[Kelevision]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

No.

It’s good! Funny. Came out last year. Nick Cage plays a heightened version of himself and Pedro Pascal plays a rich guy who wrote a screenplay for him to star in. It’s free on Amazon now I think.

[Kelevision]

Originally Posted by wisbad1

Yes good not great but good

Agreed. There were some really funny parts though. I do love those movies/shows where they play themselves.

[Pairadocs]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Everything Everywhere All at Once - Wikipedia

It is the big winner at this year's Academy Awards. List of accolades received by Everything Everywhere All at Once - Wikipedia

Have only seen it up to the point where Jamie Lee Curtis' character enters the story but will have to see what the fuss is about.

There are a number of recent Best Pictures I have not been able to watch in one sitting. Academy Awards - Wikipedia

Yes, can tell I'm getting old, I really really miss, really really good epic movies: The Last Emperor, Dr. Zhivago, Gandhi, Ben Hur, The Deer Hunter, Lawrence of Arabia, Out of Africa, the first Rocky, Pearl Harbor, even one of the first spectaculars my parents took me to as a little kid, The Greatest Show on Earth ! well, I guess I better stop... I did really enjoy Top Gun Maverick, maybe not in the class with some I named from the past, but after all that's been happening in the world around us, was fun to just have a rah rah movie. But this Everything, E, A, A,O, with it's darker nihilism, existentialism, and all kinds of "hidden" racial and philosophical "messages"... I'd rather read another philosophy book, not in a movie, please ! But, looks Iike I am definitely in the minority. I just could not sit through it all, had to go get a Culver's after the weight of that "so called comedy" !

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by Pai[I

[/I]radocs;2197577]Yes, can tell I'm getting old, I really really miss, really really good epic movies: The Last Emperor, Dr. Zhivago, Gandhi, Ben Hur, The Deer Hunter, Lawrence of Arabia, well, I guess I better stop... even one of the first spectaculars my parents took me to as a little kid, The Greatest Show on Earth ! I did really enjoy Top Gun Maverick, maybe not in the class with some I names from the past, but after all that's been happening in the world around us, was fun to just have a rah rah movie.

Loved Top Gun: Maverick and there are Best Picture winners also thought were very entertaining like The Shape of Water, Gladiator , Chicago , Green Book, and Argo .

[Two Bills]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Loved Top Gun: Maverick and there are Best Picture winners also thought were very entertaining like The Shape of Water, Gladiator , Chicago , Green Book, and Argo .

Not a great film buff these days, but I did watch Green Book.
Didn't realize until the end it was based on real people.
Enjoyable if a bit predictable. Sort of Driving Miss Daisy on steroids!

[fcgiii]

The Academy Awards are voted on the members of the Academy. Their idea of a great movie is clearly different from the people who watch them.

[fcgiii]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

Going slightly off topic (books instead of movies), has anyone read A Confederacy of Dunces?

The NY Times Book Review listed it as one of the top 25 novels of the past 125 years.

I read it. Perhaps I am stupid, lack sophistication, or I don't understand great satire (or possibly a combination of those factors), but it may have been the worst book I have ever read. I kept reading it thinking that it has to get better - but I was wrong. The only interesting thing about it was how it got published - posthumously. Please note that Ulysses was also on that list of best books.

If anyone liked it, I would like to hear your reasons.

A Confederacy of Dunces - Wikipedia

I have it. I started it 3 times. Got to Chapter 3 once. Maybe I'll try again.

[defrey12]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Everything Everywhere All at Once - Wikipedia

It is the big winner at this year's Academy Awards. List of accolades received by Everything Everywhere All at Once - Wikipedia

Have only seen it up to the point where Jamie Lee Curtis' character enters the story but will have to see what the fuss is about.

There are a number of recent Best Pictures I have not been able to watch in one sitting. Academy Awards - Wikipedia

DO NOT WASTE YOUR HARD-EARNED MONEY 💰 !!! Hollywood self-congratulatory BS! Two hours and nineteen minutes you’ll NEVER get back!

[defrey12]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

I haven’t seen it but, according to the description, it is incomprehensible.

The star has to connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from destroying the multiverse.

Has anyone seen it and
A. Liked it, and
B. Understood it?

C. Ran out screaming 😱

[vinricci]

Tried to watch it 3 times. Very convoluted. Can’t believe Jamie Lee wasn’t embarrassed to play that role.

[defrey12]

Originally Posted by bsloan1960

It does indeed sound incomprehensible. I'm gonna go off the rails here and say I REALLY enjoyed the movie Being John Malcovich. 9 of 10 people who have seen it consider it stupid- with the 1 considering it brilliant. I thought it was brilliant. This Oscar winner may be that kind of film.

No…”Being John Malcovich” was intelligent. This was stupid and gimmicky and made us want to get up and leave a few times…leave out the “king fu fighting” scenes and you have 45 minutes of substance…maybe.

[defrey12]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

I saw it. Quirky as hell...

I liked it...

I understood it...

Yes…But it was still stupid and WAY TOO LONG….

[TeresaE]

Gimmicks and quirkiness do not make a good movie. Neither does shocking scenes. While some of the acting was good. The thin plot and the endless Kung Foo fighting scenes left me bored. Don’t waste your money and time on this film.

[cjrjck]

I've seen it several times. Imaginative. May take a few viewings to get it all. Definitely different than the typical super hero films that have saturated movie theaters for years. The movie is spoofing modern multiverse flicks. Infinite universes, infinite possibilities. That silly stuff. You know, Everything Everywhere ALL At Once. It was interesting to see the Indiana Jones "Short Round" kid all grown up. Well sort of grown up. Got to see the movie to understand.

[Freeda]

I found it overwhelming in places at first, but I enjoyed it more as it went on and as I started enjoying the characters; completely loved Jamie Lee Curtis's character; but at the end is where you understand the point of the movie and then it all makes sense and has a big message. An editing masterpiece.