Good (or bad) Movies

[jimv]

You sure are, weeze!!!!!  But, I stand corrected.

I was searching thru the blu-ray sales bin at Best Buy this morning & picked up a movie i had nevger heard of before, "Inside Man" with Denzel Washington & Jody.  Pretty good flick.  Also got the blu-ray of "Dirty Dozen."  will watch that tonite.

[weeze]

that family has how many academy awards between all of them?

[jimv]

I'd really have to look that up, weeze.  I'll get back to you.

[jimv]

Alfred Newman won NINE Academy Awards:
1937 - Hurricane
1938 - Alexander's Ragtime Band
1940 - Tin Pan Alley
1943 - The Song of Bernadette
1952 - With a Song in My Heart (Adaptation)
1953 - Call Me Madam (Adaptation)
1955 - Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
1956 - The King and I (Adaptation)
1967 - Camelot (Adaptation)
NOTE:  I can't understand how he didn't win the award in 1947 for Captain from Castile.

Randy had TWO Academy Awards for Best Song:
2002 - "A Fool in Love" from Monsters, Inc.
2011 - "We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3

My all time favorite movie composer is Miklos Rozsa.  He wrote MANY great scores.  He has THREE Academy Awards:
1945 - Spellbound
1947 - A Double Life
1959 - Ben Hur (IMHO, the greatest score EVER written)

[Jim143]

Saw the Dark Knight yesterday.  Wasn't too bad considering I do not read the comics so I don't know the "true" back story.  But I have one question:  Am I the only one who thought Bain sounded like Sean Connery?

[LennG]

 Never linked the 2 together Jim.


Last night I rewatched Cinderella Man, with Russell Crowe. Just a very good movie and I enjoyed watching it all over again even though you know how it all ends.

Was Max Baer such a bastard??> I'll have to do some research on that one.

[jimv]

No, Lenny, he wasn't.   They portrayed him that way just so that they could have a "villain."  The rest of the story IS true to life.

[jimv]

Over the past few day I've wsatched two movies I hadn't seen.  One was "Midnight Cowboy."  How this movie ever won the Academy Award is beyond me.  I thought it was a really crummy flick.  The other is "Open Range."  I enjoyed that one very much.

[LennG]

 So, it's been quite a while since anyone has seen or reviewed any movies.

Since my DW has started school again, it is hard for us to get to the real movies on our regular Tuesday run, but we did get to see one this past week. It was "Hope Springs" with Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones.
 This is an adult type comedy where younger folks may get some of the humor, but you really need to be married for a while and in that 20 year rut to really appreciate some of the 'Black' humor in this one.

Briefly, Meryl and Tommy are old married folks, set in their ways. Tommy really has no interest in Meryl except for the things she does around the house. They rarely talk etc, etc. Meryl, on the other hand, is looking to sort of rekindle that lost spark and Tommy wants nothing to do with that.
 So Meryl books them into a sort of relationship (sex) clinic with Steve Carell as the clinician.

Overall, it is not these two's finest works but they make a good team and the movie works because of that. As I said, younger folks just will not understand the problems of older married folk, but overall it isn't bad.

OH, on a side note, for you Jim, the clinic that they go to takes place in a small town in Maine (I forgot the name).

[LennG]

 Just finished watching the 'Green Mile' with Tom Hanks. They Have been showing it several times a night for the past few nights on AMC because of the untimely death of Michael Clarke Duncan. I haven't seen this movie in quite some time and looked forward to seeing it again.

 It is just a marvelous movie. Very long, (over 3 hours) but it never drags and always keeps your interest. It has been around for over 20 years now, and I'm sure most movie people have seen it, but if not.

 It is a movie about the prisoners and guards on death row in a prison in the 1930's. Sounds morbid, but it isn't. Michael Clarke Duncan is a prisoner who has some very special 'talents' and as the movie moves along these 'talents' take a bigger and bigger role in the movie. Hanks is brilliant as always, and a great performance by James Cromwell as the warden.

If you haven't seen this one, grab some snacks, find a comfortable chair and sit back and be entertained by this great movie.

[jimv]

One of the best things about "Green Mile" is that it closely follows the book.

Naturally, Lenny, I have it on DVD.

[Webster29]

I just got through watching The Hunters on FMC.  Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner.   I just love that movie.  Hadn't seen it in years.   It is one of my favorite Korean War movies.  One of the reasons I love it so much is that it featured the F-86 Sabre jet.   I have had a life long infactuation with that plane.   It was the first plastic model plane I had as a kid.  I think I liked any movie that had one in it.   Today when I go to air shows or museums that feature vintage aircraft I have to look around to see if they have one and will just gaze at it for for quite a while.  Like the Giants, a part of my youth that has stayed with me all these years.

[LennG]

 In the last couple of days we watched a couple of movies, one new one on DVD and another not to old.

First the new one, it was called "What to Expect When You Are Expecting" with a couple of good looking ladies, Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez. To be honest, this was one of the stupidest movies I have seen in a while. From the title, I expected a sort of fun movie, about life for people who are expecting a baby. This movie was anything but fun. They tried to make some parts funny and failed miserably, then in others they tried to be serious and failed at that, still in other parts they tried other things and failed at that also. What should have been a light, enjoyable movie about life for young marrieds (or young living together) was just a waste of almost 2 hours.  Another in a long line of movies featuring great looking guys, gorgeous looking women who do nothing more than run around hoping fans will think they can act. Well they can't.
Forget this one


Second movie we watched the other day was 'The Departed" with Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and my man Jack Nicholson at his slimiest best. I had seen it before, but being old, didn't remember much of it. I fully enjoyed re watching this movie. Excellent cast, good story and anything directed by Martin Scorsese is a winner in my book. This is the type of role, Jack Nicholson was made for.

[Jim143]

I finally saw "Extremely Loud Incredibly Close".  Thought it was very good.

[jimv]

That's why they make chocolate & vanilla.