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I only use the free YouTube service although we do purchase extra cloud storage to distribute private family videos. If it isn't in the library or on Hoopla (which is currently free with the library card), we don't get it. Our daughters do purchase Amazon, Netflix or other streaming services I am unaware of but they don't live with us anymore.
In US you have to pay more internet services than here. I think cloud storage is still free but I am wary of using it specially for family fotos and videos. 1984 syndrome. The less is known in the net about anyone´s ties the better protected they are.
There also is a place near by where I can rent movies also new ones. There used to be a lot of them where you could rent dvd´s. But most of them disapeared because you could watch the films in the net. I think that is changing again.
There's nothing in my videos that they don't already know. However, I think people should not rely on cloud storage assuming their digital files are safe there. They need to also be backed up on physical media in multiple places. One can build one's own cloud storage. Or so I have heard.
I saw the John Hughes' film "Sixteen Candles" last night. I am surprised I haven't seen this before. Score: 10/10
I found "Sixteen candles" but didn´t watch it yet. The sound is low and no undertitles.
Watched a German film today. "The misplaced world". A family drama which in spite of PCs and cell phones seems old fashioned. I liked it but the reviews in general are not good.
Here is one:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rev...-review-773094
Found trailer in German, Portuguese and Chinese but not in English.
07/10
Even though I thought "Sixteen Candles" was 10/10, I tend to overrate the good ones and underrate the bad ones. It is kind of like have two curves when giving out grades in a class. I'll see if "The misplaced world" is in the library tomorrow.
I just finished watching an old movie, "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world". A group of people hear a dying criminal tell them where he buried a lot of money before the police arrived. The rest of the movie shows them trying to find that buried treasure. This is also a 10/10.
My mom loved that movie. It is a lot of fun. They actually made it to raise some money for the widow of a director...or something. I forget who.
La Passe. 10/10
Watched 'Me Before You'
I would give it a 9
Awesome story
Will keep you in tears
The church where the wedding in "Sixteen Candles" is held is the one I attended as a child (my parents were atheists, but made us kids go to Sunday School and get a religious education anyway).
I saw "Their Finest" last night. It's set in London, during the Blitz. The heroine has just gotten a job writing dialogue for movies, and the War Department wants to raise morale by offering a sentimental movie about English heroism at Dunkirk. There are a few yuks about the corny movie they are making, filled with sentimental cliches.
There is also a backstage plot involving the actors and writers, and a bit of romance. The joke is that the backstage plot (which the audience is invited to take seriously) is just as cliche-ridden and hokey as the movie about Dunkirk (albeit with better production values).
It's not a great movie -- but it's funny and fun.
The last movie I saw was Wonder Woman and the theater here just got a bar. So we went and we got a drink. then we sat in the theater and watched commercials for like an hour. Then the movie started, and it looked like it would be good. but my drink was empty. And then the movie just went on and on and on and on and on and on. They really could have left a lot of it out and it would have been just fine I think. Why are movies so long now? I used to be really into movies, and now I'm into shows. Shows on Netflix that you can watch for 3 hours - a season of a series is like a 10 or 12 hour long movie divided into 10 or 12 parts depending on how many episodes. Movies seem to have gone downhill.
"Dunkirk" has received (for some incomprehensible reason) rave reviews. I was suspicious of the reviews and of the movies because Christopher Nolan's other movies ("Batman Begins", "Memento", "Inception", etc.) also received critical acclaim. And I hated them. I've boycotted superhero movies ever since sitting through Nolan's Batman movie (the one with Heath Ledger as The Joker). It was interminable. When I saw "Inception", I kept hoping that stupid van would plunge into the water, so the movie would be over.
"Dunkirk" isn't quite that bad, but it's close. It's an ensemble disaster flick that fails to create the slightest human interest in its characters, so the viewer doesn't care who survives. It seems to want to be a hard-hitting war film -- exposing the horrid reality of modern warfare -- but Nolan has added an overly dramatic (even saccharine) score that counteracts this purpose.
OK. Dunkirk is as legendary tale of British civilians' stiff-upper-lip heroism. I get it. But when one of the rescued soldiers reads Churchill's famous "We will fight them on the beaches" speech at the end of them movie, he makes even Churchill's stirring rhetoric seem dull, Impossible? Not for Christopher Nolan.
I don't remember much about Inception except that it didn't make any sense. I probably won't watch Dunkirk since I prefer comedies and this doesn't sound like one.
I watched Enchanted with my daughter a few weeks ago. I can't believe Rotten Tomatoes agrees with me about this one with a 93% fresh rating at the moment: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/enchanted/ I might have to take them more seriously. Anyway, some fairy-tale characters are sent to Manhattan by a wicked step mother or queen or whatever to see what reality is really like. I'd give it ten stars. It had enough silliness to counter the mushiness. I might see it again.
I saw the John Hughes movie Uncle Buck last night. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/uncle_buck/ Not as good as Enchanted but entertaining.
Score 8/10
I saw Kedi today, a documentary on Istanbul´s cat culture. A must for all cat lovers.
http://variety.com/2017/digital/news...ts-1202391313/
17/10(10 + one point more for each cat protagonist.)
From the trailer Kedi looks well done.
I watched Sabrina (1954) for the first time and really liked it. I think Bogart and Hepburn both played flawlessly. It's delightful comedy. 8/10
Also watched I'll See You in My Dreams a few days ago. Not so good. 4/10