Movies

[Sigma_Orionis]

Speaking of movies, I can now say I am amongst the members of society who have watched The Godfather, which is to say pretty much everybody but me. I know, took me long enough!

Now you know the art of making an offer that can't be refused.

Actually she'll understand all Horse and Movie Director Jokes

[Sigma_Orionis]

You make it sound like this is Cartoon Network.........

[Sigma_Orionis]

Run for the Hills!

[SciFiFisher]

Run for the Hills!

Yeah, The Hills Have Eyes.

[Sigma_Orionis]

Let guess, they have gold too?

[SciFiFisher]

Let guess, they have gold too?

No, really... it's a movie

[Sigma_Orionis]

Ahhh, you meant the Area 51 hills

[Parrothead]

I'll be setting the recording device to tape Abel Gance's 1927 Napoleon off one of the French networks. Caught most of it last night, an approx. 3hr 30 min commercial free version. I recall seeing some mega-length version on A&E, sometime in the mid - late 90's. IIRC, it ran some 9hrs including commercials.

[brite]

I'll be setting the recording device to tape Abel Gance's 1927 Napoleon off one of the French networks. Caught most of it last night, an approx. 3hr 30 min commercial free version. I recall seeing some mega-length version on A&E, sometime in the mid - late 90's. IIRC, it ran some 9hrs including commercials.

Is it in English or do I have to suffer through subtitles?? (My French involves ordering dinner, finding a bathroom and finding a bed...)

[squ1d]

I went to see Interstellar with my gal and I thought

1) It was extremely ambitious
2) It looked amazing
3) It had flaws
and
4) It was pretty entertaining

[SciFi Chick]

I went to see Interstellar with my gal and I thought

1) It was extremely ambitious
2) It looked amazing
3) It had flaws
and
4) It was pretty entertaining

It was pretty entertaining for the first hour and a half. Then, it got stupid and boring.

[squ1d]

I don't agree. Sure it seems silly through one lens, but to me it reminded me quite a bit of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold:_Time

[Parrothead]

I'll be setting the recording device to tape Abel Gance's 1927 Napoleon off one of the French networks. Caught most of it last night, an approx. 3hr 30 min commercial free version. I recall seeing some mega-length version on A&E, sometime in the mid - late 90's. IIRC, it ran some 9hrs including commercials.

Is it in English or do I have to suffer through subtitles?? (My French involves ordering dinner, finding a bathroom and finding a bed...)

Silent movie, it was on the French network, so all the captions were in French. Works out better for me, as my reading comprehension is better than hearing, when it comes to French.

[SciFi Chick]

I don't agree. Sure it seems silly through one lens, but to me it reminded me quite a bit of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold:_Time

You like Interstellar. I like Harry Potter. To each his own.

[cid]

1935's A Midsummer Night's Dream on TCM...Mickey Rooney, Joe E. Brown, James Cagney, Dick Powell, Victor Jory and more...might
be a tad tough to follow the scansion, but the casting is about as outre' as you can get...

[Swift]

I went to see Interstellar with my gal and I thought

1) It was extremely ambitious
2) It looked amazing
3) It had flaws
and
4) It was pretty entertaining

I finally went to see it and I would say squ1d's analysis is spot on for me. I'm surprised it is generally popular; I think a lot of the concepts in it are going to be too foreign to people not well versed in such concepts from science fiction: time travel, extra dimensions, etc., etc. (my wife didn't get a lot of it).

I started reading through the thread on CQ about it (now that I've seen it) but a lot of the comments just seemed stupid and nitpicky and off-point, so I stopped reading after about a quarter of the thread.

[geonuc]

I started reading through the thread on CQ about it (now that I've seen it) but a lot of the comments just seemed stupid and nitpicky and off-point, so I stopped reading after about a quarter of the thread.

Yes.

[geonuc]

I've seen a couple of movies of note recently:

Chef - If you consider yourself at all a foodie, I think you'll enjoy this film. And even if you don't, it's a feel-good movie that works.

Gone Girl - I had to hold off in seeing this movie until I finished the book. As with a lot of books made into films, this one suffers in translation. The one thing that bothered me was Rosamund's Pike's interpretation of the story's lead character. Without getting into spoiler-land, I thought she needed to be more admirable, likeable in the beginning. Instead, the character comes off as someone you wouldn't necessarily like or trust. Still, the movie is good.

[Rommie]

Ah, a few of us went to see Gone Girl when it came out here- I really enjoyed the book when I read it two years ago so was eager to see it. I've long ago concluded books rarely translate well on the screen (they're so long that by definition they can't) so it's best to have not just read them right before seeing it.

Overall though I did like it- some details omitted, but think it was a solid enough film on its own.

[geonuc]

The Wind Rises

This is Hayao Miyazaki's latest, and last apparently, animated feature film. And it's another great one. I love his stuff. Like others, it has a heavy anti-war theme attached to an engaging story.

[brite]

Night at the Museum - Secret of the Tomb - No socially redeeming value, nice send off for Mickey Rooney and Robin Williams.... Rebel Wilson is cute...

[Thumper]

In the last few days I've seen two movies in theaters, based on real people: "The Imitation Game" and "Big Eyes." I enjoyed both. I thought Cumberbatch did a wonderful job getting into the role of Turing. Made me want to go back and learn more about him, Enigma, and the birth of computers. Also, Amy Adams really disappeared into the role of Margaret Keane. I don't remember much of anything about the story at the time, must have been a little before me. The movie seemed to be a little roller coaster, like it wasn't sure what it wanted to be. But that could have been purposeful by Tim Burton making the movie's mood change quickly as the craziness of Keane's husband unfolded.

The Kid completed the trifecta by seeing "The Theory of Everything" over the weekend.

[Rommie]

I saw "Theory of Everything" and thought it was a fine enough movie- only one thing was actually stated that was false, one or two implications of things that weren't true, but overall good science. Kinda on the long side as a movie tho, but there may be a best actor Oscar for the guy who played Hawking (tho it annoys me a touch that now everyone asks me "why hasn't he won the Nobel Prize?!" ummm, he's not doing the kind of science that will lead to that kind of award...).

Interesting thing to us all though was we all went as a family to see it, and my brother hated the movie. I think what he really disliked was obv Hawking has had a seriously tough life, and the point of his story is he overcomes it despite his disease, but my brother more just saw how awful it all was. To each his own.

[Thumper]

The Kid wants me to see Interstellar. I'm not so sure and it's long and not running a full schedule at our local theaters anymore. But she said it would wash the bad taste in my brain left by Gravity.

[SciFi Chick]

The Kid wants me to see Interstellar. I'm not so sure and it's long and not running a full schedule at our local theaters anymore. But she said it would wash the bad taste in my brain left by Gravity.

It was more entertaining than Gravity, but just as dumb scientifically, and way too long, and at one point, I had to start ordering vodka in order to finish watching it... but apparently I'm in a minority here.