Quote from: CLAY on August 29, 2016, 10:01:27 PM

"In the Heart of the Sea"

Loved it.  It's the "true-as-Hollywood-can-make-it" real story of The Essex, a ship that was attacked by a whale in the south Pacific.  The story inspired Herman Mellville to write Moby Dick, one of my favs.

 

Saw a history bit about the story some months back. They now suspect that it was sounds, transmitted through the water, by the work on the ship (hammering, etc.) that might have been misinterpreted by the bull whale as challenges. So the whale attacked for misunderstanding; not due to evil malice.

They actually subtly make this point in the movie.

Quote from: Bounce on August 30, 2016, 09:41:04 AM

Saw a history bit about the story some months back. They now suspect that it was sounds, transmitted through the water, by the work on the ship (hammering, etc.) that might have been misinterpreted by the bull whale as challenges. So the whale attacked for misunderstanding; not due to evil malice.

Why is it important for us to come to this conclusion? I'm serious.

You do know what Clay does don't you?

Quote from: Bounce on August 30, 2016, 09:41:04 AM

Saw a history bit about the story some months back. They now suspect that it was sounds, transmitted through the water, by the work on the ship (hammering, etc.) that might have been misinterpreted by the bull whale as challenges. So the whale attacked for misunderstanding; not due to evil malice.

Why is it important for us to come to this conclusion? I'm serious.

Anthropomorphism.  Revenge is a human characteristic, not an animal one.  However it makes for great movies!

Quote from: 1KPerDay on August 30, 2016, 03:55:39 PM

Quote from: Bounce on August 30, 2016, 09:41:04 AM

Saw a history bit about the story some months back. They now suspect that it was sounds, transmitted through the water, by the work on the ship (hammering, etc.) that might have been misinterpreted by the bull whale as challenges. So the whale attacked for misunderstanding; not due to evil malice.

Why is it important for us to come to this conclusion? I'm serious.

Anthropomorphism.  Revenge is a human characteristic, not an animal one.  However it makes for great movies!

Doesn't have to be anthropomorphism. Sometimes animals go nuts.

GOTG2

Going to see Jack Reacher in an hour or so.  Still want to see the Accountant.

Road racing. An excellent documentary about the Dunlop brothers. Both generations.

We saw the new Star Wars flick in IMAX 3d tonight.


I enjoyed it.




Spoiler (quote to read):  Everybody dies.

My two biggest complaints with the new Star Wars movie have to do with the Grand Moff Tarkin/Princess Leia uncanny valley, and the disjointed feel of the overall scene to scene continuity of the film.

For the first, I really wish they'd just found actors who looked a lot like Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher and simply done the rest with makeup rather than digitizing their images onto somebody else.  They got them 98% right, but that 2% is really jarring.

For the second, I have nagging suspicions that a whole lot of the original story got edited and cut up and reassembled into something that nobody was happy with, but could at least agree on.  It just jumps from here to there with no flow.




For those of you planning on seeing it soon, look for references to the original Star Wars: Episode VI.  There are a lot of them, some more obvious that others.  One I'll give away is that rebel fighter squad Red Leader is the same actor as in the 1977 film.






A question that occurred to me after leaving the theater last night- were we ever actually told the names of the two friends, the blind guy and his machine gunner pal?  Please keep an eye out for this detail.

Idle Hands (1999): Been a long time since I watched this horror comedy. I'd forgotten how funny it was. Jessica Alba, Seth Green, Fred Willard and tons of smiles.

Quote from: kneescrubber on December 21, 2016, 10:01:44 PM

Just finished watching Old Yeller again. For the umpteenth time. With a dog in my lap. I cried at the end. For the umpteenth time.

Shit. I cried when I read the book as a kid.

Oh god...WHY would you do that to yourself?!?

Riding is a series of multiple feelings.  You can't simulate that in the winter, but it's (generally) better to feel something than nothing.
And, It's kinda like flushing your cooling system.  You don't know what's in there, so good to routinely flush it out.

Quote from: MrsCablebandit on December 22, 2016, 07:31:30 AM

Quote from: kneescrubber on December 21, 2016, 10:01:44 PM

Just finished watching Old Yeller again. For the umpteenth time. With a dog in my lap. I cried at the end. For the umpteenth time.

Shit. I cried when I read the book as a kid.

Oh god...WHY would you do that to yourself?!?

