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Just watched Short Term 12, the film about working in a young people's shelter with Brie Larson in her breakthrough role, and it was very well done I thought. The first 80 minutes were raw, honest and emotional, the last fifteen were happy and cute and much less harrowing. I heard some found this a turn off but I didn't mind, it was an uplifting ending and it suited the flow of the film. In short, I really liked it and would definitely recommend it to anyone, even if you aren't normally a fan of low-budget indie films :).
 
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Great movie!
The Big Short
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Best movie I've seen in a long time.
Despite not understanding much of the whole 'shorting' business.
Great acting, dialogues, drama, suspense, and the way the movie is shot is great too.

Lots to learn from that movie. I would argue the dimensions, nature and dynamics of the fraud behind the collapse apply directly to present day topsport.
 
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Anyone seen Oliver Stone's Snowden yet?

I am thinking of watching it this week. Some say the movie tried, unsuccessfully, to provide the real picture of Snowden and NSA spying. Some NSA folks reject the movie, understandably.

Oliver Stone does like to make movies about the US government and its shortcomings/failures. Born On the Fourth of July, JFK, W, to name some. Now Snowden. From what I have read, Stone and his team did quite a bit of research on Snowden and the NSA leaks. They also met with Snowden in Moscow. Obviously Snowden being 'stuck' in Russia might have posed problems for Stone, as far as getting as much information on how his story played out, but I think it should be a good movie. I am not sure how deep Snowden went in regards to details that he gave to Stone, and a 2 hour movie will hardly give too much, so I am interested to see how that plays out on the big screen.
 
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RIP Robert Vaughn. The Last of the Magnificent Seven, the only one to survive Calvera /Eli Wallach.

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The Magnificent Seven is one of the only US Western of the classical period that I could save, perhaps because it's a remake of the Kurosawa "Shichinin no Samurai". Very interesting films about the defence of the sedentary peasantry against nomadic bandits, the seven mercenaries being nomads with a conscience crisis regretting never being able to be farmers. I kinda identify with that.


Needless to say I will never go and watch the new Magnificent Seven. For me it will always be Steve McQueen, Yul Brynner and Charles Bronson.
 
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Seeing as I'm home sick with a nasty allergic rash (and am doping with prednisone), I will continue watching the Rocky saga...

Watched Rocky IV last night - if any youngsters want to know what the self-indulgent 80s were like Rocky IV shows it pretty well. Stallone has completely lost the plot by now, the grit and substance of the original Rocky movie is nowhere to be found in this flick. Still...

I'm willing to take on more pain and watch Rocky V today, and then later some time I'll watch Creed. (Will have to skip Rocky Balboa seeing as Amazon prime wants me to pay extra for it - not gonna happen even though this movie got decent reviews.)
 
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Seeing as I'm home sick with a nasty allergic rash (and am doping with prednisone), I will continue watching the Rocky saga...

Watched Rocky IV last night - if any youngsters want to know what the self-indulgent 80s were like Rocky IV shows it pretty well. Stallone has completely lost the plot by now, the grit and substance of the original Rocky movie is nowhere to be found in this flick. Still...

I'm willing to take on more pain and watch Rocky V today, and then later some time I'll watch Creed. (Will have to skip Rocky Balboa seeing as Amazon prime wants me to pay extra for it - not gonna happen even though this movie got decent reviews.)
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Rocky IV It's mythical for me, I saw several times. Ivan "Kittel" Drago... :lol:
 
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Denial. Excellent movie with some great acting. Something like 83% rotten tomatoes critics rating and 75% user rating. Denial is a true story and BBC Films production released in 2016. The movie is based on Deborah E. Lipstadt's book "History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier" about the legal battle when the Holocaust scholar Lipstadt was sued by notorious Holocaust denier, David Irving, for libel.

My take is this movie can be infuriating to watch at moments while realizing there are actually individuals today who think and act like Irving. But this is perhaps one of the best movies I have seen in 10 to 20 years, or a long, long time. A must see.
 
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American History X - Disturbing, certainly not appropriate for the little kids. (Have seen it several times now, lots of adult issues are being covered.)

The Silence of the Lambs - Watched it again this week, still fast-forward through the part in the basement at the end where the psycho is wearing those darkness wearing glasses. It just creeps me out too much.

The Man Who Knew Too Much - eh, it's a Hitchcock film. What else can be said?
 
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American History X - Disturbing, certainly not appropriate for the little kids. (Have seen it several times now, lots of adult issues are being covered.)

The Silence of the Lambs - Watched it again this week, still fast-forward through the part in the basement at the end where the psycho is wearing those darkness wearing glasses. It just creeps me out too much.
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It's funny, that is literally the first thing I've read after having just finished watching that movie. I've got to say though, the dialogue and the performance by Hopkins gets cringier and unintentionally funnier every time I watch it. Best scene is still the "Goodbye Horses"-sequence, that one got under my skin (no pun intended) first time I watched it and it still does today.
 
