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Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban

Just watched Taking Chance for the second time. Amazing how a movie with no action and a very basic story line can draw you and and keep you in rapt attention until the end.

Staybrite wrote:

Mrs Staybrite and I went to the cheap theater last night at watched "Deep Water Horizon".
Wow, just wow.

Is that a good "wow" or a bad one?


Arrival
Fantastic Beasts

Notting Hill

topshot rhit wrote:

Staybrite wrote:

Mrs Staybrite and I went to the cheap theater last night at watched "Deep Water Horizon".
Wow, just wow.

Is that a good "wow" or a bad one?


Arrival
Fantastic Beasts

I would Say it was definitely worth watching.  the "wow" was because it was such a large disaster, but based on a true story.  There is quite a bit of profanity in it.

Rogue One last night - fantabulous!

Veronika and I watched a couple episodes of Black Mirror yesterday evening after hearing many good things about it.  I was particularly not impressed.  It's not terrible, just not very interesting and doesn't have much to say (at least from the two episodes I saw).  Kinda generic/cliche dystopian stories about the negative effects of technology, etc.  I wouldn't recommend.

kerrick wrote:

Veronika and I watched a couple episodes of Black Mirror yesterday evening after hearing many good things about it.  I was particularly not impressed.  It's not terrible, just not very interesting and doesn't have much to say (at least from the two episodes I saw).  Kinda generic/cliche dystopian stories about the negative effects of technology, etc.  I wouldn't recommend.

I watched all three both of the first short (ie British) seasons.  I almost quit watching after the first one, but I stuck it out and ended up really liking some of the later episodes.  It is a bit stilted and almost passionless at some points, but we are talking about a British show with dystopian themes.

kerrick wrote:

Veronika and I watched a couple episodes of Black Mirror yesterday evening after hearing many good things about it.  I was particularly not impressed.  It's not terrible, just not very interesting and doesn't have much to say (at least from the two episodes I saw).  Kinda generic/cliche dystopian stories about the negative effects of technology, etc.  I wouldn't recommend.

You pretty much summed up what I took from the previews.  

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 

Much better than the prequels and contains some surprises!

alldatndensum wrote:

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 

Much better than the prequels and contains some surprises!

I'm thinking about taking my youngest son next week.  My oldest boy got to go see it with his mother yesterday.

The Man in the High Castle, Season 2

Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince

Last week it was Holiday.
Today it was The Family Man.

This weekend Veronika and I watched A Christmas Story with my parents.    Last night the two of us started watching The Adventures Of Brisco County Jr. which was a favorite tv show of mine as a kid.  It's very light but it's fun.

kerrick wrote:

This weekend Veronika and I watched A Christmas Story with my parents.    Last night the two of us started watching The Adventures Of Brisco County Jr. which was a favorite tv show of mine as a kid.  It's very light but it's fun.

I haven't seen Brisco since the show was new on television (back in the 90s?).  I was a wild fan back in the day, I wonder if I would still like it.  Bruce Campbell is fantastic.

Yeah it's a pretty fun show!  I got the DVD set for like $15 at Costco a few years ago.  That's cool that someone else is familiar with it too. 

kerrick wrote:

Yeah it's a pretty fun show!  I got the DVD set for like $15 at Costco a few years ago.  That's cool that someone else is familiar with it too. 

Wow, if I had seen it for that price I would have snatched it up too.

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Fantastic!

Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 1

Watched "The Boss" with Melissa McCarthy last night.
Completely inappropriate humor (even for one of her movies) and just a bunch of dumb over-used prat falls.  There's 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

A Princess For Christmas.

We watched Ernest Saves Christmas last night.  Man, was that a stupid movie.  My nephew liked it.  He's 11.

I saw "Rogue One" with a buddy from work again yesterday.  It was even better the 2nd time!



Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2

In these movies, I actually think that Harry was perhaps the greatest wizard ever.  The Deathly Hallows would have made him invincible.  Even Dumbledore had acquired the Elder Wand that gave him much more power and even the Eternity Stone.  He was collecting these.  Voldemort wanted them as well.  They both, even though they had different motives, wanted that power.

Harry through this movie actually holds all three pieces.  His Invisibility Cloak was the third of the Deathly Hallows.  While he retains and uses it, he drops the Eternity Stone in the Black Forest as I guess he really doesn't want the power of living forever.  He breaks the Elder Wand as though it is nothing.  Harry in his humbleness shows more strength and inner power than either of the two great wizards involved in this conflict.  So, to me, he became the greatest wizard because he was able to overcome adversity and extreme loss to hang on to friendship, love, and joy while never giving into the thirst for power that many crave.