<p>All Is Lost - Robert Redford</p>
<p>This one is totally ridiculous.</p>
<p>It’s rated 4 stars on EPIX.</p>
<p>I didn’t think American Hustle was as good as people said it was. Ditto Le Miserables. </p>
<p>I liked All is Lost. I thought it was very compelling and generally I have a very high bar for film
I hated Forest Gump for example ( pandering) and The Sixth Sense ( foreshadowing hit me like a brick.)</p>
<p>I havent seen American Hustle of Les Miserablé.
I did see Anna Karenina however, & I agree with the reviewer who said he rooted for the train.</p>
<p>Avatar</p>
<p>My husband has been a sailor since he was very young. He was appalled at how bad “All is Lost” was. We just watched it a few nights ago. He kept saying things like, “What is he doing???” “What is he thinking??” “Why is he eating canned food instead of bailing water?” If you Google “sailor reviews All is Lost,” you’ll find some funny articles!</p>
<p>My husband said if the guy had been a halfway decent sailor, he wouldn’t have gotten into that predicament in the first place.</p>
<p>I remember seeing “As Good As It Gets” because so many people raved about it. Three friends and I went to see it. We walked out after a few minutes. Blech.</p>
<p>I agree Les Miserables is not very good.
Gravity is OK. It does not deserve all the Oscar awards.</p>
<p>All Is Lost has good sounds and pictures but it does not have the logic. The guy was a seasoned yachter but did not have the basic skills to survive the disaster. All what he did led to his death.</p>
<p>Yes, MainLongHorn. I recorded from EPIX last night and watched this morning. Why he did not put on the life vest in the first place? Why he waited so long to prepare to get all necessary foods and water so he could load on the life raft? Why he did not use the plastic bags and tents on the raft to catch rain water? Cutting the empty plastic water tank was the worst thing I would never do. I would save to use as a life saving float when I don’t have a life vest. And burning paper in a plastic container? And he was surrounded with water but did not know how to put out a fire?</p>
<p>I was prepared to like All Is Lost, but bailed on it after 30 minutes… but I did like American Hustle (but might not have gone to start with if I had known it was based on Abscam – glad I didn’t know!). And I liked Les Miserable as well. Agree about Gravity, wasn’t worth the hype – I had just finished reading a book by astronaut Chris Hadfield, and there were so many things about the initial setup and problems that just would never, never have happened that way. Too much cinematic license for my taste!</p>
<p>I dont know anything about sailing, and I agree there were gaps in logic, but Ive always like Redford, especially as he got older.
I havent seen Avatar, I agree Gravity wasnt all that.
I tend to like small movies.
H & I just saw The Lunchbox and we both really liked that.
I tend to watch television more than movies, there are some really well written shows.
However, going to a theater is so much more engrossing.
We saw the trailer for the Hundred foot journey, which looked predictably charming with Helen Mirren.
<a href=“http://www.studio360.org/story/coming-soon-cinema-near-you-food/”>http://www.studio360.org/story/coming-soon-cinema-near-you-food/</a>
Movies like that dont raise my expectations so much, compared to say, Gravity.</p>
<p>I do want to see one of the Jimi Hendrix movies coming out.
Probably the one with André 3000.</p>
<p>Les Mis was tedious w all the dialogue being sung. I fell asleep on 2 two separate viewing occasions trying to get thru Inception. I also fell asleep in All is Lost , Anna Karenina, and in Dark Knight.</p>
<p>EK, Redford is just a couple of months younger than my dad. The two remind me of each other, especially at their age now. :)</p>
<p>Love Inception but you really have to be in the mood to focus all the way through. I expected to love Anna Karenina and hated it. I ended up turning it off and going to bed.</p>
<p>I didn’t like American Hustle. I understood the artistic concept: shoot a Scorsese movie as though it were a Cassavetes movie, meaning improvised dialogue. My reaction: there’s a reason Marty’s movies are scripted. </p>
<p>I’m bored by the superhero movies with all the meaningless CGI but was really disappointed in the greatly loved Dark Knight. I thought Heath Ledger was fantastic but the movie was the same pile of clichés rooted around the utterly impossible ability of the bad guy to organize hordes of minions, escape every situation, etc. And in this case the organizing bad guy with uncountable followers was a raving lunatic, which is …</p>
<p>I somewhat enjoyed Skyfall because it was true-ish to the sense of a spy film but the absurdity of it drove me nuts. The bad guy has rigged a tube train tunnel so it will explode right when the most improbable capture and escape happens … really? But what pushed me over the edge was realizing: the bad guy could have bought a plane ticket to Britain and stalked M. He didn’t need to go through an elaborate get caught/escape pile of bleep. He could have bought a ticket to Heathrow. The entire plot was unnecessary, which means they could have come up with something better.</p>
<p>But then I also disliked Saving Private Ryan back in the day. It was a standard corny war movie with a few minutes of handheld action footage at the start. My favorite bit is when we see a mounted German artillery piece with a bunch of GI’s swarming over it, then cut to closeup of a star, then of course the GI’s are killed by a blast … but where the heck did all these extra guys come from? The movie was about a small group of soldiers and suddenly there’s extra guys just to blow up in this one shot. And of course there’s a scene of a guy listening to Edith Piaf. </p>
<p>Avatar</p>
<p>Big budget copycat of Pocahontas. </p>
<p>Oh ya, sky fall was BAD.
Why not just walk around waving a flashlight?</p>
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<p>Then your dad is hot. ;)</p>
<p>I just watched Saving Private Ryan for the first time recently. It struck me that the storming of the beach took EXACTLY the first 30 minutes of the movie – I was exercising while watching, and noticed that right at the 30 minute mark they moved on from that. I did like that the “wrong” Private Ryan that they found was a VERY young and very skinny Nathan Fillian! </p>
<p>Spike Jone’s “Her”. Ugh. HATED it. Gravity was a huge disappointment to me. Actually haven’t seen a GREAT movie in a while. </p>
<p>I also didn’t think Gravity was worth all the hype, but, maybe, not watching it in a theater made a difference.</p>
<p>I enjoyed Gravity because it was on the big screen. Not wanting to see it again. Enjoyed American Hustle because of Bale and the time period. Hated Avatar. I mean really hated. </p>
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<p>Avatar, aka “Dances With Smurfs”.</p>