This. Positive reviews are surprising.

I thought it was the worst of the 3 but still entertaining. Like you said, you either like them or you don’t, and if you like them you will enjoy 3.

I picked up the Criterion print of Being There for my brother for Christmas. Looking forward to watching, haven't seen it in years.

Didn't know she had retired, either. Easily one of the most beautiful movie stars ever

Just saw it and enjoyed. I love these movies so if you like the first 2 this is more of the same very entertaining mix. Not sure if there will be a 4 but I'll go if there is.

I got to see her on the big screen last summer in 2046. I realize that this argument has been beaten to death, but some of these actors/movies take on a completely new life in a real movie theater. Gong Li is stunning in more ways than one.

I have this... it's good given the era of film.

I just bought the new 4k uhd version of the dark knight... it's spectacular on oled.

A Trip to Spain stars Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan as themselves but not quite themselves. It's the third film in the series, which includes The Trip and A Trip to Italy, about two friends who travel the countryside to dine and ostensibly write about food. Michael Winterbottom's films seem almost unscripted, but the two friends, who lead very different lives, face up to love, family, friendship, and, in Spain, aging, all the while doing impressions of the famous and not so famous.

It has become one of my favorite series of films.

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Croshow wrote such a good review of the Italy one that I watched both seasons on Netflix and absolutely loved them. I had no idea a third was out, can't wait to see it. Thanks!

She's no Zhang Ziyi though

Molly's Game was really good, but at times it goes to great lengths to convince the viewer to look over the bad stuff and view the heroine as a victim of her circumstances which is just bs.

That aside, it's a great script, very well acted and would recommend.

I fall in love with a vast majority of Wong Kar Wai's female characters, but yeah, Faye pretty much does it for me.

I don't know if this would be possible. Who could say what happens when? Time seems to be unstuck in WKW movies. I'm pretty sure that Fallen Angels starts and ends at the same point in time -- the movie is just a depiction of time looping around -- but I can't prove it.

Have to ask, do the scenes with poker players ring true? I know how Sorkin can be prone to overwriting characters.

I really liked this also. Sorkin is the best living screenwriter. I thought it was fine in terms of her story. Followed the book and real events closely. She didn't do anything wrong.

Only a couple poker scenes and they are fine.

A couple of nit picks but they're by far the best poker scenes I've seen in film. I was surprised and impressed.

I like these a lot and just saw the Spain one the other night. I do worry, however, about the other diners in the restaurant. The two men yell and flail about as they do their impressions. I would complain to the host.

Why can't girls ever talk like this?

I think all of us have asked this question at one time or another.



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Lady bird was fine, but underwhelming considering the amount of praise it's getting.

Nothing wrong it, decent coming of age film, but didn't feel special at all.

Wind river and IT are still my favorites for the year, but eagerly awaiting shape of water and phantom thread.

My best of 2017, in no particular order;


Nobody Speaks: Trials of the Free Press
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
The Big Sick
Molly's Game
Faces Places
Bladerunner 2049
Get Out
Wind River
Jane


Overall it was a weak year for film.

Is this a thing?

In The Mood for Love puzzles me. Watching it, I become mesmerized by Maggie C.'s wardrobe. She sheds her skin more often than a snake does, but never seems to grow. Also the dress pattern is always the same, but the fabrics are completely different -- and-- they always seem to match something in the background. I know guys who make good faith efforts to match their ties with their shirts, but who changes their dress every 5 minutes to match the wallpaper? Is Maggie a snake or a chameleon? And Tony's Chow sleepwalks through making the same mistakes he will make in 2046.

That's my problem. He amplifies every mistake I made in my youth. Perhaps he represents the human condition.

I worry about Bai Ling, but don't feel sorry for her. She willing to take chances. She's willing to put it all out there. She's not in the petrified stasis of Chow.

I don't remember this clearly. Wasn't Faye helping to write the story? Was the Japanese passenger her creation? Was he supposed to be her boyfriend in Japan, but somebody that Tony could learn from?

Just saw this! Interesting, but it's a vanity project - he produced it. And he was the only guy in the porn biz that scared me. Just a sociopath.

So apparently, Blade Runner: 2049 is "a bomb." Someone asked Ridley Scott why it didn't do well and he said if he had directed it, it would be half an hour shorter.

I mean, the thing has made over $250M worldwide...but only $91M in the US...

so that's a bomb??

That's a hit, if your budget is $10mm...