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Babi · « **Reply #3000 on:** November 18, 2012, 09:13:43 AM »

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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Ironic, no?, that we may need continued friendly relations with China simply because it is huge and has tremendous tracts
of land suitable for landfill? How practical would it be to lase the trash into ashes, I wonder. Would that work, do you
think? Then simply plow it into the soil? Would that be good for the land, or disastrous? Where are our scientific-minded
minds, posters. Is this a good idea and an idiotic notion?

MaryPage · « **Reply #3001 on:** November 18, 2012, 09:57:28 AM »

Babi, I used to rant and rave and carry on about how we have poisoned our air and water and soil. Now I am very old and plagued with ailments, and I have given up and am leaving it to the younger generations. We, as a species, will become extinct unless powers that be get riled up about the fate awaiting their grandchildren and start taking BIG steps to right things.
But Powers That Be have pockets full of cash from the industries that want to increase their profits and want nothing to do with expending time or money on safeguarding our air and water and soil. Powers That Be want the mansion and the world travel and the hobnobbing and the cash strewn retirement.
Powers That Be pontificate that it is all God's Will. They lie, but only a few voices in the wilderness use their Free Wills and Good Sense and speak up like the little child seeing the naked emperor and say that they lie. Push pull, push pull. Our lazy streaks will wipe us out, and I will be too long part of that polluted soil to have my day of rightousness and say I Told You So.

pedln · « **Reply #3002 on:** November 18, 2012, 11:56:18 AM »

Do you think a horrific event like Superstorm Sandy will have any effect on pointing people in the right direction for saving our planet. It seems that since Sandy there have been trickles of "well, maybe there is something to this climate change business."

JoanK, do watch "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" and let us know how it compares with the film.

MaryPage · « **Reply #3003 on:** November 18, 2012, 12:14:10 PM »

Pedln, I am, of course, talking about man made pollution of our air, water and soils, which is a different matter. Yet these questions are cousins to yours, as all lead to extinction of our species and the one you mention may also be a result of air pollution.

It looks from my vantage point, and I listen to the news and read newspapers and magazines with zest, as if those who believe in man made Global Warming recognize the powerful money lined up against them and are now trying to break the problem down into pieces and attack one at a time. They are finding more of the public willing to explore the idea of Climate Change, both because that is an obvious, having always been with us, and because they can say God is the cause and therefore it must be alright.

Once the larger public will at least pay attention to Climate Change, they will start talking about the infeasibility of building on barrier islands and sanddunes right on the waters and consider sanctioning only building permits for land at least 3 feet (for the present) above sea level. This would be a good solid beginning for the human problems that lie ahead.

I, too, believe in a Creator; yet as a student of History I am struck by the fact that we appear to possess Free Will and be the authors of our own fates. If we go extinct, we certainly will follow many other previous species who have reigned on this beautiful blue planet. I guess the bottom line for me, philosophically, is that we can use the gifts we were given and be smart enough to succeed, or we can let stupidity rule and fail in the testing set before us.

Babi · « **Reply #3004 on:** November 19, 2012, 08:27:37 AM »

It is my hope, MARYPAGE, that our instincts for survival will triumph over our stupidity. $:-\$

marjifay · « **Reply #3005 on:** November 19, 2012, 11:33:58 AM »

MaryPage wrote, “Pedln, I am, of course, talking about man made pollution of our air, water and soils, which is a different matter. Yet these questions are cousins to yours, as all lead to extinction of our species and the one you mention may also be a result of air pollution.”

I suppose people just do not want to think that what they are doing is causing climate change. Just as those farmers in the 1920s did not want to think that their plowing up the grasslands would lead to the Dust Bowl. It amazes me that some people are determined to deny what scientists are warning us about.

As to our having free will, Mary, read Sam Harris’ book, FREE WILL. He puts up a good argument that we don’t have free will.

