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Beauty and the Beast. Fantastic! Great cast, with Emma Watson pulling off Belle wonderfully. Ewan MacGregor had big shoes to fill as Lumiere and he did. Everyone was superb but Josh Gad almost stole the film as LeFou. Yes, he camped it up but also gave him an unexpected depth.

The sets and costumes were grand and beautiful. If they don't get Oscars next year, there is no god. New music from Alan Menken, including a song for Beast.

It may be a bit intense for the under 7 crowd. But older kids will be fine. Nostalgic for Millenials (and their parents). I admit I shed some tears, mostly remembering watching the animated verson with Katie. Again and again.... 10 out of 10.
 
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Where Eagles Dare (1969). Boom! Freakin Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood? Taking down a Nazi stronghold/castle? Can ye get any more badass? Okay...I was pretty deep 'in my cups' while watching this, so the plot is kinda hazy...(did I see a smoking hot Ingrid Pitt as a German barmaid/double agent? Yes...yes, I did)...can't remember too much about this flick, but I do remember digging the hell out of it. Clint and Dick versus der turd Reich! Can't go wrong.
 
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muskrat said:
Where Eagles Dare (1969). Boom! Freakin Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood? Taking down a Nazi stronghold/castle? Can ye get any more badass? Okay...I was pretty deep 'in my cups' while watching this, so the plot is kinda hazy...(did I see a smoking hot Ingrid Pitt as a German barmaid/double agent? Yes...yes, I did)...can't remember too much about this flick, but I do remember digging the hell out of it. Clint and Dick versus der turd Reich! Can't go wrong.
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Tery said:
Beauty and the Beast. Fantastic! Great cast, with Emma Watson pulling off Belle wonderfully. Ewan MacGregor had big shoes to fill as Lumiere and he did. Everyone was superb but Josh Gad almost stole the film as LeFou. Yes, he camped it up but also gave him an unexpected depth.

The sets and costumes were grand and beautiful. If they don't get Oscars next year, there is no god. New music from Alan Menken, including a song for Beast.

It may be a bit intense for the under 7 crowd. But older kids will be fine. Nostalgic for Millenials (and their parents). I admit I shed some tears, mostly remembering watching the animated verson with Katie. Again and again.... 10 out of 10.
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Excellent, we will go to watch it today. Obviously my wife loves the story and Emma Watson too. It is good to hear that it is ok for older kids. Thanks!
 
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Training Day (2001) Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke

I've seen it before but this is one I can watch numerous times. Denzel's performance as the bad cop is outstanding. Denzel playing a character like this is almost a jarring as Henry Fonda playing the cold blooded killer in Once Upon A Time In The West.
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Definitely. One of my favorite Denzel movies. "IT'S NOT WHAT YOU KNOW, IT'S WHAT YOU CAN PROVE!"

So true...
 
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Moonlight

I think I need to say a bit more about this one as it was the Best Film winner this year and I was expecting great things.

I thought it was awful.

It was about a character I didn't care about, set in a background I didn't identify with in any way, featuring dialogue which I mostly couldn't understand. I had some sense of identification with the drug addict mother (my mother is alcoholic), but no identification with anything else.

And it was slow, dull, and boring, with arty-farty camerawork, by which I mean lots of closeups with out-of-focus backgrounds, in which nothing happened.

If you're a quasi-autistic gay black bloke from a Miami ghetto, you might get more from it than I did. It is by far the worst of the best Film nominees this year, out of the ones I've seen (about two thirds of them) and I can't believe it ever got nominated.

The word "agenda" comes to mind...
 
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Neil W said:
Moonlight

I think I need to say a bit more about this one as it was the Best Film winner this year and I was expecting great things.

I thought it was awful.

It was about a character I didn't care about, set in a background I didn't identify with in any way, featuring dialogue which I mostly couldn't understand. I had some sense of identification with the drug addict mother (my mother is alcoholic), but no identification with anything else.

And it was slow, dull, and boring, with arty-farty camerawork, by which I mean lots of closeups with out-of-focus backgrounds, in which nothing happened.

If you're a quasi-autistic gay black bloke from a Miami ghetto, you might get more from it than I did. It is by far the worst of the best Film nominees this year, out of the ones I've seen (about two thirds of them) and I can't believe it ever got nominated.

The word "agenda" comes to mind...
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I think the Oscars have been hijacked by political correctness and political pressure for awhile now. I think agenda is exactly right.
 
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Changeling (Clint Eastwood, 2008) with Angelina Jolie

This is a rare major film that in essence doesn't make sense to me - even though it's really happened apparently.

What I don't get about it is the motives of the police department.

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What is the point of delivering a wrong child back to its mother when the real one is missing? Is it the police's fault that a missing child can't be found - people go missing all the time and not always they get found back: this happens in a small, densely populated country like where I live as well, so let alone in a big country like the US.
The police can only do their best in finding people, but there simply isn't always result.

Now I understand the police was under pressure already for being corrupt, so they probably just wanted to look good, but it was the dumbest move they could make: delivering the wrong boy to a mother is sure gonna come out (and it did) and make them even look worse. They should have simply said: 'Sorry, we can't find him.'
I also don't get why it became such a media case, it was a simple working mother, not a celebrity. Do children go missing so seldom that it can become such a big case? I can barely imagine, children must go missing regularly too, as well as adults.

I still enjoy the time period, the vehicles and clothing, but in essence it doesn't make sense to me. If someone else understood it better, please explain if you can.
 
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Gerald said:
Changeling (Clint Eastwood, 2008) with Angelina Jolie

This is a rare major film that in essence doesn't make sense to me - even though it's really happened apparently.

What I don't get about it is the motives of the police department.

(Spoilers)

What is the point of delivering a wrong child back to its mother when the real one is missing? Is it the police's fault that a missing child can't be found - people go missing all the time and not always they get found back: this happens in a small, densely populated country like where I live as well, so let alone in a big country like the US.
The police can only do their best in finding people, but there simply isn't always result.

Now I understand the police was under pressure already for being corrupt, so they probably just wanted to look good, but it was the dumbest move they could make: delivering the wrong boy to a mother is sure gonna come out (and it did) and make them even look worse. They should have simply said: 'Sorry, we can't find him.'
I also don't get why it became such a media case, it was a simple working mother, not a celebrity. Do children go missing so seldom that it can become such a big case? I can barely imagine, children must go missing regularly too, as well as adults.

I still enjoy the time period, the vehicles and clothing, but in essence it doesn't make sense to me. If someone else understood it better, please explain if you can.
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Do they ever find out
where her real child is?
 
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Dana Jean said:
Do they ever find out
where her real child is?
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They only find out that the real child was captured along with a number of other boys by a man named Gordon Northcott, who along with a boy named Sanford Clark kidnapped boys, held them prison for a while and then murdered them.
A couple of boys escaped, including the child of Jolie's character, but they remained lost for whatever reason. It says at the end that Jolie's character kept always looking for him (obviously), but not if she ever found him.

It's not that it's not an interesting film, but it all remains very blurry.
 
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