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re: Death on the Nile is on Hulu
Posted on 4/4/22 at 11:45 am to Funky Tide 8
Posted on 4/4/22 at 11:45 am to Funky Tide 8
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its a movie that is not based on real life sooo...
It's a movie that was based on a real time period in history; it was not a science fiction alternate reality. Just because it is a work of fiction does not mean you can make up whatever you want and not have the movie seem off. Using modern dance, music, and interracial couples is something an immature director making a teenage flick would do. Not someone like Branagh making a period Christie movie should do.
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Posted on 4/4/22 at 11:54 am to Saint Alfonzo
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make our own popcorn
We've gone to the theater to get the good stuff and brought it home to stream a movie before
Posted on 4/4/22 at 11:59 am to Saint Alfonzo
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Going to the movies is 50-60 bucks for two people.
Many people seem to forget that its not a requirement to buy $30 worth of drinks/snacks
Posted on 4/4/22 at 12:16 pm to Saint Alfonzo
I will go to the theatres for Top Gun and the new Dr. Strange as I went to see Spiderman (NWH) and Ghostbusters Afterlight. Those were worth it. Otherwise.....meh.
Posted on 4/4/22 at 1:57 pm to jg8623
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Many people seem to forget that its not a requirement to buy $30 worth
My wife and I can go to the matinee or twosday at the local cinemark and get out of there for $12.
Hell, I took my family to the Friday night showing of Uncharted and it was $50 for all of us including a popcorn.
ETA: I understand the matinee is for old people. We’re both in our late 30s. We just have some freedoms with having teenage kids where we can go to a movie in the middle of the day on a Saturday or Sunday.
This post was edited on 4/4/22 at 2:02 pm
Posted on 4/4/22 at 2:07 pm to BRich
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Yeah it was something else. Like a lot of the movie, it was pretty much a bunch of ret-conning woke, anachronistic bull shite.
Unless this is supposed to be some sort of alt-Universe such as in a Tarantino film, folks didn't act or dance that way in polite company back in that time period--"Twerking" and such.
Also back then (and in the original novel and 1978 movie version):
-- no interracial dancing (right background), either.
-- no interracial couples (Bouc and Rosalie).
-- no lesbian couples (Mrs. Van Schuyler and Miss Bowers)
-- no electric guitars and "blues" (a la Sister Rosetta Tharpe) being played in the fine halls of Europe and on Egyptian pleasure cruise.
-- no Arab/Egyptian "cousin Andrew"
Updated for modern sensibilities to the point it becomes ludicrous.
you cant be serious. I wasnt a fan of the movie but this is just hilarious. 
Posted on 4/4/22 at 2:10 pm to rebelrouser
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Just because it is a work of fiction does not mean you can make up whatever you want and not have the movie seem off.
Sure it does
Posted on 4/4/22 at 6:42 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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you cant be serious. I wasnt a fan of the movie but this is just hilarious.
What's so funny about those statements though? They're correct. There were weird anachronistic choices in this movie that left me wondering why the choices were made. You have to be honest. Those were affirmative choices. Why were they made? Just to have some "diversity"? To be "woke"? Because everyone was completely blind to any sort of racial/cultural issue and just made the choices that they felt were "best" for the movie (lol, yeah right)?
I don't know. But I won't be one of those who just ignores it.
In any event, that's in addition to the horrible pacing and weird storyline choices.
This post was edited on 4/4/22 at 6:51 pm
Posted on 4/4/22 at 6:43 pm to Funky Tide 8
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Sure it does
Well sure, you can. That's how you end up with a bad movie.
Posted on 4/4/22 at 7:31 pm to Mo Jeaux
I was pleasantly surprised by Russell Brand's acting (in a good way)
Posted on 4/4/22 at 9:47 pm to hsfolk
I agree. One of the bright spots of the movie in my opinion.
Posted on 4/4/22 at 9:54 pm to hsfolk
Wife and I saw it. Enjoyed it, but, unlike Murder on the Orient Express, I called it real early on.
Was just a bit predictable.
And I agree with everyone Russel Brand was great, along with Bateman playing Bouc.
The only thing I didn’t like was the modern styling.
When you set something in the early 1900s, I expect it to be reflected in the dress and other aspects.
It just takes me out of the picture. Real nitpicky though.
Was just a bit predictable.
And I agree with everyone Russel Brand was great, along with Bateman playing Bouc.
The only thing I didn’t like was the modern styling.
When you set something in the early 1900s, I expect it to be reflected in the dress and other aspects.
It just takes me out of the picture. Real nitpicky though.
Posted on 4/5/22 at 8:33 am to iwyLSUiwy
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But this movie was terrible. I'm a Agatha Christie fan so I like the story but good lord they drew the honeymoon portion of this out. I looked at my wife halfway through and said "I wish they'd hurry up and kill somebody." They didn't spend enough time on what makes the story good, you know, the mystery.
I didn’t think it was terrible, but I do agree it dragged quite a bit. Linnet isn’t killed until an hour and 4 minutes into the movie. At one point during the lead up, my wife (not knowing Agatha Christie or the backstory of Poirot) was like “I thought you said this was a murder mystery.”
Felt like they could have trimmed quite a bit of fat from the film. Did we need a 7 minute WWI scene and 9 minute montage of dancing in the club?
Murder on the Orient Express felt like it flowed much better while not telegraphing the mystery immediately.
Posted on 4/5/22 at 8:46 am to iwyLSUiwy
All this movie needed was the Rock in it
Posted on 4/5/22 at 10:29 am to Mo Jeaux
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What's so funny about those statements though? They're correct.
Like I say, I did not like the movie, at all really. But this...
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-- no interracial dancing (right background), either.
Is absolutely ridiculous. It bothered him that there were interracial BACKGROUND DANCERS. Are you kidding me? What kind of person, outside of someone with some racism in there, would care about background dancers? Throwing in a black guy in the background in a movie made up primarily of white people, shouldn't bother anybody. This clearly wasn't attempting to be by the book spot on.
If that offends you, whatever, be a baby. Throwing in the lesbian couple was woke, it'd be hard not to admit that. But booting up a good story is what bothered me. Yes, Gal Gadot is super hot, but how about you not spend over half the movie making sure the audience knows how hot she is and sacrifice the mystery over it.
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:20 pm to iwyLSUiwy
I will say that it bothered me that the singer played what was essentially a Chuck Berry song during the club scene.
Music like that didn’t exist yet.
Music like that didn’t exist yet.
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:25 pm to iwyLSUiwy
The movie takes place before the invention of the electric guitar. My buddy and I noticed it immediately and looked it up just to be sure.
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:49 pm to kingbob
quote:Things like that take me out of the movie.
The movie takes place before the invention of the electric guitar. My buddy and I noticed it immediately and looked it up just to be sure.
When it comes to Britain and racial interactions, we were significantly different than they were.
Having black dancers, singers, etc., isn’t unheard of.
They were far more integrated than we were.
Having an electric guitar solo/music wasn’t invented yet and it bothered me.
This post was edited on 4/5/22 at 12:50 pm
Posted on 4/5/22 at 1:08 pm to Scruffy
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Having an electric guitar solo/music wasn’t invented yet and it bothered me.
Yea I mean that's pretty stupid. And lazy.
I think I was too distracted by the bump and grinding. That was by far the best part of the movie.
That girl was hotter than Gal Gadot, at least in this. I lol'd in the theatre though we she bent over and he looked like he was hitting it doggystyle. Posted on 4/5/22 at 2:52 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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I lol'd in the theatre though we she bent over and he looked like he was hitting it doggystyle.
If someone danced like that in the early 1900s, they would have been put in prison.
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