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I thought THIS movie trailer was adorable, but the movie was terrible!

nicole___

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The trailer is well worth watching. Three Thousand Years of Longing trailer.

Has anyone read the book? There must have been a book that preceded the movie?

We did watch Bullet Train....the trailer.

Anyone have a new release, in the last year, movie recommendation?

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raee_gw zone 5b-6a Ohio

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nicole_, I watched The Lost City recently and thought that Brad Pitt was by far the best part. The rest was kind of a cliched mess - very meh.

I read a review of The Banshees... and knew it wouldn't be for me.

ETA: Has anyone seen The Mayor of Casterbridge on PBS? I have read a couple of Hardy's books in the distant past and liked them, but this production also had me disappointed - and just sad at the end, never getting much insight into the main character's behavior. Maybe it was just me.

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Kathsgrdn
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The movie looks like it would be good. Sorry to hear that it was bad. I need to go check out to see what's playing this week since I'm on vacation!
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mtnrdredux_gw
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Don't see The banshees of inisherin, whatever you do. I purposely didn't research it so it'd be a bit of a surprise. It was playing at our little art film cinema.

It was a surprise alright.
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Kathsgrdn
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Mtndredux, I saw that movie with a friend not too long ago and made a post about it. The entire way home she said she was never going to pick a movie again.
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mtnrdredux_gw
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I usually do a lot of research, but I had gotten the impression it was a light-hearted Irish buddy movie. O. M. G.

Kaths, I only see KT posts when they are cross-posted. I commented on your thread.
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Three Thousand Years of Longing: the trailer looks like it would be kind of like a Wes Anderson movie. What was wrong with it -- how was it different form the trailer? Too weird? Too silly?

I love Idris Elba. Tilda Swinton movies are never normal, I always assume anything with her in it is going to be very, very odd. I adore her.
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nicole___
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SeattleMCM....Three Thousand Years of Longing....well....they could have done so much with the script...and after the trailer....which was ....I thought....pretty great....it went nowhere. The actors were top notch! I adore them both....It was the script! The story just stopped.

I did like Bullet Train. It was a LOT of fun! and silly....

I also liked Maverick. It was OK.

The Lost City....was OK.

Around the holidays we start watching a lot of movies.
User
last year
Definitely putting Bullet Train on my list!
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Funkyart
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I saw the trailer for The Banshees of Inisherin and said, "NOPE!".

I would have thought Three Thousand Years of Longing would be good-- if only for the actors. Bummer.

I haven't seen many recent films these last few months-- we've been on an old movie kick-- but we did stream See How They Run on prime. I thought it was eh ... SO liked it a bit more than I did.

I am looking forward to The Fablemans.
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amykath
last year
This is not a new movie but a really good one!!

It is on Netflix.
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Rho Dodendron
last year
Till!

Very tastefully done for us squeamish folks.

I hope to see Devotion this weekend.

I loved seeing Bullet Train trailer and was sad the movie was boring.
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I thought THIS movie trailer was adorable, but the movie was terrible!

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