I just watched Dunkirk last night, I loved it.
I think one of the problems people might have with It, and not realise it, is the lack of a musical score.
We are so used to having a musical score help us emotionally bond with scenes that the lack of musical scoring is subconsciously unsettling and we stay detached from the movie.
Dunkirk was a story about what happened. A defeated army hoping to be evacuated. There was courage and cowardice and the then typical British Stiff Upper Lip.
The ending, in my opinion was perfect.
I normally don’t care about awards, but I hope it wins.
Last night we went to see Casablanca on the big screen at a local dinner and a movie place. Admission was $5.00. The room was nearly full. The other 6 screening rooms didn’t have half the people in them.
No cell phones rang. No one disturbed the other patrons. The food was good enough and the beer reasonably priced.
We heard several folks ask why they don’t make movies like that anymore.
We had a great time. But we won’t spend a penny on the “new” garbage they’re putting out. Not one.
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“Awards this Sunday is shaping up to be a Spinal Tap concert-level disaster”
Well if I get confirmation that there will be a puppet show during the broadcast I might just tune in.
“the media is as popular as toenail fungus”
Quote du jour. *snort*
The last time I took the Academy’s word for anything, I ended up spending 2 hours of my life suffering through the misery that was Rachel Getting Married. Absolutely the must horrid murder of an afternoon in my life. The dentist was better. Never again.
I liked The Darkest Hour. It has no nude or sex scenes and no profanity—and it even features a cat!
I liked Dunkirk—another film with no nudity or sex scenes, a rarity today. However, I was disappointed that it was not about the Battle of Dunkirk in 1658, but one that took place later.
We saw Darkest Hour, and it was very good. Not in to movies much any more and might see only one a year at the theater.
In CA, we were part of a group that previewed movies, still in production. They were basic, and usually not set to music yet. If was fun; it was free. After the movie we had to spend an hour after filling out a survey and discussing certain things. They asked about characters, alternate endings, and similar.
Then it got so they all had homosexuals and/or satanic stuff, and we’d walk out. An agent at the door would ask why we were leaving, and we’d tell them. When it reached a point where most of them were crap we stopped participating. Hollywood is shameful any more.
I haven’t heard any of the late night hosts like Kimmel discuss Ryan Seacrest, hmmmm
See something, stay silent if it’s one of us.
A film about Wendy Davis? Good grief. Hollywood really doesn’t care that its out of touch with America.
I haven’t seen any of these films and certainly won’t be watching the Oscars.
Kimmel has stated that he is NOT going to “joke” about the sexual harassment & rape culture in Hollywood. He said he is going to attack President Trump though. Typical. [yawn]
For myself, choosing NOT to watch an Awards program consisting primarily of self-absorbed degenerate Democrat-Communists is no great sacrifice.
If it weren’t for the fact that the Democrat-Communists in Hollywood are so tolerant of Muslims, I could wish for Oscar Terror! Now THAT would be news worth watching CNN for!
That is a pretty low bar...
I think Halle Berry is still up on stage crying after receiving her Oscar... in 2002.
Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel!
People don't care because it's TULWC*.
*: The Usual Left-Wing Crap
I hear Meryl Streep is bummed out b/c will not be doing her devout reading of “The Hollywood Creed”-—what all Hollywood really believes. (hat tip Michael Kelly)
Hollywood believes President Bill Clinton. And has always believed him. Hollywood believed it when Clinton said he had never been drafted in the Vietnam War and believed him later when Clinton said he had merely “forgotten to mention” that he had been drafted in the Vietnam War.
Hollywood believed him when Clinton he said he hadn’t had sex with Gennifer Flowers and believed him later, when Clinton reportedly said he did bed her down.
Hollywood believes the president did not rent out the Lincoln Bedroom to celebrities, did not sell access to himself and the vice president to hundreds of well-heeled special pleaders and did not supervise the largest, most systematic money-laundering operation in campaign finance history, collecting more than $ 3 million in illegal and improper donations.
Hollywood believes that Charlie Trie and James Riady were motivated by nothing but patriotism for their adopted country.
Hollywood believed President Clinton when he conceded that his administration mistakenly obtained the FBI files of more than 300 people, including many top Republicans and believes it was the result of a “completely honest bureaucratic snafu” involving security clearances.
