read about a woman being tempted or disturbed after having followed the news link that someone stupidly* posted (I often say that no one must enter any such sites without adblocks or image blocks). Sure, if she used an adblock (or even an image blocker), she would not have seen this ad that disturbed her.

* I think it's stupid to post such kind of links since one ought to presume most people don't use adblocks or image blocks and hence that one would be giving others an occasion of sinning.

This is also the reason for why I made this thread:

Why people who visit immoral news sites with images on commit mortal sin (http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15717.0)


Quote from: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 05:02:10 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 06, 2016, 03:12:17 PM
St. Alphonsus Liguori: "The Almighty does not hear the supplications of the proud who trust in their own strength, but leaves them to their own weakness and misery, which, when they are abandoned by divine grace, will infallibly lead them to perdition." (Short Treatise on Prayer, Chapter IV)

What does the bible, the saints and reason tell us concerning exposing oneself? Let's see:

"He that loves danger shall perish in it." (Ecclus. 3.27) "When," says St. Thomas, in his comment on this passage, "we expose ourselves to danger, God abandons us in it." St. Bernardine of Siena teaches that the counsel of avoiding the occasions of sin is the best of all counsel, and as it were the foundation of religion.  (St. Alphonsus Liguori, Ascetical Works, Volume XVI, pp. 152-173)

"The Holy Ghost reminds us that he who loves the danger will fall into sin, will perish; 'He that loveth danger shall perish in it.' [Eccl. 3:26] St. Thomas explains to us the reason; commenting on this text, he says that when we voluntarily expose ourselves to danger, or when we neglect to keep from it, God abandons us in it. And St. Bernardine of Sienna assures us that among the counsels of Jesus Christ the counsel of fleeing from the occasion of sin is the most important, is, as it were, the foundation of religion. (St. Alphonsus Liguori, Complete Ascetical Works, par. 4. The Flight from Dangerous Occasions)

But I don't "love the danger" here. To use an analogy: it's as though you are speaking of a particular highway, where accidents have occurred because drivers have been speeding and have run off the road at a particular curve. Most drivers are able to avoid this danger by not speeding: the road isn't dangerous for them. But you are saying that that is not enough, that in order to avoid the danger of having an accident on this highway, one must never, ever use the highway, although it is possible to use it safely by exercising reasonable caution.

Watching unnecessary media and driving on a highway* are entirely different things, not only in the level of danger, but also in the way of necessity. Being responsible and living an ordinary life is common to all and permitted, but exposing oneself to unnecessary occasions do not have the same permission before God and the Church.

I want to make this point clear: The only problem with media is not the lasciviousness. Remember, Alphonsus condemned or disapproved even books that were not obscene in itself, and he told parents to forbid children read them on the mere fact that "they put fantastical notions and affections into young persons heads, which destroy all devotion, and afterwards impel them to give themselves up to sin".

What is not good for children's spirituality, is not good for grown up men's spirituality.

I think this is a good example of modern day men, who seem to live in a dream world and in some sense seems to be separated from the spiritual reality that is common to all. Only by being seduced into living in another world or spiritual dimension could people have lost their sense of shame and modesty in how they dress, act and behave. In all the ages before the invention of motion media did people have a greater sense of public decency and public dress, and what was deemed modest and appropriate. Only in our modern age has this standard been completely flushed down the toilet.

54 years ago (1956), Elvis Presley had to be filmed above the waist up on a tv-show because of a hip-swiveling movement. Not that it was an acceptable performance (as even the secular tv-studio agreed with), since everything tending towards sensuality is an abomination, but still it serves to prove how much the decline in morality has come since then, when even the secular press deemed inappropriate what today would be looked upon as nothing. God allowed this deceit to be invented because of people's sins, especially for sins of the flesh. The media have such power that it preconditions peoples mind in such a way - since people look at TV as reality - that what was shameful yesterday will be the norm today! So if the media shows immodesty as norm, norm it will become!

St. Teresa even confessed that reading books which in themselves was not evil, was still a beginning of great harm and lukewarmness on her part. What then are one to say about evil media, evil video games and sinful stinking books? A person cannot do these things without becoming completely lukewarm and cold in the service of God exactly as it also happened to the glorious St. Theresa, for those who always seek after worldly things are in fact diminishing in the fervor of God!

The following quote further proving this point was taken from the Life of St. Teresa: "What I shall now speak of was, I believe, the beginning of great harm to me. I contracted a habit of reading books; and this little fault which I observed was the beginning of lukewarmness in my good desires, and the occasion of my falling away in other respects. I thought there was no harm in it when I wasted many hours night and day in so vain an occupation, even when I kept it a secret from my father. So completely was I mastered by this passion, that I thought I could never be happy without a new book."

Doesn't this sound familiar? Don't we all think as Teresa did, that we cannot be happy without our daily media, our evil movies and series, our bad video games or bad books? If the effect on this Saint was the start of a great spiritual harm, what then will it be for us, when what we do in comparison with her is infinitely more damaging and dangerous to our souls? How utterly stupid and foolish is it not to spend one's time reading bad worldly books, when one can spend time reading or listening to good Catholic books about virtue that would edify soul, mind and body?

* If we know that a certain highway was immodest because of advertisements, me may need to avoid it depending on circumstances. If one cannot take this occasion, then one must avoid it; the same if one do not want to expose one's children (which one must try to avoid as much as possible but sometimes it might be hard to do so since immodesties are everywhere). It would be good if parents taught their children to not to look out when driving through bad places.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on November 07, 2016, 10:55:26 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 03:42:50 PM
You just can't see that there are some sins that some people are not tempted to. They're just not tempted to them. I've already given you the examples pertaining to myself (regarding nudity and alcohol); Greg has some other, more...unsavory examples, which illustrate the point, and which I am sure he would be glad to repeat here for you.

Media is probably far less harmful for women than men, I can agree with that. But many scenes probably would or is an occasion for sin for them too. Men are not always exactly depicted as modest in the media.


No, I think this is wrong, for many of the reasons that you outline below. When you look around at the big picture, who is targeted by the media more -- men or women? The media realize that women are the ideal target. Their temptations might be more subtle than those shown to men, but ultimately they are just as corrupted.

Quote from: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM

But would that make it morally permissible to indulge in because of that?


This argument that "It's okay for me although it's a danger for others" is a very weak one. If we are drinking in front of our alcoholic friend, then we share culpability when he falls back into his predilection even though we do not have the genes to be susceptible to that same weakness.

Quote from: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM

Women, especially young women, have a fanatical tendency to fall in love with people they adore, watch or behold in the media, that they read about, or listen too, such as tv-stars, or music-stars.


Yes, this is a good point. Think of the Beatles and the hysterical female reaction that ensued. Before the Beatles there was Elvis Presley. Later there was a never-ending stream of teeny-bop idols. So when you think of the corrupting influence of satanic media, and you ask yourself who is affected by it the most deeply, it's hard to say whether it's boys or girls. But when you look at the transformation of society that resulted in the discarding of all sexual morality and the introduction of crimes like fornication, divorce and abortion, it seems like women were transformed even more than men.

Quote from: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM

St. Alphonsus: "Fathers should not allow their children to read romances. These sometimes do more harm than even obscene books; they put fantastical notions and affections into young persons heads, which destroy all devotion, and afterwards impel them to give themselves up to sin. "Vain reading," says St. Bonaventure, "begets vain thoughts and extinguishes devotion."


Fr. Faber agrees completely with St. Alphonsus on this point. In the middle of "Growth in Holiness" he suddenly breaks off to write a few pages describing how horrified he was by popular trend of the day in the 1850's for females to read romance novels like those of the Bronte sisters. He called this practice a "hothouse of every vice." Like St. Alphonsus, he believed that the long-term emotional damage caused by romance novels might be worse than the effect of reading outright immorality.

Quote from: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM

And it is dishonest to say that grave matters in media don't just pop up immediately, or that it "would be more accurate to describe such an occurrence as unusual, rather than as the norm". Everyone who has ever watched the media knows that one scene just skips to another immediately and that people just tend to enter the screen without notice. The film may skip to a beach scene, a sex scene, a lascivious scene, an immodest scene; and the news may skip to a public place were people are dressed immodest and in an enticing manner, or even be focusing the camera lens on a billboard with an enticingly clothed woman displayed. I really shouldn't have to tell you this since you already should be aware of this and how it works.


Yes, I have to admit that this has happened to me more than once while watching movies with children. Something that you thought was perfectly harmless suddenly has an immoral scene. Ironically, as an adult watching with children, you feel more or less the same embarrassment as you did when the same thing happened when you were a kid watching something with your parents.

Then there is the question of whether you should hope that it passes in a flash without making a big deal and drawing attention to it, or whether you should leap up and stop the movie.

British mystery dramas, for example, have a tendency to insert just a few seconds of immodest material into each episode of something that seemed like it would be harmless like "Miss Marple." In those cases by the time you had tried to fast-forward the scene is already gone.

But one time we were planning to watch a very famous cowboy mini-series that had received rave reviews and never had any implication that it was obscene. Turns out there was just one bad scene after another. At first I thought "This is just a short anomaly and will quickly pass." But then I realized that the whole series was nothing but smut, and that I had been completely wrong about the whole thing from the beginning.

Quote from: Jerome on November 06, 2016, 03:12:17 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 05:02:10 AM

Jerome, I'm a woman. It would be unnatural for me to be tempted by these things, even if I consented to seeing them (which I don't).

I agree you should not be tempted by women. But does that make any difference? If it is immodest and offensive to God and our neighbor, it is still immodest, offensive etc. and should be rejected.


Actually, scientific studies have shown that this is not true. Both men and women are sexually stimulated by seeing naked women. It's not because they're lesbians, but just because the bodies of both men and women are designed to be triggered this way.

The best-selling book of all time, which is still in the process of making hundreds of millions of dollars for its author, is pornography for women.

Quote from: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM

I want to make this point clear: The only problem with media is not the lasciviousness. Remember, Alphonsus condemned or disapproved even books that were not obscene in itself, and he told parents to forbid children read them on the mere fact that "they put fantastical notions and affections into young persons heads, which destroy all devotion, and afterwards impel them to give themselves up to sin".


Yes, this is a good point. You could think about Harry Potter. There is no sexual immorality. But it certainly puts "fantastical notions into young persons' heads." I was at the airport and talking to the people waiting in line with me. There was a woman and her daughter who was a high-school senior visiting colleges. She was visiting this college in Memphis because it was reputed to be the "most like Hogwarts" in the US. Although as it turns out, there is a big on-line fight between this college and another college also in Tennessee over which one is truly the most like Hogwarts. Young people were completely captivated by Harry Potter in a way that's hard to imagine.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on November 07, 2016, 11:04:25 AM
I enjoyed reading your thoughtful commentary Maximilian.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on November 07, 2016, 01:55:05 PM
Whether we like Jerome's responses or not we all have definitely learned something these past few weeks. Custody of the eyes, discretion and keeping oneself protected from the unnecessary media is just a few to name.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on November 07, 2016, 02:08:23 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on November 07, 2016, 01:55:05 PM
Whether we like Jerome's responses or not we all have definitely learned something these past few weeks. Custody of the eyes, discretion and keeping oneself protected from the unnecessary media is just a few to name.

I'm pretty sure people posting in this forum already know these things.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on November 07, 2016, 02:35:06 PM
Just trying to tame the raging fire. ;)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on November 07, 2016, 06:47:32 PM
So who has seen Hacksaw Ridge?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 08, 2016, 01:00:01 AM
Quote from: piabee on November 07, 2016, 02:08:23 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on November 07, 2016, 01:55:05 PM
Whether we like Jerome's responses or not we all have definitely learned something these past few weeks. Custody of the eyes, discretion and keeping oneself protected from the unnecessary media is just a few to name.

I'm pretty sure people posting in this forum already know these things.

Knowing and putting the knowledge into practice are two different things.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on November 08, 2016, 02:20:49 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on November 07, 2016, 06:47:32 PM
So who has seen Hacksaw Ridge?

Is it released already?  Will look into.  This might be a good alternative to the madness of election eve.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on November 08, 2016, 02:32:28 AM
Quote from: Greg on November 06, 2016, 04:16:09 PM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on November 06, 2016, 08:13:19 AM
Quote from: Greg on November 04, 2016, 03:15:53 PM
Saw The Imitation Game, which was all about Alan Turing and the code breakers at Bletchley Park.

It was a little slow, but watchable.  Had references to his homosexuality in it but no homo or other sex scenes as far as I can remember.

Bletchley Park makes for some very very interesting reading and film.  Thanks for the recommendation.

If you are into piracy, like me, you can watch it on putlocker-4k in HD for free

Downloaded it via cryptohippie vpn at extratorrent/ettv - we really enjoyed the story.  Of course, Hollywood took a few liberties with the facts, and there was a perfunctory pc spin on a particular issue, but overall it was good.   Thanks again.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 08, 2016, 05:53:17 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on November 07, 2016, 10:55:26 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 03:42:50 PM
You just can't see that there are some sins that some people are not tempted to. They're just not tempted to them. I've already given you the examples pertaining to myself (regarding nudity and alcohol); Greg has some other, more...unsavory examples, which illustrate the point, and which I am sure he would be glad to repeat here for you.

Media is probably far less harmful for women than men, I can agree with that. But many scenes probably would or is an occasion for sin for them too. Men are not always exactly depicted as modest in the media.

No, I think this is wrong, for many of the reasons that you outline below. When you look around at the big picture, who is targeted by the media more -- men or women? The media realize that women are the ideal target. Their temptations might be more subtle than those shown to men, but ultimately they are just as corrupted.

Yes I think you are absolutely right. I was thinking more of the immediate danger to chastity in the media which is more dangerous for men still I believe, but there are many other factors in the media targeted for women which may be even mroe dangerous in the long run, as you say.


Quote from: Maximilian on November 07, 2016, 10:55:26 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM
But would that make it morally permissible to indulge in because of that?

This argument that "It's okay for me although it's a danger for others" is a very weak one. If we are drinking in front of our alcoholic friend, then we share culpability when he falls back into his predilection even though we do not have the genes to be susceptible to that same weakness.

I agree.

St. Paul even says that we should not eat meat if it offends against our weak brother. Not that it is wrong to eat meat, but depending on circumstances, it might be better to avoid.

How far such and similar things ought to be applied in non-bad things in themselves is debatable. But when it comes to most media, it is not "non-bad things in themselves" we are speaking about, but rather generally offensive material against modesty and chastity and morality. It is not a morally neutral recreation in many cases, so to speak. And if this is the case, it is offensive to God.


Quote from: Maximilian on November 07, 2016, 10:55:26 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM
Women, especially young women, have a fanatical tendency to fall in love with people they adore, watch or behold in the media, that they read about, or listen too, such as tv-stars, or music-stars.

Yes, this is a good point. Think of the Beatles and the hysterical female reaction that ensued. Before the Beatles there was Elvis Presley. Later there was a never-ending stream of teeny-bop idols. So when you think of the corrupting influence of satanic media, and you ask yourself who is affected by it the most deeply, it's hard to say whether it's boys or girls. But when you look at the transformation of society that resulted in the discarding of all sexual morality and the introduction of crimes like fornication, divorce and abortion, it seems like women were transformed even more than men.

Good observations.

I believe feminism was partly created by the media, and what satan intended to do with it among other things, in the long run. And feminism was then the later result of immodest dress and almost everything else that comes to womens so-called rights.

The media is to blame because it started to depict women in other roles and other modesty standards than the commonly accepted form. Both women and men obviously ape after what they see in the media. So it is no wonder that the modesty standards were completely lost not long after the invention of the motion media; by women, by dressing more controversially as they learned from the media; by men, by approving of it or being silent.


Quote from: Maximilian on November 07, 2016, 10:55:26 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM
St. Alphonsus: "Fathers should not allow their children to read romances. These sometimes do more harm than even obscene books; they put fantastical notions and affections into young persons heads, which destroy all devotion, and afterwards impel them to give themselves up to sin. "Vain reading," says St. Bonaventure, "begets vain thoughts and extinguishes devotion."

Fr. Faber agrees completely with St. Alphonsus on this point. In the middle of "Growth in Holiness" he suddenly breaks off to write a few pages describing how horrified he was by popular trend of the day in the 1850's for females to read romance novels like those of the Bronte sisters. He called this practice a "hothouse of every vice." Like St. Alphonsus, he believed that the long-term emotional damage caused by romance novels might be worse than the effect of reading outright immorality.

Thanks. Now I have one more quote to use in order to make this point!


Quote from: Maximilian on November 07, 2016, 10:55:26 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM
And it is dishonest to say that grave matters in media don't just pop up immediately, or that it "would be more accurate to describe such an occurrence as unusual, rather than as the norm". Everyone who has ever watched the media knows that one scene just skips to another immediately and that people just tend to enter the screen without notice. The film may skip to a beach scene, a sex scene, a lascivious scene, an immodest scene; and the news may skip to a public place were people are dressed immodest and in an enticing manner, or even be focusing the camera lens on a billboard with an enticingly clothed woman displayed. I really shouldn't have to tell you this since you already should be aware of this and how it works.

Yes, I have to admit that this has happened to me more than once while watching movies with children. Something that you thought was perfectly harmless suddenly has an immoral scene. Ironically, as an adult watching with children, you feel more or less the same embarrassment as you did when the same thing happened when you were a kid watching something with your parents.

Then there is the question of whether you should hope that it passes in a flash without making a big deal and drawing attention to it, or whether you should leap up and stop the movie.

British mystery dramas, for example, have a tendency to insert just a few seconds of immodest material into each episode of something that seemed like it would be harmless like "Miss Marple." In those cases by the time you had tried to fast-forward the scene is already gone.

But one time we were planning to watch a very famous cowboy mini-series that had received rave reviews and never had any implication that it was obscene. Turns out there was just one bad scene after another. At first I thought "This is just a short anomaly and will quickly pass." But then I realized that the whole series was nothing but smut, and that I had been completely wrong about the whole thing from the beginning.

Experience and being honest about the result is the one of the best teachers in life, I believe. We all learn from our mistakes, and by experience we know and learn what changes we need to make in our lives.


Quote from: Maximilian on November 07, 2016, 10:55:26 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 06, 2016, 03:12:17 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 05:02:10 AM
Jerome, I'm a woman. It would be unnatural for me to be tempted by these things, even if I consented to seeing them (which I don't).

I agree you should not be tempted by women. But does that make any difference? If it is immodest and offensive to God and our neighbor, it is still immodest, offensive etc. and should be rejected.

Actually, scientific studies have shown that this is not true. Both men and women are sexually stimulated by seeing naked women. It's not because they're lesbians, but just because the bodies of both men and women are designed to be triggered this way.

The best-selling book of all time, which is still in the process of making hundreds of millions of dollars for its author, is pornography for women.

Excellent point. I did not consider that, although I could have believed it was true, which is why I said "should". I think one can have a reaction to any naked bodies, whether men or women, even if not homosexual or lustful. People are always affected differently. That is how our bodies work, as you said, and believe this is the case.

In fact, some saints and holy fathers did not even like to see themselves naked! I can totally understand that.

But women in general do not get affected as much as men does from such things in either case. I read somewhere someone making an allegory between the differences of men and women in this regard, with the example of a light-bulb turning on, and with an iron being heated up slowly.

That is why it is so important for women to dress modestly since the effect on men are more immediate then what they perhaps understand.


Quote from: Maximilian on November 07, 2016, 10:55:26 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM
I want to make this point clear: The only problem with media is not the lasciviousness. Remember, Alphonsus condemned or disapproved even books that were not obscene in itself, and he told parents to forbid children read them on the mere fact that "they put fantastical notions and affections into young persons heads, which destroy all devotion, and afterwards impel them to give themselves up to sin".

Yes, this is a good point. You could think about Harry Potter. There is no sexual immorality. But it certainly puts "fantastical notions into young persons' heads." I was at the airport and talking to the people waiting in line with me. There was a woman and her daughter who was a high-school senior visiting colleges. She was visiting this college in Memphis because it was reputed to be the "most like Hogwarts" in the US. Although as it turns out, there is a big on-line fight between this college and another college also in Tennessee over which one is truly the most like Hogwarts. Young people were completely captivated by Harry Potter in a way that's hard to imagine.

That is why I recommend everyone to give up this kind of media completely. As I wrote in another thread:

Quote from: Greg on November 07, 2016, 03:09:26 PM
Rather than telling us what NOT to do why not constructively, suggest new forms of media, films, documentaries, audio we can access without threatening our souls.

I have already said my opinion concerning this.

Download anything you want to watch on the internet and listen to it in mp3 instead. This is a good video to mp3 site*: http://convert2mp3.net/en/ (http://convert2mp3.net/en/)

If you download video files with desktop programs (none of which I will recommend, since they show the thumbnail of the film link you insert**), or watch dvd films etc., use VLC player for video files and disable video screen in settings. This means you can only hear the audio if you do this. Here you can download VLC player*: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html (https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html)

*As always, when I give links, it is presupposed that you will visit them without images on since I don't encourage or approve of dangerous website surfing.

**One solution is to drag the parts of the program outside of the screen, so that the video thumbnails won't be visible when adding the link for download. Provided the users use this solution, I will recommend the following excellent video & audio downloader, and desktop converter program (all in one program so to speak):

http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/ (http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/)

Note: After installation, enter settings (gear icon), go to "online video". On the "Select Format" header, click or check the "Manually Select" box so that you can choose what quality of the video you can download yourself, and so that you can download only the audio file if you desire to do that also (one can get both from youtube).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: clau clau on November 08, 2016, 05:59:03 AM
I put Jerome on ignore.  I can finally read this thread.

I used to enjoy this thread.  It was nice to be told about a film I hadn't watched and discuss it and occasionally make recommendations myself.  Yes, I'm sure there are some scenes with unsuitable bits just like there is dogshit on the pavement that I try to avoid stepping it.

Then Jerome came along and sucked all the JOY out of it.

Apologies to all of you who will now be lambasted with pages and pages of quotes from the Church Fathers and St. John Chrysostom.  Fortunately, I will no longer have to read through all the BS.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 08, 2016, 06:34:18 AM
Quote from: clau clau on November 08, 2016, 05:59:03 AM
I put Jerome on ignore.  I can finally read this thread.

I used to enjoy this thread.  It was nice to be told about a film I hadn't watched and discuss it and occasionally make recommendations myself.  Yes, I'm sure there are some scenes with unsuitable bits just like there is dogshit on the pavement that I try to avoid stepping it.

Then Jerome came along and sucked all the JOY out of it.

Apologies to all of you who will now be lambasted with pages and pages of quotes from the Church Fathers and St. John Chrysostom.  Fortunately, I will no longer have to read through all the BS.

Not sure if you will see this, but calling their teachings BS, if your mening is what I suppose it is, is wrong. Or perhaps you only think my own words are BS, but not theirs? even though they agree with me on what I say?

"He that rejecteth instruction, despiseth his own soul: but he that yieldeth to reproof possesseth understanding." (Proverbs 15:32)

The Church also teaches that it is wrong to seek "joy" in dangerous occasions.

Pope Innocent XI, Various Errors on Moral Matters #62, March 4, 1679: "The proximate occasion for sinning is not to be shunned when some useful and honorable cause for not shunning it occurs." – Condemned statement by Pope Innocent XI.
Pope Innocent XI, Various Errors on Moral Matters #63, March 4, 1679: "It is permitted to seek directly the proximate occasion for sinning for a spiritual or temporal good of our own or of a neighbor." – Condemned statement by Pope Innocent XI.

And don't tell me you are not affected by the immodesty and lasciviousness plaguing the daily media!

         "And as it came to pass in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat and drink, they married wives, and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark: and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise as it came to pass, in the days of Lot: they did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built. And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed [that is, most people will live just as they always have]." (Luke 17:26-30)

         Haydock Bible Commentary explains Luke 17: "Ver. 27. After having compared his second coming to lightning, in order to shew how sudden it will be, he next compares it to the days of Noe [Noah] and Lot, to shew that it will come when men least expect it; when, entirely forgetting his coming, they are solely occupied in the affairs of this world, in buying and selling, &c. He only mentions those faults which appear trivial, or rather none at all, (passing over the crimes of murder, theft, &c.) purposely to shew, that if God thus punishes merely the immoderate use of what is lawful, how will his vengeance fall upon what is in itself unlawful. (Ven. Bede) --- Ver. 32. As Lot only escaped destruction by leaving all things, and flying immediately to the mountain, whereas his wife, by shewing an affection for the things she had left, and looking back, perished; so those who, in the time of tribulation, forgetting the reward that awaits them in heaven, look back to the pleasures of this world, which the wicked enjoy, are sure to perish. (St. Ambrose)"
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on November 08, 2016, 06:38:44 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 08, 2016, 05:53:17 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on November 07, 2016, 10:55:26 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 03:42:50 PM
You just can't see that there are some sins that some people are not tempted to. They're just not tempted to them. I've already given you the examples pertaining to myself (regarding nudity and alcohol); Greg has some other, more...unsavory examples, which illustrate the point, and which I am sure he would be glad to repeat here for you.

Media is probably far less harmful for women than men, I can agree with that. But many scenes probably would or is an occasion for sin for them too. Men are not always exactly depicted as modest in the media.

No, I think this is wrong, for many of the reasons that you outline below. When you look around at the big picture, who is targeted by the media more -- men or women? The media realize that women are the ideal target. Their temptations might be more subtle than those shown to men, but ultimately they are just as corrupted.

Yes I think you are absolutely right. I was thinking more of the immediate danger to chastity in the media which is more dangerous for men still I believe, but there are many other factors in the media targeted for women which may be even mroe dangerous in the long run, as you say.


Quote from: Maximilian on November 07, 2016, 10:55:26 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM
But would that make it morally permissible to indulge in because of that?

This argument that "It's okay for me although it's a danger for others" is a very weak one. If we are drinking in front of our alcoholic friend, then we share culpability when he falls back into his predilection even though we do not have the genes to be susceptible to that same weakness.

I agree.

St. Paul even says that we should not eat meat if it offends against our weak brother. Not that it is wrong to eat meat, but depending on circumstances, it might be better to avoid.

How far such and similar things ought to be applied in non-bad things in themselves is debatable. But when it comes to most media, it is not "non-bad things in themselves" we are speaking about, but rather generally offensive material against modesty and chastity and morality. It is not a morally neutral recreation in many cases, so to speak. And if this is the case, it is offensive to God.


Quote from: Maximilian on November 07, 2016, 10:55:26 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM
Women, especially young women, have a fanatical tendency to fall in love with people they adore, watch or behold in the media, that they read about, or listen too, such as tv-stars, or music-stars.

Yes, this is a good point. Think of the Beatles and the hysterical female reaction that ensued. Before the Beatles there was Elvis Presley. Later there was a never-ending stream of teeny-bop idols. So when you think of the corrupting influence of satanic media, and you ask yourself who is affected by it the most deeply, it's hard to say whether it's boys or girls. But when you look at the transformation of society that resulted in the discarding of all sexual morality and the introduction of crimes like fornication, divorce and abortion, it seems like women were transformed even more than men.

Very good.

I believe feminism was partly the creation of the media and what satan intended to do with it in the long run. And feminism was then the later results of immodest dress and almost everything else when it comes to womens so-called rights.

The media is to blame because it started to depict women in other roles and other modesty standards than the commonly accepted form. Both women and men obviously ape after what they see in the media. So it is no wonder that the modesty standards were completely lost not long after the invention of the motion media; by women, by dressing more controversially; by men, by approving of it or being silent.


Quote from: Maximilian on November 07, 2016, 10:55:26 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM
St. Alphonsus: "Fathers should not allow their children to read romances. These sometimes do more harm than even obscene books; they put fantastical notions and affections into young persons heads, which destroy all devotion, and afterwards impel them to give themselves up to sin. "Vain reading," says St. Bonaventure, "begets vain thoughts and extinguishes devotion."

Fr. Faber agrees completely with St. Alphonsus on this point. In the middle of "Growth in Holiness" he suddenly breaks off to write a few pages describing how horrified he was by popular trend of the day in the 1850's for females to read romance novels like those of the Bronte sisters. He called this practice a "hothouse of every vice." Like St. Alphonsus, he believed that the long-term emotional damage caused by romance novels might be worse than the effect of reading outright immorality.

Very good. Now I have one more quote to use in order to make this point!


Quote from: Maximilian on November 07, 2016, 10:55:26 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM
And it is dishonest to say that grave matters in media don't just pop up immediately, or that it "would be more accurate to describe such an occurrence as unusual, rather than as the norm". Everyone who has ever watched the media knows that one scene just skips to another immediately and that people just tend to enter the screen without notice. The film may skip to a beach scene, a sex scene, a lascivious scene, an immodest scene; and the news may skip to a public place were people are dressed immodest and in an enticing manner, or even be focusing the camera lens on a billboard with an enticingly clothed woman displayed. I really shouldn't have to tell you this since you already should be aware of this and how it works.

Yes, I have to admit that this has happened to me more than once while watching movies with children. Something that you thought was perfectly harmless suddenly has an immoral scene. Ironically, as an adult watching with children, you feel more or less the same embarrassment as you did when the same thing happened when you were a kid watching something with your parents.

Then there is the question of whether you should hope that it passes in a flash without making a big deal and drawing attention to it, or whether you should leap up and stop the movie.

British mystery dramas, for example, have a tendency to insert just a few seconds of immodest material into each episode of something that seemed like it would be harmless like "Miss Marple." In those cases by the time you had tried to fast-forward the scene is already gone.

But one time we were planning to watch a very famous cowboy mini-series that had received rave reviews and never had any implication that it was obscene. Turns out there was just one bad scene after another. At first I thought "This is just a short anomaly and will quickly pass." But then I realized that the whole series was nothing but smut, and that I had been completely wrong about the whole thing from the beginning.

Experience and being honest about the result is the one of the best teachers in life, I believe. We all learn from our mistakes, and by experience we know and learn what changes we need to make in our lives.


Quote from: Maximilian on November 07, 2016, 10:55:26 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 06, 2016, 03:12:17 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 06, 2016, 05:02:10 AM
Jerome, I'm a woman. It would be unnatural for me to be tempted by these things, even if I consented to seeing them (which I don't).

I agree you should not be tempted by women. But does that make any difference? If it is immodest and offensive to God and our neighbor, it is still immodest, offensive etc. and should be rejected.

Actually, scientific studies have shown that this is not true. Both men and women are sexually stimulated by seeing naked women. It's not because they're lesbians, but just because the bodies of both men and women are designed to be triggered this way.

The best-selling book of all time, which is still in the process of making hundreds of millions of dollars for its author, is pornography for women.

Excellent point. I did not consider that, although I could have believed it was true, which is why I said "should". I think one can have a reaction to any naked bodies, whether men or women, even if not homosexual or lustful. People are always affected differently. That is how our bodies work, as you said, and believe this is the case.

In fact, some saints and holy fathers did not even like to see themselves naked! I can totally understand that.

But women in general do not get affected as much as men does from such things in either case. I read somewhere someone making an allegory between the differences of men and women in this regard, with the example of a light-bulb turning on, and with an iron being heated up slowly.

That is why it is so important for women to dress modestly since the effect on men are more immediate then what they perhaps understand.


Quote from: Maximilian on November 07, 2016, 10:55:26 AM
Quote from: Jerome on November 07, 2016, 03:14:26 AM
I want to make this point clear: The only problem with media is not the lasciviousness. Remember, Alphonsus condemned or disapproved even books that were not obscene in itself, and he told parents to forbid children read them on the mere fact that "they put fantastical notions and affections into young persons heads, which destroy all devotion, and afterwards impel them to give themselves up to sin".

Yes, this is a good point. You could think about Harry Potter. There is no sexual immorality. But it certainly puts "fantastical notions into young persons' heads." I was at the airport and talking to the people waiting in line with me. There was a woman and her daughter who was a high-school senior visiting colleges. She was visiting this college in Memphis because it was reputed to be the "most like Hogwarts" in the US. Although as it turns out, there is a big on-line fight between this college and another college also in Tennessee over which one is truly the most like Hogwarts. Young people were completely captivated by Harry Potter in a way that's hard to imagine.

That is why I recommend everyone to give up this kind of media completely. As I wrote in another thread:

Quote from: Greg on November 07, 2016, 03:09:26 PM
Rather than telling us what NOT to do why not constructively, suggest new forms of media, films, documentaries, audio we can access without threatening our souls.

I have already said my opinion concerning this.

Download anything you want to watch on the internet and listen to it in mp3 instead. This is a good video to mp3 site*: http://convert2mp3.net/en/ (http://convert2mp3.net/en/)

If you download video files with desktop programs (none of which I will recommend, since they show the thumbnail of the film link you insert**), or watch dvd films etc., use VLC player for video files and disable video screen in settings. This means you can only hear the audio if you do this. Here you can download VLC player*: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html (https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html)

*As always, when I give links, it is presupposed that you will visit them without images on since I don't encourage or approve of dangerous website surfing.

**One solution is to drag the parts of the program outside of the screen, so that the video thumbnails won't be visible when adding the link for download. Provided the users use this solution, I will recommend the following excellent video & audio downloader, and desktop converter program (all in one program so to speak):

http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/ (http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/)

Note: After installation, enter settings (gear icon), go to "online video". On the "Select Format" header, click or check the "Manually Select" box so that you can choose what quality of the video you can download yourself, and so that you can download only the audio file if you desire to do that also (one can get both from youtube).

Woah...  feminists "invented" " the media"

I guess the movement's older than  we thought!!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jerome on November 08, 2016, 06:53:50 AM
Quote from: Chestertonian on November 08, 2016, 06:38:44 AM
Woah...  feminists "invented" " the media"

I guess the movement's older than  we thought!!

Hi

I meant to say media created feminism. My words already said this, but perhaps not as clearly as it could have been written.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on November 08, 2016, 05:59:49 PM
Quote from: clau clau on November 08, 2016, 05:59:03 AM
I put Jerome on ignore.  I can finally read this thread.

I used to enjoy this thread.  It was nice to be told about a film I hadn't watched and discuss it and occasionally make recommendations myself.  Yes, I'm sure there are some scenes with unsuitable bits just like there is dogshit on the pavement that I try to avoid stepping it.

Then Jerome came along and sucked all the JOY out of it.

Apologies to all of you who will now be lambasted with pages and pages of quotes from the Church Fathers and St. John Chrysostom.  Fortunately, I will no longer have to read through all the BS.

YES!

:ghost2: Wait, what?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on November 08, 2016, 06:35:53 PM
Quote from: clau clau on November 08, 2016, 05:59:03 AM
I put Jerome on ignore.  I can finally read this thread.

I used to enjoy this thread.  It was nice to be told about a film I hadn't watched and discuss it and occasionally make recommendations myself.  Yes, I'm sure there are some scenes with unsuitable bits just like there is dogshit on the pavement that I try to avoid stepping it.

Then Jerome came along and sucked all the JOY out of it.

Apologies to all of you who will now be lambasted with pages and pages of quotes from the Church Fathers and St. John Chrysostom.  Fortunately, I will no longer have to read through all the BS.

In case others want to know how to put someone on ignore.

http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=8095.0 (http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=8095.0)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on November 08, 2016, 07:22:28 PM
Quote from: Jerome on November 08, 2016, 06:34:18 AM
Not sure if you will see this

He won't.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on November 10, 2016, 05:07:55 AM
The Siege of Jadotville. Nothing to write home about though there was no nudity, not even a bared ankle. There was a chaste kiss between married Irish Catholics so some here may want to beware.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on November 11, 2016, 06:32:47 PM
I tried to watch Home From Home, a black and white German movie, about village life in the 1840s. I had hoped that it would be similar to Tree of Wooden Clogs, but it was just so slow that I had to give it up. :( I'll watch Babette's Feast instead. Love that movie. :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: ResRev on November 11, 2016, 09:35:17 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on November 07, 2016, 06:47:32 PM
So who has seen Hacksaw Ridge?
Just got home from the movie. Excellent! Saving Private Ryan had to be topped, I suppose, so the battle scenes turned it up a few notches. Made me think a lot of my father who grew up in the Viginia mountains and served in WWII.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on November 12, 2016, 06:41:59 AM
The Infiltrator with Bryan Cranston. Meh.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Stu Cool on November 12, 2016, 05:19:33 PM
Quote from: ResRev on November 11, 2016, 09:35:17 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on November 07, 2016, 06:47:32 PM
So who has seen Hacksaw Ridge?
Just got home from the movie. Excellent! Saving Private Ryan had to be topped, I suppose, so the battle scenes turned it up a few notches. Made me think a lot of my father who grew up in the Viginia mountains and served in WWII.

I didn't think it was as violent as someone had said.  I've seen a lot worse.  But it shows you how the Pacific war was in its barbarity.

It is hard to imagine how this man did all that he did.  It was a great movie.  Plus, Vince Vaugh was absolutely the best drill sergeant ever. 
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Post by: GloriaPatri on November 12, 2016, 06:19:39 PM
Just saw Arrival today. I thought it was an excellent movie, especially as it differs from most "first contact" movies. It also touched upon some interesting philosophical and existential points, such as how the specific languages we are raised with might colour our own perceptions and thought processes.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on November 13, 2016, 02:06:30 PM
Red Cliff. Directed by John Woo.
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Post by: red solo cup on November 17, 2016, 05:31:32 AM
The Missing with Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett. Very good.
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Post by: martin88nyc on November 17, 2016, 10:06:49 AM
Victor Frankenstein simply mediocre.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on November 20, 2016, 08:33:22 PM
Arrival
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on November 21, 2016, 10:03:31 AM
Outrage starring Takeshi Kitano.  This was about different Yakusa groups vying for power. For the most part a decent movie though I had a hard time telling the different people apart or who was in which group.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: dymphna17 on November 21, 2016, 10:38:32 PM
"Paddington", I know, I know, but I thought it really was good.  A true good versus bad and the bad loses.  From what I understand, that's somewhat hard to find in a film directed at children.  I didn't think it was sappy either, nor did it make the Father out to be a complete imbecile.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on November 28, 2016, 12:36:06 AM
Me Before You (2016)
Soppy movie (I cried). very good except the ending.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2674426/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_5 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2674426/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_5)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on November 28, 2016, 08:19:40 AM
Dr House...I mean...Strange
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on November 29, 2016, 12:12:29 AM
I just watched a very disturbing movie and I regret watching it.
Regression (2015) is about the satanic ritual abuse. There was a very disturbing and violent scene where a black mass was being portrayed. I don't recommend this movie to anyone. Why did I keep watching this movie is beyond me. I feel spiritually harmed.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Dusty Bottoms on November 29, 2016, 12:59:10 PM
Since these two movies have come up a lot lately, I recently did podcasts on Hacksaw Ridge, http://catholicmovieguy.com/2016/11/07/catholic-movie-guy-podcast-episode-4-hacksaw-ridge-top-5-war-films/ (http://catholicmovieguy.com/2016/11/07/catholic-movie-guy-podcast-episode-4-hacksaw-ridge-top-5-war-films/), and briefly touched on Arrival, http://catholicmovieguy.com/2016/11/21/catholic-movie-guy-episode-6-arrival-walking-movies/ (http://catholicmovieguy.com/2016/11/21/catholic-movie-guy-episode-6-arrival-walking-movies/), if anyone is interested. :toth:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on November 29, 2016, 03:20:59 PM
You run a podcast, dusty? 

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Dusty Bottoms on November 29, 2016, 03:34:33 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on November 29, 2016, 03:20:59 PM
You run a podcast, dusty? 

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

Yep - started it last month, once a week.  Just seeing where it goes.  I already have dozens of listeners   :laugh:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on November 29, 2016, 09:20:37 PM
Quote from: Dusty Bottoms on November 29, 2016, 03:34:33 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on November 29, 2016, 03:20:59 PM
You run a podcast, dusty? 

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

Yep - started it last month, once a week.  Just seeing where it goes.  I already have dozens of listeners   :laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKie-vgUGdI
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Dusty Bottoms on November 30, 2016, 07:52:00 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on November 29, 2016, 09:20:37 PM
Quote from: Dusty Bottoms on November 29, 2016, 03:34:33 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on November 29, 2016, 03:20:59 PM
You run a podcast, dusty? 

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

Yep - started it last month, once a week.  Just seeing where it goes.  I already have dozens of listeners   :laugh:

:laugh: Exactly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKie-vgUGdI
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on December 06, 2016, 12:46:37 PM
Spirited Away (on the big screen).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on December 06, 2016, 03:58:17 PM
When calls the heart Hallmark Tv series. This is my new favorite tv series.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on December 06, 2016, 04:57:29 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on December 06, 2016, 03:58:17 PM
When calls the heart Hallmark Tv series. This is my new favorite tv series.

Do the actors have Canadian accents? Please say yes! :D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on December 06, 2016, 06:56:08 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on December 06, 2016, 04:57:29 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on December 06, 2016, 03:58:17 PM
When calls the heart Hallmark Tv series. This is my new favorite tv series.

Do the actors have Canadian accents? Please say yes! :D
There are Canadian actors but no...they all speak American
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on December 11, 2016, 03:04:30 PM
True Memoirs of an International Assassin with Kevin James. There aren't words to describe how awful this was.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on December 11, 2016, 11:44:13 PM
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on December 12, 2016, 01:10:01 PM
Theaters: Nocturnal Animals
Home: Aladdin, Mulan
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on December 26, 2016, 05:03:02 PM
Dangal
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on December 30, 2016, 04:36:51 PM
watching this:
http://kisscartoon.me/Cartoon/Extraordinary-Tales/Movie?id=67973 (http://kisscartoon.me/Cartoon/Extraordinary-Tales/Movie?id=67973)
animated works of Edgar Allan Poe.  :popcorn: :ghost1: ;)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on January 01, 2017, 06:34:08 PM
Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages

You're not missing much.  My son has this thick reference guide to every pokemon ever and all their evolutions and mega-evolutions I did not know it was even possible for a kid to know this much about pokemon
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on January 01, 2017, 09:03:16 PM
Star Trek 4
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on January 02, 2017, 12:15:56 AM

French comedy.
it starts off...boring...the gets better and better with time....ends nicely. I would give it 6.5 max. A bit underrated.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4024546/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4024546/)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Dusty Bottoms on January 05, 2017, 02:54:55 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on December 12, 2016, 01:10:01 PM
Theaters: Nocturnal Animals
Home: Aladdin, Mulan

Was Noctural Animals worth wading through?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MundaCorMeum on January 06, 2017, 10:22:21 AM
1977 cartoon version of The Hobbit  ;D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on January 07, 2017, 12:54:23 AM
Krampus. Cheesily well done.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on January 07, 2017, 11:17:59 AM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on January 06, 2017, 10:22:21 AM
1977 cartoon version of The Hobbit  ;D
I'll be watching this with my family today. :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Greg on January 07, 2017, 07:41:53 PM
Just watched When Worlds Collide (1951).

Hard to imagine my own father and mother watching this cheese at the age of 19.

What a huge change in the world since then.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on January 10, 2017, 03:00:43 PM
Lost Internet for a day, so went to the blu-ray shelf yesterday.

Watched one of my all time favorites, The Thin Red Line, and then followed that up with Gladiator, extended edition.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on January 11, 2017, 04:53:56 AM
Moon with Sam Rockwell. 2009. Dumb.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on January 12, 2017, 11:59:49 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on January 11, 2017, 04:53:56 AM
Moon with Sam Rockwell. 2009. Dumb.

I remember enjoying Moon the first time. Second time, I was disappointed, realizing how ridiculous I was for ever caring about... the type of "person" depicted in Moon.

Similar reaction to District 9

I'm not a sci Fi fan to begin with, but one thing that's ruining sci-fi (and fantasy, for that matter) are the not so subtle inclusions of social justice causes.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on January 12, 2017, 10:23:38 PM
Just finished watching Mai wei - beautiful war movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on January 13, 2017, 09:13:26 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on January 12, 2017, 10:23:38 PM
Just finished watching Mai wei - beautiful war movie.

You, um...You like war movies, don't you, Martin?  :huh:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on January 13, 2017, 10:50:08 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on January 13, 2017, 09:13:26 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on January 12, 2017, 10:23:38 PM
Just finished watching Mai wei - beautiful war movie.

You, um...You like war movies, don't you, Martin?  :huh:
Yes, especially historical war movies but it doesn't mean I'm obsessed with military conflicts.  :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: clau clau on January 13, 2017, 11:13:28 AM
watched Sully starring Tom Hanks, directed by Clint Eastwood.

Good film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sully_(film)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: clau clau on January 16, 2017, 05:49:32 AM
The Cobbler.  I really enjoyed this.  One of my daughters suggested it.

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2F3%2F33%2FThe_Cobler_poster.jpg&hash=010784f4627aa60939a84abb388cb995f204f82a)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on January 16, 2017, 09:08:04 PM
The Dark Crystal.

Last time I saw it was probably when I was still in elementary school.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on January 16, 2017, 09:28:51 PM
Quote from: clau clau on January 13, 2017, 11:13:28 AM
watched Sully starring Tom Hanks, directed by Clint Eastwood.

Good film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sully_(film)

Sully is my idol.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on January 21, 2017, 03:36:37 PM
Kagemusha

Watched it last night in preparation for the arrival of my Blu-ray copy of Ran
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on January 23, 2017, 12:50:59 AM
The Accountant

It was alright. 7.5/10
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on January 23, 2017, 01:43:29 AM
Ran
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Greg on January 24, 2017, 08:18:27 AM
Clau Clau and I saw Hidden Figures in New York last week.

I found it interesting.  He found it a little too political for his tastes.

I'm surprised that black women working for NASA in 1961 would have been treated like that.  It makes me wonder why they would have had black human computers in a job, that a lot of white math graduates would presumably have sought after, and then treat them like dumb negros or second class citizens.

Was that real in 1961 at NASA or just exaggerated for the story?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on January 24, 2017, 05:55:15 PM
Apparently, onl y one of them is black and even she is probably only 1/8 black.

Katherine Johnson, a blue-eyed, light-skinned black female.

The story is definitely exaggerated.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on January 24, 2017, 08:44:35 PM
Fantasia.. with my ,6 year old
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MundaCorMeum on January 24, 2017, 09:34:42 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on January 24, 2017, 08:44:35 PM
Fantasia.. with my ,6 year old

That movie is so much weirder as an adult. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on January 24, 2017, 09:43:40 PM
Quote from: Greg on January 24, 2017, 08:18:27 AM
Clau Clau and I saw Hidden Figures in New York last week.

I found it interesting.  He found it a little too political for his tastes.

I'm surprised that black women working for NASA in 1961 would have been treated like that.  It makes me wonder why they would have had black human computers in a job, that a lot of white math graduates would presumably have sought after, and then treat them like dumb negros or second class citizens.

Was that real in 1961 at NASA or just exaggerated for the story?

Some of the story is complete crap.

http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/hidden-figures/

I doubt the treatment they experienced was anything like depicted in the movie.  But, affirmative action and racial quotas was beginning to become a thing, plus, women and blacks were cheaper to hire. 

:shrug:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on January 25, 2017, 03:58:09 PM
American Sniper

Liked it a lot more the second time around.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on January 26, 2017, 02:49:22 PM
Rogue One.  Classic Star Wars style. 
Not for children, due to some very intense scenes and violence.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Dusty Bottoms on January 27, 2017, 10:05:15 AM
Finally saw Silence.

It was beautiful, gruesome, depressing, hopeful, infuriating, and all-around difficult.

For the well-formed conscience, it presents many worthy ideas for consideration, meditation, and discussion; but, probably, still doesn't satisfactorily resolve them.  We discussed it in-depth on my podcast, if anyone is interested: http://catholicmovieguy.com/2017/01/27/126/ (http://catholicmovieguy.com/2017/01/27/126/).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 27, 2017, 11:17:48 AM
Dude, didn't know you had a podcast. Good to see you around.

Is Brady gonna get his fifth?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on January 27, 2017, 11:57:38 AM
Quote from: Dusty Bottoms on January 27, 2017, 10:05:15 AM
Finally saw Silence.

It was beautiful, gruesome, depressing, hopeful, infuriating, and all-around difficult.

For the well-formed conscience, it presents many worthy ideas for consideration, meditation, and discussion; but, probably, still doesn't satisfactorily resolve them.  We discussed it in-depth on my podcast, if anyone is interested: http://catholicmovieguy.com/2017/01/27/126/ (http://catholicmovieguy.com/2017/01/27/126/).

