krista4
Footballguy
Yeah, it's really one big long chase scene, which is exactly the kind of movie that usually bores me. I can't even figure out how to explain why this one was an exception, but it just hit everything perfectly.
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Yeah, it's really one big long chase scene, which is exactly the kind of movie that usually bores me. I can't even figure out how to explain why this one was an exception, but it just hit everything perfectly.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
My wife surprised me this afternoon and wanted to watch Conclave so why not even though I just saw it. I liked it less. The scheming and camp of it was still fun but now that it wasn’t such a shock, the ending didn’t work as well. Good fun but kind of silly is my reassessment of it after a second watch that involved no wine lol.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Just how George Miller intended.
Eephus
Footballguy
Just how George Miller intended.
I'm no home cinema nerd--our TVs are all tiny by FBG standards-- but I could never watch a movie on a plane when I used to fly a lot for work. I'd usually turn off the screen when the safety message was over.
Riffraff
Footballguy
Most fans regard it 'as true to the original franchise as possible'. Reviewed well. I like it and watched more than once.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Finally got around to watching The Graduate.
I thought the first half was terrific - full of emotion and symbolism. I thought the second half was rather tedious and silly until, of course, the final shot.
And Mrs Robinson was right about Benjamin. As an allegory for the entire Baby Boomer generation, it's spot on.
I thought the first half was terrific - full of emotion and symbolism. I thought the second half was rather tedious and silly until, of course, the final shot.
And Mrs Robinson was right about Benjamin. As an allegory for the entire Baby Boomer generation, it's spot on.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Plastic?
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
In a manner of speaking, I suppose.
I was thinking more directionless, indulgent, and short term self focused.
jamny
Footballguy
Looking around on reddit and it's kinda split 50/50. I won't get into details so as not to spoil anything but a lot of people hate it for various different reasons.
PlayaHata
Footballguy
Exact same thing happened to me LOL. I went in not knowing really anything about the plot either, so even I was caught off guard.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I agree with your assessment of the movie that the 2nd half isn't as strong but it nails the ending. I think one thing works for it is that most generations are directionless, indulgent and short term self focused as young adults. You could have made this movie in the 80s and replaced plastics with microchips or the 90s with .coms or now with AI. Is it disctinctly Boomer? I don't know, I am not the person to answer that. I do wonder that's the Boomer story through movies? I mean contemperanous stuff, not period pieces. But Boomers telling their story as it happens.
I think it's something like American Graffiti--> The Graduate -->MASH-->The Big Chill--> Wall Street and then where do we go from there? What else is missing?
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I can agree that it could be an indictment of early adulthood in general.
I think you could add Easy Rider, Platoon/The Deer Hunter, and Forrest Gump.
Tick
Footballguy
I really liked it. I'm opposite of jamny in that I thought the first 75% much more than the last 25% (very Alien Resurrection), but overall it was a good movie that I'm happy they made.
jamny
Footballguy
I don't think I saw Resurrection and maybe not Alien 3
I did really like Prometheus
nightmare
Footballguy
You can skip Alien 3. I thought Resurrection was good-same level as Prometheus.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
3 and the one with the cream of wheat monster I didn’t like
Eephus
Footballguy
Since it looks like FBG Director of the Month Club isn't going to make another trip around the sun, I took matters into my own hands by watching three movies directed by Paul Verhoeven. He's best known for his decade long run of making big Hollywood hits like Basic Instinct and Robocop but he's spent the majority of long and strange career working in Europe. He's a guy with a definite style that's equal parts artist, technician and provocateur.
Soldier of Orange (1977 - streaming on Tubi) is one of the films that made Verhoeven's reputation in his native Holland. The story reads like a straightforward WWII movie about a group of Dutch students facing German occupation: some resist, some collaborate and some try to wait out the war to survive. Verhoeven takes the familiar war movie backbone and spices it up with violence, humor and sex. It's a fast moving story that sometimes struggles to keep track of its large cast of characters but never fails to entertain. The film stars Rutger Hauer as an aristocrat who unwittingly finds himself joining the resistance while trying to flee to England. Jaroen Krabbe is memorable as his friend with a more devil may care attitude. It's in Dutch and almost three hours but it's a solid, old fashioned tale with plenty of action.
Total Recall (1990 - streaming on Pluto) You've probably heard about this one. I remember seeing it at the old Regency Theater on Van Ness during its theatrical run but I don't think I've watched it since. It's the kind of big R-rated blockbuster that doesn't get made nowadays. The movie is more bonkers than I remembered--it follows Philip K. ****'s story for a while but gives it a more Hollywood ending and throws in Verhoeven's usual shock and titillation. His vision of the future is similar to the one he developed later for Starship Troopers. Arnold is terrific and the pre-CGI effects are fun but occasionally cheesy.
