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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
September 24, 2023 at 12:47 am
(September 23, 2023 at 4:39 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (September 22, 2023 at 7:34 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: Take the shortest book of the four and turn it into another three films? What could go wrong?
Apparently, everything.
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It's not like Jackson did an amazing job adapting the first three...
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
September 24, 2023 at 3:45 am
(September 24, 2023 at 12:47 am)Ravenshire Wrote: (September 23, 2023 at 4:39 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Apparently, everything.
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It's not like Jackson did an amazing job adapting the first three...
I feel better about the LOTR films now than I did initially.
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September 25, 2023 at 7:44 am
Going to need a bigger metaphor.
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
September 27, 2023 at 6:32 am
That Certain Summer (1972). That "controversial" movie that was the first TV movie portraying homosexuality as normal is, needless to say, underwhelming. I didn't expect any hardcore scenes it's just that the drama is so bland. It's two obviously straight actors keeping their hands in their pockets, walking around, and insinuating that they are a couple while looking like they are ashamed.
They could even make a comedy with this setup: a teenager travels to San Francisco to spend some time with his dad, oblivious that he is gay. When he meets his boyfriend, his dad, who wants to keep his homosexuality a secret to his son, tells him it's just his buddy living with him. When they hold hands during walks, his dad tells him it's because his friend has epilepsy and thus he is holding him so that he doesn't fall. When he catches them showering together, his dad says that they are in California and thus saving water ("We're showering like soldiers"). When he catches them nude in bed, his dad tells him it's so that they don't have to turn on the air conditioner and thus save electricity and that human semen is a very good skin moisturizer that keeps you cool. When he catches his dad groping this guy's ass, he tells him that he is just checking if he has ass cancer. When he catches his dad blowing his boyfriend, he explains that he was giving him a penile Heimlich maneuver because a piece of food stuck in his throat.
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
September 27, 2023 at 9:04 am
The two Alice in Wonderlands and then Sweeny Todd.
Helena is just so adorable, whatever shape her head is.
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
September 29, 2023 at 11:38 am
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September 29, 2023 at 1:40 pm
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Quote:Tom Nichols is a hardened New England detective, unflinching in his pursuit of a case where nothing is as it seems and it begins to dismantle the illusions in his own life.
I thought that was Justin Timberlake in the beginning, but I was not certain until I heard his voice. His face has matured a bit, but that dad-bod. Wowza.
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