Posted on 03/05/2018 7:34:12 AM PST by Trump20162020
The wife rented it on our cable and we watched it over dinner last week. Granted our screen is small and the audio not that great but I think the movie would have been much better with subtitles. Oldman was very good. I had anticipated that the timeline of the movie was longer than it was.
Watched a foreign movie about the Norway resistance in WW2, it was quite good. I will try to remember the name.
Wife and I are hooked on PBS Masterpiece Theater. Great series like Poldark and Victoria. Actors who act because they love to act. Not for Fame and fortune.
Subtitles wouldn’t have given the movie any benefit. The voice of Gary Oldman imitating Churchill was priceless. His delivery made it work plus the great makeup on him.
The first and ONLY time I ever watched the awards was in 1978.
With football’s ratings dropping, and all the award shows ratings dropping, you would think that they would get the message that people don’t want to sit thru hours of political haranguing by a bunch of nitwits.
I used to be a huge film buff in my youth, but found in recent years that I was watching fewer and fewer movies. Went to the theater maybe three times a year. And even though I have access to a lot of recent movies via Amazon Prime and Showtime (I get that so my wife can watch a couple of series she likes), I almost never watch any recent films. Even having them on demand in my living room, I can’t work up the interest. They don’t even seem worth the two hours I’d spend on them.
But recently, I discovered the TCM app on my Amazon Firebox. Great old movies, with different ones added every day. I’ve seen a lot of films from the ‘30s-’50s that I’d missed, movies with grown-up actors and brilliant scripts filled with good stories, witty, intelligent dialogue and recognizable human characters instead of leftwing propaganda or comic book CGI explosions (the only two film genres remaining in Hollywood).
That’s recently led me to start taking my wife to theaters showing old movies. The Magnolia in Dallas shows them every Tuesday, and the Texas and Majestic Theaters also have them occasionally. Last week, we saw “Gigi” at the Magnolia, and the week before that, “Casablanca” in the big, ornate Majestic Theater downtown. Beautiful print (the one restored for Blu-Ray), and the place was packed, so there must be a lot of other people hungry for good movies. It was great to see “Casablanca” the way it was meant to be seen, on a big screen in a gorgeous theater with a live audience. And “Gigi” is gorgeous on a big screen. I highly recommend this. It’s a great date night, and it just might reignite your love of movies, at least the ones made over half a century ago.
Unquestionably an influence.
That is unexpected. Network news became increasingly politicized, and their ratings dropped. The NFL became increasingly politicized, and their ratings dropped. Now it happened to the Oscars too. How could that be?
Hollywood’s answer, produce a show that hates America even more.
we are happy catching up on old westerns or older cop shows....a movie now and then thru Amazon....
Subtitles or Captions? If you used a cable box to watch it. You may not know how to turn closed captions on. It is not always obvious how to turn them on. I use a TIVO which is very easy but I have a Spectrum(Charter) box and you actually have to turn the Spectrum box off and go into a hardware setting to turn them on. You can customize them from there. the streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime let you st them in your user settings.
I have had to use Captions for over 10 years. Hearing aids or headphones help but not enough so I have just learned to have captions on everything, even Youtube has pretty good software.
It's a remake of The Incredible Mr. Limpet?
Gee, I mean they wore nice clothes and stuff while they berated us and congratulated themselves for their enlightenment. Why wasn't that enough to win us over?
Groucho Marx lives on
LOL! No, this year’s Oscar went to “Dances with Fishes.”
Bet Don Knotts did it better!
God, it is like Oscars are a season now. I thought these were over weeks ago. Who wants to watch a bunch of preening self righteous perverts?
Jar Jar Binks in a musical?
“The Shape Of Saturday Night Fever”?
I smell an Oscar.
or week old tuna!
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