Riding is a series of multiple feelings.  You can't simulate that in the winter, but it's (generally) better to feel something than nothing.
And, It's kinda like flushing your cooling system.  You don't know what's in there, so good to routinely flush it out.

You know, I totally get that. That's why I watch Steel Magnolias every now and then. But I'm OK crying over M'Lynn's breakdown in the cemetery after Shelby dies (spoiler...sorry!). Old Yeller IS ABOUT A DOG!!! I saw it once, before I even had a dog, and it damn-near destroyed me. Having had Holly the Wonder Pup and Oscar Clark, German Shorthaired Pointer Extraordinaire, in my life since?!? I doubt I could recover from that. Honestly. I've lost all four grandparents in my lifetime and, yes, it's sad. I lost my first dog 15 years ago and will bawl about it if I think about her too much. Dogs, man. Dogs.

Watched Miles Ahead starring Don Cheadle & Ewan McGregor the other night.  If you're looking for a true Miles Davis biography this isn't it - more a darkly humorous take on a low point in his life.  But it did have me listening to records for hours afterwards.

Keeping it relevant...saw Rogue One last Friday night. LOVED IT. NERDED OUT. Seeing it again Monday morning ...

Loved it!  In my top 3 of the franchise.  No cutsie ewok, jar jar characters!  Wanna go again with my son and see IMAX 3D.

Quote from: Bounce on December 22, 2016, 09:55:16 AM

Totally you two. I watch Terminator for the same reason. The water works flow like crazy when the industrial press comes down at the end.

T2 is the one for me. When he slowly drops into the vat of molten metal. The thumbs up; man I just can't take that.

+1. Tears.

Quote from: kneescrubber on December 21, 2016, 10:01:44 PM

Just finished watching Old Yeller again. For the umpteenth time. With a dog in my lap. I cried at the end. For the umpteenth time.

Shit. I cried when I read the book as a kid.

Why?  What happens?

Old Yeller is his dog. At the end, he returns from a long journey after being lost during a camping trip.  Worth the watch.

Quote from: Meemuh on December 22, 2016, 08:56:41 PM

Quote from: kneescrubber on December 21, 2016, 10:01:44 PM

Just finished watching Old Yeller again. For the umpteenth time. With a dog in my lap. I cried at the end. For the umpteenth time.

Shit. I cried when I read the book as a kid.

Why?  What happens?

Wild pigs get their balls chopped off.

Mountain oysters

Probably a future Redbox. But has the potential to be humorous if there is more funny beyond the trailer.

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Four thumbs up from us.  This was a great movie.

28 Weeks Later (2007): A sequel to the 28 Days Later (2002), this furthers the story line established in the first movie. We leave behind Batman's Scarecrow and pick up new characters; focusing on a woman and man who are holed up in a farm house. We know right away that the guy is going to be trouble because his hair is greasy, his eyes are wild, and his teeth are gross.

Oh wait... this is Britain... that means we know none of this.

We focus on a woman and her husband who is just a regular Joe...

So Greasy Guy makes it to a safe zone where UN forces (lead by US soldiers because that explains our choice of actors) have buttoned down the country after most of the infected from the first movie have starved to death.

Did we explain that it's not zombies, it's "infected" so they can die, don't need head shots to kill them, and are fracking fast (I hate fast zombies - and Illinois Nazis).

Greasy Guy meets back up with his kids (Jess from Long Way Down and some guy who's not been in anything else).

The kids break quarantine (because that's what kids like this do in movies like this - See Coral in The Walking Dead) and find their dear ole Mum (Murron from Braveheart).

Greasy Guy, Jess, Dead-End-Kid and Murron get back together. GG and M seal their love with True Love's Kiss, and Hawkeye (having left his bow and arrows behind in checked baggage) gets to shoot lots of people from his high-hide with a cool sniper rifle.

Quote from: chornbe on December 23, 2013, 12:18:42 PM

Darklight ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395512/ )

Dear god... I have not seen too many movies legitimately worse than this. Not even being full of totally recognizable names. Dear god.

Nothing is worse than Soylent Green or Zombie Strippers.

Gingerdead Man.

Watching After the Sunset. Still like it.

We liked the first one.

Watched "36 Hours" (1965). New to me and pretty interesting.

Revisited "Adjustment Bureau" and it was still fun.

Oh you're taking advantage of a free HBO weekend too?  :-) 

I watched Fury last night.  One word, intense.

My wife and I saw the movie Jackie.  We both give it