Also, did you read the novel which the Leftovers is based? It's not a particularly long one. Really loved the character driven drama. Lots of unexpected sympathetic characters. Will eventually get around to watching the series.
Not yet, I just stumbled across it while browsing Netflix. Never even heard of it until last night.
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Mon 24 Apr, 2017 10:38 am
I bought the DVD, "The Old Gringo" with Gregory Peck and Jane Fonda. Gregory Peck plays writer Ambrose Bierce in the latest, most cynically resigned period of his life. In 1913 he proclaims that for an American to go to Mexico at this time is suicide. This is during the Mexican Revolution. He goes and is never heard from again. This is a totally fictionalized account of the last days of his life in Mexico.
He joins the revolution. The Fonda character is a spinster who goes to Mexico at the same time to fill a position as governess to the children of the wealthy Miranda family, which, so happens, is on the run from the revolution.
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Phoenix32890
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Wed 26 Apr, 2017 05:19 am
Just saw LaLa Land last night. Well...................it was nicely done, but I really don't know what the excitement was all about. Maybe you would get better effects in the movies, but on DVD I think that something was lost.
I also think that this movie would attract a young crowd who is into jazz. Personally, I couldn't relate.
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Sat 6 May, 2017 05:56 pm
Disney Movie Update: Home on the Range is without a doubt the worst Disney animated feature film. Meet the Robinsons was mostly crap, like Chicken Little, and then enjoyable for a few minutes. I'm down to just 1 film from the animated feature canon (not counting package films released during WWII): Bolt. I've heard it's ok. We shall see, but not this weekend.
Last week we saw Manchester By The Sea. It was just ok, I don't get what the big deal was. Why all the awards?
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coluber2001
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Sat 13 May, 2017 11:27 am
Just recently on TV was shown a 2002 release of "Igby Goes Down," starring Kieran Culkin, brother of the Home Alone kid. Kieran resembles a cross between Robert Downey jr. and Bud Cort of Harold and Maude fame. Curiously, the movie is a sort of cross between Harold and Maude and Catcher in the Rye. A 17 year old boy with a rich and distant mother drops out of school and goes on his own.
It's a lost and forgotten award-winning little gem of a movie that can be had for a song on eBay.
The Jeff Goldblum character was a scary, sick-with-power Trump-like character. Also, Igby's brother was developing into the same sort whom Igby referred to as a Republican fascist.
Jeff Goldblum is a brilliant actor as evidenced by his believable portrayal of sleazy characters. Another role was as a crooked gambler in Silverado. I know I've seen him in other films, but I can't recall any. Surely he plays positive characters as well.
And thank you for your compliment.
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Sun 14 May, 2017 12:45 pm
@Lash,
So I was attracted to resume Manchester. It became almost unbearably sad.
It's a bit of a character study amid pretty horrific conditions. I love Kyle Chandler.
Admiral Nimitz.
Visited his museum in Fredericksburg TX many years ago where they have a nuclear bomb on display that I worked with while in the USAF (Strategic Air Command) in the late fifties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man
Also met Bob Brodsky many years later on a trip to Mexico. He's the one who designed the aerodynamics on that bomb. He also taught Astronautics at USC and Iowa State University. We kept in touch for many years until his passing. https://www.claremont-courier.com/articles/obituaries/t19823-brodsky-obit
My last assignment was at Walker AFB in New Mexico for 18 months.
Didn't expect to be slapped with the feels on that one. I'll watch it at home this week. ((sigh))
