What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)

[Quintus 6,494]

I like a healthy power struggle.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,385]

But who wins?

[Quintus 6,494]

It goes around in circles. It's the JWFAN way.

[publicist 4,650]

The tears in the rain moment is breathtaking. and the love scene is beautiful. Very vulnerable.

Ice cubes!

[Ren 77]

I must say I do love Joey's reprisals! I look forward to them, I do, and that one was vintage! Just an awesome poster here, always entertaining.

Lee - who was surprised to get off so lightly.

I must say I do love Joey's reprisals! I look forward to them,

Lee - who was surprised to get off so lightly.

You like to be dominated right?

I like a healthy power struggle.

But who wins?

It goes around in circles. It's the JWFAN way.

rarrrrrrrrrr

[Quintus 6,494]

OoRah!

[indy4 160]

I saw Men in Black III. More movies should be made like this one! It was fun, funny, entertaining, and optimistic, and at the same time the stakes were the end of the world. I guess modern action sci-fi movies don't need to be cynical, depressing and paranoid after all...who knew! And despite a few errors here and there, the plot was engaging with a nice and unexpected twist near the end. This is the most enjoyable movie of the year so far, maybe longer than that.

[JoeinAR 1,957]

I saw Men in Black III. More movies should be made like this one! It was fun, funny, entertaining, and optimistic, and at the same time the stakes were the end of the world. I guess modern action sci-fi movies don't need to be cynical, depressing and paranoid after all...who knew! And despite a few errors here and there, the plot was engaging with a nice and unexpected twist near the end. This is the most enjoyable movie of the year so far, maybe longer than that.

I agree with much what you say. I have never seen the other two Men In Black films and I thoroughly enjoyed this one without any real set up.

I think I'm not out of line in saying that Josh Brolin gave one of the best performances I've seen in ages. Yes it's a comedy role. It will never win any awards.

But his performance will transcend the film itself. You cannot ask for more from an actor. I never doubted that the young K was not a younger Tommy Lee Jones.

Indy 4 did you get misty eyed? Dave and I both did.

[indy4 160]

I saw Men in Black III. More movies should be made like this one! It was fun, funny, entertaining, and optimistic, and at the same time the stakes were the end of the world. I guess modern action sci-fi movies don't need to be cynical, depressing and paranoid after all...who knew! And despite a few errors here and there, the plot was engaging with a nice and unexpected twist near the end. This is the most enjoyable movie of the year so far, maybe longer than that.

I agree with much what you say. I have never seen the other two Men In Black films and I thoroughly enjoyed this one without any real set up.

I think I'm not out of line in saying that Josh Brolin gave one of the best performances I've seen in ages. Yes it's a comedy role. It will never win any awards.

But his performance will transcend the film itself. You cannot ask for more from an actor. I never doubted that the young K was not a younger Tommy Lee Jones.

Indy 4 did you get misty eyed? Dave and I both did.

I've seen both the other MIB films but it has been a really long time, and I was not expecting this to be as enjoyable as it was. And I definitely got goosebumps near the end, what a touching twist. While Brolin performance didn't stand out to me like it did you, I agree it was very solid and very believable.

[Koray Savas 2,260]

Nice to hear something nice about it, I thought the trailer was bad. Sonnenfeld can either be great (Men In Black, Big Trouble, Get Shorty) or terrible (RV, Men In Black II).

[JoeinAR 1,957]

Nice to hear something nice about it, I thought the trailer was bad. Sonnenfeld can either be great (Men In Black, Big Trouble, Get Shorty) or terrible (RV, Men In Black II).

I can only compare it against itself. I've never seen any other of his films but I had fun with this film. It has heart. Again another summer film I liked better than the Avengers.

[indy4 160]

It was definitely better than Avengers.

[A24 5,155]

I thought the trailer was bad.

Indeed, it reminded how much I hated the first one. I really dislike the style of comedy in those movies.

And terrific score from Alexandre Desplat. He's clearly one of the best film composers around these days ...

That's what I'm trying to say for quite a while now!

Blade Runner might be the only SCi Fi movie that actually moved me to tears

Me too.

[Koray Savas 2,260]

Nice to hear something nice about it, I thought the trailer was bad. Sonnenfeld can either be great (Men In Black, Big Trouble, Get Shorty) or terrible (RV, Men In Black II).

I can only compare it against itself. I've never seen any other of his films but I had fun with this film. It has heart. Again another summer film I liked better than the Avengers.

I forgot to add Wild Wild West into the terrible section. He also did the two Addams Family films, which I enjoy.

