Last movie you saw?

Started by tmw89, December 27, 2012, 03:03:47 AM

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red solo cup

Midnight Sky. Cliche ridden.
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red solo cup

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.
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Jacob

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.
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
--Neal Stephenson

Jacob

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 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.
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
--Neal Stephenson

Heinrich

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 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.
Schaff Recht mir Gott und führe meine Sache gegen ein unheiliges Volk . . .   .                          
Lex Orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi.
"Die Welt sucht nach Ehre, Ansehen, Reichtum, Vergnügen; die Heiligen aber suchen Demütigung, Verachtung, Armut, Abtötung und Buße." --Ausschnitt von der Geschichte des Lebens St. Bennos.

Jacob

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 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.
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
--Neal Stephenson

Kent

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 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.
I do profess to be no less than I seem, to serve him truly
that will put me in trust, to love him that is honest, to
converse with him that is wise and says little, to fear
judgment, to fight when I cannot choose, and to eat no fish.

Kaesekopf

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...
Wie dein Sonntag, so dein Sterbetag.

I am not altogether on anybody's side, because nobody is altogether on my side.  ~Treebeard, LOTR

Jesus son of David, have mercy on me.

Philip G.

#3173
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. 

For the stone shall cry out of the wall; and the timber that is between the joints of the building, shall answer.  Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and prepareth a city by iniquity. - Habacuc 2,11-12

red solo cup

The Dig. Not great but OK. Fiennes did a pretty good job.
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Elizabeth.2

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.

Gardener

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.
"If anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will not have Christ for his Brother." - St. Maximilian Kolbe

Elizabeth.2

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.

red solo cup

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.
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Jacob

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.
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
--Neal Stephenson