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I saw several movies in 2015. The best, I think, was "Bridge of Spies," based on the true story of the U-2 spy plane and the negotiation for the release of Gary Powers.

I'm fascinated by movies that get poor reviews, but which I love when I see them. Recently, Bette reported liking "In the Heart of the Sea," based on the true story that inspired Herman Melville to write "Moby Dick." That movie got trashed in reviews, but I liked it. The best example of a movie I loved which got trashed is "Somewhere in Time," starring Christopher Reeves and a very young Jane Seymour. When I saw it in Boston, the sophisticated college crowd hissed at its sentimental scenes. Indeed, it is probably the most sentimental movie love story ever. But I have never been more moved by a movie love story and have seen it several times. Its mood is helped by its beautiful Rachmaninov musical score and by Chrstiopher Reeve's vulnerability. He would later play Superman and then die for injuries sustained from falling off a horse.
 
Then there is the scroo'dupe reviews of Atticus's dark introspection of the KKK in Go Set a Watchman ... by literary critics that don't see the depth in the myth of Attica ... a confined way of thinking as constructed by limitation of free speech etc.

What exactly does an atti Ka or addled mind have to do with humanoid chaos over beating up on part of their social spread?

Is there a societal calm encouraged by thoughts when deleted from human brutality? Thus it isn't ... or a kind of group denial!
 
I've decided this school o|| year to see a film [=]< each time I finish |[+] a course. When I finish |[+] Systematic Theology, I will :) see Concussion for the second time.
 
Mystic said:
I saw several movies in 2015. The best, I think, was "Bridge of Spies," based on the true story of the U-2 spy plane and the negotiation for the release of Gary Powers.
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I want to see that one, too. 2015 ended being a bit of banner year for spy movies, from serious historical stuff like this to over-the-top popcorn action movies like Man from UNCLE and MI:Rogue Nation to the comic spying of Spy. For all the talk about superheroes dominating Hollywood, I'd say that spies and secret agents held their own for 2015.
 
I'm still going to try to see the latest work of a director who makes really fun comedic fantasies

It's called the Hateful Eight

Filmed in 70mm, the director's cut is 3 h 8m, with a musical intro & an intermission (so only a select few movie theatres will do this)

He says he is only going to be making 10 movies in total

I've been watching interviews, and it sounds like the cast & crew had a blast with this -- it came to a theatre here on Dec 25th & every show has been selling out
 
The hate fu late or that coming as latter dais ain't? Sounds Wu lye to me ... as something a mortal could get into and not out 've?
 
Inannawhimsey said:
I'm still going to try to see the latest work of a director who makes really fun comedic fantasies

It's called the Hateful Eight

Filmed in 70mm, the director's cut is 3 h 8m, with a musical intro & an intermission (so only a select few movie theatres will do this)

He says he is only going to be making 10 movies in total

I've been watching interviews, and it sounds like the cast & crew had a blast with this -- it came to a theatre here on Dec 25th & every show has been selling out
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It's been getting mixed reviews. Some raves but also some suggesting that Tarantino's penchant for updating old ideas with snappy dialogue and tossing out homages to classic films and lost genres is getting stale. I love Quentin myself and will give this one a look sometime, if only because I like the idea of a classic Western with a Tarantino script.
 
I just saw two Christian movies: (1) "Alone, Yet Not Alone" and (2) "War Room."
(1) "Alone, Yet Not Alone" is the true story of an Indian attack of homesteaders in Western Pennsylvania. The context is a state of war between the French and the British. The children of an immigrant German family are taken prisoner and brought to the Indian village to become squaws. The girls struggle to retain their freedom and Christian faith and eventually escape, triggering a hot pursuit to recapture them. It is a flawed, but entertaining movie, made more appealing because it is basically a true story. The theme song for this movie sung by a quadriplegic was nominated for an academy award for best original song and then the nomination was rescinded do to alleged lobbying of the Academy voters.

