Re: The order of your favorite RDA movies
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 8:26 pm
Well...I watched an hour of 'Ordinary Heroes' with my special friend, Richard, of course. Unfortunately I found it too difficult to finish watching the movie in one sitting. Richard thinks the director is what made it that way. I don't know anything about directing. I remember when they used to give Oscars for Best Director and I'd be sitting there wondering to myself 'How do you know if a movie has good or bad directing?' I didn't know a Director of Photography then. I haven't watched Oscars since the 80's except for this year when I was largely ignoring it but Richard was watching. He sent out a tweet calling it #terribledirecting. It made me LMAO. He likes Shane Hurlbut, I bet Richard Dean Anderson has heard of Shane Hurlbut because Shane's a member of the Academy. I never heard of him until this guy talked about him being his favorite cinematographer.
Richard thought the acting was all right in 'Ordinary Heroes,' it's the directing he had a problem with. He works more closely with directors than any other person on a film. The last movie I saw him do the director called him a "connoisseur of light" and blew him off. He also does camera work but never mind. It's not as easy to work with directors as people might think it is, at least not the ones Richard has worked with. I saw him doing his job a few times and every time I was glad I'm a paramedic.
I don't know if I can finish watching the movie. I don't especially like Valerie Bertinelli, especially not in this movie.
Having been born with blindness myself, I have a major problem with the attitude of thinking someone who's blind is only ever going to be a burden to you, but that's just me. Three operations made it possible for me to see but I might as well still be blind in some ways. I can't pass the vision test at a Driver's place. I can see the lights flashing on the sides so they passed me but it's not a great idea to drive except if I absolutely have to do it; which these days is never because Richard does all the driving. He has eyes like a hawk (and reflexes like Mohammed Ali), that's why they wanted him as an Army Ranger. But he can see differences in color that I never saw in my life. Even when he showed them to me I couldn't see them. His sight is 20/15 which doesn't make any sense to me; mines 20/200 in one eye and 20/80 in the other.
I'm going to have to watch another movie of his because I didn't like this one as much as say MacGyver. Richard, my daughter's godfather, watched some of those episodes with me too. He liked the ones he saw. He liked the realism of the one where the character "does a proper fast-roping technique." Even if it was a stunt person doing the actual technique, it's still MacGyver doing it. The character is still him.
Richard thought the acting was all right in 'Ordinary Heroes,' it's the directing he had a problem with. He works more closely with directors than any other person on a film. The last movie I saw him do the director called him a "connoisseur of light" and blew him off. He also does camera work but never mind. It's not as easy to work with directors as people might think it is, at least not the ones Richard has worked with. I saw him doing his job a few times and every time I was glad I'm a paramedic.
I don't know if I can finish watching the movie. I don't especially like Valerie Bertinelli, especially not in this movie.
Having been born with blindness myself, I have a major problem with the attitude of thinking someone who's blind is only ever going to be a burden to you, but that's just me. Three operations made it possible for me to see but I might as well still be blind in some ways. I can't pass the vision test at a Driver's place. I can see the lights flashing on the sides so they passed me but it's not a great idea to drive except if I absolutely have to do it; which these days is never because Richard does all the driving. He has eyes like a hawk (and reflexes like Mohammed Ali), that's why they wanted him as an Army Ranger. But he can see differences in color that I never saw in my life. Even when he showed them to me I couldn't see them. His sight is 20/15 which doesn't make any sense to me; mines 20/200 in one eye and 20/80 in the other.
I'm going to have to watch another movie of his because I didn't like this one as much as say MacGyver. Richard, my daughter's godfather, watched some of those episodes with me too. He liked the ones he saw. He liked the realism of the one where the character "does a proper fast-roping technique." Even if it was a stunt person doing the actual technique, it's still MacGyver doing it. The character is still him.