Movie review thread...
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@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@salacious-crumb said in Re: Movie review thread...:
An idiotic film. Best part is beginning and end, when you get to hear Donna Summer moaning over John Barry’s theme. (I’m pretty sure he ripped that melody off an old jazz song.)
Mm-mmmm, deeeep inside...
Mm-mmmm, Jacqueline Bisset...
The part where she’s getting frisked below the belt was terrific. Still an idiotic film, though.
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I’ve been watching a pantload of el-cheapo box sets of very old John Wayne cowboy movies (“dusters”) made for Poverty Row studios like Lone Star and Republic, in the 1930s, very low-budget b-movies between his making the big budget The Big Trail in 1929 (a big flop) and Stagecoach a decade after (the film that made his career).
These are not especially good films — most are 55 minutes in length, formulaic, badly written, badly acted, and poorly shot. Most from early ‘30s, like Hell Town, Sagebrush Trail, Frontier Horizon, ‘Neath the Arizona Skies, The Trail Beyond, Riders of Destiny, West of the Divide, Texas Terror, Winds of the Wasteland, etc.
But like a good train wreck, I cannot pull my eyes away from them.
The stunt work is breathtaking, half the soundtrack is the sound of gun shots and horse hoofs, and when you see stampeding piles of horses crashing into each other and somersaulting down hills and raveens, you’ll know there was no such thing as PETA back then, and you’ll NEVER see a “No animals were harmed in the creation of this movie” disclaimer. It looks like total carnage, and for better-or-worse I am mesmerized by it. Been watching them on repeat over-and-over-and-over. I expect lots are probably available on youtube, but they can be found in packages of multiples for less than $5. Worth. Every. Penny.
And of course, whatever else you think about the mythology, when Wayne was an unknown he was very-very charismatic and believable. Oh yeah, the fistfights are fuckin’ hilarious too.
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@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I want to see a movie about this guy, created his own machine gun because the one they gave him wasn’t lethal enough for his tastes.
He sounds a bit like the character from The Pacific, the guy that won the CMoH got sent home. He married then went back and got himself killed
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I want to see a movie about this guy, created his own machine gun because the one they gave him wasn’t lethal enough for his tastes.
He sounds a bit like the character from The Pacific, the guy that won the CMoH got sent home. He married then went back and got himself killed
That was a great episode, I enjoyed that series.
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@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I want to see a movie about this guy, created his own machine gun because the one they gave him wasn’t lethal enough for his tastes.
He sounds a bit like the character from The Pacific, the guy that won the CMoH got sent home. He married then went back and got himself killed
That was a great episode, I enjoyed that series.
I found the series a bit disappointing, they failed to reach the bar set by BoB IMHO. Too many characters and therefore lack of development? Too much ground covered? The main guy was not as sympathetic as the men of Easy Co.
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Watched The Titan on Netflix w/ Sam Worthington and the chick from Orange is the New Black.
Don't make the same mistake.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched The Titan on Netflix w/ Sam Worthington and the chick from Orange is the New Black.
Don't make the same mistake.
thank you! I watched the trailer the other day, and thought "mmmm maybe? Worthington is terrible though"
Glad to have saved my time.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched The Titan on Netflix w/ Sam Worthington and the chick from Orange is the New Black.
Don't make the same mistake.
That could have been good, concept was interesting, that chicks clothes were reasonably revealing but it was a let down . I’d quite like that 90 minutes or so of my life back.
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I want to see a movie about this guy, created his own machine gun because the one they gave him wasn’t lethal enough for his tastes.
He sounds a bit like the character from The Pacific, the guy that won the CMoH got sent home. He married then went back and got himself killed
That was a great episode, I enjoyed that series.
I found the series a bit disappointing, they failed to reach the bar set by BoB IMHO. Too many characters and therefore lack of development? Too much ground covered? The main guy was not as sympathetic as the men of Easy Co.
BOB set a pretty high bar. Maybe they should have just done the story of the guy from Jurassic Park?
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I have a soft spot for The Longest Day.
Guns of Navaronne is great.
On the bleaker side is Stalingrad
Agreed @mariner4life , the Longest Day is awesome.
Was a huge fan of the WWII period movies as a teenager/young adult.Other favourites in this genre are:
Tora Tora Tora
A Bridge Too Far
The battle of Midway
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Cross of Iron
The Thin Red LineOf the modern WWII movies, Clint Eastwoods two complimentary movies are good with the second one, Letters From Iwo Jima the much better of the two.
