Comments on: At the movies: yearning for romance

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:16:22 +0000

Evil yearns to be God and inherit the honor/power of the Creation. OF course people in Hollywood yearns for Romance and love. Being what they are, of course it is so.

I always enjoy the fashions, good or bad.

The allies of the world are not allies of the divine kingdom.

I see a significant difference between the divine laws and the human made laws. In the past, people tended to conflate them without pointing out the difference.

By: MissJean

MissJean — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 22:44:20 +0000

Thanks for the response, Groundhog. I’ll try to catch it whenever it comes to the local rental place?

By: Sarah Rolph

Sarah Rolph — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:22:54 +0000

I think you’re right that people are starved for old-fashioned romance on the big screen, and for old-fashioned movies in general.

That was my theory last year on why Brooklyn was nominated. I thought it was one of the worst movies I’ve seen in years. (The plot is based on the culture clash between Ireland and Brooklyn, yet there is no visible clash in the movie, for example people wear the same types of clothes in both places. I wanted to give the movie an anti-Oscar for costumes; the star wears this one wool sweater a whole lot, and the sweater has sewn sleeves. I kept looking at those seams and thinking, wouldn’t a gal from an Irish village in the early 1950s be wearing a hand-knit sweater? And there is no language difference between the two countries, nobody even has an accent — except for Tony in Brooklyn, who has a super-exaggerated Italian-American accent, although his parents do not! There is no chemistry between the two leads, which ruins the plot since it’s supposed to turn on that. Etc.)

But it was an old-fashioned movie without any guns or violence. (And the female lead did give a good performance–she saved the movie; without her it would be unwatchable.)

By: John

John — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 17:16:28 +0000

I haven’t seen any of the movies nominated, but I agree with your point about people being fed up with sex scenes in the movies. It is a bore and an embarrassment. Much more interesting are the knowing glances, the humourous flirtation and all the other elements that went into old-time romantic movies.

By: Dafe

Dafe — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 07:16:51 +0000

What a fiasco

They climed the envlop was mixed/ swapped!

Ohh these guys orgnazer for anti trump campain
What outcome they will deliver, if the draw of best movie went wrong so what about presidential matter?

By: Yankee

Yankee — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 06:08:17 +0000

“La La Land” wins the Best Picture award!
Oh, wait, it was actually “Moonlight” that won Best Picture.
What a fiasco.

By: groundhog

groundhog — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 06:03:45 +0000

MissJean says I haven’t seen it, so I don’t know how it stacks up to the old-time musicals.

Well, I just rewatched “Singin’ in the Rain” and would say “Singin'” dances circles around La La Land as far as choreography.

On the other hand, the important point is if you walked out at the end of La La Land and know you thoroughly enjoyed it. Then I say it really doesn’t matter.

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

By: MissJean

MissJean — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 05:18:29 +0000

De-lurking to say that I know some teenagers (young men and women) who saw La-La Land at least three times. Their whole exposure to musicals has been Disney; they’d never seen an adult musical. Except one had seen White Christmas.

I haven’t seen it, so I don’t know how it stacks up to the old-time musicals.

By: texexec

texexec — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 16:37:32 +0000

My wife and I haven’t been to a movie house in years but we are huge movie fans. We just can’t stand the filth that’s often present in the movie houses – popcorn containers on the floor, soda cup half filled with ice and/or soda, sticky candy on the floor, etc.

We’re content to wait for current movies to come out…we’ve already seen “Manchester By the Sea”, “Hell Or High Water”, and “Hacksaw Ridge” – all of which are good movies. We rent our movies in HD and they cost about 1/4th of the cost of going to the movie houses.

We’re looking forward to seeing “La La Land” soon.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 15:09:40 +0000

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