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agreed.that said, olga can park her slippers under my bed anytime
Ref Dune: For anyone who has a Netflix subscription see this post:
Post in thread 'Dune Books and Movie Talk'
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/dune-books-and-movie-talk.2219065/post-32973590
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Great film. The story of how "Air Jordan" came into existence.
Get this - it began with $250,000 and a Mercedes 380 esl...
Doc on the success/unsuccess of the Buffalo Bills teams of the early 1990s, when the franchise became the first team to play in—and lose—four consecutive Super Bowls...
What a shame too, such great teams that will mostly be remembered for losing 4 in a row versus getting into 4 in a row.
I enjoyed those two as well recently.
Great film. The story of how "Air Jordan" came into existence.
Get this - it began with $250,000 and a Mercedes 380 esl...
Doc on the success/unsuccess of the Buffalo Bills teams of the early 1990s, when the franchise became the first team to play in—and lose—four consecutive Super Bowls...
What a shame too, such great teams that will mostly be remembered for losing 4 in a row versus getting into 4 in a row.
I gotta admit I have difficulty believing it isn't Tommy. But know it isn't.
Code 8- Netflix. Mutants, Supers, people with enhanced powers are all the rage these days. In this story, 49% of the population are “powered”, with different specific skills, can melt metal, generate and transmit electricity, read minds, generate blasts of wind,, heal, etc. At one time they were accepted, respected, now they are viewed as a menace. All it takes over a period of time is for some of them to commit crimes using their powers and “normal” people feel insecure right? A familiar theme in these stories. “Code 8” is the designation of a “powered” crime.
This story is about an electric powered guy who wants to help his dying mother get medical attention, gets involved with criminals to make more money than he could get with a legitimate job. I’d think powered jobs would be well paying, but apparently not when you are scorned.
This story is decent, but due to low production values I rate it as mearly ok. A sequel Pt2 has been released which I plan on watching.
If you have not seen it, I’d highly recommend Sense 8, also on Netflix, the story of 8 gifted individuals who can mentally, telepathically interact with each other even though they are located around the world. While Code 8 feels a bit grim to me, Sense 8 is very good, intriguing, beautifully filmed.
This story is about an electric powered guy who wants to help his dying mother get medical attention, gets involved with criminals to make more money than he could get with a legitimate job. I’d think powered jobs would be well paying, but apparently not when you are scorned.
This story is decent, but due to low production values I rate it as mearly ok. A sequel Pt2 has been released which I plan on watching.
If you have not seen it, I’d highly recommend Sense 8, also on Netflix, the story of 8 gifted individuals who can mentally, telepathically interact with each other even though they are located around the world. While Code 8 feels a bit grim to me, Sense 8 is very good, intriguing, beautifully filmed.
tv series i'll admit, but this is so true to the book.
best thing i've viewed in years.
just a shame that it's weekly rather than all 10 episodes released at once for binge watching
Shogun
best thing i've viewed in years.
just a shame that it's weekly rather than all 10 episodes released at once for binge watching
Shogun
Great film. The story of how "Air Jordan" came into existence.
Get this - it began with $250,000 and a Mercedes 380 esl...
Doc on the success/unsuccess of the Buffalo Bills teams of the early 1990s, when the franchise became the first team to play in—and lose—four consecutive Super Bowls...
What a shame too, such great teams that will mostly be remembered for losing 4 in a row versus getting into 4 in a row.
Even one win...
*sigh
I watched Dune 2 yesterday at the cinema and wow.
I loved Dune 1 despite how slow it was, it was doing a lot of the heavy lifting when it came to world building.
Dune 2 however absolutely blew it out of the water. After a toilet break I could have gone straight back for round 2 but my wife wouldn’t let me.
There’s so much mass produced garbage in cinemas currently (opinion) which is intended to appeal to widest possible number of people and in the process most people think it’s ok but never fantastic.
I’m loving that a studio has taken the risk on a big budget production which won’t appeal to a lot of people but will be absolutely loved by those to who it does appeal.
I loved Dune 1 despite how slow it was, it was doing a lot of the heavy lifting when it came to world building.
Dune 2 however absolutely blew it out of the water. After a toilet break I could have gone straight back for round 2 but my wife wouldn’t let me.
There’s so much mass produced garbage in cinemas currently (opinion) which is intended to appeal to widest possible number of people and in the process most people think it’s ok but never fantastic.
