Mockingjai part 2 - sorry for the fans
Star wars rogue one
The last jedi
The force awakens : I actually fell asleep
The high quality craftsmanship of Citizen Kane is only matched by how boring it is.
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Iβve seen far more boring movies.
Agree; saw Citizen Kane once and enjoyed it, although I don't have a desire to see it again. For it's time, it was a landmark in many aspects of film making. Decent story but too staid for today's generation.
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One Flew Over the Cuckooβs Nest
> The book is so much better, and way more entertaining than the movie
Agreed, and KvlhokVjequs, if you haven't read the book, please put it on your to-do list. Ken Kesey made a brilliant storytelling decision. He realized that he could not make McMurphy the POV character because he simply didn't have the education or life experience to effectively articulate his reasons for his dislike of Nurse Ratched; no matter how McMurphy explained it, it would inevitably come across as down-home, backwoods homily. Something like, "I ain't seen everything in the world, but what she does just ain't right." Who wants to read 200 pages of that?
So what did Kesey do? He invented Chief Broom -- who, along with all his glorious psychoses, hallucinations, et cetera -- is the book's POV character. The book is narrated by a guy who has weird fixations, sometimes sees things that aren't there, and along the way comes up with piercing insights from his warped perspective. The book just goes to a whole level beyond what the movie could achieve.
And I actually only got recommended the book when it was compared to Sucker Punch, of all things!
I need to read more Kesey, he is a great writer.
> I need to read more Kesey, he is a great writer.
I've only read Cuckoo's Nest. Kesey considered Sometimes A Great Notion to be a better book, and I've always meant to read it, but somehow haven't gotten around to it.
Have you read Tom Wolfe's book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test? Kesey was a big figure in the 1960's hippie/LSD/etc culture. Wolfe spent some time with Kesey and his ... disciples, for lack of a better term ... and then wrote about the experience, including partying with Hell's Angels and other bizarre things.
I have not read Wolfe, but that kind of stuff is right up my alley.
I did read quite a bit of Hunter S Thompson's book on the Hell's Angels, need to finish it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Angels:_The_Strange_and_Terrible_Saga_of_the_Outlaw_Motorcycle_Gangs
I haven't seen all of this, but I've watched the... highlight, and got the gist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(1964_film)
shareIts TV counterpart:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_Log_(TV_program)
Paris, Texas - 1984
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