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#1451
12th July 2020, 06:43 PM
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I feel like this belongs more in the what TV shows are you binge watching thread but technically they are movies: I am re-watching the Twilight series.
I know they are flawed but they are great popcorn movies. and some excellent villians. Michael Sheen as Aro! he's so bad he's good.  Jane was more scary in the books, though. 
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#1452
31st July 2020, 06:37 PM
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I've been going through the Sharknado series. No reason to be embarrassed by Twilight.
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#1454
3rd August 2020, 05:41 AM
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I caught Vivarium the other night. It played like an extended episode of The Twilight Zone. Hail suburbia!
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#1455
3rd August 2020, 06:38 AM
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the last thing I watched before my free HBO trial was over was That Thing You Do.
the first half I thought it was The Best Movie Evah in the History of Movies !!!!!!!1 but I was also high AF.  I watched the second half the next day, not high, and was slightly disappointed. but I will say Tom Hanks is not just an excellent actor, he can write and direct, too! I guess I'd call it a popcorn movie - I enjoyed it, but wouldn't watch it again. the best part was how totally the feeling of the early 60s was evoked with the drummer's family life, friends, and job at the appliance store. at least I assume that was accurate, only being a tiny child at the time!
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#1456
3rd August 2020, 06:40 AM
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#1458
4th August 2020, 07:05 AM
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They were running "Do the right thing" at my local drive-in. There was a lot I had forgotten about that movie, still holds up even at almost 30 years old.
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#1459
4th August 2020, 09:53 AM
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#1460
22nd August 2020, 09:04 PM
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Hamilton
I have watched Hamilton 8 times so far since the premier. I love this show and I am in love with some of the characters/actors.
I have cried 8 times (plus a couple of memory tears in between watchings) so far, and I will watch it again in a little bit. Lin-Manuel is a genius. For those who don't understand rap, please try watching using closed captioning. Please add Disney Plus it's $6.99 for one month - you can always cancel it later, but it's worth it just for this show.  
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#1461
26th December 2020, 05:04 PM
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Wow, nobody's seen anything good lately? Well, aside from me--do what you need to do to catch About Time because it is seriously wonderful. It's so sweet and positive and if it got ME all sniffly the rest of you are TOAST!
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#1462
26th December 2020, 05:08 PM
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I just saw Wonder Woman 1984 last night and it was pretty awful. I really enjoyed the first movie, this was nearly Aquaman bad. Too long and far too stupid.
Tonight we watched Pixar's Soul. That was excellent. Best Pixar movie (outside of Toy Story 4) since Up! I think.
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#1463
26th December 2020, 06:47 PM
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26th December 2020, 06:49 PM
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26th December 2020, 09:38 PM
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#1467
6th January 2021, 05:41 AM
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for some reason I watched World Trade Center last night (yes, from 2006) and found it was damn good despite some flaws.
The two lead actors were incredible and the long periods of their being trapped really evoked the horror. I defy anyone not to weep when the man Nicolas Cage played finally saw, literally, the light of day. a lot of details will stay with me like the ER suctioning gravel out of one man's mouth and the face of the Port Authority Officer at the desk when she saw what was left of their group coming back. so many people pulled together to save those two men and it's quite a contrast to the society we live in now, where huge masses won't even wear a mask. 
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#1468
7th February 2021, 04:24 AM
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Watched Irresistible 2020 very early this morning. New movie written & directed by Jon Stewart.
Stars Steve Carrell, Chris Cooper & Rose Byrne. A campaign consultant (Carrell) helps a retired Colonel (cooper) run for mayor in the small town of Deerlaken, WI. It is a funny Fish out of Water movie and political satire. I highly recommend it and of course as Stewart wrote it there is a message about our political system and news coverage.
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#1469
26th March 2021, 06:49 AM
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I seem to be on a binge of movies made in 1952: a few nights back I watched The Greatest Show On Earth, and the next night I caught The Quiet Man. Last night I watched Singing in the Rain. I noticed then that all were made in 1952. I might as well finish it by watching High Noon and The Snows of Kilamanjaro.
