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.
Mal: That's not what I saw. You like to tell me what really happened? Book: I surely would. And maybe someday I will.
'Safe'
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Laura - Mar 20, 2019 4:32:25 pm PDT #1957 of 3463
Our wings are not tired.
Beverly - Mar 20, 2019 4:43:24 pm PDT #1958 of 3463
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
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.
Toddson - Mar 21, 2019 11:29:45 am PDT #1959 of 3463
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
msbelle - Mar 23, 2019 12:21:28 pm PDT #1960 of 3463
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Saw Captain Marvel. Loved it. LOVED the post credits scene.
Now watching Howard's End.
msbelle - Mar 23, 2019 3:26:52 pm PDT #1961 of 3463
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
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.
msbelle - Mar 23, 2019 5:32:18 pm PDT #1962 of 3463
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
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.
Fred Pete - Mar 25, 2019 3:41:35 am PDT #1963 of 3463
Ann, that's a ferret.
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.
sj - Mar 25, 2019 5:16:42 am PDT #1964 of 3463
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Howard's End is a little deeper than that. I love EM Forster.
Jesse - Mar 25, 2019 5:29:27 am PDT #1965 of 3463
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I basically want to spend all day reading articles about Us, after seeing it over the weekend, but I guess my boss would frown at that? (And also, there are no answers and I don't care, so it would be a bad idea on that front as well....)
msbelle - Mar 25, 2019 5:37:11 am PDT #1966 of 3463
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Howards End is more than that. Fairly critical look at the wealthy while still presenting them as human. Really none of the characters are simplistic, even the ones I disliked. Class and society are examined without it being too heavy handed. There are no real answers, just observations.