Author Topic: Movies & Books Into Movies (Read 591799 times)

MaryPage · « **Reply #1680 on:** June 09, 2011, 02:53:22 PM »

So many movies – how do you choose what to watch?
Reviews? Recommendations? Actors? Availability?
Do you choose a movie the same way you choose a book?

And where do you like to watch most of your movies?
Do you stream movies from Netflix and other places?
Where’s the strangest place you’ve ever watched a film?

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We got a dog back in 1969 who was half beagle and half pointer and we named her Elizabeth Taylor and called her Lizzie. She was a great dog.

Octavia · « **Reply #1681 on:** June 09, 2011, 07:08:04 PM »

Rosemary kaye, I'm still chuckling about the antics of your cat

I've just been to see Roxane, Roshanarose. What gorgeous photos you have, I envy you for having these experiences. I'll go back and linger awhile later.
She certainly is an aristocratic lady. Born to rule

I just remembered one of my favourite movies, My Year Without Sex with Sacha Horler and Matt Day(Australian). Everytime I mention this movie to people I can see the change come over their faces. I have to say very quickly, it's NOT about sex. It's just a lovely warm story about family life, dealing with the stress of a mother recovering from a brain aneuryism.
Not depressing and not about sex. The goldfish burial was hilarious.

roshanarose · « **Reply #1682 on:** June 09, 2011, 10:27:52 PM »

Mmmmmm - Johnny Depp. I would like to hang him on a coathanger in my wardrobe and bring him out for special occasions (evil grin). Yeah - I am allowed to be sexist.

Babi - Despite having a beautiful name and looking like a princess, Roxana does not like to be tampered with. The last naughty thing she did was bite one vet assistant's stomach, and scratch the vet. At the vets they now call her Doctor Jekyll and Ms Hyde. That precious plump and fluffy ball of cuteness with those huge silver eyes is not always what she seems.

I have also had cats called Zenobia (a remarkable Abby); Fengari (Modern Greek for Moon); Seti (my Long lived Siamese - he died when he was 21) named after an Egyptian Pharaoh; Ripley (named after the heroine in "Alien" the brave Sigourney Weaver); and my darling Simbi (from Swahili for Lion - Simba) not the musical. I also had a cat called Oedipuss who I wrote about in an earlier post. I think that Zenobia certainly lived up to her noble namesake; and Oedipuss did love me.... As for Roxana Taj, she just tolerates me living in "her" space. She considers herself cat royalty, obviously. The other day I looked up a cat behavioural site about aggro pusses. Evidently these pusses take being "territorial" to the extreme, and may hiss and growl at their owners for no apparent reason. I spoke a bit harshly to her a couple of days ago about not eating all her food, and she hissed and growled and did a lot of lurking around. She does this, but knows that the punishment would be dire if ever she harmed me. Like a night outside!! Did I add that I love her

Thanks Olivia. A star she is. The Greek Pix are my pride.

Sex - what's that

Babi · « **Reply #1683 on:** June 10, 2011, 08:51:53 AM »

AH, ROSEMARY, you bring back a memory. Animals may not talk, but they most definitely
can communicate. Years ago we had an adventurous (unneutered) Tom cat. One day he turns
up at the front door, accompanied by a very pregnant, obviusly lower class alley cat.
He looked me straight in the eye and pled, "I'm responsible! You've got to Do Something!",
(to borrow your phrase).
I did take her in until the kittens were born and weaned, but she never became what you
could call domesticated. She left and I found homes for the kittens we didn't keep.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #1684 on:** June 10, 2011, 10:13:11 AM »

Babi, that is a lovely story, and immediately made me think of The Lady and The Tramp - we love that film, especially the song of the Siamese cats ("We are Siamese if you please; we are Siamese if you don't please" - just about sums my two up

Rosemary

pedln · « **Reply #1685 on:** June 10, 2011, 10:15:23 AM »

I had an aunt who was scared to death of cats. Terrorized and traumatized was more like it. She had been known to stand on tables in public places if she saw a cat. And all her friends and family knew to keep their cats away from Aunt Kack. One time she went to a party and after laying her coat in the hostess' bedroom, came out and said, "your cat in there looks almost real" Oops. "It is."

