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Men, Women & Children (2014)
Tech sure makes things better?!?!
The Internet and cell phones are HUGE inventions! The Internet is a portable library a nab d with cell phones you can talk with anyone in the world and can send pictures. But instead it is ABUSED! Peoples hearts, minds and souls just aren't as evolved as thevtech. They think porn is cool. Not just porn of strangers, but exploitative porn of themselves and each other. Internet games could be healthy and educational, but instead they chose SICK games and drop out of " normal" activities like football. Actually football is potentially dangerous and if you think its dangerous why bothet? Parents are right to be concerned. However the parents in this film go overboard and nearly cause a suicide! Scary film, but it could happen. Not a funny film!
Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage (2024)
So average!
Young Sheldon was great because it had a lot of diversity in character:
Faith (Mom) vs Science (Sheldon)
Socially precocious (Missy) vs Intellectually precocious (Sheldon)
Asocial genius (Sheldon) vs social genius (Paige)
Young brat (Sheldon) respects and needs good old boy (Dad)
Know it all ( Sheldon) learns from weary teachers.
Average and cute George is different from Sheldon, Missy, Paige and Spunky Meemaw.
In George and Mandy it is just average average average average.
However I will keep watching because I hope it improves.
LOSE THE LAUGH TRACK!!!!
Mandys brother doesn't add anything.
The Butler (2013)
It should have been a great movie!
The Life of a White House butler? Should have been great. It was "based" on a real person yet it was fiction. They weren't allowed to base it on a real person?
The actual butlers mother wasn't raped, nor was his father shot.
Forest Whittaker didn't look right. He's too old and his lazy eye didn't look right.
The butlers wife wasn't an alcoholic and she didn't come close to having an affair.
They had one son, he served in Vietnam and came home.
The fictional son was every where a young Black radical should be! A bit much!
The people hired as the Presidents didn't look right.
However, the movie got me thinking about what it must be like to work in the White House. Also got me thinking of the Black Civil Rights struggle since the late 50s. Certainly a lot has happened!
La Bamba (1987)
Great!
I first saw this on the big screen and then saw it several times on TV and enjoyed it each time and cried at the plane crash. Its the first tragedy of Rock n Roll.
Lou Phillips did a great job portraying young innocent hopeful Richie. He looked like he had the cards stacked against him working in that migrant tent community. Then bad boy brother came along and gave Mom a wad of cash (made with illicit gains) However he saved the day! The family was able to live in a house, though a poor one. Richie was able to go to school and meet the love of his short life Donna, Richie was able to meet the Silhouettes and play with them. Mom was able to organize a concert and Bob Keene happened by and got Ritchie produced. Hmm, I wonder if it really happened that way?! I thought the movie was excellent, sweet and sad. Bad brother Bob played by Esau Morales was excellent. My only complaint? They should have used the real music of Ritchie Valens!
Lost: Dr. Linus (2010)
More about Richard
We find out more about Richard. Jacob touched him and gave him a gift, he doesn't age and for that and he devoted his life to Jacob. I guess he was a slave on board the Back Rock and he wanted to die because Jacob was dead and he thought his life was nothing. Its real hard for him to die. He's supernatural yet not a leader. I suppose its because he was once a slave and is humble. Jack refuses to kill him and he walks back to beach camp with Jack and Hurley.
We find out Sideways Ben and Dad did spend time in Dharma Initiative because Dad thought they were smart people. But they didn't like it and came back to USA and Ben became a PhD and a history teacher. Alex is his prize pupil and he in selfishly cares about her. He also takes care of his Dad who looks like he has emphysema.
Great episode. Best in a long time. This is my 2nd time watching Lost. I watched it when it aired on TV. Loved 1st season, but disliked parts of 2nd seadon, gave up on 3rd. This time I like it much better. A real treat!!!
Lost: LA X: Part 1 (2010)
Tiresome
Sticky sweet love scene between Sawyer and Juliet. They really tried their best I suppose. She survived the fall and being battered by various metal objects, and then detonating an H bomb! One couldn't survive detonating an ordinary bomb!
Sayid is dead and then he's not dead.
ANOTHER group of Others who are trigger happy! Th Island is full of paranoid folk.
