Movie You're Watching Tonight

This one's a dose. A dose of what, I'm not sure. It's Cuckoo, a more or less German horror flick, one of those EU projects. A strange hotel that reminds you of the one in The Shining, except in Mittel Europa, a woman who sees strange people and nothing makes much sense, either to her or to me as a movie viewer. It's all ominous. I did read the plot synopsis on Wikipedia and that doesn't make much sense either. IMO, scary movies need an identifiable "horror", a set of victims and a resolution, none of which are in Cuckoo. Maybe that was the point. If you want to see it, please explain it to me. I probably won't be listening.

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Never actually seen this.

Great stuff.

I have watched all Daniel Day-Lewis filmography up to The Ballad of Jack and Rose, including this film. He's an amazing actor.

Believe this is the only one I’d missed. DDL is the greatest actor alive — but I’m not original in saying that, I suppose.

I stopped watching his around 2006.

There are two other actors I watched their filmography up to a certain point and stopped - Brad Pitt and Christian Bale. Started back up once I watched Valhalla Rising with Mads
Went back watched all I missed. I watched Valhalla Rising in 2010.

Is it Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot? If it is then he's fantastic in it.

It does give you more to watch later, so I can understand that. I definitely haven’t seen everything of Bale’s and not everything that Pitt’s been in interests me.

My favorites of Bale's is All The Little Animals, Velvet Goldmine, Royal Deceit and Out of the Furance.

Yes and he's amazing in most anything.

There used to be a band called Three Dog Night. That popped into my head in a variation that's called Two Dog Weekend, two movies I didn't like. I'm not sure how I got talked into this, but tonight's flick was It Ends With Us. Lily Bloom moves to Boston to become a florist (really??). She has abuse in her background, has a former boyfriend, "Atlas Corrigan" (really...again?), but falls in love with a neurosurgeon after her initial hesitancy. Hints of abuse follow, followed by definite events.

What follows is a confusing mess of events, recollections and revelations concerning past and present occurrences of spouse abuse by not just Lily's spouse but her father's abuse of her mother. Lily is pregnant. Things between her and her husband are rocky, but they stay together for a while, split, reconcile and have a baby, not all in this order.

I was not fond of the movie at all. Characters and time spans were confusing. Plot coherence was lacking. Casting was weird. At least Boston, in the background, looked good, even though it was digitally stapled into the background.

I'll never have those two hours back.

I might give Rocketman a watch just to participate in Musicals group-watch thread, and nominate something good for y'all

Was planning to watch Foxtrot initially, but maybe later. Nauseous from the heat.

Off the back of the conversation about censorship, this kind of cinema needs to be made. Otherwise people won’t really process that it happens.

Wife hasn't seen this one yet. She actually had only seen a hand-full of film noirs when I met her. Now she's seen close to a hundred of the classics.

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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Gandhi​

Going on a Star Is Born marathon! All four movies in order of release date! At least one each day!