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Post by BillG on Aug 20, 2018 13:43:41 GMT -5
Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie
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Post by BillG on Aug 20, 2018 19:21:52 GMT -5
Extinction
5/10
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Post by BillG on Aug 25, 2018 12:02:24 GMT -5
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Post by BillG on Aug 29, 2018 19:15:19 GMT -5
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2/10
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Post by BillG on Aug 30, 2018 22:22:42 GMT -5
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Post by BillG on Aug 31, 2018 20:30:46 GMT -5
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Post by BillG on Sept 3, 2018 11:53:52 GMT -5
Backstabbing for Beginners
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Post by BillG on Sept 4, 2018 16:48:17 GMT -5
Genesis
2/10
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Post by BillG on Sept 5, 2018 19:41:02 GMT -5
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Post by BillG on Sept 6, 2018 18:48:06 GMT -5
My Friend Dahmer
7/10
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Post by BillG on Sept 8, 2018 20:47:35 GMT -5
Since nobody else cares to post to this thread, I will also quit. Bye.
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Post by SUVFan on Dec 5, 2019 10:55:19 GMT -5
Since nobody else cares to post to this thread, I will also quit. Bye. Sorry, Bill. For a while I was not watching any movies outside of Oscar season. My next two posts will be about the ones I saw recently. Based on the previews they showed, I don't know that I'll be seeing anything else real soon but you never know. |
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Post by SUVFan on Dec 5, 2019 10:57:09 GMT -5
Last week I went to see Ford vs. Ferrari:
Rating: I'll give it a 7.5 out of 10.
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Post by SUVFan on Dec 5, 2019 12:00:58 GMT -5
A couple of weeks or so ago, I saw The Irishman:
Rating: 2 out of 10
At least an hour, maybe an hour and a half could have easily been cut from this 3 and a half hour monster. It needed an intermission! The good news is that it's moved to Netflix (they made it and put it in theatres only to qualify it for awards) now, so you can stop it at your leisure and fast forward through the dull parts.
Though the main storyline was compelling (a good enough reason to still watch it), of the three long time star actors, I thought only Joe Pesci turned in a great performance.
DeNiro can still nail the mobster gig (well, one scene that involved kicking a storekeeper to the curb was acted worse than just about any comparable B movie scene) but, not unlike most of his other recent roles, he's being asked to play a touchy-feely guy, too. He didn't pull that off well at all. Partly because it's impossible for this role as Frank Sheeran. For whatever reason, Scorsese tried to make DeNiro's character sympathetic, despite a scene near the end when a priest asks the aging Sheeran directly if he has any regret for the awful things he's done and Sheeran replies that he doesn't. When a guy spends his adult life committing more murders than you can count and isn't at all sorry, he's undeserving of sympathy. So that's a major whiff and a source of much of the film that should have been cut.
As for Al Pacino, the other star? Let's just say he's not The Godfather any more. If it were being made today, I can't see it winning anything with Pacino playing the elder Corleone.
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Post by SUVFan on Dec 5, 2019 12:19:20 GMT -5
Another movie in which Pacino was great, contrasted by his recent attempt at Jimmy Hoffa in The Irishman. |
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