KarmaPolice
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Time to be shamed around these parts. I have tried (3 times now), and as much as I love Kubrick, I am just doing to concede that I don't like Dr. Strangelove.
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FreeBaGeL
Footballguy
TWD season 3 is one of the highest rating things on Netflix reviews. Who are you going to trust, them or us?Seems like just about every netflix review says it was horrible. I am conflicted. I like Shannon, but is this his giant dud that makes me angry after wasting time watching it?jamny said:Take Shelter added to queue...
If you're the kind of person that thinks what you've seen/heard about Take Shelter is interesting then you'll like the movie.
FreeBaGeL
Footballguy
Speaking of Moon, I make it a point to watch the trailer again every month or so. It's such an awesome trailer. I love when movies use music from the actual movie in the trailer, especially when it's Clint Mansell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twuScTcDP_Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twuScTcDP_Q
Chaka
Footballguy
Chaka
Footballguy
Only one way to find out.Seems like just about every netflix review says it was horrible. I am conflicted. I like Shannon, but is this his giant dud that makes me angry after wasting time watching it?jamny said:Take Shelter added to queue...
Chaka
Footballguy
PUT HIM IN THE CONE OF SHAME!!!Time to be shamed around these parts. I have tried (3 times now), and as much as I love Kubrick, I am just doing to concede that I don't like Dr. Strangelove.
NorvilleBarnes
Footballguy
If you like documentaries, The Woman Who Wasn't There is pretty interesting one about a woman who heads up a 911 survivors support group and the discovery that her experience in the second tower was entirely made up.
Bob Magaw
Footballguy
SORCEROR by William Friedkin
Exec summary - Four criminals on the run end up where there is nowhere else to run to, and there ticket out of hell is to drive a jeep loaded with unstable nitroglycerine needed to extinguish an oil well fire 200 miles away through dangerous mountain passes, dense jungles and treacherous bridges, while the slightest bump and disturbance could blow them into a million pieces.
It takes 70 minutes for the four lead characters to get in the two jeeps, but once they do, it is like riding on a rocket sled of suspense until nearly the final frame.
This was one of the best movie going experiences of my life Saturday night.
I've thought for a long time Sorceror by Billy Friedkin (French Connection, Exorcist, To Live and Die in L.A. and Killer Joe, among others) was criminally underrated, a neglected '70s masterpiece and arguably his greatest film. He has claimed it is his favorite among his body of work. I was just reading that Tarantino listed it in his top 5 favorite films (in my top 5-10, after movies like Blade Runner, Seven Samurai, Clockwork Orange).
He was flush off the success of The French Connection and Exorcist (Academy Award winner as director for the former), and decided to do a remake of Clouzot's Wages of Fear. He could have gotten Steve McQueen for the lead (and secured a much stronger international cast, though I thought Roy Scheider, who also worked with Friedkin on the French Connection, was great), but was unwilling to accommodate hiring his girl friend, Ali McGraw. Like Coppola in Apocalypse Now (and Herzog in Aguirre: Wrath of God), he took his film crew on location deep into the jungle. A small movie ballooned into a $22 mil. budget. Like Apocalypse Now, it nearly bankrupted him.
There were a few problems. The title was poorly chosen, with supernatural connotations fueled by his previous movie The Exorcist, which had nothing to do with the movie. Some people were confused by the completely discrete and separate, unrelated character development establishing segments for the four leads that open the movie. It had a largely unrecognizeable international cast per the above. More substantively, it was very bleak, and came out the same week as Star Wars. Ironically, Sorceror (and Wages of Fear, which it was based on, Friedkin dedicated the movie to his predecessor Clouzot) was about fate and destiny, and of all the possible times his movie could have been released, it was his fate to do box office battle with the opening salvo of maybe the biggest juggernaut in cinematic history. Star Wars absolutely crushed and destroyed Sorceror, which was a critical failure, financial disaster and largely forgotten.
Until now. Friedkin got the studio rights runaround for years, but last year, completed a pristine, immaculate, 4K scanned resolution, color corrected, newly remixed restoration. Last night, as part of the TCM Film Festival (fifth year, almost went a few times before, but this was my first time), Sorceror had its reincarnated US premier at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Friedkin was in attendance and gave a 10-15 minute talk before rolling the film (the screen writer joined him, who also did Peckinpaugh's The Wild Bunch).