Thanks for the link!  Bookmarked.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on January 27, 2017, 12:06:31 PM
Pollyanna. One of the few movies that I actually prefer to its book counterpart.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Dusty Bottoms on January 27, 2017, 01:19:32 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 27, 2017, 11:17:48 AM
Dude, didn't know you had a podcast. Good to see you around.

Is Brady gonna get his fifth?

Thanks - just something I started last year because I couldn't find a podcast that discussed movies from a Catholic perspective; so I said, what the heck, I guess I'll try it.

But yeah, I think Brady will get it.  I actually (*ducks*) like the Patriots.  Who are you rooting for?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on January 27, 2017, 01:43:02 PM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on January 27, 2017, 11:57:38 AM
Quote from: Dusty Bottoms on January 27, 2017, 10:05:15 AM
Finally saw Silence.

It was beautiful, gruesome, depressing, hopeful, infuriating, and all-around difficult.

For the well-formed conscience, it presents many worthy ideas for consideration, meditation, and discussion; but, probably, still doesn't satisfactorily resolve them.  We discussed it in-depth on my podcast, if anyone is interested: http://catholicmovieguy.com/2017/01/27/126/ (http://catholicmovieguy.com/2017/01/27/126/).

I just finished listening to your Rogue One/Star Wars podcast.  I really like your style, and enjoyed the overall discussion very much.  I'll be sharing your link for sure.

Thanks for the link!  Bookmarked.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Dusty Bottoms on January 27, 2017, 02:13:55 PM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on January 27, 2017, 01:43:02 PM

I just finished listening to your Rogue One/Star Wars podcast.  I really like your style, and enjoyed the overall discussion very much.  I'll be sharing your link for sure.



Thanks!  I really appreciate it. :toth:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 27, 2017, 02:56:43 PM
Quote from: Dusty Bottoms on January 27, 2017, 01:19:32 PM
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 27, 2017, 11:17:48 AM
Dude, didn't know you had a podcast. Good to see you around.

Is Brady gonna get his fifth?

Thanks - just something I started last year because I couldn't find a podcast that discussed movies from a Catholic perspective; so I said, what the heck, I guess I'll try it.

But yeah, I think Brady will get it.  I actually (*ducks*) like the Patriots.  Who are you rooting for?

I think he'll get it too.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on January 29, 2017, 02:43:08 PM
The lion in winter
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Post by: Hat And Beard on January 31, 2017, 07:52:11 AM
It's been months since I saw it, but Hell or High Water will probably hit a note with a lot of the folks on this forum. Definitely give it a look.

Also, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was way better than I expected. If you read the Harry Potter series and didn't like most of the film adaptations(I'm looking at you, last 4 movies), then you'll probably enjoy this movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on January 31, 2017, 12:26:14 PM
Lights Out, again. So good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on February 03, 2017, 04:57:00 AM
Oh Brother Where Art Thou. Amusing and entertaining.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on February 04, 2017, 10:49:30 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on February 03, 2017, 04:57:00 AM
Oh Brother Where Art Thou. Amusing and entertaining.

One of the most entertaining scripts ever written.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on February 04, 2017, 11:02:16 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on February 04, 2017, 10:49:30 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on February 03, 2017, 04:57:00 AM
Oh Brother Where Art Thou. Amusing and entertaining.

One of the most entertaining scripts ever written.

I have the soundtrack as well as the movie. Enjoy it, too.  ;D I should watch it again.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: piabee on February 04, 2017, 08:30:11 PM
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. My friends are big on the bollywood.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on February 09, 2017, 11:48:17 PM
Arrival (2016) Very intense and suspenseful.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on February 20, 2017, 02:30:57 PM
Hacksaw Ridge(best movie of the year) and Silence(don't know what to think,  dramatic and at times very moving but then again perverted in a way. Did Japanese villagers really didn't know that Jesus was God and had an inadequate or ever a tiny understanding of Christianity? In my opinion a wasted opportunity to show the real Kakure Kirishitan but then again it was based on a book. Does anyone know how closely does the movie follow the story-line of the book.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Dusty Bottoms on February 21, 2017, 11:48:13 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on February 20, 2017, 02:30:57 PM
Hacksaw Ridge(best movie of the year) and Silence(don't know what to think,  dramatic and at times very moving but then again perverted in a way. Did Japanese villagers really didn't know that Jesus was God and had an inadequate or ever a tiny understanding of Christianity? In my opinion a wasted opportunity to show the real Kakure Kirishitan but then again it was based on a book. Does anyone know how closely does the movie follow the story-line of the book.

It is a difficult, engrossing, but ultimately disappointing (to me) book.  The movie was incredibly faithful to it, for better and worse, with some small but significant exceptions.

I talk extensively about both the movie book here:  http://catholicmovieguy.com/2017/01/27/126/.  I also did a podcast on Hacksaw Ridge that you might enjoy: http://catholicmovieguy.com/2016/11/07/catholic-movie-guy-podcast-episode-4-hacksaw-ridge-top-5-war-films/.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on February 21, 2017, 12:11:34 PM
Fanny and Alexander, here:

https://www.filmstruck.com/ (https://www.filmstruck.com/)

Now this I would subscribe to, even after the free trial is up. SO many excellent movies!  ;D

Fanny and Alexander is going to need another viewing. There was so much packed in there! I wish there were a book version. I do better with books. :(
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on February 21, 2017, 02:17:17 PM
Quote from: Dusty Bottoms on February 21, 2017, 11:48:13 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on February 20, 2017, 02:30:57 PM
Hacksaw Ridge(best movie of the year) and Silence(don't know what to think,  dramatic and at times very moving but then again perverted in a way. Did Japanese villagers really didn't know that Jesus was God and had an inadequate or ever a tiny understanding of Christianity? In my opinion a wasted opportunity to show the real Kakure Kirishitan but then again it was based on a book. Does anyone know how closely does the movie follow the story-line of the book.

It is a difficult, engrossing, but ultimately disappointing (to me) book.  The movie was incredibly faithful to it, for better and worse, with some small but significant exceptions.

I talk extensively about both the movie book here:  http://catholicmovieguy.com/2017/01/27/126/.  I also did a podcast on Hacksaw Ridge that you might enjoy: http://catholicmovieguy.com/2016/11/07/catholic-movie-guy-podcast-episode-4-hacksaw-ridge-top-5-war-films/.
Thank. Oh yes you have mentioned your podcast, sorry my memory ain't that good anymore :D I'll definitely listen to it.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on February 22, 2017, 07:31:33 PM
My Life So Far.  :o Definitely not recommended.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on March 02, 2017, 12:37:51 AM
Places in the Heart. Sally Field plays such a strong woman in that movie: what an excellent model of virtue. :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on March 02, 2017, 08:01:15 PM
Quote from: Dusty Bottoms on February 21, 2017, 11:48:13 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on February 20, 2017, 02:30:57 PM
Hacksaw Ridge(best movie of the year) and Silence(don't know what to think,  dramatic and at times very moving but then again perverted in a way. Did Japanese villagers really didn't know that Jesus was God and had an inadequate or ever a tiny understanding of Christianity? In my opinion a wasted opportunity to show the real Kakure Kirishitan but then again it was based on a book. Does anyone know how closely does the movie follow the story-line of the book.

It is a difficult, engrossing, but ultimately disappointing (to me) book.  The movie was incredibly faithful to it, for better and worse, with some small but significant exceptions.

I talk extensively about both the movie book here:  http://catholicmovieguy.com/2017/01/27/126/.  I also did a podcast on Hacksaw Ridge that you might enjoy: http://catholicmovieguy.com/2016/11/07/catholic-movie-guy-podcast-episode-4-hacksaw-ridge-top-5-war-films/.

After seeing Hacksaw for a second time, I wonder if it does not present a confusing theological message.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on March 02, 2017, 08:07:21 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on March 02, 2017, 12:37:51 AM
strong woman
excellent model of virtue


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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on March 02, 2017, 08:11:01 PM
 :lol: That was good, Louis.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Dusty Bottoms on March 03, 2017, 12:58:33 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on March 02, 2017, 08:01:15 PM

After seeing Hacksaw for a second time, I wonder if it does not present a confusing theological message.

Hmmm.  Maybe.  I hope to watch it again soon.  But my recollection is it was more a celebration of Desmond's fortitude and charity toward others than an affirmation of the correctness of his moral theology.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on March 03, 2017, 11:40:42 PM
I saw Logan today.

Brutal, compelling. Big themes, life, death, sacrifice, loss, fleeting opportunities to love.

A tour de force by Patrick Stewart as well as Hugh Jackman and the young Dafne Keen.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on March 04, 2017, 12:02:51 AM
Logan
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on March 10, 2017, 11:40:11 PM
Don't laugh... Sunday movie night = Lady and the Tramp.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on March 10, 2017, 11:48:36 PM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on March 10, 2017, 11:40:11 PM
Don't laugh... Sunday movie night = Lady and the Tramp.

I love this movie.  :beer:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on March 11, 2017, 06:53:20 PM
Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory

Not the one with johnny Depp

Withthe other guy


camt remember his name for the life of me
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Carleendiane on March 11, 2017, 06:55:51 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on March 11, 2017, 06:53:20 PM
Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory

Not the one with johnny Depp

Withthe other guy


camt remember his name for the life of me

Gene wilder
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on March 11, 2017, 06:57:51 PM
Quote from: Carleendiane on March 11, 2017, 06:55:51 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on March 11, 2017, 06:53:20 PM
Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory

Not the one with johnny Depp

Withthe other guy


camt remember his name for the life of me

Gene wilder
thats the one
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on March 11, 2017, 07:01:54 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on March 11, 2017, 06:57:51 PM
Quote from: Carleendiane on March 11, 2017, 06:55:51 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on March 11, 2017, 06:53:20 PM
Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory
Not the one with johnny Depp
With the other guy
can't remember his name for the life of me
Gene wilder
that's the one
I just love him in that movie. I watch it just for him, and the opening credits.  ;D  :popcorn:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on March 20, 2017, 04:44:03 AM
Road to Perdition with Tom Hanks. Excellent.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on March 20, 2017, 09:36:35 AM
Silver Streak with Gene Wilder and a couple of french comedies with Gérard Depardieu. :)

Vertigo by Hitchcock
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on March 22, 2017, 07:23:59 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on March 20, 2017, 04:44:03 AM
Road to Perdition with Tom Hanks. Excellent.

One of my all time favorites. Excellent, indeed.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on March 22, 2017, 07:25:12 AM
The Third Man

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on March 22, 2017, 07:27:51 AM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on March 22, 2017, 07:23:59 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on March 20, 2017, 04:44:03 AM
Road to Perdition with Tom Hanks. Excellent.

One of my all time favorites. Excellent, indeed.
Such a good movie. I love Tom Hanks.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:18:04 AM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on March 22, 2017, 07:25:12 AM
The Third Man
I just ordered this movies along with 28 classics for my friend a couple of days ago.  :)
It came already so now I want to see it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on March 22, 2017, 09:19:13 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:18:04 AM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on March 22, 2017, 07:25:12 AM
The Third Man
I just ordered this movies along with 28 classics for my friend a couple of days ago.  :)
It came already so now I want to see it.
And what were the classics?  :popcorn:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:24:08 AM
you may not like some of them but  ;)
Shaft (1971)
Dog Day Afternoon
Serpico
Twilight Zone: The Complete Series
Young Frankenstein
American Graffiti
Touch of Evil
Frankenstein: The Legacy Collection
On the Waterfront
All About Eve
The Bela Lugosi Collection
The French Connection
Strangers on a Train
The Revenant -
Double Indemnity
House on Haunted Hill
Island of Lost Souls
Death Wish
Requiem for a Heavyweight
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
Nosferatu
Night Moves

and a couple more
The Lady from Shanghai
Midnight Cowboy
Scarecrow
The Public Enemy
Kiss of Death
The Blob
The Body Snatcher
Ed Wood
Mildred Pierce
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on March 22, 2017, 09:24:30 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:18:04 AM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on March 22, 2017, 07:25:12 AM
The Third Man
I just ordered this movies along with 28 classics for my friend a couple of days ago.  :)
It came already so now I want to see it.

Get ready to tilt your head.

It's very good.  Not enough Orson Welles.  But the perfect amount of Orson Welles. 

You'll have to let me know if you agree after you've watched it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on March 22, 2017, 09:28:02 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:24:08 AM
you may not like some of them but  ;)
Shaft (1971)
Dog Day Afternoon
Twilight Zone: The Complete Series
Young Frankenstein
American Graffiti
Touch of Evil
Frankenstein: The Legacy Collection
On the Waterfront
All About Eve
The Bela Lugosi Collection
The French Connection
Strangers on a Train
The Revenant -
Lol. I've only ever heard of Strangers on a Train, and only because of the Castle episode, in which it served as the inspiration for a murder.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on March 22, 2017, 09:29:14 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:24:08 AM
you may not like some of them but  ;)
Dog Day Afternoon

Stellar.  Lumet at his best.

Quote
Touch of Evil

Fantastic noir.  Watch it along with The Third Man.  I'd watch The Third Man first, probably.  But watch them back to back, if at all possible.  Or at least on back to back evenings.
Quote
The French Connection

Yup yup yup.  Love me some Popeye Doyle.  So where's Serpico on this list?

QuoteStrangers on a Train

Can't go wrong with Hitchcock. 

Quote
The Revenant

Haven't gotten around to it yet.  Loved Amorres Perros and 21 Grams, though Babel not so much.  Iñárritu has a knack for grittiness and realism.

ETA:
Quote
Midnight Cowboy

One of the saddest movies I've ever seen.  Worth a single viewing for married people (fairly explicit by late sixties standards in some parts), if that.  Heartbreaking.  Very poorly representative that the only thing people remember is Hey!  I'm walkin' heah.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on March 22, 2017, 09:33:30 AM
Ah, I see Serpico is on the list (now).  Good good.  I always preferred Serpico to French Connection, but that's just me.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:37:56 AM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on March 22, 2017, 09:29:14 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:24:08 AM
you may not like some of them but  ;)
Dog Day Afternoon

Stellar.  Lumet at his best.

Quote
Touch of Evil

Fantastic noir.  Watch it along with The Third Man.  I'd watch The Third Man first, probably.  But watch them back to back, if at all possible.  Or at least on back to back evenings.
Quote
The French Connection

Yup yup yup.  Love me some Popeye Doyle.  So where's Serpico on this list?

QuoteStrangers on a Train

Can't go wrong with Hitchcock. 

Quote
The Revenant

Haven't gotten around to it yet.  Loved Amorres Perros and 21 Grams, though Babel not so much.  Iñárritu has a knack for grittiness and realism.

ETA:
Quote
Midnight Cowboy

One of the saddest movies I've ever seen.  Worth a single viewing for married people (fairly explicit by late sixties standards in some parts), if that.  Heartbreaking.  Very poorly representative that the only thing people remember is Hey!  I'm walkin' heah.

Serpico is on the way,  ;)
Thank you for your quick and good remarks. I love film noir therefore my neighbor and I are very well matched. I also enjoy watching films like Frankenstein and other mild horror movies but only occasionally. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:41:27 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on March 22, 2017, 09:28:02 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:24:08 AM
you may not like some of them but  ;)
Shaft (1971)
Dog Day Afternoon
Twilight Zone: The Complete Series
Young Frankenstein
American Graffiti
Touch of Evil
Frankenstein: The Legacy Collection
On the Waterfront
All About Eve
The Bela Lugosi Collection
The French Connection
Strangers on a Train
The Revenant -
Lol. I've only ever heard of Strangers on a Train, and only because of the Castle episode, in which it served as the inspiration for a murder.
I never liked old classic cinema, but ever since reversion to catholic faith my taste for movies has matured.  :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: YeOldeFustilarians on March 22, 2017, 09:41:56 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:37:56 AM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on March 22, 2017, 09:29:14 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:24:08 AM
you may not like some of them but  ;)
Dog Day Afternoon

Stellar.  Lumet at his best.

Quote
Touch of Evil

Fantastic noir.  Watch it along with The Third Man.  I'd watch The Third Man first, probably.  But watch them back to back, if at all possible.  Or at least on back to back evenings.
Quote
The French Connection

Yup yup yup.  Love me some Popeye Doyle.  So where's Serpico on this list?

QuoteStrangers on a Train

Can't go wrong with Hitchcock. 

Quote
The Revenant

Haven't gotten around to it yet.  Loved Amorres Perros and 21 Grams, though Babel not so much.  Iñárritu has a knack for grittiness and realism.

ETA:
Quote
Midnight Cowboy

One of the saddest movies I've ever seen.  Worth a single viewing for married people (fairly explicit by late sixties standards in some parts), if that.  Heartbreaking.  Very poorly representative that the only thing people remember is Hey!  I'm walkin' heah.

Serpico is on the way,  ;)
Thank you for your quick and good remarks. I love film noir therefore my neighbor and I are very well matched. I also enjoy watching films like Frankenstein and other mild horror movies but only occasionally. 

Martin, have you seen (or did you order or do you own) Network?  That's probably Lumet's best, IMO.  Forgot about it when I lauded Dog Day Afternoon above. 

I've been dabbling in noir pretty heavily lately.  Far from an expert.  Be sure to see Chinatown which is sort of a post-noir homage to noir.  When I first saw it, without realizing its purpose, I was fairly underwhelmed.  Watch it knowing that that's what Polanski was going for and it stands alone.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:48:00 AM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on March 22, 2017, 09:41:56 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:37:56 AM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on March 22, 2017, 09:29:14 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:24:08 AM
you may not like some of them but  ;)
Dog Day Afternoon

Stellar.  Lumet at his best.

Quote
Touch of Evil

Fantastic noir.  Watch it along with The Third Man.  I'd watch The Third Man first, probably.  But watch them back to back, if at all possible.  Or at least on back to back evenings.
Quote
The French Connection

Yup yup yup.  Love me some Popeye Doyle.  So where's Serpico on this list?

QuoteStrangers on a Train

Can't go wrong with Hitchcock. 

Quote
The Revenant

Haven't gotten around to it yet.  Loved Amorres Perros and 21 Grams, though Babel not so much.  Iñárritu has a knack for grittiness and realism.

ETA:
Quote
Midnight Cowboy

One of the saddest movies I've ever seen.  Worth a single viewing for married people (fairly explicit by late sixties standards in some parts), if that.  Heartbreaking.  Very poorly representative that the only thing people remember is Hey!  I'm walkin' heah.

Serpico is on the way,  ;)
Thank you for your quick and good remarks. I love film noir therefore my neighbor and I are very well matched. I also enjoy watching films like Frankenstein and other mild horror movies but only occasionally. 

Martin, have you seen (or did you order or do you own) Network?  That's probably Lumet's best, IMO.  Forgot about it when I lauded Dog Day Afternoon above. 

I've been dabbling in noir pretty heavily lately.  Far from an expert.  Be sure to see Chinatown which is sort of a post-noir homage to noir.  When I first saw it, without realizing its purpose, I was fairly underwhelmed.  Watch it knowing that that's what Polanski was going for and it stands alone.
Network you say. I will check it out. :thumbsup:
Chinatown, I want to watch this one. It scored high on IMDb.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on March 22, 2017, 04:47:11 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:24:08 AM
you may not like some of them but  ;)

Have you and your friend seen The Conversation? We watched it in my film class and I think it's right up your alley(s).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on March 22, 2017, 04:53:26 PM
The Secret of Kells

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A great movie- deserved to get way more hype than it did(I've never felt so bad for a movie after looking at the budget/box office returns). 

Made to emulate the Book of Kells, I think anyone over a certain age will appreciate the beauty of the movie. Storyline was a little rushed, but that's no problem for young ones.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 05:28:16 PM
Quote from: Hat And Beard on March 22, 2017, 04:47:11 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:24:08 AM
you may not like some of them but  ;)

Have you and your friend seen The Conversation? We watched it in my film class and I think it's right up your alley(s).
The Conversation is also on the way, forgot to mention it  :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on March 22, 2017, 06:01:03 PM
The Conversation is a fantastic film.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 08:30:20 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on March 22, 2017, 06:01:03 PM
The Conversation is a fantastic film.
I now see that my friend next door has a really good taste for movies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on March 22, 2017, 09:37:17 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 08:30:20 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on March 22, 2017, 06:01:03 PM
The Conversation is a fantastic film.
I now see that my friend next door has a really good taste for movies.
That the tea guy?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on March 23, 2017, 09:29:12 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on March 22, 2017, 09:37:17 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 08:30:20 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on March 22, 2017, 06:01:03 PM
The Conversation is a fantastic film.
I now see that my friend next door has a really good taste for movies.
That the tea guy?
yup.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on March 24, 2017, 04:11:15 PM
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fgnula.nu%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F07%2FCalvary_poster_ingles.jpg&hash=23e005c136b1725384a805cee7e5be073b22b770)

Surprisingly good. There's a scene where the other priest gets yelled at that I liked.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on March 26, 2017, 11:26:35 AM
Quote from: Hat And Beard on March 24, 2017, 04:11:15 PM
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Surprisingly good. There's a scene where the other priest gets yelled at that I liked.
I cannot see the pic could you tell me what movies you are writing about./
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on March 26, 2017, 12:04:44 PM

(https://billysteele60.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/enbki3vs.jpeg)


Calvary is the movie. It's not even showing up for me in the original anymore lol
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on March 26, 2017, 03:02:50 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:41:27 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on March 22, 2017, 09:28:02 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on March 22, 2017, 09:24:08 AM
you may not like some of them but  ;)
Shaft (1971)
Dog Day Afternoon
Twilight Zone: The Complete Series
Young Frankenstein
American Graffiti
Touch of Evil
Frankenstein: The Legacy Collection
On the Waterfront
All About Eve
The Bela Lugosi Collection
The French Connection
Strangers on a Train
The Revenant -
Lol. I've only ever heard of Strangers on a Train, and only because of the Castle episode, in which it served as the inspiration for a murder.
I never liked old classic cinema, but ever since reversion to catholic faith my taste for movies has matured.  :)

All About Eve is great.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on March 29, 2017, 11:31:21 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzNbGH1oZJc
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Hat And Beard on March 30, 2017, 01:22:43 PM
(https://goon.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Doubt.jpg)

I finally saw Doubt. The movie came out long enough ago that I won't bother with the spoiler font.

I'm torn between two minds on the subject. Either A) Fr. Flynn is gay and that's what he thought Sister Aloysius was insinuating about the phone call to the nun at his previous parish(and he left because he had an impropriety with another man, but has repented) or B) Fr. Flynn simply told Donald that he thought it was alright to be gay in the rectory and doesn't think it's a sin, and is afraid of the backlash that would accompany this getting out in 1964. I don't think Fr. Flynn molested Donald, though.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: misericonfit on April 03, 2017, 08:45:53 PM
The last complete film I watched is "Yonggary", on Youtube.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on April 14, 2017, 12:34:29 PM
The Passion of the Christ
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on April 16, 2017, 05:25:52 PM
I'm watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (finally). I just love watching the actors eat all of that delicious-looking candy. And Gene Wilder. Such a sweetheart. :)

Edit: Holy moley, it's an allegory for the spiritual life!  :eek: :swoon:

Lol! One of Wonka's combinations is the Ivory Soap slogan!  :tinfoil:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on April 17, 2017, 03:07:54 AM
Now it's Mary Poppins. It's been too long! :) This one's about pulling the mote out of one's own eye, and thus finding happiness all around oneself. ;) Mind-power.  8)

Mary Poppins is so understanding of human nature.  :beer:

There's so much virtue here.  ;D Mrs. Banks is Mrs. Jellyby, and Mr. Banks is Mr. Dombey. And Mary Poppins? :)  :grin:

It's about the parents embracing their primary vocation as parents, the one on which they will be judged by God, Himself. Astounding.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on April 17, 2017, 04:15:58 AM
Captain Phillips with Tom Hanks. Meh.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on April 17, 2017, 11:28:42 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on April 16, 2017, 05:25:52 PM
I'm watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (finally). I just love watching the actors eat all of that delicious-looking candy. And Gene Wilder. Such a sweetheart. :)

Edit: Holy moley, it's an allegory for the spiritual life!  :eek: :swoon:

Lol! One of Wonka's combinations is the Ivory Soap slogan!  :tinfoil:

This is one of my favorite films. It's underappreciated for a number of reasons, not least of which is the moralizing aspect to it. There are so many fantastic quotes (of quotes) from Wonka, but the best is saved for the end, when Charlie Bucket gives back the Everlasting Gobstopper instead of selling it off to Slugworth. Wonka quotes Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, "So shines a good deed in a weary world."

Beautiful.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on April 17, 2017, 12:03:31 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on April 17, 2017, 11:28:42 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on April 16, 2017, 05:25:52 PM
I'm watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (finally). I just love watching the actors eat all of that delicious-looking candy. And Gene Wilder. Such a sweetheart. :)

Edit: Holy moley, it's an allegory for the spiritual life!  :eek: :swoon:

Lol! One of Wonka's combinations is the Ivory Soap slogan!  :tinfoil:

This is one of my favorite films. It's underappreciated for a number of reasons, not least of which is the moralizing aspect to it. There are so many fantastic quotes (of quotes) from Wonka, but the best is saved for the end, when Charlie Bucket gives back the Everlasting Gobstopper instead of selling it off to Slugworth. Wonka quotes Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, "So shines a good deed in a weary world."

Beautiful.

Yep. The various children represent vices, with Charlie being the "every man" who struggles as well but does not have the financial ability to engage in them at such a level as the others. His spiritual poverty allows him the ability to grow in virtue. He has the world at his fingertips by taking from others and yet cannot bring himself to do it. All he owns is his integrity and in the end he cannot sell it. The trade-off is not worth it to him. He'd rather be a good poor kid than a slightly wealthier one with no honor. The other children already have their reward. Yet, he is guilty. He DID take the Everlasting Gobstopper. He simply returns it.

A character study of each child and their parent(s) would likely reveal combinations of the 7 deadly sins and other vices.

There are 4 children aside from Charlie. They represent the opposite of the 4 cardinal virtues (Prudence Justice Fortitude Temperance). All 4 violate these in their own way, with an associated Vice being prominent -- Augustus violates temperance primarily, etc.)

It could be a full on study for a Masters level thesis paper, I bet.

The only qualm I have with the allegory is the use of an employee playing Slugworth. This lends credence to the idea of Satan actually being on the side of God as a way to sift good from bad. In that aspect, Wonka is actually tempting rather than allowing temptation.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on April 17, 2017, 02:04:39 PM
Quote from: Gardener on April 17, 2017, 12:03:31 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on April 17, 2017, 11:28:42 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on April 16, 2017, 05:25:52 PM
I'm watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (finally). I just love watching the actors eat all of that delicious-looking candy. And Gene Wilder. Such a sweetheart. :)

Edit: Holy moley, it's an allegory for the spiritual life!  :eek: :swoon:

Lol! One of Wonka's combinations is the Ivory Soap slogan!  :tinfoil:

This is one of my favorite films. It's underappreciated for a number of reasons, not least of which is the moralizing aspect to it. There are so many fantastic quotes (of quotes) from Wonka, but the best is saved for the end, when Charlie Bucket gives back the Everlasting Gobstopper instead of selling it off to Slugworth. Wonka quotes Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, "So shines a good deed in a weary world."

Beautiful.

Yep. The various children represent vices, with Charlie being the "every man" who struggles as well but does not have the financial ability to engage in them at such a level as the others. His spiritual poverty allows him the ability to grow in virtue. He has the world at his fingertips by taking from others and yet cannot bring himself to do it. All he owns is his integrity and in the end he cannot sell it. The trade-off is not worth it to him. He'd rather be a good poor kid than a slightly wealthier one with no honor. The other children already have their reward. Yet, he is guilty. He DID take the Everlasting Gobstopper. He simply returns it.

A character study of each child and their parent(s) would likely reveal combinations of the 7 deadly sins and other vices.

There are 4 children aside from Charlie. They represent the opposite of the 4 cardinal virtues (Prudence Justice Fortitude Temperance). All 4 violate these in their own way, with an associated Vice being prominent -- Augustus violates temperance primarily, etc.)

It could be a full on study for a Masters level thesis paper, I bet.

The only qualm I have with the allegory is the use of an employee playing Slugworth. This lends credence to the idea of Satan actually being on the side of God as a way to sift good from bad. In that aspect, Wonka is actually tempting rather than allowing temptation.

That is an interesting thesis. It seems clear that:

Augustus x Temperance
Veruca x Justice

However, one might have a hard time with the remaining two. It seems that both Violet and Mike violate prudence more than fortitude.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on April 17, 2017, 02:05:46 PM
Quotethe use of an employee playing Slugworth

God often allows us to be tempted even via the behavior of good people. St. Teresa writes about this in one of her books (Way of Perfection?) when she encourages her daughters to strive for humility and detachment:

QuoteYou will say that these are natural little things to which
we need pay no attention. Don't fool yourselves, they increase
like foam, and there is nothing so small in which there is so ob-
vious a danger as this concern about honor and whether we
have been offended. Do you know why besides many other
reasons? Perhaps this concern begins in someone as something
small and amounting to hardly anything, and then the devil



The Way of Perfection - Chap. 13 85

stirs another to think it is something big, and this other will
even think she is practicing charity by going and saying to the
offended nun, "How do you put up with such an offense? God
give you patience to offer it up; a saint wouldn't suffer more."
The devil puts such malicious talk on the other Sister's tongue
that though you barely overcome the offense, you are still
tempted to vainglory, when in reality you did not suffer with
the perfection with which you should have suffered.

9. And this nature of ours is so weak that merely by telling
ourselves that the offense should not be tolerated, we think and
believe that we have done something; how much more is this so
when we see that others feel this way for us. As a result, the soul
loses the occasions it had for meriting; it becomes weaker and
opens the door for the devil to come again with something
worse. And it could even happen, when you want to suffer the
injury, that they will come to you and say: "Are you a beast or
what? It's good for you to feel things." [Huh, and if one of them
is a friend!] Oh, for love of God, my Sisters! May no one be
moved by an indiscreet charity to show pity for another in
something that touches upon these false injuries, for such pity
is like that of Job's wife and friends 6 (Way of Perfection, 12:8-9).

St. Teresa says that she knows this danger well, having seen it in other monasteries (she's always vague about where, exactly); and those nuns probably weren't all that evil. God allowed them to serve as a temptation to their sisters, in the way that He allows all other evil.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on April 17, 2017, 02:09:23 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on April 17, 2017, 02:04:39 PM
That is an interesting thesis. It seems clear that:

Augustus x Temperance
Veruca x Justice

However, one might have a hard time with the remaining two. It seems that both Violet and Mike violate prudence more than fortitude.

I think Mike would probably sin against fortitude, by perverting it and practicing it incorrectly. He was all gung-ho to be transmitted by Wonkavision, remember, and even asked to do it again!  :o And remember those shoot-em-up cowboy, cops'n'robbers shows that he loves? He's trying to put into practice what he sees there, but in an inappropriate way.

Violet seems to be the one who sins most against prudence: she was warned not to chew the gum because the bugs hadn't been worked out yet, but she thought that she knew better, and ended up as a blueberry. Lol.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on April 17, 2017, 02:23:12 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on April 17, 2017, 02:09:23 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on April 17, 2017, 02:04:39 PM
That is an interesting thesis. It seems clear that:

Augustus x Temperance
Veruca x Justice

However, one might have a hard time with the remaining two. It seems that both Violet and Mike violate prudence more than fortitude.

I think Mike would probably sin against fortitude, by perverting it and practicing it incorrectly. He was all gung-ho to be transmitted by Wonkavision, remember, and even asked to do it again!  :o And remember those shoot-em-up cowboy, cops'n'robbers shows that he loves? He's trying to put into practice what he sees there, but in an inappropriate way.

Violet seems to be the one who sins most against prudence: she was warned not to chew the gum because the bugs hadn't been worked out yet, but she thought that she knew better, and ended up as a blueberry. Lol.

Yes, I had thought of Mike's decision in a similar vein as Violet's but when you include Mike's obsession with being a cowboy and getting a gun as soon as possible ("Not until you're 12, son"), I suppose that that is a good argument that he is on the excessive extreme (as opposed to the extreme of deficiency) in regard to the golden mean of fortitude.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: angelcookie on April 20, 2017, 04:34:00 PM
Big Fish. Loved it and I'm not a Tim Burton fan.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on April 20, 2017, 04:43:11 PM
Fast 8
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Graham on April 20, 2017, 05:22:50 PM
Quote from: angelcookie on April 20, 2017, 04:34:00 PM
Big Fish. Loved it and I'm not a Tim Burton fan.

That's a decent movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on April 20, 2017, 06:15:07 PM
Quote from: Graham on April 20, 2017, 05:22:50 PM
Quote from: angelcookie on April 20, 2017, 04:34:00 PM
Big Fish. Loved it and I'm not a Tim Burton fan.

That's a decent movie.
I loved it, except for the fake accents. Those were a huge drawback. :(
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on April 20, 2017, 06:25:20 PM
Secondhand Lions. This was my favorite movie to watch with my uncle. This is the first time I've been able to watch it since he died. God, I miss him. But in a good way.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Graham on April 21, 2017, 10:25:01 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on April 20, 2017, 06:15:07 PM
Quote from: Graham on April 20, 2017, 05:22:50 PM
Quote from: angelcookie on April 20, 2017, 04:34:00 PM
Big Fish. Loved it and I'm not a Tim Burton fan.

That's a decent movie.
I loved it, except for the fake accents. Those were a huge drawback. :(

The accents are part of the intention to create a pointedly (or stereotypically) wholesome and sincere atmosphere. It was probably done knowing that it would sound artificial.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Graham on April 21, 2017, 03:42:03 PM
We live in an insincere world and that's why a movie that's over-the-top sincere can endear itself to some of us. I think what makes Big Fish artistically tolerable (other than it's imagination) and not just sentimental is that it knows what it's getting up to.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on April 29, 2017, 06:56:58 AM
Child 44 with Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace. Not bad. Set in Stalinist Russia and pretty grim.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: attiret on April 29, 2017, 09:10:27 PM
Ridicule (1996)

Quote from: WikipediaRidicule is a 1996 French film set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one's ability to mete out witty insults and avoid ridicule oneself. The story examines the social injustices of late 18th century France, in showing the corruption and callousness of the aristocrats.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZODD-pOhZ48[/yt]

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on April 30, 2017, 10:49:05 AM
Watching Penny Serenade
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on May 03, 2017, 04:39:05 PM
My Fair Lady.  ;D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on May 03, 2017, 05:01:54 PM
Unforgiven
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on May 04, 2017, 05:02:12 AM
"Hell of a thing killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have."
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Matto on May 15, 2017, 08:19:57 PM
I just watched again a Japanese Movie from 1949 called "Late Spring". It is about a professor who tries to marry off his daughter who is reluctant to marry in postwar Japan. The director's name is Yasujiro Ozu. He is my favorite director and this is one of my favorite movies. The last scene where the father peels the apple is one of my favorite moments in any movie I have ever seen.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/embed/aQMQnHyUwJM[/yt]
I would say the movie is safe to watch for those worried about modesty issues. There are no short skirts or dresses that do not cover the knees, though there are a couple of women in pants. Perhaps Jerome would object to it but I think it most people would think it is fine to watch especially when compared to modern American movies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on May 16, 2017, 10:44:40 AM
Matto, may I ask how you became familiar with this director?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Matto on May 16, 2017, 11:07:24 AM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on May 16, 2017, 10:44:40 AM
Matto, may I ask how you became familiar with this director?
When I was in college I took a class on film. As strange as it sounds they have college classes about movies that you get credit for, LOL. And one of the movies I saw was called "Tokyo Story" and was directed by Ozu. I thought it was easily the best movie I have ever seen. Later I found out that among those who consider foreign films and not just American ones, "Tokyo Story" is on many lists of the best films ever made and Roger Ebert said that of all of the movies he has ever seen, more people in the audience cry during "Tokyo Story" than any other movie. I admit that when I first saw it I also cried. Then a few years later one of the independent movie houses in New York had a series where they showed a lot of Ozu's movies and I watched a number of them and they were all very good. And then many of Ozu's movies were released in America on DVD for the first time and I bought many of them and thought they were all of the highest quality. My other favorite director is Carl Dreyer, but he only made a few feature length films. I plan on watching one of Dreyer's films again today and if I find it is safe to watch, I plan on posting about it on this thread also.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Matto on May 16, 2017, 07:21:38 PM
I just finished watching "Ordet" again which means The Word, directed by Carl Dreyer. It is a movie about a protestant family who live on a farm. One of the sons went insane and now believes he is Jesus Christ. I think it is one of the most interesting movies I have ever seen.

Part 1
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/embed/IWK_s93AhFo[/yt]
Part 2
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/embed/mURITCRtfFM[/yt]

I would recommend this movie for adults and not for children because something happens in the movie that I do not think young children should know about. The characters dress modestly. There is one scene where a woman is in labor and while you do not see anything you can hear her moaning in pain. But I think it is a good movie for adults to watch. Remember to turn on the subtitles by clicking on the "cc" button on the youtube video.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on May 16, 2017, 09:53:49 PM
Quote from: Matto on May 16, 2017, 07:21:38 PM
I just finished watching "Ordet" again which means The Word, directed by Carl Dreyer. It is a movie about a protestant family who live on a farm. One of the sons went insane and now believes he is Jesus Christ. I think it is one of the most interesting movies I have ever seen.

I would recommend this movie for adults and not for children because something happens in the movie that I do not think young children should know about. The characters dress modestly. There is one scene where a woman is in labor and while you do not see anything you can hear her moaning in pain. But I think it is a good movie for adults to watch. Remember to turn on the subtitles by clicking on the "cc" button on the youtube video.

Sounds and looks like my type of movie. I love black and white.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on May 21, 2017, 02:44:09 PM
The Homesman with Tommy Lee Jones. Depressing.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on May 22, 2017, 05:09:36 AM
Man on Fire with Denzel Washington. Meh.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on May 22, 2017, 05:37:35 AM
If ever i needed another reason Not to eat McDonalds: The Flounder.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: clau clau on May 22, 2017, 08:06:38 AM
The Bounty - 1984 (Didn't Bonaventure star in that  ;D )
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on May 22, 2017, 10:06:57 AM
The Handmaiden (2016)

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fncc.phinf.naver.net%2F20160303_295%2F1456994635645WzjHP_JPEG%2F15.jpg%3Ftype%3Dw646&hash=49db8850ccdae58652093b6d8689023ffd995a78)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on May 24, 2017, 10:36:27 PM
I recently watched two very emotional dramas, couldn't hold back tears.
The Impossible with Naomi Watts and I'm not ashamed based on 1999 Columbine High School massacre.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: RedCaves on May 26, 2017, 11:29:44 PM
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: angelcookie on May 28, 2017, 01:24:23 AM
War Dogs and Bad Moms

Crap
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on May 29, 2017, 09:51:10 PM
Predator
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on June 04, 2017, 03:15:51 AM
Grand Budapest Hotel. Amusing.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Carleendiane on June 04, 2017, 07:27:51 AM
A Night to Remember about the Titanic sinking.  Made late 40 or Early 50s. Fantastic. Clean. Memorable.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on June 04, 2017, 09:31:23 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on June 04, 2017, 03:15:51 AM
Grand Budapest Hotel. Amusing.
Amusing is a very good word to describe this movie. Good humor haha.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 05, 2017, 04:33:35 PM
Christine (2016)

(https://keithandthemovies.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/christine-poster.jpg?w=545)

I saw this movie knowing nothing about the real-life events it was based on.  Fascinating.  An exceptional performance from the actress Rebecca Hall, who is almost always interesting.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on June 06, 2017, 04:04:47 AM
The Illusionist with Ed Norton. Not bad.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 07, 2017, 10:11:39 AM
Katalin Varga (2009)

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Graham on June 07, 2017, 10:15:51 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on June 06, 2017, 04:04:47 AM
The Illusionist with Ed Norton. Not bad.

It has definite revolutionary and occult themes, but I always liked it too. I've probably seen it three times. I enjoy psychological thrillers.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 09, 2017, 09:39:46 AM
Diary of a Chambermaid (2015)

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Splendid.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on June 09, 2017, 06:48:51 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on May 22, 2017, 10:06:57 AM
The Handmaiden (2016)

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I watched this last week but it surely isn't appropriate to watch. Sick plot.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 10, 2017, 09:05:13 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on June 09, 2017, 06:48:51 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on May 22, 2017, 10:06:57 AM
The Handmaiden (2016)
I watched this last week but it surely isn't appropriate to watch. Sick plot.

It would definitely not have passed muster with the National Legion of Decency in the olden days, that's for certain.  But these days, I don't know.  We are living in the reign of relativism, and even on a traditional Catholic forum, "inappropriate" is a subjective and contentious term.  Some years ago, I would've cared.  Nowadays I've reverted to just watching the same kinds of movies I always did.  The Handmaiden is an interesting movie in terms of aesthetics, the way it creates a dreamy world, lingering on scenes of girls in Victorian dresses carrying dainty parasols while strolling the manicured gardens of an imposing brick mansion, and mahogany-paneled libraries full of antiquarian books with woodcuts of Asian erotica.  I mostly enjoyed it, even though it was melodramatic and over-the-top at parts.  I'd give it four stars out of five, but it's not a personal favorite or anything.  My all-time favorite movie is Barry Lyndon, which I believe is rated PG, due to a scene where Marisa Berenson's breasts are briefly exposed while she's lying in a bath.

I guess you could say it's an occasion of sin, but there's just no standard for "occasion of sin" anymore.  It's left for the individual to decide.  Do you remember the poster named Jerome, who came onto the forum and started pointing out how just about every other movie in this thread is filled with mortal sin (https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.msg339484#msg339484)?  He was actually in the right, but anyone can read the thread and see the reactions.  You can see the snark and sarcasm come out—the typical modes of defense that get reared whenever people are made uncomfortable (and the laughter that colors that sort of jocularity is undoubtedly a nervous laughter). 

It's my own theory that Bishop Williamson bears some responsibility in all this, because as soon as he deemed The Sound of Music "pornographic," he lost all credibility as a movie critic, and that was the decisive moment where traditional Catholics could reasonably differ with their hierarchy, and cultural standards slid further (and I would say irrevocably) away from the monolithic to the diverse.  Even if the Catholic Church were restored to tradition tomorrow, with a Pope Fellay, and the Vatican set up an authoritative film advisory board, I would bet that a lot of traditional Catholics would still feel content to ignore it as "too prudish" or some such.  The prevailing attitude of the day is dissent and rebellion.  Yet somehow I don't mind it.  I recently watched a movie I really and truly enjoyed, which I would assign a full five stars to, called Diary of a Chambermaid (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2711898/).  Even though it takes place a hundred years ago, it really captures the spirit of the age.  In another thread, it was mentioned how some French women can be "cold and aloof," and there might be a grain of truth to that.  The lead actress in Diary of a Chambermaid, Lea Seydoux, has a face and a fierce gaze that are able to really capture that coldness and contemptuousness.  This is a creature that kicks at the goad and bristles at the bit, hurling half-audible curses under her breath at her cruel employer.  "What did you say?"  "Nothing."  I loved it.

I might make a thread where we can list our "Top 20 movies of the current millennium."  That one would be on mine.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Matto on June 10, 2017, 09:38:01 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 10, 2017, 09:05:13 AM
I guess you could say it's an occasion of sin, but there's just no standard for "occasion of sin" anymore.  It's left for the individual to decide.  Do you remember the poster named Jerome, who came onto the forum and started pointing out how just about every other movie in this thread is filled with mortal sin (https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.msg339484#msg339484)?  He was actually in the right, but anyone can read the thread and see the reactions.  You can see the snark and sarcasm come out—the typical modes of defense that get reared whenever people are made uncomfortable (the laughter that colors that sort of jocularity is undoubtedly a nervous laughter). 
I remember Jerome. I kind of agreed with him in general though he was more strict than I am. On Cathinfo he accused me of sinning because I browse the internet without all images blocked even though I do not go to bad websites. If I was KK I would not have banned him because I think the more rigorous should be welcome to counteract the lax. I think those arguments make for a good forum.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 10, 2017, 09:57:39 AM
Quote from: Matto on June 10, 2017, 09:38:01 AMI remember Jerome. I kind of agreed with him in general though he was more strict than I am. On Cathinfo he accused me of sinning because I browse the internet without all images blocked even though I do not go to bad websites. If I was KK I would not have banned him because I think the more rigorous should be welcome to counteract the lax. I think those arguments make for a good forum.

Yes.  It might be said of Jerome that he was over-correcting a tad too far against laxity, but I agree that one such as he is a valuable forum member to have.  Good discussions are usually challenging.  The interesting thing about Jerome's tenure here, though, was that he presented his arguments so well and with ample citations, whereas the pushback he received was mostly just cheesy uncharitable eye-rolling sarcasm, the kind of thing you could program a bot to come up with.  I guess a good discussion needs not only a challenge, but a willingness to meet the challenge with substantial arguments.  In the age of memes, that might be too much to expect.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on June 10, 2017, 10:05:58 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 10, 2017, 09:57:39 AM
Quote from: Matto on June 10, 2017, 09:38:01 AMI remember Jerome. I kind of agreed with him in general though he was more strict than I am. On Cathinfo he accused me of sinning because I browse the internet without all images blocked even though I do not go to bad websites. If I was KK I would not have banned him because I think the more rigorous should be welcome to counteract the lax. I think those arguments make for a good forum.

Yes.  It might be said of Jerome that he was over-correcting a tad too far against laxity, but I agree that one such as he is a valuable forum member to have.  Good discussions are usually challenging.  The interesting thing about Jerome's tenure here, though, was that he presented his arguments so well and with ample citations, whereas the pushback he received was mostly just cheesy uncharitable eye-rolling sarcasm, the kind of thing you could program a bot to come up with.  I guess a good discussion needs not only a challenge, but a willingness to meet the challenge with substantial arguments.  In the age of memes, that might be too much to expect.

Very, very true. I remember reading his citations to bolster his admonishments and thinking that he is correct. His approach was priggish; if he is as holy as he portrays himself, then he is fasting and offering up much suffering for us to change our ways.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 10, 2017, 11:18:50 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on June 10, 2017, 10:05:58 AMI remember reading his citations to bolster his admonishments and thinking that he is correct. His approach was priggish; if he is as holy as he portrays himself, then he is fasting and offering up much suffering for us to change our ways.

Right.  In spite of his substantive, logical, and well-documented arguments, he was just not able to get his message to sing.  He had the integrity and righteousness of a Savonarola, but not much of the rhetorical and oratorical magic.  (One is not actually orating on a message board, but you get the idea). 

Even though his detractors won the day by shouting him down with heaps of sarcasm and scorn, I would imagine that Jerome probably did very well with any audience of impartial lurkers that might be out there.  They probably thought, "this is guy is presenting some serious and thoughtful material, and the responses are little more than empty knee-jerk hostility and juvenile mockery."  Ah well.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on June 10, 2017, 12:44:07 PM
If I was one of the juvenile mockers, I am sorry.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 10, 2017, 01:29:09 PM
I skimmed two prominent Jerome threads earlier—his thread criticizing this one, and another one called "Cheerleading (http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=16087.msg350251#msg350251)."  I didn't see you among the mockers, Heinrich.  I think Greg scored the strongest point against him, after he got Jerome to reveal that he was unmarried, lived on disability, and rarely left his home.  Greg asked him how it would be possible to keep custody of the eyes for normal people who had to raise children, hold down jobs, and basically interact on a daily basis with the world.  He also threw in a Greg zinger which was actually a very good point: "you don't have any true need for the internet, so why risk your soul by being only a few seconds away from the largest library of free pornography that has ever existed in the entire history of the world?"  Jerome received a ban before he could respond.  But his own good points about traditional Catholics' consumption of modern entertainment went largely unanswered as well.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on June 10, 2017, 02:50:06 PM
PDR,  Diary of a Chambermaid seems like a good flick. I'll watch it tonight/
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Pheo on June 10, 2017, 02:50:14 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 10, 2017, 09:05:13 AMSome years ago, I would've cared.  Nowadays I've reverted to just watching the same kinds of movies I always did.