[Naïve Old Fart 13,020]

Blade Runner might be the only SCi Fi movie that actually moved me to tears

Merkel, please define "SCi Fi".

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,385]

Star Trek: First Contact

Warning review by a Trekkie!

I remember 1996, Trekdom was at an all time high and the sequel to Generations was gonna be released. I attended the Dutch premiere, which was at the end of a Star Trek Marathon showing all the previous films. I caught TMP, TWOK, TYH and Undiscvovered Country. It has to be said that by that point I was tired and falling asleep.

Then First Contact started. Differently then the previous films. The courage fanfare, but no star field, the cast names fading, underscored by Goldsmith's beautiful theme. The film proper begins with a shot from Picards eye, the camera travelling away from him, revealing his season 4 uniform, revealing the inside of the Borg ship. Everyone knew that we were in for a hell of a film.

The cast is all back. Patrick Stewart is in top form as Picard. The usually so though full captain consumed by a burning wrath. Everyone else is also great. one of my fav moments is the scene were a drunken Troi finds Cochrane. The way Sirtis plays drunk, and the way Frakes responds to her is one of my fav Trek scenes ever.

The non-series cast is simply superb. Alice Krige is icy, alien but somehow incredibly sexy as the Borg Queen. The way her and Brent Spiner play of each other us great.

Alfre Woodward creates her own chemistry with Picard. And when at the end he says he will miss her, we believe it.

James Cromwell, creates a Zephram Cochrane which is completely different from the character with the same name in the TOS episode Metamorphoses. Some Trekkies still hold that against him. Who cares? He's a great actor with a good character to play.

This is Jonathan Frakes first motion picture, but he directs with confidence and gusto. The camerawork is very good, and he managed to keep a time travel story completely intelligible.

The special effects are also top notch. a mixture of CGI and models and they really look impressive.

Favorite scenes:

Borg Cube versus the fleet. TNG never had the possibility of doing a big, multi ship battle and seeing this one, however brief is fantastic. Plus it has the Defiant.

Temporal Wake, a really tense scene that is not killed by techno babble.

The Holodeck scene. To see Picard in a Dix story, in the middle of a suspense film is priceless

The scene were Picard calls Worf a coward, and the "Moby Dick" scene afterwards with Lilly. Really good stuff.

The escape pods lifting of, underscored by Jerry's triumphant Borg theme.

Flight Of The Phoenix

First Contact. Very moving, but funny. Cocrane trying to do the Vulcan greeting is fantastic.

Now we move on to the music.

Jerry had only 3 weeks to write this score, so he brought his son to help. I remember ack in 1996 seeing the BBC program Film 96 reviewing this film, they showed 2 clips. The first one was a part of temporal Wake. I got goosedumps when I heard the Klingon Theme. The second clip was part of Fully Functional, I heard Jerry's mixed meter percussion and knew for sure he was back in Trek land!

His First Contact score is NOT the masterpiece that TMP is. And it's far more conventional them TFF. But it's an incredibly effective and well sorted score. The First Contact Theme is brilliant, one of his best of the era. But for most of the emotional scenes Jerry uses his Quest motive from The Final Frontier. The funny thing is that it does not sound at all like it did in that movie. Using this motive as a musical backbone for the film allowed Goldsmith to keep his use of the First Contact Theme to a minimal, untill he finally unleashes it in full force in the end, were it's wonderfully effective.

Either by design or incident, no score is used for any of the scenes on earth (save the brief scene between Data and Lilly in the silo). That fact alone makes the final scene even more effective. The Borg are repressented by 2 ominous motives, related to each other. and creepy, and sometimes erotic synth textures. The action music is as always propulsive, adrenaline pumping stuff (love the second part of The Dish).

A fantastic Star Trek film, and a bit underrated these days!

[hornist 1,261]

Warning review by a Trekkie!

Thanks!

I almost started to read it.

[Ren 77]

great reading Stefan

[Quintus 6,494]

First Contact, like the best Star Trek movies, is good because you don't have to be a Trekkie to enjoy it.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,385]

I would not know about that.

[Quintus 6,494]

Well it's true.

Love that movie. It's an unusually warm space adventure.

[Brónach 1,330]

That was the first Trek movie I saw. I enjoyed it greatly.

Then I realized it didn't make any sense, but still.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,385]

Doesn't make sense?

[A24 5,155]

Warning review by a Trekkie!

Thanks!

I almost started to read it.

Me too!

