Pokeno4Money said:

RodeoSchro said:

Of COURSE I know who Jeffrey Tambor is! I referenced him in the review. PLEASE tell me you got the "There's always money in the banana stand" reference!

For those who didn't, here you go:

If anyone is still confused, that is from "Arrested Development". If you haven't watched "Arrested Development", you should. It's awesome. My mother-in-law is basically Lucille Bluth.

I know him from 1970's-1980's tv shows such as The Ropers and Three's Company, as well as old films such as Mr. Mom

I mainly remember him as Hank "Hey Now!" Kingsley from "The Larry Sanders Show". But the banana stand thing is comedic GOLD. You have to know the series to get it, though. The line is from Season One's "Top Banana" episode. If you don't have the time or interest to find it (which I tried and couldn't) and watch it, here's the lowdown on it:

http://arresteddevelopmen...Top_Banana

purplethunder3121 said:

Ace said:

Believe it or not, I've never seen this (and I'm Canadian!). Will try and finally get around to checking it out, based on your say-so!

Wish I was right there with you in that cozy environment, Rodeo! And glad you didn't have to drive all the way to Taos. And, Ace, check it out--the first movie is really funny.

I wish all of y'all were here. I'm all by myself on the top of a mountain. A really-nneds-some-snow mountain, although there is snow in the forecast through the weekend.

But thanks again, I appreciate that link!

RodeoSchro said:

Pokeno4Money said:

I know him from 1970's-1980's tv shows such as The Ropers and Three's Company, as well as old films such as Mr. Mom

I mainly remember him as Hank "Hey Now!" Kingsley from "The Larry Sanders Show". But the banana stand thing is comedic GOLD. You have to know the series to get it, though. The line is from Season One's "Top Banana" episode. If you don't have the time or interest to find it (which I tried and couldn't) and watch it, here's the lowdown on it:

http://arresteddevelopmen...Top_Banana

Thanks! And yeah Porkys is great, I saw it in the theater when it first came out and it was probably the funniest movie I had ever seen. What a great year 1982 was for movies, as Fast Times at Ridgemont High was also right up there for best comedies.

Lookit the list from that year:

Fast Times At Ridgemont High
48 Hours
Conan the Barbarian
E.T.
Poltergeist
Blade Runner
Richard Pryor Live On The Sunset Strip
Pink Floyd The Wall
World According to Garp
Silent Rage
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Airplane II

Rocky III
Porkys
Sophie's Choice
Officer and a Gentleman
Annie
Tootsie
Rambo First Blood

The 'Burbs (1989) starring Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher RIP and Corey Feldman. Its dark and funny and I give it a 4 out of 5

Pokeno4Money said:

RodeoSchro said:

I mainly remember him as Hank "Hey Now!" Kingsley from "The Larry Sanders Show". But the banana stand thing is comedic GOLD. You have to know the series to get it, though. The line is from Season One's "Top Banana" episode. If you don't have the time or interest to find it (which I tried and couldn't) and watch it, here's the lowdown on it:

http://arresteddevelopmen...Top_Banana

Thanks! And yeah Porkys is great, I saw it in the theater when it first came out and it was probably the funniest movie I had ever seen. What a great year 1982 was for movies, as Fast Times at Ridgemont High was also right up there for best comedies.

Lookit the list from that year:

Fast Times At Ridgemont High
48 Hours
Conan the Barbarian
E.T.
Poltergeist
Blade Runner
Richard Pryor Live On The Sunset Strip
Pink Floyd The Wall
World According to Garp
Silent Rage
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Airplane II

Rocky III
Porkys
Sophie's Choice
Officer and a Gentleman
Annie
Tootsie
Rambo First Blood

I could have sworn Rocky III was released in 1983, but I looked it up and it was released in 1982.

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The Accountant (2 stars for so-so/average)..2hrs5min....PPV.....


If you've watched Ben Affleck's body of work then you understand that his Directing/Writing is his strong suit and his Acting can be a hit or miss. The trailer for The Accountant had me convinced the flick was gonna be some Great Spy'like Shit or something...The first 30-minutes moves very slow...The Flashback scenes will either get on your nerves or you'll embrace them.....Ben was trying way to hard to sell the character and the "issues" that came along with the character....You could tell he was "acting" and he did not possess the role or deliver a believable performance...

The studio gave Ben 2hrs to play with because of his name and the fact that he has 2 Oscars for Writing & Producing...The story should have been told in 1hr30min NOT 2hrs..It ran too long....

Ben's latest film Live By Night also bombed over the weekend. It did not make the Top 10...

