What are you watching now?
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after reading a great history of HMS Bounty, i watched the 1984 movie the bounty with anthony hopkins as bligh and mel gibson as fletcher christian.
in addition im reading this book:
so im rewatching the get back doco with fresh eyes
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Watched a few movies recently.
Falling Down (late 80s?) with Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall. Enjoyable, I learned about it from seeing various clips about a normal person freaking out after a stressful day. Fun movie.
Philomena. I remembered the Oscar buzz around this one, with Steve Coogan and Judy Dench. I enjoyed this one a lot, it’s not terribly long, but a very well written, paced, and resolved story. Nothing crazy but worth it for Dench’s performance alone.
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Just finished a Taiwan series called "Light the Night". Quite good, I thought. Life, love, drama, and murder in a Taiwan hostess bar in the late 1980's Taipei city. Good acting and very atmospheric.
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Just watched “Here”. The entire movie takes place from a single perspective, starring Tom Hanks, directed by Zemeckis, music by Silvestri. If you know that combination, it reminds you of the 90s like Forrest Gump.
Anyway, the movie is very unique. Seems almost like a stage play. The editing and computer graphics is a little distracting but also necessary to embed you into decades or even centuries of a story jumping back and forth.
I enjoyed the movie if nothing else for being a fresh way to tell a story.
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Is that an old movie or a recent one?
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My favorite part was when the main characters realized that everything important in their lives happened in that room, and they were so afraid to miss something important, they stayed there until they starved to death. It was a strange way to spend the last 80 minutes of the movie, watching them waste away, but it was poignant.
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Well one character didn’t starve to death and the other characters didn’t technically die from starvation directly, if that makes sense.
Basically the twist is Tom Hanks ate his family. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
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Well one character didn’t starve to death and the other characters didn’t technically die from starvation directly, if that makes sense.
Basically the twist is Tom Hanks ate his family. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
Castaway 2: the Reckoning.
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Just watched Heretic. Heard it was a movie made for Hugh Grant to have a dark role. Anyway, it is a slightly disturbing, but intriguing and immersive movie. Best watched without distraction. Maybe it is because of Hollywood’s lack of originality, but it was an enjoyable, unique film experience. Not a movie to win awards or to watch again, but worth a viewing IMO.
