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Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by Orange_and_Bluke, Apr 14, 2023.

  1. defensewinschampionships

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    Just watched "Vantage Point" for the first time. I thought it was pretty good. Also, the newer version of "True Grit" - solid
     
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  3. 92gator

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    Here's a fun one, for those who are unaware.

    ***FISRT, DO NOT WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW UNTIL YOU READ THIS***

    The Outlaw Josey Wales.
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    Clint Eastwood.

    My favorite Eastwood pic and one of the best all time westerners (imho). Read the book last year after rewatching the movie. That prompted me to look into the back story of both the book and movie. That is laid out in the vid, which requires a spoiler alert as the narrator gives a fair amount of the movie away.

    i recommend watching the movie, then the vid below.

    if you're not interested in the movie, by all means, indulge in the vid. It's about 18 mins., and very compelling. Fwiw.

     
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  4. Orange_and_Bluke

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    Josey Wales is one of my favorites.
     
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    Movie was very confusing…basically sucked
     
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  6. phatGator

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    Just watched 4 episode mini-series All the Light We Cannot See. WWII story set in France. Very good!
     
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  8. phatGator

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    I found this a few years ago and thought it was a tremendous movie.
     
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  9. 92gator

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    Looks good. I definitely want to check it out.
     
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    based on the Pulitzer Prize winning book. Good tip - I’ll check it out
     
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  11. ursidman

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    Agree. Finished it last night. Thought it pretty good.

    Reading all the rave reviews for sci-fi and horror movies makes me feel like a stranger in a strange land. Cannot abide either genre. Must be something wrong with me.
     
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  12. PITBOSS

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    I’m generally not a fan of horror movies but do like some (my post 314). But I do like sci fi movies. but like any movie, if imo they’re well made. But some really enjoy good movies and imo have great taste, but not into sci fi. Curious why you don’t like the genre.
     
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  13. ursidman

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    Dunno really. I just prefer other genres- slice of life (Kramer vs Kramer, August, Osage County, Places in the Heart) Historical (Sea Biscuit, Saving Private Ryan), Western based on real people or events (A River Runs Through It is 1 of my security question answers) Adventure or Survival where ordinary people overcome the odds or don’t (ARTIC, Apollo 13). Any movie the Cohen Bros, Eastwood, or Scorsese does and Documentaries.
     
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  14. phatGator

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    I like some sci-fi stuff, but no interest at all in horror movies.

    Two Syfy series I liked:

    Counterpart. Parallel universes. A low level UN employee discovers a secret portal between them. I think JK Simmons is a very underrated actor.

    The City and the City. Police procedural set in an area where there are two cities side-by-side, but one is like repressive East Germany and the other free West Germany. Except there are no fences or walls, just an imaginary line on the ground. The residents of the repressive side are not even allowed to look at the other side.
     
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    My favorite slice of life is Nobody’s Fool with Paul Newman. In survival, I’ve never stop thinking of the documentary Touching the Void. And if you consider Jaws a survival film, that is up there for me as well.
     
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    I am currently watching This England with Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson. It’s somewhat parallel paths, with one path being the story of Boris and his wife. The other path is the UK reacting and responding to the outbreak of Covid.

    I finished three of the six episodes. It’s fast paced, which emphasizes the sense of urgency of what was going on.

    The makeup team for Branagh should get awards because they made him look exactly like Boris Johnson. At the beginning of the series I thought I was watching clips of Johnson because I did not recognize Branagh at all.

    For anyone interested, here’s an article about transforming Branagh into Johnson. There’s a short movie clip interviewing Branagh as well as other actors about the transformation.

    This England | See how Kenneth Branagh transformed into Boris Johnson | Radio Times
     
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  17. rivergator

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    Started watching Bodies on Netflix but bailed after a couple of episodes. Ditto for Fall of the House of Usher.
    But Shadow and Bone is looking better.
     
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    So I watched this recently, and it was intense. Curious if any of the music guys can tell me if the instructor was just playing head games by berating the drummers and making them compete under pressure or were they really off tempo and messing up. My layperson ears couldn't tell the difference!

    Definitely recommend.

    Whiplash (2014) ⭐ 8.5 | Drama, Music

    A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
     
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    I thought this was what sort of made the movie interesting and sort of darkly funny. Most people are like "this sounds completely fine, and no one even cares about this music anymore (especially as a competition), the pursuit of rigid perfection makes it even more sterile and boring." It was kind of a serious and mean version of the Pitch Perfect movies.