Coming Soon... Recommend and Discuss Theater/Cinema Films
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Nancy R wrote:
Saw The Greatest Showman on Friday afternoon (Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum) Very enjoyable and the music is great - by the same guys who won an Oscar for LaLa Land.
Interesting. It got a horrendous review in the San Francisco Chronicle (by the same critic who loved La La Land. Anyone else seen it? There are a handful of movies I'm wondering whether I should see in the next few days while I have time off.
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Bruce M. wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
Saw The Greatest Showman on Friday afternoon (Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum) Very enjoyable and the music is great - by the same guys who won an Oscar for LaLa Land.
Interesting. It got a horrendous review in the San Francisco Chronicle (by the same critic who loved La La Land. Anyone else seen it? There are a handful of movies I'm wondering whether I should see in the next few days while I have time off.
I have actually never been to the circus, but I am a huge Hugh Jackman fan. He, the music and the story made the movie for me. He really is a triple threat who can sing, dance and act. He won a Tony in 2004 for The Boy From Oz (I met him at the stage door and got a pic with him) and was nominated for an Oscar for Les Miserables (all of the singing in that movie was done LIVE!)
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Saw "Downsizing" (starring Matt Damon) - was disappointed in it, and wish I wouldn't have wasted my money.
It's about scientists in Norway who come up with a solution to over population, and the depletion of the world's resources...they invent a drug that shrinks people to only 5 inches tall, which they get by inoculation Once someone goes through the process it can't be reversed... about 30% of the world's population decides to shrink and lives in their own communities.
This was in the trailer, so it's not a spoiler... Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig play a married couple with many debts and nothing bright to look forward to in their future. They decide to get shrunk in order to have the house, cars, and money that they've always wanted.... Matt goes through the procedure and is shrunk, then can't find his wife... she calls him and says "Sorry, but i just couldn't go through with it..." and sends him divorce papers... at only 5 inches tall, he has difficulty holding the pen to sign the papers, but is just told to sign really really big.
He tries to get on with his life in the tiny (pun intended) community, but is still hurting at the loss of his wife. He meets a one-legged fellow shrunken woman, who is Vietnamese and cleans houses, and she urges him to help her bring food to the poor and homeless people in their shrunken city.
That's about it as far as plot goes... can't even say if the ending is happy or not. I didn't like the film, and found Matt Damon's character uninteresting... throughout the movie he seemed bored witih his life, and then resigned to a fate worse than death... it definitely wasn't a feel good flick.... I kept hoping that maybe a bird or grasshopper would invade the little community, just to create some adventure and excitement....
My rating would be 2 out of 5 stars. The two stars are for Christoph Walz and Udo Kier (who would have made great villains in the film if they'd have been given the chance!)
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Nancy R wrote:
Bruce M. wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
Saw The Greatest Showman on Friday afternoon (Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum) Very enjoyable and the music is great - by the same guys who won an Oscar for LaLa Land.
Interesting. It got a horrendous review in the San Francisco Chronicle (by the same critic who loved La La Land. Anyone else seen it? There are a handful of movies I'm wondering whether I should see in the next few days while I have time off.
I have actually never been to the circus, but I am a huge Hugh Jackman fan. He, the music and the story made the movie for me. He really is a triple threat who can sing, dance and act. He won a Tony in 2004 for The Boy From Oz (I met him at the stage door and got a pic with him) and was nominated for an Oscar for Les Miserables (all of the singing in that movie was done LIVE!)
Thanks for the great review, Nancy. I'd love to see this! Its kind of sad that the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey circus closed. I can understand the animal rights groups not wanting animals mistreated and exploited, but circus arts like the flying trapeze, walking the tightrope, jugglers, clowns, etc. were always interesting to see... and a dying art now.
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LadyLeslie wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
Bruce M. wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
Saw The Greatest Showman on Friday afternoon (Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum) Very enjoyable and the music is great - by the same guys who won an Oscar for LaLa Land.
Interesting. It got a horrendous review in the San Francisco Chronicle (by the same critic who loved La La Land. Anyone else seen it? There are a handful of movies I'm wondering whether I should see in the next few days while I have time off.
I have actually never been to the circus, but I am a huge Hugh Jackman fan. He, the music and the story made the movie for me. He really is a triple threat who can sing, dance and act. He won a Tony in 2004 for The Boy From Oz (I met him at the stage door and got a pic with him) and was nominated for an Oscar for Les Miserables (all of the singing in that movie was done LIVE!)
Thanks for the great review, Nancy. I'd love to see this! Its kind of sad that the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey circus closed. I can understand the animal rights groups not wanting animals mistreated and exploited, but circus arts like the flying trapeze, walking the tightrope, jugglers, clowns, etc. were always interesting to see... and a dying art now.
I forgot to mention, all the animals (elephants, tigers, horses) in the movie are CGI. The story has a great message of inclusion and to not be prejudiced against someone who looks different.
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"Pitch Perfect Three" gives lots of rushes of pure pleasure!
