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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 19 2012, 06:21 PM (209 Views) | |
| kathyk | Nov 19 2012, 06:21 PM Post #1 |
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I have this indulgence that has become a habit. JF usually makes dinner on the weekends, and he almost always falls asleep in the middle of movies we try to watch together at home, not to mention the fact that he's not a big fan of the chick flick and foreign film genres that catch my fancy. So nearly every Sunday, late afternoon, I choose a movie, usually on the Netflix instant queue, and other times from the DVD rental queue, I make myself a bowl of buttered popcorn and pop my once-a-week bottle of gluten free beer. I think I have about 200 movies queued up at this point, many of which I can't even remember how they got there. I often put films on the queue because of their star ratings. Netflix has this system of assigning ratings to films it recommends to you based on your cumulative history of rating films you've watched. I've found that it is a pretty good indicator - albeit not flawless - of films I'll like. I usually end up rating my Netlflix picks a 4 out of 5, sometimes just a 3, and rarely lower, but hardly ever a 5. Well, yesterday's film was a definite 5. I reserve 5s to films that really stick with me; whose images, scenes, music, I just can't shake, sort of like when you finish a fabulous novel and you're despondent that it ended. So, the film I saw yesterday was almost 20 years old and Vietnamese. Sound boring yet?  It was a stunningly beautiful film both visually and in its message. Roger Ebert's review says it all. Edited by kathyk, Nov 19 2012, 06:24 PM.
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| 1hp | Nov 19 2012, 08:29 PM Post #2 |
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OK, have added it to my instant queue.
Edited by 1hp, Nov 19 2012, 08:30 PM.
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| kenny | Nov 19 2012, 10:09 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Great film Seen it two or three times, once up in LA when it opened in 1993. |
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| kathyk | Nov 20 2012, 08:24 AM Post #4 |
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I was hoping to hear that you had seen it, Kenny. |
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| kenny | Nov 20 2012, 09:01 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Don't let that stop the suggestions. I love discovering good films from any time period. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Nov 20 2012, 02:22 PM Post #6 |
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Okay I'll have to check this one out. |
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