The Movies Thread

Just watching ALIEN (the very old one from the 70's) on my XSX because I saw an sale for 6 movies from this franchise for 25€ sadly only for HD quality.

Could not remember that it is such an scary and tough movie. Of course on of the best Movie in general. I will watching the other 5 too.
 
Saw Gladiator 2 last night, what a fucking train wreck that was, cant believe how they even made such a shit follow up, thin story, bad acting, unrealistic stuff in the arena etc.
Pedro Pascal and Mescal were good, but a seasoned actor like Denzel, absolute shite.
1/5 for me
 
I was watching the 5 episodes series "Tchernorbyl" on amazon prime video from HBO and SKY.

Fck the soviets-russsians, RBMK nuclear power plant engineer, KGB and politicians!

It really hurts me whats happened in 1986 26th of april. And had an deja vu, on the moment where I was a child and in my elemantary school some kids from Belarus visit us and all these kids had cancer or had radiation sickness. I was so god damn really fckng sad at this moment and don't understand the situation. why? 😠😟
 
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A classic every year. Watched on amazon prime. I'm not such a friend of watching for example "Die Hard" movies on xmas. It have to be cozy, quiet and sociable. :D
 
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I've just finished watching The Damned United. Really good movie tbh. Sheen had Clough's character and mannerisms down to a tee
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The fun thing about the movie/book is thats in the genre "realistic fiction", aka it didnt happen, or it could have happened, or the author takes a real person, some truth and then makes up a lot for the sake of the story.
Quite a few lawsuits both for the book and the movie followed
Nevertheless, Michael Sheen is brilliant as Cloughie
 
Isslander said:
Watched The Ministry of Ungentlemanly warfare. A film in the vein of Where Eagles Dare and Force 10 from Navarone except not good.
Guy Ritchie really phoned it in with this one. Nazies get mowed down like the are Sniper Elite ai set to easy. The lack of any danger or urgency ultimately lets this movie down the most, it's just not exciting.
Between that we have the most bought from temu-Winston Churhill I have ever seen chomp on a cigar and do a dreadful impression once in a while.
Cavill and a couple of others seem to at least be having fun but the rest are just picking up paychecks, especially Ritchie.
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Because of your profile pic i have rewatched Flash Gordon, possibly after 27 years or more. Not a good movie but still very trippy and dumb fun. Seen it like every time it was on hbo as a kid, like every time!
 
Saw "No place for you in our town" (HBO MAX i think)
About a group of ultras from Pernik Bulgaria, a town really down in the dumps, just like the football team (3rd div) and the ultras/supporters all being nazis of course.
But from a social view very interesting, not every country has the same oppertunities and safety net etc
 
I've been in bed for the last month because I got sick and couldn't get out of bed. I thought I'd complete the movie list a little. There was a little progress. Letter A is finished. 2% :DD

Here's my list;

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I still had some doubts about Final Reckoning about 30-40 minutes in as it goes a bit up its own ass but then it just gets better and better and I loved it by the end. Some incredible sequences and truly edge of seat exciting.
Not sure why Dead Reckoning got better reviews, for me this is a clear improvement and worthy finale.
 
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Saw "No place for you in our town" (HBO MAX i think)
About a group of ultras from Pernik Bulgaria, a town really down in the dumps, just like the football team (3rd div) and the ultras/supporters all being nazis of course.
But from a social view very interesting, not every country has the same oppertunities and safety net etc
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Anywhere else to watch that? I don't have access to HBO
 
Happy Gilmore 2. Bit of a cheat because I haven't actually managed to watch the whole thing. I have watched most of it, it just starts bad and then gets gradually worse. It's very bad. Comedies are officially dead.

Naked Gun. Quite good actually. Forget that thing about comedies I just said, I may have spoken too soon. Happy Gilmore 2 still sucks, though.
 
Predator: Badlands. Not as good as Prey and maybe a bit far fetched if you really think about it but extremely inventive and very entertaining.

The Running Man: A very faithful adaptation of the Stephen King book (recently read that as well) but then
it suddenly very much isn't
. Could have done with coming out a couple of months later to be a better parallel to America today. I never saw Last Night in Soho but this is the least Edgar Wright Edgar Wright movie I have ever seen.
 
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Isslander said:
Finally saw One Battle After Another.
Damn. Now that's a movie
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This is so intriguing to me - it was recommended to me by someone in the arts who I consider incredibly knowledgeable as their "film of the year no matter what else comes out" because it was "the most expensive experimental film ever made"...

...and I thought it was diabolically bad, one of the worst films I've ever seen, and so did my partner. In-fact, it was genuinely the first time I can ever remember quitting in the middle of a film. After 1hr 30mins, and realising we were only halfway through, we looked at each other and said "let's not put ourselves through any more of this".

It's the most polarising film I think I've ever seen. I've never known a split like it - people either think it's incredible, or absolute trash. The hyper-sexual element from minute one of the film was so grossly OTT it wasn't even like porn, it was like cartoon porn. The characters had zero depth, it was just "crazy rebel woman", "doormat rebel man" etc. - you didn't get to know anybody, the content was just arguments, chasing, running... It didn't make me care about anyone. It didn't feel like a film for adults, to me.

But clearly I'm the one missing something here, because it's critically acclaimed. I just don't get it!
 
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This is so intriguing to me - it was recommended to me by someone in the arts who I consider incredibly knowledgeable as their "film of the year no matter what else comes out" because it was "the most expensive experimental film ever made"...

