. . . does the reader recommend poor old DonDiego see?
DonDiego doesn't go to the movies nearly as often as he once did*, . . . so today, while perusing the Academy Award nominees he realized he'd seen very few of them.
*When DonDiego was a kid he'd go to the local Saturday matinee for 10-cents almost every week; 25-cents when he turned 12 years old.
He has seen in alphabetical order:
The Big Short - DonDiego throughly enjoyed this film. A story of financial skullduggery would seem especially difficult to make into entertainment. But the characters, and dialogue, and editing really contribute to an excellent effort to explain what was behind the meltdown of the housing market and big banks in the early 21st century, . . . and how a handful of investors profited by seeing what should have been obvious, but was not.
DonDiego recommends every thoughtful American see it to realize just how badly the Wall Street Bankers shafted the citizenry. Why this motion picture has not resulted in hoards of Americans descending on Wall Street with torches and pitchforks, DonDiego does not understand.
Mad Max: Fury Road - Nonsensical action pretending to be meaningful; DonDiego says just queue up a tape of the original Mad Max (1979) for similar nonsensical action, but the opportunity to see (i) some originality and (ii) a young Mel Gibson in just his second movie, for which he was paid $15,000.
The Martian - OK, . . . so, like DonDiego has been interested in astronomy/space/astronautics since he was little; a high school buddy and he were at Cape Canaveral for the launch of Apollo 11; and later poor old DonDiego witnessed the launches of Apollo 14 and Apollo 17 live; and even one Space Shuttle launch too. And teechur is an avid reader who, having read the book. "The Martian", recommended it to DonDiego; the book is really an education in applying agronomy and nutrition and astronautics and all-that-great-stuff for one's survival, should one find oneself on Mars, . . . almost more of a textbook than a novel.
So DonDiego found the Martian movie entertaining and educational, . . . although the ending was a bit too theatrical. DonDiego recommends it.
The Revenant - This is a gorgeous movie. And DonDiego supposes much of the violence portrayed is pretty realistic; DonDiego tends to avoid violence so he has little experience against which to compare the portrayal of arrow wounds and gunshot wounds and et cetera. So overall he found it to be a very good movie. But the story is really just too "small" to support all what's going on.
Just too little content for a great film.
DonDiego recommends it, . . . but cautions one not to expect too much.
Anyway, DonDiego seeks recommendations as to what films he should try to see in the 2nd-run theaters or on cable in the comfort of his home.
DonDiego doesn't go to the movies nearly as often as he once did*, . . . so today, while perusing the Academy Award nominees he realized he'd seen very few of them.
*When DonDiego was a kid he'd go to the local Saturday matinee for 10-cents almost every week; 25-cents when he turned 12 years old.
He has seen in alphabetical order:
The Big Short - DonDiego throughly enjoyed this film. A story of financial skullduggery would seem especially difficult to make into entertainment. But the characters, and dialogue, and editing really contribute to an excellent effort to explain what was behind the meltdown of the housing market and big banks in the early 21st century, . . . and how a handful of investors profited by seeing what should have been obvious, but was not.
DonDiego recommends every thoughtful American see it to realize just how badly the Wall Street Bankers shafted the citizenry. Why this motion picture has not resulted in hoards of Americans descending on Wall Street with torches and pitchforks, DonDiego does not understand.
Mad Max: Fury Road - Nonsensical action pretending to be meaningful; DonDiego says just queue up a tape of the original Mad Max (1979) for similar nonsensical action, but the opportunity to see (i) some originality and (ii) a young Mel Gibson in just his second movie, for which he was paid $15,000.
The Martian - OK, . . . so, like DonDiego has been interested in astronomy/space/astronautics since he was little; a high school buddy and he were at Cape Canaveral for the launch of Apollo 11; and later poor old DonDiego witnessed the launches of Apollo 14 and Apollo 17 live; and even one Space Shuttle launch too. And teechur is an avid reader who, having read the book. "The Martian", recommended it to DonDiego; the book is really an education in applying agronomy and nutrition and astronautics and all-that-great-stuff for one's survival, should one find oneself on Mars, . . . almost more of a textbook than a novel.
So DonDiego found the Martian movie entertaining and educational, . . . although the ending was a bit too theatrical. DonDiego recommends it.
The Revenant - This is a gorgeous movie. And DonDiego supposes much of the violence portrayed is pretty realistic; DonDiego tends to avoid violence so he has little experience against which to compare the portrayal of arrow wounds and gunshot wounds and et cetera. So overall he found it to be a very good movie. But the story is really just too "small" to support all what's going on.
Just too little content for a great film.
DonDiego recommends it, . . . but cautions one not to expect too much.
Anyway, DonDiego seeks recommendations as to what films he should try to see in the 2nd-run theaters or on cable in the comfort of his home.