Marj

marjifay · « **Reply #3006 on:** November 19, 2012, 11:40:28 AM »

Getting back to movies (LOL), I just watched, from Netflix, a 1931 version of THE MALTESE FALCON, and loved it! The very handsome Ricardo Cortez played Sam Spade. His leering at women was
fabulous and hilarious. Bebe Daniels plays the femme fatale, Ruth Wonderly, and
she was also great. Now I've put the later Humphrey Bogart/Mary Astor version
on my Netflix queue to re-watch and compare.

Marj

CallieOK · « **Reply #3007 on:** November 19, 2012, 04:56:33 PM »

I am recording the 1948 version of "Anna Karenina" - on TCM tonight, but too late for me to stay up. Seeing this one was probably what inspired me to read the book and do a book report on it for h.s. Senior English.
Looking forward to seeing the version coming out soon, too.

ginny · « **Reply #3008 on:** November 19, 2012, 04:59:49 PM »

I just saw 007 in SkyFall and absolutely loved it. Just loved it. I had not seen Daniel Craig in Casino Royale and now I'm going to have to get it from Netflix.

Loved it! IS it a book? I've never read one of the books either, I bet this one is not one of them.

Anybody seen it?

marcie · « **Reply #3009 on:** November 19, 2012, 05:09:34 PM »

marj, that 1931 Maltese Falcon sounds like fun. I love to do that too....watch different versions of a film.

Ginny, I haven't seen Skyfall but I've heard that Skyfall has Judi Dench's seventh and final appearance in the role of M, the head of MI6 and Bond's commanding officer.

ginny · « **Reply #3010 on:** November 19, 2012, 05:32:38 PM »

I'll never tell.

JeanneP · « **Reply #3011 on:** November 19, 2012, 06:22:36 PM »

Rosemary.

I watched a very good film today. Maybe you even read the book. "An Education" name of film. Sort of took me back to myself at that age. How we wanted to grow up fast. get school over with. I could hardly recognize Emma Thompson and the Head Mistress.

Anyone who has not seen it would enjoy.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #3012 on:** November 20, 2012, 04:58:55 AM »

Jeanne, I have heard of it but not seen it - thanks for the recommendation, I will put it on my LoveFilm list.

Rosemary

Babi · « **Reply #3013 on:** November 20, 2012, 02:00:42 PM »

The Richard Cortez version sounds like fun, MARJ. Bogart, naturally, played it a
bit heavier. Of course, that movie is older than I am, and the only name I recognize
is Bebe Daniels.

I'll wait for a second recommendation on "On Education". The 'coming of age' stories usually
don't interest me anymore. ROSEMARY, do give us another take on it.

JeanneP · « **Reply #3014 on:** November 20, 2012, 05:32:44 PM »

I finished watching "Army Wives" Serial 5 last night. Thought it would end there but looks like there is a "Army Wives 6. Just saw that the library now has the DVD. What number is "Mad Men" up to? Seems like I have had up to Series 4 It should be coming back on TV soon. I don't have that channel.

MaryPage · « **Reply #3015 on:** November 20, 2012, 09:33:57 PM »

I do not believe the new James Bond movie is from a book by author Ian Fleming. In fact, I believe this is not the first Bond movie to be entirely a screen play, but then again, mine is a faulty mind these days and I find myself often mistaken.

This I do know, my second husband and I were nuts about those books by Ian Fleming. We bought the entire set in paperback and ploughed through them nearly as fast as the speed of light.

And we adored the movies. I can still vividly remember going to the drive in in Rockville, Maryland one night with my youngest child, Chip, who is now 48½, in a bassinet in the back seat and watching FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. The music still haunts me.

I am glad James Bond has not died out, but for me there will always be only one legitimate screen Bond: Sean Connery. Bond was not violent or loud. He was smooth as cream and unfailingly polite, clever, brilliant, suave, and perfect. Quietly. I have not seen the new movie, but I hear it is opposite in almost every particular.

