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David
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I endured the latest Hobbit movie a few weeks back. I recognised some of the characters from the book. In the first half, there were even some events that I remembered having read. In the second half, there were about none. Who knew that Tolkien left so much out of the novel?
FFS, I could have read the book in the time it took to watch either of these CGI extravaganzas. I walked away without the faintest intention to see the last one - who knows, there might be another dragon introduced who provides a love interest for Smaug or something as ridiculous.
And, a caveat: in Australia, they are advertising August: Osage County as some sort of quirky off-beat comedy. Instead, it is depressingly dark and not at all amusing or uplifting.
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I watched "Grudge Match" the other day. Not really the kind of thing I'd normally see, but it was shot in my old hometown (Pittsburgh) so my family wanted to see it and were willing to cover my ticket.
It was okay. Had a few funny moments but I wouldn't recommend it. It kind of meandered a bit too much and didn't really make me care that much about the characters.
One thing I thought might be of interest here, though, is that they had a preview (in Spanish for...some reason) for a movie about Jesus called "Son of God."
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LeRoc
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David: I endured the latest Hobbit movie a few weeks back. I recognised some of the characters from the book. In the first half, there were even some events that I remembered having read. In the second half, there were about none. Who knew that Tolkien left so much out of the novel?
FFS, I could have read the book in the time it took to watch either of these CGI extravaganzas. I walked away without the faintest intention to see the last one - who knows, there might be another dragon introduced who provides a love interest for Smaug or something as ridiculous.
Exactly my thoughts.
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Sir Kevin
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Mr. Russel Crowe posted yet another trailer on my facebook account. Suspect he is under a lot of pressure to make it a roaring big success...
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Has anyone else seen 'American Hustle'? It was my last movie of 2013 and I really enjoyed it. Great ensemble cast - Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper all highly enjoyable in the biggest roles. For me there was something delicious about watching these characters gradually lose control of the situation they were in and scrambling to get back on top.
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Kelly Alves
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Another on my list of films by directors I like that I plan to see. I heard a great review of it on NPR.
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I have just watched 'The Help'. It's about racism in the US.
The cast is nearly all female and there's a sisterhood thing going on where a few white women support black maids to tell their stories of abuse.
The other women believe themselves to be 'society women' while the black maids dance to their attention, obey orders and are treated as dirt. 'Dirt' is the key word in one example of a maid's revenge upon her employer.
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Sherwood
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Going to see the second Hobbit movie on Thursday, finally. I'm looking forward to it, apart from one thing: the spiders.
How real-world-looking are the spiders in the Mirkwood scenes? Also, how long do the spidery scenes go on for, roughly?
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Sherwood
Having forgotten the book I didn't realise there was going to be a spider scene in the film! It went on too long for my liking, and there were too many big spiders with horrible spidery legs!
On the plus side, the cobwebs didn't look terribly realistic, at least not to me. And when the scene is over, it's over. None of the characters suffer flashbacks - thought I'm sure I would!
I'm looking forward to seeing '12 Years a Slave' next. I'll save that for February.
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Sir Kevin
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Sherwood, are you related to Tim S., the manager at White Hart Lane?
May see Hobbit movie at the second-run cinema. Must read reviews, read the book eons ago!
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Sherwood
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No, I'm not I'm afraid. I am a fan of Robin Hood*, however! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
*The legend as a whole, rather than a specific version.
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David
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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
May see Hobbit movie at the second-run cinema. Must read reviews, read the book eons ago!
Reading the book turns out to be a hindrance. Or irrelevant.
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LeRoc
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I watched the Dutch film Nova Zembla a couple of weeks ago, but I didn't like it much. The film jumps through time in a strange way, which detaches the viewer from the story a bit. And it is full of physical impossibilities: for example, the sailors look up from Nova Zembla in August, and see the constellation of Orion ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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jedijudy
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When my Granddaughter was staying with me for a few days over Christmas, I had wanted to watch "It's a Wonderful Life" with her. But I couldn't find it anywhere.
Of course, the day after she went home, ![[Frown]](frown.gif) I found a copy at Sam's Club and bought it.
