Book Club.
 

I see this is playing on two screens at the Old Mill Playhouse including Auditorium 1. It must be doing well? We got jammed in Auditorium 5 for Solo: A Star Wars Story.

I have not seen it yet. Any opinions of it?

Well, there was only one male in the theater when I saw this movie....so I think it is more for the older female viewer. It had a couple good chuckles and one true belly laugh from me. Candice Bergen is a riot. Jane Fonda looks amazing, but her character is not very likable in this. There is some funny viagra skits and Craig T. Nelson is great at keeping a straight face through it. There is a somewhat predictable (unlikely) romance between Diane Keaton and Andy Garcia that left me saying "that would never happen" but it is interesting in the point it is trying to show about how our children start to worry about us (the parent) and begin to treat us as the child. Overall it was worth my $10.

[i posted this in the nothing thread the other day]

Here is a movie review worth nothing.
I went by myself to see Book Club and just got back. The rains came and I was in a full theater with maybe 4 other men. You will know all the actresses, the plot and dialog were a little thin but I would be lying if I said I didn't get a little teary eyed at the predictable ending.

If you have moviepass---go see it---if you go to the movies twice a year like I use to do----wait till this one gets to netflix

When I saw it, there were no men in the theater.

Definitely a chick flick, a lot of fun to see with friends.

I really liked it.

Candice Bergen steals the show.

Very well written review! I can't wait to see it with my gal pals!
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You went to see Book Club? We need to start taking you to more baseball games.

It's free. And just like I wanted to see Rosanne, just to see what everyone looks like 20 years later I wanted to see how the actresses looked now. The show was just not funny. What guy didn't have a crush on Dianne Keaton in those old Woody Allen days, and Fonda in Babarella and Murphy Brown. I knew how Stallone and Schwrartzenagerer and some of the other guys look now. They keep turning up on movies like old pennys.

Last night I went to see the Beast. That was good. Like many movies the first minute or 2 is the most important part of the movie. That works against me. I wish the first minute or 2, I could see ahead of time or read ahead of time. When I listen to an audio book I repeat the first 2 minutes as many times as it takes until I got it, same with reading a book and then I can move on.

The writer gives you many clues and there is a couple of [sidetracks]. Hitchcock has a term for this [sidetrack] that I can't remember.

I'll see something else today.

[I have Moviepass and unfortunately I am part of a group that has to take a photo of my ticket but that never works for me at the theater. What I have to do is keep the stub and take a picture the next day, sometimes 2 or 3 times. Does anyone else have this problem?]

How to Foreshadow Like Alfred Hitchcock

The word is probably "foreshadowing".

that's not it---it's something like mcmuffin

i got it. it's a maguffin. like a time bomb in a cuckoo clock that never goes off.

i no longer get worried if i forget a word. i can usually pull it up later

Hitchcock Presents: The MacGuffin - YouTube

He talks about it in this YouTube.

Enjoyable movie
 

I saw "Book Club" over Memorial Day weekend while visiting my dad. No teens in the audience, LOL, and just a few men. I can't believe Jane Fonda is 80; she must have a really good plastic surgeon :). Candace Bergen did steal the show; hopefully the "Murphy Brown" reboot will be worth watching this fall as I loved the original series. An enjoyable movie.

I saw Book Club last evening and thought it was very funny. Totally enjoyed the movie and will see it for a 2nd time next week.

Enjoying Book Club.
 

I never wanted to read the book nor see the movie based on it which the women in this movie read-- Fifty Shades of Grey but I can enjoy this movie none the less. Fifty Shades of Grey - Wikipedia

The Wednesday Sun I believe it was, had statistics for TV, one was there are now over 20,000 veterans living here. That will explain part of the problem with male viewership of Book Club. You see, anything with Jane Fonda has many, many vets immediately repulsed due to her Hanoi Jane years. I've long forgotten her politics and have seen her in two of my favorites, the film 9 to 5 and Coming Home. Ironically Coming Home was about a crippled Vietnam vet played by John Voight and Jane's character has a romanic relationship. Many others will still not see any film she performs in, which is why I think she is mostly in comedies.

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She hardly looks 80 to me in the movie. I can understand why some Vietnam era vets really dislike Jane Fonda 40 years after those events. Jane Fonda - Rotten Tomatoes

I do not care that much about an actor's politics as long as he or she is playing some character in a movie or play to the best of his or her ability. Does not seem to be relevant to the movie or play going experience.

My other half, who was drafted at age 24 and sent to Viet Nam, is one of those Vets who will not watch anything in which Jane Fonda has a part.

Thanks to your other half for his service...and for his good taste in picking his entertainment.