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#1470
26th March 2021, 07:02 AM
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The Quiet Man and Singing in the Rain are two of my favorites. Who doesn't like a good donnybrook?
-------------------------------------------------------------- I just watched the Bio-Doc on John Belushi. (on a Showtime free weekend). It was excellent and sad of course.
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#1471
26th March 2021, 05:52 PM
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I've never seen The Quiet Man and it's on Pluto TV.
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#1472
11th April 2021, 06:09 PM
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I still haven't seen it. Last night I watched Philomena because Judi Dench and tonight I'm watching My Octopus Teacher which is blowing my mind.
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#1473
16th July 2021, 01:38 PM
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I enjoyed Black Widow. First time I've been in a movie theater since the plague came.
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#1474
16th July 2021, 03:07 PM
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I love the movie while recognizing how dated it is.
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#1475
16th July 2021, 08:27 PM
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 there is so much to watch and listen to and read I can't even begin to catch up!!  someone on another forum (!!!) recommended a great movie that is free on youtube with Stockard Channing. I can't remember what it's called but never saw that, either.
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#1476
17th July 2021, 03:15 AM
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#1477
17th July 2021, 07:19 AM
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recently saw Burn After Reading and thought it was pretty damn good. yes I know it's old!
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#1478
17th July 2021, 07:39 AM
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“Jesus christ what a clusterfuck!”
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#1479
17th July 2021, 09:54 AM
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I watched Jaws. It's Shark Week so don't judge.
 It terrified me as a kid. Then we went on vacation to California, went to Universal Studios, and saw the shark. It looked so mechanical and they called it "Bruce". The movie's been funny since then. Go Bruce!
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#1480
17th July 2021, 01:59 PM
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#1481
19th July 2021, 01:18 PM
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Plus being back in the theaters was really nice. It felt "normal" and that felt good.
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#1482
23rd July 2021, 08:30 AM
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I just rented and re-watched for about the 15th time Blade Runner.
I saw an obvious disconnect and I'm sure it has an obvious answer, but I'll ask about it here rather than Google it. Deckard is looking for a replicant woman with a snake tattoo on her neck, as shown in his photo printout. He goes to Taffy Lewis's and sees Zhora onstage, and later in her dressing room. Zhora has no snake tattoo on her neck. Later on, after he guns her down and turns her over, she has the snake tattoo. What did I miss? Oh, and I rented it through Amazon Prime. I saw several unfamiliar bits and pieces throughout the movie which I think must have been cut out by broadcast television through the years. That was nice. I read in IMDB trivia that Rachel's showy coats are real fur coats which had once been worn by Greta Garbo, and were still in studio storage. And I'm once again flummoxed by the fact that I only recently realized that the actor who plays creepy Eldon Tyrell is the same actor who plays the creepy bartender in The Shining. And of course Deckard can't be a replicant. Otherwise, he wouldn't have had the crap beaten out of him first by Leon, then by Pris, and then Roy. He would have been as strong as them and given as good as he got.
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#1483
1st December 2021, 06:58 AM
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We went to the movies for the first time since before COVID.
Ghostbusters Afterlife was a really well done movie. The first worthy sequel to the original. I didn't love the 2nd movie or the cringe humor attempt recently. This one did feel like Stranger Things meets Ghostbusters, but that is very OK with me. It was well paced, great casting. Plenty of ties to the original. The kids were excellent.
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#1484
27th December 2021, 08:28 PM
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Just finished watching Matrix Resurrection. Part of wonders why it was made, it throws the entire franchise out the window. It's different and same old, same old.
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#1485
26th January 2022, 12:06 PM
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For the first time in years, I watched Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion. That is, I tried to watch it. Cary Grant's character is such a gaslighting, negging, lying, manipulative turd that it was getting painful, and I had to turn it off. I had seen it years ago but I didn't remember that he was such a jerk.