Like Wages of Fear, when you look at the stunts and driving sequences with actors driving jeeps inches away from the edge of a cliff, for instance, it is amazing nobody got seriously hurt or killed (or during the filming of the insane car chases in the French Connection and To Live and Die in L.A.). There is a sequence in the film (not too much of a spoiler here, maybe enough to pique interest) when a pair of two man teams in jeeps have to make a harrowing crossing of a rickety, dilapidated rope suspension bridge, and are lashed by howling winds and a torrential, biblical downpour which makes Rashomon's beginning and Seven Samurai's climactic battle scene look like Singing in the Rain in comparison, that was the most viscerally gripping and riveting I've ever experienced in a movie. I have seen it 3-4 times on DVD at home, and there was just no comparison with the theatrical experience. But I think this was the first time I've ever seen a movie like this at the theatre not in it's initial release.
I always liked the hypnotic, pulsating, driving, eerie electronic score by Tangerine Dream (one of my favorites by them, along with what was I think their first, for Michael Mann's Thief, which recently received a Criterion restoration), and that was also incalculably more powerful theatrically than at home.
The blu ray comes out 4-22. Needless to say, highly recommended (as is the inspiration, Clouzot's Wages of Fear - in fact, it would make a great, in a grueling kind of way
, double feature).
* For LA residents, it has a 1-2 week engagement with like two screenings per day, starting 4-16, I think, at a different theatre, across from Fairfax High. Friedkin will be there giving another talk for the one showing opening night.
Exec summary - Four criminals on the run end up where there is nowhere else to run to, and there ticket out of hell is to drive a jeep loaded with unstable nitroglycerine needed to extinguish an oil well fire 200 miles away through dangerous mountain passes, dense jungles and treacherous bridges, while the slightest bump and disturbance could blow them into a million pieces.
It takes 70 minutes for the four lead characters to get in the two jeeps, but once they do, it is like riding on a rocket sled of suspense until nearly the final frame.
This was one of the best movie going experiences of my life Saturday night.
I've thought for a long time Sorceror by Billy Friedkin (French Connection, Exorcist, To Live and Die in L.A. and Killer Joe, among others) was criminally underrated, a neglected '70s masterpiece and arguably his greatest film. He has claimed it is his favorite among his body of work. I was just reading that Tarantino listed it in his top 5 favorite films (in my top 5-10, after movies like Blade Runner, Seven Samurai, Clockwork Orange).
He was flush off the success of The French Connection and Exorcist (Academy Award winner as director for the former), and decided to do a remake of Clouzot's Wages of Fear. He could have gotten Steve McQueen for the lead (and secured a much stronger international cast, though I thought Roy Scheider, who also worked with Friedkin on the French Connection, was great), but was unwilling to accommodate hiring his girl friend, Ali McGraw. Like Coppola in Apocalypse Now (and Herzog in Aguirre: Wrath of God), he took his film crew on location deep into the jungle. A small movie ballooned into a $22 mil. budget. Like Apocalypse Now, it nearly bankrupted him.
There were a few problems. The title was poorly chosen, with supernatural connotations fueled by his previous movie The Exorcist, which had nothing to do with the movie. Some people were confused by the completely discrete and separate, unrelated character development establishing segments for the four leads that open the movie. It had a largely unrecognizeable international cast per the above. More substantively, it was very bleak, and came out the same week as Star Wars. Ironically, Sorceror (and Wages of Fear, which it was based on, Friedkin dedicated the movie to his predecessor Clouzot) was about fate and destiny, and of all the possible times his movie could have been released, it was his fate to do box office battle with the opening salvo of maybe the biggest juggernaut in cinematic history. Star Wars absolutely crushed and destroyed Sorceror, which was a critical failure, financial disaster and largely forgotten.
Until now. Friedkin got the studio rights runaround for years, but last year, completed a pristine, immaculate, 4K scanned resolution, color corrected, newly remixed restoration. Last night, as part of the TCM Film Festival (fifth year, almost went a few times before, but this was my first time), Sorceror had its reincarnated US premier at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Friedkin was in attendance and gave a 10-15 minute talk before rolling the film (the screen writer joined him, who also did Peckinpaugh's The Wild Bunch).
Like Wages of Fear, when you look at the stunts and driving sequences with actors driving jeeps inches away from the edge of a cliff, for instance, it is amazing nobody got seriously hurt or killed (or during the filming of the insane car chases in the French Connection and To Live and Die in L.A.). There is a sequence in the film (not too much of a spoiler here, maybe enough to pique interest) when a pair of two man teams in jeeps have to make a harrowing crossing of a rickety, dilapidated rope suspension bridge, and are lashed by howling winds and a torrential, biblical downpour which makes Rashomon's beginning and Seven Samurai's climactic battle scene look like Singing in the Rain in comparison, that was the most viscerally gripping and riveting I've ever experienced in a movie. I have seen it 3-4 times on DVD at home, and there was just no comparison with the theatrical experience. But I think this was the first time I've ever seen a movie like this at the theatre not in it's initial release.
