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Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

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One of our holiday traditions is "the Christmas Day movie," where we all pack up, get out of the house, and go see one of the latest offerings. The tradition within the tradition is that the girls pick the movie, and it invariably involves tremendous suffering, with the main character (or the family pet) dying at the end. We never get to see the latest Star Wars movie.

This year, because there is a new baby in the family, the decision was made to rent a movie, The Holdovers, with Paul Giamatti. Movies like Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting are normally not my first choice, even though they may be fine movies. But, I really liked The Holdovers. It was probably Giamatti, who I have always liked, but as character driven movies go, I felt like this one was a keeper.

Without giving away spoilers, Giamatti plays a one-eyed, smelly, Jim Beam swilling teacher of ancient history at an eastern prep school, one who gets special enjoyment out of failing everyone. He is charged with spending Christmas break at the school supervising a handful of students who have nowhere else they can go. Just when it seems the movie is setting you up for some sort of re-visit of a Breakfast Club battle between misfit students and an adult supervisor, the movie takes a twist.

I give it a thumbs up.
 
The holdovers is streaming on peacock as of tomorrow, I look forward to it

my parents and I also have Xmas day movie tradition. I purchased seats for us to see the boys in the boat, but since everyone was puking from norovirus, we didn’t go
 
SJHovey said:
One of our holiday traditions is "the Christmas Day movie," where we all pack up, get out of the house, and go see one of the latest offerings. The tradition within the tradition is that the girls pick the movie, and it invariably involves tremendous suffering, with the main character (or the family pet) dying at the end. We never get to see the latest Star Wars movie.

This year, because there is a new baby in the family, the decision was made to rent a movie, The Holdovers, with Paul Giamatti. Movies like Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting are normally not my first choice, even though they may be fine movies. But, I really liked The Holdovers. It was probably Giamatti, who I have always liked, but as character driven movies go, I felt like this one was a keeper.

Without giving away spoilers, Giamatti plays a one-eyed, smelly, Jim Beam swilling teacher of ancient history at an eastern prep school, one who gets special enjoyment out of failing everyone. He is charged with spending Christmas break at the school supervising a handful of students who have nowhere else they can go. Just when it seems the movie is setting you up for some sort of re-visit of a Breakfast Club battle between misfit students and an adult supervisor, the movie takes a twist.

I give it a thumbs up.
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Good description.

I was genuinely worried about the movie a third of the way in, but then, wow, great job by the writer.

Plot's still dumb, but the characters are excellent. Good acting is rare, and vanishingly rare since about 1968, but somehow they all pulled it together.
 
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But of course they are remaking Road House.
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This comes up every few years and never happens. (It has been brought up on this board at least 3 times in the last decade) It's like Highlander people talk but no one wants to actually make it.
 
Super Mario Bros is dumb. But fun.


For the life of me I can't figure out why I know the chord progression from the peaches peaches peaches peachespeapechespeachespeaches peaches.

I swear it sounds like somewhere out there from Fievel but my wife thinks I'm insane
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Super Mario Bros is dumb. But fun.


For the life of me I can't figure out why I know the chord progression from the peaches peaches peaches peachespeapechespeachespeaches peaches.

I swear it sounds like somewhere out there from Fievel but my wife thinks I'm insane
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It sounds very Jim Steinman to me.

Here is a song with the identical chord progression (Gb Ab Fm Bbm).

And another.

And another... by far the best.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Super Mario Bros is dumb. But fun.


For the life of me I can't figure out why I know the chord progression from the peaches peaches peaches peachespeapechespeachespeaches peaches.

I swear it sounds like somewhere out there from Fievel but my wife thinks I'm insane
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It’s Never Gonna Give You Up.

Yes, Jack Black rickrolled us.
 
The first half of Maestro is a brilliant movie; great writing and Cooper does a phenomenal job directing and Mulligan and Cooper are both fine in acting.

The second half is not up to that standard -- an average blubfest -- but unobjectionable.

The music throughout is sublime. Great job; solid A and worthy Oscar bait.
 
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Oppenheimer.

We need to have an intervention with Chris Nolan. He is allowed to keep making movies under the following condition: no more attempts to simulate human emotion. Ideas are fine. Plot is fine. But no attempts to portray human situations with which he is entirely unfamiliar, which apparently include love, romance, sexuality, marriage, or children.

If you cut every scene in the movie that involves family or women, it's great. Mr. Iron Man deserves an Oscar. Solid A. Just don't do people anymore, Chris. It's the uncanny valley.
 
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