...and I thought it was diabolically bad, one of the worst films I've ever seen, and so did my partner. In-fact, it was genuinely the first time I can ever remember quitting in the middle of a film. After 1hr 30mins, and realising we were only halfway through, we looked at each other and said "let's not put ourselves through any more of this".

It's the most polarising film I think I've ever seen. I've never known a split like it - people either think it's incredible, or absolute trash. The hyper-sexual element from minute one of the film was so grossly OTT it wasn't even like porn, it was like cartoon porn. The characters had zero depth, it was just "crazy rebel woman", "doormat rebel man" etc. - you didn't get to know anybody, the content was just arguments, chasing, running... It didn't make me care about anyone. It didn't feel like a film for adults, to me.

But clearly I'm the one missing something here, because it's critically acclaimed. I just don't get it!
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It's because you don't like manual controls in PES. This is a manual controls movie.

For real though, this is a movie both doesn't hold your hand or overexplain anything, and at the same time has a very clear anti establishment message. I had kind of figured that would be the case and was kind of surprised at how morally gray it is at the same time. Well, the bad guys are pretty much the bad guys. The good guys though...
In many ways this feels like a classic 70's movie. A rag tag team of rebels that gives no sh*ts and eventually messes up. Has to go into hiding. Code words. People freaking out, just barely staying ahead of the bad policemen.
And even getting caught.
I didn't really need to know the backstory of this little rebel cell. They do some bad things for what they believe is a good cause. Perfidia, on of the leaders of the gang and Bob's (DiCaprio) woman obviously gets very turned on by danger, a known thing especially with women, although they are maybe usually quite this freaky about it. The sex stuff is a bit of a shock at first but I mostly found it amusing.
There are further subverts of expectations (not sure that's a real phrase), one of the best ones is the older women in her family, presumably her mother and probably grandmother (I forget) start explaining to Bob that he is not right for their daughter because... he isn't rebel enough. You expect them to have some words of wisdom about the dangers of what they are doing or maybe about bringing their child/grandchild back from the ledge but no, he's just a bit too much of a little bitch for their taste.
I can't really go to much further into the plot without spoiling it, this is all early stuff. But this is a pretty timely movie. There is an absurd and at the same time chillingly efficient version of
The KKK
in there, but Chris, I'm not sure you even made it that far into the movie. Then there is the whole immigrants angle which ties into the whole thing. DiCaprio is absolutely fantastic, he really comes alive in the second half with some hilarious dialogue as well as Benicio del Toro who is obviously having the time of this life in his role, a part that seems somewhat out of place as some other things but he actually explains his entire character to Bob (and the audience) with a single sentence and it makes perfect sense. Of these three, Penn is probably least deserving an Oscar. The ending is a doozy as well, real edge of seat stuff.
Yeah I can see why it wouldn't be for everyone. I will absolutely be rewatching this one.

edit: Chase Infiniti (!) who plays the daughter is fantastic as well! I had to get a line in there for her, she is the anchor of the film.
 
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@Isslander - thank you for that, because it helps me understand where the critical acclaim is coming from. Seriously, I appreciate you giving it as much thought as that, because the reviews I've read (and conversations with others about it) have pretty much just been "you get it or you don't", which may be true, but... A film isn't a vegetable - you don't just like the taste or don't like the taste, it's not pure instinct; there's more to it.

So I'm grateful to have more to chew on - and also, I appreciate you putting spoiler tags in for others, I hadn't thought of that. Will be careful when discussing further.

The 70s angle you mention - I love a good 70s/80s action film, so does my partner. But even the worst of them feel stronger structurally, with everything tied to a reason moment-to-moment (usually in a cheesy way). So much of the dialogue in this film felt like AI to me; not literally, but it was just "angry character says angry thing" like someone pulling the speech cord on an old toy, rather than giving them depth.

I want to know who these people are, but felt nothing of the characters' background.
Other than that seemingly pasted-in-last-minute mother/grandmother interaction that exists purely to validate the lead's behaviour, which - in essence - is exactly what I wanted more of, to flesh out the characters and their reasoning, but for more than a few lines and about 30 seconds of screen time.

There are clearly "the rebels" and clearly exist to "save the day" against the "evil regime" ran by the "crazy army guy" - but without any depth beyond that (asking your audience to "fill in the blanks"), that structure is the work of a ten-year-old's drawing. To me, it just felt like an excuse for the actors to have a good time (or in the case of Di Caprio, playing/looking dumb for an entire film for a billion dollar paycheck).

Without fleshing the main characters out more (instead simply dropping you into the action with no backstory or anything to base their character off - "character" as in who they are and what their motivations are), I'm pulled out of the experience moment-to-moment, hyper-aware that I'm being whipped from violence-porn to pretty much actual porn with no reason for either.

Which makes that the real "reason", I think (?); that it's simply anarchy, therefore brave and Oscar-worthy. Hence critics calling it "the most expensive experimental film in Hollywood history".

I can appreciate a lot of money being put into something "different". Can we all agree Marvel needs to give it a rest for at least 10 years now, if not 20 years? But for my money, there are films that are "different", and there are films designed to appear "different" but underneath it all are just a lazy, sexy, explodey film with no heart or soul.

Which just goes to show how opinions can vary, because a lot of people will claim this film has soul - perhaps my life experience doesn't allow me to see it!
 
Finally (held off so my gf also could see it) watched One battle after another.
Wow!
Leo should have got an Oscar for it.
Brilliant acting all around
 
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