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NewHendoLib

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2. we will give it a try - we are very much unhappy with overly "hollywood"ized movies, which

Reply to JustAnotherGen (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 5, 2024, 11:00 PM

Jan 2024

the three we noted we didn't like were far too much of.

I hope the movie is better than the book - we listened to it as an audiobook and were just not at all enthralled (we listen to and read a LOT of books - it just didn't capture our fancy)

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Well, my wife and I feel old! Movies we did not like - May December, Maestro and Oppenheimer [View all] NewHendoLib Jan 2024 OP

We just watched JustAnotherGen Jan 2024 #1

we will give it a try - we are very much unhappy with overly "hollywood"ized movies, which NewHendoLib Jan 2024 #2

I'm older than you and I liked both May-December and Maestro. Ocelot II Jan 2024 #3

It's pacing. It's chaos, it's noise level NewHendoLib Jan 2024 #4

I have a problem with the music playing over dialog. Polly Hennessey Jan 2024 #5

Apparently it is a "special style" of Nolan movies NewHendoLib Jan 2024 #6

Talkies -- who needs 'em. 3Hotdogs Jan 2024 #8

Morse, Lewis, ----- We went to England. I was scared shitless to go to Oxford, 3Hotdogs Jan 2024 #7

or Midsomer;; or Father Brown's village. Murders all over the place and Midsomer has 24 seasons yellowdogintexas Jan 2024 #11

My issues are with the dark cinematography that renders so many tv shows (and movies played on tv) hlthe2b Jan 2024 #9

You might like some of the movies I review on my blog bif Jan 2024 #10