This was NOT a good movie , but my husband and I watched Lobster last night ( not to the end )
It was one of those films that one watches, waiting for it to get better or make some sense…it didn’t happen and there were a few gruesome scenes , two of which included killing and abusing animals
Really enjoyed hidden figures. Hope it does well tonight!
We rented Arrival last night, I liked it. Thinking about how language can easily be misinterpreted was interesting.
DH and I saw Lion 2 weeks ago. I was not prepared with a stash of tissues for the emotions this film elicited.
What an incredible story!
I watched Deepwater Horizon yesterday. I liked how immersive some parts of the movie were, especially when they were boarding the helicopters to fly out to the rig. That all seemed very realistic to me. The beginning of the movie was pretty cliche though (main actor wakes up in bed with wife, cuddles, then has breakfast with kid, blah blah), but overall, a decent weekend movie.
@SnLMom I’m glad you mentioned Lion, someone told me I had to see that and I was trying to remember which movie it was. I think we’ll rent that this week.
@Fishnlines29 Lion isn’t rentable yet. You can still find it in theaters.
@Fishnlines29, I wish I had seen Lion in the privacy of my own home, as I don’t like sobbing in public. It’s been hard to get this movie out of my head.
Hated “Lobster” two thumbs down! Loved “Admiral”. I don’t like going to theaters so waiting. Looking forward to Lion for sure.
I recently watched Before Sunrise (on Amazon) and loved it. Found out it was the first part of a trilogy–other two films are: Before Sunset and Before Midnight. (Both on Netflix.) Films star Ethan Hawke and Julie Delphy–director Richard Linklater. Not sure how to describe these films–intelligent romance? The films follow Hawke and Delphy over a span of 18 years. (Boyhood, which also looks at the concept of change over time, was a Linklater film). I highly recommend this triology.
+1 for that trilogy. Before Sunrise was my favorite probably because it’s the most positive. Ethan Hawke is very good in them.
@Fishnlines29
We saw Arrival yesterday too, and I loved it. Very well done on so many levels. I’m really not a sci fi outer space fan, so I was surprised how much I liked it.
We rented Arrival last night and also really liked it.
The end is the most or the only interesting part of the movie. IMO the movie was made for its ending.
I’ve been watching not-new movies lately. Here are ones I suggest: “The Day of the Jackal” (1972); “Munich” (2005)’ “Of Gods and Men” (2010). (There is a connection: Michael Lonsdale is in all of them.)
Saw Lion last night and thought it was a wonderful movie about a heartbreaking story. I didn’t think they over did the emotional aspect, but I did have tissues on hand jic. Highly recommend.
Just rewatched Vickie Christina Barcelona yesterday and enjoyed it as much as the first time. Beautiful music, unique and fun story, actors and actresses all eye candy. Got it from the library, but I’m sure you can get it from Netflix DVD.
@Bromfield2 (and others): I really love the “Before” trilogy, too, but especially Before Sunrise. I have always thought that in some way that’s the most romantic movie I have ever seen, in part because it is realistic enough about romance to be believable, but does a great job of portraying two people falling in real love in a matter of hours, if not minutes. I always thought it was nearly a perfect movie for parents to watch with their mid-teenagers, because it opens the door to discussing a lot of important things about love and sex in a nuanced way. (When my son saw it, at approximately 15, he said, “That’s exactly what I want to do when I’m old enough!” He didn’t, at least not yet.)
When I saw Before Sunset, I thought there should be a special rating for it – that no one under 30 should be allowed to watch it. It’s a fundamentally depressing movie, about how difficult and threatening that current of pure feeling we call “love” can be in the sort of web of compromises that constitutes adulthood. Unfortunately, my kids saw it before I did, so I couldn’t protect them. They liked it a lot. It doesn’t seem to have damaged them permanently, or strangled their emotional lives.
It’s hard to imagine anyone being excited about Before Midnight without being invested in the other films. Don’t watch it first. It’s a lot about the nitty gritty of marriage, stuff that does not get portrayed all that much on the silver screen (with good reason), but that will not be news to most middle-aged married people.
@conmama, SNL did a hilarious parody on that film. Jude Law plays the guy who approaches the women at the restaurant. He says, “Oh, come with me on my plane to Oviedo. We will drink wine, eat good food, maybe make love? And then I kill you!” One of the women says to her friend, “Oh let’s go! I mean, what could happen?” Meanwhile, Jude Law is sitting at a nearby table blowing them kisses, then making the “slit your throat” gesture. It was so funny.
He keeps saying “and then I keel you!” D2 and I died laughing, because of course when we saw the movie originally, we had both shouted at the screen, “Don’t run off with some rando guy! You could end up dead!”
@lje62 : Yes, I, too, tried to watch The Lobster, and found it so lackluster and odd that I haven’t thought of it one moment since. It was too drab/bad/forced/experimental for me to place in memory.