NoJ Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 I haven't seen any trailers.....just being hopeful.... Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 I watched Paradise Lost: Revelations and Paradise Lost: Purgatory last night. that was some heavy shit. i think i liked the first one the best...it certainly had the best access and footage. 2nd really didn't do it for me. i never thought Byers was a likely suspect. it kinda bugged me that there was very little time spent on the kids' alibis, but after reading some more about it, i guess they didn't really have good ones. i am not sure how the confession of a teenager w/ a low 70s IQ that's obtained after interview for ~12 hours w/o a lawyer and only 45 minutes is recorded is worth anything. damn that sentence sucked. Link to post Share on other sites
NoJ Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 I saw that when it came out. Wasn't the stepfather a real creepy guy? Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 totally. i got the sense that the entire city of West Memphis is creepy. Link to post Share on other sites
Beltmann Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 I watched Paradise Lost: Revelations and Paradise Lost: Purgatory last night. The Paradise Lost documentaries are all compelling; it's been fascinating to watch the story twist and turn over the course of three films, with the directors even doubling back and making corrections to their previous work. (I remember seeing the first one when it was first released and being gobsmacked.) The experience deepens, too, when you throw in West of Memphis, a 2012 documentary produced by Peter Jackson that builds on the Lost trilogy. (I watched that just a few weeks ago.) And if you want more still, there's an okay feature film by Atom Egoyan called The Devil's Knot. Even more interesting, there's another feature film in the works called West Memphis Three, directed by--get this--Monte Hellman. Yeah, that Monte Hellman! Link to post Share on other sites
Moss Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 I actually enjoyed the hell out of this movie. Link to post Share on other sites
NoJ Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 "Bad Words" Link to post Share on other sites
uncool2pillow Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Saw Blues Brothers on the big screen tonight at a theater / brew pub. Hot DAMN! I was lucky enough to have my parents take me to that on its original release. I was 9 years old. My twins are 9 now. I don't think they're interested in R-Rated movies in the least. Good beer, great movie, great music, great night. I wanted to get up and dance during the concert scene. Link to post Share on other sites
roadhse ma Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Saw Blues Brothers on the big screen tonight at a theater / brew pub. Hot DAMN! I was lucky enough to have my parents take me to that on its original release. I was 9 years old. My twins are 9 now. I don't think they're interested in R-Rated movies in the least. Good beer, great movie, great music, great night. I wanted to get up and dance during the concert scene. I enjoyed watching it last weekend on cable. Man those guys had more moves onstage than our H.S. basketball team. One of my favorite scenes is Carrie Fisher and Belushi.Footnote the Original House of Blues (1st in the country) was nearby the Charles Hotel. The hotel featured an underground pkg garage.This is where the Blues Brothers Car was kept for many years in the 90's. It was cool to park nearby it, on my way to hear Some Great Blues. Link to post Share on other sites
Beltmann Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Saw Blues Brothers on the big screen tonight at a theater / brew pub. Hot DAMN! I was lucky enough to have my parents take me to that on its original release. I was 9 years old. My twins are 9 now. I don't think they're interested in R-Rated movies in the least. Good beer, great movie, great music, great night. I wanted to get up and dance during the concert scene. Love everything about this. Jealous! Link to post Share on other sites
Chez Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 ^^^ With all due "respect" to Aretha, Otis Redding's version of Respect is my favorite. Great movie. Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 ^^^ With all due "respect" to Aretha, Otis Redding's version of Respect is my favorite. Great movie. A few years ago I was listening to Otis's Respect on Emerson College's radio station and the DJ came on and said "That was Otis Redding covering Aretha Franklin." I had to call and let her know. She seemed grateful, but who knows.And, Otis's version just popped up on iTunes shuffle after I posted that. Awesome. Link to post Share on other sites
Boss_Tweedy Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 Saw "American Sniper" last night. It was so intense that I needed a drink to sleep afterward. Link to post Share on other sites
lost highway Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 I bought myself Adventure Time season 4 on dvd with a Christmas gift card. I think it might be my favorite children's cartoon show ever. The animation, humor, music, all of it is just so good. I can't remember a show making me actually happy like that, but maybe it's from watching too much Dexter. Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 I bought myself Adventure Time season 4 on dvd with a Christmas gift card. I think it might be my favorite children's cartoon show ever. The animation, humor, music, all of it is just so good. I can't remember a show making me actually happy like that, but maybe it's from watching too much Dexter.It is a cool show (that I've never watched a full episode of). My younger kids and wife love it. My wife, her kid, and my youngest were Finn, Jake, some other character, and I was the Ice King for Halloween 2 yrs ago. I had to wear the Ice King costume out with the wife later that night for a concert and ended up tossing the blue frock he wears(I bought a blue Snuggy for it) in the street at like 1 a.m. Go figure. My step kid was some obscure horse from the show for Halloween this year. I think it appeared in one episode only. James Baxter or something like that.We started watching a show called Breaking Bad a couple weeks ago. We're nearing the end of Season 3. It's amazing the trouble the main character can get of. Link to post Share on other sites
smells like flowers Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Watched "Behind the Candelabra," the HBO movie about Liberace and his long-time lover. It was actually pretty good. Link to post Share on other sites
Boss_Tweedy Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 "The Iron Lady" with Meryl Streep. Link to post Share on other sites
Beltmann Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I've been working my way through movies made by BBS Productions, which means revisiting many familiar works like Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces. This one, though, was new to me. Drive, He Said (1971) is a strong work that describes the unforeseen consequences of the counterculture, and it's much different in style than the other two movies later directed by Jack Nicholson. Up next: The Last Picture Show, which I haven't seen for 20 years. Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Tatlock Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 The latest series of French police drama 'Spiral'.Wolf Hall - makes The Tudors look like the crap it was.And this tonight on iPlayerhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04z23vl Link to post Share on other sites
lost highway Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Up next: The Last Picture Show, which I haven't seen for 20 years.So good. I'm due to revisit that one too. And from there maybe some of the better Cassavettes stuff. Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 "Sirens": Season 1 on Netflix.I actually worked transportation on this for a couple of days. Just happy that it turned out to be actually pretty good. Laughed out loud a few times. Link to post Share on other sites
NoJ Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Anybody remember Coppolla's "The Rain People"....James Caan debut....I saw that in Film class 25 years ago. I gotta see that one again. Link to post Share on other sites
Boss_Tweedy Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 "Birdman." I think I need to see it at least once more to understand what I just saw. Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Tatlock Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 And this tonight on iPlayerhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04z23vl Turned out to be pretty interesting. Who knew the Nazis and Bing Crosby would be responsible for the recording industry as we know it. 10 minutes on Brian Wilson recording Good Vibrations with the Wrecking Crew, and the last 10 minutes on the Beatles. Link to post Share on other sites
Beltmann Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 As a history lesson, Last Days in Vietnam is filled with rich human details and astonishing footage classically edited into an informative, compelling story. I can see why it was nominated for the Oscar. (Although I wouldn't let him watch the first half, which concerns combat and some atrocities, my six-year-old son was mesmerized by the second half, which chronicles the attempt to rescue as many South Vietnamese as possible during the Saigon evacuation.) Link to post Share on other sites
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