Hollywood believed Clinton’s chief of staff, Leon Panetta, when he told reporters that “obviously a mistake was made” and apologized to the people whose FBI files wound up at the White House. Hollywood believed Clinton when he said “I completely support” what my COS Panetta said about the affair.
Hollywood believed Vice President Gore when he said that he had made dunning calls to political contributors “on a few occasions” from his White House office, and believed him when he said that, actually, “a few” meant 46.
Hollywood devoutly believes in no controlling legal authority....but not for Nixon or Trump.
Hollywood believed Bruce Babbitt when he said that the $286,000 contributed to the DNC by Indian tribes opposed to granting a casino license to rival tribes had nothing to do with his denial of the license. Hollywood believed the secretary when he said that he had not been instructed in this matter by then-White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes.
Hollywood believed him when he said later that he had told lobbyist and friend Paul Eckstein that Ickes had told him to move on the casino decision, but that he had been lying to Eckstein.
Hollywood agreed with the secretary that it is an outrage that anyone would question his integrity.
Hollywood firmly believes in the “Clinton Standard” of adherence to the nation’s campaign finance and bribery laws, enunciated by the president on March 7, 1997: “I don’t believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I had changed government policy solely because of a contribution.”
All of Hollywood’s accomplished wordsmiths noted with approval the use of the word “evidence” and also the use of the word “solely.” Hollywood believes, as Clinton does, that it is proper to change government policy to address the concerns of people who have given the president money, as long as nobody can find evidence of this being the “sole” reason.
Hollywood believes president Clinton lived up to his promise to preside over the most ethical administration in American history that indicted former agriculture secretary Mike Espy did not accept $35,000 in illegal favors from Tyson Foods and other regulated businesses.
Hollywood believes that indicted former housing secretary Henry Cisneros did not lie to the FBI and tell others to lie to cover up $250,000 in blackmail payments to his former mistress.
Hollywood believes that convicted former associate attorney general Webster Hubbell was not involved in the obstruction of justice when the president’s minions arranged for Hubbell to receive $ 400,000 in sweetheart consulting deals at a time when he was reneging on his promise to cooperate with Kenneth Starr’s Whitewater investigation.
Hollywood believes, as Harvey Weinstein does, that Paula Jones is a cheap tramp who was asking for it, that Kathleen Willey is a cheap tramp who was asking for it, and that Monica Lewinsky is a cheap tramp who was asking for it.
Hollywood firmly believes Monica Lewinsky was “just fantasizing” in her 20 hours of taped conversation in which she reportedly detailed her sexual relationship with the president and begged Linda Tripp to join her in lying about the relationship and that any gifts, correspondence, telephone calls and the 37 post-employment White House visits that may have passed between Lewinsky and the president are evidence only of a platonic relationship.
Hollywood believes, as all casting directors do, that such innocent intimate friendships are quite common between middle-aged married men and young single women, and also between presidents of the United States and White House interns.
Hollywood sees nothing suspicious in the report that the
president’s intimate pal, Vernon Jordan, arranged a $40,000-per-year job for Lewinsky shortly after she signed but before she filed an affidavit saying she had not had sex with the president.
Nor did insightful Hollywood with its finger on the pulse of America read anything significant into the fact that the ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, visited Lewinsky at the Watergate to offer her a job.
Hollywood producers, directors, authors and screenwriters believe the instructions Lewinsky gave Linda Tripp informing her on how to properly perjure herself in the Willey matter simply wrote themselves.
Hollywood believes, as does Hillary, that The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, U.S. News & World Report, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS and NPR are all part of a vast right-wing conspiracy to malign the saintly Clintons.
Ahhh, Oscar time again. When the non-productive are celebrated by their peers.
“Have you seen more than one of the movies nominated for best picture this year at the Oscars?”
Hey, if you’ve seen one pudding-eating homo cowboy movie, you’ve seen ‘em all ...
I can honestly say I don’t give a d@mn about a single nominee for ANYTHING, ANY AWARD OF ANY KIND.
Put that together with insufferable gushing on the red carpet, and the certainty of sanctimonious political rants—there is NOTHING worth spending five seconds on at these Oscars.
I hope this year’s Oscars is a complete and total ratings disaster. That would be as much fun as watching Lindsey Vonn’s epic fail in the Alpine Combined Event LMAO.