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Post by erik on Jul 6, 2015 14:28:49 GMT -5
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Post by Dianna on Jul 6, 2015 18:40:43 GMT -5
before I read the article. So weird. I think I saw Dustin Hoffman.. today.. in downtown Astoria. I was at a traffic stop.. looked just like him.. was holding a cup of coffee talking to an older gentleman.. if that was him.. great mane of silver hair.. small in stature.. very approachable looking. so weird.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 18:55:29 GMT -5
Sadly he may have a point... TV has a far larger supply of intelligent content than film these days..
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Post by erik on Jul 6, 2015 19:49:14 GMT -5
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I'm afraid he does. When he started out, with THE GRADUATE, it was a time when cinema was really pushing the boundaries in the kinds of things it could show about the world around us. And he also did MIDNIGHT COWBOY, LITTLE BIG MAN, and STRAW DOGS in the following five years. There simply isn't that kind of risk-taking, except in small indie films, these days, and, as Hoffman says, on TV (incredibly enough!)
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Post by Belle on Sept 10, 2015 3:18:49 GMT -5
Throughout my life I'd go to the theater to watch a new movie at least every month, but now I only go once or twice a year. In the past 5 years new movies just don't sound interesting to me. I don't know if it's because I'm getting old, or if because the movies just suck lately.
I've never been much of a TV person--unless I'm bored and lonely and desperate to surf. Even then I still can't usually find anything in my 1000 channels that I want to watch. I do enjoy keeping up with Ancient Aliens, Survivor, and Downton Abbey--when a new series starts I'll record the series and watch them when I'm in the mood.
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Post by erik on Sept 10, 2015 8:40:15 GMT -5
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I personally think one reason may be that there are far too many films being made now that are based on comic books, which cost obscene amounts of money to make, and which have more sound, sight, and spectacle than actual substance. Over the last two years or so, however, I have been very fond of decidedly different films like GRAVITY and INTERSTELLAR, which admittedly are science fiction, but have quite a bit more in common, stylistically and intellectually, with director Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY than anything else you'll find these days (IMHO).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2015 8:51:09 GMT -5
There are worthy films, but as with music it takes a bit of work to find them...
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Post by Goldie on Jan 3, 2016 1:35:03 GMT -5
This looks like a good film...documentary.
I think this is the whole movie:
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Post by erik on Jan 3, 2016 13:44:12 GMT -5
And quite frankly we had a whole surfeit of truly worthy movies released in the final three months of 2015, even if STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS and SPECTRE got all the attention. Just for starters:
BRIDGE OF SPIES
THE 33
TRUMBO
TRUTH
SPOTLIGHT
THE BIG SHORT
WHERE TO INVADE NEXT
JOY
THE MARTIAN
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