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  1. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Edward, you have to watch Wonder Woman. It's the only DC film that really knows what it's doing. The only one that I think deserves the three stars I give most of the MCU films. And for everything it gets right, it still has some of the classic failings (e.g., the too-big third act CGI...
  2. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I finally saw Justice League in its HBO premiere. Boy am I glad I didn't spring to see it when it was in theaters, it's a total train wreck. It really stunk up the place. I consider Man of Steel a two-star effort and Batman V Superman: Dawn of Dreck a one-star; Justice League is just maybe...
  3. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Sense of an Ending, a recent drama about an elderly Englishman trying to find closure for events that have haunted him since his youth in the 1960s. A deep cast of solid pros - including Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Emily Mortimer, Charlotte Rampling, Michelle Dockery, and fine young...
  4. Doctor Strange

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Stan Lee's OTHER great collaborator at early sixties Marvel Comics: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/07/obituaries/steve-ditko-dead-spider-man.html https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/steve-ditko-was-a-comic-creator-time-1125510...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Costuming is one of the great subtle characterization indicators available to filmmakers. Of course a key thing about Rope is that it was all filmed in very long takes, with only "invisible" cuts at the reel changes every ten minutes. While this was something of a stunt and a perverse act of...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Worf, do you recall the sixties bumper sticker KING KONG DIED FOR YOUR SINS ?!? That Kong-as-a-symbol-for-slavery interpretation was very popular for a while. But yeah, the old ape is still nearly the greatest movie monster ever made, even if it's now an antique with some terrible lines ("But...
  8. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    While not blind to its faults, I liked Queen of the Desert more than you did. And it eventually DOES get to her fearless travels around the desert, her comradeship with T.E. Lawrence, and her huge importance to the establishment of post-WWI monarchs/countries in the region. She has another...
  9. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Last night's film was Goodbye Christopher Robin, a recent biopic about A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie-the-Pooh books. I didn't really know this story, and it was reasonably interesting and well done. Very good performances by Domhnall Gleeson (Milne) and Kelly Macdonald...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I loved The Practice for its first couple of seasons. Very sharp writing, great cast. But it eventually morphed into a different show and lost me.
  11. Doctor Strange

    Bad Movie Descriptions of the Golden Era

    Since most of my TCM-watching is DVR vs. live, I don't even bother with the intros most of the time, I just zap though. And I do agree that their between-features pieces are interesting. I love that Leonard Maltin shows up for the Disney films. I love that they showed Private Snafu cartoons...
  13. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Oh, I've seen The Animal Kingdom - also blah. I agree that Howard's better in Of Human Bondage and Pygmalion (but that's from several years later) and the other films I've mentioned. I've seen Trouble In Paradise too. I'm sorry, Kay Francis just leaves me cold. And I'm not one of those big...
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    Bad Movie Descriptions of the Golden Era

    Some self promotion IS advertising. Join the TCM Wine Club?!? Take a TCM Cruise?!? If it gets you to spend more money on the TCM brand, it's advertising. But I'm not knocking them (*), they run a huge range of interesting material and treat it with respect and historical insight. I record and...
  15. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    British Agent, a 1934 drama with Leslie Howard and Kay Francis set during the WWI and the Russian Revolution - DVR'd from TCM, of course. Gee, another early Leslie Howard vehicle that leaves me cold. And I've long been immune to whatever made Kay Francis a star. Their...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I finished off Luke Cage season two. I think it's one of the better seasons of these Marvel/Netflix series, though with their traditional too-many-episodes/too-many-pointless-red-herrings-and-monotonous-plot-points-over-and-over problem. It ends in a VERY different way than expected; I'm not...
  17. Doctor Strange

    Dunkirk - I've just seen it

    As I think I said on another thread, I was underwhelmed, and I think it exemplifies Christopher Nolan's strengths and weaknesses as a filmmaker equally. Technically, it's astounding, just virtuoso filmmaking (and on FILM, no less). But in terms of storytelling, it's incoherent, with the damn...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream! Harlan Ellison wrote lots of great stuff. But as an old-school Trek fan (since 9/8/66) who considers "The City On the Edge of Forever" my favorite, and perhaps greatest, ST episode, I have to point out that it's common knowledge among Trekkers that Ellison's...
  20. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    That's a great film, even if it was instigated as a patriotic rabble-rouser. One of the many great ones from the Powell & Pressburger collaboration, the greatest British filmmakers of the forties. It's not so much about a single U-boat attacking Canada - though that was a legitimate fear - but...
  21. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I saw this a while ago and totally agree. The film was reasonably enjoyable - if not entirely believable - but it didn't amount to much. While it's not a complete period film disaster (a la Tulip Fever, oy), it didn't satisfy. And it's a shame, because every additional Alan Rickman performance...
  22. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I'm nearly halfway through the second season of Luke Cage on Netflix. So far, I think it's actually better than the first season, which is a trick that neither of the other Marvel Netflix series that have had two seasons (Daredevil and Jessica Jones) managed yet. I mean, it's got the usual...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Bad news for those of us here who enjoyed Timeless: http://www.vulture.com/2018/06/nbc-cancels-timeless-but-might-make-time-for-a-movie.html

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