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

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I watched Tombstone again tonight. I don't think it's historically accurate, but it's down right entertaining. Kurt Russell has been overlooked as an actor, but he did a great job in this film. Sam Elliot is great as Earp's brother. Check out the cast listing, you won't believe how many names you recognize.

Tip of the hat to Snood, who also loves this film.

I can't say enough about this movie - it's an all time favorite. One interesting thing? It took me several viewings before I realized that the mealy-mouthed bully in the bar was the same actor who played the mentally challenged protagonist in Sling Blade - Billy Bob Thornton. Just shows what a consummate character actor he is.

Billy Bob Thornton was phenomenal in sling blade...I haven't watched Tombstone but I'm intrigued....

Billy Bob is an amazing actor. Did you see him in the television series Fargo?

I did, it was very good. I liked him best in Bad Santa.

I am binge watching Breaking Bad. I had seen some of it before, but now I started from the beginning. Mr. P. insists on watching it ALL EVENING. After a couple of hours, anything else would be a welcome change.

(If you don't overdo it, the series, IMO, is one of the greatest produced on TV.)

Never saw Fargo The T.V series)

I recognize that BB is a Hallmark series but I really haven't gotten into it. Maybe it's the subject matter or just the pure evil it portrays...dunno

I'm enjoying TV Fargo a lot.
Billy Bob is superb.

I had never perceived that show as "evil". Then again, I have always had a weird sense of humor.

Treat yourself

Must do...

I started a thread on the TV FARGO series last year and was a clarion call about how good it was. MALVO will go down in tv pantheon of villains ont he?

Yesterday We binge watched the last season of DEXTER, since we missed the last year due to work conflicts during which Mrs F accompanied me to take notes and pictures.

DEXTER, the last Season, is really good, its heart breaking, and it has to end in a certain way that does not **** eith the viewers head like the Sopranos did. (and Im not being a spoiler at all)

I didn't make the billy Bob connection either until this last time. He was heavier than he is now, but if you check the castings, it's a who's who of character actors. Sling Blade should be required viewing in film making class.

I loved Dexter, but I thought that the ending was a cop-out.

Last night I watched the 1976 movie, "Network". I've been under the impression, for decades now, that I'd seen this movie, but, apparently, based on how unfamiliar it was to me, I never saw it before, and I'm so glad I finally got to watch it.

What a brilliant satirical film, with an absolutely first rate cast, and stellar direction. And its scathing view of the television industry rings true even today--possibly even truer today.

If anyone else has never seen "Network" I'd definitely suggest you try to catch up with it--it's a gem.

A great movie. And one I should see again

"The Reader".... Sensual, thought provoking. Very philosophical...most interesting film I've watched in a while.

My son got me to watch it about a year ago. It was better than I thought it would be. I always thought Fay Dunaway chewed too much scenery.

I watched a movie from 2006, The Duchess, based on the life of Georgiana Spencer, later the Duchess of Devonshire, starring Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes and Charlotte Rampling.

I have mixed feelings about the film. Georgiana was what we would call a liberal today but not necessarily a feminist. Despite having been intelligent and well educated, she could not escape from the bounds of her era. I thought the script allowed the viewer to see this with only one subtle suggestion of Georgiana's modern point of view. Keira Knightley, in a scene without the elaborate wigs of the period. appears with a chin-level curly bob, a hairstyle that would not look out of place today. She is dressed in a robe and chemise, styled like today's robes and chemises. A nice way to point out how forward some of her thinking was.

Nor did the script flinch in portraying the woman's drinking and gambling problems.

The viewers sympathies were with Georgiana, married to an older man played by Fiennes, on her 17th birthday. She later appears pregnant with her first child. At that point, her husband dumps his bastard daughter on her because the girl's mother died.

Although the critics praised Fiennes' performance, I had to admit that he had a hard row to how. The man was depicted as stupid, immature, uncouth and insensitive.

I felt Knightley was very good as was Hayley Atwell who played a woman who was sometimes Georgiana's friend, some times the Duke's mistress. I wish that an attractive actor had played Charles Grey, the future PM who was Georgiana's lover. I found Dominic Cooper hard to look at.

I guess the soft porn elements turned me off.