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Post by rikita on Jun 20, 2019 20:49:18 GMT
we watched the second "Bibi und Tina" movie today - i suspect the third one is in my near future ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 26, 2019 14:10:34 GMT
I love the way "young teen" movies look the same in every country. No need to understand the language, although I admit that I was a bit mystified by the final scenes in the trailer.
I watched the DVDs of the 2009 Doctor Who winter specials again -- The Waters of Mars and The End of Time. The regeneration of David Tennant to Matt Smith was particularly poignant.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 26, 2019 14:37:51 GMT
We watched Isle of Dogs. Very unusual Wes Anderson animation with many big names voicing the banished canines and politicians, and plenty of oblique political references. Liked it more than I expected to as the opening scenes unfolded. www.imdb.com/title/tt5104604/
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 26, 2019 14:55:47 GMT
Yes, it is fascinating, with a lot of unexpected things happening.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 26, 2019 17:57:23 GMT
Loved Isle of Dogs too....
9 to 10 is quite emotional isn't it Kerouac? 'I don't want to go' had me. Mind you I loved Matt Smith from about episode 2 so I soon recovered.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 26, 2019 18:11:10 GMT
I think you mean 10 to 11. Yes, I quickly learned to appreciate Matt Smith as well.
I had forgotten about "I don't want to go" but I remembered it very well from Avengers Infinity War when Tom Holland said it the same way as Spider-Man was dying. So it was a revelation for me to see the Doctor saying it -- and bravo to Tom Holland for the homage, because apparently the line was improvised.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 26, 2019 18:19:03 GMT
my goodess...I'm getting my 9s, 10s and 11s mixed up....
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 1, 2019 3:25:26 GMT
I watched Super 8 again last night. I love that movie; It's like The Goonies on steroids.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 21, 2019 20:38:10 GMT
I love seeing the same stories told by different countries. So tonight I watched the Russian movie The Crew on Canal +. It’s about a hot young airline pilot beginning his career. He gets in trouble immediately because he takes off on his first flight like in a video game and terrifies the passengers. After a warning, he calms down but in the meantime he falls in love with a young woman from the airport, who turns out to be a pilot, too.
They have their first quarrel after a mission that he has in Africa to pick up refugees (these Russian airline pilots are very versatile) -- the refugees get out of control to he has to take off only half full, leaving the others behind. Not a good thing, according to his girlfriend. Then there is a new problem – there is a fight in the cabin during another flight and he leaves the cockpit to try to break it up, not very successfully. But the video of the event goes viral on all of the social media.
Okay, something needs to happen because we don’t have a plot yet. The plane is flying empty to some island in Asia (I already forgot why), but there has just been a huge earthquake and the local volcano might erupt. Guess who the co-pilot is. Once they land, there is an even bigger earthquake destroying the airport and lots of the planes blow up. (The Russian special effects aren’t bad but still no better than TV movie special effects.) Everything is in flames. It looks like only the hero’s plane might be able to take off, but there are too many refugees. And OMG, there is a bus on the mountain road that needs to be evacuated, too.
One of the remaining planes tries to take off full of refugees, but it crashes and explodes, killing everybody on board.
Our pilot is trying to rescue the bus people (mostly adorable children) on the side of the volcano. Here comes the lava! Meanwhile at the airport, the boss decides that they need to use the cargo plane that is there to get everybody out. On the volcano, the two rescue minibuses get stuck in molten lava. They try to get through it, but lava doesn’t work that way. They all manage to get out of the minibuses just in time. (I confess that this was one of the most exciting lava scenes that I have ever seen – usually they are totally stupid and fake.)
The cargo plane is completely full and ready to take off while the minibus kids and our hero are scrambling over rocks and rubble to get to the airport. They finally get into another passenger plane as the lava starts running everywhere. In fact, the airport is completely surrounded by lava. Definitely stressed me out. The cargo plane is gone but now the runway is blocked by lava. Shit! The plane manages to take off (almost outrun by the fastest lava ever!); the tyres are on fire and the landing gear can’t go in. Then one of the engines catches on fire and the cabin fills with smoke. The engine fire finally goes out but there is a leak in the fuel tank, so they need to land as fast as possible in spite of the landing gear…
Okay, this was all completely plausible up to now. Not what happens next. The passenger plane can’t last much longer, but it is right behind the cargo plane. What if they transfer the passengers from one plane to the other during the flight? Jeez. There is a sort of a cargo net basket thing that they put people in and it gets dragged behind on a cable. Three baskets full of passengers are transferred successfully, even though the 3rd basket lost a few. These are the best pilots in the world. Fourth basket was lost, oops.
Now there’s a huge storm at the nearest emergency airport. There’s one delightful crusty old lady among the passengers who says “it was worse in the mine” every time a new catastrophe is announced. But the plane lands, losing a wing, losing the landing gear, plenty of sparks… Nobody ever said what became of the other doomed plane. Just a detail.
I thought it was great. Those shitty American TV movies have some competition.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 22, 2019 3:03:44 GMT
... it crashes and explodes, killing everybody on board. I think this was the first time in my life that I laughed at this type of sentence.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 28, 2019 20:36:18 GMT
I had seen Bad Times at the El Royale at the movies and was very disappointed. It has such a great cast! So I gave it a second chance on the small screen and it has not improved. Too bad. However, since I was watching the DVD, the bonus feature about making the movie was excellent. It just didn't make the movie better.
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Post by rikita on Jul 29, 2019 19:29:54 GMT
third "Bibi und Tina" movie today, i actually thought it was a bit funnier than the first two ... title was "Mädchen gegen Jungs" (girls against boys) ...
