I saw Sound of Freedom recently.
Good, eye-opening movie. Based on a true story, and hard-hitting on what is a real, global problem.
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I saw Sound of Freedom recently.
Good, eye-opening movie. Based on a true story, and hard-hitting on what is a real, global problem.
I watched it as well and it was good. Better than I thought it would be. Notice the cartoon characters in the Maze?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli
Somehow it took 23 years but finally saw Jacobs Ladder. That was a trip! Of all things to stumble into also watched Jimmy Stewart in oldie The FBI story. Initially read like over top propaganda but pretty detailed. Either way as a classic actor Stewart was always tops. I think I’ll be taking in “Barbie” over the weekend :oooh:. But only if it’s the last movie ever made and I’m forced too at knife point.
I have watched a bunch of seventies movies on holiday recently and I have to say they blow all the modern superhero shit to bits. Do yourselves a favour. The greatest period of movie making in history without doubt.
I'm looking forward to Oppenheimer though.
Randomly walked into ‘Rescue Dawn’ from 2007 today. Pretty grim account of pow in Vietnam. Bale and especially Steven Zane killed it! Followed Kirklands lead and rewatched The French connection...Hackman at his best...and Close Encounters of the third kind again. Bumped into a Marilyn Chambers vid too but don’t quite recall the credits rolling.
The French Connection director just passed away. RIP
Watched it a couple of weeks ago:
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I might watch the second one. As I recall it isn't as good.
Endless great seventies movies though.
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Marathon Man. Cuckoo's Nest. Deer Hunter. Godfathers. Apocalypse Now. Cheating but Easy Rider. Serpico. All The President's Men. Dirty Harry movies. Dollars trilogy. Taxi Driver. The Passenger. Pelham One Two Three. I'm forgetting some.
Chinatown.
Watched Flash which was based on a big storyline for his character. At the end of Justice League, they show a clip where he can move so fast that he can go back in time and they base the film on that power. The film was funny, and action packed which I enjoyed.
Miles Morales Across the Spider-verse animation which is the 2nd film was very good. I thought nothing could beat the first film but this comes very close. It has a great storyline, music and characters for a Marvel nerd like me to appreciate.
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Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing
There is a brilliant book by Peter Biskind "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" that I can highly recommend that features some brilliant stuff from Scorcese, Coppolla etc on what like you say was a golden era for American Films. I think there may also be a documentary film version/series too.
William Goldman wrote a great book about the era too, Adventures in the Screen Trade. I have an electronic copy if anybody wants it. It was Easy Rider that started the whole golden era. Up until then producers ruled in Hollywood and made nice safe family friendly fare. Easy Rider made a fortune while costing nothing to make and studio heads realised there might be some money to be made so allowed up and coming directors like Coppola, Scorsese and Bogdanovich free rein to make the movies they wanted. That lasted about a decade until the eighties when corporations and owners with no interest in movies other than making money took over. All of a sudden accountants were in charge and things became formulaic. This director, these writers, these actors, car chases, explosions, sex scenes, painting by numbers movies made for the eighteen to thirty demographic. Write it so that if it's a hit we can make a sequel or two. Now it's even worse. They make a movie I want to see about once every five years.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeanzQuote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing
There is a brilliant book by Peter Biskind "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" that I can highly recommend that features some brilliant stuff from Scorcese, Coppola etc on what like you say was a golden era for American Films. I think there may also be a documentary film version/series too.
Forgot Raging Bull although it came out in 1980. Close enough. Also Dog Day Afternoon, Midnight Express, Network, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. If anybody wants to watch these films they're all available for free on the internet. You just need to invest a few minutes of your time to get them.
The latest Indiana Jones is pure CGI/AI with Harrison Ford too old for the action involved. Storyline gets more absurd the further it went on and was ridiculous at the end. They should have stopped after the 3 movies. Ruined a great franchise for the greed of the money.
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It's like RJJ ruining his image by not stopping. His great franchise was ruined and ridiculous at the end.
Retribution.
Liam Neeson is definitely slipping.
