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I've been a fan of Hans Zimmer's music since his work on Black Rain (1989). But, I just wanted to say watching this film I found the instrumental music evoked a heightened overall feeling of suspense and dread. I couldn't watch it all at once in one sitting!๐ฌ He did an excellent job in mastering the hopeless and helpless feeling these boys must've felt waiting for deliverance from a foe greater and more cruel than they could imagine. I'm sure it couldn't have come fast enough. Anyways great work once again from a master composer!๐
Totally!๐ I thought that throughout the film while watching her. She definitely could play a younger Amy Adams.
"...The original story was an early 1960โs set tale, which makes the actions of Bowers a bit more understandable than the more constrained 1980โs."
Tbh I didn't know that. That's interesting. Perhaps it probably would've played out more coherently if the original setting was kept as a sense of 1960s small town dynamics was evoked by the film for me. I've only read King's novella, <i>The Shawshank Redemption</i> due to my love of the film. Along with <i>The Green Mile</i>, they are imo the two best adaptations of King's works!๐ Other movie adaptations of King's books that I enjoyed watching were <i>Stand By Me</i> and <i>11.22.63</i>.
"The 1990โs television miniseries is a different entity that shouldnโt be compared to the 2017 incarnation..."
Having watched the original TV mini-series as a teenager I couldn't help, but compare it with this remake while watching the film. Tbh I utterly detested the ending of the 1990 TV version, which I found confusing. This film, however, I found to be superior in contrast. I didn't really compare it to <i>Stand By Me</i> at all even though as you, and others, rightly pointed out there were common elements. I guess with King having grown up in the 1950s and 1960s as a youth he'd no doubt use such a period as an ideal setting for many of his novels. And being the hopeless nostalgic that I am idealizing the 1920s to 1950s era of American history it's not surprising as there's always been a market for such period pieces in novels and films.
Agree!๐ I'm half way through the film myself and I was like, "This guy looks like River Phoenix!" I wonder if it was deliberate seeing it was set in the late 1980s or not. Anyway, not such a bad thing to look like him if one were to resemble someone famous๐
And speaking of lookalikes I thought the gorgeous red-haired Sophia Lillis could definitely play a younger Amy Adams!๐
Similar to yatzo376 I imagined either two scenarios. Both Mildred and Dixon venture to Idaho to find Crop-Haired Guy. When they do she recognizes him as the guy who threatened her in her shop. Then they interrogate him and he confesses. Then either
1) they kill him, burn his body and bury him so nothing remains. They then return home and give each other a cover story so in the future if they're asked about their whereabouts etc. they can give a satisfactory explanation where they went, who they were with, and know nothing about that guy's disappearance or homicide
OR
2) They bring him back to face justice. The DNA matches and Dixon is reinstated as a cop. I much prefer the latter (2) scenarioโบ๏ธ
I took it generally as a warning that the act to choose hatred, vengeance and/or violence to solve an issue never ends the way one thinks it will. It only causes more problems and impacts those hurt (besides the offender him/herself) in unintended ways that are never even considered. It's definitely a lesson or parable about "karma." Like Confucius put it, "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." You lose something good within yourself when you choose to act violently against yourself, another (or their property) as if the mantra "The end justifies the means" absolves all wrongdoing if your selfish motive is "good."
They were all just splendid! If I had to choose a favorite it'd have to be "Never Enough" as it was belted out superbly and Idk if it's coz I've got a thing for redheads, but Rebecca Ferguson dressed all in white with that dark auburn hair and those red-colored lips was just sublime!๐ Next would have to be "This is Me" with Keala Settle singing as it was such a "fighting" chorus of a song so befitting of her (and all of her tribe of "freaks" tbh) vulnerable and wounded character in spite of her "warrior"-like demeanor--Could so relate to their feelings of isolation and unfairness! *sigh* Then "A Million Dreams" at the start of the film sung by a younger P.T. and Charity was just mesmerizing and so appealing--a great song to get young and old to dream and hope again!
Totally loved it too!๐ I took my two younger nieces and mom and we all enjoyed it thoroughly. It was a beautiful story well told. The setting was just charming, the characters were engaging, the choreography was fun and the songs were memorable and meaningful. I've already downloaded the soundtrack and have been bopping to it in the car just like this [url]https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1354599011352014&id=1264055823739667&refsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2FJohnsonFiles%2Fvideos%2F1354599011352014%2F&_rdr[/url]๐ A terrific film!๐
I enjoyed it as a "popcorn flick" myself aware that it was being promoted as "based on a true story" not "a true story" and thus the team behind the film would take artistic license to add to or take from the real story. Some of the differences between fact and fiction are highlighted at [url]http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/american-made[/url].
Besides that I came across Daniel Hopsicker's blog, who's written extensively on this issue over the past several years now besides one of the most definitive books on Seal entitled, "Barry and the Boys". His blog's recently noted some interesting connections between the JFK assassination and Seal [url]http://www.madcowprod.com[/url].
If you want to see another film on Barry Seal check out the TV movie <i>Doublecrossed</i> (1991) ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH-cuspaCac[/url]) starring the late Dennis Hopper.
Agree! I watched this the other night and simply adored the night scenes with the glowing lamps giving such a vivid luminescence to it not unlike Thomas Kinkade's paintings! Just mesmerisingly beautiful! ๐
I watched [i]Spider-Man: Homecoming[/i] the other night and tbh I noticed this as well particularly in the final scene when the camera pans from his feet to his face. I was thinking to myself, "His groin looks kinda flat." It looked odd as it was more like a female's anatomy than a man's. For instance, when I'm wearing even loose tracksuit pants you can see the outline of my "manhood." Maybe they didn't want his natural male form to evoke any sensual feelings especially on a subconscious level from their younger audience?