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Post by Kimby on Aug 1, 2019 15:37:40 GMT
The Kimbys just watched CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?, a true story about an author caught forging, and selling on the collectibles market, letters attributed to other mostly dead authors.
I am NOT a Melissa McCarthy fan, but I may have to change my mind after this performance.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2019 19:58:26 GMT
She really was something in that! As far as I can remember, the only other thing I ever saw her in was that movie with Jason Bateman where she is an identity thief. She was excellent in that, as well. Every time I have seen a really good comedian in a dramatic role, he or she has been great. It's probably because of having an innate sense of timing besides of course being talented.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 1, 2019 20:57:02 GMT
Are you thinking of Spy?
She was also in Bridesmaid. A gross comedy. And she’s been on Saturday Night Live, most recently playing departed Trump press secretary Sean Spicer.
I do not think of her as a dramatic actress, but I will now.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2019 21:23:15 GMT
I hated everything about Bridesmaid. puke! I'd repressed the fact she was in it. Did see her as Sean Spicer and she was pretty funny. Just looked up the other movie. It was "Identity Thief". You can see why I couldn't think of the title, right?
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Post by rikita on Aug 2, 2019 18:23:16 GMT
now watched the fourth and final Bibi and Tina movie - a bit clichéd and silly as always, but at least we are done with that series now ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 2, 2019 18:33:49 GMT
Every country has a series of movies like that which make up part of the national heritage. I'm sure that future generations will still be watching Bibi & Tina.
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Post by rikita on Aug 2, 2019 18:46:50 GMT
i suppose so, too ... as i said, they are made after a series of audio plays - the original one, "Bibi Blocksberg" about a young witch, started in 1980 and to date there are 129 episodes ... we sometimes listened to the tapes as kids (though i only really got the chance after the wall came down, so at age ten, when i was starting to be a bit old for it - my younger cousin was much more into it). Bibi and Tina, about Bibi's adventures at an equestrian farm with her friend Tina, started in 1991, has 93 episodes so far, and is geared at slightly older kids (well, mainly girls, i suppose) ... i'd say the movies are again geared at slightly older kids than the audio plays, because it is easier to get small kids to want to watch them anyway, than the other way around ...
so yeah, it is something a lot of today's parents grew up with, and still very popular among today's kids, and might be around for quite a while ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 4, 2019 14:18:41 GMT
Quite by accident, I found myself watching the parade of the huge "Inter-Celtic" festival in Brittany today (in Lorient). I am really not a big fan of bagpipes, but the passion of the participants mesmerizes me. This year it is Galicia which receives the biggest honours, but of course everybody else is there too -- the Bretons, the Welsh, the Irish, the Manx, the Scots, the people of Cornwall and also the diaspora from Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, New Zealand and Australia.
Here is a brief clip from last year, but you can actually find all four hours of the parade on YouTube.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 4, 2019 16:09:23 GMT
Interesting! I'm going to try to find some of this year's on youtube. When I was a child my family took a road trip from Madrid up to the north of Spain. I remember being high up in the mountain pines and mist, seeing Galicians in their tripod wooden shoes walking alongside the road playing bagpipes.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 8, 2019 19:24:30 GMT
I actually sat through A Wrinkle in Time on television yesterday afternoon. I didn't find it as ghastly as the reviews made it out to be, even though it was indeed the 2nd biggest box office bomb of its year. I mean really, you have to be a bit indulgent when you have a movie with Oprah Winfrey and Resse Witherspoon playing fairies or witches or something.
I would have loved it as a child, although below a certain age certain elements were pretty scary. Then again, most children like being scared as long as things work out in the end.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 8, 2019 20:30:11 GMT
I thought it was charming...but odd
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 9, 2019 12:56:24 GMT
I watched Wonder Boys again this afternoon. It's much older than I thought because Tobey Maguire, Robert Downey Jr and Frances McDormand were all incredibly young and even Michael Douglas didn't look like a broken down has-been yet. As for the movie itself, it has held up remarkably well.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 11, 2019 11:01:09 GMT
Having seen Can You Ever Forgive Me? yesterday, I found myself wanting to see Richard E. Grant's first role again, so I hunted up my DVD of Withnail & I which is just as outrageous and morally questionable as ever. Something that had not struck me before was Richard Griffiths as Uncle Monty. He did not change physically one iota from Withnail in 1987 to being Harry Potter's Uncle Vernon starting in 2001.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 11, 2019 15:03:12 GMT
I tried to watch that once, but found it labored, arch, tedious crap.
Yesterday a friend of mine compared the current season of Handmaid's Tale to The Perils of Pauline. I laughed and cannot disagree with her. Still, I think the overall message of the show is so important that it pretty much demands excess and any plot twists necessary to keep it going and drive the message home.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 11, 2019 17:33:58 GMT
With Blow Up and Sunday Bloody Sunday, it is one of the 3 most English films that I have ever seen. I don't think you made it to the scene where one of them cries out "they're sharpening the knives!"
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 11, 2019 18:46:01 GMT
Kes, Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Saturday night and Sunday Morning, Quadrophenia, Billy Liar, Get Carter, Gregory's Girl, The Long Good Friday, The Railway Children, Scum.............. most English films.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 11, 2019 18:49:40 GMT
Yes, of course... we all have our own lists. What is strange is that even though I can identify "English" movies and easily validate your lists, even though I don't know every single movie, I would be hard pressed to give a list of quintessentially French movies. Okay, Amélie as a relatively recent one, but what else?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 11, 2019 18:51:43 GMT
Meanwhile, in terms of English films, to Scum, I will add Breaking Glass and Irina Palm (with Marianne Faithfull!)
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