JuanHamm wrote:It's movie night at my parents house - this week we're watching The Eagle has Landed.
Great cast. I'm really enjoying it so far.
a good 70s movie...are your parents nazi's?
I don't think so, but I can't say for sure.
I really enjoyed the movie. I was surprised at how old Robert Duvall looked, but I just looked him up and he was born in 1931. He's older than Michael Caine.
JuanHamm wrote:It's movie night at my parents house - this week we're watching The Eagle has Landed.
Great cast. I'm really enjoying it so far.
a good 70s movie...are your parents nazi's?
I don't think so, but I can't say for sure.
I really enjoyed the movie. I was surprised at how old Robert Duvall looked, but I just looked him up and he was born in 1931. He's older than Michael Caine.
I remember really liking the great santini as a kid
Showing Up was lovely. A dryly funny, quiet and gentle viewing experience that sneaks up on you in that very specific Kelly Reichardt kind of way.
Michelle Williams tends to be very hit or miss for me, but she was great in this. Judd Hirsch is awesome in everything. Nice to see Andre Benjamin, too (great flute work).
It’s not First Cow good, but very good none the less.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Excellent story. Think it manages to avoid the pitfalls stories like this can easily fall into.
I thought it fell in them a little bit. It was OK.
I understand where you’re coming from with that, because it’s not a million miles away from having something cliché about it. Still I think it’s well cast, well written, and ends just right. Good movie.
Have got 45 minutes left from 20th Century Women, but we have been a little bored so far. Not very impressed with the acting or the story. Will finish later today.
Exactly what I expect it to be (but with two surprisingly emotional scenes that I didn't expect). I enjoyed it. J-Law slays. I'd watch her in anything.
Exactly what I expect it to be (but with two surprisingly emotional scenes that I didn't expect). I enjoyed it. J-Law slays. I'd watch her in anything.
I thought you meant Jude Law and was quite perplexed for a second there.
Exactly what I expect it to be (but with two surprisingly emotional scenes that I didn't expect). I enjoyed it. J-Law slays. I'd watch her in anything.
I thought you meant Jude Law and was quite perplexed for a second there.
