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    Quote Originally Posted by Forever Fredi View Post
    Do you and Mrs.50 get that good of a senior citizen discount? Seems like you're there every weekend!
    We see at least one movie every weekend. We are AMC Stubs Club Premiere members and do get the senior discount as well.

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    Silence is very good. It's not doing well at the box office, which is understandable because it's almost 3 hours long, there aren't any super-heroes, and it requires people to think. I highly recommend it, but order the large popcorn and bring an empty cup in case you have to void your extra-large soda at some point during the movie.

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    Holy cow! I'm the only one seeing movies. Weekend of 1/20/17: 20th Century Women. Great story. Well-acted. Not everyone's cup of tea. Mills and Bening received some props during awards season and they were well-deserved.

    Weekend of 1/27: Gold. McConaughey does his usual solid acting job as do Edgar Ramirez and Bryce Dallas Howard. It's a really good story that doesn't quite come across in the telling. It does show how f*cked up high finance can be and Corey Stoll and Bill Camp (who both seem to be everywhere these days) are great in their roles as Wall Streeters.

    I find it really difficult to pan movies much like it's difficult for me to rip on anyone's kid, so I'm probably not the best reviewer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 50PoundHead View Post
    Holy cow! I'm the only one seeing movies.
    Not entirely. I recently saw, and decently enjoyed The Founder—especially the supporting work of Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch. It was a snowy day in the high-desert, and—when trying to select between the florid escapism of La La Land and the soul-crushing corporate avarice at the heart of Michael Keaton's latest comeback vehicle—the girlfriend chose to wallow in the latter instead of fleeing to the former. I suppose I should still see La La Land.
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    La La Land is pretty good. You know it's pretty good when there's a backlash. I don't think it's a great movie destined for any all-time lists, but it's well done. Chazelle has put together two pretty good movies in a row. I personally preferred Whiplash, but La La Land is about as splashy as splashy can get.

    I do want to see The Founder.

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    Loved Whiplash. Does La La Land surpass that?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Forever Fredi View Post
    Loved Whiplash. Does La La Land surpass that?
    I liked Whiplash much more than I did La La Land. Totally different movies. La La Land is a throwback to the lavish musicals of the 1930s and 1940s and as good as it is, it suffers because it's clearly an homage more than a real story.

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    I've not wanted to see La La Land because it struck me as Hollywood praising how great Hollywood is. Those kind of movies always annoy me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by striker42 View Post
    I've not wanted to see La La Land because it struck me as Hollywood praising how great Hollywood is. Those kind of movies always annoy me.
    And it's about musicals. It's like the Artist combined with Chicago. **** it. **** musical movies.
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    Quote Originally Posted by striker42 View Post
    I've not wanted to see La La Land because it struck me as Hollywood praising how great Hollywood is. Those kind of movies always annoy me.
    May not be your cup of tea, but it's really not about Hollywood praising Hollywood. More of a complicated, bittersweet "boy meets girl" tale. Great soundtrack.

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    Quote Originally Posted by striker42 View Post
    I've not wanted to see La La Land because it struck me as Hollywood praising how great Hollywood is. Those kind of movies always annoy me.
    Exactly why it has the most nominations lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Forever Fredi View Post
    Exactly why it has the most nominations lol.
    The academy does love to Fellate itself.

    Meanwhile, Rogue One barely got any nominations and it was visually stunning, beautiful sounding, and had great set design.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zitothebrave View Post
    The academy does love to Fellate itself.

    Meanwhile, Rogue One barely got any nominations and it was visually stunning, beautiful sounding, and had great set design.
    Scifi and comic book movies/TV shows never win awards. When Battlestar Galactica was on the air you would have critics left and right calling it the best show on television but it only ever won effects and sound type Emmy's solely because of its genre.

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    Rented Suicide Squad the other day - what a load of garbage that ended up being.

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    Recent best picture winners The Artist, Argo and Birdman all have that theme of Hollywood being great and noble.

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    Saw Fences last night. What a master class in acting by Denzel and Viola Davis.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bj1133 View Post
    Rented Suicide Squad the other day - what a load of garbage that ended up being.
    I fell asleep 30 minutes into it. And I rarely ever fall asleep in movies, let alone ones I was actually excited in seeing.

    A load of garbage is being pretty generous.

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    Also, I saw Hidden Figures last weekend. Solid movie. Not quite as preachy as you might imagine this type of movie being. A good story with solid acting all around.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zitothebrave View Post
    The academy does love to Fellate itself.

    Meanwhile, Rogue One barely got any nominations and it was visually stunning, beautiful sounding, and had great set design.
    Tell me about it. I know some will be all over me, but I feel the same way about The Artist that some feel about La La Land. Totally different takes on the same genre. The thing with La La Land is that it's almost like an old Esther Williams pic. Splashy, kind of modern Busby Berkeley wound around a pretty simple story.

    In an entirely other matter, saw John Wick 2 Friday night. Ms. 50# told me she had her eyes closed half the time. Even more over-the-top than the first installment. Definitely the movie for gunosexuals.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Carp View Post
    Also, I saw Hidden Figures last weekend. Solid movie. Not quite as preachy as you might imagine this type of movie being. A good story with solid acting all around.
    Had dinner with some friends last evening and one thought Hidden Figures was too "Hollywood ending." True at a level, but I left that movie with an odd mix of inspiration and anger. Inspired by the absolute talent those women showed and how they just put their nose to the grindstone and would not be denied. Angry because it seems we can no longer do big things in this country. The country was as divided in many ways in the 1960s (as shown in the movie) as it is today, but the country was able to pull together and elevate life for all. It may not win best picture, but it's probably my favorite movie of the year.

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