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What are You Watching? [2024] Please Rate 1-5
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Silo Season 2 started, first episode a solid 5.
I'm excited about this series, based on one of my all-time favorite books:
The book was written in 1951, but reads like it was written this year:
I'm excited about this series, based on one of my all-time favorite books:
The book was written in 1951, but reads like it was written this year:
Wow, what a great movie, easily the best of 2024 that I've viewed. A solid 5.
The Criterion Channel is running a “Hitchcock for the Holidays” series so we watched “Strangers On A Train”.
5 out of 5
They’re also running a Pre Code Columbia series, so now you can see what your great grandma’s skimpies looked like.
Actually, it’s a very good series, tackling adult issues that were later toned down after the Code was enacted.
5 out of 5
They’re also running a Pre Code Columbia series, so now you can see what your great grandma’s skimpies looked like.
Actually, it’s a very good series, tackling adult issues that were later toned down after the Code was enacted.
You can't beat that old Hitchcock stuff!
"Kneecap". Netflix. Comedy about Irish rap group in Northern Ireland who rap in Irish. Something about using your native language, and that language uniting the people is something I understand. Koreans under Japanese occupation were not allowed to speak Korean. Only learned it from history classes, but something that sits in back of my head. 4/5.
SS,
That's really neat. May I please ask if you got a message or deeper meaning from the movie?
Thanks.
We did, this hit close to home. In July, we sold the home we built in Maryland and lived for 26 years. We bought a home someone else built in Louisiana. So, it made me think a lot about the home and neighborhood we lived in for so long and the history of the home we bought. (the real estate owner was the grandson of the owner, so we know a little history about the house)
That's really nice that you know about the history of the house.
Louisiana historically has a ton of French heritage. The French I have long thought do a good job with cuisine and art and culture. What do you think? There's an arc of French colonial heritage stretching from Haiti to Louisiana to St. Louis, MO to Quebec to New Brunswick to St. Pierre and Miquelon.
There's a cool map of those colonies here:
French colonies of north america - https://www.slideshare.net/chachabizarre/french-colonies-of-north-america-10621289
The French also had 16th century colonies in northeast Florida, southwest Georgia, and northeast Maine, but the Spanish (in the US Southeast) and English (in Maine) conquered or destroyed those colonies or their leftover colonists.
Wishing you the best.
Now watching one of my favorite pictures, one of the greatest ever made, The Wizard Of Oz on HBO. Still enchanting after all these years.
One of my favorite memories connected to this film was being invited to a special world premiere screening of the digital restoration of the film, which was held at the old Warner Pacific Theater in Hollywood, an elegant old movie palace with sumptuous grand interiors.
The theater was closed to the public at that time, due to not having had a seismic retrofit, so there were only a few of us invited to watch the film, as the event was also a demonstration of one of the first systems capable of digitally projecting a full length feature picture at speed.
The amount of detail those old Bausch and Lomb lenses had captured revealed far more detail than any of us had ever seen before, nor suspected existed, and all of it was on display, as this was a projection taken from the original three strip B&W negatives, so we were seeing a clearer image than was available back in 1939. Who knew there was a rivet on the tin man's forehead between his eyebrows?
1,000,000 out of 5
One of my favorite memories connected to this film was being invited to a special world premiere screening of the digital restoration of the film, which was held at the old Warner Pacific Theater in Hollywood, an elegant old movie palace with sumptuous grand interiors.
The theater was closed to the public at that time, due to not having had a seismic retrofit, so there were only a few of us invited to watch the film, as the event was also a demonstration of one of the first systems capable of digitally projecting a full length feature picture at speed.
The amount of detail those old Bausch and Lomb lenses had captured revealed far more detail than any of us had ever seen before, nor suspected existed, and all of it was on display, as this was a projection taken from the original three strip B&W negatives, so we were seeing a clearer image than was available back in 1939. Who knew there was a rivet on the tin man's forehead between his eyebrows?
1,000,000 out of 5
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The Last Rifleman starring Pierce Brosnan in one of his best roles. At least I think so. Worth the time on Prime. He plays a 93 year old WWII vet trying to get to France for DDay celebrations with his mates, damned convincingly.
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I was watching "ZOM 100". It's about a Japanese Corp worker being freed from corp life due to zombie attack. No, I didn't finish it.
Not watched a film in a while until last night. Brimstone And Treacle is a very dark and deeply disturbing drama by well known playwright Dennis Potter.
So disturbing I almost stopped watching half way through but gritted my teeth and watched to the end.
Very well written and acted but I can only give it 2/5 due to the subject matter so this will go to the charity shop.
Jay.
So disturbing I almost stopped watching half way through but gritted my teeth and watched to the end.
Very well written and acted but I can only give it 2/5 due to the subject matter so this will go to the charity shop.
Jay.
Deadpool 2, Deadpool & Wolverine, and Black Widow. Enjoyed all of them. Cheap thrill filled with violence and cheap humor. Well Deadpool series definitely were. Black Widow was also violence filled, but not as graphic as Deadpool. And no dark humor. Deadpool series get 4.5/5. Black Widow gets 4/5.
Ever hear of Dick Proenneke? Probably not, but he is a legend in Alaska. He filmed his life in the wilderness and it's amazing. I can't imagine you guys would not enjoy it. Go on line and watch some clips and if you enjoy them there are 4 movie about him. (notice the Raleigh can in his cabin)
I've seen his documentary style films on Public television, very interesting!Ever hear of Dick Proenneke? Probably not, but he is a legend in Alaska. He filmed his life in the wilderness and it's amazing. I can't imagine you guys would not enjoy it. Go on line and watch some clips and if you enjoy them there are 4 movie about him. (notice the Raleigh can in his cabin)
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Even though my wife and I are a good 20 years away from this, A Man on the Inside is utterly fantastic. Funny, but deals with some really important themes on aging in probably the best way I've seen. 10/5
