Trial of the Chicago 7 (7.6/10)- Seemed very Sorkin-esqe with overly snappy and witty dialogue. I admit to having nothing more than a vague knowledge of the true life events. It was entertaining but I doubt I ever watch it again. Nomadland (7.1/10)- This felt like an awards movie, was pretty slow, especially the first hour. The cinematography was great and fun to see 'real people' in a hollywood production. Frances did a great job and understand why her and the film won, it was depressing and uplifting at the same time. Overall another that was decent but will never watch again and will go down on the long list of big picture winners that people mainly forget about.
Just watched a repeat of Waterloo Bridge with Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor. Hadn't seen it in a long time so i forgot the ending. Great movie. Takes place in England during the early part of WWII.
Have you guys seen The Sex Addict? I hear it's pretty funny. It features Horatio Sanz, Ken Davitian, Bryan Callen and Mary Carey. It's free on Tubi right now but it's also on iTunes, Google Play, YouTube and the rest.
Haven't seen that one. Recently viewed Goodfellas, Casino, Jacky Brown, Lincoln, 30s romcom It Happened One Night. The latter triggered "decency" laws. Claudette Colbert, rebellious heiress, and Clark Gable, journalist, are thrown together and spend several days on the road, sleeping in the same room, albeit separate beds. Shocking!
Forgot to mention French Connection. Depressing how many movies have essentially no women. At most marginal characters seen solely through eyes of men.
The essential character is always a man. But Waterloo Bridge has a woman as the essential character. I'd say that Gone With the Wind also has a woman as the essential character. Note how many movies, especially classic ones, essentially have no Blacks in them. Also notice how many movies have no homosexuals in them.
Sometimes good people do bad things. They get swept up by what their peers are doing. A very very few think outside the box and God bless them. Slavery was a very horrific thing. Sometimes, too horrific to contemplate and yet people did it. They weren't born that way, it was carefully nurtured in them by their elders. Proof of this is by how many people got swept away with it. Somebody pointed out that the Germans did horrific things to the Jews. Look how many Germans got swept away. I don't think it's because they were born with an evil gene. They were twisted by their elders since their youth. I remember being swept away with how horrible anyone was who wasn't a WASP up until I was about 10 and felt something uncomfortable about it. Then my father, raised in rural Alabama, took me aside when I was about 12 and began teaching me how Blacks were just as good as Whites and that he understood their anger. Presto, my transition was complete. I was lucky to have a father like that. Many many people are not that lucky.
I agree people are rarely if ever born evil. But someone who goes along with evil, slavery, Nazism, rape, murder, at some point made a choice.
LOVE IHON! "The walls of Jericho..." Jackie Brown is the only Tarantino with characters you actually care about, mainly because they were created by Elmore Leonard. All Tarantino's other characters are just walking speeches. (Why didn't Robert Forster's career explode again after this movie? I guess it was supposed to but Mulholland Drive got converted from a TV series to a one-off movie. Pam Grier is amazing.) Am I alone in cheering when Joe Pesci's character gets wacked in Goodfellas?
I really wanted to like FC, it being a classic and all. But Hackman was kind of weird in it. What was all that stuff about picking feet? You should get into Pre-Code movies. May I recommend Night Nurse (1931) and Ladies They Talk About (1933) (basically anything from the 30s with Barbara Stanwyck). Also Marked Woman (1937), and try Cry Havoc! (1942) as well. If you want more like It Happened One Night, I thoroughly recommend: Midnight (1939) The Good Fairy (1935) Ball of Fire (1941) (Another Stanwyck - you can't go wrong!)
I'm saying good people do bad things, I'm not saying they should do those bad things. The lemmings in us make us follow along with the majority. We all do things others do. Look at our hair styles which change from generation to generation. Look at how the vast majority got duped into slavery. What got them out? It wasn't those around them. It was years and years of toil by those who grew up more enlightened. Now, even the most hardened racist does not advocate slavery, hard core racism maybe but not slavery, so we ever so slowly, too slowly in my eyes, change for the better.
I recently saw three popular English movies where cunt was used liberally to denote either a bad assed man or man who was being denigrated. The three movies were: 1. Snatch with Jason Statham; 2. Trespass Against Us with Michael Fassbender; 3. Gentlemen with Matthew McConaughey. Add to that Croupier with Clive Owen.
There is a difference between fashion in hair styles and slavery. No doubt good people do bad things, we are all imperfect. And no doubt peer pressure gets people doing things they would not on their own. But I am saying there is a line. A point at which someone is not a fallible but decent person. If your buddies take turns raping a child, going along is not just a mistake. I mean, when I hear people really didn't have a lot of choice to oppose slavery, enslaved people had none. Yes, there was pressure to join Hitler Youth, but still a choice. Murdered Jews weren't given a choice. It's why mafia movies however well acted leave me a bit cold because I really don't care much if Michael Corleone ends up lonely.
But don't you see the fallacy? When an overwhelming majority of people do a bad thing, something's wrong other individuals making evil choices. The majority of people just aren't evil at the root yet they are doing something we can all see now is wrong.
