What movies have you seen recently?

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The Witch

9/10 Better than I expected.

Clown.

I was pleasantly surprised by this low budget horror film with bits of dark humor. A real estate man named Kent, finding a clown costume in a property he's trying to sell, suddenly learns that the clown hired for his son's birthday party had canceled. Donning the clown suit, he fills in at the party, then finds afterward that he can't take the damn thing off - - and that he's now always hungry. Soon, he learns the history of the suit, and the terrible things that the dark force behind it demands of him.

The Descent

White House Down

Channing Tatum wasn't nearly as convincing as the guy in 12 years a Slave. Poorly let down by the sequencing and too many unnecessary gun shots. I mean, if there was a real hostage situation and lock down of the White House, I doubt they'd go through all the bother to break up a load of Ming vases, paintings, etc.
Also, $150,000,000 to spend on a bad film is really a waste. Maybe the aviation needed a new military pay out for the experience of flying the dam thing. Poor action sequences, too much drama.
I rate Mad City over that and even Lincoln, at least Daniel-Day-Lewis looked the part, and for $65.000.000 that's a good budget. I hope they don't bring out more politician films.. I want to see something like Bridget Jones Baby.. I also shouldn't have watched Schindler's List the other day.. but Liam Nelson is a great film actor.(American)now maybe, but he's kept the Northern Irish male accented appeal flowing.

...I was going to go to SF's Castro Theater and see a double-feature of SUNSET BOULEVARD and a Joan Crawford movie titled THE STAR but I have , in fact , tarried here long enough that I can't get there in time to see it I sort of knew I was goingto stay here and post a lot after all I had been unable to post the last 3 days (I do not own a posting computer of any sort , remember , and I go , among others , to this place's computer lab - Not the San Francisco Library , I'm banned there now as I have mentioned before - - And , I was feeling " maybe my money's a bit low now " - Especially for revivals at the famed Castro I am afraid that I have done that a lot while here in SF this last year , I've yet to go there yet...I did see Suicide Squad (DC boy ! !! !! !! !! !!) at the biggest " regular " movie theyater near me , however .
I liked .
I have done this planning , and then backing out , before , too . Money , especially before when I was really crippled , worry with dealing with the (the loo down a big staircase) CT's elimination situation , both how to get there and feeling bothered I might need to go inconveniently , even my problem with staying awake in movie theaters which sometimes bothers me , and for a doub;e , or even triple , feature such as some of those Castros were...Two were " Sing-Along " showings of Mary Poppins and West Side Story , I wanted to go <sigh> but got tired even felt a little forboding about my voice's condition (then) maybe (They are having a Sing-Along of Grease coming up soon but I've never seen the movie full-through normally so I won't go to that .)
This is movies in theaters .
I do not have a DVD player or even a broadcast-only TV , remember .
Remember what I said to-day about a " microloan " , remember .........

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One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

The Revenant, really gripping stuff, I appreciated Leo's sheer force of physical WILL in almost every scene, poor lunatic went through everything you can conceive of. The locations were jaw dropping, I loved reading about where they shot and how they shot it.

I'm gonna watch Vertigo soon, looking forward to another Hitchcock.

I've seen the Bad Moms. Funny movie.

In theaters: The Secret Life of Pets, Sausage Party, Suicide Squad

At Home: William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universr

Zootopia.

9/10

David Lynch's 1977 Eraserhead.

I liked it, but it's in that odd category where most people's subconscious minds might understand it but very few people would consciously understand what it was about (maybe some surface themes but not much past that). I thought it was a fascinating movie but I can also see several reasons why a lot of people might find it very uncomfortable to watch.