Rollerball, again! James Cann was a beast. Oddly found myself watching the Gods must be crazy again and found myself trying to explain the comedy of it. :cwm13: < the literal stare from my niece ;D. Managed to sit through the Hateful Eight and even as a fan of old and newer westerns I just did not care for it.
Somehow, someway I've gone this long without seeing The Gangs of New York! Have that cued up for a long holiday weekend.
The Killer just gone on Netflix. Michael Fassbender.
Not bad at all
athena. was okay but some of the shots all done in one take were amazing
i care a lot. worth a watch if nothing else is on
I watched Lords of Flatbush
Stumbled into "Daylights End". Thought it was going to be ultra low budget zombie cheese at first but actually not bad at all. Love when a random group is tossed together early on and they have to figure it out. The whole day to night threat reminds of I am Legend.
John Wick 4 is same old rubbish. They should have left it after the first film as they should have done with the Matrix.
I can't be bothered with that type of sequel nonesense. I actually left the cinema before Matrix 3 ended, no thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by Master
Finally got around to watching Kipchoge - The Last Milestone. Eliud Kipchoge attempts to break the 2 hour marathon mark. A rolling group of pacemakers and no competition (amongst other things) means that it's not a World record, but a ridiculous achievement of human performance.
The Beekeeper - Jason Statham kicks the ever loving piss out of everyone and everything. Naturally. It was shit.
i watched mayhem with steven yeun, glenn from the walking dead & samara weaving, an aussie who is starting to get bigger roles in it & the belko experiment. both had similar concepts about being locked in an office conplex with your co-workers. both were a fun watch
Finally sat thru Society of the Snow on netflix. Not sure if it's a direct remake or retell of the 1993 movie Alive but did like it better. It's been a while since seeing the original but both follow historical accounts of the crash and aftermath. Society was darker and just grittier.
Walked into and sat through I think we're alone now with Peter Dinklage. Really not all that bad at all, he's an outstanding actor. Took a minute to shake the Tiffany song out of my head reading the title ;D but good darkish flick.
Really enjoyed the one below. A bit different and works . Give it a go
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https://youtu.be/scQwYmfmHkE?list=RDscQwYmfmHkE Don't care, still one of the more underrated flicks on the theater. Brilliant cast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNcvwHgyXcg&ab_channel=SvkHArchives
This is the most amazing documentary you'll ever watch. Holocaust survivors who were in the camps, the guy who drove the train to Auschwitz, antisemitic Polish peasants who lived next to the camps and clearly approved, German prison guards and further ups involved in the whole final solution planning, a Polish diplomat who took his own eyewitness acounts to the west, you name it. No black and white stock footage, every frame filmed from the mid seventies to mid eighties and every frame evocative with a story to tell.
The guy who made the film basically tracked down every single person of note with a story to tell and the end product is quite something. There's even an appearance by Frau Blücher. You'll know when you get to her, the voice is uncanny. If you haven't seen it you have to watch it.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a new series of movies.
Noa is the new character that the films will probably be based around after the mythology of Caesar. It makes an interesting storyline.
Deadpool 3 which has Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. Very funny and only this character could get away with the crazy script which covers loads of topics from him moving from Fox to Disney and him appearing in Blade 2.
Great choice! Mine would be Prisoners—intense and gripping.Quote:
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I see murder mystry 2 its good
Red Dawn, the og not the crappy remake, Weird Science and To Live and Die in LA. We had an 80's flashback weekend ;D. Finished the Quite place 2 and trying to catch "Day One" next.
Captain America 4 Brave New World was OK felt it could have been a TV series instead. Building onto a new storyline is not the way to make a stand alone movie.
Venom 3 was pants. I am not going to watch Kraven, Madame Web, Morbius or any other film without the main hero Spiderman in it.
Accountant 2 was not as good as the first. The relationship between the brother's is the best bit.
i checked out the featherweight, a movie about willie pep, mainly focused on him returning to the ring in sixty five & his outside life surrounding that time. the fight scenes weren't very good. it's good they did a willie pep movie but they should have focused more on his run up until the plane crash & his series with sandy