John Adams. HBO Mini Series. Powerful acting, will keep your interest throughout.
Rewatching this DVD with the "Facts are stubborn things" captioning enabled. Related facts appear as subtitle captions during the viewing. Great history trivia. Learned removing one's hat originated when Knight's removal of helmet armor to display trust in a home. Lawyer Bar was coined from the wood barrier between the Judge and the court.
The acting and story is so mesmerizing that a sometimes have to scan back to read a missed Trivia caption.
Batman Begins is one of my favorite movies of all time. The Dark Knight wasn't as good imo. It was still great but kind of started getting away from what made Batman Begins awesome: Batman.
CRTGAMER wrote:Well more of a mini series, a very good one.
John Adams. HBO Mini Series. Powerful acting, will keep your interest throughout.
Rewatching this DVD with the "Facts are stubborn things" captioning enabled. Related facts appear as subtitle captions during the viewing. Great history trivia. Learned removing one's hat originated when Knight's removal of helmet armor to display trust in a home. Lawyer Bar was coined from the wood barrier between the Judge and the court.
The acting and story is so mesmerizing that a sometimes have to scan back to read a missed Trivia caption.
Unfortunately I only managed to see one episode while it was airing, but I was extremely impressed. I'd really like to get my hands on the whole series and run through it, similar to how I saw Band of Brothers.
Since I recently got netflix, I have been watching waaay too many movies, here are some of those
Blood Sucking Freaks- hilarious torture movie from the 70's with cool kill scenes, and hilariously bad acting- a man tries to capture a famous ballerina to use for one of his S&M shows- everything goes downhill from there, fun movie, pretty short- B
Mullholland Drive- this is the second David Lynch movie I've seen, and the second I love (the first being Blue Velvet)- odd story that I won't attempt to describe, but awesome visuals, and Naiomi Watts naked! If you are looking for a movie to freak you out and puzzle you, look no further- A
Picnic at Hanging Rock- I love the Criterion Collection, but this movie was trash, over 100 minutes and nothing happens- group of students go missing at hanging rock, the mystery, what happened to them? ********SPOILER ALERT******* you never find out***************SPOILER OVER********--- D
Watched The Road. This was a desolate movie that really exhausted me. I went through so many emotions and was completely drained by the end. I am not criticizing. I liked it a lot and those feelings I went through were surely what the director hoped for. I feel as though the end was supposed to relieve the viewer a little. Not because it is a happy ending, but because maybe there is a little hope. This is where the movie fell short for me, I think. I know it is different in the book, but in the movie the narrator says all animals are gone. At the end there is a dog. Again, in the book I think there are dogs roaming throughout the entire story. This may seem like a small nitpick, but to me it made me question the motives of the family at the end.
If all animals are gone (as the narrator in the film says), then this dog must have been well fed on something else. I know humans are able to survive by eating bugs and getting lucky here and there with finding a can of food. A family consisting of a husband, wife, two kids, and a dog leaves me thinking they must surely be taking part in cannibalism. If, for no other reason, it'd be hard to force a dog to survive on insects. The physiology of a dog is much different than that of a human. Dogs are not as strictly carnivorous as cats are, but they need the nutrients from meat much more than humans do. Perhaps this family was holed up somewhere in a bunker (like the one the Man and the Child find) and so they had a nice store of food, but it is made clear that this family had been following the Man and Child for a long time.
This didn't ruin the movie for me, just left me not trusting the motives of the family at the end, which kept me from feeling any sense of hope for the Child's future. To be clear, in the book, there is no dog at the end.
CRTGAMER wrote:Well more of a mini series, a very good one.
John Adams. HBO Mini Series. Powerful acting, will keep your interest throughout.
Rewatching this DVD with the "Facts are stubborn things" captioning enabled. Related facts appear as subtitle captions during the viewing. Great history trivia. Learned removing one's hat originated when Knight's removal of helmet armor to display trust in a home. Lawyer Bar was coined from the wood barrier between the Judge and the court.
The acting and story is so mesmerizing that a sometimes have to scan back to read a missed Trivia caption.
Unfortunately I only managed to see one episode while it was airing, but I was extremely impressed. I'd really like to get my hands on the whole series and run through it, similar to how I saw Band of Brothers.
Have not seen that one, I'll have to make time for it.
Another HBO series great: From the Earth to the Moon
The Apollo missions and events that made it happen. A different time where risks were taken, true heroes of the day. Mini series will give you crystal clear imagery of the remembered 1969 lunar landing fuzzy brodcast. Disc 2 part 5 in particular caught my interest. The design and building of the Lunar lander. you can really empathize with the engineers nurturing their baby.
I just saw Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky and man oh man this is one of the greatest films of all time.. How many times am I going to piss myself watching a movie?
