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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 7, 2022 9:12:44 GMT -5
As for the Batman movie, I generally stopped watching movies , even the free ones. I think I might have developed a short attention span disorder. Last movie I saw in the theaters was Avengers : Endgame. Did you pack a lunch?
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Post by impulse on Mar 7, 2022 9:39:37 GMT -5
I'm pretty indifferent to this Batman movie. I didn't think Robert Pattinson was the greatest choice when I heard the news, but there have been multiple castings in Batman movies that sounded questionable on first glance but ended up working out, so I will wait and see.
To their credit, I've heard people either love it or think it's okay. I haven't seen many folks saying it's terrible or anything, so that suggests a baseline of at least decent.
I've been to one, maybe two movies, since COVID started, and even those were in the "used to be good but now old" theater on a random weeknight. Frankly, I don't really like the theater experience anymore. Baseline rudeness and lack of consideration among movie patrons has exceeded my worst expectations, and the convenience of streaming at home is just fantastic. I've come to prefer streaming at home so I don't have to deal with people talking, and I can pause to go pee during a 3 hour movie.
All that to say I agree that HBO Max in a month sounds like a good plan.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 7, 2022 10:06:17 GMT -5
As for the Batman movie, I generally stopped watching movies , even the free ones. I think I might have developed a short attention span disorder. Last movie I saw in the theaters was Avengers : Endgame. Did you pack a lunch? Just like the Avengers movie this one is 3 hours
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2022 11:25:28 GMT -5
feedback from a friend who was answering another friend as to when they should go to the Bathroom during the 3 hour film:
"not a single moment; I had to go bad 90 minutes in and held in several farts and I’m glad I stayed; trust me, do not leave the theater until the credits are done"
so yeah. . he really liked it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2022 14:02:00 GMT -5
An old friend of mine is actively defending Putin's invasion of Ukraine, spamming our private group with videos from a Lord Haw-Haw wannabe by the name of Gonzalo Lira. I swear, I don't want to lose another friend over politics... but I'll be darned if some people don't make that very difficult. I don't care about how media sometimes lie and politicians try to manipulate public opinion. There's one country invading another for no good reason, and that's enough to determine who the bad guys are.
I'm an Admin in a chess club on chess.com and I kicked out a couple of Putin apologists.
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 7, 2022 17:38:47 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 8, 2022 5:44:08 GMT -5
I'll take the break in my house.
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Post by berkley on Mar 9, 2022 1:45:16 GMT -5
Excellent, I need this kind of info for every 2hr+ movie from now on!
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Post by berkley on Mar 9, 2022 2:10:59 GMT -5
I watched " Gilda" for the first time yesterday. I wanted to know why Rita Haywood was so famous for the movie. Any thoughts about the movie and her fame ?
It's been a long time since I've seen Gilda or any of her other movies, but I watched one of her later movies earlier tonight, Affair in Trinidad (1952) (also co-starring Glen Ford, coincidentally), and I have to say, she was just amazing: I think easily one of the most charismatic Hollywood stars of all time - you can't take you eyes off her.
The movie itself isn't perfect: Ford's character came across to me as petulant and self-centred much of the time, and Hayworth's up-beat song and dance numbers felt like they didn't fit with the down-beat tone of the film over-all. But there were a lot of good things about it: I liked the crime/espionage story-premise, most of the characters except for Ford's, and the generally dark atmosphere, at odds with the sunny Caribbean setting. But in the end it's mostly Hayworth: she has one of those iconic faces that draws you into whatever she's doing on the screen at any given moment.
