What Was The Last Movie You Saw? Welcome Cinephiles.

[Jet]

Originally Posted by Queenie

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Director:
Jean-Marc Vallée
Writers:
Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack

quote: Rog: Who the hell’s Rock Hudson?

Clint: He’s an actor, dumbass. Haven’t you seen North By Northwest?

Great lines (but not my pick for Best Picture.) Screenplay maybe because it's nominated. Every Best Picture nominee is nominated for writing in each category as original work or as an adaptation, Before Midnight being the exception. I've seen every nominated film for Best Picture and they all have incredible writing and production, but grim and depressing is the theme this year—at full throttle— apart from Philomena and The Wolf of Wall Street, a filthy account from Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter, which drops the F-bomb more than any other film in history. On the flip side, they are my favorite collaborators on Boardwalk Empire. I appreciate the impetus behind creating these films, which is varied, along with their meticulous details. But personally, I've had my fill, all year, of heavy in raunchy true stories (Jason Belfort,), gritty realism (Dallas Buyers Club and American Hustle,) brutality (12 Years A Slave), sadness and dysfunction (August: Osage County), ruination (Blue Jasmine.) and scary shit from (Gravity.) Time to crack open a couple of 6-packs, relax and take a break from all the gunk portrayed in movies this year. I'm coming up for air.

Add movies like Halle Barry in the The Call and Side Effects with Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones (which have nothing to do with the Oscars), and you have the straws that broke the camel's back. (I run to Downton Abbey and animal documentaries and fun stories and movies about heroism.)

If you would like to share your vote for the heck of it, please feel free. I've opened the thread The 86th Annual Academy Awards. I hope you'll take advantage of the thread and all information inside. See ya at the movies.

[SoulShineFemme]

I watched Last Vegas with ONLY and her sweet boy last night. It was cute.

[Jet]

Originally Posted by SoulShineFemme

I watched Last Vegas with ONLY and her sweet boy last night. It was cute.

Very cute movie—and refreshing—with great actors. It's a keeper.

[mountainbikedyke]

We watched Dallas Buyer's Club. Great movie!

[Jet]

Keeper of the Flame (1942)
Caught (1949)

[Jet]

Company of Heroes (2013)

[C0LLETTE]

Kobayashi's "Kwaidan"

[Jet]

Of the more digestible movies I've seen without Rx-strength Nexium and Prilosec are The Butler and All Is Lost, man's plight against the sea and the odds of surviving her with Robert Redford. Both films and their actors are snubbed by the Oscars. Your guess is as good as mine as to why.

After a steady diet of negative stories this year, Saving Mr. Banks comes in as the last surprise irritant. "Just A Spoonful of Sugar ...makes the medicine go down" didn't work with me as I tried to digest Emma Thompson as the irritating P.L. Travers, author of Mary Poppins. Emma Thompson, who is excellent as all get-out, plays a demanding, unyielding writer with all the emotion of a walking ironing board who challenges Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) and his staff, at every turn, in their efforts to produce his version of Travers' classic book. You will want to reach in and strangle Thompson at points in this flick along with Disney's staff.

After getting on my last nerve, I shoved in a DVD of Lee Marvin in the Dirty Dozen and left "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" to history in one of Walt Disney's greatest creative achievements over creative differences and P.L. Travers' demands. It was a battle from the get-go.