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Movies! The Last Jedi: Ragnarok

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It's a Wonderful Life is playing on NBC. I always hate that Potter gets away with stealing the $8000.

If you can find it with English subtitles I highly recommend Joyeux Noel about the Christmas Truce in World War I. If you speak fluent German and French, you can watch on You Tube (but no subtitles).

For some parts subtitles aren't needed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmKV3kjkolE&t=472s
 
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ticapnews said:
It's a Wonderful Life is playing on NBC. I always hate that Potter gets away with stealing the $8000.

If you can find it with English subtitles I highly recommend Joyeux Noel about the Christmas Truce in World War I. If you speak fluent German and French, you can watch on You Tube (but no subtitles).

For some parts subtitles aren't needed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmKV3kjkolE&t=472s
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Joyeux Noel is quite excellent. Bought it the day after I saw it. Related: Into The White has similar themes/storyline.

Christmas Story marathon right now, because tradition.
 
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SJHovey said:
I highly recommend “The Shape of Water.” Very, very good.
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I wanted to stab the trailer in the eye it was so cloying. Would you say it's still good if the viewer has a trigger gag reflex for syrup and mawkishness? I want it to be interesting enough to see because I like early GdT, but he did Pacific Rim and the series "The Strain" both of which were sh-t, and he seems to be a guy like Nolan who is good inversely proportional to his budget.
 
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Kepler said:
I wanted to stab the trailer in the eye it was so cloying. Would you say it's still good if the viewer has a trigger gag reflex for syrup and mawkishness? I want it to be interesting enough to see because I like early GdT, but he did Pacific Rim and the series "The Strain" both of which were sh-t, and he seems to be a guy like Nolan who is good inversely proportional to his budget.
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I have a feeling this is one of those movies people will either really like, or just hate.

Personally I hadn't even heard of the movie before I set foot in the theater. Our family has a tradition of going to movies on Christmas, and this year's theme set by our daughters was "Anything but Star Wars."

Five minutes in I was like "w t f is this movie?" But by the time it was over, I was hooked. It's visually a very appealing movie, at least to me. I loved the music. I thought Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer and Michael Shannon were terrific. It was just very different, not your run of the mill action movie or the like. But as I said, buyer beware. I could see people not liking this movie.
 
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Saw “All the Money in the World” tonight. Not bad. Said it was based on true events. Not sure how much of it actually happened. This is the movie where they re shot scenes because Kevin Spacey played J Paul Getty and they had Christoper Plummer replace him. Which leads me to believe Ridley Scott knew what was going to happen way ahead of time because it’s one of the lead roles and there is no way they were able to get everyone back, and got to use the same locations, film and edit it and get it released on the 22nd.
 
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Scarlet said:
Saw “All the Money in the World” tonight. Not bad. Said it was based on true events. Not sure how much of it actually happened. This is the movie where they re shot scenes because Kevin Spacey played J Paul Getty and they had Christoper Plummer replace him. Which leads me to believe Ridley Scott knew what was going to happen way ahead of time because it’s one of the lead roles and there is no way they were able to get everyone back, and got to use the same locations, film and edit it and get it released on the 22nd.
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Except that is precisely what they did. There was a trailer released in September with Spacey. I remember seeing the poster at the local Regal with Spacey listed on the promotional material. Sony had to keep running the trailer because they were committed to December 22 to try to get Oscars. The film did garner three Golden Globe nominations. It is amazing Scott managed the reshoots in mere days, but he did.
 
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Scarlet said:
Saw “All the Money in the World” tonight. Not bad. Said it was based on true events. Not sure how much of it actually happened. This is the movie where they re shot scenes because Kevin Spacey played J Paul Getty and they had Christoper Plummer replace him. Which leads me to believe Ridley Scott knew what was going to happen way ahead of time because it’s one of the lead roles and there is no way they were able to get everyone back, and got to use the same locations, film and edit it and get it released on the 22nd.
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Hey movie geeks.....CGI the scenes? Thinking it's possible and probable.....
 
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aparch said:
It's an okay movie (not my favorite Jimmy Stewart film by a long shot), but the last few years I find myself rooting for the bridge to win and cut the movie short.
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IaWL is a biting dark comedy of a man with promise drowned by the anchor of middle American convention and the vacuous sentimentality wielded by the average to trap the exceptional into laboring for them.

Mary is a drip and George's family is uniformly awful.

I have always imagined George blows town the day after Christmas with the entire S&L bankroll and never looks back. Years later he owns a casino in Monaco and fleeces the suckers while banging cocktail waitresses two at a time.
 
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