This came as a bit of a surprise.  It was some of your posts about how separate Christians are called to be from the world that, at least in part, I had in mind when I made some of the opposite changes in my life.  Internet is gone which took Netflix and YouTube with it (online sermons are great but I wasted countless hours on mindless garbage too...).  Just my phone with a small data plan.  And if I didn't need that for work, it might be gone too.  Pitched quite a few DVDs and music, so now my free time is spent studying, reading, praying, or at the pub.  Or some combination thereof.

Why the "if you can't beat 'em join 'em" mentality?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Non Nobis on June 10, 2017, 03:32:00 PM
Quote from: Pheo on June 10, 2017, 02:50:14 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 10, 2017, 09:05:13 AMSome years ago, I would've cared.  Nowadays I've reverted to just watching the same kinds of movies I always did.

This came as a bit of a surprise.  It was some of your posts about how separate Christians are called to be from the world that, at least in part, I had in mind when I made some of the opposite changes in my life.  Internet is gone which took Netflix and YouTube with it (online sermons are great but I wasted countless hours on mindless garbage too...).  Just my phone with a small data plan.  And if I didn't need that for work, it might be gone too.  Pitched quite a few DVDs and music, so now my free time is spent studying, reading, praying, or at the pub.  Or some combination thereof.

Why the "if you can't beat 'em join 'em" mentality?

I don't have such good habits, but I too was a little surprised by Pon de Replay's remarks after a couple of previous posts he made recently... Surely some things are truly not appropriate AT LEAST for certain people - e.g. for children. PDR are you so tough and unchildlike that you personally don't have to watch for things that are inappropriate for you?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 10, 2017, 05:33:35 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on June 10, 2017, 02:50:06 PM
PDR,  Diary of a Chambermaid seems like a good flick. I'll watch it tonight/

Good deal, Martin.  As long as you're not expecting pious entertainment, though.  It's essentially an unflinching slice of life and a glimpse into the strangeness and complexities of human nature.  The main character is mercurial and capricious.  There are no pat answers in it, which I think can sometimes frustrate people.  I have never read the book, but I looked it up on the internet and found this quote from it: "si infâmes que soient les canailles, elles ne le sont jamais autant que les honnêtes gens"—"however vile the riff-raff may be, they are never as vile as decent people."  That sums up its attitude.

From the Jerome standpoint, there are actually no immodest fashions that I can recall, since it takes place in France during the Dreyfuss Affair, so the skirts are suitably long.  However, there are a couple of brief sex scenes, so it would probably get a "nyet" from Jerome, but there is no nudity shown.  Nothing explicit, unlike another Lea Seydoux film, Blue is the Warmest Color, which is essentially lesbian pornography, and not even a good movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 10, 2017, 05:50:29 PM
Quote from: Pheo on June 10, 2017, 02:50:14 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 10, 2017, 09:05:13 AMSome years ago, I would've cared.  Nowadays I've reverted to just watching the same kinds of movies I always did.

This came as a bit of a surprise.  It was some of your posts about how separate Christians are called to be from the world that, at least in part, I had in mind when I made some of the opposite changes in my life.  Internet is gone which took Netflix and YouTube with it (online sermons are great but I wasted countless hours on mindless garbage too...).  Just my phone with a small data plan.  And if I didn't need that for work, it might be gone too.  Pitched quite a few DVDs and music, so now my free time is spent studying, reading, praying, or at the pub.  Or some combination thereof.

Why the "if you can't beat 'em join 'em" mentality?

I believe Christianity is, without question, a religion which calls its members to eschew worldliness.  I will argue for that until the day I die.  But I also believe that particular spirit has been irrevocably eroded down to nearly nothing, and cannot realistically be recaptured.  To attempt to recreate an authentic Christianity would be kind of "futilely anachronistic" at this point.  My favorite people are the ones who try, though.  I used to be—not like Jerome, exactly, but some variation of Jerome.  I can appreciate where he's coming from.  He obviously reads the works of the saints and takes them seriously, and in one of his threads I revisited this morning, he ended one his "vast compilation of saintly commentary" posts with the question, "how can Catholics be so blind?"  The difference between me and Jerome is that at some point I realized, "why am I blind to what Catholicism has become?"

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 10, 2017, 05:57:54 PM
Quote from: Non Nobis on June 10, 2017, 03:32:00 PMSurely some things are truly not appropriate AT LEAST for certain people - e.g. for children. PDR are you so tough and unchildlike that you personally don't have to watch for things that are inappropriate for you?

I think the movies I watch are appropriate for a person my age.  Probably most of the movies I watch are things that Bishop Robert Barron would watch.  (With the exception of Blue is the Warmest Color, obviously.  But maybe even Bishop Barron got blindsided by that one.  I don't think I've ever seen a mainstream movie with such long and explicit sex scenes).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 10, 2017, 06:02:12 PM
Brief Encounter (1945)

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cinemacity.org%2Fmedia_lib%2Ffiles%2Fbrief-encounter.jpg&hash=e7df03958288744b604869c2ef8d19e71c712d2d)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Matto on June 10, 2017, 06:09:52 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 10, 2017, 05:50:29 PMI believe Christianity is, without question, a religion which calls its members to eschew worldliness.  I will argue for that until the day I die.  But I also believe that particular spirit has been irrevocably eroded down to nearly nothing, and cannot realistically be recaptured . . . My favorite people are the ones who try, though.
Maybe we would get along. Especially since September I have been trying to be a lot less worldly. I have been fasting more and trying to avoid sin but I must admit that the little I do is not that heroic. I have always been drawn towards the people generally considered rigorists and who always seem to be banned from the forums for their views on morals, people like Jerome and a number of posters on Cathinfo, which is the forum I have posted most on, who were banned for their strict views on morality. After reading about saints such as the Cure of Ars and Saint Gemma Galgani, and now I am reading about the Desert Fathers, it made me believe that doing penance for our sins is one of the most important parts of Christianity, and it seems it is also the part of Christianity that is most obscured in our times.

Edit: A point about traditional Catholics. Many of them are good at arguing against the Novus Ordo, but do they do penance?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 10, 2017, 06:26:49 PM
Quote from: Matto on June 10, 2017, 06:09:52 PMI have always been drawn towards the people generally considered rigorists and who always seem to be banned from the forums for their views on morals, people like Jerome and a number of posters on Cathinfo, which is the forum I have posted most on, who were banned for their strict views on morality. After reading about saints such as the Cure of Ars and Saint Gemma Galgani, and now I am reading about the Desert Fathers, it made me believe that doing penance for our sins is one of the most important parts of Christianity, and it seems it is also the part of Christianity that is most obscured in our times.

Yes, I think the so-called "rigorists," or "Jansenists," or whatever they get unfairly labeled, are great because they afford us a glimpse of that authentic Christian spirit; in their gestures, attitudes, behaviors, and fashions, they really are "the light of the world."

I think one of the most pronounced differences between today and the Middle Ages is that there's no longer the same popular distinction made between the pious people and the ordinary folk.  It's just assumed now that everyone is copacetic.  It's probably best seen in the approach to taking communion.  It used to be that many people would only communicate once a year, at Easter, keenly aware of their own worldliness and unworthiness.  Nowadays it's nearly everyone.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on June 10, 2017, 07:36:48 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 10, 2017, 06:26:49 PM
Yes, I think the so-called "rigorists," or "Jansenists," or whatever they get unfairly labeled, are great because they afford us a glimpse of that authentic Christian spirit; in their gestures, attitudes, behaviors, and fashions, they really are "the light of the world."

I think one of the most pronounced differences between today and the Middle Ages is that there's no longer the same popular distinction made between the pious people and the ordinary folk.  It's just assumed now that everyone is copacetic.  It's probably best seen in the approach to taking communion.  It used to be that many people would only communicate once a year, at Easter, keenly aware of their own worldliness and unworthiness.  Nowadays it's nearly everyone.

The problem with the Jansenists/rigorists is that they're usually assholes.  You never come across a smooth-talking one who is able to win people to his "side."

It's always "You're going to Hell for browsing with images on!" 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on June 10, 2017, 07:37:32 PM
Quote from: Matto on June 10, 2017, 09:38:01 AM
I remember Jerome. I kind of agreed with him in general though he was more strict than I am. On Cathinfo he accused me of sinning because I browse the internet without all images blocked even though I do not go to bad websites. If I was KK I would not have banned him because I think the more rigorous should be welcome to counteract the lax. I think those arguments make for a good forum.

Eh, if someone wanted to promote strong moral standards, they're free and welcome and encouraged to do so. 

They just can't be an asshole about it. 

It also helps if they at least try to become a member of the community, as opposed to the moral police squad. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Matto on June 10, 2017, 08:13:35 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 10, 2017, 07:36:48 PM
The problem with the Jansenists/rigorists is that they're usually assholes.  You never come across a smooth-talking one who is able to win people to his "side."

It's always "You're going to Hell for browsing with images on!"

Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 10, 2017, 07:37:32 PM
Eh, if someone wanted to promote strong moral standards, they're free and welcome and encouraged to do so. 

They just can't be an asshole about it. 

Well Pon de Replay said he used to be similar to Jerome and he seems nice. In the month since I joined this forum here he is one of my favorite posters. But I agree that Jerome was not that good at getting along with others and he seemed to brush people the wrong way when trying to correct them. But I think he meant well and was in a hard situation because it seemed to him that people were watching and recommending movies that he thought were mortally sinful to watch and no one else was saying anything about it. Even if his judgment was wrong, I understand why he acted the way he did.

About rigorists usually being assholes, I would probably be considered a rigorist myself and I hope I am not an asshole. But I do not usually talk about some of the more extreme views I have because they are strange and not really appropriate to talk about publicly.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 10, 2017, 08:43:20 PM
Thank you for the kind words, Matto.  You became one of my favorite posters as soon as you mentioned liking Yasujiro Ozu and Carl Theodore Dreyer.  Ordet is one of my favorite films, too.

I can appreciate why Jerome came across as so harsh in Kaesekopf's view; I think a lot of it really is a matter of perspective.  For people to whom popular culture presents no problem, someone like Jerome will appear a ranting lunatic.  But at the same time, he's not a "holy fool."  It's impossible to picture Jerome as some bearded Russian mendicant monk haranguing everyone with a bizarre folk theology, because he was so astute and scholarly with his sources.  There was something very sane and methodical about him—and you're right, I think he was brusque because he saw the situation as so desperate for correction; he obviously felt he had no time to spare on trivialities or pleasantries.  Which is a shame, because I'll bet he's an interesting person.  At one point, Carleen Diane asked him to talk a little bit about about himself, but he turned up his nose at the suggestion and deemed it "irrelevant."  I didn't think it was.  I would've liked to have known, say, what kind of movies Jerome liked before he became so strict about such things.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 10, 2017, 08:57:59 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 10, 2017, 07:36:48 PMThe problem with the Jansenists/rigorists is that they're usually assholes.  You never come across a smooth-talking one who is able to win people to his "side."

It's always "You're going to Hell for browsing with images on!"

There is some truth to this, of course, but at the same time, I wonder if even St. John Chrysostom, whose very sobriquet attests to his eloquence, would be able to convince anyone these days that the Christian ought to be not conformed to the world.  (And he would definitely be considered a "rigorist" by this forum's standards).

However priggish or scolding Jerome may've been, we have to admit that at least he founded his arguments on copious saints and popes.  Looking at the hostility and sarcasm in the responses to him, I get the impression that his opposition was so entrenched in their ways that even a silver-tongued Jerome oozing sweetness and light couldnt've done much to sway them.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on June 10, 2017, 09:50:10 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 10, 2017, 05:57:54 PM

I think the movies I watch are appropriate for a person my age. 

The Handmaiden is thoroughly evil on many different levels.

I appreciate your point that some things can be appropriate for adults, but certainly this is not one of them.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Pheo on June 10, 2017, 09:54:25 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 10, 2017, 05:50:29 PMBut I also believe that particular spirit has been irrevocably eroded down to nearly nothing, and cannot realistically be recaptured.  To attempt to recreate an authentic Christianity would be kind of "futilely anachronistic" at this point.

On a societal level you're probably right (barring a miracle), but it has to count for something on an individual level still.  I haven't read The Benedict Option, but I can't think of anything more in tune with the spirit of St Benedict than a struggle for personal holiness through development of the interior life.  There's no hope of changing those around us without it, because we can't give what we don't have.

Having said that, we probably have to go through some rough times before there's any widespread recovery of the Christian ideal.  But as +Bossuet said, "When God wishes a work to be wholly from His own hand, He brings everything to powerlessness or to nothingness, then He acts."
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Non Nobis on June 11, 2017, 12:44:20 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 10, 2017, 06:26:49 PM

I think the so-called "rigorists," or "Jansenists," or whatever they get unfairly labeled, are great because they afford us a glimpse of that authentic Christian spirit; in their gestures, attitudes, behaviors, and fashions, they really are "the light of the world."


Such people would have a much shorter list of movies that they deem "appropriate for their age".  If they made it very much longer, would they still be (or provide a glimpse of) "the light of the world"?

It seems possible to me that any of us may misjudge what is "appropriate for my age"; going too far in one direction (rigorists) or the other (the world at large). Granted it is subjective, but can't we see which way the pendulum of the world is swinging, and which way we may be swinging too?   

Surely we should try to "recreate a more authentic Christianity" as much as we can in ourselves and in our family, even though it is futile to do in the world at large (or even in most groups larger than the family).  It's not always bad to be personally regarded as "anachronistic". Granted it takes prudence to know when we go too far, but I don't think we should just give up and stand back and admire the rigorists with no real attempt to be a little more like them.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on June 11, 2017, 01:01:40 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 10, 2017, 08:43:20 PM
I can appreciate why Jerome came across as so harsh in Kaesekopf's view; I think a lot of it really is a matter of perspective.  For people to whom popular culture presents no problem, someone like Jerome will appear a ranting lunatic.  But at the same time, he's not a "holy fool."  It's impossible to picture Jerome as some bearded Russian mendicant monk haranguing everyone with a bizarre folk theology, because he was so astute and scholarly with his sources.  There was something very sane and methodical about him—and you're right, I think he was brusque because he saw the situation as so desperate for correction; he obviously felt he had no time to spare on trivialities or pleasantries.  Which is a shame, because I'll bet he's an interesting person.  At one point, Carleen Diane asked him to talk a little bit about about himself, but he turned up his nose at the suggestion and deemed it "irrelevant."  I didn't think it was.  I would've liked to have known, say, what kind of movies Jerome liked before he became so strict about such things.

I think you paint a false picture, though, or at least a bit of a false dichotomy.  I think people in this forum are somewhat open to charitable correction, or at least a healthy dialogue over different matters. 

I'd probably side more with Jerome on media matters, insofar as the bulk of what is produced is utterly degenerate and soul-killing.  I think his guide to restricting certain content on Internet browsing was a good one.

But, as the old saying goes, you'll get more flies with honey rather than vinegar.  Running a one man crusade to get everyone to stop watching a certain type of movie isn't going to go over well.  People have an irrational attachment, particularly, to music (and I think Fr Basil Cole, OP states as much in his book on music and morals) and breaking that isn't easy. 

And, he should certainly know that, regardless of the situation, regardless of what is going on, running into a community, declaring yourself the arbiter of all things moral, and instructing everyone to follow suit won't go over well, even if you're cassock-clad and holding an STD in moral theology. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 11, 2017, 11:28:23 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 11, 2017, 01:01:40 AMI think you paint a false picture, though, or at least a bit of a false dichotomy.  I think people in this forum are somewhat open to charitable correction, or at least a healthy dialogue over different matters. 

I'd probably side more with Jerome on media matters, insofar as the bulk of what is produced is utterly degenerate and soul-killing.  I think his guide to restricting certain content on Internet browsing was a good one.

But, as the old saying goes, you'll get more flies with honey rather than vinegar.  Running a one man crusade to get everyone to stop watching a certain type of movie isn't going to go over well.  People have an irrational attachment, particularly, to music (and I think Fr Basil Cole, OP states as much in his book on music and morals) and breaking that isn't easy. 

And, he should certainly know that, regardless of the situation, regardless of what is going on, running into a community, declaring yourself the arbiter of all things moral, and instructing everyone to follow suit won't go over well, even if you're cassock-clad and holding an STD in moral theology.

I agree with you about Jerome's style, and I concur wholeheartedly about people's irrational attachments making them stubborn and hostile when challenged.  So I don't think it's a false dichotomy.  At the end of it, though, after these personality issues have been peeled away and the sheer force of argument is all that remains, Jerome comes out a lot better on those threads than his detractors do.  He who had no self-restraint in his presentation at least had logic and citations on his side, whereas those who had no charity had nothing else besides.  Which is not to tar everyone; the user named Ye Olde Fustilarians did seem to recognize that Jerome was bringing forth some good and cogent arguments, and offered him serious and considered responses.

But consider it this way, because arguments among laypersons are mostly doomed.  If the Catholic Church miraculously returned to tradition tomorrow, and had a pope whose traditionalist bona fides would be unquestioned by 99% of the people on this forum, and if the Church set up a pontifical congregation to set the standards for modesty in dress and decency in entertainments, do you think everyone would receive those standards with docility if they were even half as strict as the Early Church Fathers?  Or would they "LOL," or take recourse to the notion that "well, it's pretty obvious that Jansenism lives on in traditional Catholicism"?

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 11, 2017, 11:54:04 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on June 10, 2017, 09:50:10 PMThe Handmaiden is thoroughly evil on many different levels.

I appreciate your point that some things can be appropriate for adults, but certainly this is not one of them.

I don't think it's more "thoroughly evil" than a lot of culture and entertainment that gets mentioned here.  I will admit that this may be self-justification on my part, but I think a presentation that is overall languorous, dreamy, and decadent (such as The Handmaiden has) is far less noxious than one that is coarse, crass, macho, and soulless (such as many of the action movies and first-person-shooter video games people enjoy). 

The Handmaiden is sexy and pervy, that's true, but its atmosphere is lush and mannered.  It's close in tone to 19th century movements like the French Symbolists or the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England, both of which I like.  You can see the aesthetics in the costumes, the set design, and the landscapes.  The mansion it takes place in was designed to be a perfect combination of the Japanese and the English: cultures that place a certain emphasis on propriety and form.  I would in no way class it in the same tier as Barry Lyndon, but it is definitely a distant heir to that same kind of cinematic sensibility, where Stanley Kubrick strove to have almost every frame a work of art unto itself, like a Gainsborough painting.  The themes and plot are far more degenerate, involving a perverse sexual underground and a lesbian affair.  But I don't think there's anything there that would be out of place in the poetry of Verlaine or Baudelaire, which adults can appreciate on a literary level.  It's not for everyone, of course.

Title: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 11, 2017, 12:50:49 PM
Quote from: Pheo on June 10, 2017, 09:54:25 PMOn a societal level you're probably right (barring a miracle), but it has to count for something on an individual level still.  I haven't read The Benedict Option, but I can't think of anything more in tune with the spirit of St Benedict than a struggle for personal holiness through development of the interior life.  There's no hope of changing those around us without it, because we can't give what we don't have.

Having said that, we probably have to go through some rough times before there's any widespread recovery of the Christian ideal.  But as +Bossuet said, "When God wishes a work to be wholly from His own hand, He brings everything to powerlessness or to nothingness, then He acts."

I guess my biggest issue is with the fact that it all has, in effect, come down to the "individual level."  At that point, I don't see how it doesn't end in relativism, with one Catholic reveling in worldliness, saying, "this is all right for me," and another living like a monastic, saying, "this is my preference."  It becomes a sort of a "Choose Your Own Catholicism," and Catholicism turns into a nebulous thing that no one can really pin down, because it changes from person to person.

One of the things traditional Catholicism demonstrates (unfortunately) is that when everyone is left to their own, and things do break down to this kind of individualist approach, there's no standard.  The standard is arbitrary.  Someone like Jerome can come in and say, "look, people, we have these strict standards," and everyone else can say, "no, Jerome, sorry, it's more loose and nuanced than that." 

I thought the most interesting response to Jerome was from Ye Olde Fustilarians, when he asked Jerome if he was a convert from Protestantism, because Jerome was reading the words of the saints and the popes and making himself the sole arbiter.  But in a way, that's kind of what everyone does.  It's like a form of sola scriptura, where the scriptura is the collection of all these documents, encyclicals, manuals, and devotional writings, with no ultimate arbiter any more, and everyone is interpreting them more or less on their own.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 11, 2017, 01:20:01 PM
Quote from: Non Nobis on June 11, 2017, 12:44:20 AMSuch people would have a much shorter list of movies that they deem "appropriate for their age".  If they made it very much longer, would they still be (or provide a glimpse of) "the light of the world"?

It seems possible to me that any of us may misjudge what is "appropriate for my age"; going too far in one direction (rigorists) or the other (the world at large). Granted it is subjective, but can't we see which way the pendulum of the world is swinging, and which way we may be swinging too?   

Surely we should try to "recreate a more authentic Christianity" as much as we can in ourselves and in our family, even though it is futile to do in the world at large (or even in most groups larger than the family).  It's not always bad to be personally regarded as "anachronistic". Granted it takes prudence to know when we go too far, but I don't think we should just give up and stand back and admire the rigorists with no real attempt to be a little more like them.

In my own life, I tried to be very much like the so-called rigorists, but gave it up.  Not because I couldn't handle it, as is often alleged (there's a popular criticism that says people go to this extreme with too much zeal, find they can't handle it, and then their pendulum swings back).  I just despaired that I was fashioning my own little individual form of Catholicism, while everyone else was having their fun with movies and rock music, and who was I to say that they were any less Catholic than me?  I will admit that "Jansenism," for all its minimalist sublimity, is not easy.  I think I appreciate it now in a detached way, in the same way that Barry Lyndon or a Mozart piano concerto has a profound beauty.

I remember when I was growing up, we lived a couple of hours away from the "Amish country" area of Lancaster county in Pennsylvania.  Occasionally my family would take a day trip to whatever small colonial town the Amish frequented, and we would kind of leisurely sight-see and distantly admire that pastoral, old-fashioned, agrarian way of life that was lost to us in the suburbs.  And after my parents did some antique shopping, we would all get soft ice cream and sit on the porch of the establishment and watch the horse-&-buggy carriages on the street, driven by strange people in beards and black clothing, bonnets and prairie dresses.  And then we would drive home and I'd go back to playing Atari or reading some goofy Choose Your Own Adventure book.  I somehow intuited that the Amish were special, but I was hopelessly stuck in the modern world.  Had I known how to articulate it at the time, I would've thought to myself, "I am not numbered among the elect."

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Sempronius on June 11, 2017, 02:18:30 PM
I was also a rigorist but mellowed down a bit.. for a year and a half I gave away like 40 % of my salary to charity.. Became more worldly when I realized what Pon de replay is saying, that everybody seems to treat the saints mortifications as "weird stuff that saints used to do".

But Im still staying away from tv, music and movies ;D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Matto on June 11, 2017, 05:57:55 PM
I just watched The Passion of Joan of Arc by Dreyer again. I have been watching some of my favorite movies recently. The first time I saw this it blew my mind. It is a silent movie from 1928. There are a few different soundtracks you can watch it with. This one is by a modern band called "Joan of Arc". There is another soundtrack called "Voices of Light" which has a kind of choir singing. I like them both. I was afraid that this soundtrack would detract from the movie but I do not think it does.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/embed/CxJSGMK9yRE[/yt]
As far as modesty issues go, there is a man bare-chested for a few seconds and there is a woman breastfeeding for a few seconds. It is not at all sexual but you do see a woman's breast.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on June 11, 2017, 06:44:47 PM
They Live
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 11, 2017, 09:31:05 PM
Cría Cuervos (1976)

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Clare on June 12, 2017, 10:06:17 AM
Inception
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Matto on June 12, 2017, 06:34:25 PM
I have watched more movies in the last month than I normally do in a year but I have not watched any new ones. I fear watching new movies because I find most of them to be immoral. To me older movies are less offensive. And I also think the artistic quality of movies has gone down. Tonight I watched my favorite movie called Tokyo Story directed by Ozu. The director wrote the scripts of his movies with his co-writer while they were drinking sake together. While writing Tokyo Story they drank 43 bottles of sake. The movie is the story of two elderly grandparents from the country going to visit their children and grandchildren in Tokyo. I do not know much about the life of Ozu except that he lived with his mother and never married and died on his sixtieth birthday. I love his movies though.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/embed/pCh4WRDVzyY[/yt]
I think this movie is safe to watch. If it offends you I don't think you should be watching any movies because most movies, especially modern ones, are more objectionable.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on June 12, 2017, 11:38:41 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 10, 2017, 08:57:59 PM
However priggish or scolding Jerome may've been, we have to admit that at least he founded his arguments on copious saints and popes.  Looking at the hostility and sarcasm in the responses to him, I get the impression that his opposition was so entrenched in their ways that even a silver-tongued Jerome oozing sweetness and light couldnt've done much to sway them.

Sure, but there's that line about cymbals and brass to keep in mind, too.

And, I can quote saints all day long, but that isn't necessarily a convincing route to take.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on June 12, 2017, 11:39:50 PM
Quote from: Matto on June 10, 2017, 08:13:35 PM
About rigorists usually being assholes, I would probably be considered a rigorist myself and I hope I am not an asshole. But I do not usually talk about some of the more extreme views I have because they are strange and not really appropriate to talk about publicly.

Now I am intrigued.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on June 12, 2017, 11:44:20 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 11, 2017, 11:28:23 AM
But consider it this way, because arguments among laypersons are mostly doomed.  If the Catholic Church miraculously returned to tradition tomorrow, and had a pope whose traditionalist bona fides would be unquestioned by 99% of the people on this forum, and if the Church set up a pontifical congregation to set the standards for modesty in dress and decency in entertainments, do you think everyone would receive those standards with docility if they were even half as strict as the Early Church Fathers?  Or would they "LOL," or take recourse to the notion that "well, it's pretty obvious that Jansenism lives on in traditional Catholicism"?

The problem with traditionalism (well, at least one problem) is that we all set ourselves up as the arbiter of Catholicism.  We read a few Internet articles, maybe a book or three, can parrot back some key phrases (salus animarum supemus lex esto!), and then start deciding so and so isn't Catholic enough, etc, etc.  It's a very real problem, and it's full sadness can be found (IMHO) in the "Resistance" (those booted from the SSPX or who abandoned the SSPX), for whom nothing is ever good enough. 

But, I imagine you would find the mass bulk of traditionalists (50-75%) follow along the standards, where a noisy minority would raise all hell, not unlike how liberals do nowadays.  (I daresay, to take a negative/pessimistic view, that the bulk don't care and are content to follow orders)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on June 13, 2017, 04:25:20 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 12, 2017, 11:39:50 PM
Quote from: Matto on June 10, 2017, 08:13:35 PM
About rigorists usually being assholes, I would probably be considered a rigorist myself and I hope I am not an asshole. But I do not usually talk about some of the more extreme views I have because they are strange and not really appropriate to talk about publicly.

Now I am intrigued.
Ditto.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LouisIX on June 13, 2017, 08:35:22 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 12, 2017, 11:44:20 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 11, 2017, 11:28:23 AM
But consider it this way, because arguments among laypersons are mostly doomed.  If the Catholic Church miraculously returned to tradition tomorrow, and had a pope whose traditionalist bona fides would be unquestioned by 99% of the people on this forum, and if the Church set up a pontifical congregation to set the standards for modesty in dress and decency in entertainments, do you think everyone would receive those standards with docility if they were even half as strict as the Early Church Fathers?  Or would they "LOL," or take recourse to the notion that "well, it's pretty obvious that Jansenism lives on in traditional Catholicism"?

The problem with traditionalism (well, at least one problem) is that we all set ourselves up as the arbiter of Catholicism.  We read a few Internet articles, maybe a book or three, can parrot back some key phrases (salus animarum supemus lex esto!), and then start deciding so and so isn't Catholic enough, etc, etc.  It's a very real problem, and it's full sadness can be found (IMHO) in the "Resistance" (those booted from the SSPX or who abandoned the SSPX), for whom nothing is ever good enough. 

But, I imagine you would find the mass bulk of traditionalists (50-75%) follow along the standards, where a noisy minority would raise all hell, not unlike how liberals do nowadays.  (I daresay, to take a negative/pessimistic view, that the bulk don't care and are content to follow orders)

In my opinion, it's not even that most trads misunderstand an important concept when they read it online, but they miss how that concept relates to the whole. As such, nuanced and complex ideas get collapsed into monopolized caricatures.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Matto on June 13, 2017, 09:01:01 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 12, 2017, 11:39:50 PM
Now I am intrigued.
Are you intrigued? I guess how I said that would make people interested. I will tell you one of my ideas that I think is strange but not some of the more extreme ones that I said are not appropriate to talk about publicly. One idea is about priests and penance. I believe traditional priests should do serious penances like the saints and the early Christians did. Things like fasting, wearing hairshirts, using the discipline, etc.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on June 13, 2017, 09:02:46 AM
Quote from: Matto on June 13, 2017, 09:01:01 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 12, 2017, 11:39:50 PM
Now I am intrigued.
Are you intrigued? I guess how I said that would make people interested. I will tell you one of my ideas that I think is strange but not some of the more extreme ones that I said are not appropriate to talk about publicly. One idea is about priests and penance. I believe traditional priests should do serious penances like the saints and the early Christians did. Things like fasting, wearing hairshirts, using the discipline, etc.

How do you know what anyone does or doesn't do?

Maybe their penance is you (or me) in their confessional, and parish.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on June 13, 2017, 09:05:58 AM
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I do know of diocesan priests who do penance for their parishioners, so it's not foreign to our age.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Matto on June 13, 2017, 09:18:15 AM
Quote from: Gardener on June 13, 2017, 09:02:46 AMHow do you know what anyone does or doesn't do?

Maybe their penance is you (or me) in their confessional, and parish.
I don't know which priests do or do not do such penances. I just think they should. But this one is not my idea, but the Cure of Ars' advice to other priests. I know that some of the priests who do exorcisms like Father Ripperger do do such penances. I remember hearing about them that when they are doing exorcisms, if they do not fast strictly the devils make fun of them for their lack of penitence.

Edit: I mentioned Father Ripperger doing such penances. I wanted to correct something. I do not know which exact penances he does because I have never heard him mention them, but I know he does fast a lot because he mentioned that and I heard Charles Coulombe talking about another exorcist who before his cases he does a black fast which is forty days of eating nothing but bread and water.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 13, 2017, 09:50:55 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 12, 2017, 11:44:20 PMThe problem with traditionalism (well, at least one problem) is that we all set ourselves up as the arbiter of Catholicism.  We read a few Internet articles, maybe a book or three, can parrot back some key phrases (salus animarum supemus lex esto!), and then start deciding so and so isn't Catholic enough, etc, etc.  It's a very real problem, and it's full sadness can be found (IMHO) in the "Resistance" (those booted from the SSPX or who abandoned the SSPX), for whom nothing is ever good enough. 

But, I imagine you would find the mass bulk of traditionalists (50-75%) follow along the standards, where a noisy minority would raise all hell, not unlike how liberals do nowadays.  (I daresay, to take a negative/pessimistic view, that the bulk don't care and are content to follow orders)

Well, the thing is, I would say that "the standards" as we have them now are pretty lax.  There is certainly a difference between what the basic strictures were for the early Church, and what the basic standards are for traditional Catholics in the modern age.  Any quick perusal of this thread or the music thread will reveal that.  Somewhere along the line, the plot got lost.  I don't even think it's necessarily a modern problem.  Some of Jerome's quotes were from a pope in the early twentieth century (I forget which pope) who kept lamenting the immodesty in female fashions that even Catholics were sporting.  But you can also see it in St. Francis de Sales' Introduction to the Devout Life, and that was in the seventeenth century, and it lamented laxity.  St. Francis really went back to the source and recovered what I would consider an "authentic Christianity."  I used to love that book, and I suppose I still do, but I picked it up a couple weeks ago and it had a melancholy and sad effect on me.  It seemed to me as if St. Francis' message had become a dead letter.  Which is not to say that there aren't any Philotheas left in the world—but I don't know.  I'm having a difficult time articulating how I felt.  I can't seem to complete the thought.  Feel free to ignore this post.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 13, 2017, 10:01:01 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on June 13, 2017, 08:35:22 AMIn my opinion, it's not even that most trads misunderstand an important concept when they read it online, but they miss how that concept relates to the whole. As such, nuanced and complex ideas get collapsed into monopolized caricatures.

But a lot of these ideas are neither nuanced or complex.  Whether or not, say, a Christian should be out partying and dancing and enjoying sensuous music is a yes or no question.  The Early Church Fathers who answered this question said no.  If it was decided later that they were being too strict and puritan, and Christians can do these things "no problem," then that's fine.  My complaint would then be that this is relativism.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on June 13, 2017, 10:20:31 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 13, 2017, 10:01:01 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on June 13, 2017, 08:35:22 AMIn my opinion, it's not even that most trads misunderstand an important concept when they read it online, but they miss how that concept relates to the whole. As such, nuanced and complex ideas get collapsed into monopolized caricatures.

But a lot of these ideas are neither nuanced or complex.  Whether or not, say, a Christian should be out partying and dancing and enjoying sensuous music is a yes or no question.  The Early Church Fathers who answered this question said no.  If it was decided later that they were being too strict and puritan, and Christians can do these things "no problem," then that's fine.  My complaint would then be that this is relativism.

But a lot of those things had to do with pagan worship as well. There *is* a nuance to such things. Now, booty grinding is different than say... ball room or swing (depending).

What *is* "sensuous" music? Is Alt-country? Indie "rock"? etc?

There's a lot of generality which demands nuance.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 13, 2017, 11:02:19 AM
Quote from: Gardener on June 13, 2017, 10:20:31 AMBut a lot of those things had to do with pagan worship as well. There *is* a nuance to such things. Now, booty grinding is different than say... ball room or swing (depending).

What *is* "sensuous" music? Is Alt-country? Indie "rock"? etc?

There's a lot of generality which demands nuance.

In the passages with which I am familiar, none of the Fathers indicated that the dancing and music had any association with pagan worship.  I'm not saying it's not possible to say there's a "nuance," but it does look pretty desperate.  I found a post (https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=2.msg243550#msg243550) I made a year ago after I'd found a Catholic site that indexed the Church Fathers according to subject.  I mean, I guess you could argue that a plodding, moribund "Alt-country" song would not really qualify as "sensuous," but finding exceptions wouldn't really excuse most of the music on the music thread.  A lot of that stuff is unquestionably for dancing and bopping and partying.  It's sensuous music.  St. Ambrose's quote is my favorite: "what modesty can there be where there is dancing and noise and clapping of hands?"
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Pheo on June 13, 2017, 08:27:24 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 11, 2017, 12:50:49 PMI guess my biggest issue is with the fact that it all has, in effect, come down to the "individual level."  At that point, I don't see how it doesn't end in relativism, with one Catholic reveling in worldliness, saying, "this is all right for me," and another living like a monastic, saying, "this is my preference."  It becomes a sort of a "Choose Your Own Catholicism," and Catholicism turns into a nebulous thing that no one can really pin down, because it changes from person to person.

Well sure...but that's just indicative of the fact that there has been a massive degradation of the spiritual life.  And while that's not good, we were warned that it would happen.  God doesn't make compromises, and His Truth doesn't change.  We have the example of the Saints to guide us along the right path, even if most of the current generation is telling us to just lighten up and 'live a little.'

We're not all called to live like the desert fathers - probably because we aren't called to that degree of merit - but we are called to personal holiness.  And at some point that's going to necessitate total detachment from any created thing.  Most of the pushback that you see when these matters are discussed is simply a manifestation of attachment (I know because I have all sorts of them).  And we either have to purge ourselves of those attachments in this life or pay for them in purgatory.  But either way, they have no place in the level of perfection that we're all called to.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on June 13, 2017, 09:18:33 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 13, 2017, 11:02:19 AM
Quote from: Gardener on June 13, 2017, 10:20:31 AMBut a lot of those things had to do with pagan worship as well. There *is* a nuance to such things. Now, booty grinding is different than say... ball room or swing (depending).

What *is* "sensuous" music? Is Alt-country? Indie "rock"? etc?

There's a lot of generality which demands nuance.

In the passages with which I am familiar, none of the Fathers indicated that the dancing and music had any association with pagan worship.  I'm not saying it's not possible to say there's a "nuance," but it does look pretty desperate.  I found a post (https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=2.msg243550#msg243550) I made a year ago after I'd found a Catholic site that indexed the Church Fathers according to subject.  I mean, I guess you could argue that a plodding, moribund "Alt-country" song would not really qualify as "sensuous," but finding exceptions wouldn't really excuse most of the music on the music thread.  A lot of that stuff is unquestionably for dancing and bopping and partying.  It's sensuous music.  St. Ambrose's quote is my favorite: "what modesty can there be where there is dancing and noise and clapping of hands?"

Per the post you referenced, the line you took from St. Justin Martyr is entirely about Greek pagan practices, myth, and worship (and the activities which went into it):
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0135.htm

He wasn't talking to Christians or about music in general, but something much more nuanced.

St. Ambrose's line was from his discourse on Salome in a sermon on St. John the Baptist:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/210/2100346.htm

He was talking about Salome's seductive dance for Herod. Not mere dancing as we know it today in any sane context (i.e., not booty dancing). A real strip show, one might conclude.

St. Justin Martyr's line is definitely in the context of pagan practices. St. Ambrose's line is in the context of not Greek or Roman paganism, but the paganism which gripped Herod. The latter charge would be more easily thrown at Catholics, but I dare say not as easily as you might intimate.


ETA: the blog you referenced in the ref. post is: http://practicalapologetics.blogspot.com/p/255-pages-of-early-church-fathers.html

I look forward to reading through it. I've given you a thanks for the source, not cus I agree with your post. ;)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 13, 2017, 10:53:09 PM
I offer Aves and send a big hug, PDR.

I also, like Matto, remember Jerome from another forum.  But he had a different user name there, so in the very short time he was a member of SD, I didn't read too many of his comments, and didn't make the connection that it was him - I just thought he had the same style. 

A few years ago I (and spouse) came to know him well.  He is the finest of traditional Catholic men, hands down. Steadfast in holiness. His temperament is absolutely saintly and unwavering in humility.  What you read of him here, and possibly on the other forum, authentically represents who he is, through and through. He walks the talk, and tirelessly and lovingly works to assist his brothers in the faith, and to convert non Catholics. 

God has placed heavy crosses on his shoulders, but he never complains, only offers thanksgiving and actually quietly rejoices in his suffering.  I've never met anyone like him. 

I pray for him every day, and I am honored to call him friend.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 13, 2017, 10:55:02 PM
Quote from: RedCaves on May 26, 2017, 11:29:44 PM
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

RC, thumbs up or down?  IMDB comments are favorable.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on June 14, 2017, 08:07:00 AM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 13, 2017, 10:53:09 PM

A few years ago I (and spouse) came to know him well.  He is the finest of traditional Catholic men, hands down. Steadfast in holiness. His temperament is absolutely saintly and unwavering in humility.  What you read of him here, and possibly on the other forum, authentically represents who he is, through and through. He walks the talk, and tirelessly and lovingly works to assist his brothers in the faith, and to convert non Catholics. 

God has placed heavy crosses on his shoulders, but he never complains, only offers thanksgiving and actually quietly rejoices in his suffering.  I've never met anyone like him. 

I pray for him every day, and I am honored to call him friend.

What a lovely testimonial.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on June 14, 2017, 08:08:22 AM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 13, 2017, 10:53:09 PM

A few years ago I (and spouse) came to know him well.  He is the finest of traditional Catholic men, hands down. Steadfast in holiness. His temperament is absolutely saintly and unwavering in humility.  What you read of him here, and possibly on the other forum, authentically represents who he is, through and through. He walks the talk, and tirelessly and lovingly works to assist his brothers in the faith, and to convert non Catholics. 

God has placed heavy crosses on his shoulders, but he never complains, only offers thanksgiving and actually quietly rejoices in his suffering.  I've never met anyone like him. 

I pray for him every day, and I am honored to call him friend.

What does that say about us then, if a person like that was quickly banned from our forum?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on June 14, 2017, 08:10:08 AM


Quote from: Maximilian on June 14, 2017, 08:08:22 AM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 13, 2017, 10:53:09 PM

A few years ago I (and spouse) came to know him well.  He is the finest of traditional Catholic men, hands down. Steadfast in holiness. His temperament is absolutely saintly and unwavering in humility.  What you read of him here, and possibly on the other forum, authentically represents who he is, through and through. He walks the talk, and tirelessly and lovingly works to assist his brothers in the faith, and to convert non Catholics. 

God has placed heavy crosses on his shoulders, but he never complains, only offers thanksgiving and actually quietly rejoices in his suffering.  I've never met anyone like him. 

I pray for him every day, and I am honored to call him friend.

What does that say about us then, if a person like that was quickly banned from our forum?

Not sure, except that he needs to learn how to conduct himself better online.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 14, 2017, 08:29:20 AM
Gardener, I misunderstood you.  When you said the strictures against dancing and sensuous music were declared in the context of "pagan worship," I took it to mean that you thought the "nuance" was that the Church Fathers were only against such music and dancing if they were done as a tribute to some pagan deity, or at a pagan religious festival.

In fact, the links you provided are not nuanced but generalized.  St. Justin's hatred of "flutes that provoke to lustful movements" is put under the heading "Shameless practices of the Greeks (http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0135.htm)."  Surely he didn't mean that these were shameless and vain for the Greeks but okay for Christians.  That would be the most absurd instance of relativism in Christian history.  Shamelessness and vanity are shamelessness and vanity, for pagan or Christian, Gentile or Jew.  He was reviling these practices of the Greeks because he found them abhorrent as a Christian.

The editor of St. Ambrose's sermon (http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/210/2100346.htm) even summarizes it as "against dancing" (perhaps he missed the nuance), and the aspects of Salome's dance which St. Ambrose took exception to are not just the "striptease" aspects but the sensuous music and lustful movements as well.  But thank you for the link; this is a terrific phrase: "the reward of the dancer is the death of the prophet."  That's a beautiful aphorism.  Everything is contained within it on worldliness and holiness, the sacred and the profane.  That is the spirit that has gone.  And now we are left only with the letter—the endless parsing out of nuances and justifications; the dead burying their dead.

Incidentally, one of my favorite Sinéad O'Connor songs begins with the lyric, "I'm dancing the seven veils."  It's a real toe-tapper, infectious and sensuous.  There is probably someone out there with the casuistic genius to argue that St. Ambrose would've been fine with it.  But not me.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on June 14, 2017, 08:32:31 AM
I saw the new Beauty and the Beast. I prefer the old version.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 14, 2017, 08:43:48 AM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 13, 2017, 10:53:09 PM
I offer Aves and send a big hug, PDR.

I also, like Matto, remember Jerome from another forum.  But he had a different user name there, so in the very short time he was a member of SD, I didn't read too many of his comments, and didn't make the connection that it was him - I just thought he had the same style. 

A few years ago I (and spouse) came to know him well.  He is the finest of traditional Catholic men, hands down. Steadfast in holiness. His temperament is absolutely saintly and unwavering in humility.  What you read of him here, and possibly on the other forum, authentically represents who he is, through and through. He walks the talk, and tirelessly and lovingly works to assist his brothers in the faith, and to convert non Catholics. 

God has placed heavy crosses on his shoulders, but he never complains, only offers thanksgiving and actually quietly rejoices in his suffering.  I've never met anyone like him. 

I pray for him every day, and I am honored to call him friend.

Thank you, PerEvangelicaDicta.  I agree with Maximilian; that's a lovely testimonial.  I hope it didn't come across in my posts as if I was criticizing him too harshly for his "brusqueness."  It's clear that his online style was borne of a very commendable zeal.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 14, 2017, 10:05:48 AM
QuoteI hope it didn't come across in my posts as if I was criticizing him too harshly for his "brusqueness."  It's clear that his online style was borne of a very commendable zeal.

To the contrary, PDR, you offered objective observations and excellent analysis of Jerome's style of address, and of his critics. I thank you for that. It's one of the many reasons I enjoy your contributions.

While I understand that his style of very direct charitable correction is conscience pricking, provoking extreme lash back reactions (I had such a public reaction on another forum with him, which caused me ruthless introspection and an apology to him), in truth, he is correct.

Maximilian, your question moved my heart, since I empathize with his critics as one who fell into that category at one time, in reaction to the nerve he touched.

Kaes did give him a few chances to alter his approach a bit, but knowing Jerome's sense of urgency to save souls, believing time is very short, he cannot.  Although he does not discuss it, I'm convinced he thought 'his own' would receive correction in humility.  It's obvious he's astounded at the worldliness of many traditional Catholics, thus, "commendable zeal" is an excellent description, PDR.   
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 14, 2017, 10:14:49 AM
I downloaded Tokyo Story and Diary of a Chambermaid.

Bernadette, would you be so kind as to briefly contrast old and new B&B?  New one is really hyped.  It's hard to trust MSM reviews  :-\
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on June 14, 2017, 10:22:37 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 14, 2017, 08:43:48 AM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 13, 2017, 10:53:09 PM
I offer Aves and send a big hug, PDR.

I also, like Matto, remember Jerome from another forum.  But he had a different user name there, so in the very short time he was a member of SD, I didn't read too many of his comments, and didn't make the connection that it was him - I just thought he had the same style. 

A few years ago I (and spouse) came to know him well.  He is the finest of traditional Catholic men, hands down. Steadfast in holiness. His temperament is absolutely saintly and unwavering in humility.  What you read of him here, and possibly on the other forum, authentically represents who he is, through and through. He walks the talk, and tirelessly and lovingly works to assist his brothers in the faith, and to convert non Catholics. 

God has placed heavy crosses on his shoulders, but he never complains, only offers thanksgiving and actually quietly rejoices in his suffering.  I've never met anyone like him. 

I pray for him every day, and I am honored to call him friend.

Thank you, PerEvangelicaDicta.  I agree with Maximilian; that's a lovely testimonial.  I hope it didn't come across in my posts as if I was criticizing him too harshly for his "brusqueness."  It's clear that his online style was borne of a very commendable zeal.
Yes you may think so but some of us here were not really impressed by his"nagging" at everything that in his opinion was sinful. He barely listened to what was said by other members and while being right many times, his charity didn't become a magnet but a deterrent. I cannot read his heart but this was my objective observation at the time and I do wish him well.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 14, 2017, 10:30:49 AM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 14, 2017, 10:14:49 AMI downloaded Tokyo Story and Diary of a Chambermaid.

Okay, but just to reiterate what I told Martin: be sure not to expect a pious entertainment from the latter of those downloads.

:leaving:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Matto on June 14, 2017, 11:07:58 AM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 14, 2017, 10:14:49 AM
I downloaded Tokyo Story and Diary of a Chambermaid.
I hope you enjoy Tokyo Story. It is not a very well known movie. Most regular people do not know about it. On IMBD it only has around 31,000 user ratings while The Godfather has over 1.2 million user ratings. But it is critically acclaimed and loved by directors and foreign film buffs. In the 2012 Sight and Sound magazine poll of movie directors' top 100 movies, Tokyo Story was actually voted the best film of all time by the famous directors polled, beating out The Godfather and every other movie.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/directors (http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/directors)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on June 14, 2017, 11:12:19 AM


Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 14, 2017, 10:05:48 AM
Although he does not discuss it, I'm convinced he thought 'his own' would receive correction in humility.  It's obvious he's astounded at the worldliness of many traditional Catholics, thus, "commendable zeal" is an excellent description, PDR.

Lol, I like you, PED, but this just makes me laugh.

"He thought they'd listen to a random crank!  Why are they so worldly!"


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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 14, 2017, 01:32:21 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 14, 2017, 11:12:19 AM


Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 14, 2017, 10:05:48 AM
Although he does not discuss it, I'm convinced he thought 'his own' would receive correction in humility.  It's obvious he's astounded at the worldliness of many traditional Catholics, thus, "commendable zeal" is an excellent description, PDR.

Lol, I like you, PED, but this just makes me laugh.

"He thought they'd listen to a random crank!  Why are they so worldly!"


