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Last movie I (tried to) watch on Amazon Prime called Ones and Zeros with Ethan Hawk which I like but that movie was a stylish piece of crap European movie making!
I could only tolerate about 25 minutes of it before watching season finale of The Last Kingdom on Netflix.
I couldn't watch it, either. They sure do make a lot of stinker movies nowadays...
A clique of Boston lowlifes rob banks and armored cars. In the course of a bank robbery, the masked crew temporarily take a female bank employee hostage..she later unknowingly falls for the leader of the masked thieves (Ben Affleck). The movie is about their trying romance. I think Affleck also directed. Well acted, decent story. I liked it, it's currently on Hulu.
A clique of Boston lowlifes rob banks and armored cars. In the course of a bank robbery, the masked crew temporarily take a female bank employee hostage..she later unknowingly falls for the leader of the masked thieves (Ben Affleck). The movie is about their trying romance. I think Affleck also directed. Well acted, decent story. I liked it, it's currently on Hulu.
Don't undersell this one...it's fantastic! "The Town" is in the same vein as Michael Mann's "Heat" from the mid-90's, which is also a GREAT FILM.
A great cast including; Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner, the Florists, Rebecca Hall, Blake Lively, Jon Hamm, Titus Welliver
Grey Gardens, the 2009 HBO movie about a mother and daughter, (crazy? reclusive? eccentric? delusional? all of the above?) members of the Bouvier family and close relatives of first lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
Per Wikimedia, the 2009 movie was a revision of "the 1975 American documentary film by Albert and David Maysles. The film depicts the lives of two reclusive, upper-class women, a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale, who lived in poverty at Grey Gardens, a derelict mansion at 3 West End Road in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York."
IIRC we have seen both versions. It's an amazing story and I highly recommend. It's like a version of Gone With the Wind for how life degrades when the money, fame, fortunes and status quo dry up and blow away.
Great thing about the HBO movie is the DVD has comments by the producers that takes as much time as the movie itself. They describe the meaning of many scenes, the story behind certain items of clothing or household items, etc, and especially how they went to great lengths to get the details right, including having tailors create, from scratch, exact styles of men's suits for the years in which the story took place. Also included was how the two main actresses immersed themselves in their roles and how this movie went to great lengths to convey the reality of the 1975 documentary. Very interesting to see how the movie business really works, the trouble studios go to in order to get it right. You could watch the Oscars for years and never get insights like this on how much work goes into some movies and how they achieve much of what we see on-screen.
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Last edited by Mike from back east; 04-17-2023 at 04:42 PM..
I always feel like I have to warn about movies being slow-moving, and I've seen other criticisms of this movie online, but I really liked it. As far as I'm concerned, Bill Nighy and Patricia Clarkson can do no wrong. Emily Mortimer is the lead, and she's good, too. If you love books, you'll probably like it even more. Quaint setting.
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Grey Gardens
