I’ve heard several interviews with him where he discusses the movie. He also references “Guess who’s coming to dinner” and several other movies. He clearly has done his homework. I’m not a fan of horror movies, but I’m always willing to see a intelligent movie that is also a crowd pleaser.
I did think of “Guess who’s coming to dinner” when the trailer of “Get out” ran before our Kong movie. I won’t be seeing it or the many other dystopian movies that are available. I don’t like disturbing movies–current life is already disturbing enough.
I saw War Dogs on the plane - I really enjoyed it. good action/comedy - based on a true story.
I saw Get Out today. Fantastic- highly recommend. I have loved Key & Peele for years and am so glad to see Jordan Peele doing such a great job with this
Beauty and the beast. Met my expectations strange to have no French actors in it.
I also,liked Women’s Balcony.
How I Got Into College (1989)
Anthony Edwards, Corey Parker, Lara Flynn Boyle
@bookworm:
I assume you must have seen the relatively recent French movie on the Beauty and the Beast theme, I thought I would hate it but it was fantastic (course, for all I know there have been several done in French, and of course I don’t remember the title of the movie…).
Well there’s the classic French Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et La Bête ) directed by Jean Cocteau in 1946. http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-beauty-and-the-beast-1946
I haven’t seen it since college, but remember it as strange and haunting.
Good info. I’ll look French version up,this weekend.
I just watched Captain Fantastick on Amazon video. I’m going to ask some pedestrian questions that are spoilers, so don’t continue reading if that is a problem.
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At the end, when the kids disappear all at once from the house, isn’t the grandfather going to call the police–not because he thinks the father broke the agreement, but just out of fear, and aren’t they going to be swiftly caught? Okay, maybe they left him a convincing note, but I need to know that.
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They dug up their mother’s coffin and everyone knows who they are and the highly distinctive vehicle they are driving and still NO ONE is looking for them?
There was nowhere near enough wood on that funeral pyre to burn the body down to ashes, and there would have been a hell of a lot more of them. And it would have stunk, unromantically, of roasting meat. See Alice Munro’s book Runaway for a more realistic treatment of this issue. And yeah, I know she said she wanted to be flushed, but there they were–miraculously not in the hands of Law Enforcement–on the edge of a beautiful body of water…
Despite this, I loved the way he conducted learning/teaching discourse with his children. Ideal, to me.
@MommaJ: After reading your post at #346, I had to go find this old review of the film “A Beautiful Mind.” I never thought I’d encounter someone who might be interested in reading the unveiled “salty” wickedly smart tone of its author, Sylvia Nasar, but your post made me think twice about that.
If you feel like it…
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/07/daily/mind-book-review.html
D drove up from Nashville today and we saw it this afternoon. She was Belle for Halloween in kindergarten and there is no telling how many times we listened to the music in the car, at home, etc. We both enjoyed it, although it seemed like the extra length makes it a little bit difficult for the small kids to hang in there for over 2 hours.
I finally saw Hidden Figures and loved it. First, I had to find which movie theaters it was still hiding out in.
On a trip to/from Italy two weeks ago I had time to watch several movies. One I really liked is a 2016 Chinese documentary called China’s Van Goghs, about Chinese painters who paint thousands of copies of Van Gogh paintings each year to sell in street kiosks in Amsterdam.
I had to stop the inane Nine Lives partway through, but will admit the most entertaining film for the long flight was Bridget Jones’s Baby. Interestingly, she hasn’t aged nearly as fast as I have or she’d be too old to have a baby now.
I liked Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children that I saw on the plane. H and I had planned to see it in the theater but it left before we were able to. I also saw Finding Dorry, and 30 minutes of Mama Mia. It was a pleasant flight to SF with these films.
We just saw Beauty and the Beast. It was great, but if possible, this is a movie to see in 3D. I usually don’t care for the 3D movies, but I think you’d get so much more out of the gorgeous sets if it was.
I saw it yesterday. Did you see it in 3D? I didn’t. I was afraid of watching 2 hours like that, but I bet it was gorgeous. I remember watching Fantasmic at WDW…it’s 3D, and loved it!
It also met my expectations, they did a beautiful job. Follows the animated one almost exactly. The only think that was a bit disappointing is I didn’t feel the connection between them. I saw it, but I didn’t feel it. I felt it in the animated one. I felt more connection between Belle and her Dad.
Oh, Lord I love international flights. Last week I watched
LA LA Land
Manchester By the Sea
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Along with multiple episodes of
Divorce
Vice Principals
I enjoyed every minute of both the movies and TV episodes, none of which I would have ever watched otherwise.
Long plane flights are even better than a snow day. Absolutely nothing else that I have to (or can) do, and hours of movies and TV available!
They are much better with the advent of the seat back personal entertainment system. 
I watched the whole Olive Kettridge series on a flight last year. Started soon after takeoff and the last minutes of the last episode were rolling as we touched down. Worked out very well.
No, we didn’t. But many scenes, we were whispering that it would have been amazing in 3D. Guess we have to see it again!
Agree with long plane international flights
Watched
Lala land
Jackie
Pink- foreign film.
Multiple episodes of Mindy project and Dr Ken
Favorite–Lalaland!