Saturday, December 28, 2013
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Friday, November 1, 2013
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Thursday, August 22, 2013
RE: Iron Man III (* * *)
From: Robert
I used to like Robert Downey Jr. in movies and his characters he plays. But since he has taken on the Iron Man character, I can’t stand him anymore. I still like Robert, I just can’t stand Iron Man the character.
From: Larry
I disagree. I traditionally liked Robert Downey Jr in most of his roles. (My wife and I liked Heart and Souls, a lot).Then he had various problems outside of his acting career. I felt sad for such a talented person.
I read a lot of Iron man as a kid and loved the character.I was amazed how the rich, narcissistic, reckless,fun,talented, playboy character of Tony Stark meshed with Robert Downey Jr’s real life and acting abilities. To me, there is no better person in Hollywood, to play this role, and I am happy Iron man is having such great success, and that they keep making more.
From: Robert
I’m more NOT a fan of the entire comic book adventure movie genre as a whole, Iron Man, Super Man, Bat Man, Spider Man, X-Men, etc. They seem to be big on action but severely limited in depth and plot. I’m usually board when I get out and wondered why I even spent the time. I missed out on comic books when I was growing up so I don’t have the connection that most everyone else has with them. If I had read comic books as a kid I might be more interested.
It’s always fun to see latest incarnations of a story line that I’m familiar with. Fond memories from childhood. They could keep making Star Trek movies and no matter how bad they got I would probably go see them first run.
I don’t have this connection with comic books. I think this is the root cause of why I don’t care for Iron Man.
From: John
I didn’t read a lot of comic books as a kid, although I did watch a limited amount of super hero cartoons on TV. I don’t think that I had much interest in comic book characters until the first Superman movie came out. At this point I started to enjoy super hero movies like I would any action film.
Prior to Star Wars, science fiction movies in general had a bad reputation. One movie changed everything.
Iron Man III (* * *)
The main problem that I had with Iron Man III is that most of the entertainment value comes from all too frequent over the top action sequences. There is some character development that is interesting, but this feels more like a sideshow squeezed between one battle after another.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Friday, July 12, 2013
RE: Amazon Prime?
It seems to me that mostly what is free is TV shows, and not all of them are free. They want to charge for some of them. I have seen a limited selection of movies, but their service doesn’t make it easy to figure out which movies are free, most of which I have already seen, and the majority of movies they charge for.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
From: Trout, Larry R
I disagree, John.
I think you may just have trouble finding shows and movies for some reason.
I believe Amazon is slightly lower selection/quality than Netflix, but T.V. Shows are very good.
I am rewatching all seasons of the new Dr. who with my kids. I liked the Tudors, Justified, American horror story, Falling Skies, arrested developments, etc.
Even if you never use the streaming or kindle books, the free two day shipping is very good.
RE: Amazon Prime?
I have Amazon Prime because they discounted it down to $59 late last year.
The video selection is so bad that I don’t use it.
I just signed up for Netflix streaming.
The free 2 day shipping is nice. It makes buy from Amazon more often.
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Friday, July 5, 2013
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant - Now a movie
I may have been on this Bart station, or at least some other Bart station in Oakland around 22 years ago.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Who is the actor?
say, I recognized the actor immediately. I am a big fan...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2SpckZ6uPs#at=78
Monday, July 1, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
FW: Cloud Atlas on DVD
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Ender's Game movie comes out in November.
'Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are two of the writer-producers behind "Star Trek Into Darkness," but the team known as "K/O" is also producing the coming films "Ender's Game," "Now You See Me" and the Fox television series "Sleepy Hollow." Not to mention the sequel to "The Amazing Spider-Man," which they co-wrote and which is currently filming around New York.
Speakeasy talked with Kurtzman and Orci, who have been friends and writing partners for more than 20 years, starting with the television series "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys."