Spike Lee is better at telling a story than playing the Lead in his films...Ben needs to continue Writing/Directing/Producing and discovering NEW Talent..He needs to learn to let other Actors breathe life into his amazing scripts...

Arrival 6 / 10

logger said:

Ingela said:

I have to give it props for being about the best time traveling good intentioned alien octopus movie ever made.

Ingela said:

logger said:

Arrival 6 / 10

I agree. One of the most overrated movies in movie history. It ok. But god is does it plod around. Good to see the awards season hasn't been swayed by dim witted reviewers who felt it was "cerebral". Good god, it's an ok movie, and I have to give it props for being about the best dfsmiajg iodsjg iouidafos ygniodsau gdfiogudaoifu movie ever made. [Edited 1/16/17 10:29am]

SPOILER ALERT?!?!?!?!?!?!?

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Sing 7/10

It struck me as I watched it that they played songs from Leonard Cohen, Wham and Bowie. It was missing Prince.

Lion (2016) - A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Very emotional and true story despite the Hollywood-ized ending. 4/5

sexton said:

Lion (2016) - A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Very emotional and true story despite the Hollywood-ized ending. 4/5

might catch that this weekend, if scheduling works out. and i'm off to see the handmaiden in about 45 minutes, so i'm catching up on my delinquencies.

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manchester by the sea - 4.5/5 hopefully this doesn't sound like a movie snob-wanna-be thing to say, but i think it's so effective because it pulls back all the punches you would expect a movie like this to throw. worthy of the praise it's collected.

damosuzuki said:

sexton said:

Lion (2016) - A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Very emotional and true story despite the Hollywood-ized ending. 4/5

might catch that this weekend, if scheduling works out. and i'm off to see the handmaiden in about 45 minutes, so i'm catching up on my delinquencies.

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manchester by the sea - 4.5/5 hopefully this doesn't sound like a movie snob-wanna-be thing to say, but i think it's so effective because it pulls back all the punches you would expect a movie like this to throw. worthy of the praise it's collected.

I think Manchester by the Sea is great for the same reason. You expect it to go in familiar directions, but it doesn't.

the handmaiden - parts of this movie were very, very, very, very sexy.

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good movie, too. 2 1/2 hrs with subtitles (colour-coded so you can tell what languages are being spoken, no less) may not sound like a great time, but i thought this was a total fun, & the 150 minutes flew by. 4.5/5

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Postcards From The Edge (1990) starring Meryl Streep, Shirley Maclaine and Gene Hackman. It was written by Carrie Fisher (which was a bestseller) about a showbiz mother and daughter, I give it a 4.5 out of 5 because its funny and poignant, even more now since the passing of both Debbie and Carrie One of my fav comedies from the 90s.

Goddess4Real said:

Postcards From The Edge (1990) starring Meryl Streep, Shirley Maclaine and Gene Hackman. It was written by Carrie Fisher (which was a bestseller) about a showbiz mother and daughter, I give it a 4.5 out of 5 because its funny and poignant, even more now since the passing of both Debbie and Carrie One of my fav comedies from the 90s.

I just read two articles about Carrie and Debbie today while waiting in a doctor's office. Carrie Fisher was very insightful and funny. People should read her books.

purplethunder3121 said:

Goddess4Real said:

Postcards From The Edge (1990) starring Meryl Streep, Shirley Maclaine and Gene Hackman. It was written by Carrie Fisher (which was a bestseller) about a showbiz mother and daughter, I give it a 4.5 out of 5 because its funny and poignant, even more now since the passing of both Debbie and Carrie One of my fav comedies from the 90s.

I just read two articles about Carrie and Debbie today while waiting in a doctor's office. Carrie Fisher was very insightful and funny. People should read her books.

Yuuuup her books are very insightful and hillarious.....just finished reading The Princess Diarist (2016) she sure had a way with words. Shockaholic (2011) is my fav

Suicide Squad (2016)

The ingredients were all there for a great movie; however, even if St. Peter were editing, he couldn't have saved this mess. I give it some credit for entertainment value but the makers whiffed on this one.

The Watcher 2016. At first i was wondering if this was a horror , a supernatural thriller or a good old thriller. Inspired by a true story.

If you like a film with a twist at the end like i do this might be the film for you. 7/10

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Hidden Figures (2016) - Based on a true story. A team of African-American women provide NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program's first successful space missions.