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Post by berkley on Mar 9, 2022 2:29:47 GMT -5
I watched " Gilda" for the first time yesterday. I wanted to know why Rita Haywood was so famous for the movie. Any thoughts about the movie and her fame ? This is her iconic movie, and the "Put the Blame on Mame" number her iconic moment, as sexy a striptease as has ever been put on film. I don't know that it ever got much better for Hayworth as a screen star. (That scene was actually filmed after the movie wrapped.) "What held up that dress?" Hayworth was supposedly asked. Her answer? "Two things." But that answer belies the many layers of meaning, of raw emotion, and pain that her performance reveals about Gilda, her relationship with Johnny, her self-loathing, and the helplessness she feels as a woman. Putting the blame on Mame is shorthand fopr blaming everythingn bad on women, a practice that dates back at least to Eve in the garden of Eden. Though her voice is dubbed here, Hayworth still delivers one of the most electrifying movie scenes ever. "Gilda" is one of the classic examples of film noir (though it does go against one of noir's most important "rules," which I won't reveal b/c it would spoil the movie for others). The shadows outside the garishly lit casino, the secrets within secrets, Johnny's seeming cockiness in the face of the lies and deception and betrayal he ednures, the convoluted plot, the intensity of his and Gilda's love/hate for each other, the sub-text of sexual ambiguity projected so perfectly by George McReady as Ballin Mundson (always brandishing his sword-cane), and the odd collection of secondary characters who pose more questions than they answer combine to make this movie great, even if there are plot threads dangling here and there. It bears rewatching more than once to see all of the subtleties in the acting, the script and the production values. Poor Rita Hayworth, though. She never had it easy, from her childhood right up to her death. Look up her biography and you'll see how cruelly she was used by men all her life, which at times seems to be a sad parallel to Gilda's. Perhaps that's a key to why her portaryal of Gilda will always be remembered as Rita Hayworth's most unforgettable performance.
Yeah, she was a tragic figure in her personal life and i think that comes through in her screen performances even if you don't know a thing about her biography. As I was just saying to Icctrombone, I hven't seen Gilda for a long, long time, but my memory of the famous dance scene is that it was different to what I had been expecting (Glda was one of those famous films that I'd read about and heard about long before actually seeing the movie, which I didn't get to do until the early 1990s, after I bought my first vcr).
What had I been expecting? A sexy, sultry dance number, to be sure - and that was there. But what I hadn't been expecting was to feel, due to the context of the story in which the scene was happening (edit: not, I should have added, of her personal history, of which I knew nothing at that time), more pity than excitation. Like you, I don't want to say too much for fear of spoilers - in fact I don't even want to look up the plot synopsis to see if my memory is accurate on this point because I don't want to spoil myself: it's been long enough since I last watched Gilda that I'd like to remember as little as possible before seeing it again.
edit: so, going back to Icctrombone's question, perhaps that had something to do with her appeal: she was a beautiful object, yes, but Hollywood was full of beautiful objects - though I think she was something special even in that regard because of her unique look. But maybe she became one of those above and beyond icons because of that inner complexity.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 10, 2022 16:27:35 GMT -5
There's a forecast of up to 40 cm of snow for Saturday. I miss the winters in Washington. This time of year, we'd be getting ready to go see the cherry blossoms, not buy extra gas for the snow blower!!!
(I think we didn't even have a shovel back then. Those were the days).
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Post by tartanphantom on Mar 10, 2022 23:28:46 GMT -5
There's a forecast of up to 40 cm of snow for Saturday. I miss the winters in Washington. This time of year, we'd be getting ready to go see the cherry blossoms, not buy extra gas for the snow blower!!!
(I think we didn't even have a shovel back then. Those were the days).
Even Tennessee is under a Winter storm watch through 9am Saturday, including snow.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 11, 2022 4:34:53 GMT -5
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Post by tartanphantom on Mar 12, 2022 2:34:36 GMT -5
There's a forecast of up to 40 cm of snow for Saturday. I miss the winters in Washington. This time of year, we'd be getting ready to go see the cherry blossoms, not buy extra gas for the snow blower!!!
(I think we didn't even have a shovel back then. Those were the days).
11 Mar 2020, 1:30AM in Middle Tennessee (latitude 35.888)... and we have a few inches of snow on the lawn. Thankfully, it has been well above freezing for most of the week, so the snow is barely dusting the pavement because the ground is too warm. It will all be gone by Monday morning, except for shaded areas. I think I'm going to celebrate by staying in and making a batch of venison stew this weekend, and continuing my plow through Chuck Dixon's Airboy run.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Mar 12, 2022 2:44:22 GMT -5
We got snow today … err yesterday early and it made the commute to work absolute $hit but got warm enough by the ride home the roads were fine.
And you have now obligated me to either cook the last of my venison steaks or make some deer meat chili this weekend.
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