I’m loving that a studio has taken the risk on a big budget production which won’t appeal to a lot of people but will be absolutely loved by those to who it does appeal.
They didn't, at least for #2. Instead of green lighting 1 & 2 they waited to see how #1 did. Only then did they go with #2.
Watched Napoleon last night, was expecting rubbish script but decent battle scenes plus lots of Ridley Scott floaty stuff in the air - snowflakes, dust, etc etc as he just can't seem to resist adding it to everything.
We got the floaty stuff and the rubbish script but with the bonus of rubbish battle scenes too... (Did like the overhead of the squares forming but that was about it).
Then finished off Killers of the Flower Moon, really good ingredients (story, actors etc) but oh my goodness 3.5 hours... At one point I felt like drinking the stuff in that vial myself...
Off to see Dune 2 tomorrow - sounds like it's going to be great!
We got the floaty stuff and the rubbish script but with the bonus of rubbish battle scenes too... (Did like the overhead of the squares forming but that was about it).
Then finished off Killers of the Flower Moon, really good ingredients (story, actors etc) but oh my goodness 3.5 hours... At one point I felt like drinking the stuff in that vial myself...
Off to see Dune 2 tomorrow - sounds like it's going to be great!
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hate to be a downer but modern movies fail to live up to the hype.
napoleon was classic ridley scott but a bit 'meh'.
killers was too preachy for me with my 2 least favourite, self-absorbed actors.
dune 2 was somewhat dry - pun intended.
lawrence of arabia - now that was a great sand movie.
on another note we watched a movie made in 1956 in the new thing - cinerama!
a predecessor to cinemascope one would think.
it was excellent for 70 years ago with scenes that would be impossible to see today.
a tad hammy and mildly racist but excellent.
my point is, that it was 2 and a bit hours long yet there was a 15 minute intermission.
so sensible.
time to stretch the legs, a comfort stop, choc top ice cream then back for the second half.
fyi - it was called Seven Wonders of The World
Lowell Thomas, who made and narrated the movie, actually filmed TE Lawrence and his Arab army fighting the Ottoman Turks in the deserts of Palestine in early 1917 during WWI.
It was he who coined the phrase 'Lawrence of Arabia' and with his film and the following publicity made Lawrence perhaps the greatest legend of the 20th Century.
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Cute film. Not the worst I've seen. Two ladies figure out how to make money selling coupons.
Somewhat predictable hammy at times, but I still enjoyed.
Very loose storytelling too...
tv series i'll admit, but this is so true to the book.
best thing i've viewed in years.
just a shame that it's weekly rather than all 10 episodes released at once for binge watching
Shogun
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Watching this too and reading it... of course I just started reading it and boy they are doing a bang up job on this one. I even have the wife hooked!
Just watched Dune Part Two... WOW!
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We watched Dune Part 1 the other day.
Then, tonight, I watched Dune from 1984, the extended 3-hour version.
I don't know why I persisted. I would have had a better time watching Question Time from Parliament.
That flaming music, repeating over and over again. Maybe they ran out of production money and could only buy 5 bars...
And the blue eyes, appearing and disappearing.
And people voicing their thoughts, but in only the very simplest of ways. It seems that the whole dialog was aimed at 10-year-olds who hadn't yet fully woken up in the morning.
C'mon, this is a long and complex story. Don't dumb it down for, well, the dummies!!!
Honestly, the best acting was done by the sand worms. I wonder who their trainer was...
Then, tonight, I watched Dune from 1984, the extended 3-hour version.
I don't know why I persisted. I would have had a better time watching Question Time from Parliament.
That flaming music, repeating over and over again. Maybe they ran out of production money and could only buy 5 bars...
And the blue eyes, appearing and disappearing.
And people voicing their thoughts, but in only the very simplest of ways. It seems that the whole dialog was aimed at 10-year-olds who hadn't yet fully woken up in the morning.
C'mon, this is a long and complex story. Don't dumb it down for, well, the dummies!!!
Honestly, the best acting was done by the sand worms. I wonder who their trainer was...
A wild film, funny, brilliant film, but Emma Stone is absolutely amazing! She really has some great acting skills. Shame she didn’t get the Oscar for her performance, I think she deserved it. Ruthalow is also good too. Emma’s acting kept me hooked beyond the films oddities.
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