Alternate Kate escapes from inept marshall.
I keep watching because I want to see what happens next.
Most episodes of Lost are really good. I don't review them, I just give thumbs up to the reviews I agree with.
Yes, Ill keep watching!
Lost: The Incident: Part 2 (2009)
No magic
I'm watching Lost for the second time on Netflix. When I watched it the first time, I thought the first season was phenomenal! Then I lost interest the second season. This time, Ive enjoyed most of the episodes, though there's a few duds. There's really too much fighting in this whole show, but interest in the characters keeps me interested. There's too much fighting, gun clicking punching blood killing blah blah blah. Over much violence bores me. Plus there's too many characters. So they want to blow up the hatch with an H bomb. Ridiculous! Locke wants to kill Jacob. Only it isn't Locke, its the Man in Black (Johnny Cash lol) Too many gimmicks, no magic. But Ill continue watching and grit my teeth.
Lost: Follow the Leader (2009)
Jack can detonate an H bomb??
I've given most episodes of Lost an 8,9 or 10 rating , but this I've given a 5 because it has too much violence and some of it is ridiculous. Daniel points a gun at Richard and Eloise shoots and kills him! Everyone knows you can't kill Richard! Why not just shoot to wound? How are they going to bring Daniel back to life?
So Dr. Jack wants to detonate an H Bomb? How ridiculous! How does a spinal surgeon know how to safely detonate an H bomb? I'm gritting my teeth because its so ridiculous. Yes, Ill keep watching because most Lost episodes are so good!
The Dharma Initiative sounds "New Age" yet most of them are a bunch of dumb louts and overly violent. Bens father doesn't show him love and Ben doesn't get love from the other Dharma people and so Ben becomes a mass murderer.
John Locke wants to kill Jacob?? Can't wait to see that! Its getting ridiculous!
I watched Lost when it first aired on TV but lost interest in the 2nd season. Now I'm watching it on Netflix. Once again I loved Season 1 and I enjoyed Seasons 2,3 and 4 more than I did the first time.
Lost: I Do (2006)
Partly exciting and partly lame.
Partly lame because there's really no reason for the Others to be so hostile to the plane crash survivors ( unless I missed it somewhere) The plane crash survivors were helpless people. SPOILER ALERT So Ben needed spinal surgery, he could have asked Jack nicely. Instead the others harassed, kidnapped and killed survivors. Why do that?? Its unnecessary violence. Not good in a TV show or movie. Its juvenile. I watched this show when it first aired Ben and the Others have the ability to get off the Island and go to a real hospital . This unnecessary violence and kidnapping is lame.
This episode is partly exciting because Sawyer and Kate kissed and it looked genuine. If this was the first episode I watched It give it a 2. Who cares if someone kisses. But of course I've watched it from the beginning and I like the characters. This is not a show that you can watch in the middle. The viewer would be very LOST!
Lost: Two for the Road (2006)
Yikes!
I watched Lost when it was first on TV and loved the first season!! However I didn't love the second season as much and the main reason was because I disliked the character of Ana Lucia, both her backstory and her behavior on the Island. She's just too overly tough and makes bad decisions both as a cop and on the Island. I've watched other shows where there's female cops but she just acts overly tough with all her lip licking, pouting and playing with her gun in addition to bad and reckless behavior. I am watching Lost again on Netflix, and once again I was enthralled by the pilot and liked and loved other episodes, and once again turned off by Ana Lucia. I did remember that somehow she died and I hate to say it, looking forward to her dying, but I totally forgot it was Michael who killed her and also Libby! So Libby was a mental patient and was pretending to be a shrink! Why not?! She knows the terms! But yikes, Michael killed 2 people and I thought he was one of the good guys! Will other people eventually find out? I don't remember!! But yikes!!!
Liz & Dick (2012)
It was surprisingly good!
I don't much care for Lindsay Lohan due to her antics in the early 2000s, so I hesitated to watch. I thought Lindsay surprisingly good and Grant excellent as Richard. He had rough features though sexy looking and a great voice like Richard.
