* Did you watch a film last night (on Blu or DVD), and what was it? *
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This was good, very; I even had couple emotional tears @ the end with Eddie, his Mom & Dad, and coach meeting @ the British airport. It's best to just let go, not restrict yourself.
This is a true and lovely story, well worth your time, and it invites you to search and learn more, and what you discover is as big as life itself.
It's a funny world we live in, full of prejudices and superiority complexes...
Watch this flick and wake up to real life where it counts...in the heart and spirit of all men, women and children.
Embark in Eddie's life adventure, since he was just a little kid going to the Olympics. You have to see it right from the very beginning, when all kids we all have our dreams...
Overall film rating score only (my own of course, so use caution from a Canadian Frenchman :b ): 86
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Pierre de Coubertin's beautiful quotes:
• "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well."
• "The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete."
• "Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law."
• "All sports must be treated on the basis of equality."
• "Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles."
• "The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die."
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Be well, live well today for today.
This is a true and lovely story, well worth your time, and it invites you to search and learn more, and what you discover is as big as life itself.
It's a funny world we live in, full of prejudices and superiority complexes...
Watch this flick and wake up to real life where it counts...in the heart and spirit of all men, women and children.
Embark in Eddie's life adventure, since he was just a little kid going to the Olympics. You have to see it right from the very beginning, when all kids we all have our dreams...
Overall film rating score only (my own of course, so use caution from a Canadian Frenchman :b ): 86
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Pierre de Coubertin's beautiful quotes:
• "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well."
• "The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete."
• "Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law."
• "All sports must be treated on the basis of equality."
• "Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles."
• "The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die."
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Be well, live well today for today.
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YashN, I watched Hail, Caesar! last night:
It was directed by the Coen brothers (Joel & Ethan).
We're back in the early 50s during Hollywood era...when a cast member, Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) disappeared during filming. And Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), a Hollywood "fixer" is trying to locate him.
There is a great cast, with actors from all caliber venues...drama to comedic and between.
Starring:
Josh Brolin
George Clooney
Alden Ehrenreich
Ralph Fiennes
Jonah Hill
Scarlett Johansson
Frances McDormand
Tilda Swinton
Channing Tatum
Some scenes are outrageously funny and dramatic @ the same time, but mainly funny; it's a comedy for sure.
Other scenes are languishing, but they paid off.
It's mostly fictional with tiny bits of real life characters from back then. It's a recommendation certainly.
I would rate it @ around 75.5 (why point five, just 'cause I can).
{Rotten Tomatoes critics gave it 85% - average of roughly 300 movie critic reviewers.}
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Music by Carter Burwell
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It was directed by the Coen brothers (Joel & Ethan).
We're back in the early 50s during Hollywood era...when a cast member, Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) disappeared during filming. And Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), a Hollywood "fixer" is trying to locate him.
There is a great cast, with actors from all caliber venues...drama to comedic and between.
Starring:
Josh Brolin
George Clooney
Alden Ehrenreich
Ralph Fiennes
Jonah Hill
Scarlett Johansson
Frances McDormand
Tilda Swinton
Channing Tatum
Some scenes are outrageously funny and dramatic @ the same time, but mainly funny; it's a comedy for sure.
Other scenes are languishing, but they paid off.
It's mostly fictional with tiny bits of real life characters from back then. It's a recommendation certainly.
I would rate it @ around 75.5 (why point five, just 'cause I can).
{Rotten Tomatoes critics gave it 85% - average of roughly 300 movie critic reviewers.}
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Music by Carter Burwell
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I've been a bit disappointed with a couple of their recent movies, the True Grit remake being one, so not sure what to expect from them from now on especially since the last one I really liked is 'No Country for old Men'.
The Cold Light of Day: Cavill, Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver.
The opening scenes bring a rapid and good hook, but the potential is truly wasted in this movie full of clichés, bad acting, bad writing, crappy directing and full of obvious plot holes and caricatural situations.
I tend to say 'caricatural' a lot: I've seen a lot of movies in my younger years, so if scenes are not very well-made, they seem caricatural to me.
The opening scenes bring a rapid and good hook, but the potential is truly wasted in this movie full of clichés, bad acting, bad writing, crappy directing and full of obvious plot holes and caricatural situations.
