Girl Boss --- just watched the 1-season series on Netflix as a very light comedy this week. Thought it was pretty good but came to realize it didn't get renewed as most people found the lead actress to be very unlikeable. Personally, I thought she was pretty funny and the sarcasm throughout the show was really good. Oh Well !!

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Let the fear porn, begin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eADiVyzp0JI

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"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."

John Wick.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGuW-jaco8M

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You know trouble is right around the corner when your best friend tells you to hold his beer!!

I just watched Oppenheimer and have to say it was a disappointment. There was not enough effort put into character development or explanation. The bouncing timeline (there's a word for that which escapes me right now) could be confusing at times and the unceasing background music was distracting.

Years ago, I started to read American Prometheus but never finished it. I violated my personal standard of reading the book before watching the movie and I regret it.

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I just watched Oppenheimer and have to say it was a disappointment. There was not enough effort put into character development or explanation. The bouncing timeline (there's a word for that which escapes me right now) could be confusing at times and the unceasing background music was distracting.

Years ago, I started to read American Prometheus but never finished it. I violated my personal standard of reading the book before watching the movie and I regret it.

Yeah I watched it the other night.  I like Chris Nolan movies and I realize this was a historical drama vs the fiction he normally directs, but this movie was a dud to me. I’ve heard it’s better on re-watch, but I have very little enthusiasm to sit through it again.

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I watched Kagemusha a few nights ago. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagemusha

"Kagemusha (影武者, Shadow Warrior) is a 1980 epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class criminal who is taught to impersonate the dying daimyō Takeda Shingen to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan. Kagemusha is the Japanese term for a political decoy, literally meaning "shadow warrior". The film ends with the climactic 1575 Battle of Nagashino.[5]"

There's an interesting tie-in with the upcoming mini-series "Shogun."  One of the opposing warlords in Kagemusha is Tokugawa Eiyasu.  The character Toranaga in Shogun is based on the historical person Tokugawa Eiyasu.

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I just watched Oppenheimer and have to say it was a disappointment. There was not enough effort put into character development or explanation. The bouncing timeline (there's a word for that which escapes me right now) could be confusing at times and the unceasing background music was distracting.

Years ago, I started to read American Prometheus but never finished it. I violated my personal standard of reading the book before watching the movie and I regret it.

I've heard a lot of people say Oppenheimer was disappointing.  Mostly they said it was boring.

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I just watched Oppenheimer and have to say it was a disappointment. There was not enough effort put into character development or explanation. The bouncing timeline (there's a word for that which escapes me right now) could be confusing at times and the unceasing background music was distracting.

Years ago, I started to read American Prometheus but never finished it. I violated my personal standard of reading the book before watching the movie and I regret it.

I've heard a lot of people say Oppenheimer was disappointing.  Mostly they said it was boring.

I know everyone is their own critic, and we still might watch it, buuuut...

Reviews on this site can be pretty spot on, so they hold some pretty good weight with me..

Might skip this one for now..

That's also how I heard about Fargo.. Good reviews on here.

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What’s so tragic is Oppenheimer had so much potential. Nolan was not the ideal director for such a movie. He ruined it, just like Dunkirk. The man belongs nowhere near historical movies.

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The wife and I just watched a movie on Prime called A Million Miles Away.. The true story about that migrant farm worker that became an astronaut.

Great movie!!

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I just watched Oppenheimer and have to say it was a disappointment. There was not enough effort put into character development or explanation. The bouncing timeline (there's a word for that which escapes me right now) could be confusing at times and the unceasing background music was distracting.

Years ago, I started to read American Prometheus but never finished it. I violated my personal standard of reading the book before watching the movie and I regret it.

I totally agree.  Apparently, they wanted to give a perspective in the eyes of Oppenheimer, but they left out so many key points that one can get by simply watching the 45 minute documentary from the History Channel that is now on YouTube.   For a 3 hour movie, they could have left out a lot of fluff and added a lot of more important details.   Also, I really hated the going back and forth aspects of the movie showing his early works and quickly switching back and forth to the trials.  Somewhat confusing and not necessary.  Luckily, I has some historical background and understood the transition but I'm most certain many people were thoroughly confused as to what may be going on .... especially those how bought the Oppenheimer / Barbie duel ticket experience for the sake of watching Barbie as their primary preference.