I always liked the hypnotic, pulsating, driving, eerie electronic score by Tangerine Dream (one of my favorites by them, along with what was I think their first, for Michael Mann's Thief, which recently received a Criterion restoration), and that was also incalculably more powerful theatrically than at home.
The blu ray comes out 4-22. Needless to say, highly recommended (as is the inspiration, Clouzot's Wages of Fear - in fact, it would make a great, in a grueling kind of way
, double feature).* For LA residents, it has a 1-2 week engagement with like two screenings per day, starting 4-16, I think, at a different theatre, across from Fairfax High. Friedkin will be there giving another talk for the one showing opening night.
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sports_fan
Footballguy
Captain America: The New One
Pretty good.
Pretty good.
jamny
Footballguy
Time to be shamed around these parts. I have tried (3 times now), and as much as I love Kubrick, I am just doing to concede that I don't like Dr. Strangelove.
I have it on my DVR and am going to try and give it another shot. I think I've tried twice too.
Time Kibitzer
Footballguy
Movie's only an hour and a half but it does feel a lot longer. Some scenes are a pain to get through, particularly all the ones with the cowboy, but there's a lot of brilliantly hilarious scenes with Peter Sellers to love imo.Time to be shamed around these parts. I have tried (3 times now), and as much as I love Kubrick, I am just doing to concede that I don't like Dr. Strangelove.
Abraham
Footballguy
Chaka
Footballguy
he definitely appears to have some chops but he went a different direction with his career (one note too cool for school action guy) and I doubt we will ever get to find out if BR was the exception or the rule.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Every scene in this movie is perfect.Movie's only an hour and a half but it does feel a lot longer. Some scenes are a pain to get through, particularly all the ones with the cowboy, but there's a lot of brilliantly hilarious scenes with Peter Sellers to love imo.Time to be shamed around these parts. I have tried (3 times now), and as much as I love Kubrick, I am just doing to concede that I don't like Dr. Strangelove.
Every scene in this movie with Sterling Hayden is EXTRA perfect.
Peace Out Everyone
Chaka
Footballguy
GF is travelling for a couple weeks so I have been doing a sci-fi/superhero marathon.
G.I. Joe Retaliation - I honestly have no excuse for watching this, and the very fact that I admit to watching this makes everything I every have said or will say about movies highly questionable. I apologize to everyone who has ever read one of my movie reviews, particularly those who agreed with my opinions.
Thor The Dark World - (I think) maybe it was the 8 glasses of wine but this was mostly meh at best. Seemed pretty nonsensical. The first one was far better.
Iron Man 3 - Robert Downey Jr. somehow is able to be a complete ######bag but still entirely lovable at the same time. It's a skill. I am not a fan of what they did with Mandarin, it was funny but still it seems wasted. And the whole Extremis makes you regrow limbs and breath fire thing didn't make much sense but whatever. Overall it was entertaining enough.
The Wolverine - at first I was wondering why people really seemed to dislike it so much because I thought the first half was quite solid but as it kept going on it seemed to get worse and worse...and worse. The after credits easter egg for Days of Future Past was definitely the highlight of the film.
Pacific Rim - It promised robots fighting monsters and it delivered robots fighting monsters. ROBOTS FIGHTING MONSTERS GOD ######!!! AWESOME!!!! SERIOUSLY AWESOME!!! And Charlie Day is funny in anything he does. I sincerely hope there is a sequel.
G.I. Joe Retaliation - I honestly have no excuse for watching this, and the very fact that I admit to watching this makes everything I every have said or will say about movies highly questionable. I apologize to everyone who has ever read one of my movie reviews, particularly those who agreed with my opinions.
Thor The Dark World - (I think) maybe it was the 8 glasses of wine but this was mostly meh at best. Seemed pretty nonsensical. The first one was far better.
Iron Man 3 - Robert Downey Jr. somehow is able to be a complete ######bag but still entirely lovable at the same time. It's a skill. I am not a fan of what they did with Mandarin, it was funny but still it seems wasted. And the whole Extremis makes you regrow limbs and breath fire thing didn't make much sense but whatever. Overall it was entertaining enough.
