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  • #2281
    All Quiet on the Western Front.

    Maybe the goriest, most violent war movie I have ever seen. I have a pretty good tolerance for realism in a war movie, but that was brutal. Bleh.
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    • #2282
      Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
      All Quiet on the Western Front.

      Maybe the goriest, most violent war movie I have ever seen. I have a pretty good tolerance for realism in a war movie, but that was brutal. Bleh.
      I didn't care for it either, especially when it veered from the novel and messed with the ending. In my view, the best adaptation was the 1979 made for TV movie with Richard Thomas (of John Boy fame) and Ernest Borgnine.
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      • #2283
        Originally posted by Paperback Writer View Post

        I didn't care for it either, especially when it veered from the novel and messed with the ending. In my view, the best adaptation was the 1979 made for TV movie with Richard Thomas (of John Boy fame) and Ernest Borgnine.
        I liked it, but I see your complaint. The message of the hopelessness of war was done well imo. I would agree with your assessment of the 1979 version, but Richard Thomas' mole always just freaked me out so much I could never concentrate long enough to take my eyes away from that thing. It was huge! It has its own zipcode huge. Oh the horror!!

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        • #2284
          I have always liked the book. I re-read it a couple of years ago.

          I get what they are trying to do with the movie. It is an anti-war movie and it is very effective. It is just insanely graphic.
          "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.
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          • #2285
            Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
            I have always liked the book. I re-read it a couple of years ago.

            I get what they are trying to do with the movie. It is an anti-war movie and it is very effective. It is just insanely graphic.
            Good to know. I might watch it but it'll be without Mrs. NWC.
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            • #2286
              It is nice to be an adult so I no longer have to pretend to like gory movies. I've always hated them, but when I was a teenager (at the height of the classic slasher flicks), I felt that I had to pretend that I did. I spent many hours in theaters with my friends staring 3 feet to the right of the screen.

              The goriest movie I have seen in the last 20-25 years is probably Hot Fuzz or Shaun of the Dead.

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              • #2287
                Originally posted by Clark Addison View Post
                It is nice to be an adult so I no longer have to pretend to like gory movies. I've always hated them, but when I was a teenager (at the height of the classic slasher flicks), I felt that I had to pretend that I did. I spent many hours in theaters with my friends staring 3 feet to the right of the screen.

                The goriest movie I have seen in the last 20-25 years is probably Hot Fuzz or Shaun of the Dead.
                OK but those are works of art! As long as you make me LOL I don't mind that kind of gore.
                "...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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                • #2288
                  Originally posted by Clark Addison View Post
                  It is nice to be an adult so I no longer have to pretend to like gory movies. I've always hated them, but when I was a teenager (at the height of the classic slasher flicks), I felt that I had to pretend that I did. I spent many hours in theaters with my friends staring 3 feet to the right of the screen.

                  The goriest movie I have seen in the last 20-25 years is probably Hot Fuzz or Shaun of the Dead.
                  Congrats! How long ago did you become an adult?
                  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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                  • #2289
                    Originally posted by Northwestcoug View Post

                    OK but those are works of art! As long as you make me LOL I don't mind that kind of gore.
                    Oh, I love them. I am just saying that is about the outer limit of what I watch these days.

                    Originally posted by falafel View Post

                    Congrats! How long ago did you become an adult?
                    I dunno. That's kind of a nebulous definition. Maybe 10, 15 years ago?

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                    • #2290
                      Wednesday. It's hilarious.
                      Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!

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                      • #2291
                        Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post

                        Could only handle one episode.
                        I read Joyce Carol Oates' Zombie (inspired by the Dahmer case) at the beginning of this year just because I'd read in an article how good it was. It messed me up so badly that I didn't even feel like reading for a few months. I opted out on the series for this reason alone. Call me a wuss, but if a novel left me feeling so low I can only imagine what a series would do.

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                        • #2292
                          Originally posted by myboynoah View Post
                          Wednesday. It's hilarious.
                          It's adolescent but well done. Our family is loving it for what it is.
                          Dyslexics are teople poo...

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                          • #2293
                            If you like counter terrorism shows like homeland etc, Fauda is one based in israel that is very good

                            season 4 just came out

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                            • #2294
                              If any of you loved Roald Dahl books as a kid, or if you have elementary-aged kids, check out Matilda the Musical on Netflix. After, look up who played the Trunchbull. You’ll be surprised (if you wait).

                              we saw it in the theaters over thanksgiving, and it’s awesome.
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                              • #2295
                                Originally posted by Green Monstah View Post
                                If any of you loved Roald Dahl books as a kid, or if you have elementary-aged kids, check out Matilda the Musical on Netflix. After, look up who played the Trunchbull. You’ll be surprised (if you wait).

                                we saw it in the theaters over thanksgiving, and it’s awesome.
                                That was our favorite play we saw in London. It was so good. On Broadway and in London, Mrs Trunchbull is played by a man. Originally for the movie is was supposed to be Ray Fines, but Covid put production on hold. He would have been so good.

                                The movie was fun, but it skipped 2 of my favorite songs from the stage version.

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