To each their own! Did you see the Bogart version, or prefer one to the other?
I’ve never seen the Bogart version, just the remake with Sean Penn and Robert De Niro.
They’re very different, in characters, setting, time and plot. But the bones of the plot are essentially the same.
I’ll take Bogey, Peter Ustinov, and Aldo Ray (along with his pet) helping Leo G. Carroll and going up against Basil Rathbone over DeNiro and Penn helping Demi Moore and going against James Russo.
Been there, Done that!
M3GAN - Way late to the party on this one, but it wasn’t my fault. It is billed as a horror/thriller and I have seen enough killer robots. This is not. It is most definitely science fiction in it’s purest sense. I loved it. Fantastic acting, gripping plot, many difficult ethical situations beyond the “Number 5 is ALIVE!” variety.
If you care at all about what true Science Fiction does, or humanity in general, or pretending to appear human, go watch this.
Well, I never…
Don’t worry, it’s a tale from your younger days. And your character has a big old lovable dog named Diego…that likes meat.
Watched A Simple Favor with Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively. Someone called it Mommy Noir, which I think works. Nice performances by the two leads, twists and turns, not trying to be too deep and dark, but still has tension to keep you interested.
Also caught Air which I had zero interest in, but enjoyed nonetheless. I think Affleck was a little too Afflecky, but the movie really sucked me in.
Wow, hard disagree. I was really disappointed in this movie. I found nothing engaging about it. A good example of a movie I kept waiting to get good…until it was over and it didn’t.
One of the best movies of the year it was released. I liked the way it stood the tropes of the “Gone Girl” genre on their heads and did it with a wink and a nod. Anna Kendrick is a standout as the “good” girl that slowly reveals she’s not so good after all.
Welp, spoiled that one. I would have watched it otherwise.
Go ahead and watch it, the thing isn’t deep enough for a minor spoiler to ruin it. It’s not like peccavi pointed out:
Really? You’re trying to get spoiled? C’mon, just watch the movie.
That would have been uncool.
Yes, we watched it, and I thought I knew a lot about her, but there were still new nuggets revealed. For example, I had always thought she’d been a diabetic all her life, but, no, she didn’t have diabetes until she had a miscarriage in her late 30s. Although I wondered if she maybe had a pre-condition that the miscarriage triggered.
Also, damn! David Suskind in those interview clips they showed was a total a**hole.
Yes, Susskind had a reputation as a good interviewer, as I recall, but he really did come across badly in his time with MTM.
In the last few days I have re-watched a semi-old favorite and a new favorite:
The Departed (2006) - Marty Scorcese, Matt Damon awesome as the heel, even Marky-Mark is good as the retribution. I hadn’t watched this one in a while and I think I picked up a few more important points around DiCaprio’s character’s issues with trauma and drugs and paranoia and all of that.
Knock at the Cabin (2023) - Damn, I really love this movie. So creepy and well acted. Dave Bautista particularly impresses. I still wish they’d have stuck with the book ending and walked the earth alone, but it’s about time M. Night makes a movie I can really get into again.
(full disclosure - I kind of liked The Village)
Then you didn’t want to watch it that bad. Every movie trailer practically gives the plot away. Even the attention grabbing Shorts in the Netflix lobby reveal more of any film than peccavi gave up.
Perhaps stick to TV Guide?
ETA: Nope, that won’t work, ‘Anna Kendrick plays a nice girl that reveals she’s not so nice’ would be the first thing a TV Guide would say.
Not having seen any of those, there was no way for me to know that it wasn’t a spoiler, now, was there? It sure sounded like the plot twist was being given away. Do you always post such jerkish things?
Moderating:
It’s fine to complain about spoilers, and even to say that a post that is a spoiler (or looks like one) is jerkish. But when you ask if someone always posts jerkish things, you are venturing into insulting the poster. And this is Cafe. Please tone it down a bit.
The Cassandra Crossing – Haven’t seen it since 1980-something, shouldn’t have bothered. Richard Harris tries, but can’t carry the whole film by himself. Big, stellar, wasted cast, bad dialog, shoddy FX.