The Wolverine - at first I was wondering why people really seemed to dislike it so much because I thought the first half was quite solid but as it kept going on it seemed to get worse and worse...and worse. The after credits easter egg for Days of Future Past was definitely the highlight of the film.
Pacific Rim - It promised robots fighting monsters and it delivered robots fighting monsters. ROBOTS FIGHTING MONSTERS GOD ######!!! AWESOME!!!! SERIOUSLY AWESOME!!! And Charlie Day is funny in anything he does. I sincerely hope there is a sequel.
Chaka
Footballguy
The fact that, when he became president, Reagan asked to see the War Room when there is no War Room speaks volumes about the awesomeness of Dr. Strangelove.The exchange between Hayden and Sellers where Hayden talks about denying his precious fluids and Sellers realizes he is dealing with an insane person is priceless.
NO FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM!
One of the top films, ever. Seriously.
El Floppo
Footballguy
The fact that, when he became president, Reagan asked to see the War Room when there is no War Room speaks volumes about the awesomeness of Dr. Strangelove.The exchange between Hayden and Sellers where Hayden talks about denying his precious fluids and Sellers realizes he is dealing with an insane person is priceless.
NO FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM!
One of the top films, ever. Seriously.
Top 3 for me.
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
My favorite movie of all time.The fact that, when he became president, Reagan asked to see the War Room when there is no War Room speaks volumes about the awesomeness of Dr. Strangelove.The exchange between Hayden and Sellers where Hayden talks about denying his precious fluids and Sellers realizes he is dealing with an insane person is priceless.
NO FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM!
One of the top films, ever. Seriously.
Top 3 for me.
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
VERYEvery scene in this movie is perfect.Movie's only an hour and a half but it does feel a lot longer. Some scenes are a pain to get through, particularly all the ones with the cowboy, but there's a lot of brilliantly hilarious scenes with Peter Sellers to love imo.Time to be shamed around these parts. I have tried (3 times now), and as much as I love Kubrick, I am just doing to concede that I don't like Dr. Strangelove.
Every scene in this movie with Sterling Hayden is EXTRA perfect.
Peace Out Everyone
rockaction
Footballguy
Read parts of "Blue Movie" by Terry Southern. Mileages vary, for sure. Depends on your outlook on life.My favorite movie of all time.The fact that, when he became president, Reagan asked to see the War Room when there is no War Room speaks volumes about the awesomeness of Dr. Strangelove.The exchange between Hayden and Sellers where Hayden talks about denying his precious fluids and Sellers realizes he is dealing with an insane person is priceless.
NO FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM!
One of the top films, ever. Seriously.
Top 3 for me.
Liked Dr. Strangelove, didn't love it.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I hear this a lot, and I don't get it. Oh well, at least after 3 tries I guess I made an honest go of it. just feels weird to be a kubrick fan boy and not dig one of his movies.The fact that, when he became president, Reagan asked to see the War Room when there is no War Room speaks volumes about the awesomeness of Dr. Strangelove.One of the top films, ever. Seriously.The exchange between Hayden and Sellers where Hayden talks about denying his precious fluids and Sellers realizes he is dealing with an insane person is priceless.
NO FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM!
Top 3 for me.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Well yeah- but you've got terrible taste.Read parts of "Blue Movie" by Terry Southern. Mileages vary, for sure. Depends on your outlook on life.My favorite movie of all time.The fact that, when he became president, Reagan asked to see the War Room when there is no War Room speaks volumes about the awesomeness of Dr. Strangelove.The exchange between Hayden and Sellers where Hayden talks about denying his precious fluids and Sellers realizes he is dealing with an insane person is priceless.
NO FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM!
One of the top films, ever. Seriously.
Top 3 for me.
Liked Dr. Strangelove, didn't love it.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Another big vote for Strangelove. Top 10 easily for me. Holds up incredibly well over all these years.
Chaka
Footballguy
Well clearly there is something wrong with you. Perhaps you should consider a strict regiment of vodka and rain water.I hear this a lot, and I don't get it. Oh well, at least after 3 tries I guess I made an honest go of it. just feels weird to be a kubrick fan boy and not dig one of his movies.The fact that, when he became president, Reagan asked to see the War Room when there is no War Room speaks volumes about the awesomeness of Dr. Strangelove.One of the top films, ever. Seriously.The exchange between Hayden and Sellers where Hayden talks about denying his precious fluids and Sellers realizes he is dealing with an insane person is priceless.
