You said earlier it's hard for you to separate books from the movies they become, as a general statement. The implication is that you have a hard time enjoying a movie that deviates significantly from the source material. Is that not correct, did I misunderstand what you were trying to say?
My statement amended to "it's hard for me to separate books from the movies for books I've actually read. Why do you care what I think? Seen any movies lately?
Saw The Darkest Hour today. I should really watch these Academy award and nominated movies earlier. Gary Oldman, bravo.
Just trying to engage in a dialog, that's all. I've seen a ton of movies and I like to talk about them with people, especially if others have interesting ideas or viewpoints I hadn't considered before. I've never had a hard time separating a movie from books (or comic books for that matter). People sometimes say the book is always better than the movie, and I find that might be true for things like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or even Pride and Prejudice or Lord of the Rings, it is in fact not true in many other cases. The Shining, Barry Lyndon, Blade Runner, The Godfather, Psycho, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Tarkvosky's Solaris, There Will be Blood - all ended up being much better than their rather average source material.
Anyway, to your other question - yes, I finally got through the most recent Alien movies, which seemed way more interesting as just scifi movies and not really scary to me at all. And it was cool to watch Fassbinder's arc from Adam to Walter in the android(s) role(s). Watched Infinity War at the theater with my daughter (we both loved it), The Shape of Water (good but not great), Call My By Your Name (holy crap that movie was amazing, a real emotional punch in the gut).
Before that I'd been watching some of the 4k remasters that have been making it to Bluray:
- A Night at the Opera (Marx Brothers, was great, man these guys are part acrobats and quite good musicians too)
- All About Eve (Eve is a sneaky little b!tch is what Eve is)
- Do the Right Thing (can't believe I missed it during it's original release)
- Blade Runner (saw the actual 4k disc on my 4k HT setup - wow, just stunning)
- Blade Runner 2049 (a good effort but just doesn't match the original)
- The Apartment (clearly an inspiration for the series Mad Men)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (holy crap, people can be nasty, nasty, nasty to each other)
A few that I plan to watch in the near future: The Virgin Suicides, Jabberwocky, Tom Jones, The Passion of Joan of Arc (3rd time), Get Out, Don't Look Now, Dragon Inn, a few others.