We didn't have a cat, but when she was coming to visit us, I made sure my small children knew to keep the neighborhood cats away and out of sight. She had barely entered the house when my son, who was about 2 at the time, took her hand, led her to the patio doors, pointed, and said, "kitty, kitty, kitty." It's a wonder she stayed for her visit.

PatH · « **Reply #1686 on:** June 10, 2011, 11:28:23 AM »

Hugo Weaving doesn't seem to let himself be typecast: a cross-dressing entertainer, the wise and heroic king of the elves, and an outstanding classic sci-fi villain. He was great in all 3.

In LOTR, David Wenham's character (Faramir) marries Miranda Otto's character (Eowyn).

PatH · « **Reply #1687 on:** June 10, 2011, 11:31:14 AM »

Rosemary, that Siamese cat song is one of those tunes that get stuck in my head. Now I'll be humming it all day.

JoanK · « **Reply #1688 on:** June 10, 2011, 09:13:20 PM »

MIPPY: where did you go to grad school. Maybe we crossed paths.

Mippy · « **Reply #1689 on:** June 12, 2011, 02:31:57 PM »

off subject again, sorry
JoanK ~ I went to Georgetown Univ. for about 4 years, starting in 1980, in the Biology Dept.
That was not after college, but much much later. College was class of '62! We lived in the D.C. area,
some of the time in the city, some out in the MD suburbs. When my youngest went to off college, we moved to FL,
which was altogether about 16 years in the D.C. area.

JoanK · « **Reply #1690 on:** June 12, 2011, 07:18:07 PM »

Mippy: at that time, I was at American University in the Sociology department, also living in the Maryland suburbs (North of Gaithersburg). Also returning as an older student.

roshanarose · « **Reply #1691 on:** June 12, 2011, 10:19:41 PM »

PatH and JoanK - How lovely you can spend a week together. I always wanted a sister, but got a brother instead. A very busy brother. He is three years older than I, and is still working, as is his wife. He lives in Sydney too, so is a fair distance from me. I hope you have a lovely time together.

We are Siamese if you please
We are Siamese if you don't please
We are former residents of Siam
There is no finer cat than I am

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/l/lady_and_the_tramp/#share

Lady and the Tramp was one of my favourite movies too. I loved animal movies when I was small, but used to cry if an animal was hurt or treated badly in any way. I am still the same.

Frybabe · « **Reply #1692 on:** June 12, 2011, 10:34:53 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL9hooe-yKQ

I couldn't resist. I used to have a Siamese.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #1693 on:** June 13, 2011, 01:45:47 AM »

Frybabe - thanks so much for posting that, I have just watched it (at 6.30am!) and it has already brightened up my day! I still think it's a brilliant feat of animation, even in these days of CGI, and the voices are just wonderful.

Roshanarose - I was and am exactly the same. I have never read Black Beauty, nor even seen Dumbo, and as for Bambi

If I am thinking of buying a book in a charity shop that looks like an animal might feature, I have to skip to the back and make sure there isn't a eulogy to it.

An author whom I read and read in my teenage years, and have recently read again, is Doreen Tovey. She wrote a series of books about her life in a Devon cottage with her long suffering husband and her Siamese cats. She had a number of these over her long life (she only died a couple of years ago if I remember rightly), and a donkey also features at one point. You either like her style of writing or you don't, but my mother and I absolutely love her, and I know she is immensely popular. The first one is called "Cats In The Belfry", and there are many others, including "Cats In May". They are very funny books, very warm.

http://www.life-with-siamese-cats.com/doreen-tovey.html

Rosemary

Octavia · « **Reply #1694 on:** June 13, 2011, 06:58:39 AM »

I totally understand you, Rosemary. I saw the Yearling when I was a little girl and was absolutely traumatised.
I can't watch or read anything with animal cruelty in it. My sister wants to talk about it to relieve her anger and disgust, but I have to shush her.

roshanarose · « **Reply #1695 on:** June 13, 2011, 09:46:57 PM »

Rosemary - Thanks for telling me about that site. It is lovely. My Siamese, Seti, was a lilac point and was described by a friend as a "pearl" point. Seti was so faithful - all the qualities mentioned on the site epitomised him. He died when he was 20, and even then he didn't want to leave us.

pedln · « **Reply #1696 on:** June 16, 2011, 10:03:10 AM »

Have you all been keeping up with AMC's The Killing?

