Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

[Kepler]

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The Reluctant Saint. (1963)

Gentle, quirky story of a 17th century Italian stable boy who becomes a priest and is incompetent except... he floats when he prays. Highly recommended.

Also terrific supporting performance by a young and extremely handsome Ricardo Montalbán.

[MissThundercat]

Underworld.

Feels like this movie's only redeeming feature is Kate Beckinsale.

[The Rube]

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Flash Of Genius:

Auto companies trying to steal a man's invention of intermittent windshield wipers. Not too many liberties taken with this "based on a true story," but they were major ones, mostly procedural (acting as his own lawyer). Good drama. Feel-good movie, etc etc. Well-acted. Worth a watch.

[The Rube]

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Sand Castle:

A reluctant soldier's platoon is sent to a hostile village to restore water in Iraq.

Pretty solid. Didn't stylize anything, nor did it get too graphic for a war movie. Pretty much about one man's experience and how his viewpoint changed a bit.

[ScoobyDoo]

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Because it sucks, or it's sad? I would like to watch it because I met the author/subject once, inspiring woman. The book was great.

Didn't suck. I was sad for parts of it but I was more angry and uncomfortable than anything else.

[geezer]

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The Glass Castle.

One of the most difficult movies I have ever sat through. Painful.

Because it sucks, or it's sad? I would like to watch it because I met the author/subject once, inspiring woman. The book was great.

[joecct]

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Bit of a sidetrack, but name two famous movies indirectly mentioned in this article.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/201....html#comments

[Kepler]

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Girl On The Train:

Pretty solid until the Lifetime-y ending. The twists definitely help save the movie.

Agree with this completely.

[The Rube]

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Girl On The Train:

Pretty solid until the Lifetime-y ending. The twists definitely help save the movie.

Scooby: just looked The Glass Castle up to see what you might have meant by "difficult." Yeah, dunno if I could sit through that. Not a place I really wanna go.

[ScoobyDoo]

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The Glass Castle.

One of the most difficult movies I have ever sat through. Painful.

[Spartanforlife4]

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Kinda why I have avoided that movie.

There's more than one scene where he calls up the American Cancer Society or a like organization and goes "Yes, I'd like to know why you offer recipes that contain meat, cheese, and eggs given the World Health Organization views it as a carcinogen?" and then plays it off as a 'gotcha' moment when they sit in silence. No, it's not because you beat them, it's because the people on the phones probably deal with people calling about random things like an email address not working.

Or another scene where he's pleading with a security guard to let him into the executive area of the building because, "We have to let the public know their diets are killing them!"

[The Rube]

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As far as the film itself: I think North Korea makes more subtle propaganda films.

Kinda why I have avoided that movie.

[Spartanforlife4]

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What The Health? on Netflix

Coworker watched it and turned vegan because of it. He's lost some weight and feels better. However, I think that's because there's just less food that he can eat, which is fine if it's helping, but not necessarily making the case for vegan being that much better than a normal diet.

As far as the film itself: I think North Korea makes more subtle propaganda films.

[The Rube]

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Sinatra: To Be Frank

Doc on Sinatra's career. Pretty good. I remember his later years, it was good to learn about his early career and how it started.

[The Rube]

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I still love that movie. Love it.

Not his best, but dam good.