Recommend some good movies!

Y'all need to briefly explain WHY you recommend the movie if you want a total stranger to actually check out your recommendation.  ;)

TheREALHunter wrote:
Not exactly current but if you can handle subtitles then I recommend "Wild Tales" highly.

that was great!
2014 nom for best foreign film

Rented Sicario this week. Did not like. Explain what the appeal of this movie was supposed to be? It was choppy, annoying, and was just all-around bad.

Amy comes to Netflix in February. I'm waiting for that one.

K8teebug wrote:
Rented Sicario this week. Did not like. Explain what the appeal of this movie was supposed to be? It was choppy, annoying, and was just all-around bad.

Amy comes to Netflix in February. I'm waiting for that one.

I did like this. First of all, I tend to like 'procedure' types of movies, where characters are depicted doing their job in a relatively realistic setting, i.e. not Mad Max or a superhero joint. I liked this for the glimpse it provided into the high echelon of law enforcement. Sure it was pumped up and dramatized, but what was depicted is not that far off from what really goes on.

I really liked the way it was filmed, and I thought the crossing-the-border traffic jam scene was incredible. After seeing a million high speed car chases in movies, this was an awesome contrast, but it was just as tense. I thought all of the main characters were interesting too. I also liked that it positioned one character as the primary 'hero' and yet the climax of the movie involves someone else entirely.

Another examples of a procedure movie I liked, for different but similar reasons, was Spotlight. Simply love watching movies about people working.

Also, after seeing (and loving) so many movies like John Wick and Mad Max, where countless faceless enemies are killed and instantly forgotten, I appreciated the fact that Sicario treats death very seriously and shows how killing someone has tremendous reverberations. 

Relaxer wrote:. Simply love watching movies about people working.

do you work vicariously though others

Working vicariously through others is how billionaires made their fortunes.

Relaxer wrote:
I keep meaning to watch Amy but never feel like it when it's choosin' time. Same with "I Am Chris Farley".

I did watch The Big Short last night. It was good! I thought it did a pretty good job explaining what was happening as it went along. That said, I've read several books about the 2008 crash and feel like I have a pretty good grasp of what happened, and yet I was lost a couple times when it would get into the deep details.

I also didn't always understand who the characters were, or who they worked for, or if they represented the banks or investing arms or whatever. I spent the first half thinking Steve Carrell's character was with the SEC or some watchdog group.

FWIW, my wife is a huge Amy Winehouse fan, and she didn't really care for the Amy movie.
I thought it was decent, but not great. I much preferred the Nina Simone documentary, also streaming on Netflix. I mention that because both of those movie are Oscar nominated in the documentary category.

Sidehatch wrote:

TheREALHunter wrote:
Not exactly current but if you can handle subtitles then I recommend "Wild Tales" highly.

that was great!
2014 nom for best foreign film

Another vote for Wild Tales.

Relaxer wrote:

K8teebug wrote:
Rented Sicario this week. Did not like. Explain what the appeal of this movie was supposed to be? It was choppy, annoying, and was just all-around bad.

Amy comes to Netflix in February. I'm waiting for that one.

I did like this. First of all, I tend to like 'procedure' types of movies, where characters are depicted doing their job in a relatively realistic setting, i.e. not Mad Max or a superhero joint. I liked this for the glimpse it provided into the high echelon of law enforcement. Sure it was pumped up and dramatized, but what was depicted is not that far off from what really goes on.

I really liked the way it was filmed, and I thought the crossing-the-border traffic jam scene was incredible. After seeing a million high speed car chases in movies, this was an awesome contrast, but it was just as tense. I thought all of the main characters were interesting too. I also liked that it positioned one character as the primary 'hero' and yet the climax of the movie involves someone else entirely.

Another examples of a procedure movie I liked, for different but similar reasons, was Spotlight. Simply love watching movies about people working.

Sicario was fantastically shot. I thought all of the scenes of them driving and looking over the border and the quiet overhead shots of Mexico to the contrast of them on the ground were great. Thought the whole drive through the city was great and then everything leading up to and from the tunnel was great. Such an awesome and tense movie. Was really surprised it got snubbed by the Oscars.

Both 'Amy' and 'I Am Chris Farley' were interesting to me because I's formerly thought of both as kinda one-note semi-talents. Amy Winehouse was the retro torch singer with weird hair and tattoos and Chris Farley was the bombastic fat guy who shouted a lot. My takeaways from the docs were how talented each of them were. Farley was a really gifted performer who thrived in ensembles. And Winehouse was way more talented a musician than I'd thought.

It was odd in Amy how at first, it seemed to be portraying her as this wise-ass party-tough teenager who kind of stumbled into a chance to sing and make music. But then it shows her playing guitar on stage and she's obviously very practiced and accomplished at it. She's not doing EVH up there, but she's not just plunking notes either.

So I watched I Smile Back starring Sarah Silverman last night. Pretty depressing stuff, she gave a very good performance.

After watching it, my biggest question is which fortysomething Jewess has the best tits…SArah Silverman or Chelsea Handler? What do y'all think?

Space wrote:
After watching it, my biggest question is which fortysomething Jewess has the best tits…SArah Silverman or Chelsea Handler? What do y'all think?

hmm good question, but I've never seen either
I'd have to say I think Sarah's would be my pick
are their full frontal pics available?

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Sidehatch wrote:

Space wrote:
After watching it, my biggest question is which fortysomething Jewess has the best tits…SArah Silverman or Chelsea Handler? What do y'all think?

hmm good question, but I've never seen either
I'd have to say I think Sarah's would be my pick
are their full frontal pics available?

Yes, on your home computer. For Chelsea, from the waist up. For Sarah, full frontal.

yeah…now that KS's posts are gone….I don't think jewess is considered a slur
this is a 120 year old publication and didn't look demeaning



even the modern publication Heeb Mag has a section called  Gratuitous Jewess
and while it's about women and sometime scantily clothed…it's very positive
In an effort to further your appreciation of the richness and renewed vitality of Jewish life among young people today, we give you the next chapter of our new installment, which we have aptly titled, ?Gratuitous Jewess.?

Julian, Gratuitous JEWESS just seems like a foregone conclusion. I mean, that's spectacular just from an alliterative sense.

And blah blah blah. 

I deleted my post because it is pointless to argue or discuss certain things with certain people.  We are different generations and I think that is enough for there to be a huge difference between what I think is acceptable, and what others think is acceptable.

killsaly wrote:
And blah blah blah. 

I deleted my post because it is pointless to argue or discuss certain things with certain people.  We are different generations and I think that is enough for there to be a huge difference between what I think is acceptable, and what others think is acceptable.

well I can agree with you on that!

but until you posted that, I'd never heard it as a derogatory term
and possibly in old timey Rome it was considered a put down, doesn't appear to be for the last 150 years