A24 4,331 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 4 hours ago, Stefancos said: Does it invalidate a movie if you disagree with it's morality, Alex? I was only kidding, obviously. The main thing a movie (any movie) has to do is 'to make me believe' in what is it trying to sell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher 350 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Midnight Express - Hard subject matter, but an exceptional film. - 8.5 / 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 59 minutes ago, Alexcremers said: I was only kidding, obviously. The main thing a movie (any movie) has to do is 'to make me believe' in what is it trying to sell. You did not believe Harry ultimately did a good thing, stalking the Scorpio Killer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Nice hair, Mr. Garak. Reminds me of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Yes.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Temple of Doom. Truly gorgeous film. Spielberg has few films shot this beautifully. Gruesome Son of a Bitch and Holko 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 It's beautiful and vibrant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Oh yes, very nice. Oh have you met my granddaughter, Lizzie? She takes care of me. Gruesome Son of a Bitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Black Panther My wife hadn’t been able to see it with my theaters. She loved it. It’s very compelling. Great score. Michael B. Jordan gave one of the best performances of the year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 She's a God damn liar! Some nutcase seeking money or publicity! God only knows what! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,347 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 7 hours ago, JoeinAR said: Temple of Doom. Truly gorgeous film. Spielberg has few films shot this beautifully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 12 hours ago, Stefancos said: You did not believe Harry ultimately did a good thing, stalking the Scorpio Killer? I was speaking in general, obviously. My only memory of this movie is the "Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Stefan's insinuations are a bit simplistic. Again, the movie makes it not that easy for the patrons - even if you could argue that guys with vigilant predispositions get pretty much what they want from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 My Year 9 English teacher said he hated Dirty Harry when I mentioned I'd watched it the night before. And he said he couldn't understand why someone like me who liked Star Trek could also like Dirty Harry because its "fascist" leanings stood in opposition to the pacifist philosophy of Trek. He obviously didn't understand that I just liked watching movies featuring people shooting at each other back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 I like Harry's big gun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 The most powerful handgun in the world... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 8 minutes ago, Margo Channing said: My Year 9 English teacher said he hated Dirty Harry when I mentioned I'd watched it the night before. And he said he couldn't understand why someone like me who liked Star Trek could also like Dirty Harry because its "fascist" leanings stood in opposition to the pacifist philosophy of Trek. He obviously didn't understand that I just liked watching movies featuring people shooting at each other back then. It was then that he realized you soon would turn to the far-right side ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 I wish I could go back to those moments and tell everyone "I can see the future... America will elect a black man as President in 2008... eight years later, Donald Trump will beat the former First Lady to the White House". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 You mean you foresaw that the world goes from bad to worse? Thanks, Nostradamus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Wasn't I called "Nostrawrongus" here once? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Wasn't that Koray over Avatar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 I didn't watch this movie recently, it was back in March, but it was during my exile so I'm allowed to post about it. Dead End - A really great 1937 William Wyler movie from his days of directing exclusively for Samuel Goldwyn Productions. This is probably my favorite of those movies. The characters fucking pop off of the screen in vivid black & white. I love how it creates this entire world out of one set imitating a Manhattan dead end street. I love how this movie is about the gentrification of Manhattan all the way back in the 30s. Bogart was great of course. I especially liked Claire Trevor a lot in a one-scene performance. She's a great actress I mostly know from Stagecoach, a favorite of mine. It also has a classic Alfred Newman opening title theme, very much in his "Street Scene' style of that era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 I know of someone who was in love with William Wyler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 4 minutes ago, Margo Channing said: I know of someone who was in love with William Wyler. I like The Little Foxes a lot. It's from the same team of producer-director-writer as Dead End. Goldwyn, Wyler, and Lillian Hellman made some great movies together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Yeah? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Smokin'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Voice from the Stone Terrible. Boring. Awful. But I'm sure there's some fop out there who thinks it's a masterpiece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,358 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 On Dirty Harry ... Harry throwing his badge into the water at the movie's end in disgust at the new-fangled restrictions on his 'by any means necessary' approach is interesting. The viewer is left thinking he's quit the force ... wonder were the sequels always intended? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John 2,032 Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 Lawrence of Arabia Gorgeous movie. I feel it has a lot in common with 2001, in the sense that it relies more on striking imagery and visuals than an elaborate storyline. Great performance by O'Toole. I'd give my right leg to see this on the big screen. ***** out of ***** Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,520 Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 I've only seen it once, at the cinema. It was the 50th anniversary rerelease. I sat in the cinema, and took a luxurious bubble-bath for two hours, and forty minutes. Magnificent. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 Hmmm....i think it's still playing in Amsterdam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 On 5/29/2018 at 11:44 AM, Sweeping Strings said: On Dirty Harry ... Harry throwing his badge into the water at the movie's end in disgust at the new-fangled restrictions on his 'by any means necessary' approach is interesting. The viewer is left thinking he's quit the force ... wonder were the sequels always intended? I prefer to really think of it as a standalone movie, and there're some movies that came out later with a dude named Dirty Harry played by Clint Eastwood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 Paddington God it was as if Mr Bean's teddy bear came to life and became this bear. Cute movie! The story reminds me of Beethoven. Can't wait to see Paddington 2. Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 Just now, Margo Channing said: Can't wait to see Paddington 2. It's even better than the first one if you ask me! Hugh Grant in hammy villain mode was more compelling than Nicole Kidman. Everything in it is a delight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,520 Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 "Hugh Grant...is more compelling than Nicole Kidman". Are you alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 That's a controversial statement? Hugh Grant is a great actor. Fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,520 Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 As Grace Jones once said: "I'm just playin' around, baby" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,525 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Valahol Európában (Somewhere in Europe) (1947) Newly restored 2-disc DVD edition of this classic which very nearly became an international success (it was recalled from home right before winning the Venice biennale because it "did not portray the rise of socialism clearly enough" or something). According to the supplied booklet, the director, Géza Radványi later emmigrated and made many foreign films, discovering little nobodies like Louis de Funés and Romy Schneider. Towards the end of World War II, a number of kids become orphaned vagrants, looting and stealing to stay alive, about 30 of them forming a group with a loose sense of camaraderie. They come across a ruined castle with an old pianist/conductor living in it, who treats them with the love and respect they deserve but didn't know they needed. After some initial hardships, they start growing together, the conductor teaching them about music and ideas of freedom (through the Marseillaise), and they start fixing up the castle, starting to form a miniature society from the ruins of war. The local authorities get wind of the looter group hiding out in the castle and move to arrest them. The kids beat them back with rocks, but the youngest gets shot in the chaos of the "siege". They all go down to the village, surrendering themselves to get him to a doctor. They find out the conductor arranged for the castle to legally become a refuge for all orphaned children (the world's starting to change), but at a high price - the young one passes away. The story is inspired by Gábor Sztehlo, a Lutheran pastor who actually established Gaudiopolis, a mini-republic for thousands of orphaned children like this, which existed from 1945-1950, and some of its citizens actually acted in the film. This is the movie which not only reignited the Hungarian film industry after the war, but put us on the world map as competent filmmakers who can actually say something globally important and appealing instead of just entertaining ourselves with stupid little movies. The first half hour with the children becoming orphaned and grouping together, virtually a small silent film, is perhaps the strongest part. I love it. I much, much prefer these horrors/casualties of war types of movies to the usual American heroicism trying to make it look like an honestly good thing (exceptions: fantasy, wars with very good reason, or just very very entertaining movies). I was incredibly surprised about First Blood's themes, for example, in contrast to what pop-culture told me Rambo was. I never even tried 2 and 3. publicist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 On 30/05/2018 at 5:30 PM, John said: Lawrence of Arabia Gorgeous movie. I feel it has a lot in common with 2001, in the sense that it relies more on striking imagery and visuals than an elaborate storyline. Great performance by O'Toole. I'd give my right leg to see this on the big screen. ***** out of ***** I own the blu-ray, it's absolutely stunning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 18 hours ago, Disco Stu said: Hugh Grant is a great actor ... ... for playing the lead in Rom Coms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 44 minutes ago, Quintus said: I own the blu-ray, it's absolutely stunning. Its playing in 70mm in Amsterdam i think. Maybe i should... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 5 hours ago, Holko said: I was incredibly surprised about First Blood's themes, for example, in contrast to what pop-culture told me Rambo was. I never even tried 2 and 3. The first one is an okay movie. The sequels are about how many people Rambo can kill in a minute. Holko 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Darling Companion Not bad. Just a relaxing midday movie that happens to have some big names in it. Feels like Kasdan just playing silly buggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,520 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 5 hours ago, Stefancos said: Its playing in 70mm in Amsterdam i think. Maybe i should... ...yes, you definitely should! 58 minutes ago, Alexcremers said: The first one is an okay movie. The sequels are about how many people Rambo can kill in a minute. The first one is superb. The others are...the others... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 The others were Hot Shots movies and an incidental Al Yankovic sequence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 30 minutes ago, Richard said: . The others are...the others... Personally I wouldn't put the sequels on the same plane as The Others, Richard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 43 minutes ago, Richard said: The first one is superb. The others are...the others... The second one is one of the best action movies of the 1980's.With one of the best action scores of the 1980's. Unlucky Bastard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,520 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Yes, indeed. Like The OMEN trilogy, the scores get better, and better, but thematically, FIRST BLOOD is, by far, the best film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 22 minutes ago, Stefancos said: The second one is one of the best action movies of the 1980's.With one of the best action scores of the 1980's. I think people who bag on RFBP2 and Rambo III haven't even watched them. Instead they just form an opinion based on their reputation as "idiot action" flicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,344 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 War of the worlds. Okay-ish, but I had expected it to be much better. The only character I liked in this film was the woman trying to take Rachel with her. Don't know who I dislike more, Rachel or the boy. The score was mostly appropriate and I especially loved the ethereal choir when that woman wanted to protect Rachel. The finale is totally misscored, though, unless a family reunion needs to be a gloomy affair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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