(2) "War Room" is a movie about the power of petitionary prayer. It features African American lead actors and has reportedly transformed many attitudes towards prayer as a life priority. Many Christians deem it the best Christian movie ever made. Certainly it works very well as a thought provoker. I saw it with a mostly young adult and high school audience who stood and cheered at its conclusion.
 
I saw the War Room last week....wasn't impressed. Right from the get go, the references to War bother me and the idea that prayer is akin to a military operation for results is offensive....the acting was not impressive IMO.....but that's just me.
 
Is preying on positive senses a loss in a world based on positive emotions which oppose thoughts ... other wise negative emotions and thus filling the definition of incarnate ... or appearing as isn't ... something off the horizon? Is that hoary or just frosty ... as a cold surrounding?

Prevents thermodynamic overheating of the brain't issue ... a flexible dielectric predetermined by god knows W'u ... some call this a plastic bind something conditioned through out time ... an abstract comment without clockwork ora nge!

Thus the timely clocking of the mices ... or Misses if you didn't wish to know ... causes loss of thoughts ...
 
Two tear jerkers (in the H***S*** way) I saw were Gravity & Captain Phillips
Gravity scared the HS out of me (ty I had insurance) -- I don't know whether it was my vertigo (or whatever it is--a kind of newish fear of heights-type catholic-style original sin extra crispy?) -- moments of terror when the debris would hit followed by moments of zen-like calm, but you knew that the horror wasn't over...this was one of those movies where i was cheering for the heroine to GTF to safety, wherever that was...at the end of the movie, i was still expecting her to die ('GET OUT OF THE WATER!!! AIGH, HER PARACHUTE IS GOING TO DROWN HER!!! AIGH! WATER BEASTIES!') I'm lucky I didn't see this in IMAX or my head would have detonated causing enough of a disturbance across Christian wi-fi that Jae would have been distracted enough from his typing on WC that he would have pressed the wrong button, thereby releasing, way before schedule, his collection of rabid whelks that would soon take over the TO sewer system...*shudder* I must continue to be careful

Captain Phillips was a horror movie; a showcase of impossible choices and the irreversible effects that happen. My wife was wondering why I was crying so much -- at that moment when the 'rescue' comes, when those lives are changed forever...I experienced, emotionally, why murder is a sin, the incredible, inescapable loss & grief...

I still haven't managed to see Hateful Eight (I hear that it is STILL playing in the theatre I was going to see it at)
 
Didn't see Cap Phi ... but did absorb the vert Egos from Gravity ... a dark force out there too ... opposing levity? Don't get too caught up in gravid tings ... have a few floaters in the loo or behind yah ...

If shitty enough the corporate monsters will avoid you as too fertile for institution or fixation ...

Grow or extend yourself elsewhere ... out of the presence ...
 
For a light comedy, with enough historical veracity to keep it entertaining, I enjoyed "A Royal Night Out" this week. NY Times called it "shameless royalist fluff", which is about right.
 
I'd like to see "Behind the Rocks" directed by 9-year-old Maia Costea

I first heard aboot her on CBC radio when she was interviewed and I thought "What a well spoken young girl"

So while visiting a friend, up she popped in the local news for a story. She has won awards.

This is one of the things I have found online

 
Genes, jinns or the indigo fabrication about a place that wasn't ... a sort of holier than thou' sign?

Consider the cover-up and getting the goods under that ...

Aren't G*URLs the most attractive things to throw a man over?
 
I saw The Revenant last night. I must be the all-time grittiest western. Leonardo de Caprio did all his own stants and that must have been very hard on him, given the harsh conditions--the cold winter setting, the rapids, the waterfall that he was swept over. He will probably receive the Best Actor Oscar largely because of what he endured to make this movie. It will be interesting to see if it gets Best Picture.
 
Pr. Jae said:
I'm eagerly awaiting the new Power Pack film.
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it'll be like 1991 all over again

more Kymellian
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Mystic said:
He will probably receive the Best Actor Oscar largely because of what he endured to make this movie.
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Which kind of makes you wonder if the award would be for how well he portrays the character (ie. acts) or just for having the guts to do it.
 
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