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

I loved the Borgias, but I think it was cancelled. What a shame.

I watched it on Netflix. I still have a couple of episodes to go. I cancelled cable long ago. I could never find anything I truly wanted to watch; also too many darn commercials. Nowadays, I'm renting flix through Amazon, etc. but.,, still I'm nearly out of documentaries...sigh!

Saw "Inside Llewyn Davis" last night. What was the point of this movie?

Great acting, great direction, great cinematography, and great music. Tragic character trying to navigate the obstacles of his own making. Not formulaic crap with a guaranteed smile on the viewers face.

It's on the top five movies I saw last year. The Academy snubbed the film from several category nominations.

I guess some people don't like movies that challenge their sensibilities.

It was. There is an old BBC series if you want more Borgiaesque drama.

Bra Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1WF7upgLFU

Watched "The Eagle" (2011 film) on TV the other night and liked it.
A roman centurion in disguise goes on a quest to recover a golden roman eagle from the barbarian Scots tribe who pinched it.
No phoney hollywood gloss here, just a cold grey savage Scottish landscape inhabited by primitive heathens, just as today..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034389/

maybe you are right. All I saw was a witless twit who wandered around in a life that was mostly shitty responses to circumstances .

I think the Coen brothers mailed this one in. You could read that by the end of the groundhog day sequences that Lewyn would interface with something that really happened at the time. The fact that they chose Dylan was telegraphed early in the damn thing.

Another thing is that thwir formula of working music in as a character did NOT work in this case, even with T bone Burnett backing the score.

Sounds like you were as passionate about this as I was of
All Hope is Lost".

On reconsideration, I was disappointed at Nebraska also. Maybe I was more impressed with its "noirish" cinematography.


Big L fo Lewyn Davis and the Coen twins

I think I pointed out some of the same things in my review earlier.
We wanna love the Coens.
But sometimes we can't.

Missed your reply, sorry.
I think that, had I not been suffused with the "legend that was Dave van Ronck" I wouldn't have demanded more. As it was, I considered it a 2 hour lecture about his "outlook and principles", with some T bone music thrown in.

The entire movie coulda been done in 20 minutes as a leadup to Dylans entry into the scene.

I think that the Coens blew this one and phoned it in.
I didn't even like the music, it too was boring and often just a filler (I don't think the music advanced the story like it did in "Oh Brother'..." or set the mood , as in "Fargo"

Maybe Im too lo brow but I want my 2 hours back

i like Inside Llewyn Davis

Eg. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

the secret life of words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPAFnmmJf_Y

This sounds like a Robert Graves book I read when I was about 14 except the lost eagle was in Germany, not Scotland

Last time I saw "The Beach" with Leo :-) Never saw that before!! I thought it was a kind of romantic story, well I was very surprised :-) The movie is from 2000 but it's still good and fun to watch.

I watched Leo in The Great Gatsby yesterday. I found the film to be too gaudy and excessive, entirely too focused on visual effects, and either miscast, or misdirected, in terms of the leading actors' performances. I found it to be a disappointing, emotionally flat, and essentially unsatisfying, movie version of the Fitzgerald novel, despite all the scenic and visual razzle-dazzle.

Have you seen THE ACT OF KILLING yet, Firefly?

No, not yet, JTT.

Why do you think such an important movie never saw much of an audience in the USA?

Here's your chance.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3tILiqotj7Y