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Elarie
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Jul 26 2015, 1:07am
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Mr. Homes - I thought Ian McKellen and Laura Linney were both wonderful in this; really worth seeing just for the performances. The story itself didn't grip me too much but there were some very touching moments and the theme of a brilliant mind grappling with old age was very very moving. Trainwreck - I really liked this and thought it was both funny and very real emotionally underneath the jokes. I don't know if Amy Schumer's humor is for everyone, but I enjoy her social commentary and there were some scenes in this movie that were so relatable that I'm still chuckling.
__________________ Gold is the strife of kinsmen, and fire of the flood-tide, and the path of the serpent. (Old Icelandic Fe rune poem)
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Elizabeth
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Jul 26 2015, 1:48am
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Fictions within fictions, many layers of them. And well done, I think, right down to the last confessed fiction!
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Brethil
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Jul 26 2015, 2:11am
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Lovely they got the bees into his retirement!
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When our own dear Ro was here earlier in the year we watched Jeremy's Scandal in Bohemia. The way Holmes handles the King... Priceless. And The Blue Carbuncle is one of my regular holiday watches at Christmastime.
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Brethil
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Jul 26 2015, 2:15am
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Getting lots of good feedback on Mr. Holmes.
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Mr. Homes - I thought Ian McKellen and Laura Linney were both wonderful in this; really worth seeing just for the performances. The story itself didn't grip me too much but there were some very touching moments and the theme of a brilliant mind grappling with old age was very very moving. Trainwreck - I really liked this and thought it was both funny and very real emotionally underneath the jokes. I don't know if Amy Schumer's humor is for everyone, but I enjoy her social commentary and there were some scenes in this movie that were so relatable that I'm still chuckling. Trainwreck sounds intriguing to me based on what you've said, Elarie.
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Adrianna
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Jul 26 2015, 3:40am
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Just got finish watching Lavalantula on Syfy. I'm a big Syfy fan. My husband was laughing halfway through the movie. So was I. Got sharknado3 on DVR will be watching that next. Don't know why but second one was crazy so why not watch the 3rd one.
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Patty
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Jul 26 2015, 4:26pm
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Poldark, of course, and The Woman in Gold...
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I am still very much enjoying Poldark, even though I have the Blu-ray and know that there are bits missing on the Masterpiece theater showing. I do feel sorry for Elizabeth, because I don't believe that people should be made to live with bad choices forever. If the storyline follows that of the earlier version, I don't know if my feelings will change or not. I don't know if she was a sympathetic character in the books, but the earlier version never showed her to be quite as sympathetic as this version does to me. If Francis were given a pair of big boy pants he would not know what to do with them. I have watched several YouTube documentaries about the theft of art during World War II since having watched the Woman in Gold. Because I watched the movie first, I was better able to enjoy it because I didn't know what happened. The documentaries on YouTube follow the storyline very closely, and I would not have enjoyed the movie as much if I had known then what I knew from the documentaries. The suspense would've been gone. Helen Mirren is an excellent actress, and the story is very well told and beautifully filmed.
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Patty
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Jul 26 2015, 4:31pm
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Thank you so much for this recommendation. I loved Cloud Atlas and
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The first Matrix movie. I am very fond of Jupiter Ascending, too. I guess I am a Wachowski fan, so I'll give this one a whirl. I had not heard of it.
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Eowyn of Penns Woods
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Jul 26 2015, 7:15pm
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*heh* I keep asking Dad if he needs me to translate
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or turn on the subtitles. He has often had trouble with Scottish and some English accents, which I find absolutely hilarious considering his ancestry and the accents (and dialect) still found in certain villages around here. So far, Shetland isn't half as depressing as Wallander was to me...even without trees! ;) We also watched Spy last night, which is...I don't know....Stupidly amusing? Amusingly stupid? I just don't know.
