Saw Captain Marvel. Loved it. LOVED the post credits scene.
Now watching Howard's End.
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msbelle - Mar 23, 2019 12:21:28 pm PDT #1960 of 3463
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
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.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 25, 2019 7:30:17 am PDT #1967 of 3463
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I loved Howard's End. Good book, too.
Calli - Mar 25, 2019 7:48:34 am PDT #1968 of 3463
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I remember enjoying Howard's End when it came out. Then again, I was in a different place mentally and politically at the time.
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.
That's how I feel about Titanic. I still haven't seen it. And, costume porn aside (I love that period in clothes), I'm still ok about not seeing it.
Glamcookie - Mar 25, 2019 7:52:47 am PDT #1969 of 3463
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Jesse, SAME! Us was great.