The Coffee House

[limr50]

Slow ride, folks...take it easy.

 

[compur]

I've had contact with lawyers 3 or 4 times in my life and they all helped me and none of them charged me a cent.

 

[waday]

Looks like I touched a nerve. (I have a habit of doing that. )

My nerves are ok. What makes you think they're not? I mean, aside from being tired with an infant and with a full-time job. Getting woken up multiple times a night still, so hopefully baby will sleep longer through the night.

I don't.

Good! Stand up for what you believe in.

This may come as a shock but what you think is good stuff may not be what others think and vice versa.

It doesn't come as a shock, because that was pretty much the point of my post. Thanks for agreeing with me.

Thank you for welcoming me however I think I've probably been in this world a lot longer than you have so your welcome seems a bit inappropriate.

I also worked in Hollywood (its lower rungs admittedly) for 20 years and I think I know a little about how it ticks.

In any case I believe I do have the right to like or dislike movies. I think I even have the right to express my opinion about my likes and dislikes, no?

Never said you didn't have that right.

I didn't say that anyone should think a certain way about movies. I only said what I think about them.

Perhaps if you didn't see so many recent movies you would be less intolerant of others expressing their opinions about them.

Actually, I haven't seen too many recent movies. Before Black Panther (my wife took me, but I actually did end up enjoying it, because they didn't destroy half the world), I cannot remember the last time I saw a movie in a theater. I did see Coco, which is also pretty recent, but saw that at home on TV.

Interestingly, both of these movies are actually about being tolerant of others and their beliefs.

 

[smoke665]

He enjoys documentaries and SiFi, Westerns and musicals, indies, foreign and Hollywood. He doesn't give a rat's where the movie is from as long as it delivers enjoyment or revelation or enlightenment or a combo of the three.

I'd add crime drama and history to the above. I guess everyone assumes all movies come from Hollywood, but you're right not all do.

Again it's not so much the language in a film, but how and why it's used. Is it really necessary to further the story line, or is it for shock to cover up a less than stellar script. One of my all time favorite westerns the 1953 "Shane". From that movie the final confrontation between Shane and Wilson:

Shane: I've heard about you.
Wilson: And what've you heard, Shane?
Shane: I've heard that you're a low-down Yankee liar.
Wilson: Prove it.
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Can you really believe that the dialog could be improved by dropping a couple of "F" bombs or worse in this scene.

Or what of the scene from "The Godfather" when Jack Woltz wakes up to find the head of his prize horse in bed with him. Yeah it was bloody, but you didn't see them showing in full living close up color the removal of the horses head, with blood splattering everywhere, because they knew it didn't add squat, it wasn't about the blood and gore it was the shock to Woltz, the fact that the Corleones meant business. The bad thing about blood and gore is that it becomes boring after the shock factor wears off. Look at any of B horror films, they're almost comedic in their gore.

What about Tom Hanks in "Cast Away", would him being naked on the island have added anything?? How many actually found themselves thinking of Wilson as real, and felt sorrow when he was lost at sea? Good movies don't need shock and awe.


As to actors and their "commentaries", I get irritated that so many seem to think their opinions are somehow more superior than the average Joe. They forget that the studios only goal is to make money, as long as people pay to see the movies they put out, those actors will continue to make exorbitant amounts of money. Want to see change in Hollywood, watch what happens when a movie flops at the box office.

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[SquarePeg1]

Actually, I haven't seen too many recent movies. Before Black Panther (my wife took me, but I actually did end up enjoying it, because they didn't destroy half the world), I cannot remember the last time I saw a movie in a theater. I did see Coco, which is also pretty recent, but saw that at home on TV.

Interestingly, both of these movies are actually about being tolerant of others and their beliefs.

I saw BP about 2 weeks ago. I liked it - but then again I like almost all the Marvel movies. I don't mind the earth wrecking since it's just a movie. I do find the DC Comics movies to be much more "real" when it comes to violence. Not real looking because they CGI seems to be used more obviously in those, but more real in the sense that people die gruesomely and the fights are more brutal than exciting.

 

[waday]

Actually, I haven't seen too many recent movies. Before Black Panther (my wife took me, but I actually did end up enjoying it, because they didn't destroy half the world), I cannot remember the last time I saw a movie in a theater. I did see Coco, which is also pretty recent, but saw that at home on TV.

Interestingly, both of these movies are actually about being tolerant of others and their beliefs.

I saw BP about 2 weeks ago. I liked it - but then again I like almost all the Marvel movies. I don't mind the earth wrecking since it's just a movie. I do find the DC Comics movies to be much more "real" when it comes to violence. Not real looking because they CGI seems to be used more obviously in those, but more real in the sense that people die gruesomely and the fights are more brutal than exciting.

