*Movie thread*
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Just seen "Slow West" - good movie that didn't have zombies or superheros.
The visual reference to pouring salt on a wound was funny.
The visual reference to pouring salt on a wound was funny.
I am still pissed about the Point Break remake this week. Anxious for Leo's Revenant though.
Had two movie discussions with my film buff brother over the weekend.
1. What movie generates "man tears" and is perfectly acceptable?
2. Best fictional Steven Segal movie title you can come up with?
Had two movie discussions with my film buff brother over the weekend.
1. What movie generates "man tears" and is perfectly acceptable?
2. Best fictional Steven Segal movie title you can come up with?
A small Pennsylvania town has seen better days. The rust belt isn't what it used to be. But there is a new hope. Steven Segal and Charlie Sheen star in Fire down below: Steel Burning.
[laughing]
My best one was "A Fistful of Punches" that required Stone Cold Steve Austin and JaRule. Will go into plot later.
@DaBossIsBack was going through my collection last night. I was in an "Assassination of Jesse James", "There Will Be Blood" and "Gangs of New York" type mood. Settled on GONY.
I liked the movie a lot more back in the day but Daniel Day Lewis' was phenomenal. I still think it's his second best performance even ahead of My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father. But definitely not one of Scorsese's top five.
I liked the movie a lot more back in the day but Daniel Day Lewis' was phenomenal. I still think it's his second best performance even ahead of My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father. But definitely not one of Scorsese's top five.
I agree with all of that. He makes the entire film worth watching. Daniel Plainview is still my favorite performance. GONY was not Scorsese's best effort. He is a master director when he has the right the script, but he has made a lot of forgettable pictures.
He's an incredible actor. I don't think anyone else compares to him. I think the closest is Gary Oldman and Christian Bale. Most actors just play variations of themselves. Don't change their accent, mannerisms or anything...just the character's name. So many actors fall into that description I just mentioned.
I finally saw "The Gift." I enjoyed it. Simple. But I enjoyed it.
Two movies in my collection I plan on watching this week: Seven and Blue Valentine. So yeah, going to be depressing, I suppose.
Two movies in my collection I plan on watching this week: Seven and Blue Valentine. So yeah, going to be depressing, I suppose.
I snuck into a theatre with my father in law and saw the big short.
I hated every single person in that movie but I walked away entertained and enraged at the same time.
Very unique movie. Has a shot at some awards this year.
I hated every single person in that movie but I walked away entertained and enraged at the same time.
Very unique movie. Has a shot at some awards this year.
My top ten (of what I've seen) is definitely a bit different:
1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2. The Martian
3. Straight Outta Compton
4. Inside/Out
5. Creed
6. Ant-Man
7. Jurassic World
8. The Visit
9. Crimson Peak
10. Goosebumps
This list does not include certain films like "The Hateful Eight", "The Revenant", "Mad Max: Fury Road", "Mr. Holmes", "Black Mass", "The Walk", "Chappie", and "Southpaw" because I haven't seen them yet.
Two movies that got a terrible rap and weren't terrible at all were "Tomorrowland" & "Pixels". I'm not sure if it's because I saw a different movie than everyone else did, but these films are FAR from terrible. In fact, based on my children's reactions to the films (which was pretty damn well received), I can say they were a couple of their favorite films of the year.
They never took their training to the next level. Most techniques teach you how to play yourself first and then you move on to character work where you learn accents, impediments, etc. DDL is definitely one of the best if not the very best. I love both of the actors you mentioned. Christian Bale's performances in The Machinist, The Fighter, Rescue Dawn, American Hustle are all remarkable. Gary Oldman is the very best in the business at accents. He has done so many accents that he had to have his coach teach him his normal accent haha. Early Deniro and Pacino were incredible. Nicholson for a ten year stretch was on a tear with great performance after great performance. Is there anyone better than Brando? Early Dustin Hoffman was as dedicated to the method as anyone ever. The stories about Hoffman's dedication for Marathon Man are legendary.
In total agreement. It's odd that after Heat, it seemed Pacino and DeNiro straight up stopped caring. It's like they just packed it in and that was where it peaked. Hoffman seemed to just want to do comedies after awhile. I do not know why they stop challenging themselves after a certain point.
As for Oldman, there is no way you'd ever be able to convince me this was him if I didn't see his name in the credits.
Bale is phenomenal and Rescue Dawn is one of his most underrated films. Not many people even know about it either. I actually really liked his work in "I'm Not There" and I'm a sucker for "The Prestige."
In regard to actors just playing themselves, I always refer to it as "The Julia Roberts Syndrome." Play the same damn character the exact same way.
Best movies I saw this year...
1. Star Wars TFA
2. Jurassic World
3. Mad Max
4. Run All Night
5. In the heart of the sea
Krampus was good too
#4 and 5 on my list nobody talks about but I liked them both.
Movies im looking forward to for 2016...
1. Independence Day 2
2. 13 hours-Benghazi
3. The revenant
4a. Batman vs Superman
4b. Suicide squad
5. Captain America-Civil war
1. Star Wars TFA
2. Jurassic World
3. Mad Max
4. Run All Night
5. In the heart of the sea
Krampus was good too
#4 and 5 on my list nobody talks about but I liked them both.
Movies im looking forward to for 2016...
1. Independence Day 2
2. 13 hours-Benghazi
3. The revenant
4a. Batman vs Superman
4b. Suicide squad
5. Captain America-Civil war
Just watched a DVD of Sicario. Highly recommend it. BDT^^^ is incredible.
No spoilers--- I'll just say it handles some issues in ways I haven't seen in a while.