My apologies in advance if I seem to be obtuse. But, from what I've read concerning Rapp's allegations of Spacey's "sexual assault" towards him seems imo to be relatively innocuous. Of course this doesn't absolve Spacey and neither am I, by any means, defending his wholly inappropriate and improper actions with a teenage Rapp. But, the alleged "assault" was isolated to a single incident involving an intoxicated Spacey picking Rapp up, laying him on his bed, climbing on top of him and making an untoward sexual advance at him in an alleged attempt to seduce him. It obviously left an indelible mark on Rapp to such a degree, like all sexually loaded experiences do, that he could never look at or face Spacey again without the encounter being called to mind. So I feel deeply sorry for Rapp that he's had to live with that memory ever since. I'm curious, however, what Rapp feels he'll get out of it now having waited over 30 years for it to be brought to the media spotlight and Spacey claiming he has no memory of the alleged "assault." It's not dissimilar imo to Corey Feldman's allegations of a network of pedophiles in Hollywood, six of whom he claims he can name, including one of whom he alleges is still "very powerful." And yet, he is content to sit on this information for decades and only now with the Weinstein scandal breaking does he choose to come out, but not to name names. He comes out seeking funds to expose these men in a tell-all movie! Perhaps it's more an indictment on the media than anything else that has contributed to this "conspiracy of silence" for so long (see e.g. "An Open Secret documentary in which if memory serves Bryan Singer is hinted at, if not named, as a pedophile) that has prevented young boys and girls to bring to the attention of their perpetrators the offense at the time it's committed rather than allow so many years and decades to pass by and the potential of more victims and other young lives to be ruined.
Agree totally! I didn't like "Trainwreck" either except for John Cena's parts, which I found hilarious. But, this film actually was more consistently funny throughout. I think the IMDb scores should be switched and "Trainwreck" should be 4/10 while "Snatched" is worth a solid 6 imo.
That song reminds me of the old joke I heard way back in Year 5 of a bus driver picking up passengers on his route and he asks each their name and the punchline is after a traffic accident I think it was he's asked who's on board and says, "There's all 2 big Patty's, Special Ross, and Lesterceeze picking bunions on a Sesame Street bus." ;-)
So I went to check it out for myself today. Although reviews from friends and family have been positive I was kinda disappointed. I liked the first half of the film. The setting up of Baby's romance with Debora; Doc's unquestioned confidence in Baby to get his team out after a robbery; Doc's planning for the bank heists; Baby's cool, quick getaways with the police in pursuit; and even the shaky relationship between Bats and Baby. I also enjoyed the minimal dialog as it was like watching a music video to some good beats. But, the latter half turned into a bloody mess for me--literally. I just didn't like all the violence, the pointless gore and the bodies piling up. [spoiler]I didn't like Baby stopping the car when Bats told him he wanted to go to the diner (where Debora works); Baby's stupid decision to go ahead with the final heist; Baby killing Bats in the car accident; Baby abandoning Buddy and Darling leading to the latter's death; and Buddy turning into the villain killing Doc and hunting down Baby.[/spoiler] So for me it started as a cool and original flick, but then fell into a cliche of past heist flicks with people killing each other and rather boring.
Tbh I haven't eaten at Maccas for at least 4 years now due to my inexplicable poor digestive health. But, I do miss the freedom I had in the past to eat there or some other fast food joint whenever I was out and about.
Having watched [i]The Founder[/i] last night though I was just appalled by Kroc's poor character. If this film is true to life then he was a sordid covetous manโHis lying, thieving, adulterous ways left a very bad taste in my mouth. I felt sorry for Ethel Kroc and the McDonald bros. who were tossed aside like garbage all for Kroc's rabidly cold and unconscionable ambition. I guess it's true that, "Ambition knows no father," nor any loyalty whatsoever. Kroc may have had persistence, but he was a man of unscrupulous morals.
Really?! Every time I see him I nostalgically think of the laughs I had watching him in [i]The Drew Carey Show[/i] when I was still at college. Good times, good times...
Totally agree! I thought it was going to be slow and rather boring, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. And the setting was just sublime especially the external London scenes with the mist in the air and subdued street lighting๐ *sigh*
I am so thankful I didn't go online and read posts, particularly yours, before watching the whole season! I seriously don't know why you couldn't have added the spoiler option to your post to ensure those who intended to view the show could do so without having the twist revealed to them๐
Anyways for me I hadn't heard much at all except for perhaps late night talk show hosts interviewing one or more of the actors who talked a bit about it. So I basically went in watching it without any real expectations at all. Tbh I found it slow to begin with, but as the plot unfolded I couldn't get enough and from the 4th episode onwards found it totally compelling. I didn't know who was going to be killed or who was going to be the killer. And truth be told when the twist came around I honestly didn't even see it coming so it blew me right away! It'd be pretty cool after thinking you're an only child for so long to learn you've got half brothers and twins to boot!๐
Ahh...I just checked out those earlier scenes and you're correct. That's so brilliant, now I get it, thank you so very much! ;-) [spoiler]So after Schmidt gives Sloane the note she folds it away and later calls to arrange a meeting with Jane. This is just prior to Sloane jumping ship. And it's Jane who's seen last with that note implying that they were actually connected and still working together all this time.[/spoiler]