Very true. I really liked how BP used a "team effort" (not that there aren't teams in other superhero movies). Hmm. Maybe I just need to get out and see more superhero movies.

I know, it's just a movie, but sometimes, if they don't follow their own logic, it's annoying. And, I'm like that with any movie or TV show that doesn't follow their own logic. Just yesterday, the wife and I were watching an episode of Doctor Who where the moon was an egg that was about to hatch. Because the creature had been growing over millions/billions of years, it got the point where it was so dense it was creating huge tides on the ocean. Yet, when the creature hatched and flew away, the Doctor and companions were standing on a beach and the tides were not impacted by a creature that was now flying away in space. How? If they hadn't introduced the tides problem in the first place, fine, but to introduce it and then ignore it.

Also, it had wings and was using the wings to propel itself... in the vacuum of space. Ugh.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Did some people get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? I guess have a good evening and a better tomorrow. I overslept so am not getting done what I wanted to get done so far today. Stayed up too late. I blame Silent Sundays on TCM. Now those are some good movies!

They're saying snow here too, and this time actual possible accumulation, not just a wintry mix of flurries, rain, or whatever it turns out to be with the temperature hovering. That's mostly all we've had, except one day it was snowing like crazy then it all melted in no time.

I haven't seen a groundhog lately but have had one dart across the backyard and duck under the neighbor's fence. Trying to hide because it messed up the spring prediction??

 

[smoke665]

Did some people get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? I guess have a good evening and a better tomorrow. I overslept so am not getting done what I wanted to get done so far today. Stayed up too late. I blame Silent Sundays on TCM. Now those are some good movies!

I like TCM.

 

[smoke665]

Well the season officially changed today. Had to get out the mower and do some trimming. Fortunately it was still in the breaking out stage so mowing consisted more in "getting everything even", than actual mowing.

 

[SquarePeg1]

Also, it had wings and was using the wings to propel itself... in the vacuum of space. Ugh.

nerd

 

[Gary A.]

Actually, I haven't seen too many recent movies. Before Black Panther (my wife took me, but I actually did end up enjoying it, because they didn't destroy half the world), I cannot remember the last time I saw a movie in a theater. I did see Coco, which is also pretty recent, but saw that at home on TV.

Interestingly, both of these movies are actually about being tolerant of others and their beliefs.

I saw BP about 2 weeks ago. I liked it - but then again I like almost all the Marvel movies. I don't mind the earth wrecking since it's just a movie. I do find the DC Comics movies to be much more "real" when it comes to violence. Not real looking because they CGI seems to be used more obviously in those, but more real in the sense that people die gruesomely and the fights are more brutal than exciting.

Very true. I really liked how BP used a "team effort" (not that there aren't teams in other superhero movies). Hmm. Maybe I just need to get out and see more superhero movies.

I know, it's just a movie, but sometimes, if they don't follow their own logic, it's annoying. And, I'm like that with any movie or TV show that doesn't follow their own logic. Just yesterday, the wife and I were watching an episode of Doctor Who where the moon was an egg that was about to hatch. Because the creature had been growing over millions/billions of years, it got the point where it was so dense it was creating huge tides on the ocean. Yet, when the creature hatched and flew away, the Doctor and companions were standing on a beach and the tides were not impacted by a creature that was now flying away in space. How? If they hadn't introduced the tides problem in the first place, fine, but to introduce it and then ignore it.

Also, it had wings and was using the wings to propel itself... in the vacuum of space. Ugh.

Wings beating in space would have bugged the hell out of Gary also. I cringe when a spaceship blows up in space and you can hear it in another spaceship. If Gary was in his T-65 X-Wing Starfighter, he couldn't hear any crumbling superstructure sounds as he strafed the Death Star.

 

[Gary A.]

PS- Maybe the the creature was pumping its wings to generate gas which it expels from the back in order to propel it forward.

 

[Gary A.]

Well the season officially changed today. Had to get out the mower and do some trimming. Fortunately it was still in the breaking out stage so mowing consisted more in "getting everything even", than actual mowing.

Gary mowed and trimmed yesterday. Real mowing. Today Gary cleaned out the pond skimmer ... real skimmer cleaning.

 

[smoke665]

Gary mowed and trimmed yesterday. Real mowing

You do realize that touch up for me means only mowing a couple of acres?

 

[Gary A.]

Gary mowed and trimmed yesterday. Real mowing

You do realize that touch up for me means only mowing a couple of acres?

Hey, you’re just driving ... Gary is pushing.