I think they should have buried James Bond and had a series of adventures continue featuring another spy from MI6. But I am 83 and entitled to my fond reminiscences. Today belongs to a new and different generation.

Frybabe · « **Reply #3016 on:** November 21, 2012, 06:17:03 PM »

I see that The Life of Pi has been made into a movie. It might be interesting, but I doubt don't see how if can be compared to Avatar.

PatH · « **Reply #3017 on:** November 22, 2012, 07:03:43 PM »

The Life of Pi has gotten very good reviews; I'll be curious to know what people here think of it. I know some of you have read the book, which I have not. The director, Ang Lee, did a super job on a number of very different types of movies; the ones I've seen are Sense and Sensibility, Brokeback Mountain, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, all excellent.

Frybabe · « **Reply #3018 on:** November 23, 2012, 06:48:14 AM »

I read Life of Pi. It is a strange book.

My sister saw Skyfall the other day. She thought is excellent and said it grabs you from the very beginning and doesn't let go.

Babi · « **Reply #3019 on:** November 23, 2012, 03:54:56 PM »

I hadn't planned to request "The Life of Pi" (didn't read the book,either), but if it's as good as
Ang Lee's other films I think I should re-consider. I'm afraid I don't pay enough attention to
who is doing the producing/directing.

JeanneP · « **Reply #3020 on:** November 25, 2012, 03:31:18 PM »

Nothing was worth watching on TV. last night. I did have some Library DVDs. Watched 2. One was Sylvia with Gwyneth Paltrow. She was quite good in it. The other was called "Arranged". It was about 2 families. One Orthodox Jewish and the Other one Muslim. Finding husbands for their daughters. I liked it.
Tonight may be watching PBS as long as they don't keep coming in every 15 min. for donations. Back to a book if they do.

Babi · « **Reply #3021 on:** November 26, 2012, 08:47:44 AM »

And all my favorite day time shows are nothing but re-runs. All these channels, and so few of
them worth watching...for me at least. And yet there are constant ads promoting systems that
promise even more channels. Wrong direction, guys.

marjifay · « **Reply #3022 on:** November 26, 2012, 01:19:32 PM »

I agree with you Babi, not much worth watching on TV. I'm always amazed by people who spend big bucks on a huge TV. All I can think of is that they must be sports fans, which i am not.

Altho, I do like to watch some of the old movies on the Turner classic movie channel, and watched an old James Bond 007 movie the other nite with Sean Connery. I'm not a Bond fan, but Connery did them best, IMO.

And another good one: Appointment with Danger (1951), which is also available from Netflix.
It had a young Jack Webb and Harry Morgan, who later were partners in Dragnet, playing the bad guys! Webb was really great, and so different.

Marj

Tomereader1 · « **Reply #3023 on:** November 26, 2012, 01:43:12 PM »

Hubby and I watched "Ben Hur" on Saturday night. It is a very long movie, and we watched until intermission, then DVR'd the rest to watch Sunday. I DVR'd the "Behind the Scenes" of Downton Abbey, although I'm sure I've seen that before. It will be fun to watch anyway. The networks have gotten football crazy, now they have college ball all day Saturday on three networks (probably on cable too) Then Sunday is Pro ball, which I like to choose which one to watch based on my team favorites. I live in Dallas, but I am a GreenBay fan. GB sure got whacked last night! I also like Pittsburg, but with Rothlisberger out, not too interested. Why don't I root for the Cowboys you ask? Duh! When they get a "coach", and hire some players that are not party-boy, drug users, assault-prone divas, then I might watch them, provided they could win a few games.

PatH · « **Reply #3024 on:** November 26, 2012, 04:02:58 PM »

Goodness, I remember watching Ben Hur when it came out in '59. Is that the one you watched, Tomereader? Quite a spectacle.

I read the book, too, as a teenager--it's long and wordy. I eventually got tired of it, and put it down right in the middle of the big chariot race, without knowing who won, and didn't pick it up again for two weeks. I did eventually finish it.

