Frayed Knot

Rom-Com adapted from the 2009 Nick Hornby novel, one where Hornby plows some familiar ground for him of relationships, music, and relationships through music. Annie and Duncan live together in a small, nothing-ever-happens-here seaside town in England. But they’re in a rut and Annie is starting to think that maybe her time with Duncan have been wasted years due in no small part to him spending much of his time obsessing over, and running a chatroom about, an obscure American rock star and the supposed masterpiece album ‘Juliet’ he recorded many years earlier prior to dropping off the face of the earth. (a bunch of dudes spending all their time on line discussing a single topic … what a bunch of losers!!) But then a bootlegged, alternate version of the album -- dubbed 'Juliet, Naked' by the obsessed fan boyz for it's stripped-down version of the songs -- shows up in the mail and nothing will ever be the same. Rose Byrne & Chris O’Dowd as the couple, with Ethan Hawke as the mysterious musician Tucker Crowe

I guess you could label it a sci-fi film since it involves aliens and a post-apocalyptic near-future. But that's mostly just the set-up; the plot plays out more like a horror flick: Are they in the house? ... will this maneuver buy us some time? ... How can they be killed?...

And a well-spoken young lad he is.

i don't usually watch horror films, but this one sounded unique so i gave it a try. -- Yup I'm glad i did. -- Yup

I like how the shadowing over the kids' faces hides their eyes enough to where those images can't be captured by facial recognition software and so a life of crime is still a viable option for either one of them. Well done if that was the intent. (whataya mean IF, of course it was)

The aliens have shown up and they're not at all nice. The good news is that they're blind. The bad is that they hunt by sound and they're very good at it. ' They're fast, they're vicious, and they'll rip your lungs out, Jim. So one has to be vewy, vewy, qwiet. Fortunately the featured family in this film knows sign language due to having a deaf daughter. But, as you can imagine, it's not so easy to raise young children under those circumstances. Y'know what's even tougher? Giving birth under those circumstances! John Krasinski and Emily Blunt stretch their skills to play a married couple. Basically the movie is them, couple of young 'uns, and a few ugly lookin' critters. In English and Sign Language with English subtitles, although the amount of dialog in this one makes JEREMIAH JOHNSON sound downright chatty. 90 minutes

Now that I think about it, I did see the most recent incarnation (three years ago - whatever version that was). We had just completed the sale of my mother's house and my sister and I were leaving the next morning with the cable/phone/internet/etc. already cut off. So the latest MI was at the local and we killed the night there. A fun ride? Yeah, maybe. But I remember nothing about the movie today and that was probably true the morning afterward as well ... and therein lies the problem with that series. oe: and I also wondered how Tom Cruise was injured worse, during the stunt itself or in falling over himself to let the news accidentally leak out that he was injured doing his own stunts.

Was a big fan of the TV show way back when. Didn't particularly like the first movie and haven't revisited since.

It's why I rarely watch sequels. If I didn't like the original then I have no interest in seeing the story continued. And if I did like it then I don't want a sequel to diminish the original. I also tend not to get all that excited at remakes for similar reasons. There are exceptions to both but not a lot. In another thread a few of us were discussing recent Taylor Sheridan films. The consensus seemed to be that HELL OR HIGH WATER was terrific, WIND RIVER less so but still good, and SICARIO a messy disappointment. So naturally [u:7o4mqauu]SICARIO 2[/u:7o4mqauu] is the one coming to a theatre near you.

41Forever wrote: Hawkeye needs his own movie! There have been several: [fimg=200]http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/37200000/Nathaniel-Poe-Hawkeye-the-last-of-the-mohicans-37205875-500-575.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=300]https://www.bestmoviesbyfarr.com/static-assets/images/articles/background/2014/07/2-k5uf9x.jpg[/fimg]

We've now had several mentions in the past few days about movies that should NOT have been remade but were anyway with mostly predictable (read: bad) results. Which seemed like as good a reason as any for a new topic. A couple of days ago I mentioned the recent incarnation of DEATH WISH. Now I haven't seen the new one, in part because I believe it opened and closed on the same afternoon but also because I had no intention of doing so. Not that the Charles Bronson original was great cinema which screamed not to even try to be equaled. But at least it was done at a time when random, urban street crime was much more of a fear than it is for most people today and when angry guys with guns wasn't a topic in the news seemingly twice a week. And of course few were better than Bronson at playing the strong silent type, so that even if this Bruce Willis version were a good movie it would be one with real bad timing and the near single-digit ratings on 'Rotten Tomatoes' suggests that it wasn't a well done version either. Coming this August is a new version of PAPILLON, the original of which WAS a good movie with top stars [1973 - Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman] and not one that suggests it's in need of a reworking. I've never heard of the leads in this coming version, which by itself doesn't mean it'll be inferior but I guess we'll see in a few months (or, like DEATH WISH, maybe no one will see). TAKING OF PELHAM 1-2-3 [1974 - Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw; 2009 - John Travolta, Denzel Washington] No, just no. Even if the editing DIDN'T manage to clearly show Shea Stadium out the window of the runaway train as it made its way from lower Manhattan into Brooklyn, remaking this one was still neither a good idea nor was it good execution. THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY [1947 - Danny Kaye; 2013 - Ben Stiller] How'd that one work out in the old box office, Ben? Bet it's been erased from the resume you use whenever you go job hunting too. Also from another thread: dgwphotography wrote: Has anyone killed two remakes (that shouldn't have been made) like Matthew Broderick? I assume he's talking about THE PRODUCERS and CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE, although at least that last one was a TV movie and not a theatre release. Or maybe he had another one in mind. Also, how about Denzel deciding to hitch his wagon to re-dos of TAKING OF PELHAM (see above), MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (2016), and THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (2004) !!!!! What's up with that DW, trouble finding any real work!?!

