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Kimmio said:
Because I thought it was based on a true story - about African American women who were part of the early space program but didn't get recognized. That's what I was told and I wanted to see it to learn the story and about those women. If it's all fictitious then I don't find it as intriguing because it didn't happen. I'm disappointed that it didn't happen.
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Kimmio, you would enjoy it, I think.
It is based on a true story, and you see pictures of the actual women at the end.
 
Pinga said:
Kimmio, you would enjoy it, I think.
It is based on a true story, and you see pictures of the actual women at the end.
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Yes, I agree. I enjoyed Hidden Figures a lot - and it is based on a true story as pinga says. I enjoyed seeing the women pictured in the closing credits. There was much I wondered about - their back stories, the colleges they attended, how they were hired etc. Interesting to think they were actually called "calculators". I think some of the depictions of the attitudes of segregation were good to see, probably even sanitized a bit tho for the movie. The courage to speak up, to ask, to challenge ... all still continue as challenges today for women in many positions.
 
I probably will see Hidden Figures in a few days. I have a free movie pass I have yet to use. Sorry, when Pinga said she'd prefer to see a real drama, I misunderstood. I thought she meant a "real" drama (as opposed to a fictitious one). It didn't register properly. I get it now.
 
dreamerman said:
Does that mean you liked the movie or not?
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Just commentary on what's in the label alone ... as it is attached as important words as semiotic! Similar to Semitic with buried potential ... understandings lost in time?

It is somewhat stupefying sometimes ... what goes unseen. There are even commentaries in a significant text about the nature of what is unseen and what isn't ... stuff of the sol ... sometimes taken as thought! Mad people deny thought as not sufficiently dynamic --- that Newton chap!
 
Read this item in another article "Gay characters these days are so commonplace they’re even allowed to have flaws"

I think that is the issue that i have with some movies..suxh as hidden figures. They aren't allowed to have flaws.
 
I missed out on a chance to see "Lion" on Sunday. It was part of our "Shadows of the Mind" festival. My friend runs the theatre where it was showing (sold out) and said that I could come it to see it if I worked...picking up garbage and drink glasses and such. I was excited to do this, but then my sister got sick, ended up in the hospital, home by Sunday, but I visited her instead of the movies. A better choice, I think.
 
Some people even believe some humans have no flaws ...

Without that there'd be no crappy words to stimulate dialect's ... thus the phonetics became diverse as leaking through a crack in the system as stinking thoughts ... Po's Theory about the Golden Hind know early as the Golden Ass when they understood what it symbolized ... between the Deus ... there was a puddle ... the Golden Pond ... some thyme required to mature ...
 
I decided spontaneously to see a late movie. I was at London Drugs and Starbucks nearby and I looked up show times - waited around for an hour. Now I am in the theatre - alone - about to watch The Shack. A little eerie. I've gone to movies alone several times but never have I been the only one in the theatre! 5 minutes until showtime. Maybe somebody else will show up. I can be on my phone I guess - nobody's here to bother!
 
Kimmio said:
I saw it. Good movie. It has a Christian message but not preachy.
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Yes, it's a really good movie. Glad you enjoyed it too. I saw it about a week ago with Yobo, our middle son, and mom. It really emotionally touched me. I shed many tears - some of sadness, many of joy.
 
Pinga said:
Kimmio, you would enjoy it, I think.
It is based on a true story, and you see pictures of the actual women at the end.
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Not to mention one who is still alive joined the cast on stage at the Oscars.
 
revjohn said:
2017 is not shaping up to be a worthwhile trip to the theatres from where I sit.

With the exception of Rogue One I have not been satisfied with the Star Wars movies as a whole, they seem to recycle plot points in favour of new visual effects. As far as fluff goes they are almost worth the price of admission.

Alien Covenant tugs ever so slightly. I may need to let that simmer a bit longer.

As much of a DC fan as I am I cannot say that Justice League excites me in anyway. Any Justice League without a Green Lantern in it is going to suck. Now that there are 6 Earth based GLs (7 if you include Charlie Vickers but he was assigned to a different space sector so he isn't Earth based even though he is from Earth). Hans Zimmer's Wonder Woman score is, so far the most intriguing bit of that movie but I think that needs more simmer time as well.

I did see a trailer for Dunkirk. I will go an see that. I expect it will be a tough sit.

Other than that nothing on the list grabs my attention in anyway.
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I have kind of reached the point of not giving a whiff about the superhero movies. I plan to get caught up on the Marvel movies at some point but the DC ones hold little interest. Batman is about the only DC character I'm a fan of, and I prefer to see him solo dealing with his own rogue's gallery. Wonder Woman would be number two, so I am a bit interested in her finally getting a big screen movie.

Alien Covenant? Not sure. I'm still largely of the feeling that Alien is a thing unto itself and doesn't need expansion. Cameron went a very different direction with his take on it and it work because Cameron. I wasn't thrilled with the rest of the sequels and what I've heard about Prometheus and Covenant makes them sound like needless complication of a simple idea. In the end, Alien worked because it was a bunch of ordinary folks confronting the unknown in the middle of nowhere. It doesn't need explanation of where the aliens came from or what elaborate cosmic conspiracy created them. Keeping the xenomorph a dark, sinister mystery is what made that movie work.

Kong : Skull Island is out and I shall see it at some point, if not in theatres then when it hits streaming. Reviews have generally been positive and giant apes fighting prehistoric monsters is an itch I need scratched. The world needs more kaiju movies, damn it. :cool:

However, we are getting into a world where TV shows can be as exciting and as much of an event as movies and the one media production I am actually pumped about right now is the TV series American Gods (which will run on Starz in North America so I'm not sure yet how I will watch it) based on the novel of the same title by Neil Gaiman.
 
Similarly, on the superhero front, the Netflix Marvel series (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, though I'm hearing that Iron Fist is, alas, a miss) or the CW DC shows (Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow) seem as interesting as any of the movie options.
 
Mendalla said:
Similarly, on the superhero front, the Netflix Marvel series (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, though I'm hearing that Iron Fist is, alas, a miss) or the CW DC shows (Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow) seem as interesting as any of the movie options.
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Legends of Tomorrow is my favorite TV show currently on-air. Never miss it. I'm a huge fan, especially of The Atom.

In terms of superhero movies - I am looking forward to Aquaman, Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and Ant-Man and the Wasp.
 
Jae said:
Legends of Tomorrow is my favorite TV show currently on-air. Never miss it. I'm a huge fan, especially of The Atom.

In terms of superhero movies - I am looking forward to Aquaman, Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and Ant-Man and the Wasp.
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Forgot GoG2. I don't think of GoG as superhero. It feels more like space fantasy a la Star Wars.
 
Jae said:
And yet GoG's going to be in the next Avengers flick.
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Oh, I know they're in the same universe. I mean Thanos was in the first one and also in the first Avengers (and will be the villain in Infinity Wars). It feels different from the Earth-based superhero stories, though. It's a big universe and I like that they tinker with the tone from series to series.
 

W ... T ... F is that? Supposedly, it's the trailer for a film about King Arthur but other than some character names and a sword stuck in a stone, it doesn't seem much like an Arthurian movie. Wuxia-style fighting and elephants the size of small mountains seem a bit out of place in medieval or Dark Age Britain, the proper settings for Arthur depending on which version of the legend you are using (Malory and his kin are medieval while most modern ones riff off of the more historically-based idea that he was a Dark Age leader in the era just after the Romans left). This may actually be a fun movie to watch but I can't see it displacing John Boorman's magnificent, if flawed, Excalibur as the gold standard for Arthurian movies.
 
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