Lindsay has a face, but not a body similar to Elizabeth's. I learned some new things, Richards brother Ifor in the picture a lot and got seriously injured doing a simple job for Richard and later he died which upset Richard very much. Elizabeth's mom in the picture a lot. I didn't know Richard wrote many letters to Elizabeth. I also didn't know Elizabeth playfully said "more" A lot. So Elizabeth bought Richard a Van Gogh!! Not bad Interesting to see the costumes and jewelry and scenery. One thing I do know.... Elizabeth and Richard preferred their full names.... I read that somewhere. The title "Liz and Dick" turned me off, which is why it took me so long to watch it. But like I said, I was pleasantly surprised.
Head in the Clouds (2004)
Beautiful and Interesting!
Beautiful people! Beautiful scenery! Interesting plot! Of course Charlize is always beautiful and almost always in interesting roles. She's one of the most interesting actresses in the past 25 years. I loved that Gilda was "tres moderne" and she loved old fashioned Guy the best. I've never seen that actor before and they had great chemistry. Set in the Roaring 20s, wary 30s and tragic 40s. It was hard to guess how it would turn out, A lot of twists and turns. I didn't like the ending, she should have stood up for herself and been clever and charming. So now I have 30 characters to write to finish this.
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Gorgeous, tawdry and sad.
I first saw this movie at a movie theatre in 1965 and I was enchanted! I would have rated it a 10 based on being visually stunning! The sleazy character of Victor and the adultery of Lara and Guru didn't bother me at all. But with later watching it did. I like to watch this movie during a heat wave because of its vast expanse of snow. However the character of Lara bothers me and she of course is the centerpiece of the movie. 17 year old Lara gets involved with sleazy Victor who was a sometime lover of her mother. Pretty sleazy! And she is engaged to Pasha, A boyish idealist. Meanwhile Yuri is engaged to Tonya who is pretty, sweet and innocent who arrives home in Paris dressed in a pink suit! If I were a guy I'd much prefer Tonya! And of course the movie is filled with stunning scenes and tragic scenes. I eventually like Lara because Tonya likes Lara! Anyway, great movie to watch during a heat wave!
Platoon (1986)
Atrocity upon atrocity upon atrocity!
The guys were drafted and didn't want to be there and the few volunteers wanted to turn right back. Then there's the seasoned vets, Elias, Barnes and Oneill. Elias tries to do the right thing and Barnes kills him after committing atrocities in a village. New guy Taylor stops a rape. O'Neill is an ahole but lives longer than Elias and Barnes. Barnes tries to kill Taylor and Taylor kills Barnes. Young men are killed or else get maimed for life. The survivors go home and get called "baby killers" and get egged. The old vets die from side effects of Agent Orange. North Vietnam won and I guess is happily communist. What did it all mean??
The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
Wow! On so many levels!
The animals! "The wife" and others cuddling SO many animals! White lion cubs! Elephants! Breathing life into an almost dead elephant! Helping bison to mate! The camel loping along like a dog! Lions! And tigers! And bears! Oh my! So beautiful!
The Cruelty! Shooting the animals And of course the horribleness of the Holocaust! Persecuting the Jews and persecuting people who helped the Jews. What a horrific time to live!
Rescuing the Jews! What a brave thing to do!
The actors..the sinister yet good looking Lutz. Jessica Chaistain always does well. The kind and brave husband. The Jews!
This was a superb and educational movie!
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
A true story that looked like a joke.
I watched this movie thinking perhaps it was a joke. Katherine Ross certainly looked like a joke with her dark makeup, shiny and wavy wig, and her bland passive features. She always looks like she goes along to get along, with Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate, and with Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Sundance. Why didn't they hire an Indian woman? She looked ridiculous! Robert Blake looked okay, but why not hire a real Indian? The way they looked took away from the story. The Doctor looked too well bred and sophisticated. I don't criticize Redford because I've seen him in a lot of Westerns. The actual story was very sad, and I checked switch Wikipedia after the film was over. A sad story but poorly presented.
Young Sheldon (2017)
Perfect!
I loved this show right from the beginning. All of the characters are very likeable... Cute, smart, good actors. "Young Sheldon" of course is the star but he has plenty of help from castmates. "Dad " was the biggest surprise. I was expecting him to be an unlikeable redneck, but instead he is a likeable "good old boy" There's a big difference between the two. He tries hard to be a good Dad and husband, and often shows a down to earth wisdom. I don't mind him drinking beer at all. Sheldon is intellectually precocious, hut limited socially. Twin sister Missy is precocious socially and average intellectually. Friend Paige is brilliant intellectually and loves the girly things like Missy and her dolls and later teenage flirtation. I love to watch the three of them interact! Brilliant writing!
Sheldon mother is religious, and Sheldon questions believing in God. There was a brilliant episode in Season 2 where Sheldon pointed out that if gravity was any stronger the solar system would collapse. And he also pointed out that he was born to the perfect mother. Every episode is well written, dealing with faith/science or socially precocious/ nerdy and so on. I'm going to miss this show. I'm glad its on On Demand where I can watch old episodes.
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Almost Perfect!
Kevin Costner...looked great, acted great, rode a horse great, danced with the wolf great, he was funny when he fell down, his little butt is cute, and he communicated well with the Native Americans and showed an eagerness to learn from them.
Native Americans...all great. I especially liked Wind in his Hair, Kicking Bird and Smiles a Lot. I enjoyed hearing them speak in Lakota.
Mary McConnell was just okay as Stands With a Fist.
The cinematography was outstanding, especially on the big screen.
I thought music enhanced the movie.
It was so sad at the end when Dunbar returned to the fort to retrieve his notebook. I don't like to watch that part when I see it on TV.
All in all a great movie!
Elvis (2022)
Spectacular allegory, fantasy, exaggeration and reality!
Wow! Mostly great! Austin Butler as Elvis! Had the build, the moves, not quite the face, but a nice looking face. Great seeing him in the early clothes, like the pink suit, the pink plaid suit, etc which I only saw previously in black and white photos.
Tom Hanks as Col Parker narrating the film was odd and quirky. I have never heard Tom Parker's real voice so I don't know how accurate it is. I pictured Parker's voice to be gruff and garrouless as his appearance is jowly and he always has a cigar in his mouth. Some of the lines....something like "we're both orphans with big dreams" were oddball.
The allegories.... Boy Elvis being "annointed" in a Black church ( "he's got the spirit"). What I've read is that Elvis enjoyed White churches and singing with his parents and that he enjoyed standing outside Black churches listening. I've also read that he picked up guitar licks from Black folks in the neighborhood.
Another interesting allegory.. Elvis and Parker having a conversation on the ferris wheel (over the top??)
This movie showed Parker hampering and inhibiting Elvis....persuading and manipulating Elvis to join the Army...which dented his career ( IMHO). Signing him up for a string of meaningless movies (another dent in his image) and keeping Elvis overly busy on tours and thereby forcing him to take uppers and downers. Makes you wonder what Elvis' career would have been like without Parker! Parker's taste in movies and music was poor, all he cared about was making money and he made millions off Elvis.
The movie showed Elvis getting death threats. Was this a manipulation by Parker to keep Elvis fearful and under his control? So many murders of famous people in the 60s...Kennedys, King and Sharon Tate.
The movie just showed a little about Elvis' relationship with Priscilla, Mom and Dad, the Memphis Mafia. The actors were good.
All in all a good movie!
Don't Look Now (1973)
Yuck!
I watched this movie because I was bored and because it starred Julie Christie and normally I like her! In other movies she looks like she has inner vitality and "spirit" but in this she did not. She would smile her sexy, vivacious smiles but she looked flat. Of course she was playing a grieving mother, but that didn't ring true either. In her other movies she didn't look so skinny and short but in this she did. In other movies she played against tall costars...Warren Beatty, Omar Sharif etc. With her other costars she had chemistry and with Donald Sutherland she did not. And then there was the gawd awful sex scene.... YUCK!!
I normally don't like Donald Sutherland too much, but I can tolerate him in a good supporting role. Here he was the lead in a supposedly romantic, sexy role. Again I say YUCK!! He was good as JPGetty...an old miser grouch(LOL). He's good as an old grouch!
Most of the scenes took place in Venice. I enjoyed that. I didn't enjoy seeing them run around Venice in the dark. They're not afraid of drowning, considering their daughters recent drowning death? If I had a child that died by drowning, I probably wouldn't want to be around water.
The medium and her sister were weird...why the pictures of children?
A stupid weird movie....don't waste your time!
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Glorious and tragic drama!
I first saw this picture in 1961 on the big screen when I was 14. I thought it was a 10 then and I think its a 10 today. The book was written by a woman ( Margaret Mitchell) and its a women's picture. The three best characters are #1 "Scarlett O' Hara" played extremely well by Vivien Leigh. Who could play her better? Her beautiful and expressive cat like face expressing joy, childishness, flirtatiousness, jealousy, anguish and hardness. But her character makes a lot of mistakes, chiefly thinking she loved Ashley when she really loved Rhett. I like to think they eventually got back together.
#2 Then there's "Melanie Wilkes" played beautifully by Olivia D'Havilland. Melanie is frail physically but she is strong because she loves with wisdom and altruism.
#3 And Mammy. She is strong and wise and very moral. She scolds Scarlett many times and Rhett a few times. She was given a lot of great lines. GWTW is often criticized for being racist, but would the writers have given her so many great lines if they were racist? IIRC, the book gave her a lot of great lines. Pork and Prissy have some good lines too!
And of course, the men. "Rhett Butler" played so well by Clark Gable. Could any one else have played him?? I do think they could have found someone better ( younger) for Ashley Wilkes. But Leslie Howard did a decent job. Thomas Mitchell as Pa was excellent! When I was young I had a crush on Clark Gable. Now that I'm older I'm crushing on Thomas Mitchell (LOL)
The music was excellent! Always appropriate and never overwhelming.
And of course the cinematography... Excellent.
Dialogue great. When I watch, I enjoy the lines again and again!
Best movie ever made!
Intermission (2003)
Hated it at first
I hated this film at first and stopped watching. I paid to rent it and I was mad! Then I went back and watched it and it's funny. You have to get used to the hand held camera and the constant swearing. Its about breakups, having crummy jobs, getting fired and trying to find new love and new ways to make money, accompanied by a lot of swearing ( of course). And lots of drinking Guinness. Ah yes, I love me a pint of Guinness now and then too. Yes, I can relate, but I hated it at first, the constant swearing. Well I've got 75 more characters to write! How annoying! What else to say? 600 minimum a drag! Done!
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Ick!
I watched this movie because it is listed as an "Irish" movie. I started out slightly icky (the weird teenage boy), then got ickier with the weird music, then " the Dad" told a colleague "My daughter started her period" and from then further descended into an abomination! I kept watching because it starred Colin Ferrell and Nicole Kidman. What on earth do people like about this movie?? Its crap!! I have nothing more to say however it says I now have to write 137 more characters in order to enter this. I have seen that some people write very short comments yet
I have to write a minimum of 600! Done!
The Devil's Own (1997)
Well done
Well acted, intriguing story. I was wondering while I was watching whether it was a true story, however it is not. Its plausible that it was as there is a lot of unnecessary violence in N Ireland. Brad Pitt did a good job, his accent was good, and he didnt look weirdly pretty like he does in some movies. He had the look of a bad guy who lost his innocence at a very young age. He was abused at a young age and came to terms with it by getting tough yet he had a look of frozen innocence. There are probably a lot of people like that in N. Ireland, frozen innocence and forced to get tough. Its tragic.
Picnic (1955)
William Holden at his hunkiest!
I first came across this movie in 1999 while channel flipping, and I never saw William Holden look so hunky! He was a hunk in pain and the various women responded to him in different ways. Kindly and older Mrs. Potts invited him in for beakfast. A risky thing to do, but he was a hunk in pain. Smart and sassy Millie was attracted but sarcastic. She had an inferiority complex to her beautiful older sister Madge. Madge was cautious, but attracted and she already had a beau, A rich and safe guy and the person Hal was coming to see. Mrs. Owens was very suspicious, he looked like trouble. Rosemary spinster school teacher wished she was younger and was angry and jeaulous! I enjoyed the way the different women reacted to him and the small town picnic, the interplay between the brainy and beautiful sisters. I just saw it again recently and enjoyed it very much.