What Movies Are You Watching Lately

[rossoz]

"Look Marguerite, England"

A great closing scene...

Trivia: Leslie Howard was killed by the Nazis when they shot down the plane he was in flying from Portugal to the UK.

Cheers,

 

[Harold falcon]

The Day the Clown Cried has been submitted to the Library of Congress. There's hope we may see it someday yet.

Lovers of film history and legendary movies — even ones supposedly so tasteless that they’ve never been released—had their interest piqued this week when a piece of exciting news was dropped in the 21st paragraph of an Los Angeles Times article. The Day the Clown Cried, Jerry Lewis’ notorious unreleased Holocaust drama in which he stars as a clown playing with children before they are sent into gas chambers, has been acquired by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/07/jerry-lewis-day-clown-cried

 

[Roy Al]

The Jugde - David Dobkin (2014)




A clever, but unsympathetic lawyer with a lousy life returns to his hometown and restores the distorted relation with his cold and angry father.

141 minutes of my life that I will never get back.

Robert Duvall is one of my favorite actors and what he did for Coppola in 'Godfather I-III' and 'Apocalypse now' is just up there on the top shelf. He is eminent. And even though he has become and very old man, he still has some juice in him and some scenes in this movie is good acting. Robert Downey Jr is in an other league, but once in a while he also can show glimpse of good acting in this movie.

What make this movie such a bore is the screenplay that is almost impossible to believe in. The whole story and the characters are so fare off that I don't find this plausible. The motivations and the behaviors of the characters are incoherent and are lurching away. The authors never found out what story they wanted to tell, making the movie diverge in too many directions.
The instruction is sometimes naive other times embarrassing, the cinematography is also uninspired and sometimes meaningless - it is difficult to understand that the movie is filmed by the same photographer as did the beautiful and marvelous films for Spielberg as 'Schindler's list', 'Indiana Jones' an 'Saving private Ryan' just to mention some few.
I rather look at paint drying than see this movie once more.

 

[toscano_adottato]



Started watching this the other day. Got tired of reading the subtitles. Fell asleep.
Basically the story of female Israeli soldiers going about their mundane tasks at a remote base.

Anyone see the entire thing...and can advise if it is worth picking back up and watching the 2nd part?

It was decent, but not great. Some funny moments.

 

[SirReveller]

Bummer on The Judge. That was on my TW. Duvall is indeed the man.

 

[Britalian]

aside from a few cute one liners not a patch on the book.

excellent performance from Emma Thompson. watched it mainly as p aul Giamati is in it, but not enough.

another fine one from my fave of the moment, la Posey.

 

[OmniscientCause]



The Jugde - David Dobkin (2014) A clever, but unsympathetic lawyer with a lousy life returns to his hometown and restores the distorted relation with his cold and angry father. 141 minutes of my life that I will never get back. Robert Duvall is one of my favorite actors and what he did for Coppola in 'Godfather I-III' and 'Apocalypse now' is just up there on the top shelf. He is eminent. And even though he has become and very old man, he still has some juice in him and some scenes in this movie is good acting. Robert Downey Jr is in an other league, but once in a while he also can show glimpse of good acting in this movie. What make this movie such a bore is the screenplay that is almost impossible to believe in. The whole story and the characters are so fare off that I don't find this plausible. The motivations and the behaviors of the characters are incoherent and are lurching away. The authors never found out what story they wanted to tell, making the movie diverge in too many directions. The instruction is sometimes naive other times embarrassing, the cinematography is also uninspired and sometimes meaningless - it is difficult to understand that the movie is filmed by the same photographer as did the beautiful and marvelous films for Spielberg as 'Schindler's list', 'Indiana Jones' an 'Saving private Ryan' just to mention some few. I rather look at paint drying than see this movie once more.

Get over yourself it isn't meant to be an art house flick. It's entertaining and worth a watch. It was refreshing to see downing in a slightly more serious role then tony stark.

 

[SirReveller]

1 for. 1 against. I think we're gonna need a third who's seen this b*tch to weigh in.
Lol

 

[Roy Al]

I can get over the movie, that's easy.
This movie is not 'art' and does not pretend to be.
It's entertainment, and it does not work that well.
But I think many people will like it. I didn't.

 

[SirReveller]

Let's just all agree Duvall is sick. This one really allowed him to flex his sh*t

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Santini

 

[Fang66]

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Christ, you're a ******* dipshit.

Coming from a loon like you that is a compliment.

 

[indesertum]

I really enjoyed the Judge but I really wasn't expecting anything. I think it's a great movie but there were parts here and there that felt sophomoric

 

[Joffrey]

Watched Transcendence tonight. Thought it was pretty good.

 

[Roy Al]

I don't like the distinction 'art/not-art'. For me it is artificial, and gives the impression that there are different set of values when it comes to expressing one self.

There are good movies and not good movies, and everything in between, as with all that deals with culture. Every piece of cultural communication have to be judged from it's intentions and ambitions. It's about having an idea and to which extend the communication of that idea is successful.

'The Jugde' had too many topics and no clear direction, I was confused and didn't understand what story Dobkin wanted to tell.
It' was difficult to believe in the characters, the whole plot is overconstructed, melodramatical and sentimental; all these angry and disappointed people, with all the suppressed longings and need for love, but oh so many betrayals and lies - I felt them not like real people. Take as an example Hank, a man with so much anger and without integration, who runs away from every difficulty he can not beat, I don't believe for one second that he would squeeze his father to defend him.

The plot with the trial against the Jugde - defended by his much troubled son - in his own court, is parodical, and an ocean apart from what I can believe in or relate to.
The end, where the son enters his recently deceased father's courtroom, with the fathers hat in his hand, is just embarrassing in all it's overexplicite symbolism. The whole trial is awkward and the Judges motivation for killing this person is strange, and why doesn't he behave like a person, and defend himself?

So what is this film about?
Hate? Grieve? Betrayal? Family problems and reconciliation? Lack of love? Fear of closeness? Lack of responsibility? The longing for acceptance from the cold and unjust father, and oh so harsh judge? The need to move on? Shame and the need to have a good reputation? Coming to terms with the past?
I don't know, since all these topics, and more, are in this move and the problems are treated in a too superficially way.

This is the main reason why I think this is not a good movie; the screenplay is not good enough. And the movie is boring made in the sense that it is interesting as photo either.

 

[OmniscientCause]

I said art house. It's different then art. And this certainly isn't Oscar bait. That being said you must not watch enough movies if you're writing paragraphs about a movie.


The fact you chose this movie over countless others to complain about that came out recently.