The Last Movie You Saw On DVD or VHS or TV.

last night i runsack some of my brother's stuffs in a basement, and found this dvd movie wit a title of Castaway on the moon. it's a korean movie with a eng sub title on it. it's a good one.

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Just wanted to touch on the Total Film review

The reviewer has a lack of knowledge of the skirmish in Neuville.
The only combatants on D-Day +3 there were Wermacht and American paratroopers.

I'm planning on seeing the new Brad Pitt flick Fury at the local cinema this afternoon.
I'm told this is about the 66th Armored Regiment in the last days of the war.
I don't expect there will be any Canadian British Polish or French troops involved.
I expect it to be a an examination of the psychological experience of war.
I'll let you know.

The Judge--Robert Duvall and Robert Downey Jr. --I liked it. More of a father/son relationship story and clashes of morality.

Thanks for the review

I watched "The Thief of Bagdad" a few nights ago. It starred Douglas Fairbanks Sr., wow. Wowie wow, it was magnificent. Fairbanks was so graceful and yet muscular. The stunts were actually amazing, an actual man performing stunts seamlessly and without computer generated special effects.

On the cornball side, there was a lot of teeth, big flashy smiles and campy jocularity. If you haven't seen it, try to find it. I think it was made around 1924, Fairbanks would have been in his early 40's, watching the film made me understand why he was such a big star.

I heard good things about The Judge but forgot the enthusiastic review . . . largely because I haven't had much time.

Just finished watching The Quartet which was Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut. Good cast: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Tom Courtney, Pauline Collins and Billy Connelly. Beautiful setting. A Masterpiece Theatre/Best Marigold Hotel kind of movie. I liked it. A sweet surprise at the end.

I just finished watching Dumb & Dumber (1994). It's far from sophisticated humor, but it had me laughing out loud. Jeff Daniels tells Jim Carrey about the girl he loved then lost, she sent him a John Deere letter. Maybe not witty, but funny as Hell. I used to share office space with a woman who would remark "Well, it's a doggie dog world". It was a low point in my career, but it produced laughs.

The first one was incredibly funny...I didn't think it possible for the 2nd one to measure up....must watch.

I just wanted to report that I went to see The Equalizer with Denzel Washington.

I.was.so.disappointed. I guess the makers of the film decided that just having Denzel kill off a whole slew of people in a lot of interesting ways would be enough to carry the movie and hold the interest of the audience. Because there TRULY was not much else going on. Crappy character development; weak, ultra-predictable plot and storyline; cornball clichés and uber-macho bullshyt.

Dang.

It should be a violation of the law to use a great actor in a lousy film. I tried to watch the Book Thief, it was so disappointing. They reduced Geoffrey Rush to a cartoonish character, I had to turn it off.

my wife and I watched Casino, good! recommend it to you

Pesci's character is based on the very real enforcer Anthony Spilotro.

Here's a site that correlates the facts in Nicki Pileggi's book and script for Martin Scorcese's film.
http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/casino.php

It was the second Pileggi-Scorcese collaboration that included De Niro and Pesci.

A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (2012) It's rated a 5.8 at IMDb. Is the movie controversial in the Monty Python fan base? I definitely enjoyed the bizzaro surreal animation. Not sure how much of the anecdotes were true or just funny fables. Any ideas on the veracity of many of the film's claims regarding Graham Chapman and his all too short life?

Watched some political films this week: the remake of the Manchurian Candidate with Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep and Denzel Washington as well as PoliWood directed by Barry Levenson, a documentary on the Dem and Rep national conventions of 2008 .

There was a great scene between Liev and Denzel in which the actors showed with their faces the struggle and the turmoil of their characters as they tried to determine what was real. Levenson's documentary is based on the premise that politics today are just entertainment.

I would love to see that film. All I know about Graham Chapman is that he was a premed student who wanted to act and that he supposedly talked to the Queen Mother about his ambitions.

I almost forgot. I also watched Food, Inc. That is not the sort of film one enjoys.

Like Health Dept ratings of Chinese Restaurants...I just don't wanna know.

This was very good, a fictionalised, exaggerated, account of The Life Of Brian furore.