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From your perspective, Kaes, that is pretty funny and made ME laugh!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on June 14, 2017, 02:25:44 PM
Quote from: Matto on June 13, 2017, 09:01:01 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 12, 2017, 11:39:50 PM
Now I am intrigued.
Are you intrigued? I guess how I said that would make people interested. I will tell you one of my ideas that I think is strange but not some of the more extreme ones that I said are not appropriate to talk about publicly. One idea is about priests and penance. I believe traditional priests should do serious penances like the saints and the early Christians did. Things like fasting, wearing hairshirts, using the discipline, etc.

I'm sure there are priests who do this they probably keep it private.  Many traditional priests suffer in other ways without having to take on these practices.

The CFR priests I know, while novus ordo, fast q lot, sleep without mattresses, and don't have warm sgowers
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on June 14, 2017, 02:56:26 PM
i think most catholics would agree that there are some forms of dance that are sexualized and sinful.  however dance has always survived in the context of catholic cultures through folk dancing as well as stuff like ballet and ballroom dance traditions.  on the scale of Irish step dancing to twerking, at what point is dancing sinful?  there doesnt seem to be any hard and fast line to me.  what consitutes "sensual" dancing  Back in the day my wife and I used to go salsa and merengue dancing at a club that used to have live music on the weekends.  last year for our anniversary she got me a gift certificate for wheelchair ballroom dancing lessons but we havent used it yet. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Matto on June 14, 2017, 04:16:26 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on June 14, 2017, 02:25:44 PM
I'm sure there are priests who do this they probably keep it private.  Many traditional priests suffer in other ways without having to take on these practices.

The CFR priests I know, while novus ordo, fast q lot, sleep without mattresses, and don't have warm sgowers
That is good to know. I am sure there are some good priests out there who do penances for their flock. Even Pope John Paul II who is not a hero for most of us here was greatly impressed with the life of the Cure of Ars and at times he would use the discipline and scourge himself at night before he went to bed. So such penances are not unheard of today.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on June 14, 2017, 04:20:17 PM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 14, 2017, 01:32:21 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 14, 2017, 11:12:19 AM


Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 14, 2017, 10:05:48 AM
Although he does not discuss it, I'm convinced he thought 'his own' would receive correction in humility.  It's obvious he's astounded at the worldliness of many traditional Catholics, thus, "commendable zeal" is an excellent description, PDR.

Lol, I like you, PED, but this just makes me laugh.

"He thought they'd listen to a random crank!  Why are they so worldly!"


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From your perspective, Kaes, that is pretty funny and made ME laugh!
That's my goal

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on June 14, 2017, 04:36:20 PM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 14, 2017, 10:14:49 AM
I downloaded Tokyo Story and Diary of a Chambermaid.

Bernadette, would you be so kind as to briefly contrast old and new B&B?  New one is really hyped.  It's hard to trust MSM reviews  :-\

My mindset is if it ain't broke, don't fix it.  ;) Nothing wrong with the new one, per se, I just prefer the old one because it's the one I grew up with.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 14, 2017, 05:31:07 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on June 14, 2017, 02:56:26 PMi think most catholics would agree that there are some forms of dance that are sexualized and sinful.  however dance has always survived in the context of catholic cultures through folk dancing as well as stuff like ballet and ballroom dance traditions.  on the scale of Irish step dancing to twerking, at what point is dancing sinful?  there doesnt seem to be any hard and fast line to me.  what consitutes "sensual" dancing  Back in the day my wife and I used to go salsa and merengue dancing at a club that used to have live music on the weekends.  last year for our anniversary she got me a gift certificate for wheelchair ballroom dancing lessons but we havent used it yet.

When you say "dance has always survived in Catholic cultures," you probably mean that it has always survived after the strictures against dancing were relaxed.  From the testimony of the Early Church Fathers who addressed dancing, it seems that all dancing was considered sinful.  They appear to have been wondering, in the context of Christian dignity, meekness, and decorum, what the point was in moving and jerking your body around to music like a fool (or, worse, like a stripteaser).  For them dancing was part and parcel of the secular pagan worldly culture they were seeking to respectfully keep themselves apart from. 

Things like ballet and ballroom dancing did not come along until much later.  Maybe "Irish folk dancing" existed in some form, but it probably wasn't cute little kids high-stepping about with their arms at their sides.  At that point, the Celts were painting their bodies and (if Julius Caesar is to be believed) burning people and animals alive in wicker men.  It was the age of the Druids.  They were a dark, mystical, and untamed race; to some extent they still are.  We can only wonder what their primitive dances were like.

(https://filmuvakaras.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/4287362vadbwdl43nraf3y53z1pp1z76lkghmhep_p_6w7601fwpwgi6uyevgjgpeos3tzp7qqwcclyoddr79920xjow.jpg?w=595)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Carleendiane on June 14, 2017, 06:41:55 PM
I think it is quite obvious by watching dancing , what is sensual and what is not. There are many ethnic dances that are truly not sensual. It's not hard to sense sensuality in dance. Clogging is not sensual. Celtic  dance, which many children and teenagers participate in, for the most part, is not sensual. Not saying these types cannot be sexualized. Any type can be, if so desired. A baby, or toddler will move their bodies to certain rhythms. Thats a natural response to pleasing and joyful tunes. Is that wrong? My brain says not. The sensuality is present not only by certain tunes, but by the dress and posture. When I watch the Dutch kids or Irish kids dance I do not see sensuality. I see energy and joy. Possibly the harm may come in simply by performing with an audience. It could be that a body moving to music as in performance for an audience is just wrong. Any display to please onlookers could be a type of vanity. Having people watch your body movements could be where the problem lies. A child or adult could learn to like being watched and to desire being the object of attention. Which obviously could be harmful to the soul.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on June 14, 2017, 07:40:20 PM
I think there are plenty of reasons to enjoy dance as a performing art  other than wanting to  draw attention to yourself.  My son wanted to do Russian ballet so he can learn to throw girls in the air


A lot of the appeal is in the opportunity for self expression  you get to play a role in telling a story through dance.  My son is  eccitedbecaisegoing to be a mouse in the nutcracker.  No one watches the nutcracker for the mice though
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Carleendiane on June 14, 2017, 09:44:38 PM
Ches, I was thinking more about young girls, and didn't make the post with boys in mind. Girls are more prone to display and like being seen. Looking pretty and being admired. This is what I would caution about. Even little girls can be terribly vain. Activities that feed the appetite for attention can create more appetite for attention. Boys are wired differently of course. Boys may do these things purely out of love of music and movement. Quite often, there is little vanity involved. Females learn to display themselves for notice. I understand they are not calculating their activities to get that attention. That they too love music and movement, but many, not realizing it, get a lot of satisfaction from the attention these activities naturally provide. Is this bad? I guess you know your child. Only you know whether or not they are susceptible to flattery, compliments, admiration, being seen and complimented. I'm not saying all girls are like this, some are real freebirds, just enjoying the moment and not looking for anything, but the joys of movement. Others are hungry for attention and have such craving for being front and center.

I had one daughter in particular who was so terribly hungry for admiration and would do anything to get it. I saw it,  but didn't know what to do for it. I knew I had failed her when it came to helping her feel confident and secure in her own skin. The things she would do for attention cringed me out, but at the same time showed me how certain activities, instead of building her confidence, only fed the beast. It wasn't until she was in her late teens that she was able to grasp her neediness as a child. Now she is a well formed stable confident adult, by the grace of God. But had she been allowed to flaunt herself, maybe a bad choice of word, and be in the limelight performing, well it would not have been good for her. It's a thin line sometimes between building self esteem and feeding the ego.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on June 14, 2017, 10:57:55 PM
Quote from: Carleendiane on June 14, 2017, 09:44:38 PM
Ches, I was thinking more about young girls, and didn't make the post with boys in mind. Girls are more prone to display and like being seen. Looking pretty and being admired. This is what I would caution about. Even little girls can be terribly vain. Activities that feed the appetite for attention can create more appetite for attention. Boys are wired differently of course. Boys may do these things purely out of love of music and movement. Quite often, there is little vanity involved. Females learn to display themselves for notice. I understand they are not calculating their activities to get that attention. That they too love music and movement, but many, not realizing it, get a lot of satisfaction from the attention these activities naturally provide. Is this bad? I guess you know your child. Only you know whether or not they are susceptible to flattery, compliments, admiration, being seen and complimented. I'm not saying all girls are like this, some are real freebirds, just enjoying the moment and not looking for anything, but the joys of movement. Others are hungry for attention and have such craving for being front and center.

I had one daughter in particular who was so terribly hungry for admiration and would do anything to get it. I saw it,  but didn't know what to do for it. I knew I had failed her when it came to helping her feel confident and secure in her own skin. The things she would do for attention cringed me out, but at the same time showed me how certain activities, instead of building her confidence, only fed the beast. It wasn't until she was in her late teens that she was able to grasp her neediness as a child. Now she is a well formed stable confident adult, by the grace of God. But had she been allowed to flaunt herself, maybe a bad choice of word, and be in the limelight performing, well it would not have been good for her. It's a thin line sometimes between building self esteem and feeding the ego.

yes, I suppose there may be some people who get into the performing arts due to a "need for attention" but at the same time, if you are that sort of person, performing arts seems like a healthy outlet for it, as opposed to something like sexual promiscuity, acting up in school and negative attention seeking at home. 

my wife and i went to laguardia arts, a high school for artsy fartsy kids.  There were a lot of melancholics there.  my wife majored in ballet and a lot of her friends have gone on to careers in dance and dance related fields like dance/movement therapy, dance education etc.  The amount of work it takes, and the stress on your body, is so intense that attention alone is not enough.  One of my physical therapists works weekends doing broadway shows, these dancers and actors dance onstage for an hour and come backstage and the PT tapes them up and puts their joints back together.  A significant # of these people have eating disorders because of the pressure to have almost no body fat

i've encountered a lot of dance schools that teach dance in a way that is very developmentally inappropriate and overly sexualized.  They tend to prey on the type of person you're describing--the kind of mother who wants to see her daughter wear a glittery pink tutu in a recital so she can post her picture on facebook.  the child takes lessons for a year or two then moves on to some other extracurricular when they realize that dancing is actually pretty hard and requires a lot of discipline.  I would avoid any school that has young kids doing recitals with ridiculous costumes.  Often these schools charge extra money for the recital, and another fee for the costume.  but if you're careful you can avoid these places.  a good dance school is process oriented and will not stress performance at a young age.  This also weeds out the kids whoare just in it because they want to put on a lace tutu and pretend to be a ballerina, and keeps it focused on learning proper technique so you can eventually work up to performing.  From what I've experienced in the performing arts, there is no shortage of opportunities to learn humility since you have to deal with criticism, rejection, and competition.  You have to perform in front of a jury who pick apart every note you play or every dance move you make. skinny, atheletic ballet dancers are told that they have to lose 5 pounds before the performance or they'll be cut.  it's pretty insane. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on June 15, 2017, 07:03:18 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 14, 2017, 08:29:20 AM
Gardener, I misunderstood you.  When you said the strictures against dancing and sensuous music were declared in the context of "pagan worship," I took it to mean that you thought the "nuance" was that the Church Fathers were only against such music and dancing if they were done as a tribute to some pagan deity, or at a pagan religious festival.

In fact, the links you provided are not nuanced but generalized.  St. Justin's hatred of "flutes that provoke to lustful movements" is put under the heading "Shameless practices of the Greeks (http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0135.htm)."  Surely he didn't mean that these were shameless and vain for the Greeks but okay for Christians.  That would be the most absurd instance of relativism in Christian history.  Shamelessness and vanity are shamelessness and vanity, for pagan or Christian, Gentile or Jew.  He was reviling these practices of the Greeks because he found them abhorrent as a Christian.

The editor of St. Ambrose's sermon (http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/210/2100346.htm) even summarizes it as "against dancing" (perhaps he missed the nuance), and the aspects of Salome's dance which St. Ambrose took exception to are not just the "striptease" aspects but the sensuous music and lustful movements as well.  But thank you for the link; this is a terrific phrase: "the reward of the dancer is the death of the prophet."  That's a beautiful aphorism.  Everything is contained within it on worldliness and holiness, the sacred and the profane.  That is the spirit that has gone.  And now we are left only with the letter—the endless parsing out of nuances and justifications; the dead burying their dead.

Incidentally, one of my favorite Sinéad O'Connor songs begins with the lyric, "I'm dancing the seven veils."  It's a real toe-tapper, infectious and sensuous.  There is probably someone out there with the casuistic genius to argue that St. Ambrose would've been fine with it.  But not me.

Um... St. Justin Martyr's Discourse to the Greeks is entirely about their gods... (and thus culture), so yeah, that does fall under paganistic worship. The NWE article on St. Justin Martyr categorizes his Discourse to the Greeks as: "Discourse to the Greeks - a discussion with Greek philosophers on the character of their gods;" Also, the section/chapter title is an add-in. It's not what he titled it, but the translator. So basing an argument off of that is like some Protestant touting a verse numbering difference as proof of Catholic destruction of the Scriptures. It's just asinine.


It would seem to me that there is a danger of viewing the condemnations of the past through the rose colored glasses of what we imagine that past to be. People tend to think of the past as some far more innocent time, so surely those condemnations are of things more innocent than we see today. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, I'd say the past was far worse in a sense, and we are only now coming up to a reiteration of it.

In the CE entry on dancing, it states that even pagan emperors banned dances of the pagan variety. They displayed scenic reenactment of love stories and myth. Given their narrative, one could conclude they probably got really into it.

The CT today article states:

QuoteBy contrast, dance played a prominent role in many pagan cults, such as the orgiastic cult of Dionysius. Because early Christians in no way wished to be associated with such rites, they most likely avoided dancing in church, though their intense, sometimes ecstatic worship (see Acts 2:43, 1 Cor. 14:26 for examples) may well have included motions of some sort. Christians avoided social dancing, too, as it was usually associated with drinking and sexual immorality in Roman culture.

And I'd add, not just drinking in a "few beers" sense, but drinking in the Animal House sense... John Belushi and the boys, all in togas. #College

The NWE article on St. Justin Martyr categorizes his Discourse to the Greeks as: "Discourse to the Greeks - a discussion with Greek philosophers on the character of their gods;"

This is Irish hard shoe/step dancing from 1963:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYvU7oBBgKA

Hardly invoking to lust. Laughter, maybe... lust not so much.

Here's some boys of recent times demonstrating it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q93Zn0RKvxI

A far cry from the fake curls wigs and high hemmed "skirts" that the wannabe Jon Benet Ramseys wear -- something anathema to Irish dancing traditionalists. (For that style was primarily for men in its inception).

The idea that they condemned things generally and not in the context of a culture or its associated practices is, in my opinion, dangerous ground upon which one may stomp their rhetorical foot. That's not to say that one should engage in jesuitical sophistry where one concludes, "well, they didn't condemn *this* dance, so it's ok." There are principles one can glean from their condemnations which could be applied. Irish step dancing wouldn't fall under those, nor would classical dances, and probably not the majority of folk dances as we might now see in a barn or parish hall.

I would agree that a huge amount of entertainment and cultural accoutrements therein today ARE illicit for Catholics. From the sex (likely acted out in fact) and murder of the Greek Theatre to Game of Thrones; from the Dionysian cult of specific intention to the Dionysian cult of "let us speedily use the creatures as in youth" (Wis 2) club culture; from the flutes of ancient sexual songs to the "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave" filth which passes for country music today.

But let us not engage in a puritanical calvinism from a misreading of the Fathers. Catholic culture has always included natural and supernatural joy, baptizing of elements which are not intrinsically evil from the converted pagans, etc. It would be a grave mistake to view the past (and its condemnations) through rose colored glasses and eschew the natural entertainment which humans engage in. If the Fathers are saying what you insist, then John Smith, John Calvin, etc. are of far more use to our salvation than we have been led to believe. On the risk that's true, I'll happily dance on their graves and wager it's entirely false.

Article on dancing w/ quotes:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/2008/august/did-early-christians-dance-in-church.html

CE entry on dancing:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04618b.htm

NWE: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Justin_Martyr
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on June 15, 2017, 07:26:09 AM
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LEAiGDw220[/yt]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4AkcqTvjRo[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 15, 2017, 08:32:02 AM
Quote from: Gardener on June 15, 2017, 07:03:18 AMUm... St. Justin Martyr's Discourse to the Greeks is entirely about their gods... (and thus culture), so yeah, that does fall under paganistic worship. The NWE article on St. Justin Martyr categorizes his Discourse to the Greeks as: "Discourse to the Greeks - a discussion with Greek philosophers on the character of their gods;" Also, the section/chapter title is an add-in. It's not what he titled it, but the translator. So basing an argument off of that is like some Protestant touting a verse numbering difference as proof of Catholic destruction of the Scriptures. It's just asinine.

You're losing me here, Gardener.  I wasn't using the section heading alone to contend that St. Justin disdained dancing and sensuous music.  The actual denouncement comes within that section itself.  Even if it had been titled nothing other than "Chapter IV," it would still contain his condemnation of these practices.  Do you honestly think St. Justin was only repulsed by "excessive banquetings and subtle flutes which provoke to lustful movements" in the context of pagan holidays, and that he felt these things were perfectly okay for Christians?  Because a.) it would put him at odds with the other Church Fathers who hated revelry and dancing, and b.) it wouldn't even be coherent against his own work, as he doesn't elsewhere betray that level of rank permissiveness.  So I'm left unclear as to what you're claiming here in your appeal to the context.  We can agree on this much: yes, the context of the condemnation regards pagan practices.  Am I correct, though, in reading you as saying that the condemnation only applies to pagan practices?  It would be the mother of all nuances, I think, to conclude that St. Justin only hated parties and bodily gyrations when the pagans did them, and didn't care a fig if Christians did them.  It seems pretty clear from the passage that he hates those things unequivocally.

QuoteIt would seem to me that there is a danger of viewing the condemnations of the past through the rose colored glasses of what we imagine that past to be. People tend to think of the past as some far more innocent time, so surely those condemnations are of things more innocent than we see today. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, I'd say the past was far worse in a sense, and we are only now coming up to a reiteration of it.

I certainly don't think of the past as a necessarily more innocent time.  Chester and I covered this in another thread (https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=17786.msg394273#msg394273).  The interesting thing is that the era in which the Early Church Fathers found themselves was massively hedonistic and debauched.  (I do commend Greg on his excellent phrase, "tits and bums a-plenty"—but he has always been a wordsmith without even trying for it).  And so the thing is, even in an age where the prevailing culture was so awful that you would think the Church Fathers would've made some concessions toward it, and been "nuanced" and lax like everyone thinks we should be now, instead they doubled down on austerity.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on June 15, 2017, 10:03:58 AM
Quote from: Gardener on June 15, 2017, 07:03:18 AM

This is Irish hard shoe/step dancing from 1963:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYvU7oBBgKA

This is the same tune as the song in "Darby O'Gill and the Little People":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x59Ks8psxxA
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on June 15, 2017, 10:12:34 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 14, 2017, 11:12:19 AM

Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 14, 2017, 10:05:48 AM
Although he does not discuss it, I'm convinced he thought 'his own' would receive correction in humility.  It's obvious he's astounded at the worldliness of many traditional Catholics, thus, "commendable zeal" is an excellent description, PDR.

Lol, I like you, PED, but this just makes me laugh.

"He thought they'd listen to a random crank!  Why are they so worldly!"


To connect the Jerome question to the movie theme, very often we think that we are judging a work of art, but in reality it is judging us. We think that we are in a position to evaluate its merits and flaws, when really it is evaluating us, whether our souls have the capacity to appreciate its beauty.

Like if we went to an art museum and stood in front of a painting by Raphael, we might think that it is our prerogative to criticize it, but in actuality it is testing us.

I think of the movie "Tree of Wooden Clogs" in that category. I have heard people criticize it, but those criticisms tell me nothing about the movie, they only reveal things about the person.

https://gloria.tv/video/RQ9iajSrCftM4AokeeXjEoW9C

[This video is from Gloria.tv, so I don't think there is any way to embed a live link.]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on June 15, 2017, 10:29:48 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on June 15, 2017, 10:12:34 AM

I think of the movie "Tree of Wooden Clogs" in that category. I have heard people criticize it, but those criticisms tell me nothing about the movie, they only reveal things about the person.

https://gloria.tv/video/RQ9iajSrCftM4AokeeXjEoW9C

[This video is from Gloria.tv, so I don't think there is any way to embed a live link.]

Speaking of which, I clicked on a random spot in the movie, and it was the scene at 1:25:53 where the mother comes into the group of people dancing at a festival and slaps her daughter, saying "So this is how you go to 'Vespers,' you liar. You said you were going to church, and here you are dancing."

Then to the others she says, "You laugh, but you're on the verge of hell. You won't laugh anymore when you're burning in the flames. Liars, you have no fear of God."
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 15, 2017, 11:19:00 AM
I now have this bookmarked.  Thank you Maximilian. 

Interesting trivia:
QuoteAll the actors were real peasants from the Bergamo province, in Italy. They had no acting experience at all.

From IMDB, note this comment excerpt from someone who loved the movie and, representative of the modern world, hasn't a clue what our faith is about.  Indeed, they are brainwashed that we were/are superstitious peasants.  I especially cringe at his use of the phrase "of course" !
QuoteYou get a fascinating look at what to us now of course seems a backward combination of ancient religious myths and medieval magic, all believed in the hope of a better life in what is a difficult existence
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on June 15, 2017, 11:44:48 AM
Quote from: Gardener on June 15, 2017, 07:03:18 AM

This is Irish hard shoe/step dancing from 1963:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYvU7oBBgKA

Hardly invoking to lust. Laughter, maybe... lust not so much.


That's lovely! Why would someone laugh at that?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 15, 2017, 12:01:17 PM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 15, 2017, 11:19:00 AM
I now have this bookmarked.  Thank you Maximilian. 

From IMDB, note this comment excerpt from someone who loved the movie and, representative of the modern world, hasn't a clue what our faith is about.  Indeed, they are brainwashed that we were/are superstitious peasants.  I especially cringe at his use of the phrase "of course" !
QuoteYou get a fascinating look at what to us now of course seems a backward combination of ancient religious myths and medieval magic, all believed in the hope of a better life in what is a difficult existence

I, too, haven't seen the film, and am grateful to Max for recommending it.  The comments on IMDb are interesting; there is one person who says "I would pronounce myself an atheist if that didn't suggest the arrogance of certainty, but this movie comes as close to touching the soul as any I've ever seen."  What's fascinating to me, especially in these discussions about worldliness, is that it seems more often to be the lives and behavior of Christians that impresses people more than the intellectual apologetics.  (It's a matter of actions speaking louder than words: even the emperor Julian, who despised the faith, admitted that he was humbled by the charity and discipline of the Christian community).  I think what a lot of people tend to miss is that a rustic simplicity and asceticism have a quiet eloquence all their own, much more so than the trumpeting of doctrines.  It reminds me of the episode of Elijah where the Lord was not in a storm or an earthquake or a fire, but in a "gentle breeze," or when Pilate asked Christ, "what is truth?" and he confounded him by keeping silent: the answer was right in front of him.  As you said of your friend Jerome, he "walks the talk."

I'm looking forward to watching The Tree of the Wooden Clogs, but looks like I will need to set aside an afternoon: it's three hours long.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on June 15, 2017, 12:12:28 PM
Quote from: Lynne on June 15, 2017, 11:44:48 AM
Quote from: Gardener on June 15, 2017, 07:03:18 AM

This is Irish hard shoe/step dancing from 1963:
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Hardly invoking to lust. Laughter, maybe... lust not so much.


That's lovely! Why would someone laugh at that?

Because I don't see how such a thing would provoke to lust, but I can see laughter. I dunno why someone would laugh. But I certainly cannot see lust.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 15, 2017, 12:30:04 PM
Quote... it seems more often to be the lives and behavior of Christians that impresses people more than the intellectual apologetics.

I'd not thought of that as a modern world possibility, but you're absolutely correct. It seems to be true even today. 
A book that greatly influenced a moment by moment conscious effort to stay close to Him was Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange's Our Savior and His Love for Us, wherein the preface beautifully set the stage with an emphasis on non-coincidental nature of God's Will in our daily encounters, even the most <what appears to be> banal.  Our responsibility to comport ourselves as Catholic at all times is critically important, since it is an instrument in conversion. 

"Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary, use words."

Love your comments, PDR.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 15, 2017, 12:56:54 PM
Quote from: Gardener on June 15, 2017, 12:12:28 PMI don't see how such a thing would provoke to lust, but I can see laughter. I dunno why someone would laugh. But I certainly cannot see lust.

According to St. John Chrysostom (and yes, it was in a sermon which used the dance of Salome as a starting point), it is not just lustfulness that is the problem with dancing.  He says it has an animalistic unseemliness.  He said, "God gave us feet that we might walk in an orderly fashion, not that we might jump about like camels."  Again, this is more about keeping one's dignity and composure than stripteasing.  If you think of the spindly limbs and gangly movements of a camel, you can realize that he is talking in general about the idiotic and herky-jerky gestures of almost any dance, not just the sensuous hip-swinging and belly-dancing of the seven veils.  Irish step dance isn't lustful, but it's certainly exhilarating.  I think we can be fairly sure that St. John would've seen it as being a part of an atmosphere of foot-stomping, hand-clapping, and revelry.  "Where there is dance," he said, "there is the devil."
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lydia Purpuraria on June 15, 2017, 01:34:43 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 15, 2017, 12:56:54 PM
Quote from: Gardener on June 15, 2017, 12:12:28 PMI don't see how such a thing would provoke to lust, but I can see laughter. I dunno why someone would laugh. But I certainly cannot see lust.

According to St. John Chrysostom (and yes, it was in a sermon which used the dance of Salome as a starting point), it is not just lustfulness that is the problem with dancing.  He says it has an animalistic unseemliness.  He said, "God gave us feet that we might walk in an orderly fashion, not that we might jump about like camels."  Again, this is more about keeping one's dignity and composure than stripteasing.  If you think of the spindly limbs and gangly movements of a camel, you can realize that he is talking in general about the idiotic and herky-jerky gestures of almost any dance, not just the sensuous hip-swinging and belly-dancing of the seven veils.  Irish step dance isn't lustful, but it's certainly exhilarating.  I think we can be fairly sure that St. John would've seen it as being a part of an atmosphere of foot-stomping, hand-clapping, and revelry.  "Where there is dance," he said, "there is the devil."

I think it's interesting that according to this writing (http://www.shira.net/sevenveils.htm) of a belly dancer ("Oriental dance artist") she has found no proof of Salome's dance being a striptease or intending to be necessarily lust-inspiring at all.  She claims that, "the original Greek word used in the New Testament account used to refer to Salomé is korasion, meaning a little girl not yet old enough to have breasts or menstruate. Also, the word used for the dancing done by Salomé in the original Greek is orxeomai, which not only means dance, but playful goofing off of young children. Based on this, Qan-Tuppim concludes that Salomé was probably just an adorable small child, the Shirley Temple of her day."  She goes into more on the history of dancing in the Middle East and where the modern idea of the 'seven veils striptease' comes from, that you can read by clicking on the link.  But it's basically summarized by her statement that, "The "dance of the seven veils" has never been a part of Middle Eastern dance traditions, and is not performed in the Middle East today. It was invented by European minds, and has been preserved by the entertainment industry."

Does anyone know offhand if some of her claims are correct (especially the Greek she referred to)?  I don't have time at the moment to look more thoroughly into some of her claims to verify, and she's clearly not coming at this from a Catholic perspective so she could be way off.   I thought it was kind of interesting, in part, for for that reason, too.  That she's a belly dancer and not trying to justify dancing from a Christian perspective.  (And I was actually already thinking about this topic before the thread due in part to my husband being part Lebanese and the local Maronite Church having dancers at their festival.  He told me they were not at all sensuous in their manner of dancing (in the way we generally think of belly dancers) and they were fully clothed.  But they had still introduced some of the western elements that the linked article discusses.  Which is sad, in my opinion.  And, according to St. John Chrysostom, none of it should have been going on at all!  Those early Church Fathers weren't messing around!) 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: DominusTecum on June 15, 2017, 06:12:19 PM
The Fathers got it wrong sometimes.

Ideas were percolating among certain Church Fathers that if we're being honest are very clearly proto-Islamic, as uncomfortable as that fact might make us as Christians. The affinity is in their iconoclastic spirit which extends far beyond opposition to the creation of artistic images to penetrate deep into other areas of human life and into the human soul. The result is a kind of cultural and spiritual deconstructionism that reduces the person and society to its bare functionality and threatens to strip away the unique God-given nature of each individual. That distasteful tendency among certain Fathers is one of the reasons I don't view them as a higher authority than later Saints and Doctors of the Church who, as far as I'm concerned, actually course-corrected in some significant ways. Consider the Christian artistic tradition - the fact is, many of the Church fathers were simply wrong about sacred images. The Medievals got it right. And if so many Fathers can be wrong about images, they can be wrong about dancing, especially since the arguments against both art forms are often predicated on near identical assumptions. At the root of this iconoclasm there seems to be a profound rationalistic hostility to physical symbolic gestures or representations of any kind, almost certainly rooted in Neoplatonic idealism and apophatic theology. It still amazes me that Orthodox Christians refuse to recognise the radical incompatibility between the apophatic theology they champion and the Icons they venerate. The Byzantine iconoclasts (all apophatic neoplatonists) were simply honest about the impossibility of sacred images within an apophatic Neoplatonic framework. If Orthodox practice followed Orthodox theology with any consistency, they'd be as iconoclastic as the wahhabists.

God bless him, but I have to take issue with Chrysostom's claim that we were given feet so that we would walk in an orderly fashion, not to leap or to dance with. Apply his thought consistently and even physical exercise becomes a grave violation of God's intended order. The fact is that even the ritualistic symbolic gestures of the liturgy are close to dance in some respects. You could do a real number on the Mass using the same corrosive logic. Try this: "God gave us mouths that we might eat with them, not kiss altars"

Measure Christians throughout the ages according to the opinions of some of the Church Fathers and only one conclusion is possible: Muslims have been the better Christians all along. I'm not buying it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 15, 2017, 06:44:16 PM
I think you have it backwards.  Islam stole from Christianity, not "the Early Church Fathers were proto-Islamic."

It's an oversimplification to say St. John Chrysostom meant that feet have only one function.  Obviously it might be necessary to kick something or stomp something, and this deviates from mere walking.  Your mention of mouths being able to kiss altars besides just eat food is indicative of what he would've found as a commendable secondary function: a reverent and meaningful gesture.  Dancing is not reverent, unless I guess you're talking about the realm of "liturgical dance," which I think is anathema to traditional Catholics.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on June 15, 2017, 07:09:21 PM
Quote from: DominusTecum on June 15, 2017, 06:12:19 PM
The Fathers got it wrong sometimes.

Ideas were percolating among certain Church Fathers that if we're being honest are very clearly proto-Islamic, as uncomfortable as that fact might make us as Christians. The affinity is in their iconoclastic spirit which extends far beyond opposition to the creation of artistic images to penetrate deep into other areas of human life and into the human soul. The result is a kind of cultural and spiritual deconstructionism that reduces the person and society to its bare functionality and threatens to strip away the unique God-given nature of each individual. That distasteful tendency among certain Fathers is one of the reasons I don't view them as a higher authority than later Saints and Doctors of the Church who, as far as I'm concerned, actually course-corrected in some significant ways. Consider the Christian artistic tradition - the fact is, many of the Church fathers were simply wrong about sacred images. The Medievals got it right. And if so many Fathers can be wrong about images, they can be wrong about dancing, especially since the arguments against both art forms are often predicated on near identical assumptions. At the root of this iconoclasm there seems to be a profound rationalistic hostility to physical symbolic gestures or representations of any kind, almost certainly rooted in Neoplatonic idealism and apophatic theology. It still amazes me that Orthodox Christians refuse to recognise the radical incompatibility between the apophatic theology they champion and the Icons they venerate. The Byzantine iconoclasts (all apophatic neoplatonists) were simply honest about the impossibility of sacred images within an apophatic Neoplatonic framework. If Orthodox practice followed Orthodox theology with any consistency, they'd be as iconoclastic as the wahhabists.

God bless him, but I have to take issue with Chrysostom's claim that we were given feet so that we would walk in an orderly fashion, not to leap or to dance with. Apply his thought consistently and even physical exercise becomes a grave violation of God's intended order. The fact is that even the ritualistic symbolic gestures of the liturgy are close to dance in some respects. You could do a real number on the Mass using the same corrosive logic. Try this: "God gave us mouths that we might eat with them, not kiss altars"

Measure Christians throughout the ages according to the opinions of some of the Church Fathers and only one conclusion is possible: Muslims have been the better Christians all along. I'm not buying it.

I'd wondered where you'd gone. We had a bit of head butting before, but your more recent posts have been positively indicative of a sharp mind. Makes me want to revisit those post to which I took umbrage and investigate if I was being too harsh.

I saw this video today and it made me think of you:

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8utmmWoBSBY[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on June 15, 2017, 08:40:11 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 15, 2017, 12:56:54 PM
Quote from: Gardener on June 15, 2017, 12:12:28 PMI don't see how such a thing would provoke to lust, but I can see laughter. I dunno why someone would laugh. But I certainly cannot see lust.

According to St. John Chrysostom (and yes, it was in a sermon which used the dance of Salome as a starting point), it is not just lustfulness that is the problem with dancing.  He says it has an animalistic unseemliness.  He said, "God gave us feet that we might walk in an orderly fashion, not that we might jump about like camels."  Again, this is more about keeping one's dignity and composure than stripteasing.  If you think of the spindly limbs and gangly movements of a camel, you can realize that he is talking in general about the idiotic and herky-jerky gestures of almost any dance, not just the sensuous hip-swinging and belly-dancing of the seven veils.  Irish step dance isn't lustful, but it's certainly exhilarating.  I think we can be fairly sure that St. John would've seen it as being a part of an atmosphere of foot-stomping, hand-clapping, and revelry.  "Where there is dance," he said, "there is the devil."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zzkULwuJnc

I haven't spent much time around camels, so I got curious and searched youtube for "jumpingcamels" and this is what came up.  There were more videos of people jumping over camels than there were videos of jumping camels

I'd disagree that every dance can be compared to camels jumping around.  It would be really interesting to see a video of the type of dancing St. John Chrysostom was warning us about but it's safe to say he hasn't seen Irish step dancing or "Sleeping Beauty" at the Metropolitan Ballet or country line dancing.  I will agree that there is a real animalistic/tribal element to a lot of modern dance music.  I've never understood the point of a song that is simply about dancing and having a good time and it seems like in the past 10 years or so songwriters can't even bother writing a chorus anymore, it's just "oh-whoa-o-o-o-oh" stuff.  they call it "the millennial whoop"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLX4J3Gdybg

I remember talking to my dad about going to my junior prom a few months before I died.  he said, "horrible music, gentile women dressed like tramps, food that isn't kosher, what could possibly go wrong"  We weren't allowed to do any kind of mixed gender dancing, although I do remember parties where all of the men got up and danced in a big circle.  I was allowed to go to my Reform cousins' bar mitzvah dances but had to sit out during the mixed gender stuff.  So after he died and I was 18 I decided I was going to take my gentile ballerina girlfriend to my senior prom and it was just as he said--horrible music, gentile women dressed like tramps, and overstimulating strobe lights and flashing colored lights.  What I do remember fondly was watching my wife and her dancer friends attempting to copy the typical gyrating dance moves everyone else was doing.  There's something endearing about a bunch of classically trained ballet dancers attempting to "shake it like a polaroid picture"  but failing because they are too graceful. 






Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Asbury Fox on June 15, 2017, 11:58:16 PM
The last movie I saw was The Lost City of Z. An old fashioned Hollywood epic that satisfied my Anglophile heart and Native American blood. Some people might find it boring, but I thought it was excellent and beautifully shot.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaH2L4vidi4[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 16, 2017, 09:54:14 AM
Quote from: Gardener on June 15, 2017, 07:09:21 PMWe had a bit of head butting before, but your more recent posts have been positively indicative of a sharp mind.

I'm pleased that you like Dominus Tecum's post, Gardener.  I do respect him for being brutally honest.  He comes right out and says it: "the Fathers got it wrong.  They were proto-Islamic killjoys."  I mean, that is classic.  There's no way to argue with something like that.  It's "that old stuff is too conservative, and we've figured out that we can actually be lax."  Reminds me of Pope Francis, who also has a penchant for trashing the old ways and declaring we now know better.  I do kind of like that guy.  He has a roguish smile.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that I, in my own way, appreciated the post as well.  I have duly "thanked" it.  It answers the question Pheo had asked me earlier, that I was having a difficult time articulating a response to.  He wanted to know why I had given up.  It's because any old layman can come along and second-guess St. John Chrysostom.  Says it all, really.  Who'd want to throw in with proto-Islamics?  It's like Chestertonian's signature says: "I may not be a Crusader, Sir, but at least I am not a Mohammedan!"
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Matto on June 16, 2017, 02:38:08 PM
I watched another movie directed by Dreyer. This one is "Day of Wrath." Yes, it is named after the Dies Irae. It is about protestants and witchcraft in the 1600's and lust. It is a very adult movie, not for children. It is not my favorite of Dreyer's movies but I still think it is a good movie. I like how Anne's hair changes throughout the movie. This guy likes it, though I don't agree with his opinions: http://www.filmsufi.com/2016/09/day-of-wrath-carl-dreyer-1943.html (http://www.filmsufi.com/2016/09/day-of-wrath-carl-dreyer-1943.html)
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/embed/Nzyc4xf91Ho[/yt]
There is one scene where a very old woman is not fully clothed, you can see her back and chest uncovered, though you do not really see much of her breasts. I understand why it is shown that way though I would prefer if she was more covered. There is some kissing but there are no sex scenes. There is a beautiful young woman who is seductive, but throughout the movie she is always fully clothed.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lydia Purpuraria on June 17, 2017, 06:20:22 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 11, 2017, 09:31:05 PM
Cría Cuervos (1976)

(https://laculpaesdelscript.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/criacuervos01.jpg?w=620)

I watched this last night.  It was a good movie, although foreboding and sad.  The little girl's longing for her dead mother, and her haunting big dark sorrowful eyes taking everything in... broke my heart.  (And as a sidenote: some aspects of the movie reminded me in little personal ways of my recently deceased Grandmother who was part-Spanish.  She didn't grow up there or anything, though.  I miss her.)
Title: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 17, 2017, 08:46:34 AM
Quote from: Lydia Purpuraria on June 17, 2017, 06:20:22 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 11, 2017, 09:31:05 PM
Cría Cuervos (1976)

I watched this last night.  It was a good movie, although foreboding and sad.  The little girl's longing for her dead mother, and her haunting big dark sorrowful eyes taking everything in... broke my heart.  (And as a sidenote: some aspects of the movie reminded me in little personal ways of my recently deceased Grandmother who was part-Spanish.  She didn't grow up there or anything, though.  I miss her.)

I thought it was an okay movie, but you're right, that little actress, Ana Torrent, had very sorrowful eyes, and she was famous in Spain in the 70s for them.  But they were used to much better effect in The Spirit of the Beehive, which is one of my all-time favorites.  It's a paean not only to the dreamy and sometimes nightmarish mysteries of childhood, but also to the power of cinema.

One thing I'll say I'll say for Cría Cuervos is that the recurring song really gets in your head.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lydia Purpuraria on June 17, 2017, 10:16:14 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 17, 2017, 08:46:34 AM
I though it was an okay movie, but you're right, that little actress, Ana Torrent, had very sorrowful eyes, and she was famous in Spain in the 70s for them.  But they were used to much better effect in The Spirit of the Beehive, which is one of my all-time favorites.  It's a paean not only to the dreamy and sometimes nightmarish mysteries of childhood, but also to the power of cinema.

One thing I'll say I'll say for Cría Cuervos is that the recurring song really gets in your head.

I wouldn't say it was a favorite movie of mine, or anything.  But I still thought it was good.  And you describe it well, with what you said in the bolded above.  I'll have to watch The Spirit of the Beehive when I get a chance. 

Yes, you're correct: that song is stuck in the old noggin.  Might just have to post it in the other thread.  LOL

Edit:  forgot to bold.   :) 

Aaand a second edit:  Ha!  I just realized that with the bolded, you were referring to the movie I haven't seen yet.  So I have no idea if you described that well, but I think the same could be said of Cría Cuervos
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on June 18, 2017, 08:42:12 AM
Shimmer Lake on Netflix. Goes backward in time. Not bad. Hell of a twist at the end.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on June 18, 2017, 10:06:56 AM
Barry Lyndon
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 18, 2017, 01:55:45 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on June 18, 2017, 10:06:56 AMBarry Lyndon

How did you like it, Martin?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on June 18, 2017, 08:45:36 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 18, 2017, 01:55:45 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on June 18, 2017, 10:06:56 AMBarry Lyndon

How did you like it, Martin?
I like it very much. Definitely my cup of tea. Why no one is making movies like this anymore?  :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MilesChristi on June 18, 2017, 09:41:38 PM
Aliens
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: JubilateDeo on June 19, 2017, 10:24:34 PM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 13, 2017, 10:53:09 PM
I offer Aves and send a big hug, PDR.

I also, like Matto, remember Jerome from another forum.  But he had a different user name there, so in the very short time he was a member of SD, I didn't read too many of his comments, and didn't make the connection that it was him - I just thought he had the same style. 

A few years ago I (and spouse) came to know him well.  He is the finest of traditional Catholic men, hands down. Steadfast in holiness. His temperament is absolutely saintly and unwavering in humility.  What you read of him here, and possibly on the other forum, authentically represents who he is, through and through. He walks the talk, and tirelessly and lovingly works to assist his brothers in the faith, and to convert non Catholics. 

God has placed heavy crosses on his shoulders, but he never complains, only offers thanksgiving and actually quietly rejoices in his suffering.  I've never met anyone like him. 

I pray for him every day, and I am honored to call him friend.

Alls I'm gonna say is, I'm not sure if this blog post is the sort of thing that a person "unwavering in humility" would write.

https://against-all-heresies-and-errors.blogspot.com/2016/12/banned-from-suscipedomine.com-exposed.html

It doesn't seem humble to get banned from a forum and then write a "Suscipe Domine Exposed!" blog post about how butthurt you are.

Also, he spends waaaaaay way too much time talking about my 7 year old daughter's skirt length.  It's a bit creepy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on June 19, 2017, 11:36:03 PM
Mildred Pierce - simply terrific.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on June 20, 2017, 02:21:48 AM
Quote from: JubilateDeo on June 19, 2017, 10:24:34 PM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on June 13, 2017, 10:53:09 PM
I offer Aves and send a big hug, PDR.

I also, like Matto, remember Jerome from another forum.  But he had a different user name there, so in the very short time he was a member of SD, I didn't read too many of his comments, and didn't make the connection that it was him - I just thought he had the same style. 

A few years ago I (and spouse) came to know him well.  He is the finest of traditional Catholic men, hands down. Steadfast in holiness. His temperament is absolutely saintly and unwavering in humility.  What you read of him here, and possibly on the other forum, authentically represents who he is, through and through. He walks the talk, and tirelessly and lovingly works to assist his brothers in the faith, and to convert non Catholics. 

God has placed heavy crosses on his shoulders, but he never complains, only offers thanksgiving and actually quietly rejoices in his suffering.  I've never met anyone like him. 

I pray for him every day, and I am honored to call him friend.

Alls I'm gonna say is, I'm not sure if this blog post is the sort of thing that a person "unwavering in humility" would write.

https://against-all-heresies-and-errors.blogspot.com/2016/12/banned-from-suscipedomine.com-exposed.html

It doesn't seem humble to get banned from a forum and then write a "Suscipe Domine Exposed!" blog post about how butthurt you are.

Also, he spends waaaaaay way too much time talking about my 7 year old daughter's skirt length.  It's a bit creepy.
Hahahahaha.

Oh goodness. 

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 20, 2017, 08:40:15 AM
Quote from: JubilateDeo on June 19, 2017, 10:24:34 PMAlls I'm gonna say is, I'm not sure if this blog post is the sort of thing that a person "unwavering in humility" would write.

https://against-all-heresies-and-errors.blogspot.com/2016/12/banned-from-suscipedomine.com-exposed.html

It doesn't seem humble to get banned from a forum and then write a "Suscipe Domine Exposed!" blog post about how butthurt you are.

Also, he spends waaaaaay way too much time talking about my 7 year old daughter's skirt length.  It's a bit creepy.

I didn't see that blog post as lacking in humility.  He was using his own experiences on this forum to point out how worldly so many traditional Catholics are.  I think the worst thing you could say about it is that he stooped to the level of personal insult by referring to Kaesekopf several times as a "clown."  It certainly seems unfair to say that he was creepily focused on your daughter's skirt length.  I thought his response to OCLF's Victorian-skirt-length picture was a good one.  Jerome is correct in that young Victorian girls would probably not have worn dresses with their bare legs exposed, but rather with ankle shoes and leggings.

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-dRkf6fc8EnI%2FUQ2x2PscEmI%2FAAAAAAAACnA%2FOyXFA20UHw8%2Fs1600%2Fboit.jpg&hash=fcaed40abd300f0616a5b9dd3ae9a9254fab7ef7)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Greg on June 22, 2017, 03:39:48 AM
My experience of people like Jerome is when they begin like that they almost never go on to lead productive lives.  They don't become first class priests or religious that inspire people to be holy, nor do they raise large functional Catholic families.

They either become fringe loony priests like Fr. Pfeiffer or fathers of weirdo families living on welfare because they won't work of run a profitable business.  To much temptation leaving their front door.

That's why I tend to ignore them.

There is a balance to be struck and I look to successful people to strike it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 22, 2017, 09:22:10 AM
I think the Curé of Ars, though, would be considered a "first class priest" who "inspired people to be holy."  The same would go for almost all the saints and religious and popes cited by Jerome.  I guess you could say "that was then, and this is now," and conclude that their recommendations only pertained to a bygone age, but that's relativism.  It's easy to say that people are "weirdos" or "dysfunctional," but Jerome would probably contend that at the end of it all, salvation is what really matters.  An earthly tenure of 70 or 80 years is nothing compared to eternity, so it would probably be a mistake to focus on (or judge by) material success here.  "Striking the right balance" might be confused with lukewarmness or mediocrity.  (Heaven forbid anyone be a weirdo).

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Greg on June 22, 2017, 03:01:31 PM
I said nothing about material success.

If a poor super-holy Trad produces 8 children who grew up 5 to a room sleeping in submarine sized bunk beds, wearing SVP clothes but at least 7 are mentally stable and happy and productive, then I consider that a roaring success, especially if his wife is happy too.

However, if they spend a life as a singleton, without a formal religious vocation and have nothing tangible to show other than their pious mutterings, then I don't consider that a success.  Talk is cheap and I've no way to judge whether they are privately very holy or actually hiding a multitude of perversions.  My experience has been that the people who shout about the evils of the internet, books, skirt-lengths, make-up and girls going to university are usually those you have delivered very little in their own lives.

The holiest singleton I knew at church growing up was Ted Atkinson.  He was strict but Jerome made him look like a liberal.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Greg on June 22, 2017, 03:35:41 PM
Watched this movie about Edward Snowden

http://putlocker.io/watch/EdZAVpGp-snowden.html

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 22, 2017, 04:20:40 PM
Quote from: Greg on June 22, 2017, 03:01:31 PM
I said nothing about material success.

You had mentioned "running a profitable business," so I took it to mean you considered some measure of material success important.  You're right, though, if a person is "super-holy" but poor, with happy children and a happy wife, that would be a "roaring success."

If you prefer to make it a question of marital success, I will agree that it does seem most of these latter-day Savonarolas are single, but I hardly consider that surprising.  The further away you get from the status quo, the smaller becomes your pool of prospective mates.  That goes for anything.  You can see it even among traditional Catholics who aren't so-called "rigorists."  In many of the romance threads, they concede that the difficulty of finding a good spouse is such that they'll even settle for "conservative Novus Ordo," and in many cases it's recommended that they try finding a mate in a foreign country, such as Poland or the Philippines.  And that's just the people who are on the liberal side of your Ted Atkinson.

It still wouldn't make a difference, though, as far as salvation is concerned.  As I said, Jerome is concerned primarily with salvation.  Given "the fewness of the saved," he does have logic on his side in assuming that the "super-holy" probably have the best chance at the beatific vision.  I would imagine that running a profitable business or winning the hand of a lady are strictly of secondary importance as far as he's concerned.  Rightfully so.

