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Saw Inside Out for the second time. It may be a new all-time favorite.
 
phil_at_dayboro said:
Not sure if I’ll see that one,it’s a children’s movie,and we’re all out of ankle biters ,🙂
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It’s an all-ages movie (except for little kids). Adults can learn from it just as much as kids can. Though with its heavy psychological aspects and emotional content, I’d say that it could appeal more to adults than kids.
 
On the Waterfront ran on one of our local cable channels the other night.

What an amazing movie. A couple of things really stood out for me.

It had a truly amazing cast. Marlon Brando, of course, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, and Eva Marie Saint.

Brando’s as Terry Malloy reminded me that he was once a great, great actor. His big moment, the “I could have been a contender” speech in the back of a cab with his mobster brother, is heartbreaking.

Karl Malden as Father Barry is great, too, and it was a great role (based on the real-life Jesuit, Father John Corridan). We could use more priests like that today.
 
I really love The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit movies. Each time I watch them I see the Christian symbolism in them.

And I know a lot of people will disagree with this, but the Harry Potter movies. Yes wizards witches are involved but they’re in fairy tales too. What I have have also observed what some people call racism toward Muggles. What I’m interpreting is persecution toward the Jews in the Second World War. Remember, marriage between Jews and so called Aryans was banned. Jews homes and businesses were burned down, and families murdered before the genocide began. I’m not sure that children get this, but I believe it’s a good analogy. The movies aren’t as good as the books but the line is clear between good and evil, and hate and love. And Harry’s love and sympathy toward other people as well as the neglect and cruelty of his aunt and uncle without him complaining and turning bitter is also good.
 
Just saw Exodus , Gods and kings,

Not sure if it’s how I remember from reading the story of Moses years ago,
But a good Effort anyway,
What watching the movie has done, if make me read the Bible Story again,
Anything that makes or encourage a person to Read the Bible is a good thing,🙂
 
catholicmoviene said:
Citizen Kane (1941)
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Yes-! Thank you-! This really is one of the best movies ever made, and to explain why it is (among many reasons): the life-imitating-art back story of Orson Welles criticizing William Randolph Hearst - the equivalent to someone criticizing Bill Gates or Warren Buffett - not to mention the parallels to Orson Welles’ own life (numerous unfinished films) – and the way the story is filmed – every image of every shot is in clear focus – usually, only the foreground is in focus – case in point: I love the scene where they pick up then-child Charles Foster playing with his sled in the snow in the background where you can see Agnes Moorehead (Endora from ‘Bewitched’) in the house at the window – oh, I could go on at the brilliance of the movie – this really made my day.

Huge ‘Citizen Kane’ fan. 👍
 
randomuser said:
Yes-! Thank you-! This really is one of the best movies ever made, and to explain why it is (among many reasons): the life-imitating-art back story of Orson Welles criticizing William Randolph Hearst - the equivalent to someone criticizing Bill Gates or Warren Buffett - not to mention the parallels to Orson Welles’ own life (numerous unfinished films) – and the way the story is filmed – every image of every shot is in clear focus – usually, only the foreground is in focus – case in point: I love the scene where they pick up then-child Charles Foster playing with his sled in the snow in the background where you can see Agnes Moorehead (Endora from ‘Bewitched’) in the house at the window – oh, I could go on at the brilliance of the movie – this really made my day.

Huge ‘Citizen Kane’ fan. 👍
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I do agree that it is a brilliant film, and it deserves it’s praise as “the greatest movie ever made,” though it’s not one of my personal favorites. Heck, the most intimidating thing about treasuring it more than I actually do is because of its reputation.
 
Into the Blue

Treasure hunting, avoiding greed, drug dealers, sharks, and holding up integrity against these trying temptations … Love this movie.
 
A Friend on C A. Suggested I watch,What about Bob,
Staring Bill Murry & Richard Dreyfus , I’m glad I watched it,very funny movie,

I also saw Birdman, didn’t like it one bit ,
 
Giggly_Giraffe said:
Into the Blue

Treasure hunting, avoiding greed, drug dealers, sharks, and holding up integrity against these trying temptations … Love this movie.
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I looked up this movie on IMDb and saw Ashley Scott in the cast (I always remember her from the tv series “Jericho”). And then I went to the IMDb main page and saw that it’s her birthday :confused:
 
I’ll take Casablanca over Citizen Kane. I studied Citizen Kane in film school and was unimpressed by it. A lot of camera tricks do not a great film make. There’s no heart in the story. I don’t care for films that moralize about the fate of the rich–as if being rich automatically dooms one to being power-crazed and miserable. The same for You Can’t Take with You, which won the Academy Award merely because it touted socialism, which was all the rage in Hollywood at the time. YCTIWY is mostly forgotten now, but films like Casablance live on because they tell a univeral story without any political point, even though it too gave lip service to socialism. Casablanca rose above polemics and needed no fancy camera tricks to tell a truly touching story.
 
I just watched Arranged, about an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who start working at the same school and become friends. They’re particularly bound together by the fact that their parents are working to get them married off. I thought it was a wonderfully sweet and positive story about families trying to live holy lives amid the confusion and hostility of the modern world. The ending is happy.
 
I recently watched an excellent documentary titled Antartica: A Year on Ice. The title is pretty self-explanatory - it follows the lives of people living and working in Antarctica for a year. There is also some stunning stop-motion photography, worth watching the movie just for that. It’s on Netflix Streaming.
 
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