Saturday was a lazy day for me, and was the perfect time to watch it, even with no Granddaughter to cuddle with. I had remembered the movie being a good one, but this time I was blown away by the story and the acting. Jimmy Stewart has always been a favorite of mine, and just pulled me into George's life.
The bonus features were pretty good, too, explaining how the snow was made when they filmed during a heat wave!
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I enjoyed the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis, which was partly personal ( I once had a folk-singer friend who also used to play guitar and sing songs such as Shoals Of Herring in the car while I was driving him), but also because it was realistically messy and untidy.
My wife disliked it because it is fairly grim ( reinforced by both the interior and exterior lighting and colours) and she could not summon any sympathy for the “hero”, who is an unmitigated jerk.
It is set in the folk scene of the early sixties, when genuine folk-singers such as Woody Guthrie were in the past, clean-cut family-friendly groups such as the Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary are popular (there is a hilarious faux-Irish group in matching Aran pullovers), and Bob Dylan is in the offing.
I think the film’s Llewyn Davis is intended as a harbinger of Dylan (who appears right at the end), the would-be subverter of the genre as it had evolved, though there is no suggestion of electric guitars!
The grotesque John Goodman character didn’t seem to contribute anything to the story – or have I missed something?
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Timothy the Obscure
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Actually, Oscar Isaac (who played Llewyn) said that the first thing the Coens told him about how to play the character was "Not Dylan." Llewyn supposedly based on Dave Van Ronk, but resembles him only in a handful of superficial details (as the character of Troy Holmes is obviously modeled on Tom Paxton, but misses out entirely on Paxton's wit and charm).
I liked the movie, though at times I found the darkness annoying and false. I wasn't there in 1961, but the folk music scene as I knew only it a few years later included a lot more fun and friendliness than grim, desperate competitiveness. But that's a gripe about the Coen brothers' aesthetic--in their universe, only the squares enjoy life or are nice to anyone.
Anachronism check: Llewyn uses a Shubb capo, which wasn't invented until 1978.
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dyfrig
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Originally posted by David:
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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
May see Hobbit movie at the second-run cinema. Must read reviews, read the book eons ago!
Reading the book turns out to be a hindrance. Or irrelevant.
"My goodness!" cried Bilbo, "Gandalf - you have managed to create far more material from a relatively short book than anyone could either desire or need! One might suspect a cynical attempt to fool people into paying three times when once might be reasonable!"
"Piss off," said Gandalf.
In other news, I'd be intrigued to know if anyone's caught this yet.
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Kaplan Corday
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Quite enjoyed The Book Thief.
It was not as good as the book, but then I think the book is overrated anyway.
The changes reflect not only the need for condensation, but also the need to avoid any possible ambiguity in a film which is aiming at a wide audience.
Thus in the book Liesel’s foster-father slaps her across the face when she first criticizes Hitler and the Nazis, in order to reinforce the imperative of not voicing such sentiments publicly, but it would be unthinkable in the film for Geoffrey Rush to hit Sophie Nelisse.
A few quibbles.
It is inconceivable that a nine year-old in pre-war Germany, one of the most literate societies in the world, would not know even the alphabet, especially as the child of communists who, whatever else might be said about them, were practically logocentric.
Also, could a boy swim underwater in an icy river while wearing boots, and emerge without the trace of a shiver?
And (to get into “wrist watch in Ben Hur” territory) a working-class boy in the 1930s such as Rudi would not have owned a jacket with a number of zippers, which at that time were still a novel, rare and expensive sartorial feature.
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Today I saw "Her", the movie by Spike Jonze where a man played by Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with his computer operating system (voiced by Scarlet Johansson).
I enjoyed it immensely. Set in slightly future Lost Angeles, it had both an interesting take on the social effects of computer enhanced life and a deeper look at someone who fails at relationships.
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Re: Inside Llewyn Davis.....my son told me to see this so I immediately went to see it and dragged my husband along. My son is away at school and very much into film, so I see as many films that he recommends as I can. My husband hated it. He said I would watch a pile of crap if my son said to. Haha. I liked it ok. It sparked debate at least.
