Xander ,'End of Days'
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Thanks for the Hulu tip, Vonnie! I just added both to my watchlist.
I love a list and have been accused of having giant holes in my movie watching of "mainstream" movies.
Oh, I have giant holes in my "mainstream" movie watching and mostly they are intentional.
Tonight's movie is M*A*S*H.
I saw M*A*S*H at a drive in theater with my boyfriend when I was in high school. It was a double feature with Patton. I loved the movie, but after we watched them back to back (ya know between drive-in stuff), we both knew that Patton was going to get the awards that year. Still MASH was awesome.
Pop culture is such an odd thing. H and I still refer to "the Pros from Dover,"--sometimes *we* are the pros from Dover. Or "finest kind." Our vernacular is so mortared and spackled with movie lines it's difficult sometimes to recall where we first encountered a particular line or turn of phrase.
Saw Captain Marvel. Loved it. LOVED the post credits scene.
Now watching Howard's End.
Movie Watch continues. Just finished Howard's End which was nominated for Best Picture in 1993.
Howard's End
A Few Good Men
The Crying Game
Scent of a Woman
Unforgiven - winner
Directed by James Ivory (A Room With a View, The Remains of the Day), starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, and Vanessa Redgrave.
I thought that maybe I had seen this before, but I don't think so. What an infuriating entitled bunch of 1%ers. Maybe not the best thing to watch when you are seething for some full blown class-warfare. Good performances all around, the reservation of all of it was astounding - the manners, the formality, the protocol just for everyday life.
Movie watch continued tonight with Juno, nominated for Best Picture in 2008.
Juno
Atonement
No Country for Old Men - winner
Michael Clayton
There will be Blood
I still have a couple of these to see, so we will be revisiting this list again.
Directed by Jason Reitman - his second feature. Starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, JK Simmons, and Allison Janney.
I think this is one of those films that EVERYONE was talking about and I had not seen it and then the more it became a thing, the less I wanted to see it. I always have some undefined expectations for things like that (tv, movies, music, people) that they can never live up to because I was always expecting more. I enjoyed it.
I've never seen Howard's End. But it sounds like a certain type of British film that seemed to get a lot of critical acclaim during the '80s -- Rich people spend a couple of hours doing nothing, but looking very good while they aren't doing it.
Howard's End is a little deeper than that. I love EM Forster.