What’s the last movie you watched?


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Well, I was going to take some young grandkids to Peter Rabbit at the dollar cinemas...but for some reason Grandma disagreed (people think I'm far off the end on Mormonism cultural items such as no caffeine and such...she's actually stricter than I am).  I am not sure why...but she did what she does when she doesn't want us to go.  Dinner just happened to get on the table too late for us to eat and then go to the movie, or she needed me to do a chore before we went that took more time so the movie was already started by the time I finished.

So, instead I bought some boxes of candy (Mike and Ike), popped several bags of popcorn (one bag for each kid), got a liter of Root Beer and gave each of the grandkids one, and we watched "An American Tale" tonight.  Turned off all the lights and watched it on our biggest screen TV (well, me and all the grandkids here under the age of 8, the other's decided to play boardgames and video games instead).

I was surprised, most of the grandkids had not seen this movie before.  Unsure why my kids didn't show my grandkids this movie before this.

We now need to watch the sequel sometime, "Fieval goes West".

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22 hours ago, Sunday21 said:

I don’t suppose you could recommend some Mormon friendly movies or tv shows? I am really tired of programs and movies for children. Although Stranger Things was great! Many thanks!

I stumbled across Corner Gas (a Canadian sitcom) on YouTube a few months ago and loved it! There may have been a handful of adult language/situations that cropped up over the six seasons, but nothing that I felt was inappropriate.

Dry Bar Comedy channels on Facebook and YouTube have pretty good content, if you like stand up comedy.  It's filmed right across the street from BYU-Provo and associated with VidAngel, just be careful if you search out the comics' other material; not all of it is as clean as what they use for their Dry Bar act.  (They have to submit their material for approval, but the few I've looked up independently haven't turned up anything particularly foul.) 

Check out your local library; they most likely have a DVD section.  Browse their selection and then check out the Parent's Guide on imdb to vet anything that may be inappropriate.  (I'm more sensitive to violence and sexual situations than language, but everyone's different.)  I've rediscovered a few old favorites, like American Graffiti and Matilda while finding some new ones, like Miracle and One Million Dubliners.

Recently got Austenland from the library.  It's way funnier to watch it with someone else, but still pretty great solo.  Have been watching the commentary with director Jerusha Hess and producer Stephanie Meyer, and....it's renewed my distaste for Twilight.  Although, I suppose the success of that allowed her to produce/finance the comedic genius of Austenland, so we'll call it a wash.

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For anyone looking for lds friendly tv shows, some ideas

Jonathon Creek - on Youtube. Modern day detective. Dectective is amateur nerd who works as a magician assistant. Funny.https://youtu.be/AowXvrd86aE

Father Brown https://youtu.be/3cHF9Zjg_7c

Rosemary and Thyme -Lady  Detectives https://youtu.be/k4O7Ulvfzvw

 

Murdoch Mysteries set in late 19 or early 20th, police https://youtu.be/5_801pqhgPE

Little Mosque on the Prairie https://youtu.be/k8APVztLSaw

 

 

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23 hours ago, Sunday21 said:

For anyone looking for lds friendly tv shows, some ideas

Jonathon Creek - on Youtube. Modern day detective. Dectective is amateur nerd who works as a magician assistant. Funny.https://youtu.be/AowXvrd86aE

Father Brown https://youtu.be/3cHF9Zjg_7c

Rosemary and Thyme -Lady  Detectives https://youtu.be/k4O7Ulvfzvw

 

Murdoch Mysteries set in late 19 or early 20th, police https://youtu.be/5_801pqhgPE

Little Mosque on the Prairie https://youtu.be/k8APVztLSaw

 

 

I watched Murdoch Mysteries on Netflix once.  I thought it was alright.  Trying out the Rosemary and Thyme right now.  Thanks for the recommendation!

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On ‎4‎/‎27‎/‎2018 at 6:08 AM, anatess2 said:

The whole time I was watching this movie, I thought the Alicia was the girl in Kong Skull Island.

Uh, No.

 

Alicia much prettier, and a better actress/.

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I recently watched Indian Horse. It's a fictional story of an Ojibwa boy who lost his family and was raised in a residential school where horrors took place. Although the character is fictional the depictions of what took place are likely to resemble the realities of such a life more than many would care to admit. It's a bit tough to watch and I wouldn't recommend it for anyone looking for a movie to watch with family, on a date or for some escapism.

