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What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
| January 26th, 2019 at 4:06:40 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | Repeating the list for easy reference, which person would you most want to talk to on a private jet for two hours? Ian McKellen would probably be my first choice. I love to hear him talk. I bet Gary Oldman would be fascinating, but he might go psycho. As impressed as I am with Samuel L. Jackson in his career, and as much as I respect his accomplishment, I usually find him annoying in talk shows. I imagine Anthony Daniels (aged 72) would be the least intimidating. 
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| January 26th, 2019 at 10:41:00 PM permalink | |
| JimRockford Member since: Sep 18, 2015 Threads: 2 Posts: 971 |
If there's any restaurant cornbread nearly as good as my family's I don't know about it. Restaurants make it too sweet. The mind hungers for that on which it feeds. |
| January 27th, 2019 at 3:01:47 AM permalink | |
| beachbumbabs Member since: Sep 3, 2013 Threads: 6 Posts: 1600 |
Yeah, Laurence was at least as good (IMO better) in a movie about speed chess. I'll see if I can find the title in his filmography. Edit: it's called Searching for Bobby Fisher. Must-see. Edit again: Paco mentioned 2 other brilliant ones. Othello is hard to watch, but he's fantastic. And again hard to watch but he's great in "what's love got to do with it". Never doubt a small group of concerned citizens can change the world; it's the only thing ever has |
| January 27th, 2019 at 3:14:23 AM permalink | |
| beachbumbabs Member since: Sep 3, 2013 Threads: 6 Posts: 1600 |
I would pick Liam Neeson, I think, but Stanley Tucci is in the running. He's brilliant, was underrated for decades. Gary Oldman a close 3rd. "My name is...Muerte!" "OK, Morty, we got it." One of my favorite movies everybody else hated. Anybody know its name? Never doubt a small group of concerned citizens can change the world; it's the only thing ever has |
| January 27th, 2019 at 4:17:30 AM permalink | |
| aceofspades Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 83 Posts: 2019 |
Gary Oldman as Drexel in True Romance was great - totally transformed into a criminal pimp |
| January 27th, 2019 at 12:26:38 PM permalink | |
| beachbumbabs Member since: Sep 3, 2013 Threads: 6 Posts: 1600 |
Easily gets my vote for the best actor on that list. However, the few shows I've seen him on, he seems quiet and banal. So as a dinner companion, (edit: a 2 hour private jet ride per Paco) he might be a heavy lift. Maybe the kind of actor who is a blank slate until he lays a personality onto himself. John Travolta is a lot like that. I was at the table next to his at dinner in 2003, and he stood next to me for a half hour or so before we ate, greeting people who lined up to shake his hand. (He was the featured speaker.) No more than a polite smile and a few words with people, was a lump during dinner, only came to life at the podium. Never doubt a small group of concerned citizens can change the world; it's the only thing ever has |
| January 27th, 2019 at 12:50:09 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Prior to Laurence Fishburne's performance in 1995, many of the filmed versions of Othello featured a white actor in blackface. Today it would be unthinkable. I have seen Patrick Stewart play Othello, but they changed the race of every other actor in the play so that the white man would seem unusual in an Italy of all black characters. A white Othello with a black Desdemona (Washington DC)  The other decision that was unusual was to cast Irène Jacob as Desdemona, so we have a Shakespearian lead being played by a woman who clearly does not speak English as her first language. It's a difficult role as you have to be both extremely sexual and extremely sweet and naive at the same time. The rest of the cast is incredible. Kenneth Branagh is a perfect Iago, and Anna Patrick is brilliant as Iago's abused wife. Orson Welles 1951  Laurence Olivier 1965  Anthony Hopkins 1981  Irène Jacob singing Willow with Anna Patrick. |
| February 3rd, 2019 at 11:22:20 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | Just saw The Martian for the third time. It just gets better and better. No unneeded melodrama, no love story, just science and great acting. Nominated for 7 Academy Awards, won Golden Globe for best actor, director. movie. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| February 4th, 2019 at 4:41:59 AM permalink | |
| ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12535 |
It was nominated for the Golden Globes as a Comedy. The Golden Globes are a joke. But I agree The Martian is very good. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
| February 4th, 2019 at 10:34:03 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
It was funny? I don't remember laughing once. Like most movies it had some comedy relief, how does that make it make it Dumb and Dumber or Road to Bali.. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |