What Movie Are You Watching Or Watched Today?

[Frances]

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[Mike from Boston]

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Barney: He's not gonna give you up, Charlie. You're family.

Charlie: Family, that fuckin' kid? We're third cousins.

Barney: Third cousins. For Italians. That's like twin brothers with the Irish.

[Doktor Avalanche]

Mrs. A and I watched this last Thursday:



Great film, powerful in its understatement.

[Doktor Avalanche]

Then we saw this before it slips out of the theaters:



Pretty amazing. Great film making. Although it's a stretch, it's quite believable (well, for the most part).

[Frances]

[Frances]

Josh Brolin is funny as hell.
Joaquin Phoenix carries it off.
But... a nearly 2 1/2 hour film with Benicio del Toro, Martin Short, Michael K. Williams, Eric Roberts and Maya Rudolph should be better than this gobbledygook.
Owen Wilson sucked.
Kinda makes me hate Pynchon.

The soundtrack does include Sukiyaki though. Woo hoo!

[Christine]

Leviathan - very bleak and beautifully filmed. But I can see why the Russians don't like it.

[Frances]

on YouTube

[Low D]

For some reason, we went an saw The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies.

I would agree with most of what every one has said about this film. In addition to all the previously mentioned sins committed by Jackson on this sprawling mess, though, i think two deserve to be highlighted:

1. Why the heck did he split the two films in the middle of Smaug's attack on Laketown? We jump into this movie in the middle of action, having forgot why Bard is in jail, that he has a family, why some dwarf is with them, what is up with the mayor, etc etc. So dumb. It wasn't a commercial break in the middle of a show, it was a year off in between.

2. Crowded with tertiary characters from the book (like Bard and the mayor) from the book who have been expanded, and with a host of new characters invented (like Tauriel the elf, the mayor's master of coin) the character of Bilbo kind of disappears (and not just when he puts his ring on) and becomes a secondary character. Wasn't The Hobbit about Bilbo? I thought it was.

Best review I've read of this film:
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: At Least It's Over Now
Not only does Peter Jackson's trilogy fail on its own terms, it retrospectively diminishes the Lord of the Rings' success.
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen ... ow/383876/

[Doktor Avalanche]

For some reason, we went an saw The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies.

I would agree with most of what every one has said about this film. In addition to all the previously mentioned sins committed by Jackson on this sprawling mess, though, i think two deserve to be highlighted:

1. Why the heck did he split the two films in the middle of Smaug's attack on Laketown? We jump into this movie in the middle of action, having forgot why Bard is in jail, that he has a family, why some dwarf is with them, what is up with the mayor, etc etc. So dumb. It wasn't a commercial break in the middle of a show, it was a year off in between.

2. Crowded with tertiary characters from the book (like Bard and the mayor) from the book who have been expanded, and with a host of new characters invented (like Tauriel the elf, the mayor's master of coin) the character of Bilbo kind of disappears (and not just when he puts his ring on) and becomes a secondary character. Wasn't The Hobbit about Bilbo? I thought it was.

Best review I've read of this film:
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: At Least It's Over Now
Not only does Peter Jackson's trilogy fail on its own terms, it retrospectively diminishes the Lord of the Rings' success.
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen ... ow/383876/

Went yesterday with 9 12-year-olds for my youngest's birthday. I agree with all of the above, but despite that, I did enjoy it for the most part.

[Frances]

Went yesterday with 9 12-year-olds for my youngest's birthday.

I feel for you. Once escorted twelve four-year-olds on a field trip to see Finding Nemo and was so stressed!
Despite paying in advance for the group package, they forgot we were coming that day and it was bullshit from point one.
They did give the kids cuttings of the film and let them in the projection booth room, though.

Twelve-year-olds are hyper, loud and strive to be offensive.

[old barney greyheron]

Last night, watched The Bay..i'd never heard of it..really good film, ecological disaster, cover-ups, etc...sinister.

[Tal]

[Frances]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6fS9j8LrmU

[Frances]