Competently, if maybe a little too conventionally told account of the unsung women behind NASA's early space program. 3.5/5

give it a B

sexton said:

under the shadow - "In 1980s war-torn Tehran, a mother and her daughter are left alone. A missile hits their apartment building and, while it fails to explode, reality starts to blur as the young girl believes the bomb may have brought a malicious entity with it..."

i'm not enough of a cinephile to to be able to fully articulate why this worked so well when a billion other low-rent horror films that tread over similar ground don't, but i thought it was completely believable in creating an ominous & truly creepy atmosphere, and i loved it. big yay from me. 4/5

moonlight - 4.5/5. probably not much sense in me trying to add to the avalanche that's been written. the first two thirds were great, the last third was something like the most perfect terence malick short film ever.

but i do have to say, and hope that this won't sound obnoxious, that i do keep thinking in the day since i saw this of peter singer & steven pinker & their books the expanding circle & better angels of our nature. both of them have written about how the invention of the printing press & the subsequent growth of literacy & other kinds of media expanded the capacity for people to take the perspective of people who live very different lives, & i can't help but think that moonlight is the exact kind of thing they were talking about.

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Split

A-

Hacksaw Ridge 8.5 / 10

Silence 4 / 10

damosuzuki said:

moonlight - 4.5/5. probably not much sense in me trying to add to the avalanche that's been written. the first two thirds were great, the last third was something like the most perfect terence malick short film ever.

but i do have to say, and hope that this won't sound obnoxious, that i do keep thinking in the day since i saw this of peter singer & steven pinker & their books the expanding circle & better angels of our nature. both of them have written about how the invention of the printing press & the subsequent growth of literacy & other kinds of media expanded the capacity for people to take the perspective of people who live very different lives, & i can't help but think that moonlight is the exact kind of thing they were talking about.

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What is your updated top movies of 2016 list?

sexton said:

damosuzuki said:

moonlight - 4.5/5. probably not much sense in me trying to add to the avalanche that's been written. the first two thirds were great, the last third was something like the most perfect terence malick short film ever.

but i do have to say, and hope that this won't sound obnoxious, that i do keep thinking in the day since i saw this of peter singer & steven pinker & their books the expanding circle & better angels of our nature. both of them have written about how the invention of the printing press & the subsequent growth of literacy & other kinds of media expanded the capacity for people to take the perspective of people who live very different lives, & i can't help but think that moonlight is the exact kind of thing they were talking about.

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What is your updated top movies of 2016 list?

it's looking something like this right now.

1 sing street

2 tower

3 moonlight

4 the handmaiden

5 the witch

6 o.j.: made in america

7 tickled

8 the lobster

9 hell or high water

10 manchester by the sea

11 love and friendship

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there's a mass of contradictions in here, i realize. near the beginning of this thread, i gave tower a 4 & hell or high water a 4.5, yet tower is #2, while hohw sits at 9.

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all i can say is that, as our old org friend moonbeam said to me recently, there's a difference between favourite & best, & tower really stuck with me like almost no other movie has recently. i think it's incredible.

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i've also moved la la land off of my list. i've developed a bit of an iffy relationship with that movie, i guess. it seemed to have no staying power with me. tower, handmaiden, sing street have all been rattling around in my head since i saw them, but la la land was like a cinematic sand castle, gone from my memory almost as soon as it was over. maybe a 2nd viewing when it hits streaming will change that, but for the moment, it's bubbling under my top 10.

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and i edited this to put manchester... at 10 (forgot it initial posting), & then extended my list to 11 because nothing has made me laugh recently like sir james in love and friendship. i have to have it on my list, so i'm pulling a spinal tap.

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has your list changed at all?

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damosuzuki said:

sexton said:

What is your updated top movies of 2016 list?

it's looking something like this right now.

1 sing street

2 tower

3 moonlight

4 the handmaiden

5 the witch

6 o.j.: made in america

7 tickled

8 the lobster

9 hell or high water

10 love and friendship

.
there's a mass of contradictions in here, i realize. near the beginning of this thread, i gave tower a 4 & hell or high water a 4.5, yet tower is #2, while hohw sits at 9.

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all i can say is that, as our old org friend moonbeam said to me recently, there's a difference between favourite & best, & tower really stuck with me like almost no other movie has recently. i think it's incredible.

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i've also moved la la land off of my list. i've developed a bit of an iffy relationship with that movie, i guess. it seemed to have no staying power with me. tower, handmaiden, sing street have all been rattling around in my head since i saw them, but la la land was like a cinematic sand castle, gone from my memory almost as soon as it was over. maybe a 2nd viewing when it hits streaming will change that, but for the moment, it's bubbling under my top 10.

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has your list changed at all?

Sing Street at number one? wow, it's a nice movie but nothing more than that. Very enoyable,i give you that.