Good movies,,, well there are a few.......

[drssg]

Ugh. My wife couldn't stand that movie and I thought it depressing.
The movie has Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman and was based on the 1969 autobiography by the French convict Henri Charrière.
I didn't believe most of the movie happened the way Henri Charriere recounted.

I watched "A Beautiful Mind" a long time ago, and it uses a similar approach. It is "based on" a biography of a real guy, but the entire story line is fictionalized. If movies reflected reality, they would probably be boring.

I thought the movie was entertaining, but I found it strange that the hype pretended that it was a true story.

 

[garry1p]

I recall an article about a movie being cast for Eleanor Roosevelt and they were going to use a black actress.

When questioned about how that would go over the director said most Americans won't know the difference.

Kind of like the rerun of Walking Tall.

 

[Runner]

I watched "A Beautiful Mind" a long time ago, and it uses a similar approach. It is "based on" a biography of a real guy, but the entire story line is fictionalized. If movies reflected reality, they would probably be boring.

I thought the movie was entertaining, but I found it strange that the hype pretended that it was a true story.

That's what bugs me about the latest "Titanic". Love the idea of presenting the story with the benefit of AI to show things from 1912 looking brand new, but superimposing a fictional story over such a dramatically tragic true story just kills it for me.

 

[tradosaurus]

That's what bugs me about the latest "Titanic". Love the idea of presenting the story with the benefit of AI to show things from 1912 looking brand new, but superimposing a fictional story over such a dramatically tragic true story just kills it for me.

 

[masseyrider]

View attachment 4287173

They tell you they want a good stable guy who will treat them well and be a good dad for her kids.
Then they go and pick up a biker, druggy at a bar and complain they can't find a nice guy.
Seen it all too many times.

 

[WinterDeere]

That's what bugs me about the latest "Titanic". Love the idea of presenting the story with the benefit of AI to show things from 1912 looking brand new, but superimposing a fictional story over such a dramatically tragic true story just kills it for me.

Mixed feelings, there. It's sappy, but also kinda hard to hate any movie that features an extended scene of a young Kate Winslet lying nude on a couch, not to even mention opening with actual footage of the wreck, and then including a pretty well-detailed depiction of the actual sinking.

 

[MossRoad]

I finally just watched The Sixth Sense. Pretty good.

Also, rewatched Valdez is Coming for the umpteenth time....

• Frank Tanner: I shoulda killed you three days ago.
• El Segundo: Or gone to Nogales.
• Bob Valdez: Or paid the hundred dollars

 

[WinterDeere]

I finally just watched The Sixth Sense. Pretty good.

Funny story, they filmed that at my brother’s med school, P-COM, and he managed to accidentally walk through one of the scenes while they were filming. They had him sign a waver to allow them to use the scene with him in it, so of course he was all excited to go see the movie.

When we got to that scene, we couldn’t see him at all, since the camera operator had a really shallow depth of field set in their focus. My brother knew which pair of blurry legs walking through the back of the scene was him, but the rest of us couldn’t pick him out at all.

 

[MossRoad]

Nice!

 

[WinterDeere]

Well, I guess I'm about 40 years behind, but I just watched Lonesome Dove. Apparently Netflix has decided I like Robert Duvall westerns... and I guess it's right there.

Great miniseries, for anyone who hasn't already seen it. The effects are right out of "1989 made for TV" quality, but it's a great story with good characters played by excellent actors. Cast includes Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Anjelica Huston, Steve Buscemi... and Ricky Schroder!

The only thing I didn't like was it wasn't longer, they could've made a standing show out of it, IMO.