I understand the season finale is this coming Sunday. What do you think? Will they rap it up, or will it be another "who shot JR?"

marcie · « **Reply #1697 on:** June 16, 2011, 10:25:06 AM »

I have been watching The Killing. I think they'll wrap it up but I understand that the focus of the story is supposed to be the affects on everyone involved more so than a "who done it." My guess, and it's just a guess, is that it's going to be someone we haven't met yet in the story.

Mippy · « **Reply #1698 on:** June 16, 2011, 11:25:22 AM »

Thanks for the link to the Siamese cat song, which I just sent to my daughter, who has 2 Siamese cats, Guinness and Tessy.

MaryPage · « **Reply #1699 on:** June 16, 2011, 06:29:35 PM »

This is not MEANT to be a spoiler, but in the event it turns out to be, please skip this re The Killing.

Early on I felt I could not bear to go through all the episodes and not know who done it. I always read the last chapters of a mystery before I read the whole thing. Living with suspense is not one of my virtues.

So I went on line and google searched the Danish version. It had been my understanding that the American one was the same, only 13 episodes instead of 20 and a different country and city.

In the Danish one, Forbrydelsen, which won the BAFTA award, beating out all of the British and American competition, the assistant to Rosie's father is the killer. Do you remember in the very first episode where he is quite nasty to some Middle Easterners they do a job of moving for, and if I remember correctly, he refers to them as "ragheads?" Well, apparently he thought Rosie was dating one and that curdled his senses and made him murderous. At least, that is how I read the plot outline I found of the Danish Forbrydelsen, and I watched The Killing for weeks thinking I knew who the killer was.

Then, a couple of weeks ago, I read to my great distress that the writers had CHANGED the killer in the American version just so no one would know until the last episode. If that is true, I know no more than you do as to who it is. The 12th episode seemed to end with the finger pointing to the city councilman who is running for the job of Mayor.

pedln · « **Reply #1700 on:** June 16, 2011, 07:48:58 PM »

MaryPage, my eyes are closed. I'll read your post next Monday morning.

Babi · « **Reply #1701 on:** June 17, 2011, 08:35:42 AM »

I watched "The Killing" for several episodes, and then decided it was
just too depressing. My daughter is finishing it, tho'.

jeriron · « **Reply #1702 on:** June 17, 2011, 10:36:49 AM »

I really like "the killing" and am happy to hear it's going into a second season. also that Rosie's parents will be in the second season as well. I. Didn't know that the killer was changed from the Danish show. I wanted to get it on DVD but Netflix doesn't have it.

maryPage did you see it or just read about it?

MaryPage · « **Reply #1703 on:** June 17, 2011, 11:13:47 AM »

Just read about it, and you know as well as I that you cannot fully trust everything you read on this world wide web.

I, too, tried to get the movie and failed.

Forbrydelsen: I have just read that the Danes DID have a second season of Forbrydelsen and are now into their THIRD. Maybe they will be available on DVD one day; who knows.

marcie · « **Reply #1704 on:** June 17, 2011, 11:16:11 AM »

It's going into a second season? I wonder what it will be about? I hadn't seen the second-to-last episode of this season until last evening. I can't believe who they are pointing to as the killer. I hope it's a mis-direction.

MaryPage · « **Reply #1705 on:** June 17, 2011, 11:23:53 AM »

Me, too, Marcie; I have been liking him.

Found no place American that sells the Danish series, but it is available here: http://www.bbcshop.com/drama+arts/the-killing-dvd/invt/fcd534/ and the price is too steep for me. Hoping though that I will get to see it one day.

MaryPage · « **Reply #1706 on:** June 17, 2011, 11:36:10 AM »

Ah ha! Just had a thought: I'll bet this BBC UK product is the English dubbed one that was so acclaimed in Great Britain and the DVD only works on their machines. For those of you who do not know, British DVDs do NOT WORK on our DVD players. They have to be re-somethingorothered to work on American machines. And my guess is that this has not been done yet, but WILL be.

And I expect that, at least at first, this English-dubbed Forbrydelsen, which they are calling The Killing even though the word really translates as The Crime, will cost the moon because it is 20 hours, less commercial time, long!

marcie · « **Reply #1707 on:** June 18, 2011, 12:28:30 AM »

There is an un-dubbed preview of Episode 1 of Forbrydelsen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLKqomHEkqY. The couple of minutes I watched was similar in plot to the English version.

jeriron · « **Reply #1708 on:** June 18, 2011, 08:35:28 AM »

Marcie

Thanks for posting that UTube. It was interesting to watch.

