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What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
| September 19th, 2019 at 6:32:39 PM permalink | |
| ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12499 | The movie is basically a 2 hour episode of the show. If you like the show, you’ll like the movie. It’s as simple as that. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
| September 19th, 2019 at 7:45:18 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Nobody thought it would be anything but that. Same writer, director, same actors, same setting. We would be disappointed if it was anything else. The was probably more than one formal dinner scene. There was one in every episode. It took an entire day to shoot and the actors hated it. Every time the camera changes angles, that's a new scene that had to be set 'up. They had to sit there for hours pretending to eat, as the food got old it was replaced by new food. Hardest on Carson and the footmen, who had to stand in the background for hours at a time, or serve over and over. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| September 24th, 2019 at 4:30:50 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | Downton Abbey has made $75 million in the 3 days in the theater, worldwide. 85% on Rotten, 95% from audience reviews. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| September 24th, 2019 at 4:56:14 PM permalink | |
| ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12499 |
I worked at a theater for 5 years. I still have Facebook friends who work there. One of them posted that senior citizens are flocking to it like it’s a Marvel movie or something. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
| September 24th, 2019 at 7:46:14 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
From what I've seen of the crowds of visitors to the castle where it's filmed, over 40 is the typical fan. Did you think it was pre teens who watched it? The few critics who panned it said it wasn't edgy enough, it was too 'feel good'. What did they expect, Sybil and Matthew to die again? Another jilting at the alter? People want to see their friends doing well, that everything is fine in their world. A typical audience review is, they didn't want the movie to end. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| September 25th, 2019 at 10:39:48 AM permalink | |
| Mosca Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 22 Posts: 730 |
We were going to see it yesterday, but Mrs Mosca wasn’t well. We’ll try to go Sunday instead. Friends of ours who went yesterday loved it; they hadn’t seen any of the TV show. FYI, we are all in our mid-60s. |
| September 25th, 2019 at 10:19:00 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18751 |
You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| September 26th, 2019 at 5:29:22 AM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Eliot Rodger was a 96 pound weakling with not a drop of testosterone in him, his parents should have taken him to an endocrinologist. Instead they bought him a car. Most college girls given the option of a big, muscular Doberman versus a bantam-weight "male" with a girlish figure, tiny dick and effeminate manner would choose to have sex with the dog! Somehow his parents never told him this so got angry at girls who ignored him. |
| September 29th, 2019 at 6:20:57 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18751 | Never watched "Soylent Green" all the way through until the other night. I think it holds up pretty well for the most part. It was Edward G Robinson's last role before he died of bladder cancer 9 weeks after filming. Charlton Heston said he didn't know why he was so moved by the death scene where Robinson plays a dying man, which is also the last scene he ever filmed. The "future" of this 1973 movie starts around 2019. Coincidence? I don't know. The planet is warming in the movie. The ocean is dying. And as Barbara Streisand once sang, "People eating people, aren't the luckiest people in the World." Kind of has the same startled realization for Heston at the ending at realizing what was really happening as Planet of the Apes. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| September 29th, 2019 at 8:37:00 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
The planet is ALWAYS warming or cooling, it's what it does. Just hope it's not cooling because when it does that, we can be really screwed. I have a friend who owns a few thousand acres of corn and soybeans in the breadbasket, Iowa. He has a 6 bedroom 7 bath 5500 sq ft house. He says he's only seen better and better crop yields in the last 40 years. If this is GW, bring it on. lol If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |