What is the last movie you saw? and rate it.

Sabrina sounds interesting. I'll see if the library has it tomorrow.

I watched "The Shack": https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_shack/ Although I can see how Rotten Tomatoes did not like this, I'm with the people on this one. I thought it was enjoyable, a 6 or 7 out of 10.

The story is about a fictional near-death experience. The message was forgiveness. One part of the message that I disagreed with was that God seemed to know what someone would do before the person did it. They thought this was OK because God enjoyed watching us do it as if for the first time. If we are truly a source of freedom, He wouldn't be able to know what we were going to do although he could guess likely choices on our part. Basically, God knows everything that is knowable, but what we are going to do next is not knowable except probabilistically. It is nothing against his "omniscience" not to know something that is unknowable.

I saw Sabrina, the Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart movie. It was at least an 8 out of 10 rating. Sabrina's father tells her not to reach for the moon and she tells him the moon is reaching for her.

I saw Valerian and the City of the Thousand Planets today at the cinema. It's nonsense but it looks good, rather like The Fifth Element in style.

Recently saw The Reluctant Saint on TCM, a story of St. Joseph of Cupertino (" the patron saint of both aviators and bad students.") which I enjoyed very much, but is not going to be everyone's cup of peppermint tea. It's in B&W and plods a bit, but has some noteworthy stars in lead roles including Ricardo Montalbán and Maximillian Schell. There is a Youtube version, which I watched also a day or two later, that is a bit stilted in its presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXxOLNRBdXw

Spoilers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056403/

For those not inclined I'd rate it a 3 of 10; for those inclined an 8 of 10.

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We watched "Table 19" last night. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/table_19/

Rotten Tomatoes thought it was pretty rotten. I would agree. Score 3/10.

I watched Boss Baby: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_boss_baby/

If you are seven years old and you are told by your parents you will have a new baby brother arriving shortly, this might be a good movie to watch.

As you didn´t rate it, it seems that the film may be not so interesting to people who don´t fullfill the above conditions.

I forgot to rate it and I can't seem to edit my posts anymore. I would give The Boss Baby a 5/10. It wasn't as bad as Table 19.

Last night I saw the eighth film in the Fast and Furious series "The Fate of the Furious". https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the...f_the_furious/ It got a reasonably good rating from Rotten Tomatoes, but I am more inclined to rate it higher--actually 10/10.

It made me wonder why I liked these movies so much. This is the best I can come up with at the moment. Based on Jonathan Haidt's moral foundation theory, this movie fits squarely in the tension between individual rights and group loyalty. The theme of "family" is constantly emphasized as characterizing the good guys. The bad guy (bad girl in this episode) belittled the family idea talking about it as some neural delusion that she had advanced beyond in her intellectual superiority. She got her butt kicked in the end, but she escaped perhaps for a future episode.

I saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gua..._galaxy_vol_2/

This is very similar to the Fast and the Furious movies except for the technology. In both, family is the critical idea and there are people with advanced "scientific" perspectives who are intent on harming that family. Those superior bad guys get their butts kicked. The main characters are very skilled but they are social outcasts who nonetheless save the world or galaxy and then go back to their simpler lives.

Score: 10/10

I saw the first Guardians of the Galaxy last night. It shows how the guardians got started. Again family is the crucial theme throughout the movie. Score: 10/10

I didn´t see these Guardia movies but the plot sounds familiar to me

I normally don't watch science fiction, but the library had them on display and there was no good comedy on the shelves. I tried them because Rotten Tomatoes gave them a high rating.

Just viewed a wonderful movie on TV made in Israel "Restoration" it had me spellbound and is still with me, Sasson Gabai played the lead father character who has discovered that an old Steinway in his furniture restoring shop if restored will sell and save him from losing the business and in the process could lose him his loving son. A great twist at the end.Great casting, a wonderful story.

My last movie was actually from 2007 "Les chansons d´amour" I think it was pretty good 9/10

I'll look for Les chansons d'amour and Restoration in the library today.

I couldn't find either of those movies, but I tried to watch Horrible Bosses 2 last night. I couldn't quite make it through the whole thing.

I saw Snatched: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/snatched_2017/

The critics at Rotten Tomatoes didn't like it. Neither did the real people. I wonder why I chuckled through it? There were moronic moments in this comedy I am glad I witnessed, but I don't think I'd want to see them again. Score: 7.5/10

I saw the 2008 comedy "Ghost Town" a couple nights ago: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1190970_ghost_town

In this case the Rotten Tomatoes critics where closer to the truth than the rest of us. I would give this a 10/10.

The movie is about an anti-social dentist who dies for a few minutes during a routine procedure. After that he can see dead people who need to find a way to communicate with the living so they can move on. It turns out he is now their medium against his will. He resists helping them but one particularly annoying ghost keeps bugging him to stop his widow from marrying someone else. She lives in the same building as the dentist and he has been particularly annoying to her. That doesn't stop him from falling in love with her himself, but the problem is he is anti-social. This is a comedy, so everything works out in the end. There is one line from this movie, which is not all that important, that I can't get out of my head. The dentist reminds a patient to floss by saying, "You only have to floss those you want to keep."

I saw the new The Mummy. Technically it is well done, but it was rather boring. Even Rotten Tomatoes didn't like it: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_mummy_2017/ Score 3/10

Now the 1999 movie with Brendan Fraser was far better: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1087270_mummy Score: 10/10

Night Moves by directed by Kelly Reichardt

She's and excellent independent filmmaker.

Just saw the movie The Dark Tower.
Very disappointing indeed.
After plunging through the reading of all those books, I'd have thought the movie would have done some justice...NOT...Grrr!
As far as the reading of the Dark Tower series, the first book was the best, in my humble opinion.

I saw the 2007 movie "License to Wed" last night: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1175072_license_to_wed It was pretty rotten. Perhaps 2/10 as the critics more or less gave it. The humor didn't make sense to me or rather it made too much sense to be humorous.

However, the 2003 "Anger Management" which was on a similar theme was quite enjoyable, as I remember, even though the critics thought this was rotten as well (but not so much): https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/112...ger_management It was at least funny.

The last movie I saw was Nut Job 2. It sucked. Big time.

I just checked Rotten Tomatoes and they agreed with you about Nut Job 2. I'll probably skip it.

I found two new comedies in the library, "The House" https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_house_2017 and "Killing Hasselhoff" https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/killing_hasselhoff

Regarding "The House", I could only stand about 15 minutes of it. Besides I had a plan B with the second movie. So I didn't finish it.

I almost stopped watching Killing Hasselhoff as well, but I was too tired to find the remote to turn if off. Anyway, the longer I watched it the more I liked it. Besides I didn't have a plan C. Score 7/10

Taxi Driver 10/10 classic, a study of loneliness. Even with a Hollywood ending I still stick with a 10/10

My daughter recommended Rick and Morty. This is an animated comedy series. You can find the episodes on YouTube. The best one I've seen so far is Season 1 Episode 4 about simulations. I am going to have to remember this if I ever get caught in a simulation. They are moronic but addicting.

I watched The Layover: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_layover/ It doesn't look good for this movie from either the critics or the people. However, I found it tediously amusing. I was able to get through the movie and enjoy parts of it.

The story is about two roommates who are trying to seduce a man who sits between them on the plane on their way to Fort Lauderdale to celebrate everything going wrong in their adult lives. The next thing that goes wrong in their lives is they are fighting over this stranger. There are some pretty good scenes especially when they try to do good and stop two marriages from happening. One was a definite oops and the other they didn't succeed in stopping, but considering everything it was all for the best. This is a comedy so everything sort of turns out OK in the end.

Score: 7/10

We watched The Big Sick: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_big_sick/ This got 98% positive ratings on Rotten Tomatoes! It is the story of Kumail Nanjiani, a Pakistani comedian, and how he met his wife, Emily.

The critics are right about this one. It deserves a score of 10/10. It was heartbreaking and in places so funny we laughed out loud.

Lost in Yonkers (1993): https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lost_in_yonkers/

Very nice. Score: 10/10

The Truman show

9/10 (It gets higher each time I watch it)

The Other Side of Hope:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtiFG6utst8


9,5/10

wonder woman, and i absolutely love love loved it! its become one of my very favorites. ive watched certain scenes in it dozens of times since.

The scene I liked about Wonder Woman was her reaction after tasting ice cream her future boyfriend bought her. That scene was quick, but it is now in my mind.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2/10

About as good as Attack of the Clones.

I skipped Star Wars, but we did watch that recent movie about Churchill. I think it was called "Darkest Hour". I thought that was pretty good, say 9/10.

I've seen most of the movies favored for awards that are out now. Here are my brief reviews of each:

"The Darkest Hour" -- Say what you will about Sir Winston, he never struck me as a ditherer. Instead, his image is that of a supremely confident leader. Yet Gary Oldman dithers his way through "Darkest Hour". This movie is not terrible -- it moves along, as, given the stirring historical events it portrays, it could hardly fail to do -- but it's not very good, either.

"The Last Jedi" -- It's not as bad as the last Star Wars movie (which was a scene-by-scene recreation of the original Star Wars), but it comes close. It repeats "Emperor Strikes Back", except that it's not nearly as good.

"The Post" -- Here in liberal Eugene, Oregon, this film was greeted with more than one ovation. It's directed by Steven Spielberg, and it stars Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. It can hardly go wrong. The movie is about how the Washington Post stepped in to publish the Pentagon Papers after the New York Times (which broke the story) was enjoined from doing so by Federal Courts. It's a fine movie, but the John Williams score and the reaction of the audience seemed more appropriate to blowing up Death Stars than to running a newspaper. I suppose it takes (some modicum of) courage to defy Nixon -- but, let's face it, Ben Bradley isn't quite Luke Skywalker.

"The Shape of Water" -- Guillermo del Toro's science fiction fantasy is good fun. It's set during the cold war and involves Russian spies, CIA heavies, and a strange creature from the amazon who resembles a man wearing a scuba wetsuit and mask. Sally Hawkins, a mute janitor at a D.C. secret military facility, foils the evil U.S. military's plans to dissect the creature, with the aid of a Russian spy. This film is more of a send-up of 1950s sci-fi movies than anything else, but it's entertaining.

"The Disaster Artist" -- I'd never seen "The Room" (evidently admired by youthful hipsters as the worst movie ever), but this film is entertaining fluff. I never quite got the attraction of "The Room". I don't like "bloopers" TV shows, either. What's so funny about bad things? Nonetheless, this film was enjoyable, because the characters are so strange.

"I, Tonya". -- I live in Oregon, and I've been a Tonya Harding fan for years. I almost boycotted the movie -- fearing it would go for cheap laughs. Instead, it's very good, telling several sides of the story, and portraying the wacky real-life characters as, at least, interesting. Why DID the FBI find that practice schedule for Kerrigan in Tonya's handwriting? Hmmm.

"Lady Bird" Greta Gerwig's directorial debut (if you don't count Frances Ha), is a funny, touching, coming of age story. It's a little movie -- based around small themes and ordinary characters -- but it portrays them well and keeps the audience entertained.

"Three Bill Boards outside Ebbing Missouri" -- Martin McDonagh directs Frances McDormand in this dark, sometimes comic film. I enjoyed the acting, the characters, and the entire movie, although it was damaged by enough holes in the plot to drive several pick-up trucks through. A lot of professionalism must have gone into making the film -- the dialogue is witty, the photography evocative, the set-up unusual and interesting. You'd think they could have come up with a plot that holds together a little better.

Thanks, Ecurb. Very useful as some of these films will be shown here only in February. Had a good laugh at the ironic passages.

Thank, Ecurb. Very useful as some of these films will be shown here only in February. Had a good laugh at the ironic passages.

Darkest Hour with Gary Oldman - really liked it id give it an 8

The Post

A film every American should see. Though I should like to see a film focused on Daniel Ellsberg himself. This one centers on the newspaper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrXlY6gzTTM

8,5/10,00