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Mine was My Fair Lady
50 Shades Of Blue
(11,499 posts)SarahD
(1,732 posts)Big fun and a pretty good social message.
unc70
(6,514 posts)mia
(8,481 posts)Saw Barbie with my daughter in a theater with lounge chairs. I hadn't been to a movie theater since Covid began.
Silver Gaia
(5,430 posts)With my daughter, both of us wearing pink, in our favorite theater with comfy recliner seats and lots of popcorn...it was great fun!
NoRethugFriends
(3,780 posts)Average maybe 30 movies a year in the theater.
So different an experience than TV.
Pinback
(13,648 posts)NoRethugFriends
(3,780 posts)(MY choice would be The Boy and the Heron. Subtitled version!
mahatmakanejeeves
(70,700 posts)It was in the upper parks blocks a few blocks from where one of the scenes was filmed.
leftieNanner
(16,168 posts)And before that, The Holdovers.
Both good
Mr.Bill
(24,906 posts)It's been too long ago.
AllaN01Bear
(29,796 posts)i also second what mr. bill sez..
FalloutShelter
(14,617 posts)Took my teen granddaughters, it blew their minds.
sinkingfeeling
(58,032 posts)Demobrat
(10,310 posts)Those awesome flying scenes wouldnt be the same on TV.
Squeaky41
(436 posts)Don't Look Up
Weird funny
KarenS
(5,050 posts)av8rdave
(10,662 posts)I was in MInneapolis for work with a day off and nothing to do. I enjoyed it.
Tetrachloride
(9,702 posts)cbabe
(6,812 posts)Skittles
(172,836 posts)thanks
cbabe
(6,812 posts)include the sunny weather when it was the dark cold rain of early morning training that challenged the boys.
The poverty was also underplayed. Especially in races against the wealthy east coast ivies.
I also thought the characters werent very developed.
The German/Hitler scenes standard.
I really wanted to love the movie because of the book and George Clooney as a director. But it lacked depth and subtlety.
In all I would give it an ok.
Skittles
(172,836 posts)will catch it when it streams
thanks
rogerballard
(4,017 posts)303squadron
(849 posts)It's about the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolph Hoss, and his family living right next to the camp.
NoRethugFriends
(3,780 posts)303squadron
(849 posts)It is not a film that depicts suffering, but implies it with different means. The dichotomy of the pleasant lives of the Hoss family with the sound of what is happening just over the wall that separates their house from the camp creates the intensity.
Auschwitz was originally set up as a camp for Polish political prisoners. On a 2018 visit there I found out that over 50 people sharing my mother's maiden name were slaughtered there. I can't look away!
NoRethugFriends
(3,780 posts)I did visit Auschwitz, both one and two, about 5 years ago.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(14,972 posts)303squadron
(849 posts)But it's a different film that's for sure. The stark lack of empathy depicted in the lives of the Nazi's toward the suffering of others is what happens when one group of people believe that other groups of people are subhuman.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(14,972 posts)they say... oh, so much happens! some of the small scenes, like the wife trying on the fur coat. so much meaning.
The film will stick with me for a long time.
petronius
(26,700 posts)rurallib
(64,828 posts)Skittles
(172,836 posts)not long ago
excellent
live love laugh
(16,480 posts)IcyPeas
(25,780 posts)WheelWalker
(9,415 posts)mitch96
(15,875 posts)Stuart G
(38,726 posts)MLAA
(19,800 posts)Ocelot II
(131,216 posts)Pinback
(13,648 posts)DBoon
(25,143 posts)very good
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(14,972 posts)CountAllVotes
(22,240 posts)RIP David!
rickford66
(6,094 posts)The night before the shelter in place orders.
GP6971
(38,393 posts)Just not a movie goer.
10 Turtle Day
(1,312 posts)We enjoyed it.
live love laugh
(16,480 posts)niyad
(134,016 posts)live love laugh
(16,480 posts)niyad
(134,016 posts)live love laugh
(16,480 posts)niyad
(134,016 posts)UTUSN
(77,795 posts)beveeheart
(1,547 posts)patphil
(9,222 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(23,047 posts)I built my own theater room which is better than any commercial theater so we never go anymore.