I've never been into B/W movies, nor am I a pacifist, but I've always enjoyed Sergeant York
Going to watch The Martian tonight for the first time. Really looking forward to it.
Wish there were more really good space sci fi flicks that came out on a regular basis.
Going to watch The Martian tonight for the first time. Really looking forward to it.
Wish there were more really good space sci fi flicks that came out on a regular basis.
I grabbed a copy of The Martian from the local library. Looking forward to watching it... but heard it just won a Golden Globe award for Best Comedy?
As for space sci-fi, if you haven't already seen Apollo 18 or Europa Report, I'd say give them a try. Both are low-budget "found footage" types, but worth a look.
I saw both of those on netflix and considered checking them out but the low rating kept me from it. I love the "found footage" type films. I'll have to check them both out now.
Yeah, Apollo wasn't rated as well... a little more on the Popcorn Flick side of things, but plenty of nice touches in it for the sci-fi fan. Europa had more favorable reviews, and if you only have time to watch one, I'd go with it.
I was on a heavy sci-fi kick (now, I'm in a Hitchcock mood, for some reason) a while back, and always on the lookout for ones that may've flown under my radar. I'm sure you've seen some that have been mentioned earlier in this thread, like Moon, Ex Machina, and Source Code. I also enjoyed Tom Cruise's contributions in Oblivion and Edge of Tomorrow. Primer and Timecrimes are must-sees.
Some others that I liked, with emphasis not exactly on full-blown sci-fi, but they use it in a subtle fashion, would be: I Origins, Another Earth, Sound Of My Voice, and The One I Love.
Finally watched "The Martian" last night. It was good, but I don't think it was as good as it was hyped to be. I'm highly attracted to visual effects, like in "Contact". Some of the scenes in that movie were so visually amazing.
Honestly I haven't watched any of the movies you mentioned, but will definitely check some of them out. The previews for Ex Machina didn't leave me wanting to see it. "Alien: Covenant" can't get here soon enough!
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YES!!!
I can't tell you how many times I've pulled out my Alien & Aliens DVDs... just to get my fix, when there wasn't much to choose from in the current crop of movies.
Agree on Contact. Loved it.
As for visuals, from my list, Moon and Oblivion might be the only ones to satisfy that requirement.
I could watch Prometheus over and over again, as well as the entire Alien set.
Interstellar is another great sci fi flick, IMO. I would put it above The Martian.
Alien - Prometheus
2001 A space odyssey
Contact
Interstellar
The Martian
Apollo 13
Oscar noms are out. Very surprised that Carol didn't get a best picture and best director nomination. Everything else fell about where I thought it would. Not really shocked by Spielberg's inclusion. He was going to get nominated whether he deserved it or not. Extremely excited for Ex Machina's two nominations for best original screenplay and visual effects. Happy for Cranston's best actor nomination; he deserves it.
Prometheus was definitely a nice dose of cinematic foreplay for lovers of the Alien series. I couldn't get enough of it, along with a lot of internet analysis. Though, I didn't understand why Ridley Scott kept denying the "prequel" aspect of it?
I watched the "water world" and "ice world" scenes of Interstellar several times. The all-too-human twist of Damon's character was genius, IMO.
I'll get to The Martian at some point this weekend... if I can get it in around all of the NFL games, that is.
No problem. I just filed it away in my Short-Term-Memory. [winking]
Due to the commercials, it's so hard to see something that hasn't had certain plot points revealed, anyway. The movie ads give away so much, and if one is a movie buff, it isn't too hard to fill in the gaps. My favorite example of that is The Professional... but I'll stop now, so I don't spoil anything.
You might want to go back and edit that out of your post, though... for other people's sake.
I was surprised this was a good movie. Not a Rocky fan except for the first two in the series but this should have received more nominations.
So, I watched The Martian. I have to say I really enjoyed it. It had plenty (laughed several times) of humorous moments, balanced with the drama, and I thought the pacing was great. I may've had lowered expectations, but I thought the visual effects were fine. Maybe you expected a bigger dose, since it was Ridley's project?
Regardless, there is definitely something to be said for the level of expectation, and its impact on a first viewing.
Looking at your list, with Martian next to Apollo 13... seems right that you put them together. In a way, their storylines are a kind of Science-NONfiction, if you know what I mean. Compared to the other films, it's not quite apples-to-apples... and it appears that you like a lean towards the fantastic, rather than human-interest, when you make the popcorn and settle in for a sci-fi ride.
Just curious- how'd you feel about Gravity?
There was absolutely nothing wrong with the visuals, they were actually quite well done. My complaint was that I was hoping for one of those shots of the night sky from Mars, or something from space looking down at Mars...does that make sense? To me it just missed one or two shots from being close to perfect.
I think I mentioned before that space sci-fi for me is about the visual (like the wormhole shots in "Contact"), that is why my list looked the way it did. If I were to rate them based on the humanistic standpoint then the list would change.
Gravity was a very good movie, one of those that makes your heart sink and gets you kinda sick to your stomach. It really pulled me in, and made me fear for their lives. The "Open Water" of space if you will.
Really? No reason for a remake of a great classic..what's next Lawrence of Arabia?
BTW Morgan Freeman looks like he just got off the set of Battlefield Earth or some Bob Marley flick.
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Why not re-make Ben-Hur? The collision of Christianity and Empire never seems to go out of date. As for Lawrence, why wouldn't the story of an Englishman sticking his nose into MidEastern affairs appeal to contemporary audiences? It probably doesn't seem too romantic now. More of a story of a lost opportunity to leave well enough alone.