My son said that its about why a guy got punched. I think he admires minimalism. I think he's right.
The John Goodman character is supposed to present a guy who's even a bigger jerk. Though the girl ends up being pretty awful.
"‘I should have had you wear double condoms… You should be wearing condom on condom, and then wrap it in electrical tape." Hahaha great line.
Loved the cats too.
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It's awesome. You can just tell God is sneaking up on this guy, and he'll be lucky (?) to avoid a conversion in the near future.
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Originally posted by orfeo:
Has anyone else seen 'American Hustle'? It was my last movie of 2013 and I really enjoyed it. Great ensemble cast - Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper all highly enjoyable in the biggest roles. For me there was something delicious about watching these characters gradually lose control of the situation they were in and scrambling to get back on top.
I wanted to go and see this on Tuesday, but it turned out it was the dubbed version not the English-language version
Hoping to try again on Sunday.
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
It's awesome. You can just tell God is sneaking up on this guy, and he'll be lucky (?) to avoid a conversion in the near future.
Graham Greene was an interesting cat. I picked up all three volumes of his biography a few years back at a thrift store, Among other things, he seemed to be trying to reconcile his Catholicism with being (in my opinion) genuinely polyamorous.
(ooops, I forgot this was the movie thread.)
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I saw Gravity in 3D. It's pretty good 3D effects. I went with a Russian friend who doesn't deal with English too well, so he was happy for the Russian Soyuz section which was in Cyrillic and we both coped with the Chinese section.
All in all, the character played by Sandra Bullock was fairly annoying in the "unaware girl heading toward the horror film monster" sort of way. If I was in space, I'd be thinking very hard about things like air supply.
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I saw Gravity too last week. George Clooney in his space helmet is a dead ringer for Buzz Lightyear! The 3D special effects were indeed good, but I couldn't take the storyline at all seriously, one disaster after another ...
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Seen American Hustle now. Well worth it. From my experience, excellent insights into what makes con artists tick and all the related grey moral areas. Would watch again on DVD.
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I just saw Dallas Buyers Club with Matthew McConaughey. He's been picking up some interesting roles lately. In this he plays a cowboy/electrition named Ron Woodroof who came down with AIDS from his trifling with the druggie hookers. He was given thirty days to live. That wasn't an answer he was going to take lying down. So with his native wits and determination he found his way into "drug dealing" of medications not then okayed by the FDA, meds that subdued the symptoms of the disease. Based on a real story.
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To be clear, I have enjoyed every film I have ever seen (Except "Thin Red Line" which I walked out of).
With that in mind, went to see "Monuments Men" yesterday and thought it was great. Not too demanding. Some comedy and pathos, some great performances (Bill Murray stole the show twice: "John Wayne" lol) and the moral tale was worth re-telling. Well worth a visit for a relaxing couple of hours.
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Sir Kevin
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We are looking forward to NOAH, starring my facebook friend Russell Crowe next month...
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I came home late last night and The Servant was on the telly. That is one seriously creepy weird film. Beautifully shot, with haunting black-and-white images, and a camera that was not afraid to linger. Also notable was its play-like qualities, with the bare minimum of background music.
I always loved Dirk Bogarde, and now I love him even more. And kudos too to James Fox in the weaker role that probably took even more acting skills to pull off.
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Kelly Alves
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Dirk Bogarde was an exceptional actor. I love him, too.
What am I watching right now, you ask? A big steaming pile of poo called Dusk till Dawn 3. It's twenty minutes in and I am going to shut it off soon, but here's why I started watching it-- it purports to explain the very real life disappearance of author Ambrose Bierce. Made me curious enough to start researching the matter and boy, is it a fascinating story.
Just goes to show, even the suckiest movie can have its benefits.
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Saw the new Robocop. If you like the original, you should like this one. Neither are great films, but they are not intended to be.
The only caveat is that this one is even more heavy-handed with its message.
Samuel, Samuel, Samuel, are you the modern Peter O'Toole, taking any role offered?
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Samuel, Samuel, Samuel, are you the modern Peter O'Toole, taking any role offered?