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On 4/28/2018 at 9:51 PM, Sunday21 said:

@Ironhold. Thanks so much! I am hoping for content for me that is lds friendly. I can track down a lot of old stuff and new through our interconnected system of libraries so feel free. I don’t like superheros unless it is funny. My super ex girlfriend was great! Have you seen this?

Anything that an lds female would like would be good. A mystery, drama, or detective show or movie would be nice. Content made for HBO, Netflix etc is normally too sexual and sometimes horrifically so!  I tried Breaking Bad for a few episodes but I could not take the darkness. A lot of UK series set in modern times are very extreme. The savage crimes depicted in many UK detective shows ruins the story lines about the main characters.

I hope that BYU tv will make some good content. Perhaps they will produce some mysteries or detective shows? Thanks so much!

Go line these movies up in your list:  Gifted (with Chris Evans) and Hundred-Foot Journey (with Helen Mirren).

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On 4/28/2018 at 10:57 PM, Ironhold said:

The aforementioned "Fantastic Four" film is pure cheese, such that some folks do in fact want to see Marvel man up and permit an official release. 

As far as older television shows go, check your local cable or satellite provider. There are a whole slew of channels dedicated to older programming in the US, such as MeTV, Retro TV, Antenna TV, Cozi TV, and others. Most offer a mix of programming from the 1950s to the early 2000s, with anything that might truly be questionable (such as "The Alfred Hitchcock Show") or dated (most anything in black & white) typically reserved for the overnight hours. 

 

From there, a few anime bits I can recommend: 

Lost Universe - Cult classic sci-fi anime from the 1990s. The main characters are a trio of "trouble contractors", heroes-for-hire who handle everything from escort missions to anti-terrorist operations. They're good, but they're also very, very eccentric... and with good reason, as for all three some of their eccentricities are tied to tragedies that happened in the past. Content-wise most episodes are between TV-G and TV-PG, but some of the episodes do deal with dark themes that include death. Nozomi Entertainment, the company that currently has the rights to the English dub, has put all 26 episodes up for free viewing on their YouTube channel. 

Robot Carnival - Cult classic sci-fi anime anthology from the 1980s. Then-fledgling APPP commissioned this film as a showcase of what they could do, and it's generally regarded as helping fuel the anime boom in North America because of it. It's seven shorts featuring robots book-ended by a pair of shorts about the titular Robot Carnival, an automated traveling show so badly suffering from decades of neglect that the screams it elicits are from fear instead of glee. Discotek did a new release back in 2016, with a Blu-Ray out late last year. 

Transformers - Karyuudo Fansubs (look them up on YouTube) has been slowly doing subtitles for various Japanese Transformers series. "Car Robots" is kid-friendly burning justice (this version of Optimus Prime transforms into a fire engine), and Beast Wars Neo is due out this fall, but you'll want to skip Beast Wars II due to the juvenile humor in the source material. 

If you haven't yet, go watch Voltes V from beginning to end.

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The last move I watched was Winchester. I liked it. I paid $2 at Redbox to rent it. The one before that was the new Avengers movie. I paid about $90 for tickets and concessions for my family. I hated the movie. It was only slightly more entertaining than a business meeting. I don’t understand why anyone wants to pay to see two and a half hours of fighting. Not to mention the stupid story line. 

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Just got back from Black Panther. There was a little to like about the movie and lots to dislike. (I mean, seriously, overt racism played for laughs? In 2018?) But the worst knock against the movie was that IT WAS BORING. Talk about a paint-by-numbers storyline. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. Not the worst movie I've ever seen, not by a long shot, but bad enough that I slightly resent having paid money to watch it.

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37 minutes ago, Vort said:

Just got back from Black Panther. There was a little to like about the movie and lots to dislike. (I mean, seriously, overt racism played for laughs? In 2018?) But the worst knock against the movie was that IT WAS BORING. Talk about a paint-by-numbers storyline. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. Not the worst movie I've ever seen, not by a long shot, but bad enough that I slightly resent having paid money to watch it.

I heard bad reviews of it but I wouldn’t have gone to see it anyway since as a white person I wouldn’t want to “suck the black joy out of the theater.”

