On the Beach Haven't seen it recently but both the book and the movie were great, as I recall. Highly recommend the movie.
How ‘Dune’ was inspired by the Oregon coast, at the beautiful Oregon Dunes. https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tr...iful-oregon-dunes/ar-AAPtkFo?ocid=hplocalnews
Watched Promising Young Woman just before Blazers game. Totally get desire for revenge. Totally. And title was spot on; women told rape accusation will harm this promising young man with no concern about her. But, spoiler alert, while I loved seeing chief asshole arrested at his wedding, ultimately unsatisfying. Because personal vengeance does nothing to change things for women as a whole.
Revenge is a highly popular plot that sells lots of tickets but it's not reality. Reality is best served when changes result that make future victims less likely to be victims.
Minari This Korean for watercress. Watercress can be made into the most delicious kimchee I've ever had. It grows in water but must be constantly reaped else it can get too tough to enjoy. The movie is about a Korean family that has moved to California to farm but the movie opens with the family moving to Arkansas for better farming than California perhaps for more ground. The movie is a typical Korean tear jerker and a well done one at that. Follow this family as they go through their life in a new culture and with ups and downs that are sure to bring some tears of sorrow and some of joy.
Just saw the latest from Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch. I think I am done with Wes Anderson movies. They have gotten just too precious, too Avante Garde for my taste. Watching, and trying to follow that movie, was too much work.
Old Henry A western with a simple plot that is done very well. A big twist at the end. Tim Blake Nelson nails the role. 8/10
It Runs in the Family This "...is a 2003 American comedy-drama film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring three generations of the Douglas family: Kirk Douglas, his son Michael Douglas, and Michael's son Cameron Douglas, who play three generations of a family. Diana Douglas (née Dill), real-life mother to Michael Douglas and ex-wife of Kirk, plays Kirk's character's wife. Joel Douglas, second son of Kirk and Diana, was the Associate Producer." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Runs_in_the_Family_(2003_film) I give this movie a thumbs up and loved it.
Plains, Trains and Automobiles I haven’t seen this since I was a kid and was kinda blown away at how good of a movie it is. John Candy’s best work IMO
I make a point to watch this one every year at Thanksgiving, and turned it on while tending the fire and smoking a turkey in the wee hours of Thursday morning. A perfect comedy duo playing off of each other!
Was clicking around the other day and History Channel was playing a movie called "Eddie the Eagle". Had never heard of it but gave it a try and was rather pleased. What a feel good story!
Saw Ghostbusters Afterlife this weekend ... little back story the original was the first movie I vividly remember going to watch in the back of my dad's pick up at a drive in, so it's always been a favorite. This one was definitely more of a kids movie, but a lot of fan service tossed in and it made me tear up a little. Overall I'd give it an 8 or 8.5 On a side note, while waiting for concessions one of my students was in line behind me. I made sure to ask her what she thought of the movie today and she liked it and said she started crying at the end. I was curious if those that have never seen the original would like it, so I asked if she liked the original movie. Her response ... "yea I think I saw the original that came out a couple years ago but they were all women in that one." I just screamed out NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
I watched the documentary The Forest Land ...I think that's the title on Netflix about the original tribe of the Amazon that lives the same way they did 1000 years before countries were formed in South America....how gold miners are polluting their drinking water and killing them off with mercury poisoning.....just watching their day to day life as natural hunter gatherers was really inspiring...the chief told a young man, "I know you want to go to the city with the miners but you will be working for someone else who doesn't care about you...here you have no boss and never will...you can choose to spend your time however you like and nobody tells you what to do" In the city everyone tells you what to do and you never get to do what you like.."
...anyone watch P I G yet on Hulu? It's a Nicolas Cage movies set in Oregon Wilderness/Portland with quite the synopsis: A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Adam Arkin, Nina Belforte, Cassandra Violet Director: Michael Sarnoski
Just saw Nobody. It was like John Wick meets Mr. Incredible (from The Incredibles). If it wasn't for Odenkirk starring in it, I would've passed. But if you just read this and like the sound of it, you will like this movie. I just re-watched Sling Blade and Anchorman recently. Sling Blade aged brilliantly. My younger son (age 13) kept quoting this line afterward. Just kills me. And I've been talking bout french fried taters all week. Watch this with your (older) kids and you'll all be quoting it. Anchorman was just too cringey. It's a 2 hour running joke of how awful entitled white men can get. After Trump, Weinstein and all the other Me Too assholes, it just seemed too obvious and annoying. I was trying to explain to my sons how funny it used to be and they looked at me like I was an alien. Film of the year for me (so far) is Dune.
Watched the power of the dog last night with Benedict cumberbatch and it was a weirdly veiled movie about ranchers in Montana in 1925. Jane campion film (the piano) the landscapes in this movie is like a character. Beautifully filmed