I tend to say 'caricatural' a lot: I've seen a lot of movies in my younger years, so if scenes are not very well-made, they seem caricatural to me.
True Grit, really; wasn't a turn on? Wow, that was an awesome remake. You probably watched a different film, with Elvis Presley, or Johnny Cash.
Anyway, Hail, Caesar! might not be for you then; we're back in 1951 in Hollywood @ the Capitol Pictures studios, and with all the funny stuff the Coen brothers are experts @.
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'Eye in the Sky' ????
Eye in the Sky is a powerful film, on many aspects of human life. ...And on decision making; the people who decide who lives and who dies.
There is a complexity about it and on the other way a simplicity. ...A complicity.
This is not based on a true story (real facts) like 13 Hours, but it is a very close approach to reality...I think.
...Except for the timing; I doubt that it would have take that long in real life to push that red button, from inside of them army trailers.
The technology today is simply amazing; from the miniature insects with cameras and operated by remote control to the accuracy of the drones with their missiles and operated from far far away in small trailers.
Last night I watched it with great interest and glued to the onscreen deployment. It's a great film.
And this morning I woke up early to the sad news in Turkey, @ the Istanbul airport.
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I rated 13 Hours @ 77, because I don't like handshake camera work...it gives me bad headaches. If it wasn't for that I would have given it 86
Eye in the Sky, I would rate it @ 91
Technically (BR picture and audio quality), it is well executed overall, among today's higher echelons of the cinema ladder in the year 2016.
Highly recommended. ...It also makes you research about drones of all sizes and what they are capable of, and how far advanced the USA is with controlling them around the world.
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* R.I.P. Alan Rickman (Sheriff of Nottingham in 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' - excellent performance, inoubliable).
Eye in the Sky is a powerful film, on many aspects of human life. ...And on decision making; the people who decide who lives and who dies.
There is a complexity about it and on the other way a simplicity. ...A complicity.
This is not based on a true story (real facts) like 13 Hours, but it is a very close approach to reality...I think.
...Except for the timing; I doubt that it would have take that long in real life to push that red button, from inside of them army trailers.
The technology today is simply amazing; from the miniature insects with cameras and operated by remote control to the accuracy of the drones with their missiles and operated from far far away in small trailers.
Last night I watched it with great interest and glued to the onscreen deployment. It's a great film.
And this morning I woke up early to the sad news in Turkey, @ the Istanbul airport.
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I rated 13 Hours @ 77, because I don't like handshake camera work...it gives me bad headaches. If it wasn't for that I would have given it 86
Eye in the Sky, I would rate it @ 91
Technically (BR picture and audio quality), it is well executed overall, among today's higher echelons of the cinema ladder in the year 2016.
Highly recommended. ...It also makes you research about drones of all sizes and what they are capable of, and how far advanced the USA is with controlling them around the world.
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* R.I.P. Alan Rickman (Sheriff of Nottingham in 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' - excellent performance, inoubliable).
No it wasn't a really good Coen Bros movie: they do have a few duds.
The young actress was very good in her part though. I can't recall seeing her in another movie since.
Ok, but your vision and mine are very different about True Grit. ...Just my own, my own eyes and ears and my cinema brain.
...And nobody else, no other influences whatsoever, mine only. :b
Lol, music and films are different for different people; that's what so fun about entertainment.
But with No Country For Old Men, here we both agree. Isn't it beautiful. :b
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There are no tools other than our own brain to evaluate movies. I'm talking the inner grooves here, not the outside technical merits...like the ones you can measure with for cinematography, angles, creativity, lenses, colors, details, audio blend/immersion, music score quality, clipping, overdubbing, etc.
Emotional synergy between the brain and sensory pulses is a culture in evolution, an apprentice in cinema history through times and world cultures.
True Grit was an awesome flick all the way. :b
You a funny guy Yash, you must be Canadian.
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You are abso!utely right...9.
I forgot this dude:
Loved this movie, including the opening credits, brilliant movie.
No Country for Old Men is amazing. Not what I expected and was blown away that it was actually a horror flick cleverly disguised.
Another movie I saw in the theater was that of Stephen Kings The Mist.
One of the most bizarre movie theater experiences ever.
