Posted on 01/29/2018 6:44:31 AM PST by dangus
The gimmick of 3 (4?) separate timelines converging, but intercut as if they were simultaneous, was too clever by half. That was the source of most of the confusion. A more linear plot would have been clearer, and provided back-story details which would have explained some of the dramatic points that were not resolved until the end of the film, or had to be inferred from the separate denouements of each plot line.
It’s sad that Only The Brave wasn’t mentioned. If you see this movie on TV, you’ll wonder why it wasn’t nominated.
Per Deadpool, read the original post. I mentioned that I was including movies that seemed obviously NOT Oscar movies.
I liked the Darkest Hour so much that I went to Amazon and purchased two DVD’s on Churchill covering the same period.
It was great to have the foundation prior to watching Dunkirk.
The thing that was left out of Darkest Hour that I have been researching for many years relating to leaders who guide us through troubling times, such as Abraham Lincoln, was Churchill’s Black Dog. He always referred to his deep dark periods of depression as his Black Dog. I have an excellent book just on “Churchill’s Black Dog.”
Lincoln had the same deep dark periods of depression.
Lincoln, Churchill, Mark Twain, and many others used humor as an escape and cover for their dark periods.
Add to the list JFK, Martin Luther King Jr., Ghandi...... all had severe depression. MLK Jr actually tried committing suicide twice.
Sorry but Lynda Carter is wonder woman. George Reeves will Always be Superman.
Sean Connery will always be James Bond.
ABSOLUTELY.
On a long international flight, I saw Dunkirk.
I fully intend to purchase and share that film with my family.
Patriotism, self-sacrifice, the reality of war, everything a movie should have and which many being made in this day and age do not have.
I think Dunkirk is the only one of the 2017 nominees that I’ve seen and I was disappointed with it.
Katherine Ross is very tall. I would not say she is beautiful in the classic sense, but quite striking and also very nice. Bo Derek is naturally stunning even without makeup. A true beauty. She is also tall, and she has a gracefullness about her that’s almost lyrical, if that makes sense. I met her at a dog show in Santa Barbara. As she walked along the rows of show rings, every male judge stopped what they were doing to gawk, lol. In truth, everyone, male and female, stopped to gaze at her. I’ve never seen anything like it in all the many celebrity studded events I attended through the years.
My opinion on what should have been best picture each year, and I have seen every film that has been nominated since 2012.
2017: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
2016: La, La, Land (Moonlight is the worst best picture winner EVER!)
2015: The Revenant (Hard to pick one this year)
2014: American Sniper (Far and away the best picture on this list)
2013: American Hustle
2012: Zero Dark THirty
“And the winner is: “Wonder Woman” (Because there is a agenda message in it)...”
Dang, I must have missed the message while I was drooling over Gal Gadot in those skimpy outfits.
Basil Rathbone will always be Sherlock Holmes.
Katharine Ross was an absolutely stunning beauty in her day (late 1960s). As beautiful as any actress who ever graced the silver screen.
I loved “Maudie” and thought for sure that Sally Hawkins would get a nomination for the role.
I like “little” movies and hate action/special effects movies.
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Darkest Hour?
For best actor, if Gary Oldman doesn’t get it, then the should stop giving out the award.
Not a shot fired, other than one scene where the Germans bomb a diversionary force of 4,000 Brit troops trying to help free 300,000 at Dunkirk, and the movie was something both my boys stayed off their phones for the entire movie.
Re Katherine Ross, I met her circa 1980 at an invitation only movie screening. That’s why they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To me she was lovely, but not what I think of as a classic beauty. Her height was more striking to me than her facial features. But then, I’m a straight woman, so don’t see other women as men do.
I like art house movies as well. Those are the only places where you can find the hidden gem of a movie, like "Maudie" or "The Exception" or "Last Flag Flying" or "Big Sonya", that don't make it into the big cineplexes. The closest art house to me used to be in Independence, but that closed so now we have to go all the way to south Johnson County, Kansas to see this kind of film.
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