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Grandpa

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A Single Shot (2013) - Sam Rockwell, William Macy

If I had to put a label on this, I guess I would call it Redneck Noir ;-D or maybe Appalachian Noir. This is an excellent atmospheric backwoods mystery with all kinds of sordid twists and turns.

We'll try to check that out. We like the quieter but well-made movies. There was one, I think In the Electric Mist, with Tommy Lee Jones, that we surprisingly enjoyed quite a bit. If I'm remembering it right.
 

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Watched much of The Thin Red Line while doing the stationary bike workout this morning. I'm not huge on war movies, but a good movie is a good movie, and this was a pretty good movie. Almost poetic soliloquys and a touching, melancholy thread throughout. If you like war movies, it's pretty good.
 

kingricefan

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A Single Shot (2013) - Sam Rockwell, William Macy

If I had to put a label on this, I guess I would call it Redneck Noir ;-D or maybe Appalachian Noir. This is an excellent atmospheric backwoods mystery with all kinds of sordid twists and turns.
Have you seen The Paper Boy? You would love it! It's really twisted. Stars Nicole Kidman and Matthew McConoughey.
 

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The Monument Men. Good story idea, stellar cast. It starts out fine and fairly interesting, bogs down for me in the middle with storytelling dissonance, then picks up and finishes pretty strong. Grandma liked it more than me, but I still thought it was worthwhile.
 
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if you are bored and don't have much going on the the TCM station has a good movie coming on at 10:30 Eastern Time.. The best years of our lives..black and white but still a wonderful movie..won some Oscars I think.perfect Memorial Day movie..
 

Neil W

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That was available on Netflix for awhile-hope it still is! Been meaning to watch it.

Have you seen The Paper Boy? You would love it! It's really twisted. Stars Nicole Kidman and Matthew McConoughey.

Probably the only film ever to feature Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman urinating in teen heartthrob Zac Efron's face. How can one resist that?
 

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The Grapes Of Wrath (1940) Henry Fonda

This is streaming on Netflix and I had not seen it since high school. I had a history teacher that showed us this movie in class. I was in high school so long ago that there were no such things as video cassettes so we watched it in class with a real projector and film. ;-D

Anyway, what else can I say? This is a great American movie about a depression era family losing their land in Oklahoma and going West looking for work. Anytime, I think life is hard, I think I should just watch this to put everything into perspective. Henry Fonda is magnificent as Tom Joad (and I read that John Steinbeck thought so too)

I've never read this book and I think it's about time I did. I've read a couple other Steinbeck books but not this one.
 

kingricefan

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The Grapes Of Wrath (1940) Henry Fonda

This is streaming on Netflix and I had not seen it since high school. I had a history teacher that showed us this movie in class. I was in high school so long ago that there were no such things as video cassettes so we watched it in class with a real projector and film. ;-D

Anyway, what else can I say? This is a great American movie about a depression era family losing their land in Oklahoma and going West looking for work. Anytime, I think life is hard, I think I should just watch this to put everything into perspective. Henry Fonda is magnificent as Tom Joad (and I read that John Steinbeck thought so too)

I've never read this book and I think it's about time I did. I've read a couple other Steinbeck books but not this one.
Is there a turtle in it? Sorry, that's a long-running SKMB joke about the book. I think I saw this movie a l-o-n-g time ago.
 

Dana Jean

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Singing in the rain. I've seen those famous bits and pieces, but never watched the whole thing. Sweet. And the dancing is truly amazing. Donald o'connor's had a dance solo that is just crazy good.
It's the make me laugh routine which I can't get it here as I'm on my ipad and don't know how to get here using this thing.
 

Bryan James

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Going to watch (and tape) Her in 3..2..1

Did not mean tapir:
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Bryan James

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Caveat: I ramble if I write more than 20 words an hour.

Re: Her

Many internetters jump on the bandwagon and tweet out a popular thing...that whole digital keeping up with the Joneses, Shaniquas, Housewives and Kardashians. "Oooh this was so arty, I loved it only because I need people to think know I am arty too!"

The movie Her, if you are able to see it appropriately, can change you. Better or worse? I'm not judging that.

By "see," I mean more than just watch. It is not a "let it run in the background as I chop this celery."

It's an important movie. Not for everyone. Danielle Steele and Dr. Seuss ain't for everyone either.

Given where you're reading this, I trust I'm in good company, though.

~BJS

Also, Joaquin is back.
 

Grandpa

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The Grapes Of Wrath (1940) Henry Fonda

This is streaming on Netflix and I had not seen it since high school. I had a history teacher that showed us this movie in class. I was in high school so long ago that there were no such things as video cassettes so we watched it in class with a real projector and film. ;-D

Anyway, what else can I say? This is a great American movie about a depression era family losing their land in Oklahoma and going West looking for work. Anytime, I think life is hard, I think I should just watch this to put everything into perspective. Henry Fonda is magnificent as Tom Joad (and I read that John Steinbeck thought so too)

I've never read this book and I think it's about time I did. I've read a couple other Steinbeck books but not this one.

It would've been really hard to encompass that book in a movie, especially with Steinbeck's explosive descriptiveness, but the movie carried out the theme and feel superbly. The whole cast did wonderfully, and I applaud the movie for not trying to pretty up its people so much (with the arguable exception of Fonda).

The one part that was disquieting to me, but just a little, was the ending. And the spoiler is included for a reason if someone is about to pick it up.

Instead of humans huddling for survival as things are most tragic and desperate, it carries a hopeful soliloquy, one that the book didn't have so much. And maybe it's an improvement. But it sure diverged from the spirit of the original story.[/quote]