Tomereader1 · « **Reply #3025 on:** November 26, 2012, 05:23:44 PM »

Yes, it was the 1959 version with Charlton Heston. I was also interested in the lady who played Esther, Haya Harareet (sp). On ImDb, it does not indicate that she has passed on, so she would be 81 according to their bio information.
My hubby and I were dating when this came out, and we went to see it at a late showing. And therein lies a tale, which I can relate later if anyone is interested. Basically, it proved to be the incident that got us married! Hee, hee.

JeanneP · « **Reply #3026 on:** November 26, 2012, 06:59:57 PM »

OH!Oh! should we really know this? I just can't guess what it could be. O.K tell us.

Maybe we should have a guessing game first.

PatH · « **Reply #3027 on:** November 26, 2012, 10:44:53 PM »

Gee, it was a better movie than I realized.

Babi · « **Reply #3028 on:** November 27, 2012, 08:54:56 AM »

Val and I watched a movie called "Lockout" briefly last night. She had ordered it because
the previews looked like it would be an exciting sci-fi film. Oh, my, it was so bad. Nearly
every scene I was saying, What?!!! Ah, come on! No way! I mean, can you imagine a
secret service agent, supposedly top-notch since he is assigned to the President's daughter,
behaving in a way that the rawest rookie would know better? Or a bunch of hardened criminals NOT killing a violent maniac who was ruining everything for them, just because he was the leaders' brother? What I need here is a 'thumbs down' icon.

Tomereader1 · « **Reply #3029 on:** November 27, 2012, 01:34:05 PM »

The story of our seeing Ben Hur originally: As I said we went to a late showing. Not much seating left in theatre, so we were about five/six rows back from the screen (much too close). In the scene, after the chariot race, where Masala is surely dying and his physician wishes to amputate his legs, there was a wide shot, and you could see the awful, awful bloodiness of his wrecked legs, I became nauseous. I don't do blood well! I went to the ladies room, and for some reason they had left about a two foot square of tile projecting out into the carpeted area. At the point of entrance, I fainted, fell to the tile, and split my chin open. Since everyone in the theatre seemed to be forgoing restroom breaks, I lay there for a bit, finally got up and made it to the sink, and was washing away the blood with paper towels, trying to stanch the flow from the hanging flap on my chin. Finally, a lady came in, said oh, my goodness, can I help you? I told her to go to the 5th or sixth row, down front, center aisle, and get my date, Bob, to come get me. She did, and he was shocked. He wanted to take me directly to the emergency room, but I told him since it was so late, and my mother would have a fit if she were called from a hospital, we drove to my house, and the 3 of us set off for the emergency room. That is a story in itself, but after having to go another hospital's ER, I finally got 16 stitches in the chin, bandaged up, and he took us home. He was mine forever after that experience! So tender and caring was he, even won my mom's heart! After dating for a few months, we go married. Still together after 51 years. (I still have a very faint scar on the chin!) So that is the story. As we watched the other night, he said "I don't remember this at part at all". To which I reminded him that at that part, we were probably in the ER getting me sewn up!
Now is that a strange "meet cute" or what? !! LOL

JoanK · « **Reply #3030 on:** November 27, 2012, 03:26:56 PM »

Not what you would have chosen, but it resulted in a good marraige. So hey, whatever works!

PatH · « **Reply #3031 on:** November 27, 2012, 03:48:16 PM »

What a wonderful story, Tomereader, thanks for sharing--both touching and amusing. Somehow, I have a feeling you two would have married anyway, but that certainly clinched it.

I hope you hid your eyes during the amputation scene this time.

