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I’m sick of your childish responses to this very serious topic.
I thought TFA was dreadful and left the theater thinking, ‘well, I assume they’re setting up something amazing,….’

To think it got decidedly worse, smh
The movie itself is just ok IMO, but I liked the characters and thought they all had potential. And were well cast. Finn as a stormtrooper deserter is interesting and unique from what we'd seen before. Rey I assumed we'd see flip to the dark side. Interesting as the protagonists. Kylo was the only bright spot in all 3. Then they just did nothing with most of them and made Rey super generic.
 

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I’m sick of your childish responses to this very serious topic.

The movie itself is just ok IMO, but I liked the characters and thought they all had potential. And were well cast. Finn as a stormtrooper deserter is interesting and unique from what we'd seen before. Rey I assumed we'd see flip to the dark side. Interesting as the protagonists. Kylo was the only bright spot in all 3. Then they just did nothing with most of them and made Rey super generic.
Finn is/was the very first and probably last stormtrooper to have good aim and actually hit something. 👍
 

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28 years later the bone temple, somehow even weirder than 28 years later. Didn’t hate it but certainly didn’t love it
 

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From Here to Eternity. Outstanding film. 7 academy awards including Best Picture, Actor and Director. Hell of a cast.
Burt Lancaster
Deborah Kerr
Frank Sinatra
Montgomery Clift
Donna Reed
Ernest Borgnine
Jack Warden
Claude Akins
 

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From Here to Eternity. Outstanding film. 7 academy awards including Best Picture, Actor and Director. Hell of a cast.
Burt Lancaster
Deborah Kerr
Frank Sinatra
Montgomery Clift
Donna Reed
Ernest Borgnine
Jack Warden
Claude Akins
Borgnine usually played avuncular, likeable guys. It was interesting to see when he went dark & villainous.
 

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From Here to Eternity. Outstanding film. 7 academy awards including Best Picture, Actor and Director. Hell of a cast.
Burt Lancaster
Deborah Kerr
Frank Sinatra
Montgomery Clift
Donna Reed
Ernest Borgnine
Jack Warden
Claude Akins
This was the flick Puzo took inspiration from with Fontaine’s (Sinatra’s) favor at the beginning of the Godfather iirc,… haven’t seen it in many years but the beach scene is obviously iconic
 

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Borgnine usually played avuncular, likeable guys. It was interesting to see when he went dark & villainous.
This was the flick Puzo took inspiration from with Fontaine’s (Sinatra’s) favor at the beginning of the Godfather iirc,… haven’t seen it in many years but the beach scene is obviously iconic
What made the movie for me was the multiple story lines. Beach scene is iconic, but the scene near the beginning where Kerr is looking for her husband then comes walking across the grounds towards Lancaster is pretty good. Surprised no one has done a remake.
 

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I think an "Eternity" remake is a bad idea. Just the kind of golden era classic that modern Hollywood would mess up by going in all the wrong directions, beating you over the head with things instead of working through sub-text.
 

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Project Hail Mary is a great blockbuster film. Gosling was perfect casting and they nail a certain little friend. My only complaint is that it should’ve been 15-20min shorter.
 

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I watched a 70 year old classic this weekend: Marty. It won the Oscar for best picture, best director, best screenplay, and earned Ernest Borgnine the Oscar for best actor. Heck of a good movie. Not nearly as syrupy or simple and sweet as most movies from the 50s are. Borgnine did a great job and brought a depth to the role you wouldn't expect from the guy from McHale's Navy or Airwolf. It's a very well-done movie with good acting and a good story.
 

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I watched a 70 year old classic this weekend: Marty. It won the Oscar for best picture, best director, best screenplay, and earned Ernest Borgnine the Oscar for best actor. Heck of a good movie. Not nearly as syrupy or simple and sweet as most movies from the 50s are. Borgnine did a great job and brought a depth to the role you wouldn't expect from the guy from McHale's Navy or Airwolf. It's a very well-done movie with good acting and a good story.
Hey, hey watch your words about "Airwolf." That show was an instrumental part of my childhood. The theme music rocks.
 

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I think an "Eternity" remake is a bad idea. Just the kind of golden era classic that modern Hollywood would mess up by going in all the wrong directions, beating you over the head with things instead of working through sub-text.
That's the problem with most remakes. They veer away from the original script. With today's technology, The Wizard of Oz would be fantastic, but they made something that was anything but The Wizard of Oz.
 

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I just finished Nomadland today, which won the Oscar for best picture in '21 and earned Frances McDormand a best actress Oscar. Honestly, I thought the movie was sort of dull. What was cool, though, was that part of it was set and filmed in South Dakota and I recognized a LOT of stuff. She drove through one of the tunnels on Needles Highway that I've been through a few dozen times and saw a bison in Custer State Park, and I actually know exactly where she was along the road as I recognized it. In another scene, she's at Reptile Gardens holding a large yellow boa, and I've seen that exact snake several times and my oldest daughter held it during a visit. McDormand watched a croc feeding there, went to The Badlands, worked at Wall Drugs, and stood next to the 80 ft. dinosaur there. Been to all those places many times, driven the same roads, stood right where she was many times. Sorta cool recognizing so many things in a major movie.
 
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