Preach!
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Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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How apt! As I type this, here in the U.S. Turner Classic Movies is showing Ship of Fools (1965) with Vivian Leigh, Oskar Werner and, well, about a dozen others. Apparently it won Oscars for Cinematography and Art Direction (in February TCM loads up on Oscar-winning films).
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Kelly Alves
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First time I saw that the Ship was running the "Calling God to Hell" thread, and I noted the scene where the sailors shouted they would send God to Hell and then proceeded to trash steerage. I said to myself, "Simon is a prophet." ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Recently watched Black Swan which apparently won various Oscars last year, though I cannot think why. Aside from some camera work / effects stuff which was convincing and impressive, I was disappointed. Well, both Natalie Portman and the actress playing her mother did well, but the script was incoherent, and it's a pity they didn't give Portman more to do than dash around looking distraught.
Aren't movies required to tell stories any more? They only have to take vague stabs at suggesting what a story might become, if allowed to develop?
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Kelly Alves
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Watching the Independent Spirit Awards. Have seen none of the films honored, but one of them has me sitting straight up in my seat. Anybody out there seen All Is Lost?
Apparently it is a Robert Redford one-man-show about a guy who is trapped in the middle of the ocean on a sailboat with a hole in it. The clips looked galvanizing. Want to see!
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I was pleasantly surprised by Frozen, having grown accustomed to Disney taking an attitude of "Kids aren't clever enough to tell between good and bad media so let's sell them bland gender-stereotyped plastic crap."
It very much feels like a musical - not as much music as Les Mis but more than Grease. And it shows what can be done in 3D too - no longer the province of expensive films like Avatar but now mainstream. Indeed
I'm not sure why everyone is comparing it to The Little Mermaid in which the protagonists remain incredibly unaware of their failings, be they selfishness or apathy. It reminds me more of The Lion King an original story of epic style with interesting music.
Indeed ISTM there are a lot of Christian themes about the evil of isolation and necessity of communion, as well as about the difference between love as romance and self-sacrifice.
Evangelicals have their own take as a metaphor for works salvation - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/25/disney-frozen-religious-allegory
This is why it seems a bit sad the way the American religious community has jumped onboard the protagonist's singleness and the plot's rejection of some Disney tropes as some sort of abandonment of family values. Particularly odious is the way said community has inferred lesbianism from the protagonist's singleness - not everyone has to have a sexuality, and sexuality need not be the defining feature of a female character! And even if the character were an lgbt person there wouldn't be anything wrong with that. And there are very real issues with the tropes the movie decides to reject.
Interestingly (intentionally or otherwise) the story has been interpreted as "special powers as an allegory for hidden minorities, esp lgbt people" in the style of X-men's "Have you tried... not beng a Mutant?"
Might there be a "Frozen" Lent Course one day?
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Kelly Alves
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Great review! I am not much for Disney, but now I really want to see this!
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Great review! I am not much for Disney, but now I really want to see this!
It's the un-Disney film, definitely, and that's why it has power to be truly challenging - it's all very well preaching to the converted but better to subvert expectations of what might otherwise be twee fluff.
Also that link is slightly spoilers - don't read too much before going to see the film.
Also if you see it in 3d, try to look for a cinema that does dolby 3d not reald 3d.
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Originally posted by scuffleball:
I was pleasantly surprised by Frozen, having grown accustomed to Disney taking an attitude of "Kids aren't clever enough to tell between good and bad media so let's sell them bland gender-stereotyped plastic crap."
Thank John Lasseter. He is the creative head of Disney Animation. He grew up with the classic Disney and had the desire to bring that back. And he has. The Princess and the Frog, Tangled, Frozen, etc., he is bringing back what made Disney, Disney.
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Great review! I am not much for Disney, but now I really want to see this!
It is a good film. It is not Bambi or Cinderella, but it is worthy to sit in the same cabinet.
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Finally got to see Gravity this week. Student I was with came out asking about the realism of the final scenes (I was partly doing it to cover science with him)
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We saw 2 recently during the current -40°C or °F cold snap. Both streamed to the TV from the internet TV service.
