What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

I'm pretty sure no one could survive that bear attack in The Revenant. Unless you were a Marvel character.

I do love the high quality filming of the location scenery.

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I'm pretty sure no one could survive that bear attack in The Revenant. Unless you were a Marvel character.

The way people have survived Grizzly attacks has been to play dead, which might have been what he really did in real life.

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I plan to re-watch this and then re-watch immediately "The Two Jakes [1990]". When I was watching the latter one recently, I realized there were important parts of the first one I couldn't quite remember right, and it seemed important.

one thing about "The Two Jakes" {of somewhat spoiler nature}

a dangerous condition regarding a housing development with a natural gas problem is shown in what I thought was an unrealistic, silly scenario

I watched The Two Jakes last night, (sadly its not on Netflix, but its on Amazon Prime Streaming). I enjoyed it more than I thought I would (unlike the first which was universally praised, this one seemed to have many more negative reviews so I was more skeptical going into it).
Not as good a China Town, but still an excellent movie (especially if you like noir movies). I like how they adjusted the time period to account for the many years gap since the first movie (now taking place in the late 40s in the post-war era, unlike the pre-war era of the first).

Supposedly Netflix now owns the rights to make a series about the character, but I can't find anything on it more recently (since last fall), but the online rumors are they are are looking into a series of him young (pre China Town) about how he left being a policeman and started his private investigation agency. I honestly don't know how I feel about this, not every character needs a whole series to show their backstory. Sometimes movies are great because of the mystery of the protagonist. It would be like if Netflix did a series on Richard Blaine and his series of crimes (or whatever he may have done) that forced him to flee America, it would ruin the character.

Ever since I was a kid I enjoyed "Godzilla" movies, starting with the original.

But the original is not THE original, it was "Americanized" by adding a bunch of scenes absent from the original, inserting Raymond Burr as a reporter to provide English narration.

A couple years ago I saw the actual original, sans Burr, sans Americanization, and it was a bit of a revelation.

Highly recommend that fellow fans of Godzilla seek out and watch the true original, "Gojira."

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absent from the original, inserting Raymond Burr

When I first heard Raymond Burr was Gay, I thought, yeah, that makes sense. He never had a girlfriend in Perry Mason, he never hit on the hot secretary, he seemed to have a thing for the guy who played his private eye. Seen pictures of Burr when he was in his early twenties, he was as pretty as a girl.

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When I first heard Raymond Burr was Gay, I thought, yeah, that makes sense. He never had a girlfriend in Perry Mason, he never hit on the hot secretary, he seemed to have a thing for the guy who played his private eye. Seen pictures of Burr when he was in his early twenties, he was as pretty as a girl.

As a kid, I watched Liberace in TV appearances, but had no inking of gay people at all, so totally bought that he just hadn’t found a woman his mother approved of which i remember as his cover story.

I had a wide variety of friends while growing up.

It turns out that one group of them were gay, and I was clueless.

Things came to a head when I "discovered" girls at age 14 or so: I saw a 13 year old girl ride by on her bike while I was fishing and the swell of her breasts caused me to ... well, anyway I pursued her: my first girl friend.

One day we were making out by the brook when we saw what looked like two girls on the island, spying on us; upon further investigation we saw it was two of my erstwhile buddies, in drag / dressed as girls, jealously spying.

Very strange.

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I had a wide variety of friends while growing up.

It turns out that one group of them were gay, and I was clueless.

Things came to a head when I "discovered" girls at age 14 or so: I saw a 13 year old girl ride by on her bike while I was fishing and the swell of her breasts caused me to ... well, anyway I pursued her: my first girl friend.

One day we were making out by the brook when we saw what looked like two girls on the island, spying on us; upon further investigation we saw it was two of my erstwhile buddies, in drag / dressed as girls, jealously spying.

Very strange.

As a favor to a female friend and her partner, whose straight brother was in town, I accompanied him to a party they were promised to attend of all lesbians. No mention was made one way or other about our sexual orientation. But we played some game where we ran through a tunnel of women and got slapped on the ass. I believe that was suppose to be punishment for losing at some other game, but I don’t remember what we lost at.

I was hoping "Black Widow" might have better reviews so I'd have an excuse to go back to a movie theater for the first time. But no. Nothing else I really want to see right now.