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#1486
26th January 2022, 04:07 PM
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Saw Roadhouse 2. Usually the second in the series isn't half as good as the first. This was different. It pretty much followed the theme, although the characters and the setting were different. They even wreck a Mercedes, almost in the same way, at the end.
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#1487
26th January 2022, 07:53 PM
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26th January 2022, 07:55 PM
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We were to see Casablanca on the big screen on Sunday, but for a couple of reasons that didn't happen. I think it's playing tomorrow and she's out of town so I think I'll go see it.
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#1489
30th January 2022, 10:26 AM
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I recently watched I'm thinking of ending things on Netflix and it was wild. I sort of thought I had caught on to it at one point but after reading what Charlie Kaufman intended (and what the book is about), I was off-base but it was all really enjoyable. A bit sad. If you do watch it, just be patient.
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#1490
31st January 2022, 05:27 AM
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We caved to peer pressure and watched Don't Look Up. It would have been more entertaining had it not hit so close to home. I don't regret watching it, but would have been equally find not watching it.
We watched Disney's Encanto recently as well. It was cute enough. I like seeing other cultures represented and the music was catchy without dragging the pacing down. I feel like the finer plot points/central message would easily be lost on kids, but young kids never seem to care much about plots anyway. I was also a little frustrated that
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#1491
31st January 2022, 08:33 AM
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We watched (new to us) the 2007 movie Gone Girl Gone Saturday night. I swear anytime we watch a movie at night, I fall asleep. Not this time! It was exciting and had lots of twists and turns. Kathleen Madigan played the grandma, and I just love her.
It's about a druggie mom whose daughter disappears. The grandparents hire a private investigator to find her, since the cops aren't getting anywhere with the case. Has anyone else seen it?
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#1492
31st January 2022, 12:38 PM
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Gone Baby Gone
The Dennis Lehane novel it's based on is really good too. Amy Ryan is terrifically awful as the druggie mom. If there was a most underappreciated actor thread, I'd nominate her. She can do anything and it's easy to forget the it's the same actor in that film, The Wire, Birdman, Bridge of Spies and The Office. Lehane has been lucky with film adaptations. Shutter Island, Mystic River and The Drop are all excellent too.
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#1493
22nd February 2022, 10:26 AM
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Just saw Tom Hanks movie "Greyhound." It's about a destroyer on duty escorting supply ships across the North Atlantic through the U boat menace. Tom is a great actor so all his movies are good. This is no exception.
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#1494
22nd February 2022, 05:09 PM
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#1495
9th March 2022, 08:03 PM
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I absolutely adore "The Shining", but I'm debating whether or not it's a good idea to watch it after midnight. (Hey, there's nothing else on)
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13th March 2022, 07:38 AM
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3rd August 2022, 06:38 AM
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I saw Nope last night - really good movie, I'm not usually into horror, and I don't go to the theater often, but this one was worth a trip. Excellent performances, a fantastic antagonist: you'll probably enjoy it
I also constantly thought about the old Eddie Murphy bit about how a black family would respond to a haunted house vs. how a white family responds... wonder if that's something Jordan Peele was thinking about when he made the movie.
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#1498
9th August 2022, 06:06 PM
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Beavis and Butthead are back! I watched Beavis and Butthead Do the Universe, and it is hilarious, at least the second half is. I did it in two sittings and I don't recall that many laughs in the first. Time travel is involved.
The series has also been rebooted. It's quite fun seeing them view modern y-tube vids.
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#1499
10th August 2022, 04:22 AM
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I enjoyed The Lost City starring Sandra Bullock & Channing Tatum, supported by Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and Brad Pitt.
It is pretty much Romancing the Stone but they pulled it off. Well paced and very watchable.
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#1500
11th August 2022, 02:35 PM
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Top Gun, Maverick. I actually liked it. I don't think much of Tom Cruise, but TG,M really was a good movie. Lots of flying, excitement and rivalry. I recommend it.
I found it streaming on the internet but it'll be on Paramount+ soon and I think Amazon shortly thereafter.
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