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The Last Movie You Watched
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I thought it was quite good. My parents thought it nailed the '70s pretty well, which is cool (I'm always a pessimist about time representation). I'd say I could have done without the sex scenes, but maybe I'm a prude. I mean, geez. Emma Stone.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
 (October 10, 2017 at 8:50 pm)c172 Wrote: I thought it was quite good. My parents thought it nailed the '70s pretty well, which is cool (I'm always a pessimist about time representation). I'd say I could have done without the sex scenes, but maybe I'm a prude. I mean, geez. Emma Stone. When it comes to sex scenes between a man and a woman, I tend to look away from the screen until the scene is over.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter  (October 10, 2017 at 8:09 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(October 9, 2017 at 4:34 pm)paulpablo Wrote: I thought the same thing, minus the “some heavy”. Along the same lines as It comes at night, I liked Shutter Island. It comes at night didn't reveal enough in my opinion, Shutter Island revealed enough but I think kept some things concealed. In terms of being a mysterious film I mean. I don't think I could pick a favourite though, I liked Nightmare on Elm St, Saw, Seven, It, The Orphan, The conjuring, Insidious. I think with a lot of those films I mentioned is people forget how good the original first of those films are because they turned into money making franchises, using a formula they kept repeating. Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them. Impersonation is treason.  RE: The Last Movie You Watched
October 11, 2017 at 3:49 am
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2017 at 3:50 am by Crossless2.0.)
Saw American Made. I’m not much of a Tom Cruise fan, so I was pleasantly surprised at liking the film more than I expected. It was a good role for Cruise, and he did well in it.
It’s one of those “based on true events” stories that — if even half of it is true — leaves you shaking your head in wonder. Cruise plays a TWA Pilot who is recruited by the CIA to take aerial photographs of Sandinista camps. But soon enough, things get very weird, as his character becomes a sort of Zelig-like eyewitness to and participant in some of the most sordid events of the Reagan years, including gun running and cocaine smuggling. There’s a lot of exposition as various players are identified and the geopolitical relationships of the day explained. I found that odd, since so many of the events that provide the context for the plot seem like just a little while ago to me. Then I remembered: I’m starting to get old. 
"Shutter Island" reminded me of the days when I volunteered as a "talker" at a half-way house for veterans who had spent hard time for drug offense. There was always someone awake, for "emergencies". Listening was important. Sometimes it was scary. Occasionally it was almost terrifying.
I finally saw It Comes At Night.
I think I understood what "it" was, but it was never made clear how "it" only ever "comes at night". So, I decided to do a google search for the movie's meaning: Honestly, I've seen better movies. An ending with unresolved questions just doesn't cut it for me.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
Super Dark Times, a much better movie than the previous one I watched.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter 
House Of A Thousand Corpses
 (October 9, 2017 at 4:39 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: Okay, okay, I guess I'm going to have to give the movie It Comes At Night another shot.All the talk of this movie caused me to check it out. Honestly, I was quite impressed. It's not your typical "horror", but that's part of what makes it so good.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (October 12, 2017 at 2:04 pm)Aroura Wrote:(October 9, 2017 at 4:39 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: Okay, okay, I guess I'm going to have to give the movie It Comes At Night another shot.All the talk of this movie caused me to check it out. I gave my review of it above. I wasn't quite as impressed.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
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