What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

Quote: Evenbob

Finally saw Once Upon a Time in Hollywood last night and was pleasantly surprised. I totally enjoyed it.

That is ironic that you bring that up today as today I heard people discussing it and I had never heard of it.

One of the most interesting shows I've seen to make a person think is Blacklist starring James Spader.

When he was young, I didn't much like his abilities.

After streaming over 200 episodes, he's a super-star IMO.


Interestingly, it began in 2013 or so.

It's about a super-computer and managing information for the FBI's special task force to fight major criminal players.

They worked with Spader (Reddington) a major world criminal.


Surely, someone knew early on it was based upon the real thing.

I'm trying to watch "Death on the Nile" but about to give up. Nothing is working for me, except that at least Gal Gadot is in it.

some people don't like Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot ... I think it's the old thing where a person doesn't like change, nothing more'

I think he's really good as Poirot, I'll probably want to see it ...

Gal Gadot must have a minor role? not on the 'top cast' list shown at imdb.com

PS there is a review slamming Branagh there before you do any clicking around

the character Linnet Ridgeway that Gadot plays is listed, however, in the below. A spoiler in and of itself?

https://www.agathachristie.com/film-and-tv/death-on-the-nile/death-on-the-nile-characters

Quote: rxwine

I'm trying to watch "Death on the Nile" but about to give up. Nothing is working for me, except that at least Gal Gadot is in it.

I like all three of the Kenneth Branaugh Poirot movies.

This would be my ranking:

1. A Haunting in Venice
2. Death on the Nile
3. Murder on the Orient Express

Quote: odiousgambit

the character Linnet Ridgeway that Gadot plays is listed, however, in the below. A spoiler in and of itself?

https://www.agathachristie.com/film-and-tv/death-on-the-nile/death-on-the-nile-characters

Gadot is the “death” in Death on the Nile so her part is not as big.

Quote: ams288

I like all three of the Kenneth Branaugh Poirot movies.

This would be my ranking:

1. A Haunting in Venice
2. Death on the Nile
3. Murder on the Orient Express

It's probably because I went into that one "blind" knowing nothing about it. Sometimes it does help to know the type of movie you're watching. I didn't recognize as a Agatha Christie flick. It seemed like soap opera segments stuck together. Some of the acting seemed a bit weird also. The CGI only seemed good enough for a video game is some cases, which is okay, if I know I'm watching an action movie where much is not realistic.

So, maybe I will give it another chance. Usually, I recognize the style of movie not long into a movie, but not this one. Perhaps, turned it off too soon.

Quote: rxwine

It's probably because I went into that one "blind" knowing nothing about it. Sometimes it does help to know the type of movie you're watching. I didn't recognize as a Agatha Christie flick. It seemed like soap opera segments stuck together. Some of the acting seemed a bit weird also. The CGI only seemed good enough for a video game is some cases, which is okay, if I know I'm watching an action movie where much is not realistic.

So, maybe I will give it another chance. Usually, I recognize the style of movie not long into a movie, but not this one. Perhaps, turned it off too soon.

It is a very soap opera-y premise.

I actually guessed the “who” in that one’s whodunnit. I was proud of myself.

This is the actual movie.

Surely, you have seen it already but just in case you haven't.

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Above Majestic: The Secret Space Program

Mar 7, 2023
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On September 10th 2001 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced that $2.3 trillion dollars could not be accounted for within Department of Defense expenditures. The very next day the Pentagon’s budget analyst’s office was destroyed in the 9/11 attack. The mystery remains: Where are the missing trillions Above Majestic is a shocking and provocative look at what it would take to hide a multi-trillion-dollar Secret Space Program (a clandestine group of elite military and corporate figureheads charged with reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology also known as “Majestic 12”) from the public and the implications this would have for humanity. Viewers will be guided through a deep dive into the origins, technologies, history, cover ups, conspiracies, testimony and research that goes beyond and Above Majestic.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSyH26cl9AQ

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