[MelodyL]

If any of you guys can go to the movies, holy cow!!!! What a movie!!!

This has to be the best thriller I have ever seen in my whole life.

From beginning to end.

Not one boring second.

Just wanted to pass along a good movie tip!!!

Melody

[karousel]

Thanks for the info! The previews sound really good. Maybe I can drag hubby to a movie.

[watsonsh]

Hi Mel,

I have not seen this one yet but will based on your review.

I work in the movie biz and love when I see word of mouth reviews!

[MelodyL]

It's not in the theatres yet. At least not by me. It opens up next week.

I have found a way to see them

This was by far one of the best movies I have ever seen.

You'll love it!!!!

[AfterMyNap]

How odd, I read some reviews and it sounded kind of bad to me. Eye of the beholder? You can see what audiences thought at Netflix.

[MelodyL]

This is only my opinion, but the crap that passes for movies today, well to me a lot of them are just that. CRAP.

They are gangsta rapper films. (I have zero interest in these types of violent films). Maybe because I'm a woman, maybe not.

But I used to say "Give me a good Gene Hackman movie, or a good Anthony Hopkins Movie (like FRACTURE, for example). Now THAT was a MOVIE!!!

I recently viewed NIM'S ISLAND. with Jodie Foster.

She plays a character exactly like MONK on tv. I never laughed so hard in my life.

Not exactly a kid's movie. And yeah, it has fantasy elements. It's a movie for the whole family. But Jodie Foster plays a neurotic, severely OCD person, well I nearly choked, I laughed so hard. Just to see her getting out of her apartment is a hoot. Not to make fun of people with OCD ( I have it myself).

But when you see her acting ability, well THAT WAS A GOOD MOVIE.

But the other stuff they are playing, with the mind boggling sex and violence, well to me, this DOES NOT A GOOD MOVIE MAKE!!!!

Maybe because I'm 60 now, I just don't know.

All I DO know, is when I watched 88 minutes with Al Pacino, I was transported into thriller mode. I forgot my problems, my pain, my EVERYTHING.

And when a thriller can do that to you, WELL IT'S A GOOD MOVIE.

I don't need zombies eating brains, or gangter rappers just killing each other for no reason.

Nah!!! Give me an old fashioned Gene Hackman, Al Pacino or Anythony Hopkiins movie any day of the week.

I read reviews all the time. I go to Internet Movie Database and I find all the trivia that is associated with a movie.

Every movie, tv show, actor or actress is located at the Internet Movie Data base.

It's the best website for movie, or tv or actor information that I have ever seen.

They have message boards, contents, and each movie or tv show or actor info page, has it's own message board.

So for example, if you go to Internet Movie Database and type in Al Pacino, after some choices, you click on Al Pacino, and you are immediately transported to an Al Pacino web information page.

You can read his bios, see everything he has ever done, scroll down to the bottom of the page and there's his own message board where people ask questions and post comments.

Before I watch anything, I go to the Internet Movie Database and find out if I really want to watch a particular movie.

And after I finish watching it, I go back there and look into the trivia of how they made the movie, if they used special effects, they tell you the goofs about the movie.

If a person is into movies, or tv shows, or just want all the info on a famous person, well IT'S THERE!!!!

It's a quality website.

[Twinkletoes]

Go and see 88 Minutes with Al Pacino????

I'd LOVE to!!!

When is he available?

*PMing Mel my phone number so she can pass it on to Al*

[MelodyL]

Twinks:
(That's your new nickname).

You made me laugh.


Mel
P.S. I actually saw Al Pacino once. It was almost 40 years ago. I used to work in NYC and there was some kind of demonstration in front of my office building.

There was this short guy standing with the other people and this short guy was wearing a long disheveled rain coat.

I remember asking someone "who's the little guy over there", and the guy burst out laughing and said "That's Al Pacino".

I said 'THAT'S AL PACINO???"

Who cares if he's short. The guy can act.

P.P.S. I also saw Kirk Douglas (god he was to die for).
Paul Newman (saw the back of his sweater as he was passing Cornell Medical Center and everybody on the street was oohing and aaahing.

Sidney Poitier (I actually walked along with him as he xited a health food store. This was 42 years ago.

Robert Horton (from Wagon Train). He was wearing an orange jump suit. And as he saw me WATCHING HIM, he crossed the street and ran away from me.

Oh, and when I was 22, my girlfriend and I went to California and we got on the Hollywood lot of some major motion picture studio and we went to the commissary and we saw the Brady Bunch, and in a restaurant we saw Michael Cole from the Mod Squad. I almost died on the spot.

And the Piece de Resistance, was at Radio City Musical Hall, when I ran smack into Milton Berle in a top hat and tails. God he was tall!!!!

[EthanNDomsMom]

The trailers for it look pretty good. I'm looking forward to it coming out on PPV so I can catch it!