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Post by questa on Dec 25, 2018 22:28:25 GMT
Today is my 'glued to the television day'. The first day of the Melbourne Test cricket, Oz v India (will you be watching, Mick?) and the start of the Sydney-Hobart yacht race. The latter is when the Harbour sparkles in sunshine and great yachts skim the water jockeying for the best positions to cross the line. Hundreds of spectator craft are kept back by police boats and the edges of the harbour are lined with crowds.
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Post by rikita on Dec 26, 2018 0:47:58 GMT
well i suppose part of it might also be that kids don't fully understand the whole concept of girlfriend/boyfriend anyway - like, they know friends, who you play with but they live with their own mom and dad, and then there are mom and dad, who live with you ... i think i mentioned it before, that for my little brother it used to be very confusing that his dad was also my dad - this was when he was three or four, i think, so i was in my late twenties. he just wouldn't believe me, so i asked him who he thought was my dad. his answer: "mr. r." (who then was my boyfriend, not married yet).
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Post by rikita on Dec 26, 2018 0:52:23 GMT
else - i wanted to watch a christmas movie. i wanted to watch a different movie, really, but i said we can watch that any time and gave her a choice of a few christmas movies that commonsensemedia recommended for five or six year olds. she chose miracle on 34th street (the version from the 90s) - and while watching it i realized that once again, the recommendation is off. or maybe it is a cultural thing and american kids can follow it better. now, i don't think movies for kids have to be all action - but the thing is that long talking scenes about business issues or court cases are kind of confusing, too. i'm not sure she was even aware of their being such a thing as court trials. and while she knows that producers of toys will tell you their stuff is great just to make you buy it, so they can earn money, the concept of one store wanting to buy another and thus trying to damage it so they can buy it for cheaper, went quite over her head ... also it was too long for her ...
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Post by questa on Dec 26, 2018 6:16:36 GMT
Six and seven year olds are just learning about fantasy v reality, relationships in different contexts, realising that parents don't know everything but whatever Teacher says is right. If they have an older sibling they pick up this knowledge more quickly. Even though they are rated for children, many films are not suited for children who have no understanding of the issues raised.
Did anyone see "Storm Boy" a movie made in Oz and which won awards, including the President of US asking for a copy. Story is 12 yo boy, lives in bush with grandfather, has a pet pelican and aboriginal friend. The action is lingering as we come to see this is the end of freedom for him. It was raved over as a children's film so I took 11 yo and 9 yo boys. Disaster! After 20 minutes of hissing at them to sit and watch it, I let them join the pack of 15 or so kids that were crawling around the theatre, up the stairs on their bellies and weaving through the empty seats, being guerrillas trying to tag each other. I found the movie beautiful but boring for kids, the staff in the theatre said every showing had been like that and marvelled that each pack of kids had developed the same guerrilla game.
Children like Agnes will learn from films the things in my opening sentence. You will possibly discuss them with her so she picks up your values. From what you tell us it is easy to see you are helping her learn very well.
Not like that orange pig who asked a 7 yo boy "and do you still believe in Santa Claus". What a dick!
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 26, 2018 8:27:20 GMT
Today is my 'glued to the television day'. The first day of the Melbourne Test cricket, Oz v India (will you be watching, Mick?) and the start of the Sydney-Hobart yacht race. The latter is when the Harbour sparkles in sunshine and great yachts skim the water jockeying for the best positions to cross the line. Hundreds of spectator craft are kept back by police boats and the edges of the harbour are lined with crowds. Not sure questa as it's on a channel we don't have but youngest grandson has a way of getting round this...
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Post by mich64 on Dec 26, 2018 19:05:10 GMT
Beginning today (right now actually!), our focus will be watching ice hockey for about a week! We will spend many mornings/early afternoons watching the Spengler Cup from Davos Switzerland and our evenings watching the World Junior Championships being held this year in Vancouver. A traditional ending to our holiday season and to the beginning of a new year. For those Canadians/Canadiens that love hockey, it is a fun week!
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2018 19:11:53 GMT
Ah, the Canadian national sport. I admire countries that have a national sport because most of our countries have maybe 2 or 3 sports that interest a lot of people but not one that dominates the others. In France, a lot of people love football (soccer), but that goes for northern France. In southern France, the only sport really worthy of note is rugby.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2018 20:59:43 GMT
Watching Blue Valentine again. That is really a tough and cruel movie.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2018 22:31:44 GMT
The extras on DVDs are sometimes incredible. On the Blue Valentine DVD in the deleted scenes section, there is a remarkably long scene where Michelle Williams gets nauseous on a spinny thing at a playground. Ryan Gosling says that she should throw up by sticking her fingers down her throat. She doesn't want to so he says it's easy, I'll show you... He does it and pukes (no special effects here), but she can't do it, so he sticks his fingers down her throat without success. Several times. "You don't have a gagging reflex," he complains. He tries several more times without success... the scene goes on and on, which explains why it was deleted. If she had just puked, I'm sure it would have been in the move.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 28, 2018 18:11:48 GMT
A few days ago on one of my 25 or so movie channels, I came across the South African movie (masquerading as American) Detour starring Tye Sheridan and Emory Cohen. I was captivated by the film noir atmosphere, but I had plans elsewhere so I couldn't watch it through to the end -- very frustrating. I saw that it was available on Amazon for a few euros, so I ordered it. It arrived today so I was quite happy to be able to see the entire movie.
I do wonder, though, if the idea is true that if you have done something bad in the southwestern United States, you are home free if you manage to make it to Mexico. The idea is quite pleasant and they always find a nice place along a beach, but does it really work out that way?