The last movie I saw was The Autopsy of Jane Doe.  It would not, alas, meet with Jerome's approval.

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fbr.web.img3.acsta.net%2Fr_620_260%2Fnewsv7%2F17%2F05%2F04%2F13%2F06%2F096803.jpg&hash=3aeb459722add65814b2a1e1cfaa1bfb4bf1a267)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on June 22, 2017, 05:24:43 PM
What happened to baby Jane. creepily humorous and captivating
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Greg on June 22, 2017, 06:51:49 PM
Running an unprofitable business is stupid.

You'd be better off getting a job
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Greg on June 22, 2017, 06:57:55 PM
Undortunately unless someone makes some spare money along the way there are no chapels for mass or gasoline, car maintenance, airfares, groceries and housing for the priests.

If we don't have children there's no future.

You can run around naked because they'll be no Catholics to scandalise.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 22, 2017, 07:09:02 PM
Quote from: Greg on June 22, 2017, 06:51:49 PMRunning an unprofitable business is stupid.

Right.  But running a business, whether profitable or unprofitable, is not a criteria for salvation.  So we can table that one.  There is really nothing "tangible to show" except for one's outward behavior and declared standards.  "Heroic virtue."

Quote from: Greg on June 22, 2017, 06:57:55 PMIf we don't have children there's no future.

That is correct.  But I don't see anyone arguing for Shaker-style dogmatic celibacy.  There are "rigorist" families.  I was just offering that the reason there are probably more singletons of that variety is due to the fact of the shrinking demographic: the further out one goes from the norm, the fewer prospective mates there will naturally be.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Non Nobis on June 23, 2017, 12:18:13 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 22, 2017, 04:20:40 PM
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Given "the fewness of the saved," he does have logic on his side in assuming that the "super-holy" probably have the best chance at the beatific vision.  I would imagine that running a profitable business or winning the hand of a lady are strictly of secondary importance as far as he's concerned.  Rightfully so.


The last part of the "Litany of Humility"   says:

"That others become holier than I, provided that I may become as holy as I should, Jesus grant me the grace to desire it"

Holiness for each of us is to do God's will for us.  He does not want everyone to be a priest, or a hermit, or other things that are "holier in themselves".  He wants us to aim for the holiest things and make them spiritually primary in our lives, but our attention and time may sometimes need to be focused on secondary things, according to our vocation and state in life. A man who makes himself a hermit thinking only of God is not holy if he did not pray to know what God wanted him to do.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Greg on June 23, 2017, 07:58:24 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 22, 2017, 07:09:02 PM
Right.  But running a business, whether profitable or unprofitable, is not a criteria for salvation.
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It's a criteria.  Just not the only criteria.

People who run profitable businesses, employ others, feed their families and make the economy work to the betterment of all.  That is an objectively good thing to do in comparison with say sucking on the government teat.  Jesus and Mary were clothed and fed because St. Joseph was a manufacturer of wooden items.  He ran a small business.

He didn't go on welfare and spend all day homeschooling Jesus in foreign languages, Jewish history and philosophy.

The chapels we attend are, very largely, paid for by the gifts and endowments of people who had excess wealth they didn't need to spend on their daily living needs.  They either made that excess wealth by living below their means, or, having a successful business so that their income was in excess of what any reasonable person needs to spend.

Jerome might be a saint and super example to us all.  My observation, however, has been that those who suggest Trads should shun the world altogether and live ascetic lives - won't usually lift a finger to help them.  There is too much scolding and not much love.

When does the advice dispenser turn up at the family of 7 children to baby-sit so that the married couple and oldest child can do the five first Saturdays which normally involves a long drive to find a Trad mass?  When does he lend $1000 to a newly married Trad to cover an expensive month?  Something a single man with no plans to ever marry CAN reasonably do because he does not have the same necessary expenses as the married man.  If you can only afford Ramen Noodles because you have decided not to work, then it is not a sacrifice to eat Ramen Noodles.  If you give up a Sirloin Steak and a bottle of wine and spend the money on charity it is a sacrifice.

What I've often seen is immature, rather selfish singletons, in their early 30s with their Tolkien and Star Wars Action character collections lecturing a father of 3 children under 5 that the "Teletubbies are Satanic", "the Sound of Music is evil" or some other dross.

The best way to sell holiness to people is to live it.  Not just preach it on the internet.

In real life people soon work out whether you are Ted Atkinson or Wiggy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 23, 2017, 11:27:05 AM
Quote from: Non Nobis on June 23, 2017, 12:18:13 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 22, 2017, 04:20:40 PM
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Given "the fewness of the saved," he does have logic on his side in assuming that the "super-holy" probably have the best chance at the beatific vision.  I would imagine that running a profitable business or winning the hand of a lady are strictly of secondary importance as far as he's concerned.  Rightfully so.


The last part of the "Litany of Humility"   says:

"That others become holier than I, provided that I may become as holy as I should, Jesus grant me the grace to desire it"

Holiness for each of us is to do God's will for us.  He does not want everyone to be a priest, or a hermit, or other things that are "holier in themselves".  He wants us to aim for the holiest things and make them spiritually primary in our lives, but our attention and time may sometimes need to be focused on secondary things, according to our vocation and state in life. A man who makes himself a hermit thinking only of God is not holy if he did not pray to know what God wanted him to do.

Right.  I don't think the "singletons" (and that's a good word) are arguing for hermeticism for everyone, or even necessarily for themselves.  In many of these cases they openly lament their lack of a spouse, and wish that their fortunes in that regard were otherwise.  "A good woman is hard to find," &c. 

But I hope I did not misrepresent Jerome (or anyone like him) by giving the impression that he willfully and deliberately eschewed making a living and finding a mate.  I know nothing about him insofar as that goes.  He said he was unemployed (on disability) and single, but nothing else besides.  I don't know what his precise circumstances were; in charity I can only give him the benefit of the doubt.  When I said "running a profitable business or winning the hand of a lady are strictly of secondary importance," I only meant to convey that they would presumably come second to holiness—not that they would be considered inconsequential.  The way I worded it probably came across as flippant (flippancy being a problem I have).  My apologies to Jerome in his absentia if I gave the impression he was a lazy slacker.  It does feel a little awkward and unkind to be discussing him this long after he's gone.  I was only trying to defend him against the latest insult, but now I fear I may've made it worse.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 23, 2017, 11:44:31 AM
Quote from: Greg on June 23, 2017, 07:58:24 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on June 22, 2017, 07:09:02 PM
Right.  But running a business, whether profitable or unprofitable, is not a criteria for salvation.

It's a criteria.  Just not the only criteria.
QuoteThe chapels we attend are, very largely, paid for by the gifts and endowments of people who had excess wealth they didn't need to spend on their daily living needs.  They either made that excess wealth by living below their means, or, having a successful business so that their income was in excess of what any reasonable person needs to spend.

Jerome might be a saint and super example to us all.  My observation, however, has been that those who suggest Trads should shun the world altogether and live ascetic lives - won't usually lift a finger to help them.  There is too much scolding and not much love.

Point well taken.  If there is "too much scolding and not much love," then the tact and approach is lacking.  The person we were discussing was frequently accused of having an "annoying" and "cranky" style (I would offer merely "brusque," personally) which, it was said, hindered his message. 

How best to administer fraternal correction is a tricky business, I guess.  Everyone seems to love St. Nicholas for punching Arius in the face ("now that's some fraternal correction, bro!"), but then if you dispense your own message without a honeyed voice, delicate phrasing, or apparently some cash to spare, they tend to bristle.  At the end of the day, though, all these personality issues are irrelevant.  If a person is citing saints and popes and Church Fathers, then it's proper to address the things those saints and popes and Church Fathers said, not bicker over whether the person offering those citations is married or financially successful or likes Tolkien.  That's why I liked the guy who said, "let's face facts and get real: the Church Fathers were proto-Islamic puritans."  At least that's honest.  None of this needless whining over the personal life of the middle man.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Chestertonian on June 23, 2017, 12:59:15 PM
St Nicholas was jolly and generous the other 364 days of the year.  Greg's point is that the self proclaimed modesty/media consumption/homeschooling police are not paying women's dowries and making toys for the needy because they're too busy finding the devil in everything.  They could stand to take a  lesson from Santa but probably think believing in Santa is a mortal sin
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on June 23, 2017, 02:57:06 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on June 23, 2017, 12:59:15 PM
St Nicholas was jolly and generous the other 364 days of the year.  Greg's point is that the self proclaimed modesty/media consumption/homeschooling police are not paying women's dowries and making toys for the needy because they're too busy finding the devil in everything.  They could stand to take a  lesson from Santa but probably think believing in Santa is a mortal sin

Yes, I understood Greg's point.  That's why I said, "point well taken."  The bible verse most applicable here is probably James 1:27, where "religion clean and undefiled before God" is not only "to keep one's self unspotted from this world," but also "to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation." 

But I have no idea how we can know whether anyone is doing their almsgiving in public or in secret.  If someone is making arguments against worldliness and citing the saints and popes and Church Fathers, it seems the mature and charitable and reasoned response would be to address those issues and citations directly.  Rolling one's eyes and saying, "you sure could take a tip from Santa Claus, pal—but you probably think believing in Santa is a mortal sin" is a distraction.  I'm just saying this as a dispassionate observer.  It looks like you're deflecting away from his arguments to focus on his style or his character.  It seems like it might be some variation of an ad hominem tactic, but I can't quite put my finger on it.  For all I know, Jerome could've inherited a million dollars from his great-uncle yesterday and given it all to the Church and charities.  Or he could be venturing out of his home to trip blind people and rob old ladies (although that would certainly not cohere with the testimony of his friend).  Either way, it doesn't affect whether he was right or not about worldliness.  But here we are talking about his personality or his approach instead.  See?

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: queen.saints on June 24, 2017, 03:43:06 PM
Quote from: Greg on June 22, 2017, 03:39:48 AM
My experience of people like Jerome is when they begin like that they almost never go on to lead productive lives.  They don't become first class priests or religious that inspire people to be holy, nor do they raise large functional Catholic families.

They either become fringe loony priests like Fr. Pfeiffer or fathers of weirdo families living on welfare because they won't work of run a profitable business.  To much temptation leaving their front door.

That's why I tend to ignore them.

There is a balance to be struck and I look to successful people to strike it.

I only met Fr. Pfeiffer one time (while he was still with the SSPX) and didn't know who he was, but while hearing his sermon, a demonic oppression that had been deeply troubling and darkening my soul was completely gone and was replaced with light and clarity. It was a tangible and beautiful grace, and one which saved me from terrible consequences. I'm eternally grateful to him and only wish to meet him again someday, so as to thank him.


He has spiritual power.
Whatever he's doing, he's doing it right. Maybe he's not striking a balance, but he is striking down demons. That is success in any sense of the word that actually matters.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: angelcookie on June 24, 2017, 05:40:19 PM
Life. Wouldn't watch again.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Non Nobis on June 27, 2017, 02:44:03 PM
"Room"

About a woman kidnapped as a teen and then confined in a shed ("Room") for years, and especially about the son she raised there.

Excellent.

I watched this via "Vidangel" which filtered out (at my choice) bad language and blasphemy. Had this been left in, the evil of her kidnapper would have been shown more powerfully.  But I got the idea.

Vidangel is expensive and I plan(??) to cancel it after a free month plus using my credits.  May as well use it in the mean time.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on June 28, 2017, 04:01:26 AM
Tried to watch War Machine with Brad Pitt. Gave up. Pretty bad.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MundaCorMeum on June 28, 2017, 09:18:27 PM
Quote from: Non Nobis on June 27, 2017, 02:44:03 PM
"Room"

About a woman kidnapped as a teen and then confined in a shed ("Room") for years, and especially about the son she raised there.

Excellent.

I watched this via "Vidangel" which filtered out (at my choice) bad language and blasphemy. Had this been left in, the evil of her kidnapper would have been shown more powerfully.  But I got the idea.

Vidangel is expensive and I plan(??) to cancel it after a free month plus using my credits.  May as well use it in the mean time.

I've heard about this!  It intrigues me, but I don't know if I want to watch it.  There's a book, too
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on June 28, 2017, 11:48:22 PM
Quote from: Greg on June 22, 2017, 06:57:55 PM
Undortunately unless someone makes some spare money along the way there are no chapels for mass or gasoline, car maintenance, airfares, groceries and housing for the priests.

If we don't have children there's no future.

You can run around naked because they'll be no Catholics to scandalise.

Apparently, my local trad oratory is financed primarily by four individuals (families?).  They contribute around a grand a week.  The rest of the chapel (based on my guesstimates) contributes around $5 a head per week. 

Thank God for the rich.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on June 28, 2017, 11:54:07 PM
Quote from: queen.saints on June 24, 2017, 03:43:06 PM
Whatever he's doing, he's doing it right. Maybe he's not striking a balance, but he is striking down demons. That is success in any sense of the word that actually matters.

Didn't he have a fake bishop at his 'seminary' compound?  O.o
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Matto on June 29, 2017, 07:15:42 PM
I watched another Ozu movie tonight. This one is called Late Autumn and it is from 1960. I enjoyed it and laughed a lot while watching it. It is very modern. It is the story of a widow and her daughter and three friends of the widow's late husband. I do not think it is as good as some of his other movies but I enjoyed it and think it is worth watching if you like Ozu like I do.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/embed/WsgL_yG-vzY[/yt]
Modesty wise, it is not perfect. There are modern women wearing shorter skirts but no mini-skirts, and some women in pants and a couple of low-cut dresses but no cleavage. But is not nearly as bad as walking down the street in any American city today.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Cesar_Augustus on July 01, 2017, 02:57:50 PM
I think the recet discussion could be (or at least try) to be solved by answering these questions:

What kind of content is a mortal sin to watch?

Which contents' problems depend of age or personal ocassions of sin?

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Sempronius on July 07, 2017, 08:05:50 AM
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on July 01, 2017, 02:57:50 PM
I think the recet discussion could be (or at least try) to be solved by answering these questions:

What kind of content is a mortal sin to watch?

Which contents' problems depend of age or personal ocassions of sin?

And then there's another question for me personally. If I think women should be modest and have a family oriented way of life, then how can i justify myself being entertained by women that dresses like some superhero and runs around fighting dark forces?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: JubilateDeo on July 07, 2017, 08:14:54 AM
Quote from: Sempronius on July 07, 2017, 08:05:50 AM
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on July 01, 2017, 02:57:50 PM
I think the recet discussion could be (or at least try) to be solved by answering these questions:

What kind of content is a mortal sin to watch?

Which contents' problems depend of age or personal ocassions of sin?

And then there's another question for me personally. If I think women should be modest and have a family oriented way of life, then how can i justify myself being entertained by women that dresses like some superhero and runs around fighting dark forces?
You probably don't want to watch any movies about St. Joan of arc then
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MundaCorMeum on July 07, 2017, 08:26:55 AM
Quote from: JubilateDeo on July 07, 2017, 08:14:54 AM
Quote from: Sempronius on July 07, 2017, 08:05:50 AM
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on July 01, 2017, 02:57:50 PM
I think the recet discussion could be (or at least try) to be solved by answering these questions:

What kind of content is a mortal sin to watch?

Which contents' problems depend of age or personal ocassions of sin?

And then there's another question for me personally. If I think women should be modest and have a family oriented way of life, then how can i justify myself being entertained by women that dresses like some superhero and runs around fighting dark forces?
You probably don't want to watch any movies about St. Joan of arc then

Exceptions don't make the rule.  I'd be willing to bet money that St. Joan, even though dressed in man clothes, was still more modest than the movies Semporonius is referring to.  And, he did say for him personally; he's not trying to impose his viewing standards on everyone else.  There's nothing wrong with going above and beyond the call of duty, so I don't think it's something condemnable.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: kayla_veronica on July 07, 2017, 06:40:19 PM
Watched Man of all Seasons for St. Thomas More's feast day yesterday.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lydia Purpuraria on July 08, 2017, 06:16:03 AM
Watched this last night:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BM2I1ZWU4YjMtYzU0My00YmMzLWFmNTAtZDJhZGYwMmI3YWQ5XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjU0OTQ0OTY@._V1_UX182_CR0,0,182,268_AL_.jpg)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on July 08, 2017, 11:40:50 AM
Quote from: Lydia Purpuraria on July 08, 2017, 06:16:03 AM
Watched this last night:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BM2I1ZWU4YjMtYzU0My00YmMzLWFmNTAtZDJhZGYwMmI3YWQ5XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjU0OTQ0OTY@._V1_UX182_CR0,0,182,268_AL_.jpg)
how was it?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on July 08, 2017, 11:16:11 PM
I need to watch the Seventh Seal.

In the meantime, though, Young Fronkensteen is on Netflix, so, I'm watching that. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lydia Purpuraria on July 09, 2017, 07:13:51 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on July 08, 2017, 11:40:50 AM
Quote from: Lydia Purpuraria on July 08, 2017, 06:16:03 AM
Watched this last night:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BM2I1ZWU4YjMtYzU0My00YmMzLWFmNTAtZDJhZGYwMmI3YWQ5XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjU0OTQ0OTY@._V1_UX182_CR0,0,182,268_AL_.jpg)
how was it?

I really liked it, Martin. It's visually so beautiful and captivating that I could love it strictly from the aesthetic/cinematography angle alone.  The themes are obviously somewhat grim, some would say (to paraphrase a line) "The movie was eloquent all right ... but what it had to say was most depressing."  But I liked it nonetheless.  Still thinking about it, and wondering which of his films I should watch next.  (This was the first of his I've seen.)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on July 09, 2017, 11:08:30 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 08, 2017, 11:16:11 PM
I need to watch the Seventh Seal.

In the meantime, though, Young Fronkensteen is on Netflix, so, I'm watching that.
young Franke is so cool. I watched it last month.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on July 09, 2017, 01:00:46 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on July 09, 2017, 11:08:30 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 08, 2017, 11:16:11 PM
I need to watch the Seventh Seal.

In the meantime, though, Young Fronkensteen is on Netflix, so, I'm watching that.
young Franke is so cool. I watched it last month.
It's easily my desert island movie.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on July 09, 2017, 01:36:56 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 08, 2017, 11:16:11 PM
I need to watch the Seventh Seal.


I watched it years ago, and didn't understand it in the least. I prefer Fanny and Alexander, though even that has some strange elements.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lydia Purpuraria on July 09, 2017, 05:00:36 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on July 09, 2017, 01:36:56 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 08, 2017, 11:16:11 PM
I need to watch the Seventh Seal.


I watched it years ago, and didn't understand it in the least.

What made it that way for you, do you think?  Was it unrelatable?  Something else?

QuoteI prefer Fanny and Alexander, though even that has some strange elements.

That's on my watchlist, so one of these days I hope to get around to watching it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on July 09, 2017, 05:22:07 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 08, 2017, 11:16:11 PM
I need to watch the Seventh Seal.

In the meantime, though, Young Fronkensteen is on Netflix, so, I'm watching that.

D'joo think it was funny?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 10, 2017, 04:21:04 AM
The Prince on Netflix. Cusack and Willis were both wooden. Meh.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on July 10, 2017, 08:28:05 AM
Quote from: Lydia Purpuraria on July 09, 2017, 05:00:36 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on July 09, 2017, 01:36:56 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 08, 2017, 11:16:11 PM
I need to watch the Seventh Seal.


I watched it years ago, and didn't understand it in the least.

What made it that way for you, do you think?  Was it unrelatable?  Something else?

QuoteI prefer Fanny and Alexander, though even that has some strange elements.

That's on my watchlist, so one of these days I hope to get around to watching it.
Honestly, it's been so long that I can't even remember why I didn't like it.  :lol: But I need to just buy Fanny and Alexander (the television version, which is longer) so that I can watch it whenever I want. I love the Christmas part. :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lydia Purpuraria on July 10, 2017, 08:33:59 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on July 10, 2017, 08:28:05 AM
Honestly, it's been so long that I can't even remember why I didn't like it.  :lol: But I need to just buy Fanny and Alexander (the television version, which is longer) so that I can watch it whenever I want. I love the Christmas part. :)

;D  I know how that goes. 

I'm thinking maybe I just need to go ahead and move Fanny and Alexander on up closer to the top of my watchlist.  You're not the first person that's told me they really liked that movie.  It's long though, so it will bump probably two other movies out of their current slots, but such is life. (And don't I make my watchlist sound soo important!  ::) LOL)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on July 10, 2017, 08:46:37 AM
You can watch it for free here:

https://www.filmstruck.com/sign-up?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=CK-QreT4_tQCFZi4wAodRlgPWQ (https://www.filmstruck.com/sign-up?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=CK-QreT4_tQCFZi4wAodRlgPWQ) along with loads of other Criterion Collection movies. 'Bout time they got their own streaming website. I just started my free trial. :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lydia Purpuraria on July 10, 2017, 08:53:54 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on July 10, 2017, 08:46:37 AM
You can watch it for free here:

https://www.filmstruck.com/sign-up?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=CK-QreT4_tQCFZi4wAodRlgPWQ (https://www.filmstruck.com/sign-up?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=CK-QreT4_tQCFZi4wAodRlgPWQ) along with loads of other Criterion Collection movies. 'Bout time they got their own streaming website. I just started my free trial. :)

Wow, that's great -- good movie galore!  Thank you for the link, Bernadette.  I'll be joining you in the free trial shortly!   ;D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Greg on July 12, 2017, 12:40:48 AM
Mission Impossible 5.  I enjoyed it more than the previous 4
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on July 12, 2017, 12:55:30 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 09, 2017, 05:22:07 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 08, 2017, 11:16:11 PM
I need to watch the Seventh Seal.

In the meantime, though, Young Fronkensteen is on Netflix, so, I'm watching that.

D'joo think it was funny?

Funniest movie I can think of. 

Mel Brooks is one funny Jew.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on July 12, 2017, 10:30:03 AM
Speaking of funny and jewish reminds me of a great comedy with Louis Defunes
Rabbi Jacob. you've got to watch this movie especially if your jewish :thumbsup:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069747/
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 16, 2017, 09:08:16 AM
The Sounding. About a woman silent since her childhood. When she began to speak it was only in phrases from Shakespeare. She wound up being institutionalized. Thought provoking.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 17, 2017, 12:50:34 PM
Tears of the Sun with Bruce Willis. Mawkish.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on July 17, 2017, 03:46:59 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on July 17, 2017, 12:50:34 PM
Tears of the Sun with Bruce Willis. Mawkish.
I saw this one about 15 years ago.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on July 17, 2017, 04:33:31 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on July 17, 2017, 12:50:34 PM
Tears of the Sun with Bruce Willis. Mawkish.

Yeah. It can be hit or miss with Bruce.

Watched Get the Gringo. Part of me feels dirty for watching it due to the violence, drugs, sex, and language. But wow, what a good movie.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on July 18, 2017, 03:06:00 AM
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Never seen it before.   It was pretty good.   Impressive filmmaking, at minimum.

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Post by: Mono no aware on July 19, 2017, 09:55:36 AM
20th Century Women (2016)

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Post by: Kaesekopf on July 19, 2017, 10:26:12 AM
Rogue one last night after work. 

Enjoyable.

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Post by: Clare on July 23, 2017, 05:48:14 AM
Rebecca
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Post by: Bernadette on July 25, 2017, 07:47:15 AM
The Thinning. Meh.
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Post by: kayla_veronica on July 26, 2017, 10:37:25 AM
Dunkirk

[yt]https://youtu.be/Kkir0o8IsLY[/yt]
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Post by: RedCaves on July 26, 2017, 04:13:50 PM
War for the Planet of the Apes.

Can't wait for the next one! :)
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Post by: Kephapaulos on July 29, 2017, 11:29:41 AM
It was not the last movie I saw, but the other day I saw a 1938 film called "The Beloved Brat," starring Bonita Granville. It was a well done film about a young rich girl neglected by her parents. It's pretty funny as well as sad, for she always ends up getting into trouble throughout the movie, while you feel sorry for her at the same time. The movie also shows how some families had the same kinds of problems like today.
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Post by: martin88nyc on July 29, 2017, 12:55:03 PM
"Whiplash" - lots of vulgar language but overall a masterpiece.
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Post by: GeorgeT on July 31, 2017, 08:58:52 AM
Lilies of the field.
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Post by: martin88nyc on July 31, 2017, 09:53:09 AM
I have also been watching lots of gangster and detective movies lately.
"Gangster Squad" based on the life of a notorious gangster Mickey Cohen. 
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Post by: kayla_veronica on July 31, 2017, 07:50:11 PM
Captain America: Civil War
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Post by: red solo cup on August 11, 2017, 04:11:02 AM
The Ides of March with Ryan Gosling and George Clooney. Very good.
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Post by: red solo cup on August 16, 2017, 03:55:49 AM
Divergent. Didn't care for it.
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Post by: Bernadette on August 25, 2017, 02:55:07 PM
Les Miserables. The recent musical version. Love that movie. :)
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Post by: Kaesekopf on August 25, 2017, 08:19:17 PM
Watching princess bride right now lol

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Post by: MundaCorMeum on August 25, 2017, 09:32:22 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 25, 2017, 08:19:17 PM
Watching princess bride right now lol

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Favorite!
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Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on August 25, 2017, 10:30:45 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 25, 2017, 08:19:17 PM
Watching princess bride right now lol

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wait, what?   
Are you on a date?  Please say yes.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on August 25, 2017, 11:21:59 PM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on August 25, 2017, 10:30:45 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 25, 2017, 08:19:17 PM
Watching princess bride right now lol

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wait, what?   
Are you on a date?  Please say yes.
Nah I just have good taste. 

Was in a group with more women than guys though.  So, like I said, good taste. [emoji38]

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Post by: Gardener on August 26, 2017, 08:02:01 AM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on August 25, 2017, 10:30:45 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 25, 2017, 08:19:17 PM
Watching princess bride right now lol

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wait, what?   
Are you on a date?  Please say yes.

What man in his right mind browses a forum while on a date?

He should be too busy demonstrating his memorization of dialogue.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on August 26, 2017, 11:07:09 AM


Quote from: Gardener on August 26, 2017, 08:02:01 AM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on August 25, 2017, 10:30:45 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 25, 2017, 08:19:17 PM
Watching princess bride right now lol

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wait, what?   
Are you on a date?  Please say yes.

What man in his right mind browses a forum while on a date?

He should be too busy demonstrating his memorization of dialogue.

One dedicated to his forum, that's who. 

Alas, no dates for me.

As to memorization, the ladies had the film memorized.  I was impressed.

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Post by: Chestertonian on August 26, 2017, 12:54:51 PM
i remember watching princess bride when i was a kid and loving it.  so i thought i'd show it to my son (7) thinking he'd love it too....so he enjoyed a lot of it until the torture scene which really freaked him out.  He wanted to turn the movie off and didnt finish it.  "kids these days....when i was your age we watched people get tortured and we thoguht it was HILARIOUS"
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Post by: Kephapaulos on August 26, 2017, 02:16:46 PM
Last night, I saw Scandal at Scourie from 1953, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, their last performance together. It was set in Canada, and it was about a Catholic orphan girl adopted by a Protestant couple who all meet challenges with their situation.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on August 26, 2017, 02:55:13 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on August 26, 2017, 12:54:51 PM
i remember watching princess bride when i was a kid and loving it.  so i thought i'd show it to my son (7) thinking he'd love it too....so he enjoyed a lot of it until the torture scene which really freaked him out.  He wanted to turn the movie off and didnt finish it.  "kids these days....when i was your age we watched people get tortured and we thoguht it was HILARIOUS"
Lol princess bride is Def a weird movie

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Post by: Kephapaulos on August 26, 2017, 06:46:22 PM
I must agree. The Princess Bride is a weird movie. I would like to see the whole thing straight through though.
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Post by: LausTibiChriste on August 27, 2017, 03:31:29 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 25, 2017, 08:19:17 PM
Watching princess bride right now lol

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Post by: Clare on September 09, 2017, 02:22:16 AM
Duel
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Post by: RedCaves on September 09, 2017, 08:20:56 PM
IT (2017 film)
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Post by: LausTibiChriste on September 10, 2017, 12:41:55 AM
Quote from: RedCaves on September 09, 2017, 08:20:56 PM
IT (2017 film)

My sister saw it last night and said it was hilarious - what did you think of it?
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Post by: Clare on September 10, 2017, 02:00:35 AM
Capricorn One
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Post by: RedCaves on September 10, 2017, 02:46:40 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on September 10, 2017, 12:41:55 AM
Quote from: RedCaves on September 09, 2017, 08:20:56 PM
IT (2017 film)

My sister saw it last night and said it was hilarious - what did you think of it?

Since I'm NOT afraid of clowns, I knew that I wouldn't be too scared in seeing it. It had a lot of funny moments, which I liked. The effects were great and I loved how Pennywise looked and acted. The main characters were written pretty good and I liked how they interacted with each other during their moments of fear. It had a decent amount of psychological terror being well-portrayed.

Overall, a surprisingly well-made remake and I can't wait for the sequel. :)

Maybe I should read the book it's based off someday.
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Post by: MilesChristi on September 10, 2017, 05:52:36 PM
The Depahted
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Post by: Maximilian on September 10, 2017, 06:38:32 PM
Quote from: Clare on September 10, 2017, 02:00:35 AM
Capricorn One

So what did you think?

Is it worth watching?
Did it make you consider whether the moon landings were fake?
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Post by: Clare on September 13, 2017, 04:43:59 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on September 10, 2017, 06:38:32 PM
Quote from: Clare on September 10, 2017, 02:00:35 AM
Capricorn One

So what did you think?

Is it worth watching?
Did it make you consider whether the moon landings were fake?
I'd seen it on TV years ago, so it wasn't completely new to me. Watching it again, it was even better than I remembered. Definitely worth watching.

I've an open mind about the moon landings. I wouldn't be shocked if they had been faked.
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Post by: Kephapaulos on September 18, 2017, 01:52:21 PM
55 Days at Peking starring Charleton Heston:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AayYzeW4E3o

Go to about 3:33, and you'll start seeing different nation's national anthem performed. It has to do with the various foreign presences in China at the time. The movie is about the 1900 Boxer Rebellion there.
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Post by: Kephapaulos on September 18, 2017, 01:52:53 PM
We also saw the movie about Babe Ruth starring John Goodman.
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Post by: kayla_veronica on September 18, 2017, 05:04:26 PM
The Revenent
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Post by: red solo cup on September 19, 2017, 04:13:13 AM
Limitless with Bradley Cooper. Pretty good.
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Post by: kayla_veronica on September 19, 2017, 06:51:06 AM
The Reluctant Saint!
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Post by: MundaCorMeum on September 19, 2017, 08:49:05 AM
Quote from: kayla_veronica on September 19, 2017, 06:51:06 AM
The Reluctant Saint!

I want to see this!  How was it?  Can I watch it with my kids?
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Post by: Kephapaulos on September 19, 2017, 10:46:45 AM
Quote from: kayla_veronica on September 19, 2017, 06:51:06 AM
The Reluctant Saint!

I remembered about that movie yesterday because of the feast day. I have not seen still though. We used to sell it at my job before my last one.
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Post by: kayla_veronica on September 19, 2017, 07:24:26 PM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on September 19, 2017, 08:49:05 AM
Quote from: kayla_veronica on September 19, 2017, 06:51:06 AM
The Reluctant Saint!

I want to see this!  How was it?  Can I watch it with my kids?

It's a wonderful movie! Yes, kid friendly!
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Post by: red solo cup on September 20, 2017, 03:46:07 AM
The Counselor with Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt. Disappointing. Some of the scenes with Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz were quite vulgar.
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Post by: red solo cup on September 29, 2017, 04:04:46 AM
Ender's Game. Didn't care for it.
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Post by: Jacob on September 30, 2017, 09:56:20 AM
Free HBO this weekend!

Last night I watched most of Jackie with Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy and Peter Sarsgaard as RFK.  Interest movie.  The story is told in flashback from two different points.  John Hurt has a strong role as The Priest.

(https://thumbs.mic.com/ZDYyMzNiOTBjMSMvTnZSdXVkOVphS013MTNDSmZnaGNqSm53MTlNPS8xMTF4NDoxMDQ2eDY3My82MjJ4NDQ0L2ZpbHRlcnM6cXVhbGl0eSg3MCkvaHR0cDovL3MzLmFtYXpvbmF3cy5jb20vcG9saWN5bWljLWltYWdlcy95MnRpb2p6bmk2djk5czEwcXJlYnlubWJkbWU4bHFiOGx4ZXJiaWR6amFva2V2dWx4cHhyYWRyMWJkZ2ZrcmRlLmpwZw.jpg)
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Post by: red solo cup on October 01, 2017, 01:04:59 PM
Once Upon a Time in America with De Niro and Woods. Very disappointing.
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Post by: Chestertonian on October 01, 2017, 05:26:03 PM
Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone.  So far no one has turned into a warlock

I don't let my son watch the movies until he reads the book
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Post by: Bernadette on October 01, 2017, 06:50:12 PM
Those kids look so young in the first movie.
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Post by: Chestertonian on October 08, 2017, 06:07:57 PM
watched the Lego Batman movie with a 7 r year old who only got some of the references
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Post by: MundaCorMeum on October 08, 2017, 07:16:38 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on October 08, 2017, 06:07:57 PM
watched the Lego Batman movie with a 7 r year old who only got some of the references

7 yr olds never get all the references  ::).
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Post by: Clare on October 09, 2017, 05:18:02 AM
Assault on Precinct 13 (the original one)
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Post by: Heinrich on October 09, 2017, 10:11:16 AM
Some Mother's Son

Best articulation of The Troubles/Occupation I have seen in film.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUWtyUSC-NE[/yt]
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Post by: Gardener on October 09, 2017, 04:58:26 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on October 09, 2017, 10:11:16 AM
Some Mother's Son

Best articulation of The Troubles/Occupation I have seen in film.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUWtyUSC-NE[/yt]

I should let you borrow the trilogy by Walter Macken starting with the invasion by Cromwell. Superb reading.
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Post by: red solo cup on October 30, 2017, 03:44:31 AM
The Queen with Helen Mirren.
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Post by: RedCaves on November 01, 2017, 01:13:30 PM
Geostorm

It was entertaining, despite whatever flaws it had.
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Post by: Gerard on November 05, 2017, 10:22:15 AM
Thor: Ragnarok.

It was incredibly fun to watch.
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Post by: martin88nyc on November 05, 2017, 10:47:31 AM
End of season 2 of "Ripper Street".
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Post by: red solo cup on November 07, 2017, 05:47:27 AM
Quote from: martin88nyc on November 05, 2017, 10:47:31 AM
End of season 2 of "Ripper Street".
A pretty good show. The way they talk reminds me of Deadwood.
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Post by: ÆneasQuébécois on November 07, 2017, 09:13:05 AM
The Truman Show
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Post by: Jacob on November 07, 2017, 09:30:12 AM
Quote from: ÆneasQuébécois on November 07, 2017, 09:13:05 AM
The Truman Show

Was it your first time watching?
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Post by: Clare on December 31, 2017, 05:23:05 AM
Got my daughter The Hunger Games books and dvds for Christmas. She's now read the books twice already, and we saw the films this week.
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Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on January 17, 2018, 12:49:12 PM
The Last Jedi, last night, for the second time with a family member who had not yet seen it and wanted someone to go with.  It wasn't all that the first time, but I love my family lol
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Post by: Jacob on January 17, 2018, 06:47:42 PM
I watched The Apostle, written, directed, and starring Robert Duvall, a few days ago.  I've seen it a few times before, including in the theater when it first came out.  It was very good and Robert should have gotten the Oscar that year (well, either Robert or Peter Fonda who was equally outstanding in Ulee's Gold).
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Post by: Daniel on January 18, 2018, 11:20:51 AM
I've spent a few weeks re-watching Star Wars episodes I through VI, and I must disagree with the majority opinion.
Episodes I, II, and III were not nearly as bad as everyone makes them out to be. In fact, I would say that episodes II and III are the best of the 6. They're brilliant... it's like the Brutus story, but without Caesar. The ending of episode III could have been better executed though (the whole transition from Republic to Empire seemed a bit rushed), but overall it was great.
I do agree that episode I had its weak points. It did seem to take on a slower pace than the other movies, and that ending had way too much stuff going on at once (making it difficult to follow). But against the consenus, I actually loved the podracing, and the midichlorions, and even Jar Jar Binks. (Why does everyone hate him? He's hilarious, and not nearly as annoying as those Ewoks/teddy bears from from episode VI...)
So if I were to sort all the movies from best to worst, I'd have to say: (II and III), IV, I, and then (V and VI).
(Episodes VII and VIII were just bad. Entertaining, but bad.)
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Post by: Maximilian on January 18, 2018, 11:26:33 AM
Quote from: Jacob on January 17, 2018, 06:47:42 PM
I watched The Apostle, written, directed, and starring Robert Duvall, a few days ago.  I've seen it a few times before, including in the theater when it first came out.  It was very good and Robert should have gotten the Oscar that year (well, either Robert or Peter Fonda who was equally outstanding in Ulee's Gold).

One of my favorite movies.
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Post by: Jacob on January 18, 2018, 12:23:15 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on January 18, 2018, 11:26:33 AM
Quote from: Jacob on January 17, 2018, 06:47:42 PM
I watched The Apostle, written, directed, and starring Robert Duvall, a few days ago.  I've seen it a few times before, including in the theater when it first came out.  It was very good and Robert should have gotten the Oscar that year (well, either Robert or Peter Fonda who was equally outstanding in Ulee's Gold).

One of my favorite movies.

I tried to watch Tender Mercies, but the DVD I got from Netflix didn't have closed captions.  Ugh.

Regarding Star Wars:

Quote(II and III), IV, I, and then (V and VI).

I don't do the numbers that well, so let me work this out...

AotC / RotS
ANH
Phantom
Empire / Jedi

What about Empire led you to put it at the bottom?
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Post by: Maximilian on January 18, 2018, 01:39:36 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 18, 2018, 12:23:15 PM

I tried to watch Tender Mercies, but the DVD I got from Netflix didn't have closed captions.  Ugh.

Another really great movie.

You can watch it on Amazon for $1.99, and they say it has closed captioning.

https://www.amazon.com/Tender-Mercies-Allan-Hubbard/dp/B002BX578E/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1516304253&sr=1-1&keywords=tender+mercies
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Post by: Maximilian on January 18, 2018, 01:51:55 PM
Quote from: Daniel on January 18, 2018, 11:20:51 AM

Episodes I, II, and III were not nearly as bad as everyone makes them out to be.

I. I actually enjoyed the movie that had Jar-Jar Binks. I felt like you got your money's worth with a saga that spanned the galaxies.

II. The only thing I remember about this movie was Natalie Portman's wedding dress. The teenage girls that I saw it with went for that reason, and it was beautiful, but nothing else from the movie is memorable enough to stand out in my recollection.

III. I felt like I was being physically assaulted. The volume was turned up so high, and the action was disorienting like being on a roller coaster. The only other thing that I recall is that Samuel L Jackson's acting was so bad that it set a new standard for the worst acting ever caught on film. While that might seem like a trivial point, to me it invalidated the series as serious drama. Watching the worst acting in history during the quiet moments, and then being beat over the head with a painful assault during the rest of the movie made me decide never to put myself through that experience again.

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Post by: Daniel on January 18, 2018, 03:43:49 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 18, 2018, 12:23:15 PM
I don't do the numbers that well, so let me work this out...

AotC / RotS
ANH
Phantom
Empire / Jedi

What about Empire led you to put it at the bottom?
No particular reason, apart from the fact that overall I just didn't enjoy it as much as the other ones. (I like to group it together with Jedi because it's basically one story split in half. Same for AotC and RotS. It's hard to evaluate Empire on its own, apart from Jedi.)
I did like the Vader conversion / self-sacrifice thing at the end of Jedi, but I think George Lucas should have taken it further. The way it came across, at least in my opinion, seemed a bit shallow.
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Post by: Jacob on January 18, 2018, 06:34:25 PM
I was there at midnight when Phantom first opened.  I went to see Attack, but not on opening day.  As for Sith, I didn't even bother to go see it.  That's how little I thought of the prequels up to that point.  I only saw Sith years later on TV.

Phantom after seeing it on TV over the years has grown on me despite its flaws.  Attack has never really done the same.  And Sith is okay for what it is, but it is still disappointing.

Is there anyone else here who saw Attack of the Clones in the theater when it was first released?  I have a question for you.
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Post by: Daniel on January 18, 2018, 08:25:28 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 18, 2018, 06:34:25 PM
Is there anyone else here who saw Attack of the Clones in the theater when it was first released?  I have a question for you.
I'm sure I did, but I can't recall the details (I was in middle school at the time).
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Post by: Jacob on January 19, 2018, 10:02:22 AM
Quote from: Daniel on January 18, 2018, 08:25:28 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 18, 2018, 06:34:25 PM
Is there anyone else here who saw Attack of the Clones in the theater when it was first released?  I have a question for you.
I'm sure I did, but I can't recall the details (I was in middle school at the time).

I talked about this with a friend a long time ago who had seen it in the theater, but I wanted to see if anyone else remembered it in case we were remembering wrong.  In the movie, when Anakin and Padme are back on Naboo and Anakin is showing off riding the creature, he gets thrown off and plays possum.  Padme runs over to see if he is dead and he pulls her down and they tussle for a bit, sharing cloying endearments like, "I love you" and "No, I love you more."

I told my friend I remembered this scene from the theater, but that whenever I saw the movie on TV, the last bit where they are on the ground had been cut out.  My friend seemed to remember similarly.

We both thought the scene was horrible and were glad it had been trimmed.
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Post by: Daniel on January 19, 2018, 04:39:22 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 19, 2018, 10:02:22 AM
Quote from: Daniel on January 18, 2018, 08:25:28 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 18, 2018, 06:34:25 PM
Is there anyone else here who saw Attack of the Clones in the theater when it was first released?  I have a question for you.
I'm sure I did, but I can't recall the details (I was in middle school at the time).

I talked about this with a friend a long time ago who had seen it in the theater, but I wanted to see if anyone else remembered it in case we were remembering wrong.  In the movie, when Anakin and Padme are back on Naboo and Anakin is showing off riding the creature, he gets thrown off and plays possum.  Padme runs over to see if he is dead and he pulls her down and they tussle for a bit, sharing cloying endearments like, "I love you" and "No, I love you more."

I told my friend I remembered this scene from the theater, but that whenever I saw the movie on TV, the last bit where they are on the ground had been cut out.  My friend seemed to remember similarly.

We both thought the scene was horrible and were glad it had been trimmed.
Well, I'm glad I don't remember that part :)

But help me out here... in one of the prequel movies, I remember seeing the Millennium Falcon in one of the scenes. Like a cameo appearance. It was all new-looking and shiny and made of chrome. I don't remember which movie it was in, though. But after re-watching all of them on DVD, I didn't notice it in any of them. Not sure whether I just missed it, or if they cut it... or maybe it was never there to begin with (perhaps I imagined the whole thing...?)
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Post by: red solo cup on January 31, 2018, 04:51:46 AM
Solace with Anthony Hopkins. Very average. Hopkins was wooden.
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Post by: Bonaventure on February 01, 2018, 11:07:21 AM
Barabbas
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Post by: Jacob on February 01, 2018, 09:08:21 PM
The Witch, a horror movie PdR mentioned in The Benedict Option thread awhile ago.  It was all I thought it would be and more.
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Post by: red solo cup on February 02, 2018, 04:58:57 AM
The Circle with Tom Hanks and Emma Watson. I alternated between contempt and fury.
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Post by: Mono no aware on February 02, 2018, 08:22:49 AM
Quote from: Jacob on February 01, 2018, 09:08:21 PM
The Witch, a horror movie PdR mentioned in The Benedict Option thread awhile ago.  It was all I thought it would be and more.

I'm glad you liked it.  It would definitely rate in my "top five" of horror films.  Unfortunately, I've read where the writer-director's next project is going to be a remake of Nosferatu, which seems like a manifestation of egomaniacal insanity, since Werner Herzog already did a remake of that movie in 1979 with Klaus Kinski and Isabelle Adjani, and that remake is not only better than the original but would also be in my horror top five.  There is no way some bearded hipster in skinny jeans is going to top Nosferatu the Vampyre.

Speaking of recommendations, I am about halfway through Master & Commander, the first book in the Aubrey-Maturin series which you had recommended a while back.  I remember my dad had a lot of those on his bookshelf when I was growing up.  It's pretty good so far.  I'm not sure if he's supposed to be, but I think James Dillon might be my favorite character at this point.  The only criticism I have is that there's a ponderous amount of technical jargon; the author seems to assume that every reader will be a "19th century British navy" nerd.  And I don't think I'm all that ignorant of nautical terminology, but some of the descriptive passages are nearly impenetrable.  It should've come with a glossary.  My favorite "seafaring adventure" novel is Lord Jim.  I don't expect Patrick O'Brian to surpass Joseph Conrad, but it's still good.  A couple years ago I read The Terror by Dan Simmons, which is another 19th century Royal Navy novel, and that one was good too.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on February 02, 2018, 08:34:56 AM
The second-to-last movie I saw was Diary of a Chambermaid (for the second time), and I noticed a possible gaffe in that they appeared to be having a dialogue Mass even though the period setting I think predates that.  It contains a small subplot involving the Dreyfus Affair which made me hope that The Prague Cemetery will someday get a film adaptation.

The last movie I saw was From the Land of the Moon.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on February 02, 2018, 08:48:23 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on February 02, 2018, 08:22:49 AM
Unfortunately, I've read where the writer-director's next project is going to be a remake of Nosferatu, which seems like a manifestation of egomaniacal insanity, since Werner Herzog already did a remake of that movie in 1979 with Klaus Kinski and Isabelle Adjani, and that remake is not only better than the original but would also be in my horror top five.

I read that too.  But I am hopefully it won't come off.  Wiki quoted the actress as saying she was involved, but that was 2015, but the movie itself isn't listed in her filmography as even in production or post-production.  The movie must be in turnaround or something.

Quote from: Pon de Replay on February 02, 2018, 08:22:49 AM
Speaking of recommendations, I am about halfway through Master & Commander, the first book in the Aubrey-Maturin series which you had recommended a while back.  I remember my dad had a lot of those on his bookshelf when I was growing up.  It's pretty good so far.  I'm not sure if he's supposed to be, but I think James Dillon might be my favorite character at this point.  The only criticism I have is that there's a ponderous amount of technical jargon; the author seems to assume that every reader will be a "19th century British navy" nerd.  And I don't think I'm all that ignorant of nautical terminology, but some of the descriptive passages are nearly impenetrable.  It should've come with a glossary.  My favorite "seafaring adventure" novel is Lord Jim.  I don't expect Patrick O'Brian to surpass Joseph Conrad, but it's still good.  A couple years ago I read The Terror by Dan Simmons, which is another 19th century Royal Navy novel, and that one was good too.

The terminology is dense, yes.  Even after a few books, I was till laboring through certain passages.  But I learned to roll with it and pick out the most salient parts without getting bogged down.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Stu Cool on February 02, 2018, 05:57:18 PM
Quote from: Daniel on January 19, 2018, 04:39:22 PM

But help me out here... in one of the prequel movies, I remember seeing the Millennium Falcon in one of the scenes. Like a cameo appearance. It was all new-looking and shiny and made of chrome. I don't remember which movie it was in, though. But after re-watching all of them on DVD, I didn't notice it in any of them. Not sure whether I just missed it, or if they cut it... or maybe it was never there to begin with (perhaps I imagined the whole thing...?)

It's Revenge of the Sith after rescuing the Chancellor. A ship is pulling into a building on Coruscant and you can see it flying in the bottom portion of the screen.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on February 06, 2018, 05:09:56 AM
Allied with Brad Pitt. Not bad but Pitt's expression barely changed throughout the film. Maybe a little too much botox?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on February 06, 2018, 10:20:37 AM
LOTR trilogy (directors cut, extended version)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on February 06, 2018, 10:25:09 AM
Cars 3.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on February 06, 2018, 02:25:37 PM
Quote from: Gardener on February 06, 2018, 10:25:09 AM
Cars 3.