The movie is standard King, Frank Darabont doing a brilliant job of putting King on the screen, true to the book, crowd participation in the theater we were all having fun. People commenting on the movie as we went along, laughing typical King flick. One of the few times I ever participated in talking during a movie, it was fun.
Until, Mr. Darabont put his own ending on the movie. One of the most disturbing scenes in any movie I have ever witnessed.
The entire movie theater full of people got up and walked out in silence, I didn't hear anyone speak until they got outside the building.
Truly bizarre.
One of the most bizarre movie theater experiences ever.
The movie is standard King, Frank Darabont doing a brilliant job of putting King on the screen, true to the book, crowd participation in the theater we were all having fun. People commenting on the movie as we went along, laughing typical King flick. One of the few times I ever participated in talking during a movie, it was fun.
Until, Mr. Darabont put his own ending on the movie. One of the most disturbing scenes in any movie I have ever witnessed.
The entire movie theater full of people got up and walked out in silence, I didn't hear anyone speak until they got outside the building.
Truly bizarre.
Lol, "a horror flick cleverly disguised." ... No Country For Old Men
Deadpool is a cleverly disguised ninja movie into a romantic drama flick.
Deadpool is a cleverly disguised ninja movie into a romantic drama flick.
Have you watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine?
The character makes an appearance there too.
Deadpool was going to be called X-Men origins: Deadpool originally.
I absolutely loved it. A while ago, I read a lot of sci-fi and horror, and King figures prominently in my collection, especially his anthologies like Skeleton Crew.
The story - it's a novella in Skeleton Crew but apparently a longer version exists in another anthology of various authors called 'Dark Forces' which sounds familiar but I cannot recall if I have it or not as I left my novels collection behind - is very well written as is usual for King, and quite engrossing. It evokes ambience and very palpable visions.
Usually, I find film adaptations of the written word quite lacking, but I really liked the movie: the ambience, claustrophobia and sense of ominous doom is all there.
That conclusion is a most powerful thing to include in the movie version and gives the movie its own legs to stand on but still faithful to the feelings that King evokes in the original story.
Brilliant move by Darabont, who also helmed 'The Walking Dead' Season 1, and believe was put aside from the project by the greedy execs once success and a captive audience was found, so if you're wondering why this series seriously went downhill after a while, that would be it.
Maybe some effects could have been done better, but I really, really like this movie, Thomas Jane does a great job.
I rarely watch a second time but I will for this movie because I would like to watch it with my significant other this time.
Then, we'll most probably follow up with an old Punisher movie with Thomas Jane prior to the development of the character in Daredevil Season 3 as well as a potential 'The Defenders' cross-over series on Netflix.
I highly recommend it.
SPOILER ALERT: If you didn't see the film yet, don't watch those videos...don't press the Play button.
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And in case you are weak and cannot resist the temptation watch only the second one...for the ? music only; don't look, just listen. :b
And in case you are weak and cannot resist the temptation
watch only the second one...for the ? music only; don't look, just listen. :b
With the recent talk about the Coen brothers I almost revisited True Grit, but @ the last second I changed my mind and simply went for another masterpiece; Blood Simple (1984). That was a re-watch.
"In 1984, the brothers wrote and directed Blood Simple, their first commercial film together. Set in Texas, the film tells the tale of a shifty, sleazy bar owner who hires a private detective to kill his wife and her lover. The film contains elements that point to their future direction: distinctive homages to genre movies (in this case noir and horror), plot twists layered over a simple story, dark humor, and mise en scene. The film starred Frances McDormand, who would go on to feature in many of the Coen brothers' films (and marry Joel). Upon release the film received much praise and won awards for Joel's direction at both the Sundance and Independent Spirit awards."
Overall: 90
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Bonus:
"In 1984, the brothers wrote and directed Blood Simple, their first commercial film together. Set in Texas, the film tells the tale of a shifty, sleazy bar owner who hires a private detective to kill his wife and her lover. The film contains elements that point to their future direction: distinctive homages to genre movies (in this case noir and horror), plot twists layered over a simple story, dark humor, and mise en scene. The film starred Frances McDormand, who would go on to feature in many of the Coen brothers' films (and marry Joel). Upon release the film received much praise and won awards for Joel's direction at both the Sundance and Independent Spirit awards."