The first was Gravity, which reminded me of a Star trek Voyager episode Day of Honor where two characters are lost in space together, worrying about oxygen and talking. Gravity has better effects, but the character development of George Clooney's character is weak, and Sandra Bullock's moderate I thought. It doesn't compare well with the Tom Hanks movie Apollo 13 from 1985, which is a better movie in all respects except CGI effects.
The second one was Nebraska with Bruce Dern as a father with a single minded vision of what he wants to do. American prairies are different than the Canadian prairies to an extent, but I know people pretty much like the ones depicted. There's an element of extreme versions of the characters, reminding of Fargo.
Both are worth seeing, but I would consider Nebraska one that I would have paid the full theatre price to see, Gravity, not so much.
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Watching the Independent Spirit Awards. Have seen none of the films honored, but one of them has me sitting straight up in my seat. Anybody out there seen All Is Lost?
Apparently it is a Robert Redford one-man-show about a guy who is trapped in the middle of the ocean on a sailboat with a hole in it. The clips looked galvanizing. Want to see!
I heard really good things about this film, but it didn't seem to get a general release here. The critics on the BBC Film programme were giving their Oscar predictions, and couldn't understand why Redford hadn't got an Oscar nom for his near silent performance.
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Kelly Alves
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FISA gave him a Best Actor nod.
I highly recommend watching the Independent Spirit awards (Shown on the Saturday before the Oscars yearly on the Independent Film Channel) if you want to find news about those under-publicized films that are worth seeing,and if you want to see underappreciated actors/ directors/ etc get their due.
If I were in a position to make a movie, the one film award I would value above all others-- Oscars, BAFTAS, Globes,you name it-- would be the FISA Robert Altman award for the director, casting director and ensemble cast in an ensemble film. I love that they actually have an award to compete for Best Release of Ego.
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The second one was Nebraska with Bruce Dern as a father with a single minded vision of what he wants to do. American prairies are different than the Canadian prairies to an extent, but I know people pretty much like the ones depicted. There's an element of extreme versions of the characters, reminding of Fargo.
Both are worth seeing, but I would consider Nebraska one that I would have paid the full theatre price to see, Gravity, not so much.
I thought Nebraska was brilliant.
Amongst other things, it did not contain one single glamorous person or interior, which is very rare for a movie.
I loved the line in which the old wife of the old man is showing her son the grave of a good-looking farm boy she had known when they were young, but whom she did not go out with because he was so boring.
Standing astride the grave, she lifts he dress and shouts, "Look what you could have had if you'd just stopped talking about wheat!"
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She was both a FISA nominee and an Oscar nominee. That was the clip of hers they showed tonight when the award was given. She wuz robbed.
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Originally posted by no prophet:
We saw 2 recently during the current -40°C or °F cold snap. Both streamed to the TV from the internet TV service.
The first was Gravity, which reminded me of a Star trek Voyager episode Day of Honor where two characters are lost in space together, worrying about oxygen and talking. Gravity has better effects, but the character development of George Clooney's character is weak, and Sandra Bullock's moderate I thought. It doesn't compare well with the Tom Hanks movie Apollo 13 from 1985, which is a better movie in all respects except CGI effects.
The second one was Nebraska with Bruce Dern as a father with a single minded vision of what he wants to do. American prairies are different than the Canadian prairies to an extent, but I know people pretty much like the ones depicted. There's an element of extreme versions of the characters, reminding of Fargo.
Both are worth seeing, but I would consider Nebraska one that I would have paid the full theatre price to see, Gravity, not so much.
Gravity did at least attempt, very slightly, to explain a little bit of the science. In particular, one might view an orbiting spacecraft as gliding very slowly around, but it's actually moving very, very, fast with enormous momentum, so if you're hanging off the side by one hand and something knocks into you, the consequences are catastrophic
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Apparently there's a lot of very good science in Gravity. One of the astronauts interviewed said that the space walk was very good, and the set up inside Soyuz and a number of other things were brilliant. There are some glaring errors - there's a fun 20 errors site around that lists them, but some are dramatic devices.
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