MaryPage I've been considering getting a Region 2 DVD player. Then ordering Some DVDs from Amazon UK. They are usually a lot cheaper then they are here. It usually shows the price in Euros and I'm not up to what the exchange rate is. So still trying to decide if it's worth the trouble.

MaryPage · « **Reply #1709 on:** June 18, 2011, 01:17:49 PM »

You can go on line and google search Today's Dollar Exchange Rate and then find it from a list. If you order directly from Amazonuk, they will charge you the rate of the day you order.

jeriron · « **Reply #1710 on:** June 18, 2011, 02:47:56 PM »

Thanks for the info MaryPage.

pedln · « **Reply #1711 on:** June 18, 2011, 06:58:07 PM »

jeriron, did you mention before that you use captions when watching DVDs? If you do order from the UK, be sure they have captions. The British are getting better about it, but they don't always include them.

Maybe it all depends on who puts out the media. I emailed Acorn Media complaining about the lack of captions for Midsomer Murders, and they wrote back that they now have them from Set No. 12 on.

MaryPage · « **Reply #1712 on:** June 18, 2011, 07:04:13 PM »

Excellent advice. I have had that problem, too. Closed captioning or subtitles are an absolute must for me now that I have gotten so deaf.

jeriron · « **Reply #1713 on:** June 18, 2011, 10:13:34 PM »

CC and sub.titles are the first thing I check for on any DVD. I've noticed that Acorn is beginning to add CC to a lot of their DVds now. I guess they got the message.

Babi · « **Reply #1714 on:** June 19, 2011, 09:28:06 AM »

Oh, that's good to hear, PEDLN. I was interested in the Midsomer Murders and most irritated that they didn't have CC. I wonder if my library has continued taking buying them and has Set 12+? I do hope so. I'll need to check Netflix as well.

MaryPage · « **Reply #1715 on:** June 19, 2011, 11:24:07 PM »

http://blogs.amctv.com/the-killing/talk/2011/06/episode-13-open-thread.php

I am SO mad! The writers of THE KILLING, American version, must have decided their show was such a smash hit they would throw a wrench in the works and NOT let us know at the end of Day 13, as promised, who killed Rosie.

So now, instead of giving us the answers at the end of Season One for the Rosie killing and beginning Season Two with a brand new murder to solve, they are continuing the Larson murder over into Season Two. No wonder someone in here read that Rosie's parents were going to appear in the Season Two episodes! I couldn't figure that one until now.

Hugely disappointed and cross. Bah Humbug!

Wow! If you go to the AMC The Killing official site and scroll down to read all of the comments pouring in, everyone is mad. Blistering mad! I have not registered to comment, but there are plenty of people venting my own feelings.

MaryPage · « **Reply #1716 on:** June 20, 2011, 06:51:00 AM »

If any of you are as angry as I that AMC did not fulfil their promise and reveal the killer in the 13th (and supposed to be last episode), you can email your protest to:

amccustomerservice@rainbow-media.com

marjifay · « **Reply #1717 on:** June 20, 2011, 10:26:44 AM »

Saw the movie SUPER 8 last night at a drive-in theater, because it had gotten super reviews.
Our verdict: AWFUL! Boring, dumb dialogue, dumb plot, lots of very noisy special technical effects. Perhaps 14 or 15-year-olds would like it. (We left after the first hour)
Back to the films on my Netflix queue.

I haven't watched THE KILLING. Sounds as if you were really into it, MaryPage. Too bad the ending disappointed you.

Marge

maryz · « **Reply #1718 on:** June 20, 2011, 10:27:45 AM »

I got Steve Martin's "Shopgirl" from Netflix. After 15-20 minutes, I quit - didn't care about either of the characters introduced by then.

salan · « **Reply #1719 on:** June 20, 2011, 01:41:02 PM »

Mary Page, I am also furious. I couldn't believe the ending. Talk about false advertising!! They kept promising to reveal the shocking ending. Well, it was shocking. I couldn't believe they ended the season with a cliff hanger. We were promised an ending and didn't get it. Right now I am so disgusted that I don't think that I will even watch season 2. I feel duped~
Sally

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