Tomereader1 · « **Reply #3032 on:** November 27, 2012, 05:23:17 PM »

Now, PatH, the difference in the original movie screening (and I am sure there are many) and the TV version, was that there was no "wide shot", so Masala's ruined legs were not seen at all! Thank goodness! And Masala never made it thru to the amputation scene) But, after having two children, and tending to all their scrapes, cuts, lacerations, I have gotten a wee bit steadier with seeing blood, as long as it's something I have to tend to. But I still do not care for bloody, gory movies and can barely watch "Bones" and sometimes, CSI, on TV.

P. S. - I feel sure there was a good deal of "editing" done on the movie, as even the chariot race seemed "choppy" in places and not near as long as the original.

marcie · « **Reply #3033 on:** November 27, 2012, 08:25:09 PM »

That's a great story, tomereader. After not wanting to deal with the blood on the screen, you suffered your own bleeding wound. I'm glad your story had such a happy ending.

Babi · « **Reply #3034 on:** November 28, 2012, 08:46:33 AM »

Ditto, TOME. I hope you've told your children this great story of how Mom and Dad met.

MaryPage · « **Reply #3035 on:** November 28, 2012, 09:15:19 AM »

You know, it just shows to go ya that there are real life scenarios that exist that NO writer could possibly think up, and if they tried they could not do as good a job as real life does.

Well, now I have a story that will pop up in my head every time anyone says Ben Hur!

A GREAT story!

Tomereader1 · « **Reply #3036 on:** November 28, 2012, 11:53:43 AM »

And just to clarify, this was not how we MET, but roughly our second or third actual "date". Bob was such a "worker bee" that he was doing two jobs, and rarely could get the time off to go out. My BFF
introduced us, and we would "double date" with that couple. Mostly, Bob would come over to my house after finishing his late job, sit on our couch, and fall asleep. (The shape of things to come, I'm afraid!!) I would wake him about 10:30 or 11:00 and send him home. So what happens when we finally get a chance to go out on our own? Boom - - you might say "I really fell for him". Ha, ha, ha.
Life tends to throw us curves every now and again!
Mary Page, you're free to tell the tale should "Ben Hur" ever pop up into your conversations! Glad all here seemed to enjoy my story.

bellemere · « **Reply #3037 on:** November 29, 2012, 11:08:09 AM »

New here to this board but dying to hear come comment on "Lincoln
, amazing performance by Daniel Day Leiwiis and perceptive direction by spielberg. Linconl was not a saint, but a human being, capable of questionable judgment, odious compromises, even bribes, in his effort to get the 13th amendment, outlawoing slavery, signed before the end of the war. It is by far the best movie I have seen in years!

pedln · « **Reply #3038 on:** November 29, 2012, 11:31:02 AM »

Tomereader, what a fantastic true story. Loved it. You know, I’ve never seen the movie or read the book, but I think it’s time to watch it now. And you know what I’ll be thinking of, and which scene I’ll be looking for, and for which scene I’ll close my eyes.

Babi, thanks for the “thumbs down” on Lockout. It sounds really bad.

Lots of activity going on here. Great. I’ve been on the road, and when at my son’s had computer problems with trouble getting online. Finally home and ready to catch up. Ready to put your recommends in my Netflix queue – Skyfall and Maltese Falcon (it’s older than me too, Babi) and maybe Life of Pi. I’ve never seen a James Bond movie, but if Judy Dench is in it, for sure it’ll be on my list.

I watched Moonrise Kingdom over the weekend. Hokey, but a very sweet film, with elements of humor. Three Netflix stars.

JeanneP, Netflix tells me I watched An Education two years ago. I guess I liked it because I gave it four stars, but really don’t remember much about it. Why is it that some things stick and others don’t?

Bellemere,it's good to see you here and glad to hear your assessment of Lincoln. My son and DIL saw it and also thought it was excellent.

JeanneP · « **Reply #3039 on:** November 29, 2012, 08:14:43 PM »

Pedlin.

On "An Education". Does this make you remember a little?

A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.

I watch so many films on DVD anymore that I forget I have watched them after awhile. Always getting them again.

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