Topic: MOVIE NIGHT (Read 3312 times)

Jane · « **Reply #151 on:** November 23, 2024, 06:38:12 PM »

'night

Freddie · « **Reply #152 on:** November 23, 2024, 07:03:18 PM »

Good night, Jane

Freddie · « **Reply #153 on:** November 23, 2024, 07:03:44 PM »

Break a leg at the concert, MichaelG!

singdaw · « **Reply #154 on:** November 23, 2024, 07:15:58 PM »

Quote from: Freddie on November 23, 2024, 07:03:44 PM

Break a leg at the concert, MichaelG!

DITTO! Didn't realize from the initial announcement that the concert was being repeated.

singdaw · « **Reply #155 on:** November 23, 2024, 07:16:21 PM »

Do you think Hallmark has a formula?

singdaw · « **Reply #156 on:** November 23, 2024, 07:35:21 PM »

The secret to a really good pizza crust is stretching the dough...

singdaw · « **Reply #157 on:** November 23, 2024, 07:42:15 PM »

I do love Thanksgiving.

singdaw · « **Reply #158 on:** November 23, 2024, 07:45:59 PM »

Good night, friends.

singdaw · « **Reply #159 on:** November 23, 2024, 07:46:07 PM »

And others.

John G. · « **Reply #160 on:** November 23, 2024, 08:06:15 PM »

Dancing was long tonight. I feel exhausted.

John G. · « **Reply #161 on:** November 23, 2024, 08:08:07 PM »

Quote from: Freddie on November 23, 2024, 07:03:44 PM

Break a leg at the concert, MichaelG!

And more wishes.

John G. · « **Reply #162 on:** November 23, 2024, 08:26:03 PM »

The pie was excellent. I used walnuts and added orange set. By a great coincidence, a friend brought cranberry sauce with orange and walnuts in it. They made a great pair.

John G. · « **Reply #163 on:** November 23, 2024, 08:26:24 PM »

That’s it for me tonight.

John G. · « **Reply #164 on:** November 23, 2024, 08:26:37 PM »

Good night, all.

bk · « **Reply #165 on:** November 23, 2024, 10:35:17 PM »

Finished with my viewing.

bk · « **Reply #166 on:** November 23, 2024, 10:36:38 PM »

Watched an okay b-movie directed by John Dahl - a good director. Script was not so hot nor was the over the top performance by Steve Zahn, but his character is written so annoyingly that he probably had no chance. The co-writer? J.J. Abrams back in 2001.

bk · « **Reply #167 on:** November 23, 2024, 10:43:11 PM »

Joy Ride is the film. Wikipedia page clearly written by an idiot fanboy, who brags that the film made "over" 36-million worldwide on a budget of 23-million, like that was a major hit. No. First off, it only made 21-million in the US - 14-million overseas. So, in the US it was a complete bomb and overseas profits were never going to help this even get near breaking even. It would have had to have made two-and-a-half times its budget to break even. Then add prints and advertising to that. Amusingly, they made two cheapo direct to video sequels, which were also bombs. Sometimes one questions the brain power of the people who make these sequels - and make them seven YEARS after the fact.

bk · « **Reply #168 on:** November 23, 2024, 10:46:56 PM »

The ONLY reason this succeeds in the ways it does, if one overlooks the idiotic behavior of its characters, is because John Dahl is good at this kind of film. Acting from the other two leads, Paul Walker and Leelee Sobieski, is fine. The villain, who we basically only hear, was voiced by Ted Levine, the serial killer from Silence of the Lambs.

bk · « **Reply #169 on:** November 23, 2024, 10:48:26 PM »

Apparently, there were several reshoots, including five different endings - think that could be the problem? When they green light a film that has an ending that needs five alternate endings to be shot. Think maybe someone should have done, I don't know, a rewrite?

bk · « **Reply #170 on:** November 23, 2024, 10:50:08 PM »

Of course, the ending they finally chose was the one where the villain doesn't get what's coming to him. Oooh, surprise ending meant to be chilling, if it hadn't been done ten zillion times.

bk · « **Reply #171 on:** November 23, 2024, 10:50:53 PM »

Despite all that, it's only ninety-three minutes and I really like Leelee Sobieski. I wondered why I haven't seen her in anything in YEARS.

bk · « **Reply #172 on:** November 23, 2024, 10:57:23 PM »

So, she gave up acting in 2012, when she married Bruce Kimmel - oops, sorry - Adam Kimmel. She has two kids and is a painter whose had several gallery shows. The reason she gave up acting is interesting - mostly because "ninety percent of acting roles involve so much sexual stuff with other people, and I don't want to do that." And good for her.

bk · « **Reply #173 on:** November 23, 2024, 10:57:39 PM »

Shouldn't we be on page twelve by now?

bk · « **Reply #174 on:** November 23, 2024, 10:57:52 PM »

You'd think it was a Saturday night or something.

bk · « **Reply #175 on:** November 23, 2024, 10:58:12 PM »

There is no way we can still be on page six, for heaven's sake.

bk · « **Reply #176 on:** November 23, 2024, 10:58:44 PM »

Never-ending this page.

bk · « **Reply #177 on:** November 23, 2024, 10:58:54 PM »

Where in tarnation IS everyone?

bk · « **Reply #178 on:** November 23, 2024, 10:59:00 PM »

Ridic.

bk · « **Reply #179 on:** November 23, 2024, 10:59:18 PM »

You know what? There is some serious gaslighting going on.

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