What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

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Never seen a Cruise movie I didn't like.
He can play anything from comedy
to drama to sci fi. Terapined has no
idea what he's talking about. Just
saw Samurai for the 3rd time last
week. Saw E of T at least 5 times.

Knight & Day is the perfect mix of silly comedy and well-choreographed action. Last Samurai is one of my top 10 for sure. But Ken Watanabe gets a lot of the credit there, and the writing. Great movie all around.

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...Saw E of T at least 5 times.

...Which means you've seen it 49 times...hehe

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Box Office: ‘Wonder Woman’ to Slay Tom Cruise’s ‘The Mummy’

http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/box-office-%E2%80%98wonder-woman%E2%80%99-to-slay-tom-cruise%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98the-mummy%E2%80%99/ar-BBCfKTo?li=AA2qN5v&ocid=spartanntp

Recently caught 2 movies:

"Owning Mahoney" - Pretty well done and another good performance by Hoffman. He portrayed Mahoney as a guy for whom gambling is a masochistic thing - a guy who gambles in order to lose it all, and this guy was as sick as it gets. I really don't care to get inside the head of such a person too much, affecting my enjoyment. The greed of the casinos involved was brought out very well.

"Get Out" - I really enjoyed this movie. I was quite impressed how well it was done. Jordan Peele wrote and directed it and you would think he'd directed and written movies for years ["Keanu" was his other movie as writer/director, haven't seen it]. Everything was right for a horror movie: good original plot, formation of suspense, even the music was perfectly done for a horror flick. But it *was* a horror flick so maybe that has to be considered before the praise reaches the moon. I will have more on this movie later.

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"Get Out" - I really enjoyed this movie. I was quite impressed how well it was done. Jordan Peele wrote and directed it and you would think he'd directed and written movies for years ["Keanu" was his other movie as writer/director, haven't seen it]. Everything was right for a horror movie: good original plot, formation of suspense, even the music was perfectly done for a horror flick. But it *was* a horror flick so maybe that has to be considered before the praise reaches the moon. I will have more on this movie later.

I love Get Out. It gets better with each viewing.

If you have the DVD, listen to the Director's commentary with Jordan Peele. He's got a huge backstory in his head for all of the characters. It was very interesting to hear. And he points out a lot of stuff I didn't even realize myself.



Get Out was his directorial debut. He co-wrote Keanu, but didn't direct.

Females in Sparta were indeed expected to be in the home just as husbands were expected to be in military camps for so long that physically recognizing a husband was often a matter of difficulty for a wife.

Females are often of great value after an event that reduces teh population of working aged males. After the black death women were too valuable to be just cooks and baby makers. In England, canons were often privately owned by blacksmiths and female canoneers were fairly common. Fuseliers supposedly were created to protect the artillery but in reality it was to keep the artillery from fleeing when things turned bad.

Without the Lost Generation of world war one, there probably would not have been the Women of Bletchley Park. The women were valued because mathematicians were needed, not female mathematicians. Graduate schools had needed enrollments after world war one had killed so many men.

As pure entertainment, and as a matter of respecting good work, I really enjoyed "Get Out". I also think this movie is interesting from another perspective: interracial sex and marriage.

I think I assumed the movie was going to mostly be about examining this; that it was mostly a horror movie and less about this dawned on me fairly slowly. However, I think you can't say it doesn't deal with the interracial aspect at all.

By chance I had just seen "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)" for the first time, and the contrasts are interesting. The 1967 movie was very charged, perhaps not shown much in the South, and has some dated things to it of course. I'll skip a review and just note contrasts with "Get Out".

Using abbrev. G-O and G-Who for the movies and IM for Interracial sex/marriage.

Mainly, the interracial aspect is not so charged in G-O, but Peele is too honest a writer to pretend everyone is now comfortable with IM. And although it may be disappointing that this is the case today, things still have changed. Just as an example, if you asked me after watching TV if I had seen any commercials that showed interracial couples, I probably wouldn't remember. I was astonished at first that there would be so many that do this, seeing how advertisers shirk from controversy, but now I hardly notice. It's no longer notable.

That this is a matter of general acceptance and not necessarily a matter of comfort within families is brought out though in both movies. In G-Who IM is posed as an inevitable future, while in G-O it is posed as the facts of modern times but as something still today that is likely to come up against ill feelings within families. In both movies the Af/A males are the ones to realize acceptance could be a problem. In G-Who the Af/A parents are as perturbed by the situation as the white parents, and the black maid of the latter family is strenuously against the whole idea. Actually I think this was overplayed. In G-O the white family appears to readily accept it all, but of course it is no spoiler to say this is so considering the evil they are up to.

Interestingly, though, Peele very effectively puts into it a different component - black feelings of alienation - these elements of black discomfort with white maintenance of status combined with discomfort of elements of white past and present discrimination. That's all quite a mouthful but I have to say it is all there. The white family is necessarily weird, but I think you get to see what come across as white weirdness generally, especially the well-to-do, to black people. In G-Who the boyfriend is a fabulously successful man - G-O explores how this goes with boyfriend ordinaire, a much more common situation I think.

Even though you know evil is ultimately to erupt, the movie puts you initially into the simpler scene of working out differences as in G-Who. Speaking for myself, I was able to relate completely with what he, the black boyfriend, was seeing and going through, something not easy to pull off. Certainly anyone winds up rooting for him.

I have to bet that Peele has always been a fan of horror movies. I have been told that it is a lot of fun to watch a horror movie with a black audience as long as you accept a lot of talking during the movie etc., akin to the mystery science theater 3000 thing. I Can't confirm that but I think Peele somehow brings that out too.

Quite remarkable all in all. If Peele is this good with just a horror movie, I look forward with what is to come.

Tom Cruise's "Mummy" to lose $95 million for Universal

http://deadline.com/2017/06/the-mummy-tom-cruise-box-office-bomb-loss-1202114482/

Ouch.

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Tom Cruise's "Mummy" to lose $95 million for Universal

http://deadline.com/2017/06/the-mummy-tom-cruise-box-office-bomb-loss-1202114482/

Ouch.

In the long run, the movie will make money. Overseas is where the big money is nowadays, and China loves SFX action movies.

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In the long run, the movie will make money. Overseas is where the big money is nowadays, and China loves SFX action movies.

Did you read the article?

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Even if Mummy crosses $100M in China (Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation made over $135M there), only 25% of that is coming back to Universal’s bank account.