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Oh, the last movie I saw at home was "The Circle" is that current enough?

I thought it fell flat. There's was nothing wrong with it, but the ending didn't fit well, and while I love Emma Watson, she wasn't able to adequately portray the characters inner thoughts, or maybe it was the writing. Either way, it was difficult to discern where that character stood during the movie and left the ending being meaningless.

It was easy and enjoyable enough to watch but felt very empty. I think this movie had a ton more potential.
 
drumstick diva said:
Saw the Star Wars movie "The Last Jedi." yesterday. We got to our area show early, I was first in line, with just a handful of others coming out of their cars to join me. Theatre wasn't open yet. No pushing or shoving just a nice peaceful group except for screeching kids.

I have intensely disliked all Star Wars movies. I have to say I really ENJOYED this one.
My son(32) felt he had to admonish me anyway. He said I only liked it so much because I didn't know any of the back story. Duh!
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Let me guess, it was the porg, right? :love
 
Nope. I didn't know what was going on but, it kept moving. I told my son I really liked one of the characters - don't remember his name. My son said "He got hundreds killed by his decisions." He did? Oh well what can I say?:idunno
 
When's the last time you were at a movie and the audience applauded at the end ? Today we saw "The Post", and the audience applauded. We will both go 4 + on this. Great performances by Hanks and Streep. Freedom of the press must never be impinged.
 
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When's the last time you were at a movie and the audience applauded at the end ?
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Last year at one of the older movies they show at my local cinema. I can't remember which one it was, could have been Kill Bill.
Thanks for the feedback, it looked good on the trailer. I could watch Meryl and Tom wash their socks, they are always so good.
 
I saw "Swingin Safari". It's hard to review this one. I laughed, but it's hard to know whether it would appeal to anyone outside Australia who doesn't "get" our really "lowest-common-denominator-and-extremely-bad-taste" ability to laugh at ourselves and to poke fun at things that really aren't funny and also whether it was because I am old enough to have been around to remember the 1970s and things like kids wearing plastic icecream containers as hats when they rode their bikes to school so the swooping magpies didn't peck their heads (seriously, kids today don't know how good they have it, getting driven everywhere in airconditioned cars).

It's the reminiscences/made up poke at the 1970s of the director Stephan Elliott. His 14-y-o self is armed with a super 8 camera and spends much of his time filming his mates trying to kill themselves with unbelievably dangerous stunts while their parents let the kids run rampant. He likes the girl next door, a sensitive girl who just doesn't "fit" her family. The parents are a mess, the kids are a mess.

It's got a lot of well-known aussie actors, guy pearce, julian mcmahon, jack thompson, asher keddie (she's in a very successful tv series and just about everything else on tv), kylie minogue. The actors who play the kids are all good. They all seem to be having fun and do a good job of it. Kylie was surprisingly good as one of the neighbours who spends her days drinking diet cola laced with copious amounts of vodka. Not a huge part, but some of her facial expressions really hit the mark for me.

There's a fair bit of vulgarity and some WAY over-the-top black/inappropriate humour.

I don't know whether they'll be releasing this overseas or how well it will do if they do. I liked it, despite its flaws. The bits that did work worked very well and overall I found it funny and with enough "heart" to justify seeing it.
 
We watched The Mountain Between Us yesterday. It's a thriller from 2017. A "romance survival drama" ;)

We didn't like the acting and the story felt pretty flat too... I'd rate it with a 4/10, Thumbs down.

 

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