Movies

i watched adventures of Brisco county when it came out.. just put that in my netflix at home Q. i like bruce campbell lots.

watched MadMax this weekend.. all the various vehicles were cool.. good enough i guess.

got jurassic world this weekend. like first movie ive bought in forever

such a good movie

In anticipation of seeing the new Mamet play next month, I watched Glengarry Glen Ross this weekend. Such a great movie.

I watched Bone Tomahawk too and also thought it didn't suck, but I was wondering why the hell Kurt Russel bothered with it, because it wasn't anything special. Is that where his career is now?

lol.

I finally got around to watch J.J. Abrams Star Trek. It was pretty good, but not what people had hyped it up to be.

The second one is supposed to be better but they do that tired "the villain PLANNED to be captured" thing and I do not love that angle when it's not done well.

i had a good time watching Jurassic World. Obviously it's not winning any awards but it was still entertaining.

I don't think it compares to Jurassic Park. So much tension and drama in the original. Jurassic World wasn't scary at any point like JP was.

Jurassic Park is a very good big budget flick but "one of the best movies ever made"?

Let's calm down a bit.

I think I have found one shortcoming of this site format: I can't quote 2 posts in a new post, only 1. I raise this here, as I intended to quote the last post from both bigswifty and Frodo, re: Mamet. so, I just like you both instead.

anyway re: Mamet--as a playwright, I love him. as a filmmaker, it tends to be more like: love every third film, like every third film, hate every third film, repeat ad infinitum. his plays--ones I've seen at least--are personal and psychological, but when he writes for the screen, he tends to go heavy on political thriller kinda stuff, and it can get a little unnecessarily complex at times, to me at least. But, I really, really like Things Change, and I loved Phil Spector, the HBO flic he wrote and directed about (of course) Phil Spector, specifically his legal defense team--and I particularly loved it because, as a crim defense attorney, I thought the way the characters formulated the strategy was the most honest portrayal of the way crim defense attorneys come up with a defense I have ever seen on film--Mirren and Tambor (their characters actually, but I don't remember the character names) go through several realistic discussions where they debate how much they feel they can trust a jury with reasonable doubt versus how much they play the trial defense toward the jury's biases and preconceptions. and, of course, each of these discussions is dome replete with Mametian dialogue too.

Frodo, report back on the play when you can, please. and, yes, glengarry glen ross--great flic and great play (main differences: A. Baldwin's character is not in the play; and in the play, the whole first act is a series of 1 on 1 dialogues taking place in the Chinese restaurant).