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1 hour ago, tbone_ said:

Is count of Monte Christo a new version?

Yes, there is a new french movie version from 2024. And just to help confuse you, there is an english mini-series from 2024 also.

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Babygirl - meh.

Lots of Nicole Kidman sex scenes but I didn't like the kid that played the intern.  Antonio Banderas was funny.

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Saw Joker: folie a faux.  Simply terrible.  Boring, meandering, plodding from one song to the next with a pointless payoff.  
I like Phoenix a lot in general.  I wasn’t even turned off by the musical aspect though its kind of an odd choice.  
 

It’s hard to believe something this boring got made in the super hero/popcorn movie genre.  

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Conclave.  

Read the book last year.  Wasnt able to make time to see it in a theater.  

I thought it was really good.  Actor driven.  Moved at its own pace.  Loved the music and cinematography.  

Enjoyed the book and enjoyed the movie. 

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6 hours ago, Post Oak said:

Conclave.  

Read the book last year.  Wasnt able to make time to see it in a theater.  

I thought it was really good.  Actor driven.  Moved at its own pace.  Loved the music and cinematography.  

Enjoyed the book and enjoyed the movie. 

 

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Two AppleTV movies

Wolfs (pitt and clooney) - OK

The Instigators (damon and casey affleck) - not OK


More groundbreaking movie critiques to come....


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On 1/19/2025 at 9:14 PM, Steamboat1874 said:

Watched Raging Bull last night on TCM.

Greatest sports movie ever made and might be the greatest performance by an actor in movie history.

DeNiro and Pesci at their absolute best. 

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Unstoppable (2024)  About Anthony Robles, one legged national champion wrestler for AZ State. It was a typical biopic sports movie, reality was punched up a bit.  J lo looked great..his real mom looks pretty good actually, good casting. I'm a former wrestler and a fan, so I enjoyed it, the wrestling scenes were done well. You can tell the kid who played McDonough was a high level wrestler.  I know he worked really hard and it's inspirational, but he really did have a big advantage over other 125 pounders. He was built like a 157 pounder, so he completely manhandled everyone. He should've had to weigh in with a prosthetic, or add 20 lbs.  I still think he would've been competitive.

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Saturday Night is a great love letter to SNL. All of the actors do a great job playing some real 70s icons. JK Simmons might steal the show as Milton Berle. Really great. 

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On 1/14/2025 at 4:41 PM, rage-a-holic said:

Yes, there is a new french movie version from 2024. And just to help confuse you, there is an english mini-series from 2024 also.

You by any chance know where to stream these? One of my favorite books

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Conclave up vote.

Of Mice and Men, the B&W version from the day with Burgess Meredith.  Solid flick.

Paint Your Wagon, Eastwood and Lee Marvin as gold mining partners.  One of the last musicals of its time.  We laughed and enjoyed it.

Houseboat, Cary Grant and Sophia Loren, that's all you need to know.  Recommended.

Marty, Ernest Borgnine, solid movie then and stands the time test.

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11 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

Conclave up vote.

Of Mice and Men, the B&W version from the day with Burgess Meredith.  Solid flick.

Paint Your Wagon, Eastwood and Lee Marvin as gold mining partners.  One of the last musicals of its time.  We laughed and enjoyed it.

Houseboat, Cary Grant and Sophia Loren, that's all you need to know.  Recommended.

Marty, Ernest Borgnine, solid movie then and stands the time test.

Seen all of those except Conclave and it's on my list. Paint Your Wagon is great even with the singing and dancing. Horton!!!

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15 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

Conclave up vote.

Of Mice and Men, the B&W version from the day with Burgess Meredith.  Solid flick.

Paint Your Wagon, Eastwood and Lee Marvin as gold mining partners.  One of the last musicals of its time.  We laughed and enjoyed it.

Houseboat, Cary Grant and Sophia Loren, that's all you need to know.  Recommended.

Marty, Ernest Borgnine, solid movie then and stands the time test.

Always been one of my favorites. Young Sophia Loren is incredible.

