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Damn I started this thread 12 years ago
Was everything in black & white back then ?
Damn I started this thread 12 years ago
Yup. It's a stinker.Hickok (2017) on Netflix. Don't. Just...don't.
I have been wondering if it was worth watching. I read the novel some years back and found it to be entertaining. It was written by Nic Pizzolatto, the man behind HBO’s True Detective."Galveston", a new Netflix offering...Ben Cooper and Elle Fanning. A decent movie that I liked much more than I thought based on the thumbnail. Cooper is his usual workmanlike performance although in his typecasted wheelhouse.
Yes, I did not know that but it certainly has the Pizzolatto stamp on it.I have been wondering if it was worth watching. I read the novel some years back and found it to be entertaining. It was written by Nic Pizzolatto, the man behind HBO’s True Detective.
Let me STRONGLY "second the motion" concerning seeing "They Shall Not Grow Old"."They Shall Not Grow Old" - I was reluctant to see this documentary in the theatre but I'm very glad I did. I've seen about every documentary on the First World War that I could get my hands on from "The Guns of August" on down. I didn't think I could learn or experience anything more but boy was I wrong. Peter Jackson did something here that I never could've dreamt of. Commissioned by The Imperial War Museum, he was given access to hundreds of hours of raw footage and hundreds of hours of recorded first hand accounts.
First he "modernized" the hand crank footage so it would play smoothly for a modern reshowing. Second, he used tech to lighten underexposed film and darken over exposed film, in doing this we now have access to footage here to for unwatchable. Third he hired lip readers to determine what was being said and then got members of the military from current units of those depicted to provide the vocals. In addition he added sound, color and narration of men who'd lived, and fought in the trenches of the Western Front. The results were stunning! There is no preaching or moralizing about this wholly unnecessary and wasteful conflict except from the mouths of those who lived through it.
In addition to all of the above he also included a half hour documentary show how and why he did what he did! If you can catch this in the theatre.
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One of my all time favourite movies.Lawrence of Arabia. I've never actually seen it, and it was on TCM one night so I DVRed it.