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What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
| July 1st, 2016 at 3:19:31 PM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 |
I enjoyed "No Way Out", and would also recommend it. As for twisty plots, two classics come to mind for me: "Psycho" - Alfred Hitchcock's classic.  and Bryan Singer's "The Usual Suspects"  |
| July 1st, 2016 at 4:45:03 PM permalink | |
| odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 165 Posts: 6376 | I take the spoiler thing pretty seriously, and, yes there are old to extemely old movies I haven't seen. There are some movies I refuse to discuss with people who have not seen them. I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
| July 1st, 2016 at 5:48:00 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 148 Posts: 25978 |
And I take it seriously not at all. It's a freaking movie, what do I care knowing how it ends. Tell me the end to every movie I've never seen, I don't care. In fact, I frequently will stop a movie half way thru, go to wiki and see how it ends, just to see if I want to sit thru the last half. Many times I do not and go watch something else. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| July 1st, 2016 at 5:54:23 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | Don't watch this clip if you care about hearing a spoiler for "Homeland" season #3. |
| July 1st, 2016 at 6:04:09 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 148 Posts: 25978 |
Don't worry. What's Homeland, never heard of it. I don't watch TV, just Nflix. I see a series that's been on for 8 seasons called Royal Pains is on Nflix. Never heard of it till yesterday. Watched the first 3 ep's and when I was thru dry heaving from the terrible acting, the stupid stories, and the ridiculous fairy tale story line, I marveled that it was on 8 seasons. When I saw Henry Winkler was a semi regular in season 2, the worst actor of all time, I tried to hang myself in the shower but I'm too tall. I got over it eventually and drank myself to sleep. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| July 1st, 2016 at 9:09:15 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Showtime is a premium cable and satellite television network a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, which since July 1, 1976 has been a poor cousin of Home Box Office (launched November 8, 1972). Homeland is an American version of an Israeli television series about prisoners of war that come home, but are now suspected terrorists having been converted during their captivity.  Clair Danes has the starring role as the mentally troubled CIA analyst that figure out the the heroic American may be a terrorist. Standard TV business practices in place for half a century had studios were willing to lose money on a series initially in hopes the show would grow into a smash hit and get resold as repeats to local stations and cable networks. "Homeland" was one of the first of the new economics in television. It costs about $3-$4 million an episode to make but averaged fewer than 2 million viewers in its initial airings. The idea is that quality shows will pay back with hefty dollars from emerging platforms (either streaming or digital sales). Netflix paid Lionsgate Entertainment — which makes "Mad Men" — at least $75 million to stream all seven seasons of the series. That amounts to $1 million per episode. |
| July 1st, 2016 at 10:08:24 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 148 Posts: 25978 | Back to the Future is on Nflix again. This time I was looking for product placement. My god, Spielberg left no stone unturned in signing up sponsors. I lost count at 40, Pepsi being the stand out. If you really look, products are placed everywhere, right down to the stopwatch used by Doc being made by Citizen. The story brings up the time travel problem again. When Marty goes home to 1985, everything is different at his house. His parents and siblings are not the same at all. He has no memory of being raised by these different people, no memory of getting a new truck. So where is the Marty who was raised by them. You can't have the old Marty and the new Marty exist at the same time in one body, so it's another nail in the coffin of time travel. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| July 2nd, 2016 at 4:43:53 AM permalink | |
| odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 165 Posts: 6376 | Bob, you taught us one way to get over having watched a bad movie is to review the "hated it" ones at imdb. I almost forgot to do this. This one may be the best for 'Gladiator'
I would say, though, that what happens in the movie after Commodus is killed is not clearly the establishment of a Republic. Any viewer would reasonably expect so, but they don't show it [not even these bastardizers could live with such a joke I guess]. I don't think it is shown, anyway: once Commodus announced he was going into the ring with Maximus I fast-forwarded through it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/reviews?filter=hate I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
| July 2nd, 2016 at 6:36:05 AM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22938 |
Money I guess. Historically accurate, but audiences won't go see it is a problem. "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
| July 3rd, 2016 at 2:51:00 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 148 Posts: 25978 | Box Office: Steven Spielberg Has Disastrous Opening With “The BFG” I said awhile back this would be a dog, I couldn't even watch all of the trailer. It looked like an awful movie. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |