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Coldwater (2013) - PJ Boudousque

Available for steaming on netflix. Very good movie about a young guy sent to a private juvenile detention center. The detention center is out in the middle of nowhere without a lot of oversight. Questionable tactics and abuse are used by the people running the facility. We've had issues with one or two of these types of private facilities in Florida.

The lead actor, PJ Boudousque is a dead ringer for a young Ryan Gosling. They look like they could be brothers.
 
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The Imitation Game.

Really good. Compelling, tragic, interesting, all of that. Benedict Cumberbatch sold it completely. Highly recommended.

Between The Theory of Everything and The Imitiation Game, "English history" movies have hit a pretty good spell with us lately.



Also mention: Royal Wedding, a Fred Astaire flick. I mention it just a little because we only saw a little of it before we clicked over to our favored viewing. But it was worth it just to see Fred dance with a hatstand and make it look good. Seriously, a hatstand.
 
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Grandpa said:
The Imitation Game.

Really good. Compelling, tragic, interesting, all of that. Benedict Cumberbatch sold it completely. Highly recommended.

Between The Theory of Everything and The Imitiation Game, "English history" movies have hit a pretty good spell with us lately.



Also mention: Royal Wedding, a Fred Astaire flick. I mention it just a little because we only saw a little of it before we clicked over to our favored viewing. But it was worth it just to see Fred dance with a hatstand and make it look good. Seriously, a hatstand.
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But it was worth it just to see Fred dance with a hatstand and make it look good. Seriously, a hatstand.

I just spent about 10 or so minutes watching Fred dance on YouTube - he was so good - I love to watch him dance.
 
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The Babadook. Is it weird that I found it more sad than I found it scary? I do wonder, too, how much the child knew of what the movie became (if it was like the child who played Danny in the theatrical The Shining), and WTH his parents were thinking to court such potential trauma. The kid couldn't be any older than 7 or so.
 
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skimom2 said:
The Babadook. Is it weird that I found it more sad than I found it scary? I do wonder, too, how much the child knew of what the movie became (if it was like the child who played Danny in the theatrical The Shining), and WTH his parents were thinking to court such potential trauma. The kid couldn't be any older than 7 or so.
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Okay, so I take that back. Apparently it was scarier than I thought--I had a nightmare that the babadook was dragging me out of bed and nearly hit The Man in the face as I clawed my way out of sleep. Then I was afraid to go to the bathroom--lol. I don't think I've ever had a movie nightmare before (and the only book nightmares were courtesy of Mr. King).
 
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skimom2 said:
Okay, so I take that back. Apparently it was scarier than I thought--I had a nightmare that the babadook was dragging me out of bed and nearly hit The Man in the face as I clawed my way out of sleep. Then I was afraid to go to the bathroom--lol. I don't think I've ever had a movie nightmare before (and the only book nightmares were courtesy of Mr. King).
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It got a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes - I should go check it out
 
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Her

300: Rise of an Empire

The Babadook

I wasn't very impressed with any of these. Personally I think they were are all over-rated and over-hyped. I liked Her the best of the three. I know I'm in the minority with The Babadook. Had high hopes for them all. :(
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I did not like Her at all! I thought it was way over-hyped, as well!

I recently saw Foxcatcher (2014). I REALLY wanted to like this movie, but man, I couldn't get into it! The pace was very slow to me, and quite boring. But, Steve Carell and Mark Ruffalo were great in it!
 
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

I know I'm late to this party. I wanted to wait until they were all on Blu-ray so I could get them from Netflix and watch them close together.

I liked it. Some of it was a little hokey and it was about 45 minutes too long. Other than that I thought it was pretty good. Not as good as the LOTR films but better than I expected it to be.

 
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TrueGeneration said:
I did not like Her at all! I thought it was way over-hyped, as well!
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Following his marriage breaking up, Theodore Twombley (Joaquin Phoenix) finds himself very taken with the artificial intelligence operating system in his computer update which adopts a female human personality named Samantha (Scarlett Johansson). He falls in love with her and she with him, and the film charts the ups and downs of their relationship.

Self-aware AIs are an interesting fictional concept, and have not been overused, so this was a good idea. Unfortunately, the relationship between a man and a voice from a computer/mobile phone is inherently uncinematic, and the film lasts over two hours. So, if your idea of a good time is 120 minutes of close-ups of Joaquin Phoenix (with a bad moustache) going backwards and forwards between twittery schoolgirl mode and anguished betrayed lover mode (and all stops in between) while Scarlett Johansson talks dirty and is never seen, then this film is exactly what you have been waiting for. Me? Not so much.

Johansson's voice work is excellent and Phoenix is good (as other the rest of the cast), but this story is not executed well at all. There are a couple of cringeworthy phone sex sequences, Twombley (one of the worst names ever coined for a romantic protagonist) is unsympathetic to start off with, no effort has been made to make the story cinematic, it is far too long, and it is boring.

Not recommended.
 
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I watched one with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni - Marriage Italian Style from 1964 in Italian with subtitles - wasn't bad - I even came in when it had already been on for about 15 minutes so I missed the beginning but it was pretty good.

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Hope the pic is not too provocative - she has spiders on her top - that's what those starburst looking things are!
 
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Neesy said:
I watched one with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni - Marriage Italian Style from 1964 in Italian with subtitles - wasn't bad - I even came in when it had already been on for about 15 minutes so I missed the beginning but it was pretty good.

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Hope the pic is not too provocative - she has spiders on her top - that's what those starburst looking things are!
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I think it'll be okay...
you can't see any nips. :biggrin2:
No, this isn't a benchmark/line boys... do not test/cross these waters...
 
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