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Kim
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Jul 26 2015, 7:32pm
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Richard Armitage's first episode was intriguing. I'd say if you didn't know the story, it would have been very confusing to figure out what was going on. I haven't read the book or seen the movies, but have read a bunch of interviews, so had an idea, but it was still done in a very unusual way (which Bryan Fuller has said was his intent). Richard never spoke a word of dialogue, although he did make some disturbing animal-like noises in portraying Francis Dolarhyde's reaction to the noises/voices he hears, and his reaction to his crime. His scenes were self contained and a quick succession of setting up the Red Dragon concept. It will be very interesting to see the character as we see him start to interact with others. Richard was as usual excellent at disappearing into the character. Very chilling. I kind of wish we'd be able to see a little more of Will's happy new home life before Jack showed up and he got pulled back in, but in a way it was good to see him getting back to the profiling he'd done in the first season (even if I had to look away during certain scenes).
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Brethil
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Jul 27 2015, 12:46am
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Is that a spider-spewing volcano? Or a flaming tarantula? Sheesh, my hubby's work nightmare either way.
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Brethil
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Jul 27 2015, 12:49am
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If Francis were given a pair of big boy pants he would not know what to do with them.
This cracked me up Patty. I have watched several YouTube documentaries about the theft of art during World War II since having watched the Woman in Gold. Because I watched the movie first, I was better able to enjoy it because I didn't know what happened. The documentaries on YouTube follow the storyline very closely, and I would not have enjoyed the movie as much if I had known then what I knew from the documentaries. The suspense would've been gone. Helen Mirren is an excellent actress, and the story is very well told and beautifully filmed.
That's great, that it inspired you to search out the real stories. That whole era has some twists and turns that writers could not invent. I do like Helen Mirren. She was a scream in Red.
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Brethil
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Jul 27 2015, 12:54am
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Shetland is a winner for me. I need a break from ultra-grim.
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*heh* I keep asking Dad if he needs me to translate or turn on the subtitles. Heh. But would the subtitles be in dialect? That would be fun. Funny that Dad's background doesn't help with kenning the show. So far, Shetland isn't half as depressing as Wallander was to me...even without trees! ;) Yup. It may become a regular for me. We also watched Spy last night, which is...I don't know....Stupidly amusing? Amusingly stupid? I just don't know. I heard it was rather unapologetic.
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Brethil
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Jul 27 2015, 12:55am
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That sounds WAAAY creepy, Kim. //
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Richard Armitage's first episode was intriguing. I'd say if you didn't know the story, it would have been very confusing to figure out what was going on. I haven't read the book or seen the movies, but have read a bunch of interviews, so had an idea, but it was still done in a very unusual way (which Bryan Fuller has said was his intent). Richard never spoke a word of dialogue, although he did make some disturbing animal-like noises in portraying Francis Dolarhyde's reaction to the noises/voices he hears, and his reaction to his crime. His scenes were self contained and a quick succession of setting up the Red Dragon concept. It will be very interesting to see the character as we see him start to interact with others. Richard was as usual excellent at disappearing into the character. Very chilling. I kind of wish we'd be able to see a little more of Will's happy new home life before Jack showed up and he got pulled back in, but in a way it was good to see him getting back to the profiling he'd done in the first season (even if I had to look away during certain scenes).
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dernwyn
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Jul 27 2015, 1:17am
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Did anyone else notice that the actor playing the movie matinee Sherlock Holmes
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is listed on the poster behind Ian/Holmes as he waits in line as having the surname "Armitage"? (I was unable to make out the first name.) I found myself cringing as Holmes watched his moving picture counterpart, the fantasy Holmes was so shallow and theatrical in comparison. Ian was indeed marvellous.
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Adrianna
Lorien
Jul 27 2015, 2:01am
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Were Huge spiders that spewed out flames instead of webs due to a volcanic eruption under Los Angeles. That's one way to get burned alive. Just rented Ex Machina. Pretty interesting. Boy! He got shafted in the end.
"I did free him. I freed his wretched head from his miserable shoulders."
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Eowyn of Penns Woods
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Jul 27 2015, 2:29am
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Whoops! I was still talking TV and PBS. Spy, the Britcom, not the new movie! //
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Brethil
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Jul 27 2015, 2:33am
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Ah! The 'Spy' with that utterly obnoxious child in it?
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I watched a few: some of its really funny - like that whacko, always inappropriate boss. But some of it is a bit exasperating, and not so funny. Its on in the hour before New Tricks so sometimes if I am home, I catch it out of the corner of my eye.
