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The Movie Page

An e-mail sidebar with a reader led me to respond to the reader with the e-mail note below. The reader had suggested I might be interested in The Lost City of Z(ed).

My reply:

1. I watched the movie -- Amazon Prime Video --- The Lost City of Zed --- my first thought -- this movie would have been a blockbuster had it starred a young Sean Connery directed by the "Bond" franchise, or a young Harrison Ford directed by the "Indiana Jones" franchise. As it was, it was too much of documentary -- sort of a "Downton Abbey in the jungle." That was earlier this afternoon.

2. This evening I watched Jamie Foxx (who was one of four producers) and Tommy Lee Jones in The Burial, currently being advertised heavily on Amazon Prime Video.  Tommy Lee Jones never, never, never fails to amaze me -- and at his age, he could have phoned his part in but he seemed to really take the part and live it -- Jamie Foxx was incredible. It's not the kind of movie I would see in a movie theater -- but on Prime Video, pretty amazing.The ending is predictable, but I have to say, there was a bit of me that was unsure -- it could have gone either way -- but even so, I was blown away even if you "knew" the ending. At the climax -- you had a fist pump, and ready to turn it off and go to bed -- but then there was more -- the "epilogue" was the cherry on top. The movie is currently being billed as the #1 movie in the US right now -- and Amazon would certainly have more reliable figures than Nielsen.

3. Both movies were based on true stories.

4. The Burial will likely be on my short list of all time favorites, but I probably wouldn't watch it again, as opposed to something like Citizen Kane or Casablanca which I never tire of watching and watch at least once a year.

5. Having said all that, I've watched Asteroid City not less than five times start to finish -- it came out in July, I believe -- it's the only movie I have ever bought on streaming TV and now own a copy that I can watch whenever I want on Amazon Prime for the rest of my life. Warning: if you are not a Wes Anderson fan and if you watch the movie only once, I can pretty much guarantee that you will hate the film. I had to watch it three times in the local movie theater before I became obsessed with it. I will now not watch it for a year -- and then come back to it and see how I still feel about it.

The above is a not-ready-for-prime-time-posting but wanted to post it for the archives.