What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

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Joker Voice

Mark Hamill of Luke Skywalker fame voiced the Joker. He is actually a prolific voice actor having picked it up after his on camera career was cut short by a bad car accident... or 'Corvette Summer' (shudder).

Yeah, well, it's easy if you already know the answer ;)

I thought Lucy was one of the worst movies I've seen in recent memory. Very good idea and the first half an hour wasn't bad. However, it just went off the cliff. You could tell the actors, Scarlet and Morgan at least, seemed embarrassed to be in it.

I think Lucy was trying to ride on the coattails of Limitless and failed miserably.

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I thought Lucy was one of the worst movies I've seen in recent memory. .

It was so good, I just watched it again. It's
a chase movie, she has the Chinese mobs
drugs and they want them back. The head
of the mob is in it till the last scene. All the
stuff that goes on with her is just a
side story to make it interesting. The movie
grossed 11 times what it took to make it,
bad movies don't do that. It was Scarlett
at her best. Larry Crowne, that's a bad
movie. Barely broke even, if it even did.

Scarlett carried the film, it's what makes
it so watchable. When she's scared to death
in the start, when she thinks she's going to
die, I actually felt sorry for her, the acting
was so good. Without her in the lead role,
this would have flopped instead of being
a huge boxoffice success.

"The film succeeds as well as it does thanks to the work of Johannson. She is often on screen alone, with the audience hearing her thoughts and watching her actions. If she wasn’t believable this would have been a very boring and one-note film. Freeman brings along his usual gravitas, which fits his character well." R Tomatoes

Grand Budhapest Hotel. This was nominated for
bast picture? Why? Horrible dialog, no acting to
speak of, no story at all. Just an excuse for an
all star cast to walk on and walk off.

Birdman. Holy cow, mesmerizing. Not just the
story or the fabulous acting, the way it was
shot with a handheld camera and long scenes
that went on forever. I felt like I was right
there, like this a really good reality show.

Edward Norton stole it like he always does.
He disappeared in the last half hour, that
was my only complaint. The scene where
Emma Stone is ripping her father apart,
and then realizes what she's doing, is so
good, so gripping, such fine acting, I
watched it three times. The look that comes
over her face when she realizes how much
she's hurt him is just amazing. Her eyes,
her whole demeanor changes. Really good
stuff, she totally deserved an AA nomination
and got one.

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I re-watched Batman Mask of the Phantasm yesterday on Netflix.

I think you have a different Netflix list then we do.

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I think you have a different Netflix list then we do.

I don't have the ninth season of How I Met Your Mother. The idiot local cable network ran the last episodes dubbed. I couldn't watch them. When you dub wordplay, it's not funny any more. I'm waiting on Netflix to see them.

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I think you have a different Netflix list then we do.

I have it on mine but I have to buy it,
I can't see it free.

Pretty sure Bio-Dome was the worst movie ever. I fervently hoped the whole cast would die at the end. Or sooner. Yeah, if the last 20 minutes was just film of silence and corpses, it would have been splendid.

I watched "In the Heart of the Sea" last night. It is the film version of a book by the same name that relates the "true" story of the whaling voyage that inspired Herman Melville's "Moby Dick", complete with a big white whale. The movie was directed by Ron Howard (Richie Cunningham from "Happy Days"). It's a period piece, and attempts to be very accurate to the details of the time (however, one thing that really bugged me was the amazing dental work of the cast. Pearly white enamel everywhere). It's told in flashback with the storyteller in the 1850's relating events 30 years earlier. I thought it was very well done, sort of a pre-Civil War "Apollo 13" meets "The Life of Pi". The process of catching and processing a whale at sea without the benefit of propellers nor electricity was really interesting. It is just past the peak time for the whaling industry, and big personalities were part of the landscape when voyages could take years at sea.

There are multiple threads through the story, man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. himself, man vs. corporate greed, that ultimately boil down to "Truth and Honor". The film leaves the question open to the audience, "What would you do?"

One outstanding aspect of this film is the music. The score is haunting.

I give it 8 harpoons out of 10.

Not your average three hour tour:

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one thing that really bugged me was the amazing dental work of the cast.

How many did they show smoking. In that
time period all men smoked. Pipes, cigars,
roll your own cigarettes. I'm betting none
or very few were shown smoking.

I just watched a 7 part series on the Roosevelt
family. FDR smoked 4+ packs a day for most
of his life, unfiltered Camels in a holder. It's
what killed him. There are hundreds of pics
of him with that holder in his mouth, in every
cartoon of him he had one, it was his trademark.

Yet in the documentary, I watched for it and they
only showed it once or twice near the end. They
never mentioned that he was a chain smoker.