I'm with Seo's complaint -- ** still in spoiler alert mode here ** -- about the guy who threatened her with knowledge of the specific crime and, days later, was still in town and was overheard bragging about being complicit in what was apparently some sort of similar crime, yet was eventually passed off as some random guy from 1,500 miles away just passing through town. The only other explanation was that his vaguely referred to gov't/military connections were so important that the feds were able to intervene and falsify the information in order to make it look like he wasn't the guy when he actually was, but now we're getting into tinfoil hat territory. That and Rockwell's pre-redemption character being just too stupid for words.

My revised list. Wasn't any easier doing it the second time as compared to the first, but perhaps it's more 'accurate' ... whatever that means. Let's put a March 31st deadline on this for anyone who either hasn't contributed but wants to, or anyone who wants to update/adjust your existing list. If you do update then re-enter your list (as opposed to just editing it) so I'll see that you made changes. We'll put this thing into the books on April 1 30 - deGROM -- clearly the best pitcher in the lot and the only one on the team to have a good season AND go wire to wire with it 29 - CONFORTO -- best Runs Created on the squad, and even missing the final month he was 4th on the team in PA 28 - BRUCE -- kinda sad when the guy they tried to deal pre-season and then did deal at mid-season was the second best player 27 - CESPEDES 26 - REED 25 - DUDA 24 - GRANDERSON 23 - CABRERA 22 - REYES -- nice 2nd half saved him and earned him a re-up 21 - BLEVINS 20 - WALKER 19 - d'ARNAUD 18 - LUGO -- Actually the second best starter ERA on the team 17 - SEAWALD 16 - FLORES 15 - NIMMO -- decent production/small sample 14 - WHEELER -- 2nd best starter had a 5.21 ERA 13 - TJ RIVERA -- if only he could actually play the field 12 - LAGARES -- if only he could hit 11 - GSELLMAN 10 - AOKI -- .371 OBA is nice fil-in work, even if only for 100 ABs 9 - MONTERO 8 - R. RIVERA 7 - PLAWECKI 6 - BRADFORD 5 - SYNDERGAARD -- leading the team in ERA (2.97) counts for something even if only over 30-some IP 4 - ROSARIO 3 - REYNOLDS 2 - SMITH 1 - HARVEY

Centerfield wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Meh I wonder if these responses correlate to how much a viewer falls in love with Gal Gadot. Nah, nothing against Gadot. I just continue to be unimpressed with most of these superhero flicks. I don't see many of them, but every once in a while there'll be one -- this one, Black Panther, several of the Batmans, etc -- where I'm told that it's a great movie over and above merely being a geek-fest for fan-boys. And so I make a point of seeing a few of them yet still find myself missing what everyone else apparently sees. So I acknowledge that it's probably me, but I thought it was an OK movie at best.

Meh

Perhaps all we need to know about this past season is that multiple guys who would have been described as significant pieces of the supposed best staff in baseball as the season began -- Synderrgaard, Familia, Harvey, Matz, and Robles -- are all currently outside of our consensus top 20 and two of those five are looking like they'll wind up out of the top 30 and point-less for this season unless some late voting from outer precincts changes things.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: It does count for less ... bad seasons like 2017 get less weight than good seasons like 2015. Right, by a factor based on win totals. So the 15th best player in a 66 win season, for instance, gets 3/4 of the point total that the same rank player gets from an 88 win season. 60 would yield 2/3 of 90, etc. Bonus points are given for season which include post-season and increase the deeper that team goes. No system is going to be perfect and we certainly make no claims (despite what BatMags thinks) that this one is. The key is to balance a player's rank within his year vs the year itself so that neither factor is overemphasized. So we fooled around with, and then test-ran, various formulas before launching this project and came up with the one we best thought mimicked reality.

