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Vice (2015)
Vice, a pretty good film!
I was looking for a good film to watch on Netflix. I was baffled by all the negative reviews at IMDb and elsewhere. I thought the film was fast paced and clever. I think the movie was a 10 and I recommend it to all. Bruce Willis was good and all the acting was good and believable. I enjoyed this movie from beginning to the end.
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Bourne Identity with a Woman but better!
I saw all of the Bourne Identity movies and enjoyed every one of them. However this movie, I am afraid beats all of them. Geena Davis should have received an Oscar for her performance in this one. But how in the world did the makers of this movie allow for the Bourne series to rip off this movie big time.....? Amnesiac assassin comes back with all skills intact and weirds out the ones who trained and equipped her. What in the world was the difference except a better plot? I did not think that Geena Davis could do this but she did. I recently saw a League of Their Own with my wife and She and I enjoyed it and then I saw this one and I was completely surprised with this edge of the seat performance and plot.
please comment on this folks...please? I know the writer got 3 million dollars for this but come on fair is fair.
Thank you.
The Martian (2015)
Robinson Crusoe of Mars???
First there was the Classic book and movie Robinson Crusoe. Then there was Adam West in Robinson Crusoe on Mars. Then Castaway with Tom Hanks and then another Castaway with Pierce Brosnan. Now this movie is about Matt Damon,who, just like Crusoe is stranded on an island. This time though the island is the planet Mars. Matt Damon has to use his clever inventiveness to stay alive long enough for rescue. However Matt Damon has more training and tools than Crusoe.
Really now I would hope the earth would first send robots to Mars to build houses and such as preparation for the first humans to visit and settle there.
Mars is too hostile and far away to send valuable humans there first before robots. Robots are beginning now to build and drive cars. Maybe in ten years they could be sent to Mars to build a base suitable and safe for humans.
A Millionaire for Christy (1951)
Anyone notice how similar this movie is to the very famous: "Bringing up Baby"?
I am watching this movie today on TCM and enjoying it.
However, I feel like I have seen this movie before. Then I remember my favorite and very famous movie of the 1930s with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, "Bringing up Baby". Same plot: plain but wacky and eccentric woman tries to lure very proper stuffed shirt handsome man away from his even more proper stuffed shirt fiancé.
Am I alone in seeing this redundancy of plot? Please comment after watching both movies.
Also, isn't there a pattern of Hollywood using old cookie cutter plots with new cast of characters and minor added details and settings?
Three Sappy People (1939)
I have seen this one numerous times and laugh again and again!
Tested over time this classic is timeless! I have seen this one numerous times and laugh again and again! I think the vast majority of folks that watch the Three Stooges and especially their shorts like this one, appreciate laughing at the snobby, and pretentious wealthy. And nowadays during our global economic troubles the folks that have little like laughing at the folks that have way too much. One thing though:
Of all of the times I have watched this short, I could never identify the thing served on each plate that looked like a corn on the cob wrapped.
However it was endlessly wrapped and had some inky liquid at its center. What in heaven's name was it!!!! Of course the biscuits were obvious and funny when confused with a lady's makeup powder puff.
But maybe some one out there knows what that thing was that when squeezed squirted out black liquid??????
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours and 11 Minutes (1965)
I would like to know if there was any factual real race like this in history.
Hi everyone! I am 52 yrs. old and have known about this movie since I was in grade school.
Today, I really watched it without any commercials. I googled this movie to try to find any real history behind the movie content. I would like to know if there was any factual real race like this in history ever. I would be pleased if anyone reading this would volunteer any facts about any historical air races.
Also, did anyone see the movie: "The Great Race" with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemon, Peter Falk and Natalie Wood? It was about an international automobile race with similar characters and plot?