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Looking for Film Recommendations, More Cerebral and Less Violent?
chickensoup | 07.23.17 | chickensoup

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: film; movies
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To: PlateOfShrimp

That’s funny!


21 posted on 07/23/2017 5:15:39 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: Chickensoup

Lost City of Z


22 posted on 07/23/2017 5:15:45 AM PDT by VermithraxPejorative
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Sounds interesting.


23 posted on 07/23/2017 5:15:52 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: TTFlyer

watched all of them, except for the last season. Enjoyed them very much although when I went back to Upstairs, Downstairs I found that the camera work was so crude compared to today, that I did not enjoy it the way I first did on the small screen in the seventies.


24 posted on 07/23/2017 5:17:41 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: mewzilla
Hellfighters and Hatari with John Wayne are a lot of fun!
25 posted on 07/23/2017 5:17:46 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Chickensoup
We have discovered the Brit mysteries. Our favorite is Death in Paradise, and Midsomer Murders with longer episodes and typical Brit dryness, but also great fun. We enjoy the scenery (Guadalupe and English countryside), but along with the visuals, the real fun is in the writing and storytelling. These are WhoDoneIts at their best. You get clues as they unfold, bit I've yet to pick out the murderer.

Our viewing has changed dramatically. We just can't watch the news, like we used to do for hours. OANN is our news fix, you get everything you need right there in about an hour. (Did you know there was news happening outside Washington DC?). We are still exploring Netflix and Amazon Prime. We are using Amazon Fire TV and DirectNowTV (not Direct Now). TV has become friendly again at our house.

26 posted on 07/23/2017 5:18:08 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (If GOP won House, Senate and Presidency...why are the Democrats still in charge?)
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To: pepsionice

Deutschland 83

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That sounds fascinating. Thank you.


27 posted on 07/23/2017 5:18:43 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Chickensoup

The new Sherlock series available on PBS or DVD’s is absolutely awesome. Cumberbatch is Sherlock.


28 posted on 07/23/2017 5:18:59 AM PDT by dasboot (Nuanced foreign relations is the germ of international misunderstanding.)
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To: rey; Chickensoup

I assume you mean the new Father Brown? I haven’t seen the originals (available on Netflix DVD IIRC), but I gather that the new version is crap that basically inverts the originals.


29 posted on 07/23/2017 5:19:23 AM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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To: Chickensoup

I just watched a good one yesterday. “One of My Wives Is Missing.” A tv movie from the ‘70s.

A favorite: “Inherit the Wind.”

You’ve probably seen both. Also, some years ago I got a dvd of old Hitchcock tv dramas, most were very enjoyable and the violence mostly implied and offscreen.

I share your pain. Every time I go to a bookstore I see an “undead” creature within sixty seconds. In clothing stores even the toddler shirts can be found that have skulls on them. Two-headed skeletal rotting corpse dolls are popular.


30 posted on 07/23/2017 5:19:30 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: raybbr

The Days of the Condor was a fine book, too. And it had a sequel that was fine, too.
As for vids, one might try The Dead Zone, Doctor Zhivago, 36 hours (with James Garner).


31 posted on 07/23/2017 5:19:37 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: raybbr

I remember reading the book, IIRC. this film is good? On my list now, thank you.


32 posted on 07/23/2017 5:19:39 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: ArtDodger

Sorry. Day not Days.


33 posted on 07/23/2017 5:20:26 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: PlateOfShrimp

The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Love his books, I bet his lectures are interesting, I will take a peek, is he on Youtube?


34 posted on 07/23/2017 5:20:43 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Chickensoup

Is “cerebreal” a mix of “cerebral” and “cereal”? It makes me think of a skull full of oatmeal. And that makes me think of my 4th and 6th sons, sigh ...


35 posted on 07/23/2017 5:23:57 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Everybody loves to talk about 'values' because there is no math involved.")
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To: Chickensoup

Yes, I believe so.

BTW, folks here have mentioned Downton Abbey. If you like that, I would recommend a Spanish series, hopefully still available on Netflix, called Gran Hotel. Like Downton Abbey but with more pizazz.


36 posted on 07/23/2017 5:25:20 AM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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To: Chickensoup

“Not Without My Daughter”

“Places in the Heart”

Sally Field


37 posted on 07/23/2017 5:25:25 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Chickensoup

You should catch up on the last season since a movie is now being planned.


38 posted on 07/23/2017 5:26:00 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Chickensoup

PlateOfShrimp’s “The Feynman Lectures on Physics”, that is.

Field of Dreams
The King’s Speech
Chariots of Fire
The Imitation Game
Julie & Julia
Here Comes Mr Jordan
Long Gray Line
Bells of St Mary
Portrait of Jennie
Laura
Love of the Game


39 posted on 07/23/2017 5:26:40 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: rey

We have had the Father Brown books on cd and listened individually and as a family. Wonderful books. The series left a lot to be desired. I was initially hooked by the Cotswold scenes for I am a big Miss Read fan, and frankly, want heaven to be either Fairacre or Thrush Green.


40 posted on 07/23/2017 5:27:32 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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