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I'm afraid my wife has just committed an unpardonable sin.

I was reminiscing about my favorite movies from the good ol' days.  I wanted to show my kids the original Ghostbusters.  My kids wanted to know why they'd never heard of it before.  She responded,"Because it was just a stupid movie.  I don't know why people thought it was any good."

I'm hanging my head in shame.  I'm so distraught.

 

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Went on an Amazon Prime binge with my nieces.

Ever After

Enchanted

Snow White and the Huntsman (I can't stand the actress for Snow White - this was such a waste of a movie but we watched it because I love the sequel and I wanted my nieces to see it)

Huntsman Winter's War

My mother wanted to watch these so I watched it with her:

Olympus Has Fallen

London Has Fallen

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So, I finally saw Black Panther.  I have to say I was kinda disappointed.  Not that it was a bad movie.  I thought it was pretty good.  But there was so much hype about it.  I was expecting a 10 out of 10.  I see the IMDB score of 7.6 and the Tomato Audience Rating of 79% and think that's about right.  I just can't fathom the critics' rating o 97%.  That was simply unwarranted.

It had great special effects.  It had a decent plot with reasonable twists and turns.  Individual fight scenes were choreographed well.  Awesome set design and wardrobe.  Script was perfectly on point.  Chase scene... mixed.  It was a thrill ride.  But it mixed in some slap-stick that just didn't work well.

Acting was decent.  But I didn't really see anything that caused anyone to stretch their abilities as actors.  They were all fairly common things that you'd expect from any average actor.  They had some really good actors in that production.  But no one really showed their abilities. -- I'll except Forrest Whitaker.  He had such a small part.  But he really did something with it.

*****Spoilers ahead******

One thing that kinda bugged me was Martin Freeman's character -- the CIA agent.  He seemed to simply be hanging around there for no reason.  Eventually they had to slip in the fact that he was an Air Force pilot so they could have him pilot the Wakandan Quinjet.  But that could easily have been done by the kid sister.  She drove that car.  She was capable enough to put the fighter interface together.  So...what...?  Was he just the token white guy?  He just stuck out like a sore thumb.  There was no reason for his part.  The studio could have saved a couple million on his salary.

And then there was the predictability.

  • Was I the only one who saw that the "boy" would eventually do something?  They went to great lengths to prolong the screen time of one boy in various scenes.   And when a guy shows up with unusual knowledge and skills, gee, I wonder who that was.  Ok.  I didn't see the cousin angle coming.  I'l give them that.
  • Then point out the sound attenuators and later, have the two fight around them.  It was a scene out of Phantom Menace.
  • The one tribe refused to fight.  Then they came in to save the day.
  • CIA guy saves the day with 1 second left to spare.
  • T'Challa was actually saved by the aloof tribe.  The king felt it was a debt to pay -- a life for a life.  Who didn't see that coming?
  • T'Challa failed the first fight with the cousin and won the second.  Never seen that before.
  • And, of course, something that was not in the movie was that the clerics obviously had a secret stash of the plant that the king does not know about.  Or at the very least, they will know how to recreate it from native plants and the magical vibranium.  I haven't seen Infinity War yet.  But I'm going to guess that they mention it in that movie.  If not, it will probably be mentioned in Panther 2.

I'd really like enough set up so that it isn't ex machina.  But I'd also like to be surprised sometimes.  I simply wasn't.

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Red Sparrow = Excellent

I don't like Jennifer Lawrence as an actress, I don't know why, there's just something about her that grates on me. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed sitting through this one. The acting, plot flow, and intensity were executed well. I plan to watch it again soon.

A Wrinkle In Time = Good

I went into this movie with the lowest of low expectations but ended up being pleasantly surprised. The plot could have been great but fell short, and despite a decent cast, some of the actings felt mediocre. But while there was a lot that could have been improved upon, the cinematography was vivid and whimsical, my kids loved the odd characters. The experience of watching this is best on a big cinema screen, but for a movie ticket price, I'd vote you watch it on Redbox or Netflix at home.

Walk The Line = Great

Good movie. I think they did a good job of summarising Johnny Cash's life in a two-hour presentation. A bit heavy at parts, not always uplifting, but the vocal performances by Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon are excellent!

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