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SusyLuvsPaul wrote:
"Pitch Perfect Three" gives lots of rushes of pure pleasure!
You’re back! Did you check your PMs and see what I found?
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Saw "Darkest Hour" last night. Gary Oldman is astonishing as Winston Churchill, but overall the movie felt a bit too self-important to me and a shade too worshipful of Churchill, who was a decidedly mixed bag overall. But Oldman is clearly a Best Actor candidate.
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Gary Oldman is an amazing actor. With most movie stars, you know exactly what you're going to get. If you see a Tom Cruise movie, Tom Cruise will be playing a Tom Cruise character, whether he's chasing bad guys as a spy or chasing bad guys as a cop or chasing bad guys as a soldier.
Gary Oldman can play any type. Slap some make up on him and he disappears into the character. Tom Cruise always looks like Tom Cruise, and apparently has some kind of youth serum. Gary Oldman rarely looks like Gary Oldman, and never looks like Tom Cruise.
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Gary Oldman won the Golden Globe for best actor in a movie drama, so he may snag the Oscar too.
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HaileyMcComet wrote:
Gary Oldman is an amazing actor. With most movie stars, you know exactly what you're going to get. If you see a Tom Cruise movie, Tom Cruise will be playing a Tom Cruise character, whether he's chasing bad guys as a spy or chasing bad guys as a cop or chasing bad guys as a soldier.
Gary Oldman can play any type. Slap some make up on him and he disappears into the character. Tom Cruise always looks like Tom Cruise, and apparently has some kind of youth serum. Gary Oldman rarely looks like Gary Oldman, and never looks like Tom Cruise.
Yes, he is an amazing actor! I haven't seen his newest movie yet though, will probably see it once it comes out for home viewing.
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Nancy R wrote:
Gary Oldman won the Golden Globe for best actor in a movie drama, so he may snag the Oscar too.
And it would be a well deserved award, though I haven't seen most of the other likely nominees.
And while I have everyone's attention, I gotta put in one last plug for "Coco," for anyone who hasn't seen it. It's glorious, and thoroughly deserved the Golden Globe for best animated film. Actually, it shouldn't belong in the "animated" ghetto -- it's just a great, great movie.
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This is a 100% spoiler-free post. I won't even mention that Darth Vader is Luke's father.
I saw The Last Jedi. I went in with low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. It's much better than The Force Awakens, which does little more than set up a sequel and offer nostalgia. The Last Jedi works on its own.
I can see why it upset some people, but I think movies should be made by the filmmakers, not the fans.
My only complaint is a scene with Princess Leia. If you've seen it, you already know what I'm talking about. I don't mind that she used the Force, or even the way she used it. It just looked really stupid. A billion dollars on computer effects and they couldn't make it look any better?
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Saw an independant film called "The Death of Stalin"on Saturday night. Jason Isaacs, who is in the film, was in town and was doing a Q&A after the showing, so I of course had to go!
The movie was pretty good. I wasn't sure what to expect going in but I think everybody who was there enjoyed it and I did laugh many times during the film. Of course extra bonus was getting to meet Jason Isaacs after!
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The movie version of 700 Sundays came out in 2014 and the stage show was 2004, so it's not exactly coming soon, but I just saw it.
I'm not a Billy Crystal fan by any stretch of the imagination, but his performance in this was incredible. It's just him, standing on stage and telling stories, but he made me laugh and cry. I never knew he could act until now.
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HaileyMcComet wrote:
The movie version of 700 Sundays came out in 2014 and the stage show was 2004, so it's not exactly coming soon, but I just saw it.
I'm not a Billy Crystal fan by any stretch of the imagination, but his performance in this was incredible. It's just him, standing on stage and telling stories, but he made me laugh and cry. I never knew he could act until now.
He’s been acting since 1975! I first discovered him on the TV show Soap.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000345/?ref_=nv_sr_1
He was in the movie When Harry Met Sally with that infamous diner scene with Meg Ryan!
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I've seen many/most of his movies.
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Took the kiddos to see "Won't You Be My Neighbor" on Thursday. Such a lovely documentary about Mister Rogers. The world really does need more Mister Rogers right now.
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Fred Rogers was awesome. The Mother Teresa of TV. Unfortunately, if his show were on today, he'd be labelled a pansy who was trying to indoctrinate children into "the Libral Cult" of tolerance and acceptance.
I know this isn't a political topic, and American politics are ugly, but Fred Rogers was a real Republican. Today, he would be called a RINO or traitor.
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I sat through "Mama Mia: Here We Go Again" twice in a row, and found it charming, full of fun and pretty ABBA music and some love and romance, and that Greek island is gorgeous... felt surprised Meryl Streep didn't pop up 'til the last scene, and she was a...never mind, don't want to be a spoil sport. Cher showed up toward the last and was fun, sang great.
I saw snippets of "Second Chance" (not just snippets; nearly showed the whole movie) online, an upcoming new Jennifer Lopez movie in which she pretends to have an ordinary hard life, rather like "Maid in Manhattan." Her best friend Leah Remini co-stars (nepotism? I like her, though).