What did the family think of it?  :D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on February 06, 2018, 02:29:10 PM
Quote from: Lynne on February 06, 2018, 02:25:37 PM
Quote from: Gardener on February 06, 2018, 10:25:09 AM
Cars 3.

What did the family think of it?  :D

Wife laughed a lot. Oldest loved it. It didn't have any scenes that scared him, unlike the first Cars movie. That one, there is a scene where a combine tractor is chasing Mater and Lightning. We often hear about how the "popcorn trac'or is scary".

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Carleendiane on February 06, 2018, 06:08:12 PM
Quote from: Gardener on February 06, 2018, 02:29:10 PM
Quote from: Lynne on February 06, 2018, 02:25:37 PM
Quote from: Gardener on February 06, 2018, 10:25:09 AM
Cars 3.

What did the family think of it?  :D

Wife laughed a lot. Oldest loved it. It didn't have any scenes that scared him, unlike the first Cars movie. That one, there is a scene where a combine tractor is chasing Mater and Lightning. We often hear about how the "popcorn trac'or is scary".

Oldest? For some reason I thought you only have Dominic! Lol!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on February 06, 2018, 08:30:42 PM
Nope, we have Dominic (3 in a few days), Eamon (9months old). And if nothing goes wrong, we appear to have another one on the way :)

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Carleendiane on February 06, 2018, 08:52:07 PM
Sweet pics, Gardener. So number three huh? You must be Catholic! Lol.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: MundaCorMeum on February 07, 2018, 07:39:56 AM
Quote from: Gardener on February 06, 2018, 08:30:42 PM
Nope, we have Dominic (3 in a few days), Eamon (9months old). And if nothing goes wrong, we appear to have another one on the way :)

Hey, congratulations!!  That's wonderful news.  I will include your wife and new little baby in my prayer intentions. 


Side note...my kids watched Cars 3 the other night, as well. They liked it.  I heard ALL about it....several times over ;)  But, we are terrible parents, and didn't watch with them, rather used that time to have an impromptu date together  :P
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on February 10, 2018, 03:04:39 PM
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on February 10, 2018, 05:17:05 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on February 10, 2018, 03:04:39 PM
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring.
I watched the trilogy last week( editors cut, extended edition) simply wonderful. I love these movies.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on February 16, 2018, 04:53:06 PM
Just finished with Anne of Green Gables and am on to Anne of Avonlea
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Non Nobis on February 16, 2018, 11:19:41 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on February 16, 2018, 04:53:06 PM
Just finished with Anne of Green Gables and am on to Anne of Avonlea

The 1985/1987 mini-series, or a newer movie?  I really liked the old mini-series.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on February 23, 2018, 06:53:54 PM
Quote from: Non Nobis on February 16, 2018, 11:19:41 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on February 16, 2018, 04:53:06 PM
Just finished with Anne of Green Gables and am on to Anne of Avonlea

The 1985/1987 mini-series, or a newer movie?  I really liked the old mini-series.

The 1985/87  versions.  Don't much like the newer versions. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Carleendiane on February 23, 2018, 08:12:10 PM
So, a trusted source said go see 15:17 to Paris, in the theater. It's just great. We don't go to movies. Just dont. But...this peaked hubbies interest. Directed by C. Eastwood. Paris train terror attack. So hubby and I made a date. 4:45 at local theater. Bought some Werthers to suck on and bottle of gatorade, both intended to be smuggled in by purse, slick, huh?  Exciting date. We go left out of driveway, can't get through. DEEP water over road 1/4 mile down, about a foot and half deep. No problemo. We'll go the long way around. Turn around get almost to stop sign, foot and 1/2 deep water over road. Should have brought farm truck, but by now we will miss beginning of movie. Went home. Will try again tomorrow. Will report in as to whether or not I would recommend it! So far, it's been a flop!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bonaventure on February 25, 2018, 03:50:39 PM
The latest We Wuz Kangz movie...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on February 26, 2018, 10:31:29 AM
Quote from: Gardener on February 06, 2018, 08:30:42 PM
Nope, we have Dominic (3 in a few days), Eamon (9months old). And if nothing goes wrong, we appear to have another one on the way :)

Gee, I never go on this thread! Congratulations and I hope everything is still going smoothly!  :beer: :baby2:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on February 27, 2018, 10:14:56 AM
Moonstruck.

It was interesting.  Kinda funny. 

"I'm not a monument to justice!"

:lol:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on March 02, 2018, 01:45:28 PM
I saw three interesting movies this week.  The first was Lady Macbeth, which in my opinion was one of the finest films of recent years.  Who are William Oldroyd and Florence Pugh?  Right out of the box and they're brilliant.  It somehow reminded me of a certain 1970s style of filmmaking: coarse, brutal, unpleasant, and unflinching.  Amidst a ton of negative user reviews on Netflix, the person who compactly wrote, "the truth of the human condition. Nothing more, nothing less. (Need 80 characters)" really hit the mark.  The source material is a nineteenth century Russian novella.  I listened to a podcast with William Oldroyd and apparently he was once a candidate for the Anglican priesthood.  Next I saw Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to probably my favorite science fiction movie of all time.  It was overlong and an unworthy successor to the original, but it was still halfway decent.  I'm not disappointed that it got made.

(https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/images/9213-d5b09b0d2f1c89b3c2c3cafa0bb86c90/ladymacbeth11012017_large.jpg)

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Finally I got around to watching Pope Michael (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b96WxyxPfOY), the eponymous documentary of the Kansan papal claimant.  I thoroughly enjoyed it.  The first thing it dispelled for me is the popular notion that David Bawden is mentally ill.  I had heard this tossed around so often that I had almost, through osmosis, come to believe it.  But he isn't a loony in the least.  He is actually no different from many of the good and honest-dealing traditional Catholics I have met in my life.  I found him to be perfectly sane, and in fact he strikes me as someone of above-average intelligence (there's a scene where he goes to speak at a local university and gets into an argument with an "in communion with Rome" Catholic priest, and Pope Michael acquits himself well in their exchange).  He does come across as slightly awkward.  He was quite good-looking in his youth (almost a shade off of "movie star handsome") but in the old photographs he doesn't seem eager to make eye contact or smile.  He clearly lacks the macho confidence that so many in the traditional Catholic community see as a requisite for "normal" and "sane," which probably fuels the rumors.

But although Pope Michael is not demented, he is, unfortunately, somewhat uninteresting and dull.  Doubtless there have been boring and bland men throughout the history of the Church who found their way to the papacy, but in this age you would think that the Holy Spirit would've chosen someone with more charisma and bearing.  His lack of personality doesn't hurt the movie itself, though, because the fascinating thing is that Pope Michael (as of 2010) was training a young man named Phil Friedl for the Catholic priesthood.  The movie is a chronicle of one year in Phil's apprenticeship.  There are some unintentionally funny moments.  Pope Michael has a tendency to meander (in a folksy way) when he's speaking, and there's a scene where he tells Phil to get out his notebook and take notes, because this is important, and then he immediately seques into a meaningless digression and Phil looks perplexed as to whether he's supposed to be writing it down.  In another scene, Tickie Bawden (great name), Pope Michael's elderly mother, is trying out a new baking press to make sacramental wafers.  The baking press' maiden voyage does not go well, but she and Pope Michael and Phil Friedl manage to take the failure in stride.  "Phil Friedl" is a great name, too.  And towards the end there's a scene where Phil has to make a profession of commitment as he enters a new phase in the minor orders, and it seems like the profession must've been composed offhand by Pope Michael, as it reads like some sort of amateur legal document, with Phil having to preface every line with "I, Phil Friedl ... "

There is a bumbling and hapless nature to the whole Bawden papacy, from which Pope Michael no doubt derives a lot of his name recognition.  He himself is not a terribly compelling person, but the sheer situation of a gentle and genial man in Kansas who was elected pope by his parents and friends is an interesting piece of "wacky Americana."  It's easy for traditional Catholics to dismiss him in this way.  But I think Pope Michael has the last laugh.  Overall I was impressed with him.  However "wacky" his whole scene may appear, he has nevertheless, impressively, managed to cut through all of the nauseating paradox, hand-waving, excuse-making, and contradiction in traditional Catholicism.  When you see him seated in his full regalia in his cramped little garrett chapel, the picture confronts you with Pope Michael's stumbled-upon logic: the Catholic Church must, existentially, have a pope.  It is either an Argentine lunatic in Rome, or it is someone else.  And here is someone who makes the claim.

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-hWuXGft4vo/maxresdefault.jpg)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on March 02, 2018, 02:21:58 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 27, 2018, 10:14:56 AM
Moonstruck.

It was interesting.  Kinda funny. 

"I'm not a monument to justice!"

:lol:

I always enjoy it when I see it on and am in the mood for that type of movie.  I like the subplots and the small roles like John Mahoney's.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on March 03, 2018, 08:32:37 AM
Pon, how do you discover these movies?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on March 03, 2018, 09:35:57 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on March 03, 2018, 08:32:37 AM
Pon, how do you discover these movies?

In the case of Lady Macbeth, it was recommended to me by an algorithm based on my ratings of other movies.  It had gotten some good reviews, but I wasn't expecting it to be as great as it was.  There's a famous book called "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls," and its name comes from its thesis that those two movies roughly mark the beginning and the end of the "golden age" of cinema—essentially, the 1970s.  I tend to agree with that assessment, although I recognize that it would not be shared by most traditional Catholics, who would likely consider 70s cinema to be decadent and perverse; they would probably agree more with Anthony Esolen, the Thomas More College professor who thinks the golden age occurred during the studio system and Hays Code days of the 1940s and 50s (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kateohare/2016/08/are-we-no-longer-capable-of-producing-great-drama/).  Well, Lady Macbeth seems like it belongs to the 70s, and it has some similarities with two Thomas Hardy adaptations from opposite ends of that golden age: John Schlesinger's Far from the Madding Crowd and Roman Polanski's Tess, but it's really in a vein of its own, and in many respects it's more bleak and pessimistic and uncompromising.  There is barely even a musical score, and almost no expository dialogue.  It has a real harshness.

I had known about the Pope Michael documentary for a long time, but the air in the traditional Catholic scene had been so polluted by the idea that Pope Michael was just "some wacky nutter" that I had always supposed it would've been nothing more than an hour's worth of lunatic ramblings.  Fortunately it's not.  I can't deny that he's awkward and un-self-conscious, but I've come to see his papacy as a remarkable and salient statement.  I would recommend the film to all traditional Catholics, and I would only suggest that the viewer go into it charitably, giving Michael the benefit of the doubt.  He's not really the most articulate person, but he seems to have been someone who gave more thought to the crisis than perhaps most are willing to.  It's said (from the SSPX side) that he was kicked out of an SSPX seminary for being mentally imbalanced, but his own version of events rings truer: that he became disillusioned by the schizophrenia and paradox of the "recognize-&-resist" position.  He's no one's paragon of eloquence, but the way he puts it is refreshingly plain: "sometimes it seemed like they were with the Novus Ordo, and other times it seemed like they were against the Novus Ordo.  I couldn't figure them out or get a straight answer."  He's a simple and uncomplicated Midwesterner.  In a way, his half-assed conclavist papacy, however bizarre, is possibly the straightest answer of all.


Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on March 03, 2018, 10:18:15 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on March 03, 2018, 09:35:57 AM
There's a famous book called "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls," and its name comes from its thesis that those two movies roughly mark the beginning and the end of the "golden age" of cinema—essentially, the 1970s.  I tend to agree with that assessment, although I recognize that it would not be shared by most traditional Catholics, who would likely consider 70s cinema to be decadent and perverse; they would probably agree more with Anthony Esolen, the Thomas More College professor who thinks the golden age occurred during the studio system and Hays Code days of the 1940s and 50s (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kateohare/2016/08/are-we-no-longer-capable-of-producing-great-drama/).

I think New Hollywood is a bit overrated, but the so-called Golden Age back during the Hayes Code is as overrated in a way.  If one's only exposure to that earlier time period is watching classics on certain cable channels, then the person is having a curated experience that puts aside all the crap that got put out at the same time.  The same goes for New Hollywood.

I think it personally comes down to what one prefers as a moviegoer.  As PdR says, New Hollywood is raw and so on.  Or the Golden Age under the Code where subtlety and misdirection is key.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on March 11, 2018, 09:47:15 AM
Yesterday I watched The Winslow Boy, the version made in 1999.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on March 19, 2018, 01:29:48 AM
I think the late silent period and the early thirties up until the Code was imposed is the Golden Age of Cinema. So many of the films were honest without being distasteful like most of what is created today. The post Code era also provided many classic films, but many of them are so cloying and phony. Frankly, I think the B films of the Post Code are better than many of the more lavish films. I'll take Edgar Ulmer's Detour or Robert Siodmak's Son of Dracula over Yankee Doodle Dandy or Mrs. Minever any day of the week.

And the last movie I watched was A Man For All Seasons, which is truly a film for all seasons.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on March 19, 2018, 05:07:45 PM
Quote from: Larry on March 19, 2018, 01:29:48 AM
I think the late silent period and the early thirties up until the Code was imposed is the Golden Age of Cinema. So many of the films were honest without being distasteful like most of what is created today. The post Code era also provided many classic films, but many of them are so cloying and phony. Frankly, I think the B films of the Post Code are better than many of the more lavish films. I'll take Edgar Ulmer's Detour or Robert Siodmak's Son of Dracula over Yankee Doodle Dandy or Mrs. Minever any day of the week.

The silent era is very special.  Every period of movies eventually becomes dated, and even though the silents are the most dated films of all, the best of them really transcend it because the cinematic language was so unique.  I think the movies of the 40s and 50s date the worst, or at least the Hollywood productions do.  There is no sense of chiaroscuro and the lighting is just so harsh and completely bleached out, supposedly showing more but revealing only the stagey artificial sets.  I think The Godfather was, in part, such a landmark film because its cinematography was a deliberate reaction against all that.  Coppola and Scorsese were fond admirers of foreign directors like Bergman and Visconti. 

Val Lewton is another B-movie horror director from that period whose work stands the test of the time better than the big bonanzas.  I suspect Mel Gibson likes silent films.  I once read where he originally wanted to have The Passion of the Christ without any subtitles.  That's a real confidence in visual storytelling.


Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on March 24, 2018, 03:05:39 AM
I watched The Shape of Water. A very strange film filled with things that are troubling to the Catholic conscience, but it does have moments of transcendence and is very well acted, and beautifully photographed. One thing this movie has been accused of is bestiality, but the woman who falls for the Creature of the Black Lagoon inspired character turns out to be of his species. Still, the film has problems, and I can't recommend it even though it's technically excellent.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on April 08, 2018, 12:53:21 PM
The last movie I saw was I, Tonya (2017).  It was very good.  It received a lot of critical praise and it deserved all it got.  It has an unconventional and complicated story to tell, but it tells it with confidence and verve.  All the narrative risks it takes are successful, and there's a terrific attention to detail in recreating the era.  It's a real piece of Americana.

(https://mountainx.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/i-tonya-4027-1100x619.jpg)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on April 13, 2018, 11:29:47 PM
In this Corner of the World
  - available on Netflix.

Very beautiful and moving. A lot like "Grave of the Fireflies," but even sadder in some parts.

(https://myanimelist.cdn-dena.com/images/anime/2/87704l.jpg)

The art is not as professional and perfect as "Grave of the Fireflies," but it has its own distinct charm.

(https://78.media.tumblr.com/79e5d643353d85df8a05345a89978780/tumblr_p0i6qi07fT1rbud4zo1_500.gif)

The images like the ones above that come up in a google search don't give you a very good understanding of what the movie is really about, however. Here is a better representation:

(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQdzc6pO8dZkWYdBA0jVA4zmtQT_fqM_YRonK5FJ5B-ZFSlMv-9)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on April 14, 2018, 06:29:01 AM
10 minutes of Last Flag Flying. Looked promising, but the blasphemous language was too much.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Non Nobis on April 14, 2018, 07:48:49 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 08, 2018, 12:53:21 PM
The last movie I saw was I, Tonya (2017).  It was very good.  It received a lot of critical praise and it deserved all it got.  It has an unconventional and complicated story to tell, but it tells it with confidence and verve.  All the narrative risks it takes are successful, and there's a terrific attention to detail in recreating the era.  It's a real piece of Americana.

(https://mountainx.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/i-tonya-4027-1100x619.jpg)

Since I've always loved women's figure skating and remember Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding and the big scandal at the 1994 Olympics very well, I thought I would watch this.  It didn't reveal anything that was too surprising, but did give me a little more compassion for Tonya. What a rough life; she sure got in with the wrong crowd (starting with her mother, if she was really like that). She turned out very rough too; became a woman boxer afterwards!  Not my cup of tea.

I don't tolerate foul language very well, and there was sure a lot of that.  Blasphemy?  I don't recall much if any, but definitely very foul.  I watched it through, but wasn't entirely happy with myself for doing so.

I just read that Tonya is now in Dancing with the Stars.  I don't get TV now, but admit I got a kick out of shows like that when I did.  She was a good skater.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on April 15, 2018, 08:39:33 AM
After I watched it, I read some of the reviews, and there seemed to be two main strands of criticism.  The first was that it took a flippant attitude towards child and spousal abuse.  At one point, an aging chain-smoking Tonya is giving an interview from her kitchen, and she rolls her eyes and snorts something like, "Nancy gets hit once, and the whole world goes crazy.  Well, I got hit a lot more than once."  It's definitely very cynical and "darkly comical" on that point, but I am a misanthrope so it didn't rub me the wrong way. 

The second was that it looked down on working class people, offering nothing but caricatures instead of characters.  I disagree with that one.  I thought it was an honest treatment of class in America, and I think it's an ivory tower criticism that would prefer to see Rocky-style working class heroes, or perhaps Tarantino fantasies where thugs and goons offer rich quips and long eloquently trashy monologues.  This movie was aiming for more verisimilitude than that.  Lots of people really are just dim.  At one point there's a reporter from Hard Copy who says of the hit men, "these were two of the dumbest boobs in the history of dumb boobs," and he laughs at the parking lot camera footage that indicted them, moving their car every fifteen minutes because "they didn't want to attract attention."  And in the interviews from the real-life characters that run during the credits, it's clear that Tonya's bodyguard was just as self-delusional as he was portrayed.

I didn't know anything about figure skating going into the movie.  It never interested me.  When I was a youngster my mom would watch it, and even then, seeing the glitzy sequined outfits, I knew it wasn't my kind of thing.  But I, Tonya goes into that.  She really was a talented skater, but she came from the wrong background, and it proved to be her undoing.  It's a genuine tragedy.  Even as it shows her getting her start, it's clear that she's not quite a fit.  Her outfits were sewn by her mother, and she didn't like skating to hoity classical music.  I kind of knew it was going to be a treat of a movie when she's at some early competition, and she goes out onto the ice and the announcer comes on and says, "next up is Tonya Harding, skating to 'Sleeping Bag' by ZZ Top."  Oh man.  I "LOL"ed.  Turns out it's true: she really did have "Sleeping Bag" as her skating music.  80s-synth-era ZZ Top!  You can't make this stuff up.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTpeiTQoWIA[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on April 15, 2018, 11:49:56 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 15, 2018, 08:39:33 AM

..... and she didn't like skating to hoity classical music. ....


Amazing in that pop music's predominant characteristic is to be hoity whereas what is termed "classical" music is genuinely better, healthier and more profound. 

That attitude is such a shame among many in the working classes and much of the middle and upper classes.  A good number of the greatest composers were from peasant stock.  Beethoven in particular was known to have suffered mightily at the hands of his abusive father.  It's essentially snobbery by the lower classes against their own kind simply because people of a different class saw what was beautiful. 

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on April 15, 2018, 02:11:34 PM
Quote from: Gerard on April 15, 2018, 11:49:56 AMAmazing in that pop music's predominant characteristic is to be hoity whereas what is termed "classical" music is genuinely better, healthier and more profound. 

That attitude is such a shame among many in the working classes and much of the middle and upper classes.  A good number of the greatest composers were from peasant stock.  Beethoven in particular was known to have suffered mightily at the hands of his abusive father.  It's essentially snobbery by the lower classes against their own kind simply because people of a different class saw what was beautiful.

I think our disagreement here is over the word "hoity."  I meant it in the sense of "haughty," but you read it in terms of "frivolous."

QuoteWhat's the meaning of the phrase 'Hoity-toity'? (https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/hoity-toity.html)

Pretentiously self-important, haughty or pompous.

What's the origin of the phrase 'Hoity-toity'?

Many dictionaries also give a second meaning, that is, given to frivolity, silliness or riotousness. That was the original meaning of this term, but has now almost completely died out. Our view of what is hoity-toity now is defined by the 'looking down the nose' manner adopted by characters like Lady Bracknell, as performed by Dame Edith Evans, in the stage and film versions of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

I don't doubt that some of the great composers rose up from humble beginnings, but at the same time I don't think too many people in rural villages had access to orchestral music.  I would imagine that in the days before recorded music, the peasantry would've been more familiar with things like the jigs and reels and murder ballads they heard at the public houses, because where was a symphony orchestra going to set up?  In the movie Barry Lyndon, the main character is an 18th century commoner who manages his way into the upper classes, whereupon he finally acquires the money to hire his own chamber orchestra.  So even three hundred years ago it was a mark of refinement.  "Folk music" denotes "the music of the people;" the "popular" music.

In this day and age I think a lot of classical music comes as a challenge to many ears (and this is excluding the obvious pieces that transcend the barrier, things like the "Ode to Joy," "Ave Maria," and "Canon in D").  In the early nineties, a nineteen-year-old working-class girl from Oregon was just not likely to appreciate Beethoven's late string quartets over ZZ Top.  And I don't think it would've been snobbery on her part.  I think she could honestly say of a string quartet, "this is boring," and of ZZ Top, "this is awesome."


Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on April 15, 2018, 07:18:26 PM
I would attribute the challenge people of of today have with classical music is the fact that classical music and folk music (which inspired many of the great composers,  Brahms' Hungarian Dances,  Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies which were really Gypsy folk tunes) literally is too rich for the ear of modern listeners.  I think the peasants of the past with a rich folk tradition were probably more aurally prepared for great compositions when musicians would tour the countryside and perform concerts in solo or small ensembles.  Liszt introduced the peasantry to symphonies and operas  by way of his marvelous transcriptions. Also the Church music traditions had not degraded in any way comparable with today's "worship" music. Virtually everyone had to have some rudimentary knowledge of singing and dancing and playing an instrument or there would be no musical entertainment in the house at all.     

Nowadays, it's like someone who is so used to processed sugar and twinkles, disliking a cake that is less cloyingly sweet because they've been desensitized to what sweetness really is.  I once attended a concert in the 1980s of Howard Jones and being a people watcher, I noticed the crowd which was rhythmically jumping up and down to rhythms that were in cut time or common time, come to a complete standstill when a waltz rhythm was introduced.  Peasants could dance in cut time and common time as well as waltz "broken" time.  Even with the distinctions between accents used in things like mazurkas, polkas or the Viennese waltzes. 

And I think it has gotten worse, a basic unvariagated rhythm is the only thing people are able to comprehend.  Even the pop/rock music of the 1970s is too complex, drawn out and "boring."  You can detect in rap, much of the rhythm of baroque counterpoint minus the melody, theme and variation, musical meaning etc.  But they won't notice that and enrich themselves by exploring more deeply because the 'showbiz' is the big distraction to the bankruptcy of musical ideas.  ZZ Top is exciting more for their beards and videos than they were for the actual music.  Those extramusical ideas made the music seem more exciting. 

Is it any wonder that brides do want Pachelbel's Canon at their weddings?  It's the only four chords they've heard their entire lives in pop music. 

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM[/yt]

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on April 15, 2018, 07:59:50 PM
I don't know if I want to make defending ZZ Top the hill I die on (heaven forfend), but they are a better group than the gimmicky beards and videos suggest.  They were around for a decade before the video era.  Songs like "Tush" and "La Grange" have a raunchy drive and blistering guitar solos.  They have a stupid name and a comical appearance, but I think you might be underrating them slightly.  They play decadent & sleazy roadhouse blues better than almost anyone else (if you're in the mood for that kind of thing).  There was a kid in my high school who listed ZZ Top as his all-time favorite group (to each their own, I guess) and when I signed up for Facebook I was pleased to see that he wore a ZZ Top beard as an adult.  They were also a favorite of the neoconservative President George W. Bush.  They played at his inaugural ball.  I like to think that President Bush entered wearing a tuxedo and his famous smirk, with Laura Bush on his arm and ZZ Top playing "Sharp-Dressed Man."  Somehow ZZ Top are enjoyable.  A guilty pleasure.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GOH2vw2q0A[/yt]

:leaving:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on April 15, 2018, 08:11:31 PM
While I have your attention, Gerard, I might let you know that St. Columba (the SD user) is asking for your participation in this thread (https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=19823.msg438172#msg438172).  You probably already know and are composing a response.  But, just in case you overlooked it.  Anyway, I always enjoy reading your thoughts on music and the arts.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Matto on April 15, 2018, 08:42:46 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on April 13, 2018, 11:29:47 PM
In this Corner of the World
  - available on Netflix.

Very beautiful and moving. A lot like "Grave of the Fireflies," but even sadder in some parts.
I thought this was very high praise and since it was you recommending it and I value your opinion, I decided to watch it. I guess with both movies being Japanese animes about civilians trying to survive during World War 2 in Japan with scenes of bombing and a cute young girl featured prominently, the movies are about as similar as movies get. I liked it a lot but I would not say it was "even sadder" than "Grave of Fireflies." I did not cry watching this movie. I am glad you recommended it and that I watched it, and I was happy that it was not objectionable (the closest thing to objectionable was a short second with a little anime partial nudity) because the last anime I tried to watch turned into pornography halfway through. But I rate "Grave of Fireflies" very highly. Not only do I consider it one of the best Japanese animes I have ever seen, but I would also consider it one of the best animated films I have ever seen and would put it somewhere on my list of the best movies I have ever seen. This movie was really good and definitely worth watching, but I was more greatly moved by "Grave of Fireflies" and I cried more. Thank you for the recommendation and I would recommend it also.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on April 15, 2018, 11:39:18 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 15, 2018, 08:11:31 PM
While I have your attention, Gerard, I might let you know that St. Columba (the SD user) is asking for your participation in this thread (https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=19823.msg438172#msg438172).  You probably already know and are composing a response.  But, just in case you overlooked it.  Anyway, I always enjoy reading your thoughts on music and the arts.

I'll check that thread out.  Thanks for the heads up.  To finish up on the music thing, I don't have a problem with liking a pop group, I have plenty of eclectic things in my own collections of LPs, cassettes, CDs and downloads.  Back in the day, I used to put ZZ's "Stages" as the first song in my "jogging mix tape" to use with my sports Walkman.  My main point is not the liking of something.  It's the disliking of something genuinely good like classical music for basically immature reasons. 

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on May 26, 2018, 04:11:57 AM
Gotti with Anthony Quinn. Disappointing.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Counter Revolutionary on July 09, 2018, 05:12:56 PM
On Wings of Eagles (2016)

A pretty good movie about the Olympic runner Eric Liddell, a Protestant who admirably refused to compete in an Olympic race he qualified for because it was on a Sunday (although this refusal of his to run does not get much attention in this particular film).

Cleanest movie I have seen in a while. Nothing too morally objectionable. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Miriam_M on July 09, 2018, 11:41:37 PM
Did you also see Chariots of Fire? (Same topic, different movie.)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Counter Revolutionary on July 10, 2018, 05:03:07 PM
Quote from: Miriam_M on July 09, 2018, 11:41:37 PM
Did you also see Chariots of Fire? (Same topic, different movie.)

It has been over a decade since I last watched Chariots of Fire. When I saw it last I thought that there were too many drawn out scenes that were on the boring side, but I think that I would appreciate the film much more now that I am a little older. It is one of my Father's favorite movies.

For those who don't know, as Miriam M already mentioned, Chariots of Fire is about the same Protestant Olympic runner, Eric Liddell.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on July 10, 2018, 05:59:47 PM
Chariots has Vangelis!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on July 11, 2018, 01:05:52 PM
Quote from: Jacob on July 10, 2018, 05:59:47 PM
Chariots has Vangelis!

Vangelis did the music for "The Bounty" as well which is some of my favorite music of his.  (in all its drawn out 1980s minimalist glory.) 

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLgUOiZUbTk[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on July 11, 2018, 05:57:24 PM
The theme for Chariots of Fire is more recognizable, but Vangelis' best work was his soundtrack for Blade Runner.  That, and Tangerine Dream's music for Legend, are the two best soundtracks of the 80s; come to think of it, they both have the same director.  The perfect marriage of sight and sound.  Synthesizers sounded cheesy in pop music, but somehow they worked in film.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfOWehvvuo0[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on July 11, 2018, 06:33:02 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on July 11, 2018, 05:57:24 PM
The theme for Chariots of Fire is more recognizable, but Vangelis' best work was his soundtrack for Blade Runner.  That, and Tangerine Dream's music for Legend, are the two best soundtracks of the 80s; come to think of it, they both have the same director.  The perfect marriage of sight and sound.  Synthesizers sounded cheesy in pop music, but somehow they worked in film.

Heh.  I have to admit that I only know Vangelis in Chariots from the famous opening on the beach.

I agree that his work on Blade Runner is excellent.  I won't concede though that his work and TD's in Legend is the best of the decade, but I can't offer any counterexamples given it's been too long.

What do you think of Basil Poledouris' score for Conan the Barbarian?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on July 11, 2018, 07:22:04 PM
Quote from: Jacob on July 11, 2018, 06:33:02 PMWhat do you think of Basil Poledouris' score for Conan the Barbarian?

It's been more than thirty years since I saw that (and only once), so I'd have to re-visit it.  I owned well-worn and much-cherished copies of both Blade Runner and Legend on VHS, though, and those remain foremost in my memory.  (I was always a staunch defender of Legend over Labyrinth, which all my friends seemed to think was the superior of the two).  I just found out that Tangerine Dream also did the soundtrack for Risky Business, which rings about right in my memory now, recalling the Eurotrash-y synth music of the scene on the train.

Currently I'm revisiting the catalogue of Darren Aronofsky, so the last movie I saw was Noah, which I think I rated middling the first time I saw it.  The second time around was altogether different, and now I consider it excellent.  Like all controversial movies, people will tend to see in it what they want to.  I went back to Bp. Barron's review (https://www.wordonfire.org/resources/article/noah-a-post-modern-midrash/480/) and was impressed at how much Catholic symbolism he found in it (while admitting it may not've been intended).  I think I'm in a more apocalyptic and pessimistic mindset these days, and I found a terrible beauty to it.

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on July 11, 2018, 08:45:32 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on July 11, 2018, 05:57:24 PM
The theme for Chariots of Fire is more recognizable, but Vangelis' best work was his soundtrack for Blade Runner.  That, and Tangerine Dream's music for Legend, are the two best soundtracks of the 80s; come to think of it, they both have the same director.  The perfect marriage of sight and sound.  Synthesizers sounded cheesy in pop music, but somehow they worked in film.

A guy I know used to take scenes from Blade Runner and make music videos out of them. He was a film major in college at the time.  He did some really cool stuff with Sting's "Fragile" and "Red Rain" from Peter Gabriel.  Blade Runner is a weird movie in how it has more visual rhythm than and visual motifs than it does actual overt story. 

But it's hard to really pick a "best" due to the vast variety of musical types.  Obviously compositionally, nobody alive then or now is going to hold a candle to the genius of Mozart which served as the soundtrack to "Amadeus."  And you have the more classically romantic music of Ennio Morricone with "The Mission" and John Barry with "Somewhere in Time." 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on July 12, 2018, 07:41:54 AM
Quote from: Gerard on July 11, 2018, 08:45:32 PMA guy I know used to take scenes from Blade Runner and make music videos out of them. He was a film major in college at the time.  He did some really cool stuff with Sting's "Fragile" and "Red Rain" from Peter Gabriel.  Blade Runner is a weird movie in how it has more visual rhythm than and visual motifs than it does actual overt story. 

But it's hard to really pick a "best" due to the vast variety of musical types.  Obviously compositionally, nobody alive then or now is going to hold a candle to the genius of Mozart which served as the soundtrack to "Amadeus."  And you have the more classically romantic music of Ennio Morricone with "The Mission" and John Barry with "Somewhere in Time."

I think I'll pass on the "classically romantic" soundtracks, but I do like classical music in a movie.  Stanley Kubrick, of course, had a run of three films where he really made that all his own: 2001, A Clockwork Orange, and Barry Lyndon.  There are portions of 2001 where I think it would've been better served by something like Pink Floyd, who were doing exceptional space-rock soundtrack work around that time.  (I hate to be a heretic, but I have to be honest: the Blue Danube Waltz in space is a bit silly).  But pieces like Zarathustra and Lux Aeterna work so perfectly it's difficult to imagine it without them.  I would say the synth-&-classical hybrid work of Walter (later Wendy) Carlos on A Clockwork Orange was influential on bringing synthesizers into soundtracks.  I guess the synthesizer really took off in horror films, such as the prog-rock score for Dario Argento's Suspiria and the early work of John Carpenter (a director who composed his own soundtracks).  I know a lot of people consider that stuff dated and corny, but it's what I imbibed in my formative years of watching movies and I love it.

Agreed on Blade Runner being a weird movie.  It's hard to determine what it does better, its "visual rhythm and visual motifs" (great phrase) or its story, which really does "philosophical existential sci-fi" to perfection.  Speaking of Peter Gabriel, he wrote the soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ.  It has a bit of synth, but it's more along the lines of "Red Rain."

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0EYRC4NQ-Q[/yt]

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on September 02, 2018, 07:49:18 PM
Leave No Trace

https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/leavenotrace

Beautiful, touching story.
Rated PG but could have been G.

Currently playing at the discount theaters.

(https://womensvoicesforchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Leave-No-Trace-Movie.jpg)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on September 03, 2018, 04:50:47 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on September 02, 2018, 07:49:18 PM
Leave No Trace

https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/leavenotrace

Beautiful, touching story.
Rated PG but could have been G.

Currently playing at the discount theaters.

(https://womensvoicesforchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Leave-No-Trace-Movie.jpg)
By the same guy who did Winter's Bone which was very good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on September 03, 2018, 04:21:04 PM
My Way, the Korean movie
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on September 11, 2018, 01:52:57 PM
Fried Green Tomatoes. Love that movie. :)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on September 11, 2018, 05:53:48 PM
I went to see The Sound of Music in the theater on Sunday.  Because helicopter shots of the Alps only really work on the big screen.  It's true.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on September 11, 2018, 09:23:32 PM
I just finished Won't You Be My Neighbor, the movie on Fred Rogers.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on September 12, 2018, 09:49:51 AM
Quote from: Jacob on September 11, 2018, 09:23:32 PM
I just finished Won't You Be My Neighbor, the movie on Fred Rogers.

Was it excellent? I can't wait to see it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on September 12, 2018, 02:05:42 PM
Quote from: Jacob on September 11, 2018, 05:53:48 PM
I went to see The Sound of Music in the theater on Sunday.  Because helicopter shots of the Alps only really work on the big screen.  It's true.

Yeah some things are just better that way.  I saw Spartacus (Kirk Douglas et al) at one of our local movie theaters some years ago.  Nothing beats the Roman army scenes on a big screen.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Larry on September 12, 2018, 03:05:51 PM
T-MEN, a film noir from 1947. Great movie.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on September 12, 2018, 04:41:42 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on September 03, 2018, 04:21:04 PM
My Way, the Korean movie

Me gusta.👍
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on September 12, 2018, 06:54:29 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on September 12, 2018, 09:49:51 AM
Quote from: Jacob on September 11, 2018, 09:23:32 PM
I just finished Won't You Be My Neighbor, the movie on Fred Rogers.

Was it excellent? I can't wait to see it.

It really was excellent, yes.  It had a lot of clips from the sixties and seventies.  It was amazing how they weaved together shots from the show that were obviously separated by decades, but fit together perfectly due to Mr. Rogers sticking to his format (for instance, when he takes off his shoe and throws it from one hand to the other).

Quote from: maryslittlegarden on September 12, 2018, 02:05:42 PM
Quote from: Jacob on September 11, 2018, 05:53:48 PM
I went to see The Sound of Music in the theater on Sunday.  Because helicopter shots of the Alps only really work on the big screen.  It's true.

Yeah some things are just better that way.  I saw Spartacus (Kirk Douglas et al) at one of our local movie theaters some years ago.  Nothing beats the Roman army scenes on a big screen.

Spartacus would be a great one, yes.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on September 14, 2018, 01:37:08 PM
Pride & Prejudice (1940) version
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on September 15, 2018, 10:47:51 PM
The Quiet Man.

Makes me miss Ireland.   :cheeseheadbeer: :cheeseheadbeer: :cheeseheadbeer:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on September 16, 2018, 08:15:29 AM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on September 15, 2018, 10:47:51 PM
The Quiet Man.

Makes me miss Ireland.   :cheeseheadbeer: :cheeseheadbeer: :cheeseheadbeer:

I like the political undercurrents of that movie.  I pick up on them the more I watch.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on September 16, 2018, 01:45:52 PM
The Terminal and  The Bucket List
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Christe Eleison on September 16, 2018, 03:12:53 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on September 14, 2018, 01:37:08 PM
Pride & Prejudice (1940) version


:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on September 17, 2018, 10:59:08 PM
Somewhere In Time

A bit of a slow romance, but seeing all the spots on Mackinac Island I've been too was thrilling
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on September 18, 2018, 09:24:18 AM
Quote from: drummerboy on September 17, 2018, 10:59:08 PM
Somewhere In Time

A bit of a slow romance, but seeing all the spots on Mackinac Island I've been too was thrilling


The soundtrack is a real treat in that movie.  Some of John Barry's best work, Roger Williams played the piano parts beautifully without hamming it up like he would normally do.  And the 18th Variation of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is the cherry on top. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on November 19, 2018, 06:35:35 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on September 02, 2018, 07:49:18 PM
Leave No Trace

https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/leavenotrace

Beautiful, touching story.
Rated PG but could have been G.

I saw this movie over the weekend, and I agree with Maxmilian's summation of it as a "beautiful, touching story."  It has a genuinely naturalistic brilliance to it.  There is even a scene of liturgical dancing (of all things) that rings as true as you could imagine.  I would rate it as one of the best films of 2018.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on November 19, 2018, 06:48:17 PM
The Nun's Story, because Audrey.

The Last Voyage, with Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Edmund O'Brien, Woody Strode, and George Sanders.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on November 19, 2018, 08:42:26 PM
Anyone jacked up for Creed 2?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Daniel on November 21, 2018, 02:36:15 PM
Last night I saw Castle in the Sky (dubbed) in the theatre. That's my all-time favourite movie. Except the version they showed was a slightly newer dub (closer to the original Japanese) and I didn't like it quite as much as the dub I have on DVD. Still good though.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Counter Revolutionary on December 03, 2018, 01:47:43 PM
The Man Who Invented Christmas

I enjoyed it.
Very clean movie; nothing indecent.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Carleendiane on December 03, 2018, 03:06:26 PM
Quote from: Gerard on September 18, 2018, 09:24:18 AM
Quote from: drummerboy on September 17, 2018, 10:59:08 PM
Somewhere In Time

A bit of a slow romance, but seeing all the spots on Mackinac Island I've been too was thrilling


The soundtrack is a real treat in that movie.  Some of John Barry's best work, Roger Williams played the piano parts beautifully without hamming it up like he would normally do.  And the 18th Variation of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is the cherry on top.

This was filmed on Mackinaw island, so close to where I grew up.  Was proud of that fact. Mackinaw island is a must see. I actually feel the place is not as captivating as it was back when they made the movie, but that's "progress" I guess. Still, the island takes you back. Is a romantic reminder of a gentler, slower paced lifestyle. Horse and buggy, homemade fudge, and beautiful landscape. The experience begins on the ferry ride over and ends after the ferry ride back to the mainlsnd. If one has the opportunity, I recommend them to experience the island and much that is associated with it. Its a small island, so rent a bke and pedal all around it. The Grand hotel is quite pricey so a day trip may be all most can afford. But really, I would encourage the experience. It truly brings a person back in time.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Counter Revolutionary on December 03, 2018, 03:29:47 PM
Quote from: Carleendiane on December 03, 2018, 03:06:26 PM
Quote from: Gerard on September 18, 2018, 09:24:18 AM
Quote from: drummerboy on September 17, 2018, 10:59:08 PM
Somewhere In Time

A bit of a slow romance, but seeing all the spots on Mackinac Island I've been too was thrilling


The soundtrack is a real treat in that movie.  Some of John Barry's best work, Roger Williams played the piano parts beautifully without hamming it up like he would normally do.  And the 18th Variation of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is the cherry on top.

This was filmed on Mackinaw island, so close to where I grew up.  Was proud of that fact. Mackinaw island is a must see. I actually feel the place is not as captivating as it was back when they made the movie, but that's "progress" I guess. Still, the island takes you back. Is a romantic reminder of a gentler, slower paced lifestyle. Horse and buggy, homemade fudge, and beautiful landscape. The experience begins on the ferry ride over and ends after the ferry ride back to the mainlsnd. If one has the opportunity, I recommend them to experience the island and much that is associated with it. Its a small island, so rent a bke and pedal all around it. The Grand hotel is quite pricey so a day trip may be all most can afford. But really, I would encourage the experience. It truly brings a person back in time.

No place can compete with Northern Michigan during the summer! My parents took us to Traverse City every other year growing up and we loved it. Harbor Springs, Petoskey, and Charlevoix are all worth checking out too. Mackinac Island is in a category of its own though, of course. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Christe Eleison on December 03, 2018, 04:28:09 PM
Quote from: Carleendiane on December 03, 2018, 03:06:26 PM
Quote from: Gerard on September 18, 2018, 09:24:18 AM
Quote from: drummerboy on September 17, 2018, 10:59:08 PM
Somewhere In Time

A bit of a slow romance, but seeing all the spots on Mackinac Island I've been too was thrilling


The soundtrack is a real treat in that movie.  Some of John Barry's best work, Roger Williams played the piano parts beautifully without hamming it up like he would normally do.  And the 18th Variation of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is the cherry on top.

This was filmed on Mackinaw island, so close to where I grew up.  Was proud of that fact. Mackinaw island is a must see. I actually feel the place is not as captivating as it was back when they made the movie, but that's "progress" I guess. Still, the island takes you back. Is a romantic reminder of a gentler, slower paced lifestyle. Horse and buggy, homemade fudge, and beautiful landscape. The experience begins on the ferry ride over and ends after the ferry ride back to the mainlsnd. If one has the opportunity, I recommend them to experience the island and much that is associated with it. Its a small island, so rent a bke and pedal all around it. The Grand hotel is quite pricey so a day trip may be all most can afford. But really, I would encourage the experience. It truly brings a person back in time.

I saw some pictures of the place & I immediately felt like I have to visit one day. :thumbsup: It is my type of place. Nostalgic, dreamy, stress free, historic, beautiful in every way. I loved everything I saw. It would be heavenly to be able to live there  ;D
Now I will have to check the movie out as well. Thanks, Carleen!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Matto on December 07, 2018, 10:02:58 PM
I saw an obscure independent film called Bitter Melon in the theater tonight. The only reason I saw it is because one of the people involved is a woman I used to be friends with. I did not know much about it going in to it. I would not recommend it because it was morally problematic. there was a short gay sex scene and a short scene of straight pornography. It was about a Filipino family living in San Francisco gathering together at Christmas. I did not like the beginning or the end, but the middle exposed the tragedy of life and was good. I wish the two short sinful parts were not there because without them it would be a decent movie. It is somewhat about abuse and is somewhat sympathetic with the abuser and the abused and the enablers. Sadly I do not think it will be a success because I went on opening night at the best time and there were barely a dozen people in the theater.
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Post by: Kreuzritter on December 12, 2018, 06:07:35 PM
The Fall (2006). Not the last film I've seen but the one most worth remembering of recent ones, especially with such a bleak offering of cinema as art in 2018. Magnificent and endearing. It's cult and very Gilliam-esque, so ignore the reviews if you know what that means, but Roger Ebert at least got it right. Dullards, cynics, accountants and the aesthetically tasteless with hate it. Lee Pace really is beautiful in this, but it's the little girl who steals the show right from the start.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUUv20XfDyc[/yt]
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Post by: Jacob on December 13, 2018, 09:12:06 AM
Best of Enemies, a feature length documentary about the debates between William F. Buckley, Jr. and Gore Vidal held by ABC News during the Republican and Democratic conventions of 1968, and the effect they had on both men.

Very interesting look at Buckley and Vidal and also at news coverage of the time, how it worked, etc.  Buckley and Vidal despised each other and what were supposed to be debates about the issues facing each party for the election descending into all out war between the two in what is considered to be the start of punditry on TV.
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Post by: Gerard on December 13, 2018, 12:58:22 PM
Quote from: Jacob on December 13, 2018, 09:12:06 AM
Best of Enemies, a feature length documentary about the debates between William F. Buckley, Jr. and Gore Vidal held by ABC News during the Republican and Democratic conventions of 1968, and the effect they had on both men.

Very interesting look at Buckley and Vidal and also at news coverage of the time, how it worked, etc.  Buckley and Vidal despised each other and what were supposed to be debates about the issues facing each party for the election descending into all out war between the two in what is considered to be the start of punditry on TV.

I saw that.  It was amazing how they try to paint Buckley as a closeted homosexual in order to explain his dislike of homosexuality.  It never once questions Vidal's sanity or his general nuttiness.  The implicit idea is that conservatism and the condemnation of bad behavior is somehow disordered. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on December 16, 2018, 09:17:34 AM
These aren't the last two movies I saw, but I watched them recently and they're both available for streaming on Netflix.  The first was Moonwalkers (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2718440/), a paint-by-numbers British action-comedy elevated by its high concept and late-60s period setting: it imagines a world in which the Apollo 11 moon landing conspiracy is true, and that Stanley Kubrick was hired by the CIA to fake the footage.  A pair of slackers, however, manage to dupe the lead CIA agent into believing that one of them (a spaced-out druggie) is Kubrick.  Hijinks ensue.

(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defilmkijker.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F03%2FRecensie-Moonwalkers-e1459370688628.jpg&hash=e2bce4b9bc74468ef81ec686ee876c231820cacd)

The second was Filmworker (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6851066/), a documentary about Leon Vitali, who gave up his career as an actor to become Kubrick's personal assistant, which you would think would be the greatest job in the world, but apparently Kubrick's obsessiveness took a demanding toll.  Vitali was the actor who played Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon and delivered one of its most memorable lines: "I have not received satisfaction."  Anyway, it's a lovely testament to the collaborative marriage between an obsessive master and an assistant obsessed with realizing the master's vision, to the point of nearly complete self-surrender.  A treat for obsessives.  There's even a scene where Vitali is asked whether he believes Kubrick faked the moon landing (answer: no).

I think these two movies would make a good Kubrick-themed double feature.  It's not available for streaming, but the addition of Room 237 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085910/) would make for a good triple feature.

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Post by: Heinrich on December 16, 2018, 04:15:58 PM
These sound as exciting as a soccer game, Pon.
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Post by: Jacob on December 23, 2018, 09:14:41 AM
The Passion of Joan of Arc.

At the start it was listed as PG.  I had seen parts before where they were interrogating Joan.  Intense.  I could see how they would list it as PG.

And then came the climax of the burning and all.  Hard R!  Hard R!

Highly recommend.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on December 30, 2018, 09:44:25 PM
Finding Vivian Maier, a documentary about the nanny who was a prolific photographer, her life, how her work was discovered after her death, its artistic merit, etc.

Recommend.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on December 30, 2018, 10:03:12 PM
Has anyone seen The Mule?
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Post by: Jacob on December 31, 2018, 08:36:23 PM
Bergman's Winter Light.  I saw it was on in the middle of the night the other day and today it showed up through my cable's On Demand, so I watched it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Lynne on February 11, 2019, 11:06:08 AM
They Shall Not Grow Old, directed by Peter Jackson, about the Brits who signed up to fight in World War I.

