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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
As an Allen completist, I did watch Crisis in Six Scenes. And I agree, it's unwatchable. Kristin Stewart has shown repeatedly that she's a good actress, Jesse Eisenberg, not so much. But I didn't believe either one of them as 1930s people in Café Society. At least Eisenberg was better in...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I was quite disappointed in Café Society, which struck me as a weak riff on (mostly) Bullets Over Broadway. In the same way that I no longer fall down in amazement at visual effects (all modern films have excellent effects work), the gorgeous period trappings of Allen's set-in-the-past films...- Doctor Strange
- Post #25,218
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Last year's Woody Allen flick, Wonder Wheel. While definitely a step up from his last few films (*), this is still a mixed bag. On the plus side is gorgeous photography and production design, and a committed lead performance by Kate Winslet. On the minus side is the overwhelming feeling of...- Doctor Strange
- Post #25,216
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Don't worry, it focuses much more on what can be done (and is being done) about the situation than a doomsday scenario. Re The Americans series finale... No spoilers here... I am still processing it, but it was a staggeringly brilliant end to a remarkable series. And its dramatic climax - that...- Doctor Strange
- Post #16,020
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
I had the EXACT same response. I enthusiastically watched about 40 minutes of the first ep, and as impressed as I was with how hard these folks work (they basically have no time for a personal life), and as intense as the news cycle is in this chaotic administration, and as much as I appreciate...- Doctor Strange
- Post #16,018
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Today in History
I saw it in NYC a week or two after it opened, and enjoyed it. But as I've said here more than once, I'd just graduated college as an English major and was already a very well-versed film buff and SF reader. Thus I didn't see it as impressionable child: I immediately recognized every trope and...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Right, Marty has made lots of different kinds of movies since, but back then The Age of Innocence was a very surprising outlier. Hey, I'm a frustrated would-be cinema professor with a tendency to pontificate: I know that! I really don't mean to be a hardcase. But there are some directors - in...- Doctor Strange
- Post #25,205
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Dude, how can you do a review like this and not mention that the film was directed by Martin Scorsese? It's one of the most interesting things about it: that a director largely known for movies about bottom-feeding gangsters and their worlds turns his attention to the old NYC aristocracy... and...- Doctor Strange
- Post #25,203
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Watched the latest episode of Westworld. As ever with this series, there are sequences here and there that I find interesting, but every "revelation" and "surprise" elicits another yawn. (Non-spoiler alert: like there was any way that Anthony Hopkins wasn't going to show up again eventually in...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
I saw most of this when it ran on PBS American Masters a couple of weeks ago. I came away from it much less impressed with Lamarr's scientific abilities than I expected to be, but more impressed with her as a tough-broad iconoclast who didn't give a fig about, well, much of anything. I don't...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Good to hear. I'm DVRing it and will get to it soon. I'll probably watch in a two-session binge like I did for Howards End.- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
I'm working my way through the miniseries Troy: Fall of a City on Netflix. It's not very good, but I am a lifelong sucker for this stuff. It's too long (do I even have to mention this?, it's Netflix!) and obviously low-budget, with questionable costumes and hairstyles, way too modern dialog...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
A critic I nearly always agree with takes down HBO's Fahrenheit 451: http://moria.co.nz/sciencefiction/fahrenheit-451-2018.htm And regarding Black Panther, speaking as a dedicated MCU fan who sees (and enjoys nearly) all their films... I found this a typically well done, three-star Marvel...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Yes, she's subdued in both her roles in this one. There's also the matter of Truffaut directing his first film in English, and the performances definitely suffer for it. BTW, my paperback of the novel is the 1966 film Ballantine tie-in edition, with a cover picture of Oskar Werner flanked by...- Doctor Strange
- Post #25,193
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Preach it, brother! This thing is nearly a complete trainwreck. The best I can say about it is that Ray Bradbury died before having to watch it. Quick thoughts: While I always enjoy Michael Shannon chewing on the scenery, so much about his character made no sense. What's with the writing...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Me too... a fantastic episode, just enthralling. The precision with which plot points that have been hanging since the very beginning are piling up shows some remarkable long-run planning and writing. Fantastic acting all around. And I do trust them to come up with a worthy (if imperfect)...- Doctor Strange
- Post #15,996
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Wilder is one of my favorite directors too, but after the awesome one-two punch of Some Like It Hot and The Apartment, it's mostly downhill. All the brilliant sophistication and subtlety gives way to the obvious and overdone in films like The Fortune Cookie and Irma La Douce. (Though I do like...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
It's even more obvious that SHIELD had a reduced budget. One of my complaints with the show from the start was that it seemed like most of it that wasn't on the Bus/Zephyr/old SHIELD HQ from Agent Carter took place in boring, nondescript factories, warehouses, and pathetic backlot sets (*)...- Doctor Strange
- Post #15,992
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Having now seen the last few minutes of the season 2 finale on demand (which I had missed previously due to golf running late, as mentioned above), I REALLY hope that NBC renews Timeless, or if not, that another channel picks it up. It's excellent: smart and emotional, and it ends with a REALLY...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
No idea. All I know is I heard from my prof in around 1975. Re SHIELD, am I the only one disappointed that this season ended without the finale impact from Infinity War shown affecting the team? Sure, they are already down a couple of regular characters, but I expected at least one to be...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