Other WWII movies I really enjoyed and re-watched recently that are still very watchable:
Kelly's Heroes
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@roninwc said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I have a soft spot for The Longest Day.
Guns of Navaronne is great.
On the bleaker side is Stalingrad
Agreed @mariner4life , the Longest Day is awesome.
Was a huge fan of the WWII period movies as a teenager/young adult.Other favourites in this genre are:
Tora Tora Tora
A Bridge Too Far
The battle of Midway
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Cross of IronAll so good!
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@roninwc said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I have a soft spot for The Longest Day.
Guns of Navaronne is great.
On the bleaker side is Stalingrad
Agreed @mariner4life , the Longest Day is awesome.
Was a huge fan of the WWII period movies as a teenager/young adult.Other favourites in this genre are:
Tora Tora Tora
A Bridge Too Far
The battle of Midway
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Cross of Iron
The Thin Red LineOf the modern WWII movies, Clint Eastwoods two complimentary movies are good with the second one, Letters From Iwo Jima the much better of the two.
Other WWII movies I really enjoyed and re-watched recently that are still very watchable:
Kelly's Heroes
The Dirty DozenClsssic movies there, they don’t make war movies like those anymore ( if at all )
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@antipodean Ditto, Titan was so disappointing, an utter waste of time. I did watch, which took quite the effort, until the end hoping it might improve but no, just crap.
The last couple of hyped Netflix releases have disappointed:
Titan, Cloverfield Paradox and The OutsiderSome that I have enjoyed:
Unlike some others here and being a bit of a SciFi buff, I actually quite liked Annihilation and I really enjoyed a new SciFi movie called Revolt. The chick in this, Bérénice Marlohe, is very hot, amazing eyes.
A good SciFi/War type of movie 3 outta 5 for this one. -
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@roninwc said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Some that I have enjoyed:
Unlike some others here and being a bit of a SciFi buff, I actually quite liked Annihilation and I really enjoyed a new SciFi movie called Revolt. The chick in this, Bérénice Marlohe, is very hot, amazing eyes.
A good SciFi/War type of movie 3 outta 5 for this one.I will check this out. She is one of the best looking Bond girls - ever.
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@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Das Boot is another movie not yet mentioned.
Great film .
As far as WW1 films it’s pretty hard to go past Gallipoli , my boy Jack is decent too. There was an Aussie mini series about the anzacs I remember being good too.
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@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@roninwc said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Some that I have enjoyed:
Unlike some others here and being a bit of a SciFi buff, I actually quite liked Annihilation and I really enjoyed a new SciFi movie called Revolt. The chick in this, Bérénice Marlohe, is very hot, amazing eyes.
A good SciFi/War type of movie 3 outta 5 for this one.I will check this out. She is one of the best looking Bond girls - ever.
She sure is. I hated Silva for shooting her like he did.
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@roninwc said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean Ditto, Titan was so disappointing, an utter waste of time. I did watch, which took quite the effort, until the end hoping it might improve but no, just crap.
Yeap, just got worse as it went along.
Some that I have enjoyed:
Unlike some others here and being a bit of a SciFi buff, I actually quite liked Annihilation and I really enjoyed a new SciFi movie called Revolt. The chick in this, Bérénice Marlohe, is very hot, amazing eyes.She does do smokey eyes very well.
I must have missed where people listed Breaker Morant in the war movies not to miss.
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The Thing ( 1982 version right after the 2011 prequel )
Underrated classics about a nasty shape shifting alien that can take the form of whatever it comes into contact with. Nice horror, tension and mistrust ( the latter's SFX naturally shit all over the former ) but Kurt Russell in particular very cool.
As a duo 4 dead Americans out of 5 dead Norwegians
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If you think the opening of saving Private Ryan is gritty you should check out Come and See. Makes SPR look like a church picnic. Soviet kid joins platoon who are systematically and graphically massacred and he then has to suffer alone in the forest.
Others not mentioned - Bridge at Remagen - battle for the last Bridge across the Rhine. Ice Cold in Alex - Poms taking the piss boom tish
Hell in the Pacific One Jap One Yank (Lee Marvin) one island
Son of Saul shot from the perspective (literally as in sweeping the ashes out of the ovens) of one of the Jewish workers in a concentration camp.
Similar ilk - Shoah mini series from 80's - footage and memories of camp survivors
Tony Stein - Wikipedia
John Basilone - Wikipedia
