What films are you watching right now?

Probably read the book in English-Lit, and have previously watched this movie, but without recall… it is not disappointing, and the issues the characters deal with and face, make sense in their pertinence through personal experiences had.

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Great Expectations
1946 ‧ Mystery/Romance ‧ 1h 58m

7.8/10 IMDb 4/4 Roger Ebert 5/5 Empire
87% liked this film: Google users

Great Expectations is a 1946 British film directed by David Lean, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and starring John Mills, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness and Valerie Hobson. It won two Academy Awards and was nominated for three others.
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Release date: 26 December 1946 (United Kingdom)

Director: David Lean

Adapted from: Great Expectations

Box office: 2 million USD (US rentals)

Awards: Academy Awards in 1947 for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (John Bryan, Wilfred Shingleton) and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, and was nominated for Best Director, Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

wow holy fuck that’s deep.

That novel is great and a canon of South American literature. Charmingly, it is itself written as a screen play. South Americans like writing literature like that. Sometimes it works gloriously, like with this very excellent novel, sometimes not so much.

Cortazar was a genious, but his genious quite often overtook him. That’s why short stories tended to be his best work.

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Incidentally, that is why Garcia Marquez is viewed as the undisputed greatest by far. Because he managed never to let his genious get ahead of him, and it was considerable genious. For that reason as well he is even less translatable than Cortazar.

newyorker.com/magazine/1976 … -patriarch

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Dr. Sleep

I watched The Magnificent Seven yesterday… I have to admit I was swooning over 6 of them, and dismayed that the 4 who were killed, died from their own stupidity.

My kinda movie… made me wanna be MI5 or NASA, until people started getting killed.

Operation Avalanche
2016 ‧ Mystery/Thriller ‧ 1h 34m

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Two young CIA agents are sent to NASA, under the false pretence of making a documentary, to investigate reports of a mole. But once there, they become entangled in a much bigger conspiracy involving the Apollo 11 mission.

Initial release: 16 September 2016 (USA)

Director: Matthew Johnson

Production company: XYZ Films

Nominations: Canadian Screen Award for Achievement in Visual Effects, MORE

Cinematography: Jared Raab, Andrew Appelle

Budget: $1,250,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $31,585

What’s wrong with Helen?

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outstanding! portman delivers a spectacular performance and really demonstrates her character range in this one. so the deal is, after going to space, portman is so blown away by the experience that everything back on earf becomes mundane by comparison. stupid little trivialities like marriage, picking the kids up from school, eating at denny’s, and whatever else you do on earf, start to feel small and meaningless. that’s the basic premise, and throughout the movie we see a general malaise overcome portman which serves to fuel her desire to get back up there where the shit’s real. eventually she’s betrayed by this other astronaut guy who gets her kicked off the list for the next mission, and this totally enrages her. i mean this chick is ALL ABOUT SPACE. she lives and breathes the shit. supposed to be based on true events and i remember vaguely something about it.

hey yo but you think about that. you think the banal routine of your little life is lame now, go to space and then come back. that’ll put your whole miserable existence into perspective. and don’t try to tell me it wouldn’t effect you because there’s plenty going on here on earf. no. you say that now only because you haven’t been to space. just look at portman’s face… look at her eyes. she’ll never be the same. you can’t unsee that shit, people.

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? Jean Luc Gorard

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richard ‘the iceman’ kuklinski

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36:40. Undercover agent wearing a wire talks with Richey about taking contracts. Tells the story of Richey once poisoning the hit’s hamburger with cyanide. The guy comes out and starts eating the burger. Richey waits. Any second now. But the guy keeps on eating the fuckin thing and doesn’t die. Lol.

Post by MagsJ » Sun Dec 15, 2019 2:03 am

Just finished watching The Heist, and having seen it before, it was even more entertaining the Nth time around - this post was from 15th December, but the pedant in me migrated it to here.

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2009 ‧ Heist/Comedy ‧ 1h 30m

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When museum security guards Charles, Roger and George learn that the authorities have sold some of the exhibits, they decide to steal their favourite artwork and replace it with a forged replica.

Initial release: 29 May 2009
Director: Peter Hewitt
Initial DVD release: 27 October 2009
Producers: Morgan Freeman, William H. Macy, Peter Hewitt, Lori McCreary, Bob Yari, Rob Paris
Production companies: Revelations Entertainment, Dog Pond Productions

^^^ hahaha go to 1:06:27. He teams up with an ex army demolitions expert who works a day job as an ice cream vendor. They call him ‘mr.softy’ after the ice cream truck.

Oh no! 1:09:30. Richey whadaya dooin?

Next hit. Gay disco bar. Richey’s gotta get in there… so what does he do… he buys a canary yellow sweater, bright pants and elevated shoes.

Viewed this film about two weeks ago. I might have seen it before as it seemed familiar, but I cannot recall if I did, but it has to be the funniest film ever, as I couldn’t stop laughing from beginning to end, so 10 out of 10 for humour. :smiley:

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2012 ‧ Action/Comedy ‧ 1h 42m

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After his store’s watchman is murdered, Evan along with his neighbours forms a neighbourhood watch. They soon realise that the murderer is not a human, but an alien.

Initial release: 27 July 2012 (Canada)
Director: Akiva Schaffer
Box office: 68.3 million USD
Budget: 68 million USD
Screenplay: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Jared Stern

Viewed this film last week… an enjoyable watch, that takes you on a journey of survival in a futuristic landscape, by stark barbaric means, and often unnecessarily so…

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2013 ‧ Thriller/Action ‧ 1h 59m

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Riddick finds himself on a sun-scorched planet and tries hard to fight for survival. He stands up against a race of alien predators, more lethal than any human race he has ever encountered.

Release date: 4 September 2013 (United Kingdom)
Director: David Twohy
Box office: 98.3 million USD
Budget: 38 million USD
Film series: The Chronicles of Riddick

Richey gets schooled by Dr. Deitz at the end of the documentary/interview. Well done doc, and spot on.

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