[Matt C 605]

Generation X

Move over Batman & Robin, Roger Corman's Fantastic 4 and Catwoman... this is the worst comic-book movie ever made. Granted, it's a TV movie, but regardless, the production is hideously dated and astonishingly low production values (aside from the mansion, which is the same one from the X-Men films). Matt Frewer tries his best Jim-Carrey-as-the Riddler impersonation to ill effect, the kid actors aren't convincing, and even soap star Finola Hughes' flat Emma Frost makes January Jones look like an Oscar contender.

It's not even a good train wreck, this is just... bad.

[crocodile 9,724]

I didn't even know such thing existed...

Karol

[Matt C 605]

I didn't even know such thing existed...

It was a TV pilot movie for a series that, thankfully, didn't get greenlit.

[JoeinAR 1,957]

That was the first Trek movie I saw. I enjoyed it greatly.

Then I realized it didn't make any sense, but still.

you need to explain your nonsensical statement.

[Jay 46,241]

Eyes Wide Shut is a brilliant and mesmerizing film and it's a head-scratcher why it didn't receive critical acclaim at the time of its release. And while Cruise does a great job, Kidman steals the show for me.

Karol.

I agree! I think a big reason it didn't get as much acclaim as expected is because of the sheer wealth of other terrific movies that came out in 1999.....

[Brónach 1,330]

That was the first Trek movie I saw. I enjoyed it greatly.

Then I realized it didn't make any sense, but still.

you need to explain your nonsensical statement.

You need to explain why the Borg bother to battle the Federation before traveling to the past instead of going somewhere else, travel to the past an attack an undefended Earth.

In fact, if the Borg have the ability to time travel, why don't they always do that?

[Quintus 6,494]

Time travel plot holes are the most boring things to debate; unless one thrives off endlessly anal pursuits.

[JoeinAR 1,957]

because there is no drama, no movie. However I do understand your point. But in reality nations make huge blunders so it's forgivable that the borg do as well. Why did Japan split their forces at Midway? It only cost them victory. Why did Hitler waste time trying to take Great Britain when he should have spent his forces against the communists instead? Why don't the martians know about microbes.

[Quintus 6,494]

If film makers themselves got hung up on such unentertaining trivialities there'd be no movie's with time travel.

[Brónach 1,330]

Then there's everything else in the film...

Time travel plot holes are the most boring things to debate; unless one thrives off endlessly anal pursuits.

No, they're the best possible thing to debate! As we don't know what the actual rules would be, everyone has his own understanding of cause and effect...

[Quintus 6,494]

Only if one is like you or Wojo. Everyone else doesn't care.

[Brónach 1,330]

You're not thinking fourth-dimensionally!

[JoeinAR 1,957]

neither are you, none of us can.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,385]

What is your favourite part of the film, my fellow Trekkie?

[JoeinAR 1,957]

Alfre Woodward creates her own chemistry with Picard. And when at the end he says he will miss her, we believe it.

this. It's always a human moment that is best in Star Trek.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,385]

Good one!

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No, boring.

You are the kind of person who complains about Lilly being able to understand Worf, even though she has not been given a universal translator.

[Brónach 1,330]

Universal translator? I just thought he was speaking English...

[A24 5,155]

I think a big reason it (Eyes Wide Shut) didn't get as much acclaim as expected is because of the sheer wealth of other terrific movies that came out in 1999.....

I find that hard to believe.

[publicist 4,650]

I think a big reason it (Eyes Wide Shut) didn't get as much acclaim as expected is because of the sheer wealth of other terrific movies that came out in 1999.....

I find that hard to believe.

EYES WIDE SHUT is just brilliantly shot esoteric bullshit - an old man's folly - and if it wasn't for a deity like Kubrick, most studios rightly would have turned down the film on the ground that there is nothing remotely comprehensible about it.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,385]

Wow, Alex and his clone disagree!

[publicist 4,650]

Go back and feed on your STAR TREK movies, dutch boy.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,385]

Jawohl Mein Herr!

[publicist 4,650]

Abtreten.

[Quintus 6,494]

Kubrick was just a man, he was no deity. He was however a master film maker.

Eyes Wide Shut incomprehensible? I personally can't see it is. Narratively, it's about as straight forward as your standard Hollywood thriller. But as with Kubrick, the devil is in the detail. And what detail! Is that what some viewers struggle with, perhaps?

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,385]

People think 2001 is incomprehensible. i never thought that. It's a very linear story. Kubrick just doesn't tell the audience exactly whats going in in big letters on the screen!

[Koray Savas 2,260]

I saw this clip awhile back but couldn't remember his name. Found it now though and aside from the interesting theoretical outcomes of our species, he ties it all in to some science fiction films and might give some sense to 2001. I have yet to watch the film with his views in mind.