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Patty
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Jul 27 2015, 3:07am
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About tonight's Poldark episode (spoiler)
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I know I have been griping about what is on the Blu-ray and not on the Masterpiece Theatre version, but tonight, just like Downton, I caught something that was on the TV version that is not on the Blu-ray! There is no way to get it all! It's a little thing, but it shouldn't have happened at all. As Ross is leaving the gaming room at the ball after having exposed George's cousin as a cheater at cards, he walks out the room and says something over his shoulder to the effect that perhaps they will be good enough to send his losses back to him. That phrase is not on the Blu-ray. I know, because I had been watching for it, because I wondered if he were going to get Demelza"s necklace jewel back. He says nothing as he walks out on the Blu-ray. I guess you have to watch both versions in order to get the whole story. Or just read the book.
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Elizabeth
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Jul 27 2015, 3:21am
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Sounds wonderful. I went looking for it, but US-PBS never heard of it, and Amazon will only stream it to someone who's a member of Amazon-UK! I hope our PBS or Amazon picks it up in the future!
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Eowyn of Penns Woods
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Jul 27 2015, 3:49am
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I couldn't even find it on the local PBS site, but Hulu has it.
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17 episodes of Spy, here. ETA: I know nothing about Hulu's viewing policies.
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Riven Delve
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Jul 27 2015, 12:46pm
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I *finally* caught up with Poldark!
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Maybe it's the effect of watching the episodes so close together online, but my impression is that this story is chock-full of clichés and tropes. However, they are all my favorite clichés and tropes, and dressed up in the best possible way, so I'm enjoying myself hugely. I wish Francis had maybe one redeeming quality. Early on, his kind of blind naivete was enough to make me slightly sympathetic to him, but unfortunately that's all encompassed in his bitterness now. I just want some depth to him! Also, I am a total sucker for all those close-up shots of wildflowers, and waves crashing onto the rocks, and threatening-looking clouds.
“Tollers,” Lewis said to Tolkien, “there is too little of what we really like in stories. I am afraid we shall have to try and write some ourselves.”
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Annael
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Jul 27 2015, 2:43pm
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Okay, "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" may just have to be something I buy. I suspect that one could watch it over & over and find new things each time. And now I have a great example of "a show that is better than the book." I couldn't get through the book, and many have said that the two main characters are rather flat in the book, but the show has the advantage of actors who bring their characters to vivid life. One thing I noticed was the very subtle ways (except for Lascelles) that the upper-class characters spoke to lower social classes. Strange, for example, actually became more courteous while at the same time sounding more confident than he did when addressing people at his social level or above. Pole was courteous but more condescending than Strange, Norrell was less confident and so often sounded more peevish. I don't know if this was the director's doing, the scriptwriter's, or the actors', but I applaud them.
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the words begin to move around … The words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. -- Gaston Bachelard * * * * * * * * * * NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967
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Annael
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Jul 27 2015, 2:54pm
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finally got to "What We Do in the Shadows" and also saw "Majola Snake"
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WWDitS: hilarious. Highly recommend. "Majola Snake" stars Juliet Binoche and Kristen Stewart. Binoche plays a famous actress who's been asked to play the part of the older woman in the play that made her famous 20+ years earlier when she played the younger woman who seduces and then abandons the older woman. Stewart is the personal assistant on whom Binoche depends; Both shine. Clearly this is the kind of role (and the kind of direction) that Stewart needs, instead of trying to be a romantic heroine. It's also a pretty movie, with lots of scenes in the Swiss Alps. The Majola Snake is a real thing: a river of cloud that sometimes pours over the Majola Pass, so you get a bit of a nature documentary thrown in.
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the words begin to move around … The words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. -- Gaston Bachelard * * * * * * * * * * NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967
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Brethil
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Jul 28 2015, 1:58am
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Caught up on Poldark myself tonight.
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One of the best lines so far: "What's wrong with the women in this family?" "The men."
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Jul 28 2015, 2:43am
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Unfortunately the funniest line in WWDITS
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is one I can't repeat here without giving myself an official warning. *cough*sandwich*cough* I love how this movie underplays the comedy. It's very entertaining and so very quotable.
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..." Dwarves: "Pretty rings..." Men: "Pretty rings..." Sauron: "Mine's better." "Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak. Ataahua's stories
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