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On 1/21/2025 at 9:36 AM, Pokoloco said:

Unstoppable (2024)  About Anthony Robles, one legged national champion wrestler for AZ State. It was a typical biopic sports movie, reality was punched up a bit.  J lo looked great..his real mom looks pretty good actually, good casting. I'm a former wrestler and a fan, so I enjoyed it, the wrestling scenes were done well. You can tell the kid who played McDonough was a high level wrestler.  I know he worked really hard and it's inspirational, but he really did have a big advantage over other 125 pounders. He was built like a 157 pounder, so he completely manhandled everyone. He should've had to weigh in with a prosthetic, or add 20 lbs.  I still think he would've been competitive.

Watched it tonight, filming took some liberties with the story, but it was good.  I was checking Wiki while watching and sort of giving my wife the stats as the movie progressed.  Would recommend.   I find some inspiration with the

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letters being read in the box.  Pretty cool. 

 

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On 1/12/2025 at 1:11 PM, WBT said:

I guess it doesn't have its own thread but I saw A Complete Unknown and loved it.  Timmy did great.

Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash also stole every scene especially near the end when he had to move his car.  "June left last night with her mama..."  gives look

I enjoyed this movie too. 
 

 

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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat.  Excellent doc detailing the killing of Prime Minister of the Congo Patrice Lumumba.  Excellent footage of some jazz greats highlight the historical recordings of Cold War activity between US, USSR, Belgium, and the Congo. Oscar nominated for best doc in 2024.

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Finestkind with Ben Johnson, Jenna Ortega and Tommy Lee Jones on Paramount Plus.  A bit predictable but great acting and character development, I liked it.  

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On 8/28/2021 at 5:49 PM, pyrohornIII said:

The Great Debaters (Of Wiley College, Marshall, TX)

 

Just did another watch yesterday. 
 

Didn’t know that was glen at the end. 
he looks so young. Before money and fame 

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On 1/23/2025 at 5:44 PM, PittsburghTiger said:

A Foreign Affair is on TCM tonight. Always one of my favorite post-WWII movies.

I-away, I-away! That's where the tall corn grows!

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18 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

Jean Arthur was fantastic in that role.

Marlene Dietrich was equally fantastic. Any time I think of her, it's saying "Oh Johnny!" It's a woefully underrated film. Those two played off each other perfectly. Billy Wilder knew what he was doing.

Phoebe Frost : Exactly what is it you want from me Fräulein von Schluetow?

Erika von Schluetow : Let's go up to my apartment. It's only a few ruins away from here.

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September 5.  Having watched the 1972 Olympics and this tragedy unfold, this film shows a side that I never thought about, namely the broadcast crew and all the workers who had the monumental task as a sports crew to broadcast live coverage of the terrorist kidnapping of the Israeli Olympic squad.  The actual live footage of Jim McKay's broadcast brought back memories of when I first heard his words letting the world know about the slaughter.  Peter Skarsgaard as Roone Arledge and John Magaro as Geoffrey Mason are outstanding. September 5 is much more tense and definitely shorter than Spielberg's Munich.

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HBO did a special on McKay before he passed and he went into detail how hard he fought to keep the coverage instead of NY taking over the broadcast. 

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On Prime - a chilling look inside a small group of white supremacists who declared war on the federal government and waged a campaign of terror across several western states in the early 80s. Jude Law is really great.

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Snack Shack.

A coming of age teen movie set in the early 90's Nebraska. I was expecting more nostalgia and hijinks but this movie did not deliver.

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Caught a bit of The Split the other day, good lord what trash that was and several big names in it, Brown, Borgnine, Hackman, Sutherland, Whittier, Klugman. The only redeeming thing in it was a smoking Diahann Carroll. 

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54 minutes ago, troph said:

Awakenings … 1990 dinero and robin williams. Feel good, great for the current times. 

Love it, but some scenes remind of some SNL shorts that mock the scenes of discovery in these types of dramas.

Then I laugh, and the girl I'm probably watching it with gives me the, no sex for you, look.

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3 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

the girl I'm probably watching it with gives me the, no sex for you, look.

avatar does not check out

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