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Nov 27, 2018 14:16:12 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2018 14:16:12 GMT -5
That was the most intense movie I've seen in a long time, and it was also amazingly emotional. I came out of the theater in a deeply meditative state. I'd give it two definite thumbs up. I'd also recommend seeing it on the big screen. Which movie are you referring here ?
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Nov 27, 2018 14:23:26 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2018 14:23:26 GMT -5
Going to see The Great Buster, a new documentary about Buster Keaton. Keaton was an absolute genius. My favorite Keaton film is Sherlock Jr. If you've seen The Purple Rose of Cairo, Woody Allen stole an idea from him, the main character of the film stepping off the screen into real life. A most famous scene is from I think 7 Days (which any building contracter has to see) is a constructed 2-story wall falling on Keaton, he being saved by just happening to stand where an open window fell over him. A real wall, a little error and he would have been killed. .... Steamboat Bill Jr.. ??
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Nov 27, 2018 20:45:04 GMT -5
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Nov 27, 2018 20:45:04 GMT -5
Going to see The Great Buster, a new documentary about Buster Keaton. Keaton was an absolute genius. My favorite Keaton film is Sherlock Jr. If you've seen The Purple Rose of Cairo, Woody Allen stole an idea from him, the main character of the film stepping off the screen into real life. A most famous scene is from I think 7 Days (which any building contracter has to see) is a constructed 2-story wall falling on Keaton, he being saved by just happening to stand where an open window fell over him. A real wall, a little error and he would have been killed. .... Steamboat Bill Jr.. ?? Yea, that's the scene, I had the wrong movie. The Great Buster was very good. I was alone in the theater. Didn't know, his film The General is listed as #18 on best films of all time list.
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Nov 28, 2018 3:28:40 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 3:28:40 GMT -5
Yea, that's the scene, I had the wrong movie. The Great Buster was very good. I was alone in the theater. Didn't know, his film The General is listed as #18 on best films of all time list. So it was 'all for you'. Sweet
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Dec 12, 2018 16:29:37 GMT -5
Post by stardustpilgrim on Dec 12, 2018 16:29:37 GMT -5
Some time ago, maybe a couple of years ago, I heard about Jerome Bixby's Man from Earth and rented and viewed it. It's more than pretty good, an idea Bixby (who wrote some Star Trek episodes as well as other TV scripts) thought about for decades. It became his final work as he knew he was dying. A man from the stone age is immortal, has lived 14,000 years. He currently teaches in college and moves on to another college about every ten years, when people start to notice he hasn't aged. The film begins as John Oldman is about to depart. He tries to duck out on a going away party by some fellow professors. "Caught", he stays for the party. He has kept his secret for many years but spontaneously decides to tell his friends his story. He tells them of being Buddha and Jesus.....
Well, a few weeks ago I learned a sequel came out last year, Man from Earth: Holocene (2017). Man from Earth became an internet sensation, pirated and passed around. The director of it (2007) began thinking of a story for a sequel, and finally after almost ten years came up with good story, filmed with the same actor playing the immortal, now John Young. He expands the setting from one room to a small college. I thought it as good or better than the original, but you basically need to see the original first. John, for some unknown reason, is beginning to slow down a little, is not his old self (an unintended pun). The film is centered around a few of John's students, who become more curious about him, and investigate...
I can recommend both to just about anybody, especially ST's people...
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Dec 12, 2018 16:43:21 GMT -5
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Dec 12, 2018 20:05:43 GMT -5
Post by justlikeyou on Dec 12, 2018 20:05:43 GMT -5
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Feb 24, 2019 15:00:23 GMT -5
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Feb 24, 2019 15:00:23 GMT -5
Free Solo woll win for best documentary, tonight.
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Feb 24, 2019 15:31:10 GMT -5
Post by zendancer on Feb 24, 2019 15:31:10 GMT -5
Free Solo woll win for best documentary, tonight. I don;t know if it will, but I'd sure vote for it.
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Feb 24, 2019 20:24:12 GMT -5
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Feb 24, 2019 20:24:12 GMT -5
Free Solo woll win for best documentary, tonight. Woo! Hoo!
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Apr 25, 2019 17:28:45 GMT -5
Post by stardustpilgrim on Apr 25, 2019 17:28:45 GMT -5
I browse Netflix sometimes and take a chance on an unknown movie. Saw Infinity Chamber today, 2017 NR (but essentially PG-13, some cursing). The short description says: In a grim politically repressed USA future, Frank Lerner awakens incarcerated in a prison run by robots and is subject to rigorous psychological grilling. To make it back to the outside world...which may no longer exist...Frank must outwit his automated (AI) jailer. I sometimes get a real turkey, but this was surprisingly good. I think I'm not giving away too much to say it's one of those movies you want to see immediately again (in The Sixth Sense kind-of way). I might not even mention it here except that it speaks pretty well to some current and ongoing issues here, what is a POP?, solipsism, the nature of memory and perception. It has echos of and is influenced by The Matrix, 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Truman Show. Put it on the existentialist films list. I will probably watch it again some day (I spent almost an hour re-watching some scenes). There are flashbacks you have to watch carefully (or re-watch). It's not a Big Blockbuster film, but I'd say worth 1 & 3/4 hours on a rainy day, a well made low budget independent film (but it doesn't look low budget). Unknown but good actors, a very small cast. www.imdb.com/title/tt3839880/videoplayer/vi3681597721
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May 28, 2019 5:49:15 GMT -5
Post by Reefs on May 28, 2019 5:49:15 GMT -5
Anyone here watched this documentary?
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Jun 18, 2019 9:08:26 GMT -5
Post by stardustpilgrim on Jun 18, 2019 9:08:26 GMT -5
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wag-dog-director-barry-levinson-sees-trump-era-comparisons-q-a-993067I've never seen this film but know of it and remember it since its release. Despite the heavyweights I passed. But now I'm afraid it's relevant again, and a Trump-war vs Iran is in the planning stages primarily as a way to get reelected. From intimations I think the majority of the Generals are in favor of war and it wouldn't take a lot of trouble to convince POTUS to pull the trigger. I voted for the T man only on the basis of anybody-but-Hilary! But most of my family (not all) are still nuts for the P-Nut (no pun intended, he's a frightening Egotistic Narcissist...and I never even watched The Apprentice). ...I think our only hope is for the Republican leadership to switch their 2-peas for walnuts...
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Jul 7, 2019 8:15:36 GMT -5
I figured out the title of the new Star Wars coming out Christmas. No, I won't say. Anybody can figure it out. ...Just as an aside, (but may be relevant). George Lucas had a storyline figured out for the 7th Star Wars film, but didn't want to make the movie. He sold the rights. The new owners chose not to do his story, wrote their own storyline...(and look at what happened...but nonetheless not too bad...)...
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Jul 8, 2019 15:03:21 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2019 15:03:21 GMT -5
I didn't realize it was a Christopher Nolan film, no wonder it's so good... (couldn't see the link, it's restricted). Ah sorry you couldn't see it. I'll leave you with his Desert Island Discs then. Hope that plays for you www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b09rwygm
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