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Which movie did you watch today and how would you rate it?
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The Iron Lady (again) and it remains a great movie. Streep and make up crew were wonderful. The idea of a dead husband ghost and of point view as remembered doesn't hurt. Taken with respect to today's leaderships and problems it tells us restricting others is always wrong with or without intelligence behind those views.
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Watched Get Smart on Netflix . Steve Carel is not a patch on the original Don Adams as Maxwell Smart. In fact even Alan Arkin lets his character of the Chief down.
4/10
4/10
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I would have thought you’d be too fixated on 99 to notice.
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Actually Iv'e never seen Hathaway look as sexier as in this spoof. To answer your question. Yes, she was extremely easy on the eyes.
Eerie - 4/10
A Netflix movie about this psychic (or something) who works as a guidance counselor in a Catholic girls' school where a student committed suicide and her ghost is hanging around moping and there's an evil ghost terrorizing students or something. It starts out well and the end is kind of interesting, but there's about an hour in the middle where they really didn't seem to have an idea of what this movie is about or why anybody is doing anything or what any of the characters can actually do. Bit of a wasted opportunity, really.
A Netflix movie about this psychic (or something) who works as a guidance counselor in a Catholic girls' school where a student committed suicide and her ghost is hanging around moping and there's an evil ghost terrorizing students or something. It starts out well and the end is kind of interesting, but there's about an hour in the middle where they really didn't seem to have an idea of what this movie is about or why anybody is doing anything or what any of the characters can actually do. Bit of a wasted opportunity, really.
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Invader Zim - Enter the Florpus 8.5/10
Had never seen any of the Invader Zim cartoons before. This was stupid, over the top, and funny as hell.
Zim was sent to conquer Earth... ok actually his leaders hate him and sent him here to get rid of him. Zim is stupid, petty, and very melodramatic, but apparently the rest of humanity is so stupid that only two kids can see him for what he is.
Had never seen any of the Invader Zim cartoons before. This was stupid, over the top, and funny as hell.
Zim was sent to conquer Earth... ok actually his leaders hate him and sent him here to get rid of him. Zim is stupid, petty, and very melodramatic, but apparently the rest of humanity is so stupid that only two kids can see him for what he is.
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the cartoon is like that for its entire run - the quirk, the comedy, the camp, it's very present in every single episode of the original run.
it's series is on hulu btw, if you liked the movie it should be worth it to give the series a watch, it's not very long.
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
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I haven't watched this for a while, because I've taken a dislike to Andie MacDowell. But it's excellent. I might like it even better with someone else playing Carrie, but it's still excellent.
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I haven't watched this for a while, because I've taken a dislike to Andie MacDowell. But it's excellent. I might like it even better with someone else playing Carrie, but it's still excellent.
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Can't remember if I was put onto this by this thread but I am eternally grateful for the suggestion,whoever made it.
Five sisters in ... Turkey? The place is not as modern as I thought it was.
That said, it is fiction.
Can't remember if I was put onto this by this thread but I am eternally grateful for the suggestion,whoever made it.
Five sisters in ... Turkey? The place is not as modern as I thought it was.
That said, it is fiction.
Shadowy Man
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I didn't realize that a dislike to Andie MacDowell was something that had to be taken, rather than an instinctual response.
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Sexy Beast, 9/10; A UK gangster, heist movie, psychological thriller starring Ray Winstone and Ben (Gandhi) Kingsley. I've seen this numerous times and I still love it. Gal (Winstone) has retired from criminal life to Spain and is enjoying a peaceful life with his wife Deedee (the gorgeous Amanda Burton) a former porn actor. Life is bliss until an associate from the past rears his psychotic head in the form of Don Logan (Kingsley) who demands that Gal participate in a heist in London for gangland kingpin Teddy Bass. Kingsley probably steals the show for his performance as the unhinged psycho Don Logan but Winstone plays his part as the gangster geezer to perfection.
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There was a scene in Short Cuts where she repeats the same line three times. A good actor would find three different ways to play it, so that those lines would be interesting rather than just repetitive. But MacDowell just read her line three times, no attempt at being interesting. No attempt at acting, as far as I could see.
The writer must have had a reason for repeating the line, but it was as if the actress didn't care.
This is a personal reaction, of course, my own perception of what I was watching. But it ruined her for me. I became more and more aware of when I (yes, me personally--this is my own personal reaction because you asked) felt she was letting the team down.
Then I learned that in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, they left Andie MacDowell's image in the film, but they had Glenn Close dub all of her lines. I figured they wanted to have Jane speak with some intonations and stuff, voice acting. But, hey, I dunno. I'm just confessing a prejudice.
Thomas II
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There was a scene in Short Cuts where she repeats the same line three times. A good actor would find three different ways to play it, so that those lines would be interesting rather than just repetitive. But MacDowell just read her line three times, no attempt at being interesting. No attempt at acting, as far as I could see.
The writer must have had a reason for repeating the line, but it was as if the actress didn't care.
This is a personal reaction, of course, my own perception of what I was watching. But it ruined her for me. I became more and more aware of when I (yes, me personally--this is my own personal reaction because you asked) felt she was letting the team down.
Then I learned that in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, they left Andie MacDowell's image in the film, but they had Glenn Close dub all of her lines. I figured they wanted to have Jane speak with some intonations and stuff, voice acting. But, hey, I dunno. I'm just confessing a prejudice.
No problem with that, I'm not judging, I just want to know, so now I want to see those scenes
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The claim I read online is that they didn't like her accent, so dubbed it.
Thomas II
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Her Southern accent was too pronounced for her to play the role of an Englishwoman. It was her first movie...
Regarding "Short Cuts", I haven't seen it! But now I want to see it, and I'll tell you what I think.
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Where Did You Go, Bernadette - 8/10
Apparently, it does not do the book justice, but I liked it (haven't read the book). I thought much of it was hilarious, but most of the audience did not laugh.
Apparently, it does not do the book justice, but I liked it (haven't read the book). I thought much of it was hilarious, but most of the audience did not laugh.
The Kid. This was supposed to be a western about billy the kid, but somehow we got a stream that gave us Charlie Chaplin's The Kid. Anyway, pretty socially aware stuff from Charlie, which I guess is his forte. 7/10 for look and feel of the movie.