*Terribly* depressing. They took old film footage, digitized it and kind of wove a story out of it. So all the dead bodies of humans and horses that you see were truly dead, not actors. Lice, rats, etc. in 3D.  :'(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Shall_Not_Grow_Old (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Shall_Not_Grow_Old)

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on February 11, 2019, 02:07:44 PM
Standoff at Sparrow Creek. Think Pon de Replay, Gardener, Michael Wilson, Heinrich and INPEFESS holed up in a Whodunnit?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on February 11, 2019, 06:13:50 PM
2046 with Tony Leung.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Non Nobis on February 11, 2019, 10:09:27 PM
Frequency, 2000 with Jim Caviezel and Dennis Quaid

Loved this movie!  Son saves father from dying; but it is through a sort of time-travel: son in 1999 warns his father who's  in 1969 (before he died), using a "magical" ham radio. Many lives put into danger (or died in the past) because of changing the past, but father and son work together to undo the troubles and make the present better for both of them.  A lot of warm father/son relationship stuff but also a lot of violence and excitement (grisly at times).  Really keeps you on your toes.

I think most males but also many females would enjoy this (not for little kids).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on February 22, 2019, 09:53:52 AM
A Man for All Seasons with Paul Scofield.

This is particularly true for our time:

The Duke of Norfolk: Oh confound all this. I'm not a scholar, I don't know whether the marriage was lawful or not but– dammit, Thomas, look at these names! Why can't you do as I did and come with us, for fellowship!
More: And when we die, and you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience, and I am sent to hell for not doing mine, will you come with me, for fellowship?

Now I need to track down the '88 TV movie with Charlton Heston as More.
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Post by: Heinrich on February 22, 2019, 02:05:04 PM
Creed 2. What waste of a great idea.
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Post by: red solo cup on April 01, 2019, 05:19:32 AM
The Highwaymen with Harrelson and Kostner. Not bad. I liked that they showed a Colt Monitor machine rifle. I had never heard of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb6C9ASylmQ
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Post by: red solo cup on April 08, 2019, 06:29:48 AM
Outlaw King on Netflix. Not bad, seemed reasonably accurate. They showed the Scots using Lochaber axes in battle. But I had my doubts about Bruce killing Comyn at Greyfiars. It portrayed them as alone with Bruce killing an unarmed Comyn, who threatened to betray Bruce to King Edward.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on July 08, 2019, 04:45:42 AM
The Vanishing (2018).  A taut, minimalist almost-masterpiece of psychological tension with excellent scenery: a bleak, craggy, moss-covered island in the Outer Hebrides.  It hypothesizes a cause for the Flannan Isles Lighthouse mystery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannan_Isles_Lighthouse#Disappearances_in_1900), where three keepers inexplicably disappeared.

Not the best movie of 2018 (that honor belongs to Suspiria), but an underrated thriller, and definitely in the top ten.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kreuzritter on July 08, 2019, 05:29:08 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on July 08, 2019, 04:45:42 AM
Not the best movie of 2018 (that honor belongs to Suspiria)

The moment you realise this just might be true ...

I literally can't think of a worse year for cinema since I was born, except this one so far.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on July 09, 2019, 06:06:50 AM
Quote from: Kreuzritter on July 08, 2019, 05:29:08 PM
I literally can't think of a worse year for cinema since I was born, except this one so far.

Films have been in decline recently.  I blame the ubiquity of both video streaming and comic book movies.  But yes, 2018 was particularly bad.  I have just realized that The Vanishing is a 2019 film, making 2018 even more impoverished.

But it sounds like you thought Suspiria was a middling movie, yet the best of a lackluster crop.  I thought it was five-star excellence; a winner in any year.  On a personal level, I appreciated that as a horror movie it explored a notion I've long held: that dancing is demonic.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 09, 2019, 08:41:37 AM
ex machina. Not bad.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on July 17, 2019, 05:43:21 PM
Mary Poppins Returns
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: rosenley on July 17, 2019, 06:52:30 PM
I'll be seeing "Unplanned" in a few weeks.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on July 17, 2019, 08:29:30 PM
Finished watching "Stranger Things" season 3.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on August 15, 2019, 09:39:54 AM
The Red Violin. One of my favorite movies; I'm probably going to watch it again, while it's still on Netflix.
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Post by: Jacob on August 15, 2019, 07:05:36 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on August 15, 2019, 09:39:54 AM
The Red Violin. One of my favorite movies; I'm probably going to watch it again, while it's still on Netflix.

I enjoyed this movie as well.  Interesting story about why i saw it: I was in a class in university about the history of the violin and we watched this movie for class.  Then in the discussion of the movie, the professor asked us what was wrong with the movie as if we'd be able to tell and when we didn't know, he took us to task for thinking Montreal was really a center of auctioning historic instruments.  Lesson learned! :D
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Post by: Non Nobis on August 16, 2019, 05:29:00 PM
Quote from: rosenley on July 17, 2019, 06:52:30 PM
I'll be seeing "Unplanned" in a few weeks.

I ordered the DVD.  Amazon told me it would arrive on the very same day as the release (Aug 13) but I still haven't got it. I thought it would be a pretty decent DVD to add to my (extremely small) collection.
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Post by: Bernadette on August 31, 2019, 03:23:33 PM
Like Sunday, Like Rain. Quirky and touching. :)
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Post by: martin88nyc on October 16, 2019, 06:32:15 PM
I watched "Gran Hotel"(original telenovela from Spain) series last month. It quite was absorbing.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on December 31, 2019, 04:37:19 PM
Watched The King last night. Overall very good. The battle of Agincourt got some things right, the mud, the press of bodies being so close as to keep men from wielding their weapons, but there were quit a few inaccuracies. Below are some. Still enjoyable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jonNAqHkXcI
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Post by: Heinrich on December 31, 2019, 06:42:34 PM
A Christmas Tree Miracle. As mentioned above, quirky, but touching and overall joyful. Caution for families as theology is protestant, but overall a clean and clever flick. Streams free Prime Video.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2328727/
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Post by: Bernadette on December 31, 2019, 06:50:12 PM
The Lion King, 2019 version. Excellent. :)
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Post by: Prayerful on January 01, 2020, 05:51:31 PM
Netflix's The Irishman. Good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Non Nobis on January 01, 2020, 06:10:17 PM
Quote from: Prayerful on January 01, 2020, 05:51:31 PM
Netflix's The Irishman. Good.

My sister saw that independently of Netflix (it came out earlier).  On her recommendation I will at least be reading the book I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
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Post by: red solo cup on January 02, 2020, 05:27:44 AM
Quote from: Prayerful on January 01, 2020, 05:51:31 PM
Netflix's The Irishman. Good.
Not bad. It was weird what they did to De Niro's face to make him look younger.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: martin88nyc on January 02, 2020, 10:15:24 AM
Quote from: Non Nobis on January 01, 2020, 06:10:17 PM
Quote from: Prayerful on January 01, 2020, 05:51:31 PM
Netflix's The Irishman. Good.

My sister saw that independently of Netflix (it came out earlier).  On her recommendation I will at least be reading the book I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
They shot some scenes in my neighborhood. St. Matthias Church (my local parish) is featured in one of them.
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Post by: martin88nyc on January 03, 2020, 10:59:52 PM
Togo (2019)
Magnificent. One of the best movies of 2019.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on January 27, 2020, 04:28:21 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRD8jAk274I&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0SGwBGlrzdUZnI6CoMnSqkN9ix0I7dQOgNWJbI2obUpL06j0Yv_i_ISwY
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Post by: red solo cup on February 05, 2020, 04:05:27 PM
Up in the Air with George Clooney. Very good.
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Post by: Kreuzritter on February 09, 2020, 04:21:51 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on January 27, 2020, 04:28:21 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRD8jAk274I&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0SGwBGlrzdUZnI6CoMnSqkN9ix0I7dQOgNWJbI2obUpL06j0Yv_i_ISwY

Side note: despite swords and sorcery cliches, women would probably not make good bowmen because a decent war bow requires a lot of strength to draw and aim .
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on March 21, 2020, 04:08:42 PM
Rewatching the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on March 21, 2020, 04:45:00 PM
I watched "The Scarlet and the Black" a few nights ago.  Enjoyable movie, although it had that stilted 1950s dialogue.  :lol:

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Post by: Mono no aware on March 22, 2020, 06:52:24 AM
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum.  A beautiful and tragic pre-war Japanese film set in the the Meiji era.  It centers around kabuki theater, and is about two kinds of love: romantic love and love of art.  In this movie they entwine.

(https://criterioncast.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/chrysanthemum_header_1200.jpg)
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Post by: red solo cup on March 22, 2020, 08:03:57 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on March 22, 2020, 06:52:24 AM
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum.  A beautiful and tragic pre-war Japanese film set in the the Meiji era.  It centers around kabuki theater, and is about two kinds of love: romantic love and love of art.  In this movie they entwine.

(https://criterioncast.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/chrysanthemum_header_1200.jpg)
Where did you see this?
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Post by: red solo cup on March 22, 2020, 08:06:19 AM
Giri/Haji and Patrick Melrose. Both very good.
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Post by: Mono no aware on March 22, 2020, 08:22:07 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on March 22, 2020, 08:03:57 AMWhere did you see this?

Netflix has it available in their shipping library.  It's a 2016 Criterion edition.  Netflix has it on DVD, although a Blu-Ray version (https://www.criterion.com/films/27729-the-story-of-the-last-chrysanthemum) looks to be available on the retail market.  (Netflix is inattentive, unfortunately, when it comes to classics and foreign).  No complaints on the print, though Blu-Ray has spoiled me for crispness of picture.  The subtitles are pixelated but perfectly legible.  The film itself is great.
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Post by: Philip G. on March 22, 2020, 03:57:42 PM
I have been watching the black and white sherlock holmes movies starring basil Rathbone.   They are really good.
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Post by: red solo cup on March 28, 2020, 05:09:14 AM
Lincoln Lawyer. Entertaining.
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Post by: LuxVera on March 29, 2020, 07:12:15 PM
Re-watched "Solaris" (2002) for the first time in years. It's probably one of my favorite sci-fi films, more like a sci-fi psychological thriller. I like movies that make me think. Still need to watch the original "Solaris" (1972) film by Tarkovsky.
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Post by: christulsa on March 30, 2020, 08:13:37 PM
Watched yesterday Red Dawn, the 1984 version.  Never gets old.
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Post by: red solo cup on March 31, 2020, 05:05:56 AM
Quicksand. Awful.
Man on a Ledge. Even worse.
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Post by: Heinrich on March 31, 2020, 06:53:12 AM
Quote from: christulsa on March 30, 2020, 08:13:37 PM
Watched yesterday Red Dawn, the 1984 version.  Never gets old.

D'joo know that was set in Colorado, but filmed in New Mexico?
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Post by: christulsa on March 31, 2020, 06:11:38 PM
https://images.app.goo.gl/MUGGQJWtQHZi7XyF7
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Post by: Mono no aware on April 01, 2020, 11:58:38 AM
Sansho the Bailiff (1954).  Brilliant.  I am discovering the dolorous genius of Kenji Mizoguchi.

In this beautiful frame, from left to right, are a family's loyal servant, the matriarch, a Shinto priestess, and the mother's two children.  Around his neck, the proud aristocratic boy wears a canister from his father containing an icon of the goddess of mercy.  His sister smiles.  But fate, alas, has other things in store.

(https://www.viennale.at/sites/default/files/styles/top_image_slider/public/movies/images/V17sansho01b.jpg?itok=s9x7XikE)
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Post by: Heinrich on April 01, 2020, 03:39:16 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 01, 2020, 11:58:38 AM
Sansho the Bailiff (1954).  Brilliant.  I am discovering the dolorous genius of Kenji Mizoguchi.

You and maybe six other people on Earth know who that is.
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Post by: Mono no aware on April 02, 2020, 11:56:37 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on April 01, 2020, 03:39:16 PMYou and maybe six other people on Earth know who that is.

If you had said six other people on this forum, then that may be true.  But he is legendary in his native Japan.  Even in the West, the triumvirate of Japanese masters in terms of cinema is widely considered to be Kurosawa, Ozu, and Mizoguchi. 

Last night I watched the first half of a 1975 documentary, Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0R0zYtlyF0).  The documentarian seems to have tracked down and interviewed anyone who ever had contact with the great man, from his longtime artistic collaborators down to people who knew him as a passing acquaintance.  He was known to be a meticulous fusspot and perfectionist.  His two great passions in life were said to be women and sake.  In one instance, he was stabbed in the back (literally) by a prostitute who had fallen in love with him and whom he had jilted.  A few years later he was in a sauna, and a young man remarked on the scar.  Mizoguchi said to him, "until you have a scar like this one, you will never understand women."
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Post by: Vetus Ordo on April 02, 2020, 02:08:10 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on April 02, 2020, 11:56:37 AMMizoguchi said to him, "until you have a scar like this one, you will never understand women."

Words of wisdom.
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Post by: red solo cup on April 03, 2020, 04:45:24 AM
Interesting how if one is famous, women, booze and consorting with prostitutes is "passion". If I were to do that, I think the word would be dissolute.
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Post by: Mono no aware on April 03, 2020, 01:14:28 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on April 03, 2020, 04:45:24 AM
Interesting how if one is famous, women, booze and consorting with prostitutes is "passion". If I were to do that, I think the word would be dissolute.

Possibly.  But artistic genius covers a multitude of sins.  There is also a distinction to be made between a vapid hedonism and a cultured decadence.
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Post by: christulsa on April 03, 2020, 03:14:10 PM
I loved Zatoichi as a tv series, about the blind traveling Samaurai, but the movies tended to be of less quality not to mention lewd.
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Post by: Mono no aware on April 08, 2020, 12:02:08 PM
The Life of Oharu (1952).  Fatalistic and Buddhistic; a life lived out nobly against a world of gratuitous suffering.  Naturally I loved it.

(https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/images/5140-33579d22044380859d64f2d1e3034fb9/current_376_007_medium.jpg)
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Post by: Heinrich on April 08, 2020, 01:03:58 PM
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.quotesgram.com%2Fsmall%2F20%2F37%2F1323354075-Japanese-Writing-For-Woman-Funny-Quote-Picture-.jpg&f=1&nofb=1)

The suspense, juxtaposition of man versus nature, i.e. a storm of metaphorical proportionality that underscores the allegory of feminine rage, depth of dialogue, mise-en-scene making mellifluous flows of flawless kaleidoscopes of stories, broken by the prism of the flame . Oh, child, I could go on.
[yt]https://youtu.be/VKrj1ymJzmo[/yt]
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Post by: Mono no aware on April 08, 2020, 01:31:19 PM
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsczyxZK_g4[/yt]
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Post by: Mono no aware on July 05, 2020, 07:33:35 AM
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).  A perfectly-executed dark comedy, which the British do better than most.  The tenor of it slightly reminded me of The Ruling Class (1972), with Peter O'Toole.  This one has Alec Guinness in eight different roles (probably best as a cloddish Anglican vicar) as well as the archaic inclusion of the word "nigger" in the rhyme of "eeny, meeny, miny, mo."  It will doubtless be heaped onto the flames during the coming regime.

(https://miro.medium.com/max/550/0*4a41OVR1gj01YlKN.jpg)
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Post by: Greg on July 06, 2020, 07:54:09 AM
The Eagle has Landed.  High Quality whole film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM9_Vs0temU
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Post by: Stu Cool on July 06, 2020, 09:00:16 AM
Quote from: Greg on July 06, 2020, 07:54:09 AM
The Eagle has Landed.  High Quality whole film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM9_Vs0temU

Good movie.  I have it as I also have the book.  I'm not much of a fiction guy but I love WW2 history and have read that book several times.  There is a book sequel which wasn't too bad either.
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on July 18, 2020, 02:59:11 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on July 05, 2020, 07:33:35 AM
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).  A perfectly-executed dark comedy, which the British do better than most.  The tenor of it slightly reminded me of The Ruling Class (1972), with Peter O'Toole.  This one has Alec Guinness in eight different roles (probably best as a cloddish Anglican vicar) as well as the archaic inclusion of the word "nigger" in the rhyme of "eeny, meeny, miny, mo."  It will doubtless be heaped onto the flames during the coming regime.

(https://miro.medium.com/max/550/0*4a41OVR1gj01YlKN.jpg)

That is one of my favorite movies
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Post by: red solo cup on July 18, 2020, 04:26:46 PM
The Good Liar with Helen Mirren. Very good.
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Post by: Mono no aware on July 20, 2020, 11:33:49 AM
The Ladykillers (1955), another great Ealing Studios comedy.  I had added these to my Netflix queue back in 2017 when Peter Hitchens included a list of his favorite movies (https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2017/07/dunkirk-considered-at-length.html) in a blog post against Dunkirk.  He has good taste in film, which was already evident in that he hated Dunkirk (2017) and liked Ida (2013).  Two of my own favorites, Blader Runner and Groundhog Day, also made his cut.  And I firmly agree with him that cinema has been in decline since the 1990s.

(https://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02692/ladykillers_2692754k.jpg)
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Post by: abc123 on July 21, 2020, 12:13:55 PM
Gods and Generals extended version, 2003

Not nearly as good as Gettysburg but if you are a Civil War buff and have almost 5 hours to kill, why not?
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Post by: Heinrich on July 21, 2020, 03:08:09 PM
Quote from: abc123 on July 21, 2020, 12:13:55 PM
Gods and Generals extended version, 2003

Not nearly as good as Gettysburg but if you are a Civil War buff and have almost 5 hours to kill, why not?

Kinda like a scripted, real documentary. Not a gripping, exciting film; it's bereft of token battlefield ballyhoo, but two deleted scenes are tops of favs of mine:
The most despised races in American history given great heft here:

[yt]https://youtu.be/hvVlkKDdSp4[/yt]

[yt]https://youtu.be/7EAcieN3BW8[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: recessus on July 21, 2020, 07:53:25 PM
JAWS 2. It's a perfect summer movie and while not the original, a great followup.

[yt]https://youtu.be/qy_ZclSCUwA[/yt]

There's a lot of fascinating backstory online about JAWS 2, the first blockbuster sequel Hollywood ever produced (if you ignore the prior year's EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC)

A lot of people don't realize that the original director was fired 1/3 way into filming, because his script was darker and more character driven. It got a complete rewrite and roughly half the supporting cast was fired or replaced. All this hangs a unique "what might have been" pall over the movie...

Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on July 22, 2020, 08:32:29 AM
I once read about a suggestion for Jaws 2.  The movie should have been about Chief Brody's PTSD.  There would be no actual shark, but Brody thinks there is and acts accordingly and the town acts accordingly to its psycho police chief. :D
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on July 22, 2020, 08:43:58 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on July 20, 2020, 11:33:49 AM
Blader Runner

:doh:
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kent on July 22, 2020, 10:54:40 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on July 20, 2020, 11:33:49 AM
The Ladykillers (1955), another great Ealing Studios comedy.  I had added these to my Netflix queue back in 2017 when Peter Hitchens included a list of his favorite movies (https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2017/07/dunkirk-considered-at-length.html) in a blog post against Dunkirk.  He has good taste in film, which was already evident in that he hated Dunkirk (2017) and liked Ida (2013).  Two of my own favorites, Blader Runner and Groundhog Day, also made his cut.  And I firmly agree with him that cinema has been in decline since the 1990s.

(https://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02692/ladykillers_2692754k.jpg)

Hitchens may have been biased because of the IMAX experience.  I think Dunkirk is a prime example of a film's directorial vision and production/marketing/distribution vision being misaligned.  It is sold and disseminated as an epic war film, and when experienced in IMAX (I also first saw it in that context) is a veritable barrage on the senses, and mostly forgettable for the same reason that your average Summer blockbuster is forgettable-- worse, even, because Nolan is a much more thoughtful director than someone like Michael Bay or Zach Snyder, so you both get the sense that the film was 'too much' while also getting the sense that there should have been more there.

But really it is a pensive and subtle film, one which requires the kind of attention that cannot really be afforded with blaring speakers and a thirty foot screen.  This at least is my experience, having later purchased it for home theater.

It is at times boringly patriotic, but that is a problem in messaging rather than in the film's actual technique.  I do think the film struggled a bit in toeing the line between patriotism and 'the horrors of war.'  But war films (or at least, WWII films) typically struggle to do this, and are usually better if they pick a lane: either unbridled patriotism or unapologetic focus on the men with dismissiveness of the cause (my preference lies with the latter, although it is almost a cliche at this point because of how popular it has become).
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on July 24, 2020, 06:33:38 PM
The Prince of Egypt.
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Post by: red solo cup on July 27, 2020, 04:44:15 AM
Secret in Their Eyes
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Post by: Kent on July 29, 2020, 06:07:23 AM
Finished Carl Dreyer's filmography last night with his (1964) Gertrud.  Started it last week with his (1925) Master of the House and just watched everything in order.

Nothing really holds up to his (1928) Passion of Joan of Arc.  His last three films-- all spaced about a decade apart after his (1932) Vampyr nearly ruined his career-- were all twisted domestic tales, none really coming close to his late silent and early 'talkie' work, I don't think. 

Gertrud was like reading Joyce.  Too well done to turn away from, but a really miserable story of reckless abandon to modernity masquerading as freedom.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on July 29, 2020, 06:49:29 AM
The Outpost. Dude war movie. Lots of barracks language. Pretty good choreography of fights.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Stu Cool on July 29, 2020, 07:30:05 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 29, 2020, 06:49:29 AM
The Outpost. Dude war movie. Lots of barracks language. Pretty good choreography of fights.

Was it good?  I read the book about that and was thinking of watching the movie but the rental price is a little high.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on July 29, 2020, 06:12:02 PM
Quote from: Stu Cool on July 29, 2020, 07:30:05 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 29, 2020, 06:49:29 AM
The Outpost. Dude war movie. Lots of barracks language. Pretty good choreography of fights.

Was it good?  I read the book about that and was thinking of watching the movie but the rental price is a little high.

Yeah. Good war movie.
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Post by: abc123 on July 30, 2020, 10:41:06 AM
1917

Enjoyed it but was hoping for more large scale battle scenes. I thought the camera work was well done though.
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Post by: Bernadette on July 30, 2020, 12:09:06 PM
Spirited Away. It was fantastic.
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Post by: Bernadette on July 31, 2020, 06:15:55 PM
Wolf Children.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kent on August 01, 2020, 07:13:12 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on July 31, 2020, 06:15:55 PM
Wolf Children.

Any good? An autistic family member gave me a copy, but I don't like anime so I've never watched it. But every once in awhile I see it on my shelf and feel bad for never having watched it.
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Post by: Bernadette on August 01, 2020, 08:51:23 AM
Quote from: Kent on August 01, 2020, 07:13:12 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on July 31, 2020, 06:15:55 PM
Wolf Children.

Any good? An autistic family member gave me a copy, but I don't like anime so I've never watched it. But every once in awhile I see it on my shelf and feel bad for never having watched it.

I thought it was excellent. I really enjoyed the depictions of nature.
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Post by: red solo cup on August 02, 2020, 07:19:17 AM
Ad Astra with Brad Pitt. Meh.
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Post by: Bernadette on August 02, 2020, 03:54:44 PM
When Marnie was There
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Post by: red solo cup on August 04, 2020, 04:06:24 AM
Michael Clayton with George Clooney. Very good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Greg on August 04, 2020, 04:39:09 AM
Quote from: Stu Cool on July 29, 2020, 07:30:05 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on July 29, 2020, 06:49:29 AM
The Outpost. Dude war movie. Lots of barracks language. Pretty good choreography of fights.

Was it good?  I read the book about that and was thinking of watching the movie but the rental price is a little high.

It is here for free.

https://afdah.info/watch-movies/68102-the-outpost-2020/
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Post by: Bernadette on August 04, 2020, 09:42:41 AM
Grave of the Fireflies.
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Post by: Bernadette on August 04, 2020, 09:56:22 PM
Who's Left Behind Another movie about Japan during the war. I'd never heard of this one. Just stumbled upon it on YouTube.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Theosist on August 05, 2020, 12:14:50 PM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on July 20, 2020, 11:33:49 AM
The Ladykillers (1955), another great Ealing Studios comedy.  I had added these to my Netflix queue back in 2017 when Peter Hitchens included a list of his favorite movies (https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2017/07/dunkirk-considered-at-length.html) in a blog post against Dunkirk.  He has good taste in film, which was already evident in that he hated Dunkirk (2017) and liked Ida (2013).  Two of my own favorites, Blader Runner and Groundhog Day, also made his cut.  And I firmly agree with him that cinema has been in decline since the 1990s.

(https://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02692/ladykillers_2692754k.jpg)

That was disappointing. He claims that something is culturally amiss and wrong with people for celebrating Nolan's film. But where does be establish this? He tells us only something of what he expects out of a war flick and moans about how it left him feeling ill or some such. For my part, apart from the visual feast, the feeling of being thrown into an experience, the feeling of the proverbial roller coaster, how Nolan manages to evoke mood through his medium, of a kind of demonic dread, in bringing the droning, consuming, mechanical beast of 20th century warfare to life, blew me away. Yes, screaming Stukas, creaking metal ships and cold, watery darkness did it for me. It's not often that I see people clap to standing ovations in cinemas, but it's happened twice to me with a Nolan movie. Enjoy it or not, to his taste or not, accepting of its like as a form of art or not, that he cannot even recognise that the film is the work of a consummate master of his craft or draw attention to virtuosic aspects, is pathetic. It's as pathetic as the image of an old man cowering in his seat over a sensory barrage. He may as well have told us he enjoys Vivaldi but stumbled out of Wagner wondering into what dark depths society was descending.
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Post by: Mono no aware on August 05, 2020, 05:44:46 PM
Quote from: The Theosist on August 05, 2020, 12:14:50 PMhe cannot even recognise that the film is the work of a consummate master of his craft or draw attention to virtuosic aspects, is pathetic.

If that's the case, then I simply don't care for the craft, such as it as.  It's like what  Martin Scorsese said about comic book movies, which also rely overmuch on bombast: whatever they might be, they're not cinema.

As for "the feeling of being thrown into an experience," that reminds me of the story that when the earliest movie audiences were shown a scene of a train barreling down the tracks, seemingly right towards them, their first instinct was to cower under their seats.  I'm sure this was experiential for those audiences, but that was far from a great movie, whatever it was.  I mean, there are teenaged girls who scream at certain moments in awful horror films.  And then there's "3-D."  Doubtless this is all of a "craft" of some sort, and I suppose there must be masters of it. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Theosist on August 06, 2020, 12:30:35 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on August 05, 2020, 05:44:46 PM
Quote from: The Theosist on August 05, 2020, 12:14:50 PMhe cannot even recognise that the film is the work of a consummate master of his craft or draw attention to virtuosic aspects, is pathetic.

If that's the case, then I simply don't care for the craft, such as it as.  It's like what  Martin Scorsese said about comic book movies, which also rely overmuch on bombast: whatever they might be, they're not cinema.

As for "the feeling of being thrown into an experience," that reminds me of the story that when the earliest movie audiences were shown a scene of a train barreling down the tracks, seemingly right towards them, their first instinct was to cower under their seats.  I'm sure this was experiential for those audiences, but that was far from a great movie, whatever it was.  I mean, there are teenaged girls who scream at certain moments in awful horror films.  And then there's "3-D."  Doubtless this is all of a "craft" of some sort, and I suppose there must be masters of it.

Then don't care for the craft. But whatever comic book movies are, they are cinema. The Dark Knight is even great cinema. Scorsese's claims are themselves bombastic, as are his movies, and as for his lastest fare in movie-making, I couldn't think of a more formulaic effort. Franchise films? The Irishman is a franchise film. And casting Pacino, De Niro and Pesci in the same gangster flick is, frankly, fan service.
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Post by: Mono no aware on August 06, 2020, 05:48:36 AM
Quote from: The Theosist on August 06, 2020, 12:30:35 AMThen don't care for the craft. But whatever comic book movies are, they are cinema. The Dark Knight is even great cinema. Scorsese's claims are themselves bombastic, as are his movies, and as for his lastest fare in movie-making, I couldn't think of a more formulaic effort. Franchise films? The Irishman is a franchise film. And casting Pacino, De Niro and Pesci in the same gangster flick is, frankly, fan service.

I do not disagree on the subject of Martin Scorsese.  He has a tendency to mine the same ground over and over, and The Irishman was almost something like self-parody.  As a rule, old men do not tend to make great movies.  But they can make accurate assessments of comic book movies.

Comic book movies are part of the reason why I agree with Hitchens that cinema has been bottoming out over the last thirty years.  Here we must disagree: you say the The Dark Knight is great cinema, I say it's Michael Bay with pretensions to high brow.  The whole "comic book superhero" enterprise is creepy to me.  There's something homoerotic and almost demonic about it, what with the musculature and the masks.  I think the two best evidences for the existence of the demonic are dancing and comic book movies, but that would be to go off-topic.


Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Theosist on August 06, 2020, 07:22:32 AM
Quote from: Pon de Replay on August 06, 2020, 05:48:36 AM
Comic book movies are part of the reason why I agree with Hitchens that cinema has been bottoming out over the last thirty years. 

I don't disagree that most of them are, in a sense, trash. But then so are Jane Austen novels. It's nothing new. What were most of the gangster movies of the 1930s? Or 1950s westerns? Trash with a few gems sprinkled in. It's still cinema, whose primary purposes seem to be profit, entertainment and social engineering.

QuoteHere we must disagree: you say the The Dark Knight is great cinema, I say it's Michael Bay with pretensions to high brow.

And there I must disagree, especially in the broader context of his films. The man is touching on and dealing with ideas whose meaning is simply lost on the uninitiated and appear as trite.

QuoteThe whole "comic book superhero" enterprise is creepy to me.  There's something homoerotic and almost demonic about it, what with the musculature and the masks.  I think the two best evidences for the existence of the demonic are dancing and comic book movies, but that would be to go off-topic.

I'd certainly call much dancing demonic in the original Greek sense of the word. So is a lot of art. It was mostly inseparable from religious ritual, but then life was inseparable from religious ritual in a world alive with gods, daimons, and local spirits, moving in the heavens, dancing in the hearth flames, howling on the wind and found in every woodland, river and spring. That wouldn't be to say, for my part, that it originates in Satanism and is evil. The Dark Knight is demonic, but Nolans films are generally demonic.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hwGN7678IE[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Mono no aware on August 06, 2020, 08:19:31 AM
Quote from: The Theosist on August 06, 2020, 07:22:32 AMThe man is touching on and dealing with ideas whose meaning is simply lost on the uninitiated and appear as trite.

Now we have to have a gnostic take on Christopher Nolan, to cover up for the fact that it's mostly just the titillation of choreographed violence and loud explosions?  I suppose you can offer a gnostic take on anything if you want to, really.  People who believe in the Illuminati are able to find hidden references to the occult in the lyrics of vapid pop music.

Quote from: The Theosist on August 06, 2020, 07:22:32 AMI'd certainly call much dancing demonic in the original Greek sense of the word. So is a lot of art. It was mostly inseparable from religious ritual, but then life was inseparable from religious ritual in a world alive with gods, daimons, and local spirits, moving in the heavens, dancing in the hearth flames, howling on the wind and found in every woodland, river and spring. That wouldn't be to say, for my part, that it originates in Satanism and is evil. The Dark Knight is demonic, but Nolans films are generally demonic.

Just look at the comic book illustration itself in that scene you embedded.  Hideously exaggerated male musculatures, skin-tight costumes, masks, and chimera heads.  Now that sort of material has overtaken the movies.  To each their own, I guess.  I think comic books, and now comic book movies, have been suggestive all along of this disturbing trend of the transgendered and surgical body modification.  Whatever's going on, it's not a delirium of the woodlands and rivers and springs anymore.  It's industrial, synthetic, and unnatural.  And one thing that seems suspiciously lost in this mix is a proper reverence for female beauty.  I'm going to pass, thanks.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kent on August 06, 2020, 09:14:48 AM
The discussion reminds me of this:

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8c/7a/bf/8c7abf2f44cccbd9c50399b86379d545.jpg)

Nolan (in his Dark Knight trilogy) is attempting to elevate low art to a high art status.  I think it's obvious that this is what he is doing.  The question is whether or not he succeeds, in spite of retaining some of the low art characteristics of his muse (those identified by Pon de Replay).

I would be willing to call Nolan a 'master' of Hollywood, but there's much to be said about film outside of Hollywood, and its only a relative accomplishment to be one of the best Hollywood directors.  Hearkening to his Dark Knight trilogy, it is certainly the best the superhero genre has to offer, and in truth it far exceeds and transcends that genre (at least by comparison to the conventions of your average Marvel movie).  Its style of realism appeals to me (as does realism writ large) and it presents viewers with difficult (but not impossible) to resolve dilemmas in the areas of moral and political philosophy.  Marvel-- with the notable exception of Civil War, perhaps-- just about altogether fails to do this in an engaging or believable way. 


Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Graham on August 06, 2020, 05:48:34 PM
Shyamalan's trilogy for all its flaws is better, but maybe it's not exactly in the superhero genre.
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Post by: red solo cup on August 08, 2020, 08:22:24 AM
Radioactive. Not very good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Theosist on August 10, 2020, 04:21:38 AM
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjq7Gl_hhPY[/yt]

The Terror Season 1. The trailer can't do this masterpiece justice.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on August 10, 2020, 10:09:01 AM
Quote from: The Theosist on August 10, 2020, 04:21:38 AM
The Terror Season 1. The trailer can't do this masterpiece justice.

My brother has long been interested in the Franklin Expedition, so we watched this.  We both agreed it would have been more interesting as a straight retelling of the real expedition.
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Post by: red solo cup on August 11, 2020, 04:56:03 AM
Switchback. Dumb.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Theosist on August 11, 2020, 06:34:41 AM
Quote from: Jacob on August 10, 2020, 10:09:01 AM
Quote from: The Theosist on August 10, 2020, 04:21:38 AM
The Terror Season 1. The trailer can't do this masterpiece justice.

My brother has long been interested in the Franklin Expedition, so we watched this.  We both agreed it would have been more interesting as a straight retelling of the real expedition.

Perhaps. The reality is more chilling than the monster. But it's based on a novel. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3974.The_Terror (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3974.The_Terror)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on August 12, 2020, 11:14:38 AM
Letters from Iwo Jima

It was pretty good.  I enjoyed it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on August 13, 2020, 04:49:25 AM
Downton Abbey Movie. A syrupy disappointment. We get to watch Mr. Barrow kiss his new boyfriend.
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Post by: Kent on August 13, 2020, 08:45:03 AM
I tried to watch Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, but I was far too tired and it was far too idiosyncratically Jewish for me to finish it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on August 13, 2020, 09:14:48 AM
The Professor and the Madman. Really good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on August 16, 2020, 05:22:47 AM
I See You with Helen Hunt. Not bad. Some pretty good twists in the plot.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kent on August 22, 2020, 09:51:38 AM
Watched an old favorite, Brazil, last night.  Just as good, and just a little bit better, than I remembered.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on August 22, 2020, 01:34:00 PM
Tried to watch Enemy of the State. Awful.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Theosist on September 01, 2020, 02:18:14 PM
Greyhound. Not great, but not bad for made-by Netflix/Prime/Apple fare. At least it begins and ends with a man on his knees, bible in hand and praying to God, and actually dares to mention the name "Jesus".

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyzxu26-Wqk[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on September 01, 2020, 04:26:44 PM
Quote from: The Theosist on September 01, 2020, 02:18:14 PM
Greyhound. Not great, but not bad for made-by Netflix/Prime/Apple fare. At least it begins and ends with a man on his knees, bible in hand and praying to God, and actually dares to mention the name "Jesus".

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyzxu26-Wqk[/yt]

Do you think "they" are trying to image T.Hanks? He's been given the accusations of an Epstein-like closet.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: The Theosist on September 02, 2020, 02:11:45 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on September 01, 2020, 04:26:44 PM
Quote from: The Theosist on September 01, 2020, 02:18:14 PM
Greyhound. Not great, but not bad for made-by Netflix/Prime/Apple fare. At least it begins and ends with a man on his knees, bible in hand and praying to God, and actually dares to mention the name "Jesus".

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyzxu26-Wqk[/yt]

Do you think "they" are trying to image T.Hanks? He's been given the accusations of an Epstein-like closet.

Maybe, but I have no evidence to accuse a man of that. I watched the second part of Mouthy Buddha's series, which dealt with Tom Hanks, and it was unconvincing, particularly the search engine thing. Who knows what's true these days though.
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Post by: red solo cup on September 02, 2020, 10:12:45 AM
Richard Jewell. Not bad.
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Post by: Philip G. on September 02, 2020, 07:25:07 PM
I watched one eyed jacks.  It is a western starring marlon brando.  I enjoyed it. 
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Post by: Bernadette on September 08, 2020, 06:15:40 PM
Children of Heaven, by Majid Majidi. I love slice of life films, and this is one of my favorites. So innocent.
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Post by: red solo cup on September 11, 2020, 04:13:34 AM
Knives Out. Not bad.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on September 20, 2020, 09:16:11 PM
Rewatched Hercules, the Disney film. :lol:


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Post by: Philip G. on September 20, 2020, 10:59:05 PM
I have been watching alfred hitchcock movies.  I have seen two so far.  I just watched "notorious".  And, it was really good.
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Post by: red solo cup on September 27, 2020, 05:49:45 AM
Transiberian with Ben Kingsley and Woody Harrelson. Not bad.
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Post by: Lydia Purpuraria on October 10, 2020, 06:03:59 PM
The Magician (or, The Face, in Swedish)

(https://www.indiewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/the-magician.jpg?w=800)

Some "Woo" and "Skeptics"; skepticism and woos...  :popcorn:
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Post by: Heinrich on October 10, 2020, 06:11:14 PM
Started Rudy. Saw it when it first came out. Turned it off. Blasphemy and insufferably mawkish.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Daniel on October 11, 2020, 06:34:04 AM
Quote from: recessus on July 21, 2020, 07:53:25 PM
JAWS 2. It's a perfect summer movie and while not the original, a great followup.

This past summer I saw the first Jaws for the first time, in an actual movie theatre (the movie theatre was showing only old movies for some reason... something to do with COVID). So that was nice. But as for the film itself, I didn't like it. (More like, hated it.) Too much foul language. (Even a single blasphemy would ruin the film.) And also, the movie IMO seemed overrated. I had always heard great things about it which gave me high expectations. But then I actually saw it, and was disappointed. If it weren't for the blasphemies, I'd probably have been more willing to overlook this, but: 1.) the shark puppet looked a little cheesy (and lifeless, not as I'd imagine an actual shark to look like), and 2.) none of the characters were very likable. (The latter is one thing I hate about most Hollywood films these days: the movies are all about "self redemption" which not only is a theologically-incorrect concept but also results in a story where the "good guys" are all unlikable antiheroes who have some sort of vice to overcome. And half the time this vice isn't even rooted out before the end of the movie, but is merely coped with, or, in some cases, nullified as if by way of "sacrifice", by the voluntary or involuntary death of the still-vicious antihero.)

Just as an aside, before seeing the movie I was under the impression that "Jaws" was the name of the shark. Turns out it wasn't :(
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on October 11, 2020, 09:33:48 AM
Jaws is one of those movies that have so permeated the culture that it would be impossible to go into it totally fresh I would think.  One has to imagine being in a movie theater in the seventies with no foreknowledge aside from knowing it was a book that sold very well.
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Post by: red solo cup on October 11, 2020, 01:59:32 PM
Many beaches were almost empty that summer it frightened people so badly.
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Post by: Philip G. on November 07, 2020, 01:29:48 AM
I really enjoyed this movie. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpBkJ0Xb6ME&list=PLKxdKKLx3iRQbB2m8NkfX6e-PwMvNI-Wl&index=36
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Post by: Heinrich on November 07, 2020, 09:35:28 AM
Red 2 with Bruce W. Fun.
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Post by: Jacob on November 07, 2020, 09:52:24 AM
I watched The Impossible with Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor about a family and the Boxer Day Tsunami.  It was really good.
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Post by: Bernadette on November 07, 2020, 09:52:43 AM
Bright Eyes, with Shirley Temple.
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Post by: Bernadette on November 09, 2020, 06:40:28 PM
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
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Post by: christulsa on November 09, 2020, 11:16:22 PM
Excellent Catholic movie.
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Post by: FamilyRosary on November 15, 2020, 07:17:29 PM
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_D3K4FcEz8[/yt]

Don't worry, it's not in Portuguese. Ann Blyth, Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald. Lots of Irish music, Irish village life, and the Blarney Stone.

From the days when American Catholics could actually make a decent movie.
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Post by: Elizabeth.2 on November 23, 2020, 10:11:38 AM
Watching Zodiac bit by bit
Superb acting by Robert Downey!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on November 23, 2020, 10:32:35 AM
Quote from: Elizabeth.2 on November 23, 2020, 10:11:38 AM
Watching Zodiac bit by bit
Superb acting by Robert Downey!

Great movie.  The Zodiac is such a compelling subject.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on November 24, 2020, 01:27:10 PM
Children of Heaven, by Majid Majidi. One of my absolute favorites.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Santantonio on December 08, 2020, 04:10:45 PM
This was a touching but not sappy (has some rough parts) movie from 1983 which I enjoyed Sunday night.
The poor old woman (Lillian Gish) loses her dog, who goes on adventures and runs into trouble trying to get home.
Good acting lovable animals.

Hambone and Hillie
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2ib0g0XPoc[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on December 25, 2020, 05:38:24 AM
Midnight Sky. Cliche ridden.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on December 30, 2020, 05:12:05 AM
The Professor and the Madman. They took some liberties with the book but overall not bad. As a human being Sean Penn is a POS but he was quite good as the madman.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on January 06, 2021, 09:02:40 PM
Currently working on A Hidden Life by Terence Malick.  At just under three hours, I needed a break after the first hour.  I can't sit in front of the TV like I used to.  So far it's excellent.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on January 10, 2021, 10:07:04 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 06, 2021, 09:02:40 PM
Currently working on A Hidden Life by Terence Malick.  At just under three hours, I needed a break after the first hour.  I can't sit in front of the TV like I used to.  So far it's excellent.

I finished this tonight.  It is about Blessed Franz Jägerstätter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_J%C3%A4gerst%C3%A4tter) whom Benedict declared a martyr and beatified in 2007.  Has anyone else seen this?  It was long, but I thought it was a fine movie, showing the struggles of both Franz and his wife and family both before he was imprisoned and after.  Reading the reviews, secular critics praised it as one of Malick's best works, but Christian critics were not as enthusiastic.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on January 11, 2021, 05:47:24 AM
Quote from: Jacob on January 10, 2021, 10:07:04 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 06, 2021, 09:02:40 PM
Currently working on A Hidden Life by Terence Malick.  At just under three hours, I needed a break after the first hour.  I can't sit in front of the TV like I used to.  So far it's excellent.

I finished this tonight.  It is about Blessed Franz Jägerstätter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_J%C3%A4gerst%C3%A4tter) whom Benedict declared a martyr and beatified in 2007.  Has anyone else seen this?  It was long, but I thought it was a fine movie, showing the struggles of both Franz and his wife and family both before he was imprisoned and after.  Reading the reviews, secular critics praised it as one of Malick's best works, but Christian critics were not as enthusiastic.

Frau H and I turned it off. The bucolic and angelic scenes of Austria are sublime. However, we found it too mawkish. Good story, sure. Drawn out and boring.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on January 11, 2021, 11:14:55 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on January 11, 2021, 05:47:24 AM
Quote from: Jacob on January 10, 2021, 10:07:04 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 06, 2021, 09:02:40 PM
Currently working on A Hidden Life by Terence Malick.  At just under three hours, I needed a break after the first hour.  I can't sit in front of the TV like I used to.  So far it's excellent.

I finished this tonight.  It is about Blessed Franz Jägerstätter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_J%C3%A4gerst%C3%A4tter) whom Benedict declared a martyr and beatified in 2007.  Has anyone else seen this?  It was long, but I thought it was a fine movie, showing the struggles of both Franz and his wife and family both before he was imprisoned and after.  Reading the reviews, secular critics praised it as one of Malick's best works, but Christian critics were not as enthusiastic.

Frau H and I turned it off. The bucolic and angelic scenes of Austria are sublime. However, we found it too mawkish. Good story, sure. Drawn out and boring.

I agree with this.  The scenes of Austria were worth sitting through it for me.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kent on January 11, 2021, 11:32:54 AM
Quote from: Jacob on January 10, 2021, 10:07:04 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 06, 2021, 09:02:40 PM
Currently working on A Hidden Life by Terence Malick.  At just under three hours, I needed a break after the first hour.  I can't sit in front of the TV like I used to.  So far it's excellent.

I finished this tonight.  It is about Blessed Franz Jägerstätter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_J%C3%A4gerst%C3%A4tter) whom Benedict declared a martyr and beatified in 2007.  Has anyone else seen this?  It was long, but I thought it was a fine movie, showing the struggles of both Franz and his wife and family both before he was imprisoned and after.  Reading the reviews, secular critics praised it as one of Malick's best works, but Christian critics were not as enthusiastic.

I have seen it and would be among those praising it. I am an enormous fan of Malick though, and mileage varies (as posts in this topic show).  Malick is often criticized for being 'boring,' 'pretentious,' or just a 'nature documentarian.'  But really, he is a director who understands and applies the visual nature of film more than any others.  His films are always brimming with symbolism (visual symbolism), and modern eyes are too accustomed to being spoon fed meaning and being told what to think through dialogue or musical cues.  Of course, Malick's choice of music in his films is superb and adds to the quality of his work. But my point is simply that his work is perfectly intelligible without sound (because of how visual it is), and that can hardly be said of most films these days.  But this means it requires a viewer's attention.  It must be watched and experienced, it cannot just 'be on.'  His films are a bit like the Mass, in that way, I suppose. You will get much more out of it the more attention you give it. It asks a lot of you.  If you just sit there waiting for 'something to happen,' you're going to miss out on the point.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kaesekopf on January 23, 2021, 12:02:15 AM
Ended up seeing Wonder Woman 84 or whatever it's called. 

Surprisingly not terrible.  Good messaging laden throughout it, although, there's the standard 'modern agenda' rife throughout it...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Philip G. on February 01, 2021, 10:58:58 PM
I just watched this movie.  I thought it was really good.  The movie really seemed to mirror current usa politics, but on a small town level.  You have the cowboys/"regulators" mirroring the swamp , and the traveling fast draw town tamer/marshall with his casino boss partner hired by a small group of townsfolk mirroring Trump and his shady backers.  There are many parallels in my opinion.  And, who is caught in the middle of it all?  The law, who allowed the vigilantism of the cowboys to get out of control, and the very townsfolk who hired the town tamer, are caught in the middle of this war between two unofficial rogue bodies vying for power. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aaYQThZddc
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on February 02, 2021, 08:51:13 AM
The Dig. Not great but OK. Fiennes did a pretty good job.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Elizabeth.2 on February 03, 2021, 06:36:12 AM
Breach, about Robert Hanssen the devout Catholic super spy.  Right out of the hood!  Surprisingly well acted and suspenseful, even though we know the outcome.  I had to take a couple of cig breaks, Chris Cooper (who plays Hanssen) made me so nervous, the cat-and mouse dynamic.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on February 03, 2021, 09:34:24 AM
Quote from: Elizabeth.2 on February 03, 2021, 06:36:12 AM
Breach, about Robert Hanssen the devout Catholic super spy.  Right out of the hood!  Surprisingly well acted and suspenseful, even though we know the outcome.  I had to take a couple of cig breaks, Chris Cooper (who plays Hanssen) made me so nervous, the cat-and mouse dynamic.

Dunno if I'd call him devout. Possessing the virtue of religion, perhaps, though possibly a good cover for his activities. Reading the wikipedia entry on him he sounds like a complete pervert who wussed out on the death penalty and now gets to spend the rest of his natural life in solitary 23 hours a day at ADX Florence, CO.

If he'd opted for the death penalty potential, he'd have hedged on being provided with a priest for a final confession and, assuming a good confession (what does a condemned man lose with full honesty?), moral certitude of heaven upon release from purgatory. Now, he might die of a heart attack in mortal sin alone in his cold cell, where he will immediately be confined to hot hell.

This example is just one of many on the truth of what St. Thomas says about the death penalty, and reveals the complete lack of logical thought and, more importantly, misplaced "charity" (it's really humanism) of the modern curia in their opposition to it.

