kinuta Posted December 31, 2018 Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 (edited) Green Book - Peter Farrelly (2018) Enjoyable way to end the year Edited December 31, 2018 by kinuta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmonahan Posted January 1, 2019 Report Share Posted January 1, 2019 23 hours ago, kinuta said: Green Book - Peter Farrelly (2018) Enjoyable way to end the year more on this one here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/82554-green-book-new-movie-about-pianist-don-shirley/ Â Â gregmo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted January 1, 2019 Report Share Posted January 1, 2019 The Old Man And The Gun - David Lowery (2018) Charming performance by Redford with excellent supporting cast. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted January 2, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2019 Not at all good, but the premise and how it plays out is sooo bizarre that I had to watch all 64 minutes of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted January 2, 2019 Report Share Posted January 2, 2019 The weather has been crappy so we watched The Maltese Falcon & one of the Thin Man movies on TCM. Neither one was terrific!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted January 2, 2019 Report Share Posted January 2, 2019 Feeling under the weather at home today. Watched His Girl Friday and The Awful Truth on TCM this afternoon and enjoyed both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted January 2, 2019 Report Share Posted January 2, 2019 11 minutes ago, jlhoots said: The weather has been crappy so we watched The Maltese Falcon & one of the Thin Man movies on TCM. Neither one was terrific!! You didn’t like the Maltese Falcon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted January 2, 2019 Report Share Posted January 2, 2019 (edited) 19 minutes ago, Brad said: You didn’t like the Maltese Falcon Bogart was fine. The rest including the "plot" just didn't resonate with us. I suppose it's all about style, not plot. Edited January 2, 2019 by jlhoots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted January 2, 2019 Report Share Posted January 2, 2019 1 hour ago, jlhoots said: Bogart was fine. The rest including the "plot" just didn't resonate with us. I suppose it's all about style, not plot. I have to say that I find the reaction surprising as the movie — both style and plot — is a classic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted January 2, 2019 Report Share Posted January 2, 2019 45 minutes ago, Brad said: I have to say that I find the reaction surprising as the movie — both style and plot — is a classic. That's what everybody says. 2 of the things that bothered me were that I didn't get who had killed Thursby & the Macguffin turned out to be a "worthless lead fake" & only a plot device. Obviously none of that detracts from the film's importance for most viewers & critics. And believe it or not, I like film noir!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted January 2, 2019 Report Share Posted January 2, 2019 If Beale Street Could Talk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted January 2, 2019 Report Share Posted January 2, 2019 2 hours ago, jlhoots said: If Beale Street Could Talk Liked the movie but it begins with a title card saying something to the effect that Beale Street is in New Orleans and that Louis Armstrong and jazz were born there. None of this is true. Is that in the book? Is it meant to be metaphorical?  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted January 2, 2019 Report Share Posted January 2, 2019 Wildlife - Paul Dano (2018) Really liked it. An excellent directorial debut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted January 3, 2019 Report Share Posted January 3, 2019 Agree with the last post. Brando "trifecta" on TCM tonight - On The Waterfront, Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duaneiac Posted January 3, 2019 Report Share Posted January 3, 2019 Not sure if this qualifies as a "movie", but I enjoyed it. It does drag a bit in places and could have used a little script tightening up (or some more interesting material for him to discuss), but it is a very moving performance. Never thought I would say this about a Bruce Springsteen show, but you will want to keep a box of Kleenex handy. If you don't want to watch it, the long story short is, even rock stars can have daddy issues. There, now you are free to use that 2 hours you could have spent watching this on something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted January 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2019 Never mind the movie, the vintage circus footage is worth it. Actually, the direction (Karl Brown) is pretty nice in spots. And for some reason, Anne Nagel appeals to me in some explainable way. But really, it's worth it just to watch a monkey try to play with matches, only to have a little girl help him out and burn down the whole circus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted January 3, 2019 Report Share Posted January 3, 2019 Active Measures - Jack Bryan (2018) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted January 4, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 whoa... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted January 4, 2019 Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 Burning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted January 5, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2019 This is a great movie, William Farnum is mesmerizing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted January 5, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2019 Flimsy but fun/Fun but flimsy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted January 6, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2019 Not perfect, but pretty damn good. And by the time it's over, the imperfections don't really matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted January 7, 2019 Report Share Posted January 7, 2019 Vice - Adan McKay (2018) Â I almost felt sorry for Christian Bale. He thought he was in a serious film then the director pulled out the rug from under him. Despite his finest efforts, the film is a discombobulated, badly misjudged mess. The quirkiness that worked so well in The Big Short is quite disastrous here. Â Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted January 8, 2019 Report Share Posted January 8, 2019 Admittedly, I haven’t seen the movie  but from the reviews I didn’t get that impression. I didn’t find The Big Short quirky but scaringly true to life but maybe that’s because of my exposure to people like some of the ones depicted in the movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted January 8, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2019 I've been seeing the ads for Vice, and truthfully, they've been tempting me to get out of the house and into a theatre for the first time since...I can't remember when. The Cheney/Bush dynamic was nothing if not a deeply dark joke on humanity and it looks like that's how it's played here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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