My friends and I were watching these last night. I saw your alerts, sent out a text to them and voila.Quote:
Originally Posted by blueboss
Let's go the the stoning!
142 Mexican Whooping Llamas...
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My friends and I were watching these last night. I saw your alerts, sent out a text to them and voila.Quote:
Originally Posted by blueboss
Let's go the the stoning!
142 Mexican Whooping Llamas...
Just saw the new Midway movie over the weekend and loved it. Highly recommend watching it.
Donna my wife, who is more a Hallmark movie fan, loved it too. She said she could barely eat her popcorn for fear of missing something important. The acting is at least as good or better than any war movie from the past. Imo everyone of the people below deserve an award for giving a historically accurate and moving peformance. And very surprisingly, Woody Harrelson actually became Chester Nimitz with a tremendous acting job. They took this serious and if you liked the old Midway, these gals and guys, in spite of the historic actors in the original, took it to a whole new level imo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo
Ed Skrein ...Dick Best
Patrick Wilson...Edwin Layton
Woody Harrelson...Chester W. Nimitz
Luke Evans...Wade McClusky
Mandy Moore...Ann Best
Luke Kleintank...Clarence Dickinson
Dennis Quaid...William 'Bull' Halsey
Aaron Eckhart...Jimmy Doolittle
Keean Johnson...James Murray
Nick Jonas...Bruno Gaido
Etsushi Toyokawa...Isoroku Yamamoto
..and many more solid performers
Looks like a great cast.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingcat
We have an informal tradition that we don't watch Christmas shows until Thanksgiving. Starting after the Macy's parade, my son watched Elf, Home Alone, Miracle on 34th Street and A Muppet Christmas Carol (an underrated version of the story--Michael Caine is really good).
The son is working retail during the Christmas season, so I don't blame him for trying to get a booster of Christmas goodwill.
Watching Christmas Vacation right now on network television.Quote:
Originally Posted by KSRBEvans
Watched CV at eight last night myself while installing live tree lights. A tradition for me
Been watching Madmen almost to season 7 and it’s really good.
Will watch Midway looks really good.
Have you seen the Apple ad? I know they're manipulating me, but it still gets me in all the feels, as the kids say.
This is the long version--I can't find the TV version online.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDeRyyDrS40
Just discovered QB1 on Netflix. They follow four high school quarterbacks each season; Nik Scalzo is one of the featured qb’s in season 3. This may be old news to everyone else lol. Didn’t have time to watch much last night but I’m going to check it out this weekend.
Season 3 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is now live on Prime streaming.
The Mrs. is a devotee and I promised to start watching it with her. She even said she would rewatch the first two seasons with me lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by KSRBEvans
^Season 1 was a jewel. Season 2 not as good IMHO but still funny and worth a watch.
If you're a Bond fan Amazon Prime has most, if not all, of the Bond movies (except the Daniel Craig series) and have given them a 4K boost in picture quality.
I should say that Never Say Never Again is included in the offering and the resolution is much better. Plus, the movie itself is better than most of the official series.
Prime has the new seasons out of both The Expanse and the John Krasinski version of Jack Ryan. I got about halfway thru one episode of Jack Ryan before I fell asleep last night (my fault, not theirs). I may have to wait for vacation after Christmas to catch up :/
I was posting in another thread about Love Actually and thought I'd throw it open for the group. Any Christmas shows that are definitely must-watch?
At Casa Evans it's
--Die Hard (just kidding--but really)
--Love Actually
--The Holiday (we usually start early with Love Actually and The Holiday because they're arguably not even Christmas movies)
--Elf
--Charlie Brown Christmas
--Rudolph
--Frosty
--Miracle on 34th Street (my family prefers the John Hughes remake with Richard Attenborough for some reason)
--Muppet Christmas Carol (an underrated Michael Caine performance as Scrooge, IMHO)
--It's A Wonderful Life
--The Nativity Story (split opinion on this--DW and I really like it, our adult children don't)
BTW, yes, we do watch a lot of TV. What's your point? :evilgrin0007:
Besides Charles Brown, various family members have to watch A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, and Elf. Elf is my personal favorite but of course we’ve seen them all a dozen times each.
Just saw a quick teaser for Fargo, coming this spring on FX.
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Last night on Prime I watched Brittany Runs A Marathon, about a person who's in a bad place due to a variety of bad life choices and she decides to, well, run a marathon. In the process she learns a lot about herself. Inspirational movie for the New Year.