Nymr83; you list only 29 players ^^^

Youse guys was right. This was brutal to do. 30 - deGROM -- clearly the best pitcher in the lot and the only one on the team to have a good season AND go wire to wire with it 29 - CONFORTO -- best Runs Created on the squad, and even missing the final month he was 4th on the team in PA 28 - BRUCE -- kinda sad when the guy they tried to deal pre-season and then did deal at mid-season was the second best player 27 - CESPEDES 26 - REED 25 - DUDA 24 - GRANDERSON 23 - CABRERA 22 - REYES -- nice 2nd half saved him and earned him a re-up 21 - BLEVINS 20 - WALKER 19 - d'ARNAUD 18 - SEAWALD 17 - NIMMO 16 - FLORES 15 - WHEELER -- 2nd best starter had a 5.21 ERA 14 - TJ RIVERA -- if only he could actually play the field 13 - LAGARES -- if only he could hit 12 - GSELLMAN 11 - AOKI -- .371 OBA is nice fil-in work, even if only for 100 ABs 10 - MONTERO 9 - MATZ 8 - R. RIVERA 7 - PLAWECKI 6 - HARVEY 5 - SYNDERGAARD -- leading the team in ERA (2.97) counts for something even if only over 30-some IP 4 - REYNOLDS 3 - ROSARIO 2 - SMITH 1 - EDGIN/ROBLES -- I'll have to decide here. Edgin had the better ERA but Robles the better WHIP and twice as many IP oe: and I just realized I forgot Lugo so I obviously still have some work to do here

Second post of last year's Ranking thread (1/4/17): seawolf17 wrote: We definitely already did this. I remember doing it. (Didn't we?) I suggest that the mods put Seawolf into the concussion protocol; there seems to be a trend here.

Thought I forgot about this, eh? ... Not Bloody Likely!! Actually, I kind of did. At first I didn't want to step on Grimm's Tabloid Project, then I figured it best to wait until after the holidays ... and THEN I forgot about it. But now, with P&C only a few weeks away, it's back and [crossout:33lr0z7h]better than[/crossout:33lr0z7h] well, pretty much the same as ever. Anyway, you guys know the drill: Vote (no state-issued photo ID required) for 30 players from 2017 and rank them as to best/least contributors to this most frustrating of NYM seasons. And you get to choose your 30 from this outstanding group of 53 candidates - a group only slightly larger, and, sadly, about as charismatic, as the 2016 Republican field. Hitters (ranked from most PAs to least) REYES - CABRERA - BRUCE - CONFORTO - GRANDERSON d’ARNAUD - FLORES - CESPEDES - WALKER - DUDA LAGARES - TJ RIVERA - NIMMO - R RIVERA - SMITH ROSARIO - REYNOLDS - PLAWECKI - AOKI - CECCHINI TAIJERON - EVANS - NIDO and pitchers (most to least IP): deGROM - GSELLMAN - MONTERO - LUGO - HARVEY WHEELER - MATZ - SEWALD - SMOKER - ROBLES REED - BLEVINS - FLEXEN - SALAS - EDGIN BRADFORD - GOEDDEL - SYNDERGAARD - MILONE FAMILIA - PILL - RAMIREZ - RAMOS - RHAME McGOWEN - CALLAHAN - WILK - GILMARTIN

I've yet to see this one and, being a bit out of the demographic for young women coming of age flicks, it'll probably be a while before I do (like probably later in the year via cable or Netflix). But between the praise for this movie from critics being so universal, the actress and first-time director already being media darlings, and the 'me-too' theme hanging over this year's award season at least as much as 'oscarssowhite' was last year (there was already a snide remark at the Golden Globes about all the director nominees being male) I'd be shocked this isn't at least nominated for best picture and if Gerwig isn't for best director. I think it's even possible that she, and maybe even the film itself, would win despite it being her rookie effort.

This one got a ton of critical acclaim when it was first out. I thought it was good but maybe not quite all that - but I'm not the biggest rom-com fan in the world so maybe it's just me. Was nice and gave it 4*, would have gone 3-1/2 if offered that option. But good overall story. Good awkward parts for the parents -- Ray Romano and Holly Hunter -- as opposed to the ridiculously awkward parts that are standard fare in your usual sit-coms/rom-coms.

Definitely HoHW > WR > Sicario, although HoHW might be my favorite movie of the last coupla years and I'd still put a bigger gap between #2 & #3 than between #1 & #2 Wasn't aware of the previous actors' connections as the superhero flicks aren't in my wheelhouse And, yeah, it got a bit preachy towards the end. Sheridan seems to be saying; 'Watch me care'. Don't know if he himself has native ancestry, but that seems to be his pet project these days.

The body of a teenage girl found in the snow on the 'Wind River' Arapaho Reservation in Wyoming sets off an investigation where several governmental departments -- BIA, FBI, local -- wrangle with each other and with a private security force connected to a nearby power plant over jurisdictional issues. And of course the White vs Red and on vs off the 'Rez' conflicts weave their way throughout. Both written and directed by Taylor Sheridan. He was the writer for 2016's Texas Rangers vs bank robbers flick 'Hell or High Water' and also 2015's DEA vs drug smugglers tale 'Sicario'. If I didn't know better I might think he has a renegade outlaw vs lawman (and sometimes renegade lawman) thing going on. Jeremy Renner plays the Fish and Wildlife Bureau hunter/tracker who finds the body and has personal reasons for finding the backstory to the crime; Elizabeth Olsen the fish out of water FBI agent who's flown in for the assignment; Gil Birmingham, who played Jeff Bridges's half-indian partner in HoHW, here portrays the victim's grieving father. "Luck don't live out here"