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Posted by: LC, August 14th, 2022, 7:38pm

We started off talking about Elvis (the movie) which morphed into a Thirteen Lives movie discussion.
Dave wasn't keen on Elvis but Ant was.

See the thread for Elvis here:
https://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?m-1660421080/s-13/highlight-/#num13

Thirteen Lives is terrific. Check it out!

Quoted from LC

(Re Elvis) Interesting...

I was looking forward to it at first but then saw the run-time and thought hmm, it can wait.

Dave, try Thirteen Lives - Ron Howard.
Could have been boring considering the repetitive nature of pulling twelve kids and their coach from a flooded cave but solid performances and... Well, I shouldn't say too much more. Go in with low expectations and you should enjoy it. :)

Posted by: LC, August 14th, 2022, 7:40pm; Reply: 1

Quoted from AnthonyCawood

Agree with Libby about 13 Lives, excellent and very tense even though we know what happened.

Posted by: LC, August 14th, 2022, 7:42pm; Reply: 2

Quoted from eldave1

Saw 13 lives last night - Excellent1 Howard pulled off what he did with Apollo 13 - had me totally invested even though I knew the outcome. A+ from me[]

... It was a goodie. Howard does all the little things so well - like that chart he used for the cave.

Posted by: LC, August 14th, 2022, 7:44pm; Reply: 3

Quoted from LC

Dave, I'm so glad I stopped and didn't yammer on about Thirteen Lives too much.

A while ago I watched Ron Howard's Masterclass in Directing (thanks again, Pia) and was really impressed.
He also seems like an all round nice guy on top of his skills as a Director. ...

Posted by: LC, August 14th, 2022, 7:45pm; Reply: 4

Quoted from AnthonyCawood

I've just watched the documentary about it, it's called The Rescue and is on Disney + - very good too!

Posted by: LC, August 14th, 2022, 7:46pm; Reply: 5

Quoted from LC

Thanks, Ant!
I also found a link yesterday on how many hours Howard shot, and more... Great reading!
Will post it when I find it.. :D