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| Syd |
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Befade wrote: I'm going to admit it: I'm a girl. All the boys said go see The Lone Ranger it's so much fun. The boys said.
I'm done. I'm a girl. NO MORE action movies that go for 2 and 1/2 hours.
NO MORE action movies period. I took my grandchildren to see Wolverine and I said the same thing. Over 2 hours. What's with all the chasing, fighting, guns, noise, trains? My sensibilities are not in tune with this. I am a girl.
I should say add on 2 hours driving time to the theatre.......and maybe you can understand a little. I could get to the Grand Canyon in the time it took the Lone Ranger to explore the west. Texas it was not. It was Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Great places to visit. Great sights to see.
I used to watch William Fitchner when he was on As the World Turns. He played a creepy and unlikeable character. Give me a soap opera. (I'm a girl.)
It's not just girls. I was so turned off by the trailer and descriptions of the movie that I wasn't tempted to see it. I'll give it a chance for cultural literacy when it gets to the dollar theaters, but it doesn't seem like the sort of movie I'd like.
You have to drive two hours to see a movie? I whine when its 40 minutes away. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 11:01 pm |
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What movies do you like? "The Way Way Back" and "The Spectacular Now" might be more your taste, or, if you don't mind being scared, "The Conjuring," in which just about all the interesting characters are female (as in "The Descent").
Am I the only person here who's seen "The Conjuring"? Trust me, you're missing something. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 11:41 pm |
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| The Conjuring sounds fantastic, but my problem is getting someone to go with me. Everybody I know is convinced either 1) that it's trashy or 2) that it's too scary. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 12:00 am |
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Syd.......I would see Conjuring for the acting......but I don't like scary ghost movies.
I drive 1 hr. for some movies, 1/2 hour for some movies, but 2 hours for the best movies.........that would include Blue Jasmine.
One thing about the Lone Ranger that I thought was important. The creation of the railroad was not glorified.......it did do damage to the Indians. Can you believe tourists would ride the train out west to shoot buffalos (from the train) for sport? And when Tom Wilkerson's character says to Tonto "Someday Americans won't know you people ever existed." That was a gut wrenching comment. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 12:21 am |
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billyweeds wrote: The Conjuring sounds fantastic, but my problem is getting someone to go with me. Everybody I know is convinced either 1) that it's trashy or 2) that it's too scary.
It's not trashy, but it's pretty scary/ |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 12:50 am |
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I don't like action films or superhero films or explosions and car chases and gunfights. And I'm not a girl. Sex scenes also usually bore me.
I watched 2/3rds of that recent Superman film -- picked up only because my niece requested it -- and thought it was terrible. I rarely rArely don't finish a film. That Batman with Ledger as the Joker was total garbage in my book.
So I'll probably stay away from The Lone Ranger.
I also generally dislike long films and mostly prefer a film to be around 90 minutes. But I can sit through longer films if they are good, and occasionally I wish a film were longer. It's amazing how long a bad 80 minute film can seem, or how quickly a great 2 hour film can zoom by.
[Edit: I finally discovered why my spell-check seems to work intermittently. The Gov't here sometimes blocks and often slows down google, so the google spell-check dictionary often can't load] |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 3:52 am |
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| THE CONJURING is a meta-movie - one that is fun for all of the fun horror films it evokes, rips-off and pays homage to. There's bits from PSYCHO, THE EXORCIST, CHUCKY, POLTERGEIST, THE BIRDS, 13 GHOSTS and a shitload more. It's scary and silly. I liked it! |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 12:29 pm |
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Sounds like The Conjuring is some fun that I completely overlooked. Fixing that this week, before it blows town. The last horror film I liked was Cabin in the Woods, which was about as "meta" as you can get. Thanks for the alert, Syd!
Like Syd, I tend to whine, whimper even, when I have to drive more than 15 minutes for a movie. Of course, if my theater drives were through the scenic wilds of Arizona, I could probably cover more distance with less whimpering.
If "guy" film means what Gromit describes - explosions, chases, bang bang kill kill - then I'm not much into that, either. But those all can be elements of a fine movie. Fine movies tend to transcend genre? |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 1:28 pm |
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| I found Lili Taylor an odd casting choice for THE CONJURING. She plays the mother of five young daughters (four are pre-teens). Taylor is 46 years old and looks it (not a bad thing). The character she plays is based on a real person and perhaps the real person had a bunch of kids in her mid-to-late 30s but Taylor's casting took me out of the picture. I didn't buy her as the mother of such young children. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 1:46 pm |
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| I didn't really notice. Maybe the experience of raising five daughters aged her prematurely, though all the kids seemed pretty nice. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 3:13 pm |
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The Ceausescu doc picked up just seconds after I resumed, and the next half hour breezed by.
- Ceausescu goes to some large national fair where there is a costumed reenactment of some Romanian medieval founding myth.
- There's a press conference with ridiculously softball questions such as: "Romania and the Romanian Communist Party is the only country and party worldwide to have good relations with every country in the world, even the Communist Party of China**. Tell me, how has such a result been achieved?"
- There are big rallies in Bucharest to condemn the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and warning everyone to respect Romanian sovereignty.
- Tricky Dick pops in to Romania and glad hands everyone willing to be touched by him. First American president to visit Romania and commie Eastern Europe.
- Then a big parade which oddly includes simulated sports. So there's a travelling basketball game with the baskets pushed on wheels and lots of people dressed in white acting as the walking sidelines. A moveable boxing match, with 4 guys as walking turnbuckles, holding the ropes. A volleyball match in the parade as well. Kind of zany -- you wonder who thought all that up. Somebody int the Sports Ministry must be proud.
- Next Ceaucescu visits China and sees everyone dressed alike and meets with Mao and Lin Biao (the soon to be disgraced #2, who helped launch the Cultural revolution but then was accused of trying to overthrow Mao, and died in a plane crash reportedly trying to flee the country)
Let's hope the doc stays in this mode.
** China was then on the outs with the Soviet Union and its Eastern European client states.
I guess Nixon did a lot of rapprochement with communist countries. Besides the famous trip to China, he also gave Brezhnev a bunch of Cadillacs, one of which Leonid (drunk?) proceeded to smash into a tree. I saw the mangled car in the Riga Auto Museum with a Brezhnev dummy at the wheel. After that, they tried to prevent him from driving himself anywhere. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 9:24 pm |
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| It's comforting to know that all guys don't love action movies. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 11:57 pm |
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| Whilst on the subject of conjuring, I notice that, with the release of Now You See, Morgan Freeman continues to add gravitas to movies so lightweight that they would otherwise be in danger of floating away. I was about to add that he does this with a regularity and lack of discerment unmatched since Michael Caine was taking great strides to secure his financial future, when, lo and behold, I saw that Michael Ciane also fhada part in the film. It must really have needed tying down. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 4:46 am |
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Befade wrote: It's comforting to know that all guys don't love action movies.
More comfort: I hate MOST action movies. But not The Lone Ranger. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 7:45 am |
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Best German action movie:
Die Hard
("The Hard")
Recently, Skyfall wasn't bad, in the action genre. Ditto The Long Wanger. I mean The Lone Ranger....was just reading the New Yorker, sorry. |
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