Posted on 07/23/2017 4:56:36 AM PDT by Chickensoup
This is a slow Sunday morning.
I am not much of a vid watcher. And for over 25 years we didn't have a TV. Back a few years ago I found a TV, with Freeper input and have Netflix. To me the TV is a great going to the theater experience.
I have been watching different things on the TV for occasional entertainment for the past couple of years, Netflix both streaming and DVD.
I have discovered that most shows that I have watched, both the compelling ones that I have enjoyed like Longmire, Bluebloods, and even Father Brown have significant violence and show gross dead bodies.
I understand that the public is used to this and that over the past couple of decades, people have watched shows about dead and decaying bodies.
I am amazed at this turn of events. Almost every show and film I find has some sort of murder, often by some bizarre sicko. Death-porn packaged into otherwise nice storylines.
I enjoy shows like Last Man Standing, Mad Men, 30 Below, films like Primer, Silver Linings Playbook. I am looking for recommendations that are perhaps more about a story, a situation, a relational issue that is compelling.
I have started renting DVDs through Netflix and am going through their old films, where face it, film-makers did not use sensationalism in the place of fine script writing and directing. So I have some of the old films covered.
I think of that scene in The Searchers where John Wayne returns from finding the body of a girl whose kidnappers he was tracking, and he said when asked what happened, with full painful angry emotion in his voice: What do you want me to do? Draw you a picture? That one sentence, acted in such a profound way, gave the viewer everything he needed to know about this poor child and her death and how the protagonists were going to proceed.
So if you can recommend a film or series that you enjoyed that is interesting and doesn't make its centerpiece death and destruction, I would love to hear about it.
Bookmark
“Regarding Henry” with Harrison Ford.
Moon
500 Days of Summer
Stranger Than Fiction
The Counterfeiters
Europa Europa
Almost Famous
Movies
Life of Pi
Amazing Grace
O Brother Where Art Thou
Babette’s Feast
Les Miserables (w Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe)
Gods and Generals
The Patriot
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
A Room with a View (Daniel Day-Lewis and Helena Bonham-Carter)
Sweet Home Alabama
Something to Talk About
The Great Santini
The Apostle
Get Low
The Last Word
My Cousin Vinny
TV
The IT Crowd
Schitt’s Creek
That 70s Show
Poldark
America’s Got Talent
Definitely “The IT Crowd.”
I love Poldark. Great miniseries.
Bookmark
House of Games
Waiting for Bobby Fisher
Both with Joe Montagna
The Straight Story. Richard Farnsworth gives the performance of his career. There are no bad guys, no plots to foil. Just an elderly man meeting strangers and imparting life lessons that will stick with you. Great score, too.
>>The Feynman Lectures on Physics<<
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I still have them on by shelf; but, the volume on Quantum Physics is almost totally obsolete now.
Feynman wrote before quarks and before the electroweak force was discovered. Particle physics was a complete mess back then.
Quotes:
King Arthur: Either what we hold to be right, and good, and true IS right and good and true for all mankind under God, or we're just another robber tribe.
King Arthur: May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.
I’m sorry; but, you couldn’t pay me to watch this list of movies (and, I have actually seen one or two of them).
McClintock on youtube in HD widescreen. Throughout John Wayne voices conservative remarks that still resonate today. Great cast with Maureen O’Hara and others. Humerous moments keep it going.
The HD video shows panoramic views missing from previous TV versions and VHS. Even if you’ve seen it before it’s well worth revisiting.
bkmk
Try this one:
“Mr. Church”
Starring Eddie Murphy in a unique dramatic performance.
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I just got done with “Foyle’s War” - seven seasons or so on Netflix. Murder mystery like “Murder She Wrote” but set in England during WWII. Some history infused with the storyline, and lots of great old cars - and the old buses are really cool. Very good acting. I’m not one to rewatch movies much - and never TV shows. I plan on watching it again some day.
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