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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Korean film The Handmaiden, set sometime in the early twentieth century. Beautiful to look at, but I didn't care for it: All the characters - including the protagonists - are amoral con artists/thieves, pornographers, etc., and some very ugly things transpire. There's a lot of buzz on...- Doctor Strange
- Post #23,668
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Okja on Netflix. This is one really strange film: part trenchant social satire, part dizzying action movie, part indictment of factory farming and bottom-line heartlessness... and self-righteous eco-terrorism against it, part beautiful girl-and-her-pig story that's like something from Miyazaki...- Doctor Strange
- Post #23,662
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Don't Mess With Olivia DeHavilland
I thought Catherine Zeta-Jones was absolutely TERRIBLE as Olivia, a surprisingly bad performance from a not-bad actress. And part of that was the script, which didn't feel like it was portraying her remotely accurately to start with, and was simply using the idea of her for window dressing. I...- Doctor Strange
- Post #3
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Shows/Movie Franchises have you "Rage Quit"?
As a Woody Allen completist, I gotta weigh in. Sure, many of his films - especially in recent years - have been weak and repetitive, but there are a lot of films he made after Annie Hall that are excellent. Some are modern classics. He's made so many films - he's absurdly prolific, essentially...- Doctor Strange
- Post #30
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
I finished off season 1 of The Crown last night. I remain underwhelmed. All the money they spent is visible - the production IS spectacular, the actors are fine - but it's so weakly written and badly paced that very few of its big moments really landed for me. If the same scripts were done...- Doctor Strange
- Post #14,973
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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WONDER WOMAN
Uh, no. You are ascribing far more of a sense of history (and nationalism) to Warners/DC than they deserve. It was set in WWI mostly to minimize comparisons to the WWII setting of Marvel's Captain America: The First Avenger. The ragtag group of irregulars Diana falls in with is awfully similar...- Doctor Strange
- Post #40
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Looks like I'm in the minority thinking Cabaret is a great film. Maybe 'cause I saw it theatrically back when it was new (at 17)... and in 1972 it was legitimately shocking and innovative in both form and content. Now, nobody takes special notice of bisexual protagonists, smash cuts from...- Doctor Strange
- Post #23,638
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Episode 1 of The Crown on Netflix. So far, it's not doing anything for me. Jared Harris is great as the dying king, but otherwise, it's just a crazy opulent production of the usual Masterpiece Theater material. Claire Foy looks good, but she hasn't yet emerged as the compelling main...- Doctor Strange
- Post #14,954
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Star Trek Beyond. Like the first two Abramsverse films, I hated it. But I must admit, this one somehow felt a little bit closer to "real" Trek to me. Still... it's undone by WAY too much bad-CGI action, one stupid plot contrivance and coincidence after another, another boring villain...- Doctor Strange
- Post #23,619
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Don't forget "The Sixth Finger"!- Doctor Strange
- Post #14,950
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Not just the love story, but the entire narrator/viewpoint character involved in it could easily have been left out. The guy makes zero impression, yet actively detracts from the main story. This is a common problem with narrators/viewpoint characters dragged in from books in film adaptations...- Doctor Strange
- Post #23,612
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
It's not a good film, but I kinda like it too, for it's cool concept rather than its lame execution. No doubt the Alan Moore comics it's based on are vastly better. I gotta read them sometime. As Connery's Alan Quatermain observes, "I'm waiting to be impressed." I think Penny Dreadful did...- Doctor Strange
- Post #23,600
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I'm a little surprised at all the hate for Doctor Strange, but I won't take it personally! I liked it a lot, despite the various changes to the Strange mythos and numerous dramatic mistakes it made. Frankly, I'm just astonished to see a blockbuster about a Marvel character so far off the...- Doctor Strange
- Post #23,585
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Legend, the recent film about the Kray twins and their criminal reign in sixties England. Since my limited knowledge of the Krays mainly comes from the Monty Python "Piranha Brothers" sketch, I found it interesting. And Tom Hardy - an actor whose performances have mostly struck me as...- Doctor Strange
- Post #23,581
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Jazz Fussion recommendations
I don't doubt that they're great, but alas, I never made the leap to collecting 78s. As it is, I'm the King of Obsolete Media - I still play LPs, cassettes, CDs, Super 8 film, 16mm film, VHS tapes, DVDs... and I've got dozens of reel-to-reel tapes I made in the 70s and 80s, but I haven't owned...- Doctor Strange
- Post #11
- Forum: Radio
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Scarlet Coat, a fifties flick about Revolutionary War spies in the Benedict Arnold/Major Andre affair, with Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, and Anne Francis, and directed by the usually solid John Sturges. As someone who's always lived in the Hudson Valley and visited the locations where...- Doctor Strange
- Post #23,574
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Jazz Fussion recommendations
Gotta agree big-time on this, and your comment about solid arrangements too. (Don't forget Marylou Williams.) I was a fan of the early Louis and Bix records - I owned the multiple-LP Columbia sets for both - and plenty of thirties swing and fifties cool, well before my flirtation with fusion...- Doctor Strange
- Post #9
- Forum: Radio
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You know you are getting old when:
It's more like "lawn guyland"! Mel Blanc famously said he combined Bronx and Brooklyn accents for the voice of Bugs Bunny. I've never seen the dialects of these boroughs treated individually and have no idea how they differ, but apparently HE could hear a difference. OTOH, maybe it's just such...- Doctor Strange
- Post #3,503
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Colorized photos of war in the Pacific
It probably had more to do with availability of color film and the vagaries of military supply channels more than anything else. Remember, photography was still 90%-95% b/w at that time. Color film, both for color negatives (and ultimately prints) and transparencies (slides), was a rare...- Doctor Strange
- Post #4
- Forum: WWII
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
No, it's not on that page. But a lot of other interesting words are. Sorry to be misleading! "Nogoodnik" isn't actually a real Yiddish word, per se. It's a Yinglish word that applies the Yiddish "nik" suffix to the English "nogood".- Doctor Strange
- Post #4,735
- Forum: The Golden Era