That sounds interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by KSRBEvans
Saw this question on Twitter: What's your "Really? You haven't seen it?" movie?
For me, it's ET. Everybody was telling me I had to see it, so I dug my heels in out of stubbornness. Now that I've gone this long, I plan on seeing it through. (Dumb, right?)
Really?Quote:
Originally Posted by KSRBEvans
^Yes...really. :D
Really? You haven't seen it?" Movie?
Ok, I'll play...
Any of the Godfather movies
Chinatown
Lord of the Rings
Any Mad Max movie
I'm sure I have a ton more that most people have seen, but those are off the top of my head.
Since it's Oscar nomination week, here's a Twitter thread noting actors/actresses who've never won an Oscar. Some big names (Rita Hayworth, Peter O'Toole, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, etc.):
https://twitter.com/biscuitkitten/st...64078523330560
John Cazale's an interesting case. He died young from cancer, but you look at the movies he was in: Godfather, Godfather II, Dog Day Afternoon, The Conversation, Deer Hunter. And he was amazing in all of them--not 1 nomination.
I just started watching the Homeland series on Showtime... so far half way through season 1, it’s really good.
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Season 2, didn’t see any of this coming. Brody is a POS!
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Just watch Band of Brothers, was really good.
Is there other seasons?
I have got to watch that. Have heard everybody say how good it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by catmanjack
Band of Brothers is exceptional. There's just the one mini-series of it. I usually watch it every year around Memorial Day.
If you're looking for another good war-based mini-series, I strongly recommend The Pacific. It's not much like Band of Brothers--it follows different Marines assigned to different units in the Pacific theater. It's roughly based on 2 war memoirs, "With The Old Breed" by Eugene Sledge and "Helmet For My Pillow" by Robert Leckie, as well as the bio of Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone. The violence is also more graphic, IMHO, but that's pretty realistic with the type of battles that happened there. It's really well done.
It was so good I watched all 10 in two days and wanted more.
Really enjoyed hearing about their lives after and what they did.
Damian Lewis who plays Major Winters in BoB’s also plays Brody in Homeland.
Polar opposite roles. I just started season 3 of Homeland, and so far Brody is still a bad guy.
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Netflix is a great friend of mine and the wife’s!
Just watched two season of Good Girls, not bad.
Started the Messiah last night, first episode was interesting so will precede.
Apocalypse Now
I just got a 4K version of the movie I saw about 20 years ago. I'd forgotten the quality of the cast. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 A who's who of actors we're all familiar with. If you've seen it, you might want to see it again. Hard to say which is better, this or Full Metal Jacket.
Too bad it's a remembrance of a war that probably we should not have been involved in
I just watched "The War" documentary by Ken Burns on Netfllix. It was a tremendous seven part series and left a huge impact on me.
Even though I have always held a keen, yet modestly studied, interest in WW2 history.
If you have not watched I seriously suggest it. Even the most educated historians will gain something from it.
I like a good war movie but none can compare to the real thing.
Not for the squeamish either, as there are real candid shots of the horror of American and the other well known casualties of "The War". And no matter who watches, you will shed a tear or two, as our nation as a whole refused to fall to her knees despite given every reason to. We are only a super power now, because of it.
Neither Russia, nor Great Britain would exist as they are today except for our ability to first feed and supply the war in Europe and then fight it against two major powers on different parts of the Globe.
"The War, a seven-part series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four quintessentially American towns. The series explores the most intimate human dimensions of the greatest cataclysm in history — a worldwide catastrophe that touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America — and demonstrates that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.
The film honors the bravery, endurance, and sacrifice of the generation of Americans who lived through what will always be known simply as The War"
Homeland, season three finale was a doozy.
Hard tell’n where season four picks up.
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I just watched "Dragged Across Concrete" on DVD. As the title implies, it's a dark, gritty story of 2 cops (Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn) who get themselves in a bad situation and try to get out of it by robbing some bad guys. It's one of those movies I'm glad I watched but I wouldn't want to watch it again.
Band of Brothers
Apocalypse Now
The Pacific
The War
All shows I have never seen that I want to see. Maybe this summer.
Why wouldn't you want to watch it again? Too much?Quote:
Originally Posted by KSRBEvans
Is there any other movie or show that you can compare it to that I may have seen (in the sense of why you might not want to see it again?)
Some I've seen, maybe, in that vein?
Platoon?
Road to Perdition?
Saving Private Ryan?
Some Criminal Minds episodes?
Am I close? I haven't seen nearly as many movies as the average person, so my comparisons are limited.