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Oh, this is just unreal........ Reading a story about some weird things that happened while filming certain movies, and this came up at #42

Producers Needed A Maggot That “Died of Natural Causes”
Project: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Est. Production Budget: $25 million*
Est. Box Office Gross: $73.3 million*

Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman led the cast of this infamous Stephen King adaptation, helping Columbia Pictures make a tidy $73 million at the box office. The Shawshank Redemption is an emotionally poignant film with plenty of difficult scenes to shoot, but producers found themselves in hot water over something highly unusual: a single maggot.

Fans may remember a scene where an inmate, Brooks, feeds a maggot he finds in prison food to his pet crow, Jake. Believe it or not, the American Human Society stepped in to say that in order to get the “No animals were harmed in the making of this film” stamp of approval, production would need to find a maggot that died of natural causes.

https://za.investing.com/magazine/behind...tv-sets-2/?

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You know trouble is right around the corner when your best friend tells you to hold his beer!!

I just watched Oppenheimer and have to say it was a disappointment. There was not enough effort put into character development or explanation. The bouncing timeline (there's a word for that which escapes me right now) could be confusing at times and the unceasing background music was distracting.

Years ago, I started to read American Prometheus but never finished it. I violated my personal standard of reading the book before watching the movie and I regret it.

I read Richard Rhodes’ book (called literally “The Making of The Atomic Bomb”) a few years ago. It was very detailed and informative. I haven’t seen Oppenheimer yet but had been looking forward to it although I was a little apprehensive since Chris Nolan can be kind of all over the place. I guess I’ll get to find out for myself soon.

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I'm condescending. That means I talk down to you.

The wife and I just watched a movie on Prime called A Million Miles Away.. The true story about that migrant farm worker that became an astronaut.

Great movie!!

Thanks for the recommendation. I'm going to watch it tonight.  loved Michael Pena in Narcos Mexico.

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I just watched Oppenheimer and have to say it was a disappointment. There was not enough effort put into character development or explanation. The bouncing timeline (there's a word for that which escapes me right now) could be confusing at times and the unceasing background music was distracting.

Years ago, I started to read American Prometheus but never finished it. I violated my personal standard of reading the book before watching the movie and I regret it.

I've heard a lot of people say Oppenheimer was disappointing.  Mostly they said it was boring.

Both for me. One of those movies that i wish i'd slept thru.

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"Remember Red, Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."  - Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption

Oh, this is just unreal........ Reading a story about some weird things that happened while filming certain movies, and this came up at #42

Producers Needed A Maggot That “Died of Natural Causes”
Project: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Est. Production Budget: $25 million*
Est. Box Office Gross: $73.3 million*

Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman led the cast of this infamous Stephen King adaptation, helping Columbia Pictures make a tidy $73 million at the box office. The Shawshank Redemption is an emotionally poignant film with plenty of difficult scenes to shoot, but producers found themselves in hot water over something highly unusual: a single maggot.

Fans may remember a scene where an inmate, Brooks, feeds a maggot he finds in prison food to his pet crow, Jake. Believe it or not, the American Human Society stepped in to say that in order to get the “No animals were harmed in the making of this film” stamp of approval, production would need to find a maggot that died of natural causes.

https://za.investing.com/magazine/behind...tv-sets-2/?

That's crazy !!!  I'm outside surveying my yard and blowing up ant hills as if I'm the Enola Gay.

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We watched Saving Private Ryan tonight. I'd forgotten how many actors came out of that movie with solid careers in their future. I still remember watching it in the movie theater back in 1998. What an experience.

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Anyone ever see this movie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnDNIEe7G0I

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A cheap production but still funny. Me and the wife watched this many moons ago and enjoyed it. 

https://youtu.be/hvgFqdqPIuE?si=dU7x2nH76zLYrcDC

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The wife and I just watched a movie on Prime called A Million Miles Away.. The true story about that migrant farm worker that became an astronaut.

Great movie!!

This was a really good movie.  It didn't really have the bells and whistles of new movies but it had a great storyline with good characters that one really roots for.

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