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Post by kerouac2 on May 2, 2018 20:11:24 GMT
Marvel Cinematic Universe It looks like it's never going to end but obviously it will some day but probably not for at least 20 years. This makes me wonder what other "series" will be invented or resurrected in the future, since the other studios will not remain inactive as they face Disney/Marvel.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 15, 2018 16:20:36 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on May 16, 2018 4:22:15 GMT
I suppose it would help to be a fan of Queen.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 28, 2018 12:14:00 GMT
So, they're saying that Beautiful Boy from Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen is going to be the tearjerker of the year and most definitely Oscar material. Due in the U.S. on October 12th.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 30, 2018 20:08:49 GMT
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Post by casimira on Nov 21, 2018 13:13:57 GMT
I broke down and went to see/hear this film. Although I was never a fan of Queen I must say the film was well done and brought back a lot of memories.
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Post by whatagain on Nov 23, 2018 17:06:40 GMT
Funny, children told us yesteraday they will bring us to see it because we 'have to see it'.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 23, 2018 17:08:44 GMT
Oh well. At least it's not boring.
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Post by casimira on Nov 23, 2018 19:35:05 GMT
Funny, children told us yesteraday they will bring us to see it because we 'have to see it'. Whatagain, I think you will enjoy seeing/hearing it with your children if not for the synergy, that is, the contagious like energy that the audience gets caught up in. I would love to hear a follow up from you about your "experience". Do enjoy!!!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 7, 2019 16:43:20 GMT
I might be mistaken, but this movie looks like it might be delightful. I am a total sucker for movies about adolescent discovery.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 7, 2019 17:41:15 GMT
I am a total sucker for movies about adolescent discovery. Whereas for me the words "coming of age" will send me running in the opposite direction.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 7, 2019 18:07:47 GMT
The repulsive words for me are "Victorian," "historical," "prim and proper," and "adult drama." But my unlimited movie pass sends me regularly in those dismal directions anyway.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 7, 2019 18:26:27 GMT
I must admit that "coming of age" movies are my top favourites, but generally not the American ones which are so fucking stupid -- most of them are comedies whereas reality about that period of time is almost always tragic.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 7, 2019 18:31:11 GMT
In a similar vein, when I see Proustian or Kafkaesque in the description of a novel, I also run. Ha ha ha ~ Yes indeed! I read "long-winded" for Proustian and "gobbledy-gook" for Kafkaesque. I always suspect the reviews using those words don't want to admit they didn't really like the books in question.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 7, 2019 18:33:47 GMT
Wildlife by Paul Dana was a major exception on (American) "coming of age."
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 15, 2019 16:39:00 GMT
I am a total sucker for Tom Holland as Spider-Man, and what could be better than Peter Parker going on a European holiday?
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 23, 2019 10:56:35 GMT
Oh, to be young again! Those young fools are already in queues at the cinemas of Paris to be the first to see Avengers: Endgame tonight at 23:30. That is still ten hours from now. And just about every Gaumont, Pathé, UGC, CGR multiplex is joyously participating in this midnight event. Concession stand sales will explode.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 2, 2020 4:48:38 GMT
I thought I would highlight a couple of the things we have been missing with our limited culture. Not every Japanese movie is a charming animé.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 9, 2020 14:00:05 GMT
There has apparently been a coronavirus confinement miracle around the world, courtesy of Netflix. The Turkish movie 7. Koğuştaki Mucize has taken the world by storm. It is a remake of the Korean movie Miracle in Cell No 7. It's the story of a young retarded father who is also a widower, raising his daughter with the help of his grandmother. He is falsely accused of murdering the daughter of a colonel, convicted and sentenced to death. It is apparently the mother of all tearjerkers and is in the top ten on Netflix in more than 40 countries around the world already because the little girl is adorable and the movie never loses its optimism. It was only put online at Netflix around the 15th of March.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 9, 2020 19:45:45 GMT
Movies directed by Denis Villeneuve should never be ignored.(coming out at the end of December)
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Post by onlyMark on Sept 10, 2020 7:16:04 GMT
is it just me who has problems with the way the lead actor seems to slur through his words. I may need subtitles or a lot higher volume if the trailer is anything to go by.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 10, 2020 10:08:06 GMT
He went to the James Dean school of acting. But basically whenever you put a New Yorker speaking normally in a movie full of British actors, it is always going to sound slurred.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 10, 2020 20:11:53 GMT
I am dying to see that movie!
I wouldn't have picked up on Chalamet's accent as being from New York, nor do I notice that he is slurring. What I do notice and object to is his use of the new, popular, and deeply annoying whispery voice thing male actors are doing.
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Post by onlyMark on Sept 10, 2020 20:22:58 GMT
That description is more accurate - "deeply annoying whispery voice thing"
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 4, 2020 7:33:53 GMT
In reading an article about upcoming films, I notice there is one called "Possessor" and supposed to be very good. It says, "Andrea Riseborough stars as an assassin who can telepathically control other people’s bodies and get them to do the killing for her. Her latest job is to bump off an IT tycoon (Sean Bean) and his daughter (Tuppence Middleton) by possessing the daughter’s fiancée (Christopher Abbott)."
Hang on a minute....... if she can possess other people's bodies, why doesn't she just possess the one she wants dead and get it to kill itself? Small plot problem there.......
N.B. 'Tuppence' is a polite term for a vagina. Don't know how widespread that is.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 6, 2020 14:52:31 GMT
why doesn't she just possess the one she wants dead and get it to kill itself? Wouldn't she be killing herself in that case?
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 6, 2020 14:56:21 GMT
I am dying to see that movie! Like many other movies, Dune has now been moved to 2021. (I'm not sure if this is wise. If so many major blockbuster style movies are moved to 2021, Some of them are going to kill each other at the box office. But since so much of the industry as about greed rather than art, it will serve them right. At least the art will remain when the money is gone.)
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 6, 2020 15:15:38 GMT
Wouldn't she be killing herself in that case? I'm sure Hollywood or whoever could come up with something where that didn't need to happen. After all, she has to end the possession at some stage whoever it is. Like getting the person to jump off a tall building and pulling out from the possession before the person squidges on the pavement. There'd be all sorts of ways of death, like radiation poisoning, normal poisoning, drowning etc where there is a delay but a commitment to death. It'd also make the movie more interesting, cliff hanger like, if you excuse the pun, to see if she could pull out in time or not.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 30, 2020 5:42:49 GMT
Covid-23, anyone?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 9, 2021 20:02:36 GMT
I am finding it a bit difficult to believe the news that I read of the plans of an adult Harry Potter reboot with Timothée Chalamet as Harry Potter and Saorse Ronan as Hermione Granger, but I am certainly interested if it is true. Ron Weasley has not been cast yet, but Caleb Landry Jones would appear to be in the running. That would be very interesting indeed.
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