Movies Watched -- Troubled Water (2008)

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In Norwegian. 116 minute running time, yes, a little overly long (maybe cut the scene with the drug addict’s mother?) but I REALLY liked this movie, this a green-go recommended movie from me (RARE). It’s true that I like church organ music (and not just because I’m an expert at playing with my own organ), but this movie was good beyond the organ music (I actually wasn’t that thrilled with the other music, heavy on heartstring guitar) … this is a movie that Christians will enjoy, I think … forgiveness and mercy major themes here, crime and punishment. This was a John Farr reco and it’s 15 years old now and I had never heard of it, which makes me wonder how many other good movies I’ve missed.

The actress in the screencap below took my breath away with that scene … I was gobsmacked. That kind of talent in just amazing to see… she’s Danish.

Recognition then all the emotions that followed, my God what an actress!

Movies Watched -- Winter Sleepers (1997)

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In German. 124 minute running time so 25 minutes too long … this wasn’t terrible, another John Farr recommendation, but once again it isn’t good enough for ME to recommend. I could have cut a lot out and restructured the story to make it a green-go. I was glad to see that there was a full frontal nudity scene with a guy who had a normal penis.

Bis spater … pre-Barbie Doll Millennial era when women had intact bushes

Movies Watched -- True Romance (1993)

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121 minute running time so at least 30 minutes too long … I went to fast forward after 20 minutes but slowed it back down for Walker/Hopper scene which was funny. This was the first thing Quentin Tarantino wrote that actually got made into a movie, I think. It has all the Tarantino hallmarks: non-stop swearing, snappy dialogue, extreme violence, humor, and general absurdity. You get the sense that Tarantino is a man-child, a goofy guy who miraculously caught a break and broke into the industry instead of being a movie rental clerk, where he possibly should have remained for the good of mankind. John Farr recommended it, but I certainly don’t … unless you want to see James Gandolfini before he got fat.

Patricia Arquette has great knockers

Movies Watched -- Mr. Jones (2020)

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119 minute running time … the story of Gareth Jones, a Welshman who exposed Stalin’s famine … it was pretty good, I didn’t know the story at all, it’s a good history lesson … only trouble is it ran about 20 minutes too long. Somehow if it could have been tightened up 20 minutes or so, I could recommend it, but as it is I can’t give it a green-go. It was a John Farr reco and I thank him for it.

(Maybe cutting out the bits about how Jones’s reporting inspired Animal Farm?)

He was going to go to … Ukraine.