NO FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM!
Top 3 for me.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Chaka
Footballguy
just going by what I saw on imdb.
rockaction
Footballguy
Oh, child please, you're talking eager to please New Journo guy here. I thinkWell yeah- but you've got terrible taste.Read parts of "Blue Movie" by Terry Southern. Mileages vary, for sure. Depends on your outlook on life.My favorite movie of all time.The fact that, when he became president, Reagan asked to see the War Room when there is no War Room speaks volumes about the awesomeness of Dr. Strangelove.The exchange between Hayden and Sellers where Hayden talks about denying his precious fluids and Sellers realizes he is dealing with an insane person is priceless.
NO FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM!
One of the top films, ever. Seriously.
Top 3 for me.
Liked Dr. Strangelove, didn't love it.
Just thought Strangelove was cool, and nothing more...
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Every scene in this movie is perfect.Movie's only an hour and a half but it does feel a lot longer. Some scenes are a pain to get through, particularly all the ones with the cowboy, but there's a lot of brilliantly hilarious scenes with Peter Sellers to love imo.Time to be shamed around these parts. I have tried (3 times now), and as much as I love Kubrick, I am just doing to concede that I don't like Dr. Strangelove.
Every scene in this movie with Sterling Hayden is EXTRA perfect.
Peaces Out Everyone
Chaka
Footballguy
Ender's Game - I don't remember the book well enough to be outraged so I actually thought it was quite well done. A little rushed and disjointed at times but overall it captured a depth of emotion from Ender with his open understanding of the consequences of his actions. And I truly appreciated that, it Added a sincere humanity to the story, which I think is very important.
I think my biggest problem with it overall is
But maybe that's just me.
I think my biggest problem with it overall is
I kind of think Ender should have figured out it wasn't a simulation before the final battle. This criticism holds for the book too. Kid seems to figure everything out well before everyone else, I know him not knowing is deeply significant to the story but after watching the film I am kind of surprised/disappointed that he was blindsided by the fact that it was real.
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Homer J Simpson
I don't push
Big fan.I had to IMDB Chloe Grace Moretz's age. Man, she looks a lot older than her age suggests.
Anywho, the remake of Carrie was terrible. I can't even recommend this movie foreither.
Sarnoff
Footballguy
Prisoners was pretty good, but, I don't like when movie detectives take so long to figure out clues that are obvious to the audience. I was a step ahead of Jake Gyllenhal for most of the second half of the film and it was frustrating to watch him take so long to make the next step. Kind of makes me feel he's not the great detective he should be in the story when obvious connections take so long to make.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
The Desolation of Smaug....... I get it if you are a fan of the whole universe. I really do. I can see how just cool this whole thing is. But I just didn't like this at all and I'm tired of the 2 hour story being dragged to 9 hours in movies with this universe. And if I have to sit through one more 45 second tracking shot.................
Eh, I guess in the end I just didnt' like that there was no end and for whatever reason I'm just not loving the dwarfs at all. Langolas was cool as is the chick from Lost. But.... eh, whatever. It was better than Gatsby. I think. I really don't know what to make of Gatsby still - and it doesn't help that I hated that book with a passion.
Eh, I guess in the end I just didnt' like that there was no end and for whatever reason I'm just not loving the dwarfs at all. Langolas was cool as is the chick from Lost. But.... eh, whatever. It was better than Gatsby. I think. I really don't know what to make of Gatsby still - and it doesn't help that I hated that book with a passion.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
You suck and your kids are ugly.Time to be shamed around these parts. I have tried (3 times now), and as much as I love Kubrick, I am just doing to concede that I don't like Dr. Strangelove.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Wait, but that terse relationship between McClain and his son! It was so...well executed and not at all dreary and forced.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
I contend that people who didn't like Pacific Rim were in the wrong theater to begin with.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
I don't agree that these are forgotten. I've seen most of them more than once. Still, a good list worth checking out:
10 Forgotten 90's Crime Movies
10 Forgotten 90's Crime Movies
Homer J Simpson
I don't push
Chaka
Footballguy
belljr
Footballguy
deep cover "theme song" is one of dre and snoops finest
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
Things to do in Denver is one of the best. As is State of Grace.
Homer J Simpson
I don't push
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
I could watch King of New York 100 times.Couple of personal favorites in there.
Chaka
Footballguy
I could watch King of New York 100 times.Couple of personal favorites in there.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Chaka
Footballguy
It promised giant robots fighting giant monsters and delivered that in spades. Nothing about that sucks.
