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Old 11-25-2012, 08:40 PM
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I think the last couple of movies that I saw that I really liked were George Clooney in The Descendants and Brad Pitt in Money Ball. I sometimes get on some strange kicks with movies. For a while, I was watching a lot of sub-titled foreign movies like The Kite Runner and the Stieg Larsson trilogy The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, etc. Read those books also. Saw a very intense movie titled The Stoning of Saraya M that was absolutely haunting. Iranian director I think and some Iranian American actors. Not sure where it was made, but it was a courageous movie about the horrifying practice in some muslim countries of stoning for infidelity.
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Old 11-25-2012, 09:39 PM
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I think the last couple of movies that I saw that I really liked were George Clooney in The Descendants and Brad Pitt in Money Ball. I sometimes get on some strange kicks with movies. For a while, I was watching a lot of sub-titled foreign movies like The Kite Runner and the Stieg Larsson trilogy The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, etc. Read those books also. Saw a very intense movie titled The Stoning of Saraya M that was absolutely haunting. Iranian director I think and some Iranian American actors. Not sure where it was made, but it was a courageous movie about the horrifying practice in some muslim countries of stoning for infidelity.
The Descendants is adapted from a novel- I'm glad you mentioned it; I meant to put it on my library list after I saw the movie and I forgot. Thanks for the reminder! I liked the movie, too. I wasn't a George Clooney fan for the longest time, but the older he gets, the more I like him as an actor. I thought he was terrific in The Descendants.
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Old 11-25-2012, 10:59 PM
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The Descendants is adapted from a novel- I'm glad you mentioned it; I meant to put it on my library list after I saw the movie and I forgot. Thanks for the reminder! I liked the movie, too. I wasn't a George Clooney fan for the longest time, but the older he gets, the more I like him as an actor. I thought he was terrific in The Descendants.
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Old 11-25-2012, 09:53 PM
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I think the last couple of movies that I saw that I really liked were George Clooney in The Descendants and Brad Pitt in Money Ball. I sometimes get on some strange kicks with movies. For a while, I was watching a lot of sub-titled foreign movies like The Kite Runner and the Stieg Larsson trilogy The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, etc. Read those books also. Saw a very intense movie titled The Stoning of Saraya M that was absolutely haunting. Iranian director I think and some Iranian American actors. Not sure where it was made, but it was a courageous movie about the horrifying practice in some muslim countries of stoning for infidelity.
Pitt was excellent in that movie and my pick for the Oscar...IMO his best role ever..I can't remember last time i was at the movies, maybe 15 years or more..I've had netflix for about 4 years and before that Movie Gallery...Think i've seen every movie ever made...lol...we had a movie thread in the Esoteric Central forum several months ago...i've been building a list of movies that i liked over the years, still adding to it...will put it up soon...have to get Michael mclem0822 over here, he's a movie buff too..
A movie he put me on was really off=beat, you remember Frazier's brother
David Hyde Pierce, he's the star in this one The Perfect Host (2011).kept me guessing...check it out...
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Old 11-25-2012, 10:47 PM
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Pitt was excellent in that movie and my pick for the Oscar...IMO his best role ever..I can't remember last time i was at the movies, maybe 15 years or more..I've had netflix for about 4 years and before that Movie Gallery...Think i've seen every movie ever made...lol...we had a movie thread in the Esoteric Central forum several months ago...i've been building a list of movies that i liked over the years, still adding to it...will put it up soon...have to get Michael mclem0822 over here, he's a movie buff too..
A movie he put me on was really off=beat, you remember Frazier's brother
David Hyde Pierce, he's the star in this one The Perfect Host (2011).kept me guessing...check it out...
I think I saw that movie The Perfect Host on netflicks, but I didn't watch it. Almost too much on netflicks. Hard to choose what to watch. An interesting movie I saw back awhile ago was this movie Memento with Guy Pearce. Absolutely make you crazy to watch it.
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I think I saw that movie The Perfect Host on netflicks, but I didn't watch it. Almost too much on netflicks. Hard to choose what to watch. An interesting movie I saw back awhile ago was this movie Memento with Guy Pearce. Absolutely make you crazy to watch it.
Don't remember watching Memento but like Guy Pearce..he was great in L.A. Confidential as was Kim Basinger
btw, my wife loves Clooney...
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Old 11-26-2012, 11:27 AM
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Don't remember watching Memento but like Guy Pearce..he was great in L.A. Confidential as was Kim Basinger
btw, my wife loves Clooney...
Memento is on netflicks. It is like nothing you've ever seen before. After I watched I said WTF did I just watch. My son recommended it. Dummy me, had to have him explain it to me after I watched it.
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After you said that about esoteric last night, I went over there and browsed a bit. Came across that thread about pbr and other bad beers. Triggered a 60 year old memory. I remember when I was about 7 and my brother was about 12, my dad got a new company car. It was a pretty maroon 51 Ford. My mom and dad, brother and myself took the car for a ride in the country. While we were passing a pasture full of cows, one of them let fly with a cascade of cow piss which my brother and I pointed out to my dad and he glanced over at the cow and said in a very dry manner, "oh she's just taking a Falstaff." which my brother and I thought was hysterically funny. For about 5 years after that, whenever we had to go we referred to it as taking a Falstaff. Kinda sums up what my dad thought of Falstaff beer. Guess, I'm not totally senile yet, if I can remember something from 60 years ago. Now, if could only remember what I did with my car keys and did I take my medicine this morning? Internet says that Falstaff is what Hank Williams was drinking the night that he died. Must have been some really bad beer, but wonder what he was mixing with it?
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Memento is on netflicks. It is like nothing you've ever seen before. After I watched I said WTF did I just watch. My son recommended it. Dummy me, had to have him explain it to me after I watched it.
I loved Memento. I had a big crush on Guy Pierce after LA Confidential, but then he got too scary skinny for my taste. But he was great in Memento.

There's a website, I love, the-editing-room.com, that does parody pared-down versions of films, pointing out all the holes in the scripts. The one for Memento was pretty funny:
http://www.the-editing-room.com/memento.html
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