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09-01-2016, 04:18 PM
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Chef Extraordinaire
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: East Boston, MA
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On the advice of the DC members, I got American Sniper from the library. Loved it! Tonight I will be watching The Hundred Foot Journey with Helen Mirren.
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09-01-2016, 04:50 PM
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Chef Extraordinaire
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: I live in the Heartland of the United States - Western Kentucky
Posts: 15,595
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Originally Posted by Addie
On the advice of the DC members, I got American Sniper from the library. Loved it! Tonight I will be watching The Hundred Foot Journey with Helen Mirren. 
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We enjoyed both of them but, obviously, for different reasons.
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09-02-2016, 07:24 AM
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Master Chef
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: USA,Minnesota
Posts: 9,022
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Originally Posted by Katie H
We enjoyed both of them but, obviously, for different reasons.
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Yes, indeed. Very good films.
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09-02-2016, 09:43 AM
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Head Chef
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SW Florida
Posts: 2,004
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Via a Netflix DVD, I tried to watch '127 Hours'. After watching James Franco bounding over the rocky landscape being about as ebullient as you can get, I bailed on the movie just after he became stuck. Just couldn't watch any more, having heard how he gets unstuck.
Next night I watched 'Miller's Crossing,' starts out slowly, but builds into a satsifying (if you like the Coen brothers) film noir-ish movie. Featured a couple of my favorite actors -- Marcia Gay Harden and John Turturro.
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09-02-2016, 11:04 AM
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Executive Chef
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: North West England
Posts: 4,502
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Having a duvet day today and watching television. I found "Pimpernel Smith" with Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes in "Gone With The Wind"). Black and white and made in 1941 but set in 1939 just before the invasion of Poland. Smith is an archaeology professor using digs in Germany to spirit people out of the country. Absolute hokum and full of speeche about England and freedom but great for raising moral in the dark days of 1941.
The night before I'd been watching "Yanks" (an early Richard Gere outing). It was of special interest as much of the filming took place on location in the north west of England around where I live. Scenes were shot on location in Oldham, Glossop, Stalybridge, Stockport and other surrounding areas. I live near Stockport and Tetley the Wonder Horse lives at Glossop. My mother told me, years ago, that the scenes at the dance where a black soldier danced with a white local girl and caused a riot and afterwards all the English girls went and asked the black soldiers to dance as a matter of principle, actually occured in a dance hall in another part of england. The scene was filmed in the Town Hall at Hyde, where I used to live.
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09-02-2016, 12:04 PM
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Chef Extraordinaire
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Park Drive Bar/Grill Los Angeles
Posts: 10,939
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Originally Posted by tinlizzie
I tried to watch '127 Hours'. After watching James Franco bounding over the rocky landscape being about as ebullient as you can get, I bailed on the movie just after he became stuck. Just couldn't watch any more, having heard how he gets unstuck.
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I loved that film.....watched it when it first came out.
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09-06-2016, 08:52 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: I live in the Heartland of the United States - Western Kentucky
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Last night we watched a 1981 movie, The French Lieutenant's Woman. We were happy we didn't pay money to see it in the theater. I remember there being a lot of hype about it when it came out. Don't understand why.
We watched it all the way through because we kept hoping it would go somewhere or have some substance.
It starred Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep when they were YOUNG, oh boy, were they young!
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09-06-2016, 09:21 PM
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Wine Guy
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Twin Cities, Minnesota
Posts: 6,242
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Right now, watching "A Walk in the Clouds." It's sappy, but entertaining.
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09-06-2016, 10:10 PM
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Master Chef
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: California
Posts: 7,877
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Kroll
Right now, watching "A Walk in the Clouds." It's sappy, but entertaining.
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I loved that movie. 
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09-08-2016, 10:18 AM
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Executive Chef
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: North West England
Posts: 4,502
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Katie H
Last night we watched a 1981 movie, The French Lieutenant's Woman. We were happy we didn't pay money to see it in the theater. I remember there being a lot of hype about it when it came out. Don't understand why.
We watched it all the way through because we kept hoping it would go somewhere or have some substance.
It starred Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep when they were YOUNG, oh boy, were they young!
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I'm with you on "The F L's Woman".
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