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What are you watching & why? (splain)

I just watched John Wick 4 for about the 8th time. After years of the opinion that JW1 is the best of the bunch, I now have a new take: JW4 is the best one. I watched all of them in order last year. The original has always been my favorite followed by JW2. But I have turned the corner.

Possibly airplane viewing effect, but that movie just smokes from first scene to the last. They took it up to 11.
 
Wishfulthinker580 said:
No Country for Old Men. Does it need an explanation?
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Idk if I'd call it a Favorite movie? But I watch it Alot....it's a slow paced movie, but probably the fastest slow paced movie I can think of.

Id turn it on Now, if the wife would let me....haha.

I've watched YouTube discussions about This movie.
There are LOTS of ways of seeing it. Some make it out to be extremely abstract, with people not being real, figment of the imagination, etc.....

I try to watch it as a regular movie, as is.

Fun fact...my wife had a similar haircut 15-18 years ago, looked just like him.
I Still tease her about it.....

"Call it......Call it......I can't call it for you.". 😅😅
 
Blues said:
The book is also excellent. (But I'm a Cormac McCarthy fan.)
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I have "Blood Meridian"

Are all his works written like this?
Probably the hardest thing I've tried to read.
Every paragraph (if there Are any, I don't remember he doesn't use common sentence structure) I would need to read a few times. Over and over again.

It was difficult understanding who was saying what? I keep getting the characters mixed up
 
Crag the Brewer said:
I have "Blood Meridian"

Are all his works written like this?
Probably the hardest thing I've tried to read.
Every paragraph (if there Are any, I don't remember he doesn't use common sentence structure) I would need to read a few times. Over and over again.

It was difficult understanding who was saying what? I keep getting the characters mixed up
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No. Some of his books are more approachable. Some require quite a bit from the reader. (I recently finished a re-read of "Blood Meridian".)

The "Border Trilogy" is a beautifully told tale, though it does have portions which are somewhat dreamlike and incorporate a degree of magical realism.

I highly recommend you take a look at it, and, of course, start with the first book. I think you will feel it was worth the effort.

"Suttree" is another good place to start reading McCarthy.
 
Blues said:
No. Some of his books are more approachable. Some require quite a bit from the reader. (I recently finished a re-read of "Blood Meridian".)

The "Border Trilogy" is a beautifully told tale, though it does have portions which are somewhat dreamlike and incorporate a degree of magical realism.

I highly recommend you take a look at it, and, of course, start with the first book. I think you will feel it was worth the effort.

"Suttree" is another good place to start reading McCarthy.
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I'll look up Border Trilogy....I'm Not familiar with it.

Thanks!
 

"All the Pretty Horses" is the first in the series.​

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The Border Trilogy #1-3​

The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain​


Cormac McCarthy​

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Beginning with All the Pretty Horses and continuing through The Crossing and Cities of the Plain, McCarthy chronicles the lives of two young men coming of age in the Southwest and Mexico, poised on the edge of a world about to change forever. Hauntingly beautiful, filled with sorrow and humor, The Border Trilogy is a masterful elegy for the American frontier.
 
Casinostocks said:
^ another disappointment in this anthology.

I'll splain my take without giving away the ending. All this supposed infused "woke" stuff doesn't bother me as it doesn't get under my skin as it does wit some, although I don't deny the existence of the nouveau sensitivities on both sides. All that said, the first season was so exceptional that nothing will come close and by trying to mimic the occult alongside logic and science of the first season in other seasons has just been so underwhelming.
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That first season… Man…. On another level
 
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"Nobody can follow us..."

"That's all I'm sayin'."
 
Watched Sinners in 4K tonight with the family. Absolutely loved it. The music was incredible and the main musical scene was something even most actual musicals fail to pull off. If you can go into the movie blind, it's an even better experience. The less you know, the more you can be surprised.

Reference Atmos track. This is the kind of movie that reminds you of why you went to all the effort to get an Atmos setup.
 
toker said:
Watched Sinners in 4K tonight with the family. Absolutely loved it. The music was incredible and the main musical scene was something even most actual musicals fail to pull off. If you can go into the movie blind, it's an even better experience. The less you know, the more you can be surprised.

Reference Atmos track. This is the kind of movie that reminds you of why you went to all the effort to get an Atmos setup.
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I liked it too.... has slightly similar vibe to another movie
 
Synov said:
Watching the new season of The Bear, so far it just feels like more of the same, which is probably not a bad thing if you like the show. Doesn't feel like the writers have an idea of how to evolve the show to justify continuing it.
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We have found the show, after season 2, to be un-Bear-able.

And, the new show on Prime, "Ballard" is not a great follow-up to the "Bosch" series. I may give it one or two more episodes to be sure I don't like it. Cookie cutter with all the standard tropes thrown in.
 
Also finally got around to watching The Straight Story last night as part of my quest to finish watching the entire David Lynch filmography. It was excellent and one of his more accessible movies. You would like it.
 
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