The Holdovers

[Rocko]

Paul Giamatti plays an intellectual, necrotic professor who finds himself in charge of a student who doesn’t have anywhere to go for winter break. The student has a troubling family life, but is very gifted. Much of the movie is about the relationship these two forged while being alone on campus together.

With Paul Giamatti people either love him or hate him. I think he’s very talented. The movie was pretty good, but I don’t think it’s Oscar worthy

 

[Flash]

Giamatti is one of the best actors in Hollywood but they gave the award to the Negro in the movie.

 

[Rocko]

Giamatti is one of the best actors in Hollywood but they gave the award to the Negro in the movie.

She was also pretty good

 

[Rawley]

Paul Giamatti plays an intellectual, necrotic professor who finds himself in charge of a student who doesn’t have anywhere to go for winter break. The student has a troubling family life, but is very gifted. Much of the movie is about the relationship these two forged while being alone on campus together.

With Paul Giamatti people either love him or hate him. I think he’s very talented. The movie was pretty good, but I don’t think it’s Oscar worthy

Disagree. Huge Giamatti fan. What other movies should be a on the list this year that weren't. Do you think Barbie is Oscar worthy?

 

[Rocko]

Disagree. Huge Giamatti fan. What other movies should be a on the list this year that weren't. Do you think Barbie is Oscar worthy?

Oppenheimer and Maestro are the first that come to mind.

 

[AyeCantSeeYou]

This movie was better than I expected. Ironic that the professor winds up being the "parent" the kid wanted and needed.

 

[Rawley]

Oppenheimer and Maestro are the first that come to mind.

Oppenheimer was good. A bit long. WE only made it through the first half hour of Maestro, not our cup of tea.

 

[rightwinger]

Oppenheimer was good. A bit long. WE only made it through the first half hour of Maestro, not our cup of tea.

I really wanted to like Maestro
I always enjoyed the work of Leonard Bernstein

But the movie barely touched his musical genius and was built on the struggles of a gay man and his wife in the 50s and 60s

I lost interest

 

[Rawley]

I really wanted to like Maestro
I always enjoyed the work of Leonard Bernstein

But the movie barely touched his musical genius and was built on the struggles of a gay man and his wife in the 50s and 60s

I lost interest

We didn't make it out of the black and white portion.

 

[Flash]

Disagree. Huge Giamatti fan. What other movies should be a on the list this year that weren't. Do you think Barbie is Oscar worthy?

My wife and I watched Barbie as a family night when our nine year old Granddaughter stayed over.

Visually it was OK and of course Robbie is hot but the story line sucked (woke as hell), the acting was shitty and all in all it wasn't a very good movie.

If it wasn't for the fact that we were spending time with our GD we would have turned it off after about 15 minutes. However, GD didn't even like it all that much.

If that stupid movie meets the threshold to be nominated for "Best Picture of the Year" then somebody needs to have their head examined.

I am not saying that simply because I am not the target audience for the movie but because the production all around just sucked.

 

[rightwinger]

My wife and I watched Barbie as a family night when our nine year old Granddaughter stayed over.

Visually it was OK and of course Robbie is hot but the story line sucked (woke as hell), the acting was shitty and all in all it wasn't a very good movie.

If it wasn't for the fact that we were spending time with our GD we would have turned it off after about 15 minutes. However, GD didn't even like it all that much.

If that stupid movie meets the threshold to be nominated for "Best Picture of the Year" then somebody needs to have their head examined.

I am not saying that simply because I am not the target audience for the movie but because the production all around just sucked.

I watched Barbie on HBO
Hardly a Blockbuster

I lasted about 40 minutes in Barbieland and then had to leave. My wife took several tries to finish the movie.

Cute at first but grew tiresome

 

[Rawley]

My wife and I watched Barbie as a family night when our nine year old Granddaughter stayed over.

Visually it was OK and of course Robbie is hot but the story line sucked (woke as hell), the acting was shitty and all in all it wasn't a very good movie.

If it wasn't for the fact that we were spending time with our GD we would have turned it off after about 15 minutes. However, GD didn't even like it all that much.

If that stupid movie meets the threshold to be nominated for "Best Picture of the Year" then somebody needs to have their head examined.

I am not saying that simply because I am not the target audience for the movie but because the production all around just sucked.

I know. But Margot Robbie is hot

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Already a thread...... by the exact same name.... in the same forum.
C'mon people...

The Holdovers (2023)

On all stream rent platforms, Amazon, Vudu, Row 8 etc. Excellent human story. And Paul Giamatti being Paul Giamatti in all of his fantastic character acting ability. This is a good one. Worth the stream rent. Playing a washed up high school teacher who basically abuses his students to help cope...

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[Flopper]

I really wanted to like Maestro
I always enjoyed the work of Leonard Bernstein

But the movie barely touched his musical genius and was built on the struggles of a gay man and his wife in the 50s and 60s

I lost interest

The music was nice but I found the rest of the movie just plain boring.

 

[Flopper]

I watched Barbie on HBO
Hardly a Blockbuster

I lasted about 40 minutes in Barbieland and then had to leave. My wife took several tries to finish the movie.

Cute at first but grew tiresome

It was OK and it had a few good songs, but dolls are not my thing.

 

[Flopper]

Paul Giamatti plays an intellectual, necrotic professor who finds himself in charge of a student who doesn’t have anywhere to go for winter break. The student has a troubling family life, but is very gifted. Much of the movie is about the relationship these two forged while being alone on campus together.

With Paul Giamatti, people either love him or hate him. I think he’s very talented. The movie was pretty good, but I don’t think it’s Oscar worthy

The Holdovers is really a great movie if you like dialog driven movies. Great Script, Great Directing, and a wonderful performance by Paul Giamatti, a character actor you've seen many times but you can't remember his name. Got five academy award nominations and a 97% rating on rotten tomatoes.

The story is set in a New England boys boarding school during Christmas break. A history teacher hated by both faculty and students is chaperoning a few boys who have no place to go over the Christmas break. A small cast with great character development makes the Holdovers a bittersweet Christmas movie that is sure to please.

It's available on Prime at no cost. However with Christmas approaching and it's ratings increasing, Prime might start charging a fee to watch. They tend to do that.

 

[g5000]

Paul Giamatti plays an intellectual, necrotic professor who finds himself in charge of a student who doesn’t have anywhere to go for winter break. The student has a troubling family life, but is very gifted. Much of the movie is about the relationship these two forged while being alone on campus together.

With Paul Giamatti people either love him or hate him. I think he’s very talented. The movie was pretty good, but I don’t think it’s Oscar worthy

Yeah, good movie. With no CGI, explosions, sex scenes, car chases, black-suited thugs wearing sunglasses, or McGuffins.

It's nice to see some actual imagination, real acting, and a great script put into a movie.

I am in the love him category with respect to Paul Giamatti.

Every time I see Giamatti, I harken back to the first time I saw him. It was Private Parts with Howard Stern (who is in my hate him category). Giamatti was hilarious.