Sneederbunk
(17,638 posts)niyad
(134,016 posts)Did you just watch the anniversary showing of "My Fair Lady"? I just finished watching "Charade" again on youtube, so that does not count for your question.
MustLoveBeagles
(17,217 posts)I like Charade as well.
redqueen
(115,186 posts)I'm a horror movie buff. Really liked Terrified, which was also written and directed by Demián Rugna, so I wanted to see this one in the theater.
PufPuf23
(9,942 posts)Had a 60,000 mile service and a brake job on Jeep. Nearest theatre is over an 80-mile drive that many people would think difficult (curvy 2-lane highway along two Wild and Scenic Rivers, through National Forest and two Reservations, then over two mountain passes, more National Forest and timber industry land). Had not been to a movie in theatre since first week of January 2018 and before that whenever Depp's Finding Neverland was new.
Salesman that sold me vehicle in 2017 drove me to theatre and picked me up afterwards.
Afterwards learned the guy was a major MAGA. That explained his reaction, "Maybe my wife would like the movie", when I came out enthused and related my positive thoughts while throwing out tidbits like "Patriarchy" and how thought all the movie that "Ruth" was Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Think the salesman is nice to me because I am a good customer turns out and probably had never occurred to him, I was a lifelong Democrat.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(14,972 posts)PJMcK
(25,126 posts)Last Monday night.
Coventina
(29,937 posts)Top notch!
Excellent in every way and deeply moving.
JoseBalow
(9,738 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(11,536 posts)It was okay.
Niagara
(12,117 posts)Even B.C. (Before Covid), I only went to the movies once or twice in a year.
Rastapopoulos
(748 posts)The one that came out a couple years ago.
zanana1
(6,524 posts)My reaction was "huh"?
Luciferous
(6,601 posts)dameatball
(7,671 posts)I went with a very attractive lady and she had requested to see it. Before the movie started she informed me that she had a poster of him on her wall. She was about 52 at the time and I figured that was a bit unusual. I'm not sure what wall she was referring to but I never got to see it.
mockmonkey
(2,964 posts)My husband wanted to see Mirrors with Kiefer Sutherland. I had to look up the year that it was released.
When I was a kid in the 60's we lived within walking distance of a movie theater so we went all the time.
Now I find the sound effects and music too loud to the point that I can't hear what the actors are saying.
XanaDUer2
(15,772 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)Didn't mean to be rude to the other people in the theater, but it was so ridiculously Hollyweird that way.
WestMichRad
(3,389 posts)
I got nuthin. (It was pre-covid.)
Not a memorable film, huh?!
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)WestMichRad
(3,389 posts)But I laughed at the corniness of Star Wars, too, and it really annoyed my date.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)Drum
(10,763 posts)On my November birthday, in Saugerties NY. 2021.
cilla4progress
(26,526 posts)Barbie, also!
😆
maptap22
(278 posts)snpsmom
(791 posts)Really enjoyed it.
I try to pick carefully which films to see in theaters.
lynintenn
(813 posts)bottomofthehill
(9,422 posts)Monuments Men. It was pretty good. About saving art in WWII. Its hard for me to sit still and watch a movie in a theater. I prefer watching at home. 🏠
ProfessorGAC
(77,268 posts)With what we pay for cable, we exercise patience until we can watch at home.
I did go to the theater to see the remastered version of Star Trek: The Next Generation 2 part episode "Best Of Both Worlds".
Beyond that, I'm really stumped. Forrest Gump? "That Thing You Do"?
Really not sure.
beaglelover
(4,499 posts)First time going to the theater in our new desert home. The theater was awesome with comfortable recliners, stadium seating, so comfortable I almost fell asleep! The movie was pretty good.
Prior to that the last time we went to the movie theater was to see Top Gun Maverick.
Paladin
(32,354 posts)
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