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[OL Patch]

Finally a movie that embraces all that is right with America. Loved it.

[pawnman]

Good. One of the worst books I have ever read. Author couldn't be bothered to put his good ideas in a coherent format, so he disguised it as a hip, unconventional method of story-telling that's all over the place and leaves the reader to invent the better part of the story.

I think it actually took a little more skill to weave together the disparate stories to paint a broad picture of what the zombie apocalypse would like like from many angles. Perhaps I'm also influenced in that I didn't read it, but got the audiobook for a cross-country car trip. The audiobook employs many, many well known actors for the readings...Mark Hamill as the soldier, Carl Reiner as the VP, Alan Alda as the POTUS, and Max Brooks doing the intro, for starters. I was riveted the entire time.

[OL Patch]

Skyfall matinee with the wife. Favorite of the entire series...Javier Bardem best villain in awhile:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Bardem

Recommend

Edited November 10, 2012 by OL Patch

[brickhistory]

2 on Skyfall.

Traditional Bond movie which is what I pay my money for.

[Royal]

When the first five minutes involved a fist fight on top of a moving train, complete with ducking through tunnel after tunnel, I thought it was just going to be a rehash of other action movies.

That scene was like reliving combatives training at OTS.

[LJDRVR]

Saw Flight last night.

I was especially interested after watching a Charlie Rose interview with Denzel Washington and Robert Zemeckis.

It exceeded my expectations which were pretty high going in. Great look at addiction issues.

And some nice skin up front...gratuitous or or not.

Saw it last night - great movie. Of course they missed on a point or two. (Like accelerating to get through the severe turbulence faster.) But it wasn't really an aviation movie, it was about addiction and struggling with what it is to be human again and reclaim the truth. Denzel Washington did such a great job with the character that the less than real dynamics didn't matter at all. Good casting, good dialogue. Really well-done movie.

The funniest thing is that my passengers are coming up to me at work. I was buying a magazine in Honolulu to read on my redeye to Dulles this week and some lady asked me if I had seen it yet.

"It's really kind of frightening to realize that sort of thing might be happening." She told me.

It took all my self control to not answer:

"No, ma'am - that sort of thing only occurs at Southwest...............

.....and Delta."

Too funny.

Edited November 11, 2012 by LJDRVR

[spaceman]

Wife and I also saw Skyfall this afternoon. Bardem made a great villain! I nerdgasmed pretty good when M and Bond 'switched vehicles.'

[pawnman]

Saw it last night - great movie. Of course they missed on a point or two. (Like accelerating to get through the severe turbulence faster.) But it wasn't really an aviation movie, it was about addiction and struggling with what it is to be human again and reclaim the truth. Denzel Washington did such a great job with the character that the less than real dynamics didn't matter at all. Good casting, good dialogue. Really well-done movie.

The funniest thing is that my passengers are coming up to me at work. I was buying a magazine in Honolulu to read on my redeye to Dulles this week and some lady asked me if I had seen it yet.

"It's really kind of frightening to realize that sort of thing might be happening." She told me.

It took all my self control to not answer:

"No, ma'am - that sort of thing only occurs at Southwest...............

.....and Delta."

Too funny.

I'm looking forward to it. Our safety officer told me the trailers look just like USAF safety: "Well, you saved hundreds of people...but we're going to start disciplinary proceedings for x, y, and z".

Edited November 11, 2012 by pawnman

[billy pilgrim]

Flight - solid A... The FO cracked me up.

Cloud Atlas - C+ definitely had a Wachowski / Matrix feel to it but not even close as good of a movie. I'd wait for DVD if you decide to see it at all.

[Fuzz]

Skyfall A+, had a little more classical James Bond feel to me, only negative part was the lack of females "acquaintances" in the plot.

[Prozac]

Saw Skyfall last night. Not a bad way to spend a couple hours, but the cliches make it ultimately forgettable.

Uhhh, would you expect anything different from a Bond flick?

