Current Movies - Thumbs UP or Thumbs DOWN

[sourland]

Milo and I share the same birthday - a few years later on his part. Yep, a 'man crush' started with his character on 'This is Us'. 'Jack' is my hero.

 

[sourland]

Perfidy = treachery. In this case on the part of a family member making things even worse.

 

[drumstick diva]

Saw your movie Sour, "Racing in the Rain." I can see why it would have affected you and Princess so much - after losing Dani.

You have a man crush and I have a woman crush on Milo. My gosh he hasn't aged a day since he was on Heroes at least 10 years ago. What a hunk!

Brother and I really liked the movie, that dog(dogs?) was a great actor. I really believed I could hear his thoughts. Too red though I believe for a Golden?

Our neighbors across the street had a huge, houndy looking dog, almost orange colored. I asked them what breed. When they said "Labrador," - all I could think was somebody really screwed them. Plus which he'd come over to check me out and then growl. He also pissed on the mailbox post daily. Including when I had food in a bag for the mail carriers
Strike out Hunger program. Nothing about him suggested Labrador.

 

[luckyjack]

Akira - the Japanese anime.

I’ve watched this many times but it’s only now that I can be honest and say it’s actually not that exciting. Definitely worth watching if you haven’t seen it but otherwise 3/5.

 

[Willowspirit]

I watched an old documentary. It was old but fascinating. It is about the woman who crashed her van going the wrong way on Taconic Parkway and killed seven people and herself. What a bare study of the human condition! It’s called “There’s Something Wrong with Aunt Diane.”

4.5/5.0

 

[ronott1]

I watched an old documentary. It was old but fascinating. It is about the woman who crashed her van going the wrong way on Taconic Parkway and killed seven people and herself. What a bare study of the human condition! It’s called “There’s Something Wrong with Aunt Diane.”

4.5/5.0

I will look that one up!

 

[luckyjack]

Bumblebee - 7/10 Held off on this one but watched over the weekend. Such a shame the franchise didn't take this course from the start. Still couldn't quite bring themselves to pay true homage IMO but close enough for it not to bother me.

 

[Peep_Show]

ROCKETMAN

Watched "Rocketman" with my Monday Movie Matinee group. I actually liked it better than "Bohemian Rhapsody." More music, LOTS of dancing (a few of the songs truly got a Bollywood treatment), fabulous costumes, and an interesting (if not dramatically indulgent) take on Elton John's life and history. (Spoiler alert: Music bent to timeline and not quite accurate if you want a historical film.) So much familiar music that created a vortex back to my high school days and I happily bopped along to the tunes in my seat. The major distraction was somebody a couple of rows back decided to sing-along and, really, had no clue what the lyrics were.

The uptake theorem of the film was that in order to love yourself you have to realize that everybody has flaws -- self included, so don't hate yourself in the process -- and you needn't be a people pleaser to be whole or loved, just find the right people to cherish. In this film Sir Elton had a lot of the wrong people in his orbit that he hung too much importance on. But, hey, if he were a happy well-adjusted bloke there wouldn't be a storyline and it'd just be a long music video.
(Issues of homosexuality and identity confusion, extremely cold and unencouraging parents, the downfalls of excess.)

 

[drumstick diva]

I saw that when it first came out - loved it. Tarron Eggerton was great in the role of Elton.

 

[Willowspirit]

I definitely want to see it. Elton’s music was more important in my life than I really understood at the time.