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It's funny, that is literally the first thing I've read after having just finished watching that movie. I've got to say though, the dialogue and the performance by Hopkins gets cringier and unintentionally funnier every time I watch it. Best scene is still the "Goodbye Horses"-sequence, that one got under my skin (no pun intended) first time I watched it and it still does today.
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I think TSOTL is a bit like Se7en - first time you see it (when it first came out in the theaters) it's all creepy-like. But upon subsequent viewings you can see all the flaws in the movie-making itseIf.

I think this can be said about pretty much all movies, though. Once you start dissecting stuff the fun (or creepiness) goes out the window.

I'm a huge fan of subtitles, btw., while I'm not exactly deaf so much dialogue can be missed due to the movie's background music, or noise, or whatnot.
 
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kingjr said:
It's funny, that is literally the first thing I've read after having just finished watching that movie. I've got to say though, the dialogue and the performance by Hopkins gets cringier and unintentionally funnier every time I watch it. Best scene is still the "Goodbye Horses"-sequence, that one got under my skin (no pun intended) first time I watched it and it still does today.
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I think TSOTL is a bit like Se7en - first time you see it (when it first came out in the theaters) it's all creepy-like. But upon subsequent viewings you can see all the flaws in the movie-making itseIf.

I think this can be said about pretty much all movies, though. Once you start dissecting stuff the fun (or creepiness) goes out the window.

I'm a huge fan of subtitles, btw., while I'm not exactly deaf so much dialogue can be missed due to the movie's background music, or noise, or whatnot.
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Yeah, me too. Some people never use subtitles, which I don't quite understand, cause even if you're fluent in a second language, there's always stuff you can miss, or there are new words and expressions to learn, and that's just easier with subtitles.

And I agree about Se7en, I've only seen it 2 times, first in German with my cousin, then in English alone. But it really relies on the surprise elements of revealing who is playing the murderer and on the What's in the box-scene. If those elements are gone, the film really is just dark and depressing.

Watched The Shining for the first time yesterday (I was already familiar with the plot though) and I had similar feelings about Nicholson. He has some great scenes ("he saw it on the television", the bar scene with Joe Turkel, and the "Light of my life" part) but often I feel he's doing a bit 'too much'.
 
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kingjr said:
Tricycle Rider said:
kingjr said:
It's funny, that is literally the first thing I've read after having just finished watching that movie. I've got to say though, the dialogue and the performance by Hopkins gets cringier and unintentionally funnier every time I watch it. Best scene is still the "Goodbye Horses"-sequence, that one got under my skin (no pun intended) first time I watched it and it still does today.
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I think TSOTL is a bit like Se7en - first time you see it (when it first came out in the theaters) it's all creepy-like. But upon subsequent viewings you can see all the flaws in the movie-making itseIf.

I think this can be said about pretty much all movies, though. Once you start dissecting stuff the fun (or creepiness) goes out the window.

I'm a huge fan of subtitles, btw., while I'm not exactly deaf so much dialogue can be missed due to the movie's background music, or noise, or whatnot.
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Yeah, me too. Some people never use subtitles, which I don't quite understand, cause even if you're fluent in a second language, there's always stuff you can miss, or there are new words and expressions to learn, and that's just easier with subtitles.

And I agree about Se7en, I've only seen it 2 times, first in German with my cousin, then in English alone. But it really relies on the surprise elements of revealing who is playing the murderer and on the What's in the box-scene. If those elements are gone, the film really is just dark and depressing.

Watched The Shining for the first time yesterday (I was already familiar with the plot though) and I had similar feelings about Nicholson. He has some great scenes ("he saw it on the television", the bar scene with Joe Turkel, and the "Light of my life" part) but often I feel he's doing a bit 'too much'.
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The Shining was great technically but Kubrick needed to rein in Nicholson's performance which was just over the top almost cartoonish and jarred with the performance of the wife played by Shelley Duvall. When it was underplayed like the scene where his wife read what was on the typewriter it worked very well. Also the ending didn't really work either. I thought Seven was good as was Silence of The Lambs and Hopkins performance balanced on the edge but did not cross over like Nicholson's did. The humor in the dialogue was in the book as well. Seven and the Shining were very good with the atmosphere and visuals but SOTL was probably the most satisfying of the three and most successful overall and performances by Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn and Ted Levine as the murderer were also good.
 
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The Man Who Knew Too Much - eh, it's a Hitchcock film. What else can be said?
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1934 or 1956?

Doris Day was bluffing in that one. And great depiction of Colonial time Morocco, very multikulti compared to a then deserted London.

Also Daniel Gélin was a great actor. Better than Pierre Fresnay, methinks.

Not the best Hitchcock, ideologically speaking but good entertainment and the pastel colours were supreme in those colour films of the fifties. To Catch a Thief is the ultimate example of that.
 
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