Watched The Quiet Man today per our usual St. Patrick’s day tradition.
The scene that always makes me think is when John Wayne walks into the pub for the first time and says something like “I’ll try the black beer”.
If that movie was made today instead of the 1950s, there would certainly be Guinness product placement—he’d order it by name, and the camera would slowly zoom in on the cascading bubbles.
I finally watched One Battle After Another on a flight last night. All I can say is I’m still reeling.
I remember thinking that it was clear the film had been crafted and shot at a time this was thought to be imaginary-but-possible-future-dystopian, and as I sat watching some parts looked like present-day reality with some grotesque exaggeration, not at all like Soylent Green or Hunger Games with their “look, this is what MIGHT happen if x or z continues”.
H and I watched Song Sung Blue the other night and thought it was really good. Kate Hudson did an excellent job in my opinion.
Thanks for the feedback. I see it can be rented on Apple of Flix. Did you see at theater?
No we watched it on Peacock.
Ditto. Also Hamnet is now available on Peacock.
I’m getting my $$ worth from Peacock! Lots of lesser known sports and my favorite shows without commercials- yay.
I have not watched Hamnet yet, but plan to. D2 watched Bugonia on Peacock the other day and said it was interesting.
Hamnet was an excellent book. But quite sad in places. I lent it to a friend who agreed it was good but asked me to in the future pick more lighthearted stories.
I found the book very sad. I am going to watch the movie, but I have heard that it is devastating.
Hamnet is really great, but yes, devastating.
I know I’ll need to be in the right mood to watch Hamnet.
It was DH’s birthday yesterday. We went out for dinner and then a late showing of “Project Hail Mary” since the earlier one was sold out. We really enjoyed it. It’s a good story with a lot of humor. Of course, you totally have to suspend disbelief. 
DH gave it a 10 - I can’t remember the last film that he rated so highly.
Good to hear! Going to watch it tomorrow at the chichi 21-over theater.
Also high marks on Hail Mary. It’s very long but the time flew by.
I hesitate to post this because I’m kinda confused. I read Hamnet and waited with anticipation for the movie. DH and I watched it last night. Honestly, I was a bit bored and didn’t catch the pathos at all. It didn’t move me a bit. I don’t know why. It would be hard to say I didn’t “get it” because it’s a pretty straightforward film without much to “get.” I know Hamlet inside and out, but this movie is not about that. It’s a fictional overlay of Shakespeare and his wife’s grief over the death of their son onto one of his most famous plays. It seemed forced and disjointed; the play and the reality didn’t mesh in any way that engaged me. In the last scene, all I could do was stare at the Hamlet actor’s weird hair. I’ve never been at odds like this with a film I so looked forward to. Maybe I have to think about it some more, but I wouldn’t watch it again, so maybe I just have to file this one under “Let It Go.”
@ChoatieMom, You’re not alone. I felt the exact same way.
I just signed up for a free screening of “A Great Awakening” next week.
Exploring the friendship between renowned preacher George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin and looking into Whitefield’s impact during the pivotal Great Awakening religious movement.
I appreciate your perspective @ChoatieMom. I had intended to watch it in the theater, but backed off because I am such an ugly crier and had heard it was a 3 hankie minimum movie. I watched it on Peacock about 10 days ago and I found it to be beautiful in the acting and in the sets, but the story didn’t press my emotional buttons until the last few minutes and then, just barely. It wasn’t bad, IMO, but it definitely didn’t live up to the expectations I had from the press.
ETA: to give you a perspective on how easy it is to turn on my water works, I just got home from having birthday dinner for my middle GD at a Mexican restaurant where they would let her wear the sombrero while they sang HBD. Dinner was chaos, but D began describing seeing A League of Their Own as a child to SIL I started crying while she described the last scene at the Baseball Hall of Fame and she even got teary as well. I also cry at verbal descriptions of Field of Dreams and Beaches, among others. Hamnet was okay-ish, but nowhere in the emotional category of some of my favorites.
Tonight we enjoyed The Illusionist.