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I can't wait til they make movies about real people again.

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Michael wrote:
go birds wrote:Another movie that I liked quite a bit more than most people is Black Death. It's movie that takes place in England during the plague, which would place it earlier than The Witch. It's about group of religious mercenaries who are tasked with finding a village suspected of witchcraft because it's untouched by the plague. You can find it on netflix.
It's absolutely brilliant, I love all the stuff Christopher Smith (director) did.

I just watched "Passengers", and...it's a bit off.
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The ship should have probably woken up the engineer when stuff kept going wrong, yes? And the ending was super-contrived, too. He specified the number of spare parts the ship had, so why didn't he just build a new auto-doc and have them both go to sleep?

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Joe Shlabotnik wrote:I can't wait til they make movies about real people again.
Here is the list of likely best picture nominees. Take your pick.

La La Land, Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea, Fences, Lion, Silence, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, Jackie, Hacksaw Ridge

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stlouie_lipp wrote:
Joe Shlabotnik wrote:I can't wait til they make movies about real people again.
Here is the list of likely best picture nominees. Take your pick.

La La Land, Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea, Fences, Lion, Silence, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, Jackie, Hacksaw Ridge
I've seen both Moonlight and Hell or High Water and can recommend both.

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lukethedrifter wrote:
stlouie_lipp wrote:
Joe Shlabotnik wrote:I can't wait til they make movies about real people again.
Here is the list of likely best picture nominees. Take your pick.

La La Land, Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea, Fences, Lion, Silence, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, Jackie, Hacksaw Ridge
I've seen both Moonlight and Hell or High Water and can recommend both.
Hell or High Water was probably my favorite movie of the year.

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stlouie_lipp wrote:
lukethedrifter wrote:
stlouie_lipp wrote:
Joe Shlabotnik wrote:I can't wait til they make movies about real people again.
Here is the list of likely best picture nominees. Take your pick.

La La Land, Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea, Fences, Lion, Silence, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, Jackie, Hacksaw Ridge
I've seen both Moonlight and Hell or High Water and can recommend both.
Hell or High Water was probably my favorite movie of the year.

Pretty much a modern day western. Loved it as well.

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Saw "Fences". It is ok-acting was great. probably better to be kept as a play-slow as a full length film.

Saw it with large family group-I liked it more than the rest. Some wanted more feel-good. It had enough

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Another thumb up for "Hell or High Water"

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Joe Shlabotnik wrote:I can't wait til they make movies about real people again.
Sometimes movies not about real people make the best statement about real people, to me.

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Famous Mortimer wrote:
Michael wrote:
go birds wrote:Another movie that I liked quite a bit more than most people is Black Death. It's movie that takes place in England during the plague, which would place it earlier than The Witch. It's about group of religious mercenaries who are tasked with finding a village suspected of witchcraft because it's untouched by the plague. You can find it on netflix.
It's absolutely brilliant, I love all the stuff Christopher Smith (director) did.

I just watched "Passengers", and...it's a bit off.
[SHOW]
The ship should have probably woken up the engineer when stuff kept going wrong, yes? And the ending was super-contrived, too. He specified the number of spare parts the ship had, so why didn't he just build a new auto-doc and have them both go to sleep?
Passengers is one I'll probably watch eventually but I'm not sure I'll like it after some of what I've heard.
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The motivation behind his actions is SUPER creepy and just wrong. At least according to a review I read. Picking through the passengers to find yourself a play toy for yourself since you're the only man awake and depriving her of the chance to live to see the new planet all so you can try and make her love you with no competition around is kind of messed up.

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