Overall: 90
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Bonus:
Just because I watched Eye in the Sky last Tuesday night:
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/01/obama-drones-strikes-civilian-deaths
• http://www.usnews.com/topics/subjects/drones
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The film I really enjoyed it; and one more reason why is because it made me research and learn more about it.
Another film (true story) that made me search and read extensively about is 13 Hours.
I won't post links on that one because there are simply too many, and with seven investigations it is one of the most investigated subject in US history.
From the real people who were over there and fought (four guys died, including a US ambassador) to the White House and to the the potential future new resident's female.
Two films, and powerful in the era we live in.
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* Last night I simply revisited this guy:
That one too I made some extensive research; about Roger, his Dad and his Wall. ...All related to war and what we're fighting for.
Except that here the toy used for it is Music. ...No Drone, no spying camera, no machine guns, no assault rifles, no mortar/rocket launchers.
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Right now I am listening to Classical music (CD, solo piano, Claudio Arrau, Chopin), and I don't feel one ounce of war, but one ton of peace.
Just finishing now...and I'm putting a new CD in the drawer...Chet Baker. ...With piano, strings (violins, viola, cello), acoustic bass, drums, saxophone/flute and trumpet.
...All analog peaceful music in a digital medium/world. ...But it's the piano, and Chet's trumpet too that are the stars. ...No drones, no assault rifles, ...acoustic musical instruments.
The difference between war and peace is in the sounds. Some music is explosive, and some romance.
Same with films; the musical scores reflect the onscreen moving pictures. Roger Waters: The Wall (2014) on Blu-ray - highly recommended.
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/01/obama-drones-strikes-civilian-deaths
• http://www.usnews.com/topics/subjects/drones
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The film I really enjoyed it; and one more reason why is because it made me research and learn more about it.
Another film (true story) that made me search and read extensively about is 13 Hours.
I won't post links on that one because there are simply too many, and with seven investigations it is one of the most investigated subject in US history.
From the real people who were over there and fought (four guys died, including a US ambassador) to the White House and to the the potential future new resident's female.
Two films, and powerful in the era we live in.
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* Last night I simply revisited this guy:
That one too I made some extensive research; about Roger, his Dad and his Wall. ...All related to war and what we're fighting for.
Except that here the toy used for it is Music. ...No Drone, no spying camera, no machine guns, no assault rifles, no mortar/rocket launchers.
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Right now I am listening to Classical music (CD, solo piano, Claudio Arrau, Chopin), and I don't feel one ounce of war, but one ton of peace.
Just finishing now...and I'm putting a new CD in the drawer...Chet Baker. ...With piano, strings (violins, viola, cello), acoustic bass, drums, saxophone/flute and trumpet.
...All analog peaceful music in a digital medium/world. ...But it's the piano, and Chet's trumpet too that are the stars. ...No drones, no assault rifles, ...acoustic musical instruments.
The difference between war and peace is in the sounds. Some music is explosive, and some romance.
Same with films; the musical scores reflect the onscreen moving pictures. Roger Waters: The Wall (2014) on Blu-ray - highly recommended.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials in 4K Blu-Ray.
The sequel to the teen Sci-Fi "The Maze Runner", this movie sees the group of escapees from the 'glades' into the arms and base of their saviours, but are they really?
There are a lot of action scenes which are quite well done, and the picture can have a lot of detail as well.
However, this is one movie which suffers from 'Teal and Amber' disease.
While the first movie has an atmosphere of intrigue and of Alien civilisation with it, this one doesn't at all. I miss the mystery and dread that is "The Maze" around the glades.
Giancarlo Esposito, who was nothing short of amazing as Gus Fring in Breaking Bad, makes a welcome appearance. The role doesn't provide him with much time or leeway to show his talent though.
In this movie, Kaya Scodelario's face was quite familiar, and that was because we had seen her in 'Tiger House' as well.
This sequel feels like a cross between 'The Walking Dead' and 'The Matrix' at some points.
It is an OK sequel, but not as good as the first one, it just sets up the forthcoming third leg of the series.
The series is likely to appeal to teens, not so much to adults.
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