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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
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I think the first Harry Potter is the worst one. I dislike it more than the first Hollows and that’s saying something. It’s just clumsy and doesn’t know what it is yet. Also I end up getting so attracted to Emma Watson later on that I really hate watching the first two.
I think it has more to do with me being a Lord of the rings fan tho. I think we are hard wired to not like the Potter movies
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I watched one of the weirdest films I've ever seen last night. The Lobster, a story about a dystopian future where single people need to check into a hotel and are turned into animals if they don't find a partner within 45 days, is pretty odd. It was entertaining though and some of the twists were horrifying in the most interesting of ways.
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whoever played Dumbledore first...
Richard Harris. We were telling my daughter about A Man Called Horse, and when I saw him in the first Harry Potter movie a couple of days ago, I pointed out that he was the actor who played Horse.
As for the HP movies, I'm not a huge fan. I fall between my neighbor at work (bought a wand at the Harry Potter theme park), and charlest (couldn't finish it).
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The Lobster is one of the best films of 2015. I'm a huge fan of both dystopian visions and black comedies and it's both. It was really well written and the cast clearly bought in to the story. I really liked it and my girlfriend, who is not really a movie person, thought it was great, especially for the line: "If you encounter any problems you cannot resolve yourself, you will be assigned children. That usually helps."
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Loved that movie. And was even better to watch it without knowing anything about it going in to it. I agree that it is likely the best movie of 2015.
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Great flick.
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I thought it didn't quite hit the same spot as Manchester by the Sea because it was all very paint-by-numbers as far as the impact of each scene. The writer is a playwright and you could see that in the way that each scene functioned. It was very clear what point was being made in each location. Once that point was made, we moved on (lights came down, scenery is rearranged by the players, lights come up...) There wasn't any kind of real flow to the story that let you believe that it was something other than a series of very funny, well-written and -acted scenes. You were getting as much a series of dramatic points as an actual story. But that's how theater works sometimes and it doesn't always translate perfectly to film. I still think it was an excellent film and well worth seeing in the theater.
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The bit with the tunnel still just blows me away. It's such a weird, psychedelic and surreal sequence. It's funny because kids don't seem to grasp how utterly freaky it is, what with chickens getting their heads cut off and all.
Wilder is just incredible in it. His mixture of mischief, cruelty, justice, passion, and genius is perfect.
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I had my sons watch Lethal Weapon recently and I was surprised at how much conventional drama was in that film. Yeah, there's some over the top violence and gunplay (really, Riggs, are you sure that guy in the club you just perforated with your Beretta wasn't just a hapless waiter coming over to see what was going on?) but a lot of the film dealt with Riggs' mental state and how others in the department think he's crazy. Setting aside the fact that Mel Gibson is a human toilet, growing up watching this movie over and over I was always impressed by Gibson's performance, especially the scene when he's watching TV by himself late at night and contemplating suicide. And he was genuinely funny when he was annoying Murtaugh, too bad the sequels weren't very good.
Last night we watched the first Mission: Impossible and it wasn't as good as I remembered, but it was still goofy fun. First of all, the way technology is portrayed is hilarious ("SEND JAMMING SIGNAL") and I loved that Ethan Hunt's strategy for making contact with the arms dealer was to blindly send emails to people on usenet groups(!) dedicated to the Book of Job. But other than the Langley break-in and the short bit on top of the train at the end, it's pretty much a quaint, old-fashioned spy movie about moles and double-crosses. I've seen part 4 but none of the others so I think we're going to run the series and see how the sequels hold up.
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Sounds like it's terrible though
Speaking of terrible, The Strangers is getting a sequel. That was a pretty bad movie which scared the crap out of me. I wonder if I'll watch the sequel.... I hope not
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