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Where is Chen?! I think he would be all over this thread!

The first time I watched The Heiress I thought it was brilliant. So dark I couldn't believe it's a movie from 1949.

Now that Ridley Scott is back in form (All The Money In The World), I'm looking forward to The Last Duel  the most.

Only haggis for you, Richard.

It's a spectacle nonetheless. In 1977, I vividly remember being impressed and surprised with the scale of the scene, the enormous size of the room, the many extras and the amount of costumes. It was the kind of magnitude you only saw in the epics of the '50s and '60s.
 

The Eiger Sanction
 
Well, this movie hasn't aged well!  It really is a film of its time I suppose.
 
I went in knowing nothing about it, so was amused by the sort of James Bond / Indiana Jones ish ideas at the beginning like him being this sort of former assassin / adventurer, who is now a college professor that has female students throwing themselves at him.  Turns out this is just the start of literally every female character in the movie throwing themselves at him, something that has no resolution or payoff and just seems to randomly be thrown in there.  I dunno if this is due to Clint's ego, or if it was an element of the novel...
 
The story overall was OK.  All the beginning setup and exposition is painfully slow; You could tell from watching that things were cut down here, too, and maybe they should have cut more... Once he gets to Utah and George Kennedy things improve dramatically, but really the best part of the film is easily the final act in Switzerland at the Eiger mountain.  It still wasn't great, but it at least looked nice and paced fine.
 
Overall, a pretty dopey and inconsequential movie that doesn't over too much of value, though maybe at the time the twists and general machinations of the assassin plot weren't so cliched (we both guessed who the assassin was very early on).
 
The only reason I would have ever bothered to watch this was because John Williams scored it, and the score is great!  Starts off moody and a bit jazzy, has some nice tension around an early gruesome murder, back to light jazz for a while as everything is set up, then we get a big showcase orchestral cue for some rock climbing in Utah.  Once we get to Switzerland there's more orchestral stuff, more tension, and it all ends with a return to the jazz.  A shame the OST album is only 35 minutes!

It never was easy for me to choose a favorite instrument. I used to say that the orchestra was my favorite instrument.

I never had a CD player that lasted 5 years. And I treat my gear with respect!

10 to 20 years is bad?! By that time I would already have replaced it with the latest and greatest model. Really, back in the day, I don't think I ever had a deck that failed on me. I can't say the same about silver disc spinners (CD / DVD / Blu-ray). 

I bought the CD of AVATAR, in December, 2009. It is still in its cellophane wrapper.

Exactly, it made it a lot more childish than the first movie. Just because the villain rips out hearts from people's chests doesn't make this a movie for adults!

I think, the problem with Willie is that Steven Spielberg was so in love that he simply found marvellous everything she did, so that he didn't think about giving her any boundaries.
 
And Short Round, yes after E.T. in every Spielberg movie you had these kids. In E.T. it worked out well. But why did there have to be always these kids in these movies? It might be required for Hook and for Empire of the Sun. Sure. But ToD? Jurassic Park?
A movie like Temple of Doom would have been better with slaved adults than with slaved kids I think. I was 14 when I saw it, and I didn't want to see a children's movie.

I did allow him to see the Prequels though ... and he became a fan. 

...and the Bastard Dad Of All Time award, goes to...
 

I saved my kid from watching that trash.

Frak!
 

I think most people are off the Malick train. I didn't see Hidden Life but To he Wonder, Song to Song, Knight of Cups and Voyage of Time were total WTFs! Literally wallpapers - just pretty images with pretentious voiceover that did not make an iota of sense or do any kind of storytelling. The reviews were bad too.
 
 

Regardless, I find it a fascinating insight into early electronics. She also has a very soothing, pedagogic way of showing off the various capabilites of the instrument. Would have loved to see her live.

Grammy winners are Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Billie Eillish, ... Zzzzzz.

WAR HORSE.
Is it me, or is this film major boring shit?
It seems as if it was designed to do two things: 1/ to show off Devon (which it did), and 2/ to make Jeremy Irvine a star (which it didn't - oh, bugger!).
It looks pretty, and all that, but it just doesn't make me care about anybody, including the horse. The score (and I know that I'm going to get massacred, for this) is forgettable, and, largely on the twee side, with lots of English-isms, but rarely finding its own voice. I know that it's been trumpeted as a major film in Spielberg's canon, but, really, it's just another late-flowering technical exercise.
My opinion of this film has not changed, in nine years: 

Yes, I would offer the veg to the ones I know are vegetarians. 
 
 
 
It's that bloody second half! I would rather watch an episode of The Love Boat, which isn't all that different, but at least it wouldn't feature:
 

FIFTH ELEMENT did start off well.
Then, that insufferable character , whose name escapes me, ruined it ( along with the plot)

These two don't have what it takes to carry a movie. They can't even carry a trailer.