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Post by mllemass on Apr 26, 2018 0:11:23 GMT
It's just starting on tv right now. I've only ever seen it once - at the theatre when it came out. We were having a bit of a snowstorm that day, but I went out anyway! It wasn't very good, as I recall, but it's worth watching for Benedict so here I am watching it. I hope they don't cut out any of his scenes!
Ugh! The opening credits are all Weinstein!
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Post by mllemass on Jun 2, 2019 20:22:41 GMT
It’s on tv again this afternoon. Unfortunately, it doesn’t get better with repeated viewings. Benedict, of course, is always excellent so it’s worth sitting through it again.
And, I just noticed that Star Trek Into Darkness will be on tonight. It’s an embarrassment of Benedict riches!
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Post by queenzod on Jun 2, 2019 22:31:26 GMT
That movie has grown on me with repeated viewings. They’re all just so horrible! Some of it makes me laugh out loud with the black humor. Ignorance, addiction and cruelty make such an unpleasant combination. Ben was perfection, as always. Such a great cast, tho. A real powerhouse of acting, all of them. The only decent person was the nurse.
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Post by mllemass on Jun 3, 2019 14:15:36 GMT
They repeated AOC last night, so that it was on at the same time as STID. I switched back and forth between them, and it was hard to believe that the same actor played both roles!
I’m usually able to explain why I don’t think a movie is good, but it’s so hard with AOC. I think that the story must have worked better as a play. Other than filming on location to give us the vast, hot landscape, they didn’t really do much to turn the play into a movie. So we got two and a half hours of unpleasant people screaming at each other. As they started revealing the characters’ awful backgrounds and reasons for their behaviour, we should have felt some sympathy towards them, but I just didn’t - and that’s a problem. Even the characters who weren’t nasty, like Little Charles and his father Charles, were doomed to a life of misery because of the rest of their family. The movie ends without a glimmer of hope for anyone, and I’m not sure that’s what was intended.
It’s funny that the first time they showed AOC yesterday afternoon, they removed all the many, many f-words. But the version they showed last night left them in there, along with an 18+ in the corner of the screen. Ha!
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Post by roverpup on Jun 3, 2019 16:54:04 GMT
I liked AOC (I am fan of Meryl Streep) enough to be thoroughly entertained by it. I actually went to it before seeing Sherlock, just around the same time I saw BC in STiD (which I went to because I am a ST fan)and TFE (which I went to because of Daniel Brühl). I was gobsmacked when I realised it was the same actor in all 3 movies and after TFE I decided I had to see more of this chameleon-like, strangely appealing but quirky looking chap (with the unpronounceable name), so that's when I took the leap and started watching Sherlock. The rest is, as they say, history!
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Post by mllemass on Jun 3, 2019 18:19:22 GMT
Have I mentioned before that I bought “Can’t keep it inside” on iTunes after the movie came out? I could have gotten it for free just about anywhere on the internet, but I wanted to do it the proper legal way so that Benedict would get credit for the sale - even if he didn’t actually receive the $1.99 (or so) that I spent on it.
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Post by queenzod on Jun 3, 2019 18:32:11 GMT
I bought it, too, lol! Played it non stop for 3 days. Poor little Charles. I think he might be the number one dimmest person Ben has ever played. I mean, just not smart, not in a cruel way or as an insult. It wasn’t his fault, he just wasn’t too bright. Add to that all the abuse and insults he received growing up from that awful family and 😭😭😭
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Post by mllemass on Nov 25, 2019 18:37:50 GMT
This past weekend, we had a tv channel that showed it again several times. If I remembered, I turned to it only to catch Benedict’s scenes. But this time I happened to see a small scene (without Benedict) that I hadn’t paid attention to before. Little Charles’ parents were talking about Beverly, the husband of Meryl Streep’s character, who, at this point, was still only missing and not yet found dead. Big Charles tells his wife that Beverly was a complicated man - a lot like Little Charles. His awful wife flips out and starts yelling awful things at him for saying that. Looking back at that, and knowing that Beverly turned out to be Little Charles’ father, the scene becomes much more significant. (It’s still not a good movie, though)
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Post by mllemass on Sept 5, 2020 22:27:13 GMT
It’s on tv again tonight. I just can’t bear to watch it, but I’ll switch to it now and then to try to catch Benedict’s scenes.
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Post by mllemass on Nov 25, 2021 23:24:22 GMT
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