Last weekend we went out to see the Freddy Mercury movie. It was pretty good. Of course the tickets were $15 a piece when now I can see it for free. In any event I recommend the movie if you are a music fan. It is pretty good.
Get the Firestick if you can. You can cut the cord with cable and get everything you want to see without paying for cable. I don't know why Amazon sells it. It cuts their own throat since you won't pay to buy videos from them. I think they want to get everyone addicted to it and then they will do something so you have to pay them. Still for now it is a real bargain.
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I saw that advertised but had no idea what the deal was. Free is the right price for me. Too bad I can't stand modern movies.
I don't like many movies these days, but I did enjoy the new Coen Bros. movie "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs."
I watched that one a couple of times recently, windbag, and I considered writing a post about it. Some of the segments are very good. Some are very dark, as is the way of the Coen brothers, but I especially liked All Gold Canyon, as that guy is clearly me.
The scenery is spectacular, the filming and story telling are impeccable, and other than the portions that I will never watch again, I really liked it.
I saw Can You Ever Forgive Me? with Melissa McCarthy recently. Bravura performance by McCarthy. Story about a drab, struggling writer who created forged letters by literary celebrities for the literary market as a life raft to save herself. Not a great film by a long shot but at least not glamorous.
The prospector in that segment is Tom Waits, Sixty. I never cared for his music, but a lot of people did. If you watch the first segment from the perspective that you're watching a Bugs Bunny cartoon, it makes it even funnier. The Coen Bros. are a dark pair, that's for sure. Their stuff is hit or miss with me, but worth checking out.
I have never been able to endure his "singing", but other than his head of hair I swear he was my twin in that segment. I saw that story as an allegory on man's entering the wilderness. Stuff happens, but life goes on.
I have tried to watch every movie they have made but some are far more interesting to me than others - movie about the Mississippi delta? I am all over it. One about the suburbs in Minnesota - it's difficult for me to relate. And on December 1st I will be able to reaffirm that the Dude abides on Netflix. Works for me.
I hated "Fargo" with a passion. Because of that, I resisted watching the Netflix series, but holy cow those were fantastic. As stupid as it was, "Raising Arizona" is still one of their best, in my opinion. I thought they did a great job with "True Grit." I'm certain opinions vary on that. What would it look like if they remade "The Wizard of Oz?"
As I have written here before I liked No Country For Old Men, but that is a tough one in many respects. I guess it is Tommy Lee Jones' character's last speeches that made the whole movie for me. Plus I learned the word "caliche". There you go.
I liked 'Old Country for Old Men,' but it is not a movie I have any desire to watch again. Some movies are like that.
Others you can watch again and again, at any point, and they are still excellent.
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