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 29, 2018 22:04:09 GMT
Just watched Sunshine on Leith. Totally cheesy and full of Proclaimers music. Loved it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 29, 2018 23:07:31 GMT
do wonder, though, if the idea is true that if you have done something bad in the southwestern United States, you are home free if you manage to make it to Mexico. It is absolutely true. What did you think I was doing here?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 1, 2019 15:19:11 GMT
I was channel surfing with absolutely nothing in mind and I came across something called more or less "The Secret Lives of Village Animals." Oh, that might not be too dreadful or brain taxing, I thought, I'll take a look. So I switched to the concerned channel, and the very first thing that I saw was a big wet rat crawling out of a toilet drainpipe. Nope, I don't need to see that...
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 1, 2019 17:17:48 GMT
But that's a great film, brilliantly shot.
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Post by questa on Jan 1, 2019 23:13:29 GMT
very first thing that I saw was a big wet rat crawling out of a toilet drainpipe. Nope, I don't need to see that... So you saw a bit of the Trump New Year Special, did you?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 2, 2019 2:05:48 GMT
~~ good one! Well, I just finished watching Silent Running for the first & undoubtedly last time. I enjoyed parts of it & can even begrudgingly see why Bruce Dern is considered a good actor. The songs made me want to beat Joan Baez to death.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 2, 2019 4:53:07 GMT
It probably gave George Lucas the idea for R2D2 because it was the first time they stuffed a dwarf into a robot frame.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 2, 2019 5:05:33 GMT
I didn't realize until the credits ran that there were people inside the robots. I believed in the robots!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 3, 2019 21:57:12 GMT
Watching Luther. I've not watched it before and I'm finding it pretty disturbing. Heavily influenced by nordic crime dramas imo..not a fan but OH loves it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 3, 2019 22:32:24 GMT
I only watched Luther so I could look at Idris Elba. Pretty as he is, the amped up angst soon lost me & I stopped watching almost immediately.
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Post by rikita on Jan 4, 2019 0:32:12 GMT
when at my mom's, when i come back to the living room from bringing a. to bed, the tv is often running (as my mom says she is too tired to read, though later in bed she reads again), so this time the curious case of benjamin button was on, which interested me enough to not be able to read, but at the same time it was dubbed in german and i don't really like watching dubbed movies ... also, earlier in the day the kids were allowed to watch "more about the children of noisy village" (about the bullerby children), hadn't realize it was a feature length movie, so they got to watch a lot, but it was all very child friendly innocent tv, nothing scary ...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 15, 2019 0:09:31 GMT
I just finished watching the first season of The Mill, a historical four-part drama written by John Fay set in rural-industrial England in the turbulent year of 1833. Based on the extensive historical archive of Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire. Italics taken from the trailer:
Nothing jolly about the show, but definitely worth seeing. You can catch the first season here. Episodes 2, 3, & 4 are in the side panel next to episode 1:
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 16, 2019 20:13:57 GMT
I was planning on watching a DVD after the evening news (Rake, series 3), but I had noticed on the television programme that one of my channels was showing the Flemish movie Gangsta, which I had loved at the cinema. It had just begun, but I was hooked into it immediately and couldn't stop watching.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 21, 2019 13:04:54 GMT
The Australian movie The Dressmaker was never released in France, which is a bit surprising for a movie starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis and Liam Hemsworth. However, now that I have seen it at home, I'm not a bit surprised. It is a dark comedy whose twists and turns might appeal to Australians but not to the rest of the world. Wronged young woman comes back to her village to get revenge... Anyway, tons of mildly amusing things happen, and then something really awful happens, so I figured, okay the movie will be ending now. But it kept going and then another awful thing happened, but that wasn't enough to end the movie either. It keeps going on and on with more tragic events, but these are supposed to be funny. When nobody is left, the movie finally ends.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 21, 2019 18:00:10 GMT
I had to watch the trailer because, even though I saw that movie, I couldn't remember much about it except that it fell rather flat with me.
The main reason I watched it was because the premise sounded rather amusing in a tired way, but mainly because I'll watch anything with Kate Winslet. There is really nothing wrong with the movie except the jarring disconnect between how it looks (very stylish and broad) and the themes presented.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 21, 2019 21:08:01 GMT
~~ good one! Well, I just finished watching Silent Running for the first & undoubtedly last time. I enjoyed parts of it & can even begrudgingly see why Bruce Dern is considered a good actor. The songs made me want to beat Joan Baez to death. I watched (and loved) the film in the 80s. Just turn it down when Miss Baez starts her tremulous burbling...I always did 😄 Sometimes the memory of the film is much better than the actual film. Recently indulged in 2001 A Space Odyssey which I recalled being amazed by...this time around...I was bored!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 21, 2019 21:29:25 GMT
I remain totally faithful to Space Odyssey because it was the very first film to show space as it really is -- completely silent. I might get a bit bored watching it on a small screen, but I had the privilege of seeing it on a big screen a few years ago and it was as amazing as ever. Space takes up so much space!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 21, 2019 22:42:15 GMT
I recalled being amazed by...this time around...I was bored! Does this mean that we have *gasp* evolved?!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 22, 2019 4:50:34 GMT
We are living in a fast fast fast world now, and that is one thing that Space Odyssey is not.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 24, 2019 20:34:36 GMT
I am watching Titanic again (for the nth time), although I very much doubt that I will stick with it to the end since there is no suspense about which to worry. I have a strange relationship with this movie because I was offered the possibility of being an extra when it was being filmed. At the time I thought that it sounded like a total dud and I did not really have an urge to go to Playas de Rosarito in Mexico where it was filmed. But now whenever I see it, I always wonder if I would have appeared on the screen (in the background) in a dinner jacket in the dining room, as an unwashed immigrant in 3rd class, or in a lifeboat surrounded by plastic pieces of ice. Or maybe even all three. Ah, the road not taken...
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