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viper37

#15585
January 14, 2014, 01:37:39 AM
I saw Helix last week-end.  While it does look like a good show, I am unsure it will be my type of show.  It seems heavy on the biology stuff, experiments, microbes, viruses, etc and this isn't my kind of science.
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

Sophie Scholl

#15586
January 14, 2014, 05:14:47 AM
Decided to catch American Hustle tonight.  Meh.  Watchable with some good performances, but not worthy of the praise I've seen lavished upon it.  Worth a redbox/netflix/rental, but I wouldn't say droop the price of a ticket on it.  The music is fantastic at the very least.
"Everything that brought you here -- all the things that made you a prisoner of past sins -- they are gone. Forever and for good. So let the past go... and live."

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Capetan Mihali

#15587
January 14, 2014, 09:25:00 AM
They're showing Lawrence of Arabia at the downtown theater on Friday night! :w00t:  And I've never seen it before, so that's something to look forward to.

I watched Snatch last night.  It was a fun movie.
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Ed Anger

#15588
January 14, 2014, 09:27:37 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on January 14, 2014, 09:25:00 AM
They're showing Lawrence of Arabia at the downtown theater on Friday night! :w00t:  And I've never seen it before, so that's something to look forward to.



Don't take your hummus and cottage cheese there.
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Capetan Mihali

#15589
January 14, 2014, 09:46:24 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on January 14, 2014, 09:27:37 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on January 14, 2014, 09:25:00 AM
They're showing Lawrence of Arabia at the downtown theater on Friday night! :w00t:  And I've never seen it before, so that's something to look forward to.



Don't take your hummus and cottage cheese there.

:Embarrass:
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

Ed Anger

#15590
January 14, 2014, 09:49:22 AM
A Languish meme is born.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Syt

#15591
January 14, 2014, 10:04:32 AM
The local movie museum has a retrospective on 1970s political thrillers from France/Italy.  :frog:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
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Admiral Yi

#15592
January 14, 2014, 10:25:21 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on January 14, 2014, 09:25:00 AM
They're showing Lawrence of Arabia at the downtown theater on Friday night! :w00t:  And I've never seen it before, so that's something to look forward to.

Perfect movie for an olde schoole big screen.

Admiral Yi

#15593
January 14, 2014, 10:25:59 AM
p.s.  If you need to tinkle, wait for the in-movie intermission.

Josephus

#15594
January 14, 2014, 10:30:33 AM
Quote from: Benedict Arnold on January 14, 2014, 05:14:47 AM
Decided to catch American Hustle tonight.  Meh.  Watchable with some good performances, but not worthy of the praise I've seen lavished upon it.  Worth a redbox/netflix/rental, but I wouldn't say droop the price of a ticket on it.  The music is fantastic at the very least.

Thought the music was the best thing about it really
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

derspiess

#15595
January 14, 2014, 10:32:25 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 13, 2014, 09:24:18 PM
If you're not going to watch Reds, at least watch Because of Winn-Dixie.

I like to watch Reds before I go to the range.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

viper37

#15596
January 14, 2014, 02:53:23 PM
Turn should begin the same day as Game of Thrones season 4, April 6th.  Looks promising.
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

Savonarola

#15597
January 14, 2014, 04:18:57 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on January 13, 2014, 05:45:38 PM
I consulted a list of pre-Code films, and, duh, it was Tarzan and His Mate.

QuoteTarzan rides a rhinoceros in one scene - a first for film. The rhino, Mary, was imported from the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, Germany. Weismuller did the scene himself, sustaining only minor scrapes to sensitive places from Mary's rough hide.

Way off, though.  It was 1934.

That's the best of the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films; Maureen O'Sullivan's nude swimming is an added bonus.   :)
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Savonarola

#15598
January 14, 2014, 04:35:08 PM
The Penalty (1920)

This is Lon Chaney's breakout film.  He plays a man whose legs were needlessly amputated as a boy, which drove him to a life of crime.  Now, as the ruler of the underworld of San Francisco's Barbary Coast he plans revenge.

The movie is a melodramatic pot boiler (based on a novel by Gouverneur Morris, who also wrote "The Ace of Hearts," the movie version would be Chaney's next big hit.)  It doesn't matter, though, Chaney is the sole reason to see this film.  He ties his legs up and walks on his knees in order to portray the amputee.  He hobbles around on cut down crutches, and climbs up and down ladders with just his arms.  He manages to make his visage twisted and evil, (in fact he models for a sculpture of Satan in one of the films many sub-plots) but then changes it to tranquil when his character plays the piano or discuses art.  It's an amazing performance.

The film plays upon the fears of America right after the First World War; Chaney's characters plan is to have all the malcontent foreign workers riot in the suburbs.  In the imagined scenes as he's describing his plan they gun down police officers.  While the police are busy there he'll loot downtown.  It's also a gritty film by the standards of the day, there's a dope fiend, an on screen murder of a prostitute and a nude model (though you can only see her bottom.)
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

CountDeMoney

#15599
January 14, 2014, 06:53:20 PM
Quote from: derspiess on January 14, 2014, 10:32:25 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 13, 2014, 09:24:18 PM
If you're not going to watch Reds, at least watch Because of Winn-Dixie.

I like to watch Reds before I go to the range.

Yeah, Annie Hall with her hair pinned up makes me want to shoot stuff, too.
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