[AZwildcat]

Uhhh, It was more or less about what I expected. Good Bond movie, no new concepts (except for the bisexual villan and feminism). I was more impressed with the first Daniel Craig Bond flick.

Casino Royale was the shit, hard to top...but I think Skyfall was just as good. As much as I enjoy wearing pajamas to work everyday, Bond movies make me wish I got to wear well cut suits and nail the hot secretary.

[Danger41]

Casino Royale was the shit, hard to top...but I think Skyfall was just as good. As much as I enjoy wearing pajamas to work everyday, Bond movies make me wish I got to wear well cut suits and nail the hot secretary.

Just become a 4 star/one of his buddies.

https://news.msn.com/politics/general-investigated-for-emails-with-petraeus-friend

[billy pilgrim]

Wife and I also saw Skyfall this afternoon. Bardem made a great villain! I nerdgasmed pretty good when M and Bond 'switched vehicles.'

Javier Bardem is probably the best movie villain of all time. (no country for old men)

Just saw Skyfall, definitely one of the better bond flicks.

[Guest]

Just saw Skyfall, definitely one of the better bond flicks.

Really? I saw it last night and fell asleep a couple times. Good thing people had cell phones going off to wake me up.

Seriously, it did drag a bit.

[HossHarris]

Lincoln was definitely worth the $8.50 and two hours. I think ddl will probably bag another Oscar along with a few other folks.

[Groundbounder]

Really? I saw it last night and fell asleep a couple times. Good thing people had cell phones going off to wake me up.

Seriously, it did drag a bit.

I thought the same thing. Also, not enough T&A and the whole retreat to the wilderness without taking a shit-ton of weapons and explosives was lame. To top it off, trying to escape while walking in the open swinging the flashlight back and forth was just stupid as fvck.

I saw Argo within the same week and thought it was a much better movie. But then again, my interest in the story may be because it happened while I was "Cold Warrior-ing".

[sputnik]

Really? I saw it last night and fell asleep a couple times. Good thing people had cell phones going off to wake me up.

Seriously, it did drag a bit.

Same,

Completely beside the point, the island seemed too weird to be totally made up. Some google-fu later: https://gakuranman.com/gunkanjima-ruins-of-a-forbidden-island/ Be fun to spend a few hours wandering around.

[Vertigo]

Really? I saw it last night and fell asleep a couple times. Good thing people had cell phones going off to wake me up.

Seriously, it did drag a bit.

https://www.livestrong.com/article/104441-cialis-mg-side-effects/

[Guest]

That took longer than I thought it would.

[Spoo]

That's what she said.

[spaceman]

STS

EDIT: Dammit you beat me to it................................................................ sts

Edited November 19, 2012 by spaceman

[brickhistory]

Lincoln was definitely worth the $8.50 and two hours. I think ddl will probably bag another Oscar along with a few other folks.

Solid acting; lots of famous names in even the bit roles.

Meticulous attention to detail of the period - war surgery was spot on.

Lots of crescendoing (sp?) music with wide-eyed Spielberg-signature looks in amazement.

I give it a solid "meh."

Don't know why, but it was just ok for me. Wife really liked it.

[BlackKnight]

That took longer than I thought it would.

Well, you did leave the door wide open.

[Danger41]

Solid acting; lots of famous names in even the bit roles.

Meticulous attention to detail of the period - war surgery was spot on.

Lots of crescendoing (sp?) music with wide-eyed Spielberg-signature looks in amazement.

I give it a solid "meh."

Don't know why, but it was just ok for me. Wife really liked it.

Interesting factoid: The sound you hear from his pocket watch during the film is recorded from Lincoln's actual pocket watch from his presidential library.

I really wonder if that movie would have affected the Presidential election with the Democrats painted as a bunch of racist, slave holding jerks and the Republicans as the great hope for black people. Please don't assume this sentence is a Democrat bat signal to start another political jihad in a good thread (@nsplayr).