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I have watched the Shawshank Redemption many times and it never fails me. A great movie, I think.
Tom Hanks has this little smile that plays around his mouth, a physical thing, and I could not get past that in Saving Private Ryan. It just didn't fly for me. I saw Tom Hanks for the first time in a movie with Jackie Gleason and I loved that sensitivity around his mouth (MO). It played so well with the cynicism of Jackie Gleason and I see it in every movie with Tom Hanks. SPR was such a serious movie and I couldn't believe Hanks as the character portrayed...the little mouth thing got to me....crazy.
We watched Wooley Boys on Utube the other night with Kris Kristopherson (?) and Peter Fonda and it was a good movie...sad but good, not too heavy. There are some decent free movies on there if you look enough. Quite a few are independants that didn't get a big showing or went to straight to DVD and have good solid casts. Some won prizes at film festivals. Not bad for a free movie. There are, of course, the really old movies. I have started to watch Birth of a Nation about 5 times and can't make it through about 1/2 hour <s>.
I saw Heat but it was too intense for me. Go figure. But, I will watch LA Confidential any day. Great movie.
I am so shallow. I like the old Mel Gibson movies, the Road Warrior/Mad Max series. I like the Terminator series with Arh-nuld. I love Waterworld and I even liked The Postman. My DH and I never get tired of Waterworld and especially Dennis Hopper. I love John Wayne movies. I have the directors cut of Das Boot and think that is a great movie. I watched Tora, Tora, Tora, twice in one weekend. I love Kurt Russell as Snake Plisskin, actually anything he plays in.
"The Social Network" which I really did not enjoy . Excellent acting but I found the whole story completely uninteresting and not one of the characters to have even one iota of interest for me. A movie about a lot of arrogant people I could not have cared less about. I suppose as a hater of facebook it was never going to be the film for me as it confirmed everything I suspected.
"Wild Target" which I watched just before "TSN" was most enjoyable, a silly but rather fun piece of hokum and dark comedy.
Queen to Play; French sub titles, watched it on Netflix streaming, takes place in Corsica, has Kevin Kline in it which was a bit of a surprise
I enjoyed this movie. You either have to like, or be in the mood for this type of film. One of those...no real action, not much of what you would call a plot. More like watching some part of someone's life unfolding. It's quiet and intimate.
The main character is a maid who's life has lead a very simple, somewhat poor and probably humdrum life though you don't get the sense she is unhappy by that. Her husband is preoccupied by the possibility of losing his job though and the marriage seems to have lost its spark. Then one day making up a room she sees a couple playing chess and they make it look very intimate and sexy. Somehow she gets taken with the idea of chess.....and learns how to play.
from IMBD:
Sandrine Bonnaire and Kevin Kline shine in this sophisticated feel-good comedy set in idyllic Corsica. Middle-aged chambermaid Hélène's newfound obsession with the game of chess leads her to seek the tutelage of a reclusive American expat, transforming both of their ho-hum lives in the process.
Part of an Ebert review
The most observant element of "Queen to Play" is the way it handles the changing relationship between Helene and Dr. Kroger (with Kline speaking in French). The story is based on the novel The Chess Player by Bertina Henrichs, and what it knows is the way the minds of two players can become engaged, not in a romantic way, but in the pure contact of their thinking. There are often no words in the mind during a chess game. Just rules of spatial relationships. It can get pretty intimate.
Anyone up for a second version of this thread titled maybe - what was the last thing you watched on Streaming? Because I have to figure out whether to get rid of Netflix streaming or not. I never seem to be able to find anything to watch. 3/4 of what occurs to me that I want to watch isn't on streaming and I get frustrated.
Should we start one? Put up a vote thread?
Just watched "Sex and the City" and "Sex and the City 2." Silly but...entertaining I would say. Aside from a few burst of sexual scenes, it turned out to be okay after all, nothing deep. Surprisingly, I enjoyed Kim Cabrall in this movie.
Rewatched The Silence Of The Lambs last night for the 1st time in eons.
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Surprisingly, I enjoyed Kim Cabrall in this movie.