McFarland, USA. As one would expect, it's predictable and sentimental, but it was still a surprisingly pleasant couple of hours. If nothing else, it made me want to give anyone who works years in the fields a very short pathway to citizenship. Nasty work.
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Still Alice. Pretty much what I expected, with a superb, restrained performance by Julianne Moore (and one by Alec Baldwin as well), but it was still a huge downer; how could it not be, as one watches a brilliant college professor reduced to a mental cipher? I liked the ending of Kingsman better than the way this turns out.
Like Alice, my mission president (who was a very successful trial attorney and, post-mission, the last non-GA to serve as the Church's General YM President) died of early onset Alzheimer's in his early 50s. A horrific ailment.
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Originally posted by PaloAltoCougar View PostStill Alice. Pretty much what I expected, with a superb, restrained performance by Julianne Moore (and one by Alec Baldwin as well), but it was still a huge downer; how could it not be, as one watches a brilliant college professor reduced to a mental cipher? I liked the ending of Kingsman better than the way this turns out.
Like Alice, my mission president (who was a very successful trial attorney and, post-mission, the last non-GA to serve as the Church's General YM President) died of early onset Alzheimer's in his early 50s. A horrific ailment."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
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Originally posted by Armenag View PostA Most Wanted Man - Competing German intelligence agencies track and scheme to use a Chechen immigrant recently (and illegally) arrived in Hamburg. Phillip Seymour Hoffman is the head of the agency the film follows; Rachel McAdams is the Chechen's human rights/immigration lawyer; Willem Dafoe is a banker who gets roped in. Well made and well acted, but like all adaptations of le Carre's novels (and the novels themselves), it left me a bit cold. A good movie, but I wouldn't push anyone to go out of their way to see it.Jesus wants me for a sunbeam.
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Originally posted by Katy Lied View PostJeez, how many times can Luc Besson resurrect La Femme Nikita? Let me count the ways he creates female characters brutally victimized by men who then grow extraordinarily strong and open up a can of whoop on their male dominators:
Le Femme Nikita
Point of No Return
Leon: The Professional
The Fifth Element
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Bandidas (x 2!)
Columbiana
LucyJesus wants me for a sunbeam.
"Cog dis is a bitch." -James Patterson
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostMy wife sobbed through the last hour of Still Alice. Hit too close to home.
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Originally posted by PaloAltoCougar View PostI admit I teared up a couple of times myself, as did the missus. Mick LaSalle, our local reviewer, gave a very good review of the film that ends with the following: "For all the movie’s honesty, the reality of Alzheimer’s disease is a lot worse than what you see in “Still Alice.” Perhaps directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland made a calculation as to how much an audience can take. They were right.""There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostYep. Wait until your mother no longer recognizes you. Or herself in the mirror. Tears your heart out. Death by a thousand cuts."I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
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Jack Reacher - I fell asleep the first time I tried watching this, but he concept intrigued me so I watched it again. I actually liked it, but felt the plot as a bit too shallow. It had a "shooter" vibe to it. I think I the right hands the script would have been much better. I did like the way the scenes were shot."Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf
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Originally posted by Moliere View PostJack Reacher - I fell asleep the first time I tried watching this, but he concept intrigued me so I watched it again. I actually liked it, but felt the plot as a bit too shallow. It had a "shooter" vibe to it. I think I the right hands the script would have been much better. I did like the way the scenes were shot.
I really like the Reacher books, but I didn't love the movie. Maybe it was 5'5" Tom Cruise playing 6'5" Jack Reacher.Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
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Originally posted by Katy Lied View PostAs I re-read through this thread, I wonder: is PAC retired?
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Originally posted by falafel View PostDid you like Rosamund Pike?
I really like the Reacher books, but I didn't love the movie. Maybe it was 5'5" Tom Cruise playing 6'5" Jack Reacher.
I haven't read the books, but I did enjoy the movie."...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
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