Oh, and the 23 hours in solitary doesn't mean 1 hour a day of interaction at Florence. It means 1 hour a day they funnel him like a rat to a larger cell meant for "exercise". He's completely alone and the only interaction he has is in the case of medical issues. Perhaps spiritual guidance once a month or something, but death would be better.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Elizabeth.2 on February 03, 2021, 10:58:30 AM
Gardener, I was hesitant about describing Janssen as Opus Dei, as not to offend for a change.  ;D
The film doesn't slam Catholicism or go into OD culture.  The investigator who outfoxed him,Eric O'Niell, used being a lapsed Catholic to manipulate Hanssen, and one is left suspecting this was ultimately so abhorrent and hypocritical he left and started another career.  I wonder if he is still a lapsed Catholic; sure hope not.
Thanks for the additional info. 
Chris Cooper played Hanssen brilliantly, sick, twisted and sneaky Traitor.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on March 08, 2021, 06:00:21 AM
Watched A Hidden Life. The cinematography was marvelous. Were those the Austrian Alps ? Seemed like everything was either uphill or downhill.
When I was a younger man I would have admired what he did without any reservation. But I couldn't help but feel he left his wife without a husband and his children without a father. The image of his wife and her sister reduced to dragging the cultivator by the strength of their own backs was telling. And when his priest tried to change his mind. I thought it was intellectually sly. You can say what you want because God knows what is really in your heart. And the mayor tipping his hat to the wife seemed to show him acknowledging her and Kurt's sacrifice when he had been the most vocal opponent was a nice touch. Loved seeing them pray in the fields when the Angelus rang.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on March 08, 2021, 04:12:53 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on March 08, 2021, 06:00:21 AM
Watched A Hidden Life. The cinematography was marvelous. Were those the Austrian Alps ? Seemed like everything was either uphill or downhill.
When I was a younger man I would have admired what he did without any reservation. But I couldn't help but feel he left his wife without a husband and his children without a father. The image of his wife and her sister reduced to dragging the cultivator by the strength of their own backs was telling. And when his priest tried to change his mind. I thought it was intellectually sly. You can say what you want because God knows what is really in your heart. And the mayor tipping his hat to the wife seemed to show him acknowledging her and Kurt's sacrifice when he had been the most vocal opponent was a nice touch. Loved seeing them pray in the fields when the Angelus rang.

The Alpine locations really are marvelous.  His stand is admirable to a degree, but I agree.  They offered him some kind of conscientious service.  He should have taken it after spending time in prison.  The point was made.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on March 08, 2021, 04:19:44 PM
Quote from: Jacob on March 08, 2021, 04:12:53 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on March 08, 2021, 06:00:21 AM
Watched A Hidden Life. The cinematography was marvelous. Were those the Austrian Alps ? Seemed like everything was either uphill or downhill.
When I was a younger man I would have admired what he did without any reservation. But I couldn't help but feel he left his wife without a husband and his children without a father. The image of his wife and her sister reduced to dragging the cultivator by the strength of their own backs was telling. And when his priest tried to change his mind. I thought it was intellectually sly. You can say what you want because God knows what is really in your heart. And the mayor tipping his hat to the wife seemed to show him acknowledging her and Kurt's sacrifice when he had been the most vocal opponent was a nice touch. Loved seeing them pray in the fields when the Angelus rang.

The Alpine locations really are marvelous.  His stand is admirable to a degree, but I agree.  They offered him some kind of conscientious service.  He should have taken it after spending time in prison.  The point was made.

No. He offered to serve as a medic but would not take the Hitler Oath and his offer to serve as a medic instead was ignored.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on March 08, 2021, 07:56:53 PM
Quote from: Gardener on March 08, 2021, 04:19:44 PM
Quote from: Jacob on March 08, 2021, 04:12:53 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on March 08, 2021, 06:00:21 AM
Watched A Hidden Life. The cinematography was marvelous. Were those the Austrian Alps ? Seemed like everything was either uphill or downhill.
When I was a younger man I would have admired what he did without any reservation. But I couldn't help but feel he left his wife without a husband and his children without a father. The image of his wife and her sister reduced to dragging the cultivator by the strength of their own backs was telling. And when his priest tried to change his mind. I thought it was intellectually sly. You can say what you want because God knows what is really in your heart. And the mayor tipping his hat to the wife seemed to show him acknowledging her and Kurt's sacrifice when he had been the most vocal opponent was a nice touch. Loved seeing them pray in the fields when the Angelus rang.

The Alpine locations really are marvelous.  His stand is admirable to a degree, but I agree.  They offered him some kind of conscientious service.  He should have taken it after spending time in prison.  The point was made.

No. He offered to serve as a medic but would not take the Hitler Oath and his offer to serve as a medic instead was ignored.

I remember, yeah.  I was thinking though, spend time in prison to take a stand and then submit for the good of his family.  I think they did offer him later on the chance to serve as a medic or something if he would take the oath.  Would that be bending too far?  Is it all or nothing?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on March 08, 2021, 09:27:22 PM
Quote from: Jacob on March 08, 2021, 07:56:53 PM
Quote from: Gardener on March 08, 2021, 04:19:44 PM
Quote from: Jacob on March 08, 2021, 04:12:53 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on March 08, 2021, 06:00:21 AM
Watched A Hidden Life. The cinematography was marvelous. Were those the Austrian Alps ? Seemed like everything was either uphill or downhill.
When I was a younger man I would have admired what he did without any reservation. But I couldn't help but feel he left his wife without a husband and his children without a father. The image of his wife and her sister reduced to dragging the cultivator by the strength of their own backs was telling. And when his priest tried to change his mind. I thought it was intellectually sly. You can say what you want because God knows what is really in your heart. And the mayor tipping his hat to the wife seemed to show him acknowledging her and Kurt's sacrifice when he had been the most vocal opponent was a nice touch. Loved seeing them pray in the fields when the Angelus rang.

The Alpine locations really are marvelous.  His stand is admirable to a degree, but I agree.  They offered him some kind of conscientious service.  He should have taken it after spending time in prison.  The point was made.

No. He offered to serve as a medic but would not take the Hitler Oath and his offer to serve as a medic instead was ignored.

I remember, yeah.  I was thinking though, spend time in prison to take a stand and then submit for the good of his family.  I think they did offer him later on the chance to serve as a medic or something if he would take the oath.  Would that be bending too far?  Is it all or nothing?

What good is a man to his family who bends like a reed shaken in the wind, supposedly for their sake? Who could look his wife and children in the eye after such a display of cowardice? He stood strong with the grace given him and became a martyr: instant heaven, instant appeal to God for his family in all needs, instantly never being tested again.

Again, HE offered to serve as a medic but THEY refused. He additionally refused to take the idolatrous oath to Hitler which promised unconditional obedience and placed Hitler essentially on the same level as God.

God forbid any man acquiesce to such a situation for the temporary and only apparent good of his family, and in doing so risk the damnation of his soul.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: ralfy on March 08, 2021, 11:00:04 PM
Sundays and Cybele (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundays_and_Cybele)

QuoteSundays and Cybele is a 1962 French film in Franscope, directed by Serge Bourguignon. Its original French title is Les dimanches de Ville d'Avray (Sundays in Ville d'Avray), referring to the Ville-d'Avray suburb of Paris. The film tells the tragic story of a young girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War. The film is based on a novel by Bernard Eschasseriaux [fr], who collaborated on the screenplay.

Clip:

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News clip, 1963 Oscars:

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The Battle of Algiers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Algiers)

QuoteThe Battle of Algiers (Italian: La battaglia di Algeri; Arabic: ????? ????????, romanized: Ma?rakat al-Jaz??ir) is a 1966 Italian-Algerian historical war film co-written and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo and starring Jean Martin and Saadi Yacef. It is based on events by rebels during the Algerian War (1954–1962) against the French government in North Africa; the most prominent being the titular Battle of Algiers, the capital of Algeria. It was shot on location and the film's score was composed by Ennio Morricone. The film was shot in a Roberto Rossellini-inspired newsreel style: in black and white with documentary-type editing to add to its sense of historical authenticity, with mostly non-professional actors who had lived through the real battle. It is often associated with Italian neorealist cinema.[2]

Trailer:

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on March 09, 2021, 02:36:22 PM
The Prince of Egypt.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: DigitalLogos on April 27, 2021, 06:11:58 PM
I watched Black Death [2010] starring Sean Bean and Eddie Redmayne. It was decent, but very bleak and grim. It is centered around a novice monk who is being drawn away from his vows after a girl during the outbreak of the Black Death across Europe. He volunteers to lead a party of mercenaries charged by the local Bishop to look into a town that is supposed to be untouched by the plague and is claimed to be harboring a necromancer.

I liked the zeal of the lead character Ulric (Sean Bean) and his dedication to extinguishing the threat of witchcraft from the village. There's also some very gripping scenes when the protagonists are faced with renouncing their faith or becoming martyrs, so it had me engaged at this point. I overall liked the film.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Heinrich on April 27, 2021, 07:03:08 PM
Land of Mine/Unter dem Sand. Brutal, engaging, tense. 
[yt]https://youtu.be/4Kao3t0NBMU[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: DigitalLogos on April 27, 2021, 09:02:14 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on April 27, 2021, 07:03:08 PM
Land of Mine/Unter dem Sand. Brutal, engaging, tense. 
[yt]https://youtu.be/4Kao3t0NBMU[/yt]

That looks great, I'll have to check it out
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gerard on April 27, 2021, 09:34:21 PM
Bad non-comedies made into comedies. 

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb-UQi0UiIM[/yt]
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on May 04, 2021, 11:21:21 AM
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on May 20, 2021, 12:00:33 PM
Blade Runner 2049. Not bad. They occasionally captured the feel of the original.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Gardener on May 20, 2021, 10:27:04 PM
Watched A Hidden Life at a local movie theater that is more "artsy".

Man alive what a punch in the gut.

Blessed Franz Jägerstätter, pray for us.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on May 21, 2021, 10:32:33 AM
Unhinged with Russell Crowe. Whoa what happened to Crowe? Did he pork up for the movie or is he like that now?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: DigitalLogos on May 21, 2021, 02:35:57 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on May 21, 2021, 10:32:33 AM
Unhinged with Russell Crowe. Whoa what happened to Crowe? Did he pork up for the movie or is he like that now?

Nah, he's been a bit of a ham the past decade. He certainly isn't fit like in Gladiator anymore.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Tennessean on May 22, 2021, 02:55:32 PM
Crowe had a big divorce, iirc.

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Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: TheReturnofLive on June 10, 2021, 06:30:25 AM
Amadeus
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on June 10, 2021, 08:59:16 AM
_The Founder_ with Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: TheSaintsAreComing on June 10, 2021, 10:12:10 AM
'The Conjuring 2'

It was OK - I liked the first one better. From what I've read there's different people involved with the making of the third part in the series, so I don't have high hopes for that one
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on June 13, 2021, 04:31:23 PM
Joker with Joaquin Phoenix. It was alright.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: DigitalLogos on June 14, 2021, 08:07:21 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on June 13, 2021, 04:31:23 PM
Joker with Joaquin Phoenix. It was alright.

People hyped that movie to high heaven. It was good, but it glorifies mental illness and anarchy.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on June 14, 2021, 02:25:55 PM
_Black Robe_.  It was intense in places.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on June 20, 2021, 04:26:29 AM
The Book of Eli. Not bad.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: maryslittlegarden on June 20, 2021, 10:48:58 AM
Watching Rio Grande now....possibly followed by The Quiet Man
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on June 20, 2021, 12:00:18 PM
Mmmm, Rio Grande.  Probably the best work of John and Maureen as a team.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on June 30, 2021, 07:46:38 AM
The Tree of Wooden Clogs. I actually watched the whole tihng for once. Usually I quit after the first half or so.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Melkor on June 30, 2021, 10:18:43 AM
Jurassic Park I. So good.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Jacob on June 30, 2021, 04:55:49 PM
Quote from: Melkor on June 30, 2021, 10:18:43 AM
Jurassic Park I. So good.
My brother and I have a joke about Jurassic Park.  In a multiplex out there in America's commercial sprawl, JP is still being shown on a regular basis.  When it came out, it seemed like it was in theaters forever.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on July 09, 2021, 04:30:04 PM
The Tomorrow War. Beyond dumb.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Christina_S on July 12, 2021, 08:04:56 AM
The King and I (1956) with Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Prayerful on July 12, 2021, 01:47:01 PM
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968 film) was the most recent for me. There is an element of satire on the class system in it and Lord Lucan (owner of Castlebar, Co. Mayo) was younger, well more youthful, than the film shows him. The actress, Jill Bennett playing army wife Fanny Duberly (whose fluent writings appear a lot in histories) died aged 58 by her own hand (overdose). In the film she's yet another wife seduced by Lord Cardigan (who in reality did pursue other men's wives and was mocked for his marriage to a divorced woman, whom her husband was happily rid of in words not fitting for a Catholic forum. It does also give a good account of Captain Nolan, played by David Hemmings (who also died relatively young at 62, but by heart attack), a very professionally minded cavalryman.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Tennessean on July 14, 2021, 12:54:12 PM
Quote from: Jacob on June 30, 2021, 04:55:49 PM
Quote from: Melkor on June 30, 2021, 10:18:43 AM
Jurassic Park I. So good.
My brother and I have a joke about Jurassic Park.  In a multiplex out there in America's commercial sprawl, JP is still being shown on a regular basis.  When it came out, it seemed like it was in theaters forever.
I hope that's true.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Elizabeth.2 on September 02, 2021, 07:23:22 PM
Quote from: The Theosist on August 10, 2020, 04:21:38 AM
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjq7Gl_hhPY[/yt]

The Terror Season 1. The trailer can't do this masterpiece justice.

I just watched part of the trailer.  Really frightening - is it only supposed to cause nightmares?  Any spoilers would be appreciated so I can see if I can withstand it.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Tennessean on September 03, 2021, 06:57:23 AM
I couldn't stand the paranormal stuff. Then on top they wave away the paranormal with lead poisoning. So you have a great premise ruined by becoming a scooby-doo episode.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Santantonio on September 04, 2021, 01:40:20 PM
I watched Pixels last night. It was mindless fun, especially for us Gen X'ers.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Elizabeth.2 on October 03, 2021, 09:43:05 PM
People Will Talk ,1951.  It was fun until the end, then so schmaltzy I could scream.  I am so grateful to my parents for never letting us watch TV and having a big library.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Christina_S on October 04, 2021, 07:24:57 AM
We watched Braveheart last weekend and Pitch Perfect on Saturday night. I don't know why...
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on October 04, 2021, 07:55:09 AM
Watched Gladiator last night.


For the 74th time.


This year.

(https://i.imgur.com/0OZ1dp6.jpeg)
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: red solo cup on October 14, 2021, 06:21:03 AM
The Hummingbird Project on Netflix. Fell asleep. Tried again in a couple of days. Unwatchable.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Tennessean on October 14, 2021, 06:53:09 PM
Electra Glide in Blue. Last night I watched the prerelease of The Big Sleep.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Maximilian on October 24, 2021, 10:10:39 PM
Dune

Epic greatness. This is what a movie should be. Captures the book without bogging down in minutiae that is better left to be read in the book. It's worth paying for tickets to see it on the big screen.

Content warning: None.

Not a single swear word. No nudity. Almost one kiss in a dream sequence, but then it doesn't actually happen.

This is not a kid's movie, due to "adult themes," fantasy elements and violence. The rating of PG-13 is probably just about right.

Explanation: This movie is the first half of the book. A Part 2 is in production.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: clau clau on October 25, 2021, 03:51:50 AM
Watched "Children of Men".  Do not watch it unless you want to get more depressed.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: LausTibiChriste on October 25, 2021, 07:28:45 AM
Quote from: clau clau on October 25, 2021, 03:51:50 AM
Watched "Children of Men".  Do not watch it unless you want to get more depressed.

Challenge accepted
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Tennessean on October 27, 2021, 03:15:53 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on October 24, 2021, 10:10:39 PM
Dune

Epic greatness. This is what a movie should be. Captures the book without bogging down in minutiae that is better left to be read in the book. It's worth paying for tickets to see it on the big screen.

Content warning: None.

Not a single swear word. No nudity. Almost one kiss in a dream sequence, but then it doesn't actually happen.

This is not a kid's movie, due to "adult themes," fantasy elements and violence. The rating of PG-13 is probably just about right.

Explanation: This movie is the first half of the book. A Part 2 is in production.
Oh no, I hated it lol
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Post by: Lynne on October 27, 2021, 04:07:14 PM
Quote from: clau clau on October 25, 2021, 03:51:50 AM
Watched "Children of Men".  Do not watch it unless you want to get more depressed.

That's the one in which everyone realizes that they're sterile, eh? Hmmm... I wonder if it takes place in 2023 or 2024...
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Post by: Jacob on October 27, 2021, 04:36:35 PM
Quote from: Lynne on October 27, 2021, 04:07:14 PM
Quote from: clau clau on October 25, 2021, 03:51:50 AM
Watched "Children of Men".  Do not watch it unless you want to get more depressed.

That's the one in which everyone realizes that they're sterile, eh? Hmmm... I wonder if it takes place in 2023 or 2024...

They don't realize, it's already happening and society is falling apart.  UK is hanging on barely.  The movie starts with the youngest person in the world, a young adult man, dying in a street riot because he and other young people have celebrity status.

It's one of those movie for me that I can't see again the first time.
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Post by: Melkor on October 27, 2021, 08:53:22 PM
Undisputed III. Scott Adkins is incredible.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MpF0swlayMM

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Post by: Kaesekopf on October 27, 2021, 09:45:15 PM
Mad Max
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Post by: MaximGun on October 29, 2021, 04:32:06 AM
Quo Vadis (1951)
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Post by: clau clau on October 29, 2021, 06:28:13 AM
Quote from: MaximGun on October 29, 2021, 04:32:06 AM
Quo Vadis (1951)

Good suggestion.  I found a copy on bitchute.  Watching it now.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/IXJBPo7X3Ly5/
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Post by: Elizabeth.2 on October 29, 2021, 08:17:53 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on October 24, 2021, 10:10:39 PM
Dune

Epic greatness. This is what a movie should be. Captures the book without bogging down in minutiae that is better left to be read in the book. It's worth paying for tickets to see it on the big screen.

Content warning: None.

Not a single swear word. No nudity. Almost one kiss in a dream sequence, but then it doesn't actually happen.

This is not a kid's movie, due to "adult themes," fantasy elements and violence. The rating of PG-13 is probably just about right.

Explanation: This movie is the first half of the book. A Part 2 is in production.
Thanks- one oF my kids saw it in the theater and absolutely loved it.  I was worried.  :pray3:
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on October 29, 2021, 09:16:12 AM
Sons of Liberty and Johnny Tremain are on the schedule for this weekend. :) :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:
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Post by: Christina_S on October 30, 2021, 09:16:34 AM
Looking for suggestions for this weekend!

Perhaps, if I imbibe enough wine, I can endure watching The Nutty Professor at my beloved husband's request. Good thing I bought 2 bottles.
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Post by: LausTibiChriste on October 30, 2021, 09:45:42 AM
Quote from: Christina_S on October 30, 2021, 09:16:34 AM
Looking for suggestions for this weekend!

Perhaps, if I imbibe enough wine, I can endure watching The Nutty Professor at my beloved husband's request. Good thing I bought 2 bottles.

Gladiator
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Post by: Bernadette on November 11, 2021, 09:58:12 AM
Children of Heaven, by Majid Majidi. One of my absolute favorites. I first saw it in college up North. There was supposed to be a discussion afterwards, but I skipped that.
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Post by: Philip G. on November 18, 2021, 10:15:34 PM
I just watched Ride Clear of Diablo for the first time, and it was darn good.  The character and acting of the criminal whitey kinkaid was a treat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu5jcJQxQZQ
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Post by: Bernadette on November 20, 2021, 08:27:42 AM
Grave of the Fireflies. Subtitled, not dubbesd.
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Post by: LausTibiChriste on November 20, 2021, 08:29:17 AM
Halfway through the new James Bond No Time To Die.

Heck of a lot of 'revelation of the method' it feels like
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Post by: Heinrich on November 20, 2021, 08:31:57 AM
The Marksman with Liam Nelson. Not bad, but it made me agitated and I felt like I wasted myntime. Probably the last Hollywood movie I'll watch.
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Post by: Bernadette on November 21, 2021, 03:55:19 PM
Wolf Children. I found it on archive.org. Dubbed, but better than nothing.
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Post by: Heinrich on November 21, 2021, 04:58:19 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 21, 2021, 03:55:19 PM
Wolf Children. I found it on archive.org. Dubbed, but better than nothing.

Is it in German?
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Bernadette on November 21, 2021, 05:07:57 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on November 21, 2021, 04:58:19 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 21, 2021, 03:55:19 PM
Wolf Children. I found it on archive.org. Dubbed, but better than nothing.

Is it in German?
No, it's originally in Japanese, but dubbed into English.
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Post by: Philip G. on December 13, 2021, 07:45:38 PM
I watched gone with the wind basically for the first time last night. I have memories watching it as a young child, but do not remember what it was about.  And, long story short, I hated it.  I turned it off with about 20 minutes left I would say.  I can only take so much of bi-polar sociopathic money loving dramas.  I knew the moment scarlett's father died jumping the fence that I hated the film.  I turned it off after the husband of scarlett took her child off to europe.  I don't know the ending, and I am so glad. 
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Post by: Bernadette on December 14, 2021, 06:53:13 AM
i hated that movie, too, although I loved the book.
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Post by: Christina_S on December 14, 2021, 08:55:36 AM
Watched Mrs. Doubtfire on the weekend. The antics were great, but the ending with its praises of divorce was sucktastic.
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Post by: Heinrich on December 14, 2021, 10:58:29 AM
Quote from: Christina_S on December 14, 2021, 08:55:36 AM
Watched Mrs. Doubtfire on the weekend. The antics were great, but the ending with its praises of divorce was sucktastic.

That's a desensitization psy op movie.
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Post by: LausTibiChriste on December 14, 2021, 12:41:39 PM
I shall watch Gladiator tonight. Again
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Post by: Heinrich on December 14, 2021, 12:53:11 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on December 14, 2021, 12:41:39 PM
I shall watch Gladiator tonight. Again

It took 5 or 6 Roman midgets to take down that Barbarian with the morgenstern who looked like(and dresses thus). The movie sucked after that.
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Post by: LausTibiChriste on December 14, 2021, 01:06:57 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on December 14, 2021, 12:53:11 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on December 14, 2021, 12:41:39 PM
I shall watch Gladiator tonight. Again

It took 5 or 6 Roman midgets to take down that Barbarian with the morgenstern who looked like(and dresses thus). The movie sucked after that.

I beg your pardon that is the greatest movie ever made
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Post by: GiftOfGod on December 14, 2021, 02:31:05 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on December 14, 2021, 10:58:29 AM
Quote from: Christina_S on December 14, 2021, 08:55:36 AM
Watched Mrs. Doubtfire on the weekend. The antics were great, but the ending with its praises of divorce was sucktastic.

That's a desensitization psy op movie.
I didn't realize this as a kid but now it's plainly obvious. It could have very easily been a 100% moral movie of a man whose children get taken away due to no fault divorce laws. But they had to add-in the sodomites and the prevailing "wisdom" on divorce. I won't be letting my future children watch it, which is sort of a shame because most of it is good and it's filmed locally.
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Post by: Heinrich on December 14, 2021, 06:23:46 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on December 14, 2021, 12:53:11 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on December 14, 2021, 12:41:39 PM
I shall watch Gladiator tonight. Again

QuoteIt took 5 or 6 Roman midgets to take down that Barbarian with the morgenstern who looked like me(and dresses thus). The movie sucked after that.
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Post by: Melkor on December 14, 2021, 06:53:01 PM
Quote from: Philip G. on December 13, 2021, 07:45:38 PM
I watched gone with the wind basically for the first time last night. I have memories watching it as a young child, but do not remember what it was about.  And, long story short, I hated it.  I turned it off with about 20 minutes left I would say.  I can only take so much of bi-polar sociopathic money loving dramas.  I knew the moment scarlett's father died jumping the fence that I hated the film.  I turned it off after the husband of scarlett took her child off to europe.  I don't know the ending, and I am so glad.

You missed the best part: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ5ICXMC4xY
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on December 15, 2021, 12:54:05 AM
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan

Sorry but the nerd in me considers the ending one of the most emotional in cinema history.
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Post by: drummerboy on December 15, 2021, 12:11:41 PM
Quote from: Philip G. on December 13, 2021, 07:45:38 PM
I watched gone with the wind basically for the first time last night. I have memories watching it as a young child, but do not remember what it was about.  And, long story short, I hated it.  I turned it off with about 20 minutes left I would say.  I can only take so much of bi-polar sociopathic money loving dramas.  I knew the moment scarlett's father died jumping the fence that I hated the film.  I turned it off after the husband of scarlett took her child off to europe.  I don't know the ending, and I am so glad.

  My wife couldn't stand Scarlett either, until I explained to her that the audience is supposed to loathe her.  The fact that it creates such a strong reaction means the actress is doing her job, she's not supposed to be a sympathetic character.
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Post by: Philip G. on December 15, 2021, 12:28:01 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on December 15, 2021, 12:11:41 PM
Quote from: Philip G. on December 13, 2021, 07:45:38 PM
I watched gone with the wind basically for the first time last night. I have memories watching it as a young child, but do not remember what it was about.  And, long story short, I hated it.  I turned it off with about 20 minutes left I would say.  I can only take so much of bi-polar sociopathic money loving dramas.  I knew the moment scarlett's father died jumping the fence that I hated the film.  I turned it off after the husband of scarlett took her child off to europe.  I don't know the ending, and I am so glad.

  My wife couldn't stand Scarlett either, until I explained to her that the audience is supposed to loathe her.  The fact that it creates such a strong reaction means the actress is doing her job, she's not supposed to be a sympathetic character.

I loathed every character except mammy and Ashley's wife, except even she had her cringe moment when Ashley is putting his foot down about moving away to one get away from the blood sucker that is scarlett, and start again/find work in a different city, both of which are duties of his as a husband.  But, then psycopath scarlett starts fake crying, and Ashley's wife comes in to comfort her and side with her against her husband.  It was a damnable moment.  It was a wretched film I say! I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. 
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Post by: Kaesekopf on December 20, 2021, 01:58:59 AM
I watched John wick recently. 

Fun movie.  Many laughs.  Would recommend. 

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Post by: Christina_S on December 20, 2021, 02:57:50 PM
Watched Rain Man over the weekend. The savant character's mannerisms and speech patterns reminded me of an autistic student that I worked with during my teaching practicum.

I don't know how this film came second to Twins with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito on opening weekend...
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Post by: Tennessean on December 26, 2021, 10:59:19 AM
The last movies I saw was The Lighthouse. It was disgusting and stupid.
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Post by: Bernadette on December 28, 2021, 05:05:05 PM
I'm watching The tree of Wooden Clogs on Amazon right now. It's a new translation, and I'm loving it.
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Post by: Philip G. on December 28, 2021, 05:44:50 PM
I watched the 1950s version of charles dickens' oliver twist.  It was pretty good. 
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Post by: Christina_S on January 06, 2022, 08:30:27 AM
Last night, in honour of it being the Twelfth Night after Christmas (aka Epiphany Eve), I decided to watch She's The Man, which is a modern take on the Shakespeare play Twelfth Night.  ;D
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Post by: red solo cup on January 08, 2022, 11:52:58 AM
Ridley Scott has confirmed that the script for "Gadiator 2" is finished.
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Post by: Heinrich on January 08, 2022, 02:45:35 PM
The Undefeated with J Wayne and R Hudson. Pretty good.
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Post by: FaithByProxy on January 18, 2022, 11:38:29 AM
Quote from: Tennessean on December 26, 2021, 10:59:19 AM
The last movies I saw was The Lighthouse. It was disgusting and stupid.

Ha, that was my impression when I saw it a while back too. I went in completely blind so I had no idea how gross it was. Filth parading as art, really annoying because I love a good art film.

Quote from: red solo cup on January 08, 2022, 11:52:58 AM
Ridley Scott has confirmed that the script for "Gadiator 2" is finished.

oh no

As for myself, the last film I saw was The Long Good Friday. Watched with hubby while folding laundry. A pretty enjoyable flick, recommended if you are into mob movies.
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Post by: Christina_S on January 18, 2022, 06:36:28 PM
We've been on a Spiderman kick! We watched all three with Tobey Maguire and started the Andrew Garfield ones on Sunday, but then I almost fell asleep halfway through the first one.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Melkor on January 18, 2022, 08:02:01 PM
Quote from: Christina_S on January 18, 2022, 06:36:28 PM
We've been on a Spiderman kick! We watched all three with Tobey Maguire and started the Andrew Garfield ones on Sunday, but then I almost fell asleep halfway through the first one.

The Toby ones are the best. I refuse to watch the other ones.
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Post by: red solo cup on January 19, 2022, 05:13:30 AM
Don't Look Up with DiCaprio and Streep et al. Mostly dumb but their portrayal of our obsession with social media was scathing and spot on.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Christina_S on January 19, 2022, 06:32:34 AM
Quote from: Melkor on January 18, 2022, 08:02:01 PM
Quote from: Christina_S on January 18, 2022, 06:36:28 PM
We've been on a Spiderman kick! We watched all three with Tobey Maguire and started the Andrew Garfield ones on Sunday, but then I almost fell asleep halfway through the first one.

The Toby ones are the best. I refuse to watch the other ones.
10/10 agree with you. He balances the weight of superhero with average New Yorker the best. Garfield plays it too cool, and Holland, well, he's just a little goofy lol. The critics who say that he appears to always be holding a frog in his mouth are so right.
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Post by: red solo cup on January 27, 2022, 12:53:31 PM
Victoria and Abdul.
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on January 27, 2022, 02:35:03 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on January 27, 2022, 12:53:31 PM
Victoria and Abdul.

Good or bad? 
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Post by: red solo cup on January 27, 2022, 05:04:13 PM
OK. First half was amusing. Second half sad.
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Post by: Bernadette on February 07, 2022, 07:42:45 AM
The Help
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Post by: Christina_S on February 07, 2022, 08:52:56 AM
Green Lantern. I have literally no idea why. It was a poor life choice.
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Post by: Bernadette on February 09, 2022, 05:45:14 PM
Fried Green Tomatoes. I love that movie.
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Post by: Melkor on February 09, 2022, 07:35:44 PM
Revenge of the Sith. Watching Clone Wars in canonical order made it so much better.
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Post by: Kent on February 12, 2022, 12:52:19 PM
Finished Tarkovsky's Filmography in order with Stalker.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on February 18, 2022, 10:45:13 AM
Recently began (and intend to finish) The FBI Story starring Jimmy Stewart.

Last weekend, the wife and I watched the 1970s Death on the Nile.  Having never read an Agatha Christie book, it was pretty enjoyable. 
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Christina_S on February 18, 2022, 01:05:33 PM
Considering showing my husband High School Musical because he's never seen it, but I don't know if I want to traumatize the poor man with that...

Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 18, 2022, 10:45:13 AMLast weekend, the wife and I watched the 1970s Death on the Nile.  Having never read an Agatha Christie book, it was pretty enjoyable.
Planning to watch the upcoming version with Gal Gadot and Armie Hammer?
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Post by: Lynne on February 19, 2022, 03:26:01 PM
Dr Strangelove is on TCM right now, just started.
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Post by: Bernadette on February 20, 2022, 12:14:12 PM
Evelyn
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Post by: Kaesekopf on February 22, 2022, 09:11:27 AM
Quote from: Christina_S on February 18, 2022, 01:05:33 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 18, 2022, 10:45:13 AMLast weekend, the wife and I watched the 1970s Death on the Nile.  Having never read an Agatha Christie book, it was pretty enjoyable.
Planning to watch the upcoming version with Gal Gadot and Armie Hammer?

The wife saw it in the theaters, and was upset at the hamfisted diversity they threw in there.  She wasn't a big fan of the movie, overall. 

Which is to say, probably not.  :lol:
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Post by: Christina_S on February 22, 2022, 08:46:20 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 22, 2022, 09:11:27 AM
Quote from: Christina_S on February 18, 2022, 01:05:33 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 18, 2022, 10:45:13 AMLast weekend, the wife and I watched the 1970s Death on the Nile.  Having never read an Agatha Christie book, it was pretty enjoyable.
Planning to watch the upcoming version with Gal Gadot and Armie Hammer?

The wife saw it in the theaters, and was upset at the hamfisted diversity they threw in there.  She wasn't a big fan of the movie, overall. 

Which is to say, probably not.  :lol:
Nothing like forced diversity, particularly the hamfisted variety, to ruin a film :lol:
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Post by: red solo cup on February 23, 2022, 02:21:52 PM
Quote from: Christina_S on February 22, 2022, 08:46:20 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 22, 2022, 09:11:27 AM
Quote from: Christina_S on February 18, 2022, 01:05:33 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 18, 2022, 10:45:13 AMLast weekend, the wife and I watched the 1970s Death on the Nile.  Having never read an Agatha Christie book, it was pretty enjoyable.
Planning to watch the upcoming version with Gal Gadot and Armie Hammer?

The wife saw it in the theaters, and was upset at the hamfisted diversity they threw in there.  She wasn't a big fan of the movie, overall. 

Which is to say, probably not.  :lol:
Nothing like forced diversity, particularly the hamfisted variety, to ruin a film :lol:
Speaking of diversity; Been watching The Great, about Catherine the Great. Who knew that a portion of Russian nobility were black. It's infuriating. The rewriting of history is right out of 1984.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Kent on February 23, 2022, 02:35:42 PM
Come and See, which I found hellishly arresting but ultimately propagandic. Followed it with The Tree of Wooden Clogs, which is probably the exact opposite kind of film. Has abruptly become a favorite of mine. Regret not seeing sooner.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: drummerboy on February 24, 2022, 12:52:40 AM
The Sandlot.  Haven't watched this move in easily 15+ years, and still good.
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Post by: Aulef on February 24, 2022, 08:35:14 AM
The Reluctant Saint (1962). A movie about Saint Joseph of Cupertino.

It was better than I expected.
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Post by: Kaesekopf on February 24, 2022, 11:10:44 PM
Quote from: drummerboy on February 24, 2022, 12:52:40 AM
The Sandlot.  Haven't watched this move in easily 15+ years, and still good.

Right!?
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Post by: drummerboy on February 25, 2022, 12:43:01 AM
Quote from: Aulef on February 24, 2022, 08:35:14 AM
The Reluctant Saint (1962). A movie about Saint Joseph of Cupertino.

It was better than I expected.

Because its not Joseph of Cupertino, its KHAN!!!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056403/
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on March 11, 2022, 10:24:20 AM
Quote from: Aulef on February 24, 2022, 08:35:14 AM
The Reluctant Saint (1962). A movie about Saint Joseph of Cupertino.

It was better than I expected.

That looks good.

One of my favorites about St Francis
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054892/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6
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Post by: Elizabeth on March 13, 2022, 01:48:59 PM
Gorky Park
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Post by: Kent on March 14, 2022, 08:48:02 AM
Yi Yi. Edward Yang is the best Taiwanese export and it isn't close.
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Post by: Bernadette on March 23, 2022, 08:08:21 AM
The Secret Garden (1993).
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Post by: Bernadette on March 30, 2022, 06:44:08 AM
I'm watching the miniseries Teresa de Jesus. 3 discs, subtitled. I used to know Spanish well enough to watch it without subtitles, but it's gone now.
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Tennessean on May 13, 2022, 11:23:52 PM
The Northman

Most of the movie is in Anglish. There's the obligatory sex scene, but its shot at a distance, in the dark. Its bloody, but not gory. There is a body horror scene, with bodies speared together to look like odin on sleipnir. Its interesting how there aren't any "those christians" jokes you see in /pol or the other viking media. It was a mature movie, darkened with the theme of revenge.  My biggest complaint is the audience: I had a fat soybeard commenting and eating poopcorn behind me. I had to tell him once enough and again to shut up. I don't see myself watching it again. It suffers from that problem common to all modern movies, where the movie doesn't feel like a narrative, but a string of scenes with the same cast.

I thought it was a decent adaptation of Hamlet for modern audiences.
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Post by: Heinrich on May 14, 2022, 10:22:29 AM
Quote from: Tennessean on May 13, 2022, 11:23:52 PM
The Northman

Most of the movie is in Anglish. There's the obligatory sex scene, but its shot at a distance, in the dark. Its bloody, but not gory. There is a body horror scene, with bodies speared together to look like odin on sleipnir. Its interesting how there aren't any "those christians" jokes you see in /pol or the other viking media. It was a mature movie, darkened with the theme of revenge.  My biggest complaint is the audience: I had a fat soybeard commenting and eating poopcorn behind me. I had to tell him once enough and again to shut up. I don't see myself watching it again. It suffers from that problem common to all modern movies, where the movie doesn't feel like a narrative, but a string of scenes with the same cast.

I thought it was a decent adaptation of Hamlet for modern audiences.

Movie released in time to garner sentiment for Asov. The greatest casualty of modern movies is the scripting. Coen Brothers' excepting.
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Post by: Mushroom on May 14, 2022, 10:48:27 AM
The Omen (1976) Probably wouldn't watch it again.

The Passion of Christ, Very sad scenes but great movie!
Title: Re: Last movie you saw?
Post by: Tennessean on May 14, 2022, 06:52:14 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on May 14, 2022, 10:22:29 AM
Quote from: Tennessean on May 13, 2022, 11:23:52 PM
The Northman

Most of the movie is in Anglish. There's the obligatory sex scene, but its shot at a distance, in the dark. Its bloody, but not gory. There is a body horror scene, with bodies speared together to look like odin on sleipnir. Its interesting how there aren't any "those christians" jokes you see in /pol or the other viking media. It was a mature movie, darkened with the theme of revenge.  My biggest complaint is the audience: I had a fat soybeard commenting and eating poopcorn behind me. I had to tell him once enough and again to shut up. I don't see myself watching it again. It suffers from that problem common to all modern movies, where the movie doesn't feel like a narrative, but a string of scenes with the same cast.

I thought it was a decent adaptation of Hamlet for modern audiences.

Movie released in time to garner sentiment for Asov. The greatest casualty of modern movies is the scripting. Coen Brothers' excepting.
The Northman didn't do so hot in the US, but thought-provoking movies tend not to. Its obviously a movie for foreigners, I was surprised they could make a period drama without an African prince or something.
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Post by: Melkor on May 14, 2022, 09:11:13 PM
Quote from: Tennessean on May 14, 2022, 06:52:14 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on May 14, 2022, 10:22:29 AM
Quote from: Tennessean on May 13, 2022, 11:23:52 PM
The Northman

Most of the movie is in Anglish. There's the obligatory sex scene, but its shot at a distance, in the dark. Its bloody, but not gory. There is a body horror scene, with bodies speared together to look like odin on sleipnir. Its interesting how there aren't any "those christians" jokes you see in /pol or the other viking media. It was a mature movie, darkened with the theme of revenge.  My biggest complaint is the audience: I had a fat soybeard commenting and eating poopcorn behind me. I had to tell him once enough and again to shut up. I don't see myself watching it again. It suffers from that problem common to all modern movies, where the movie doesn't feel like a narrative, but a string of scenes with the same cast.

I thought it was a decent adaptation of Hamlet for modern audiences.

Movie released in time to garner sentiment for Asov. The greatest casualty of modern movies is the scripting. Coen Brothers' excepting.
The Northman didn't do so hot in the US

Cause all the fags are watching marvel crap.
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Post by: Bernadette on May 27, 2022, 08:39:29 AM
How Green Was My Valley.
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on May 27, 2022, 04:26:28 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on May 27, 2022, 08:39:29 AM
How Green Was My Valley.

Katherine Hepburn?
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Post by: Bernadette on May 28, 2022, 05:51:07 AM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on May 27, 2022, 04:26:28 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on May 27, 2022, 08:39:29 AM
How Green Was My Valley.

Katherine Hepburn?
I think Maureen O'Hara.
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Post by: red solo cup on June 17, 2022, 03:19:25 PM
A Very British Scandal on Prime. Quite good.
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Post by: Geremia on June 19, 2022, 06:12:05 PM
What is a Woman?
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Post by: Bernadette on July 23, 2022, 03:34:45 PM
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, the 90s tv version with Angela Lansbury. I loved it.
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Post by: TradGranny on July 23, 2022, 06:55:16 PM
Anne of Green Gables with Anne Shirely
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on July 25, 2022, 07:41:44 AM
Quote from: TradGranny on July 23, 2022, 06:55:16 PM
Anne of Green Gables with Anne Shirely

I love that one.  There is a sequel, too.
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Post by: TradGranny on July 25, 2022, 11:39:01 AM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on July 25, 2022, 07:41:44 AM
Quote from: TradGranny on July 23, 2022, 06:55:16 PM
Anne of Green Gables with Anne Shirely

I love that one.  There is a sequel, too.


What's the name of the sequel?
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on July 25, 2022, 01:44:54 PM
Quote from: TradGranny on July 25, 2022, 11:39:01 AM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on July 25, 2022, 07:41:44 AM
Quote from: TradGranny on July 23, 2022, 06:55:16 PM
Anne of Green Gables with Anne Shirely

I love that one.  There is a sequel, too.


What's the name of the sequel?

Anne of Windy Poplars

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032211/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_13
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Post by: Bernadette on July 25, 2022, 02:38:56 PM
Wow the actress's name was Anne Shirley? What are the odds?!
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Post by: Jmartyr on July 25, 2022, 04:35:39 PM
The Hunt. Deplorables hunted by snowflakes. Pretty good, actually
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Post by: maryslittlegarden on July 27, 2022, 06:37:43 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on July 25, 2022, 02:38:56 PM
Wow the actress's name was Anne Shirley? What are the odds?!
She changed her name so the Anne Shirley was her "screen name."  Otherwise, yeah the odds would be up there
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Post by: BlueInGreen on August 22, 2022, 11:17:18 AM
Abandoned (2022) starring Emma Roberts and John Gallagher Jr.

The usual haunted house, something-bad-happened-here-in-the-past story. Married couple moves into old, isolated farm house to help wife recover from postpartum depression. Overall it was alright. I liked the atmospheric quality to it. No nudity, sex scenes or even implied sex, which was utterly refreshing for once since the producers, director and writers could've inserted them into the story given the context.
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Post by: Jmartyr on September 05, 2022, 02:39:27 PM
Black Phone. Sucked. Loved Ethan Hawke in Sinister. Not this one. And necromancy as usual.
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Post by: josh987654321 on September 06, 2022, 05:20:26 AM
Quote from: Jmartyr on July 25, 2022, 04:35:39 PM
The Hunt. Deplorables hunted by snowflakes. Pretty good, actually

For all the concern about it, I wasn't that offended and thought it had some funny moments (a lot of swearing etc though). The story of the box turtle and the jack rabbit was quite apt IMO, in regards with cancel culture and thus watching ones back even in victory for underhanded settling of scores.

I also watched -
Top Gun Maverick
The Gray Man

And thought those two movies were pretty good among most of the stuff out there IMO.

God Bless
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Post by: josh987654321 on September 06, 2022, 06:17:00 AM
I also watched the Mini Series 'The Terminal List' and thought it was good, all but 1 episode was really good IMO. Can't really expand on it in any way or the whole plot is ruined, which goes through a lot of twists and turns.

I also really enjoyed the following movies -
The Tomorrow War
Spectral
Non Stop
Love and Monsters
Greyhound
Triple Frontier

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Post by: Bonaventure on August 13, 2023, 11:10:21 PM
Crimson Tide
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Post by: Aulef on August 15, 2023, 01:25:32 PM
Nefarious Plot (2023).

It's a movie about an atheist psychiatrist analyzing a man sentenced to death who is possessed by a demon.

It is a protestant movie, so apply well your filters.
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Post by: Bonaventure on August 15, 2023, 02:14:19 PM
Quote from: Aulef on August 15, 2023, 01:25:32 PMNefarious Plot (2023).

It's a movie about an atheist psychiatrist analyzing a man sentenced to death who is possessed by a demon.

It is a protestant movie, so apply well your filters.

This was a great scene.

https://youtu.be/Tc7-JIhJ66I
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Post by: Bernadette on September 20, 2023, 08:37:20 AM
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. Adaptation of the book by Judith Kerr. It was exceptionally good. Stayed very true to the book.
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Post by: Aulef on September 22, 2023, 08:20:51 AM
Quote from: Bonaventure on August 15, 2023, 02:14:19 PM
Quote from: Aulef on August 15, 2023, 01:25:32 PMNefarious Plot (2023).

It's a movie about an atheist psychiatrist analyzing a man sentenced to death who is possessed by a demon.

It is a protestant movie, so apply well your filters.

This was a great scene.

https://youtu.be/Tc7-JIhJ66I

I consider this one of the most dangerous parts of the movie as well
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Post by: ChairmanJoeAintMyPrez on September 22, 2023, 10:35:50 AM
How do they know that was the athiest doctor?  Was it just that they were unable to find anyone athier?
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Post by: Mushroom on October 09, 2023, 09:23:45 AM
Watched Animal Farm (1954) last night. Really good analogy to communism. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." 

Kids should be watching this instead of Disney.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svi0jrOeQoU

Moral of the story: Don't sleep in while having farm animals or they might rebel...
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Post by: Bernadette on November 02, 2023, 01:34:33 PM
Just watched All the Light We Cannot See. I watched it to see the blind actresses who played Marie Laure. It was fascinating. I'd never seen blind people navigating daily life before. Being half blind myself, I have a particular interest in the subject.
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Post by: Maximilian on November 02, 2023, 07:18:26 PM
Quote from: Mushroom on October 09, 2023, 09:23:45 AMWatched Animal Farm (1954) last night. Really good analogy to communism. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." 

Kids should be watching this instead of Disney.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svi0jrOeQoU

Moral of the story: Don't sleep in while having farm animals or they might rebel...

Definitely NOT appropriate for children.

High-school age at a minimum. Even then they would have to be rather knowledgeable and sophisticated.
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Post by: Bernadette on November 05, 2023, 05:03:14 PM
The Dig, about an excavator in Suffolk in 1939 who digs up Anglo Saxon burial mounds. It was surprisingly good.
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Post by: Bernadette on November 13, 2023, 08:28:25 AM
Getting ready to watch Band of Brothers and The Pacific. I'm really looking forward to The Pacific, because I know absolutely nothing about the Pacific Theatre. I haven't seen Band of Brothers since it came out.
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Post by: drummerboy on November 13, 2023, 10:29:05 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 13, 2023, 08:28:25 AMGetting ready to watch Band of Brothers and The Pacific. I'm really looking forward to The Pacific, because I know absolutely nothing about the Pacific Theatre. I haven't seen Band of Brothers since it came out.

Be forewarned The Pacific has some rather graphic sex scenes.  From what I recall Band of Brothers had one scene but it wasn't graphic.

The Pacific also has very graphic violence and gore. There's one scene a guy is tossing pebbles into a dead Japanese soldier's skull.  Not sure I you're up to that.  My wife seemed to handle but we only watched it once.  Other than that it's highly recommended.
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Post by: Bernadette on November 13, 2023, 10:36:23 AM
Quote from: drummerboy on November 13, 2023, 10:29:05 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 13, 2023, 08:28:25 AMGetting ready to watch Band of Brothers and The Pacific. I'm really looking forward to The Pacific, because I know absolutely nothing about the Pacific Theatre. I haven't seen Band of Brothers since it came out.

Be forewarned The Pacific has some rather graphic sex scenes.  From what I recall Band of Brothers had one scene but it wasn't graphic.

The Pacific also has very graphic violence and gore. There's one scene a guy is tossing pebbles into a dead Japanese soldier's skull.  Not sure I you're up to that.  My wife seemed to handle but we only watched it once.  Other than that it's highly recommended.
Thanks for the heads up.
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Post by: Hat And Beard on December 10, 2023, 10:21:27 PM
Rewatching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: I still maintain this is the best of the series.
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Post by: red solo cup on January 08, 2024, 04:57:53 PM
Prometheus. A remake of Alien.
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Post by: red solo cup on January 26, 2024, 05:42:34 PM
The Good Shepherd. Not bad.
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Post by: Bernadette on February 21, 2024, 05:25:04 PM
Getting ready to watch Fanny and Alexander, the television version. I don't think I've ever seen the whole thing right through.