The Godfather. Saw it many years ago and didn’t fully appreciate. What a masterpiece. I actually don’t think I’ve seen the Godfather part 2, which is next on my list. Both are on amazon prime.
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The Godfather(s) aged well. Worth seeing every decade or so.
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I never saw Godfather part 3, but I heard it was bad. Parts 1 and 2 were great.
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Going to see Bonhoeffer tonight.
Relax, I’m From the Future on Amazon Prime.
A very silly time-travel thing with Rhys Davies playing a guy from the future who goes through a portal to the past and ends up in roughly our time period. His future is a utopia and he’s here just goofing off because he got bored. It was entertaining for sure. He’s a funny dude.
Adaption with Meryl Streep. It was for my daughter’s Film Studies class. We pretty much hated it. I hope she doesn’t get counted off for not loving it as much as her prof did.
Challengers (Prime) Tennis centric love triangle both with too much tennis and too much love and all the love seemed more like a game in addition to the tennis. I think he wanted to be slick and cool and didn’t work for me.
Kung Fu Panda 4 (Netflix) If you liked prior three KFP you will like this, if not you won’t. I dare you to remove the titles and tell 2, 3 and 4 apart. But all in all entertaining
The Sure Thing - I don’t recall ever seeing this movie. Would have been a good movie to watch with my then GF (I was 12 in '85)
I was older than you then (much younger than that now), probably saw it in a theater. Probably does not age well.
Gladiator II at the theater. Didn’t see the original (cause Russell Crowe). Didn’t need to to understand what was goin on here. Lots of blood and gore in the arena mostly. Lot’s of political gamesmanship and truly despicable emperors. I found it reasonably enjoyable but very long and the first 20 minutes, despite being a siege, were a bore. After that, it picked up nicely.
Escanaba in da Moonlight, on YouTube. Quirky love letter to the Upper Peninsula and hunting culture.
The Whale on Netflix. I can see why this was raved about as much as it was. I appreciated that I didn’t get interrupted at all by anything, not an ad, not a buffer, not a kid walking through the room, not even a need to potty. Probably my best experience watching a movie in the past couple of years.
Sounds like you DID see the first one!!
aren’t sieges inherently boring
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“Twisters”
Terrible. Glad it was “free.”
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Godfather 2. Epic.
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Yes. One of the best.
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Wicked at the theater. Never read the book or saw a live version. Not bad, a lot of screechy singing from Ariana. If you don’t already know, this is part 1. Part 2 due around this time next year.
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Saw this with my son last night. Agree that the “slowest” part was the first 20 minutes for the siege; but I think it was somewhat important from a “story-teller’s” perspective as it showed how entrenched Hanno/Lucius was with that culture and it set the stage for the character of General Acacius. Not that it really needed 20 minutes; but I feel that particular scene was still important overall.
I think the movie subtly pay homage to the first movie (a lot of “parallelism” between the two), but this was its own story with some interesting twists (in the sense of how it’ll deviate from the original).
Also say the preview for “Dead Reckoning: Part 2” . . . it looks good; and has been rebranded as Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning.
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The Muppet Christmas Carol - 1992 movie with Michael Caine as Scrooge
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Moana 2 - new Disney movie. Haven’t seen Moana1.
Not really my choice of movies to watch but we’re with the grandkids so…
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