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Also, your snow day sounds great. How was La La Land? I'm not really a fan of musicals (people breaking out into song all the time, not a lot of spoken dialogue), but don't mind movies with songs. Based on that, could I tolerate it? 01-08-2017 03:14 PMStill ServantOh, yeah. You can tolerate it. There's a ton of dialogue. There's really only a handful of musical scenes. It's a great film. 01-08-2017 03:33 PMRickyAwesome. Thanks! 01-08-2017 05:13 PMMattrick 01-08-2017 05:15 PMMattrick2017
1. Die Hard (RW)
2. A Monster Calls *****
3. Under The Shadow ****
01-08-2017 05:50 PMStill Servant 01-08-2017 06:02 PMMattrickIt's the fact they made a movie in Thailand about rich white people enjoying a privileged Christmas and the tsunami hits and it ends with all the white people going home together, losing nothing but their Christmas presents. Ugh. Someone once tried to defend the movie by saying it's based off a book written by a Spanish family, which means they white washed it even more than I thought they did! It's not the movie itself or even the plot or characters, it's the total conceit of the story that it was actually told, so insulated from a real disaster which killed nearly half a million people, but no white people lol 01-08-2017 06:53 PMStill Servant 01-09-2017 12:33 AMMattrickThe major problem with the film is that it's a film about perhaps the greatest tragedy of my life time. It was a catastrophic disaster which affected over a dozen countries. I can't think of any natural disaster being more widespread in it's devastation than an asteroid impact. The film itself has no tragedy. The main characters survive and find each other and get to return to their not washed away home and town as if it never happened to them in the first place. The tragedy is on the peripheries, glimpsed, out of focus, but never in frame. It just eliminates and impact of the movie. I'd rather have seen a movie a thai family dealing with the disaster and the aftermath. Instead the characters board and plane and go home and leave the tragedy and destruction behind them, just like the audience as they leave the theatre. It could have been much more than it was :/
1. Die Hard (RW)
2. A Monster Calls *****
3. Under The Shadow ****
4. The Lobster ****
01-09-2017 09:01 PMMattrick2017
1. Die Hard (RW) *****
2. A Monster Calls *****
3. Under The Shadow ****
4. The Lobster ****
5. Quills (RW) ***** 01-12-2017 05:56 PMbecca69 01-13-2017 12:26 PMLookwhoitisSpirited Away is one of my favorite movies of all time! :heart: 01-13-2017 02:07 PMMattrick2017
1. Die Hard (RW) *****
2. A Monster Calls *****
3. Under The Shadow ****
4. The Lobster ****
5. Quills (RW) *****
6. La La Land *****
01-14-2017 03:34 PMbecca69 01-16-2017 09:47 PMbecca69 01-18-2017 06:19 AMHeather19 01-21-2017 07:46 PMStill Servant 01-22-2017 07:57 AMLookwhoitisSundance is kickin' I'm little down (for me) this year on the number of films I have watched by this point.
best has been The Hero with Sam Elliot. A beautiful and moving film.
Sundance list so far:
City of Ghosts
Landline
Ingrid goes West
Bitch
The Yellow Birds
The Hero 01-23-2017 07:07 AMkilljoy722015 List
2016 List
2017 List:
1. Kubo and the Two Strings
2. The Finest Hours
3. Cheap Thrills
4. Rogue One *
5. Annabelle
6. Room 237 *
7. It Follows *
8. The Imitation Game
9. Alice Through the Looking Glass
10. The Wrestler
11. Quatermass and the Pit
12. Basket Case 2
13. Black Snake Moan
*rewatch 01-23-2017 08:34 AMbecca69 01-23-2017 08:35 AMbecca69 01-23-2017 04:08 PMStill Servant 01-23-2017 04:09 PMmaeI thought Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates was funny, so sue me :redface1: 01-23-2017 04:14 PMHeather19 01-24-2017 03:58 PMStill Servant