"It's funny, it used to be a binary, like he's Spock and I'm Kirk, in terms of personality," Kurtzman says. "It's not quite that simple anymore. I think when we first started, Bob was more about logic and logic flow, and I was always about the emotion of what was going on. Now, having written together for almost 22 years, our voices are in each other's heads to such a large degree that it's very difficult sometimes to distinguish between the two."
What were some of the challenges you and director Gavin Hood faced in adapting Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" into a film?
Orci: "Ender's Game" was a book that we both loved from teenagehood. It was published in 1985 and I think we read it in high school, maybe even earlier. The challenge with the book is it's very internal in that a lot of the narrative that occurs is within the character's head and the trick is, how do you dramatize that? The answer is both through having some of those internal struggles be dramatically shown as scenes, and second, we have an advantage that the book does not have, and that is actors. We have great actors who can not only say things, but play things and play reactions on their faces and actually convey a lot of the emotion of the book. Thankfully now we have the technology to make it the grand adventure that it deserves to be. We have the technology to render a Zero-G environment in a totally believable and incredible way.'
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
RE: Hitchcock the movie
I haven’t seen the movie, but Hitchcock had a reputation for disrespecting women, maybe because of marital problems. There is a scene in Frenzy where a couple meet at a matchmaking service and the woman immediately starts telling the man that he has to change. According to one documentary, Hitchcock often portrayed women as controlling.
John Coffey
From: Witmer, Robert C.
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 3:52 PM
I watched Hitchcock last evening. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchcock_%28film%29
Not sure how much is factual but now I need to watch Psycho again. The story centers around Hitchcock getting Psycho filmed and produced. And I sure do feel old because I remember watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents on TV.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Silver Linings Playbook
From: Witmer
Great show.
There is a scene where the guy is reading Ernest Hemingway’s book “Farewell to Arms”. He gets so disgusted with the depressing ending of Hemingway’s book that he throws the book crashing through the glass window landing out in the street.
Unlike Hemingway this story ends pleasantly.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Saturday, April 27, 2013
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 Movie Review (2009) | Roger Ebert
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-taking-of-pelham-1-2-3-2009
Thursday, April 25, 2013
FW: Jango Unchained
From: Witmer, Robert
As a Quentin Tarantino fan (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Death Proof, Inglorious Bastards), Jango Unchained to me is “one of the best” or “the best” western movie of all time. But I know this just drives all the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood fans crazy to hear such sacrilege. It’s a very hard R for vicious violence, not suitable for most “normal people”. It will definitely make most uncomfortable. But it’s that uneasy feeling about what is going to happen next that I like. It was very entertaining.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Zero Dark Thirty
a bloodbath. It is not for the feint of heart.
http://m.redbox.com/movies/zero-dark-thirty?cid=EM:tr_fnr
Monday, April 8, 2013
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
'Finding Dory' to set sail
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-quick-20130403,0,7857457.story
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Friday, March 15, 2013
Thursday, March 7, 2013
George Lucas says Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamil to appear in new 'Star Wars'
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/03/07/george-lucas-says-harrison-ford-carrie-fisher-and-mark-hamil-to-appear-in-new/
Monday, February 11, 2013
RE: Looper?
Some movies, especially ones involving time travel, come across to me as rather silly. Nevertheless, if the characters believe the story then so do we, at least for a couple of hours.
From: Witmer, Robert
Have you watched it yet? It’s one of those hard to follow stories because of all the alternate timelines involved.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120926/REVIEWS/120929993
http://screenrant.com/looper-ending-explanation-time-travel-spoilers/
Flight 2012 movie
From: Witmer, Robert
I saw this over the weekend. Nice movie and very hard to watch crash scene. It’s more about the pilot being an alcoholic than about flying. But the flight scenes are pretty interesting. I clipped the crash scene to YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nhxm5QEbYI I’m sure it will be taken down soon since it has 3rd party content.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121031/REVIEWS/121039998
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_%282012_film%29