Tag: movies
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Story telling: In the heat of the night 2/2
In the hunt for key scenes in movies, it was hard to make a decision for In the heat of the Night. In an earlier post I showed one scene somewhat one-third into the movie where Virgil Tibbs is sitting at a train station waiting for the train so he can leave the town of…
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Movie Thoughts: Saving Private Ryan
The clue is given at the beginning. We start with an unknown old man at a war memorial cemetery. He isn’t named. We don’t know where he is. At the end of the scene the old man stares into the screen the movie fades into June 1944. The beach is called Dog Green. Is this…
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Movie review: American Sniper
Just like Fury isn’t a movie about World War II, American Sniper isn’t about the Iraq wars. Nor is it about 9/11 and it’s aftermath. And certainly not about an American Sniper. This movie is about America
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Story-telling: The hobbit – The battle of the five armies.
Yesterday I saw the Hobbit – The Battle of the Five Armies, and wrote a short scathing critique of the movie on metacritic. This third episode is simply a long series of fights interspersed with some dialog. However, besides giving criticism I want to learn from such movies, so I am going to write a few short notes the…
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Henry and Kristl travelled to Solaris(2002)
—— “It’s a George Clooney movie, so I bet we get lots of women wanting to see this,” Henry grinned, “Clooney smiling; Clooney sleeping; Clooney talking; Clooney looking hurt..Women will get a meltdown watching this movie.” “Unless you’re a hardcore lesbian, I guess.” Henry continued and then glanced at Kristl, with her short…
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Henry and Kristl spaced out on The Road(2009)
“Bleak, bleaker, bleakest. Is there a word that would top bleakest?” “Sunshine,” Henry said. “Sunshine?” Kristl’s jaw dropped and she gave Henry a look of incredulity. “Yes. It certainly would top bleakest.” “I am somehow missing…” “After the rain comes sunshine. Every dark cloud has silver lining. Come winter, come summer. So despair will inevitably…
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Henry and Kristl dwell on Dune(2000)
“So that was Dune.” Henry said with a wry smile. Halfway through the movie they had started a game of backgammon and followed the series in a half hearted way. Then they had enjoyed a Chinese- Indonesian take out diner. Kristl had suggested to order it as it was her time to cook and she…
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Henry and Kristl took the Bridge at Remagen
“Once more over the bridge, my dear friends.” Henry waved a stick around and was wearing a bucket for a helmet. Kristl had noted that this bucket was quite versatile as it functioned as helmet from any time period and place and universe, including ancient roman times, fantasy worlds like Lord of the Rings and…
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Henry and Kristl barely survived Gettysburg
“Oh my god..” Kristl was holding her head between her hands. “Did you know there is an extended version.” Henry gave her a rueful look.. It is only seventeen minutes longer. So well, if you plan to sit through the whole movie, you might as well add the extra eight percent of the extended version.…
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Henry and Kristl saw The Patriot (2000)
“They were not Germans?” Kristl asked “What?” Henry said. “Who? The English? Germans? Germans! That was a deliberate joke wasn’t it.” “Well, they burned all those people in that church.. Didn’t something like that happen in the Second World War. Although, maybe it would be safe to say those were Nazis… not Germans. But that…
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