Benedetta (2021 - streaming on Hulu) is Verhoeven's most recent film released at the age of 83. It's a French language production loosely based on a true story of a 17th century nun who had visions of Jesus and was accused of being a lesbian. As you might expect, Verhoeven is something of a religious iconoclast; many will find the movie blasphemous but God unquestionably exists in the movie's universe and its characters are genuinely torn between faith and sexuality. Verhoeven's usually exhuberant visual style is somewhat restrained by Benedetta's austere envionment but the story still unfolds with a nice rhythm. He's still the guy who gave two scenes to the mutant with three breasts in Total Recall so he doesn't shy away from the lesbian sex and torture scenes in this one. He also somehow finds a way to throw some gore in the nun's dreams of Christ.
I suppose Soldier of Orange would be my pick of the three but they're all interesting, solidly crafted films with a strong directorial point of view.
Soldier of Orange (1977 - streaming on Tubi) is one of the films that made Verhoeven's reputation in his native Holland. The story reads like a straightforward WWII movie about a group of Dutch students facing German occupation: some resist, some collaborate and some try to wait out the war to survive. Verhoeven takes the familiar war movie backbone and spices it up with violence, humor and sex. It's a fast moving story that sometimes struggles to keep track of its large cast of characters but never fails to entertain. The film stars Rutger Hauer as an aristocrat who unwittingly finds himself joining the resistance while trying to flee to England. Jaroen Krabbe is memorable as his friend with a more devil may care attitude. It's in Dutch and almost three hours but it's a solid, old fashioned tale with plenty of action.
Total Recall (1990 - streaming on Pluto) You've probably heard about this one. I remember seeing it at the old Regency Theater on Van Ness during its theatrical run but I don't think I've watched it since. It's the kind of big R-rated blockbuster that doesn't get made nowadays. The movie is more bonkers than I remembered--it follows Philip K. ****'s story for a while but gives it a more Hollywood ending and throws in Verhoeven's usual shock and titillation. His vision of the future is similar to the one he developed later for Starship Troopers. Arnold is terrific and the pre-CGI effects are fun but occasionally cheesy.
Benedetta (2021 - streaming on Hulu) is Verhoeven's most recent film released at the age of 83. It's a French language production loosely based on a true story of a 17th century nun who had visions of Jesus and was accused of being a lesbian. As you might expect, Verhoeven is something of a religious iconoclast; many will find the movie blasphemous but God unquestionably exists in the movie's universe and its characters are genuinely torn between faith and sexuality. Verhoeven's usually exhuberant visual style is somewhat restrained by Benedetta's austere envionment but the story still unfolds with a nice rhythm. He's still the guy who gave two scenes to the mutant with three breasts in Total Recall so he doesn't shy away from the lesbian sex and torture scenes in this one. He also somehow finds a way to throw some gore in the nun's dreams of Christ.
I suppose Soldier of Orange would be my pick of the three but they're all interesting, solidly crafted films with a strong directorial point of view.
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FarFromHome
Footballguy
Watched Horizon: An American Saga. Love westerns. Love Costner in westerns. Reviews were horrible so I was expecting it to be a slow bad grind. After the first 45 minutes I was looking around thinking this is a good movie. The Indian raid was great. Why was this movie rated so low? This is solid. It was then followed by 45 minutes of spotty story and horrible characters. I then turned it off because it just was unbearable to watch. Can't remember another movie going from good to cant watch so quickly. Sorry Costner, I tried.
beer 30
Footballguy
I enjoyed it, didn't understand why it got panned so bad other than Yellowstone fans just being pissed at him, looking forward to the next installment.
I know it's the movies thread so don't want to cross pollinate but just started American Primeval. We share a lot of the same likes, this should be right up your ally. On Netflix.
FarFromHome
Footballguy
It's qued up to watch. Ha ha. Clips I've seen hit well for me.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
good luck
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I think you meant it's "steaming" on Pluto. I haven't liked that movie ever and I saw it in the theater and a couple times since. Peak Sharon Stone though.
Robocop and, to a lesser extent, Starship Troopers are still good Verhoeven flicks though.
IIRC I liked Black Book at least a little.
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Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Safety Not Guaranteed
Aubrey Plaza is a magazine intern that goes to investigate an add for a Time Travel partner (Mark Duplass). Hijinks ensue
Fun quirky comedy
Aubrey Plaza is a magazine intern that goes to investigate an add for a Time Travel partner (Mark Duplass). Hijinks ensue
Fun quirky comedy
El Floppo
Footballguy
Huh... I love Recall.
Eephus
Footballguy
I found a stream of Black Book so it's in my queue for later in the month
Eephus
Footballguy
I liked parts of Horizon but it seemed very incomplete. Its multiple unconnected story lines were more like the first three episodes of a TV series instead of a feature film.
We thought about watching it on Saturday and then saw it was 3 hrs long and said no.
jamny
Footballguy
Lately, I've been watching movies in segments of like 45 minutes to an hour over the course of a few days.
General Malaise
Footballguy
This is how I watched The Irishman. Unless I'm in a theater, I just don't have the stamina anymore.
BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I’ve followed it from the start.
Tick
Footballguy
One annoying thing about this movie isn't the movie itself, it's that it gets placed on lists of time travel movies. Stop it.
You mean you have to pee often. Getting old sucks.
This is how I watched The Irishman. Unless I'm in a theater, I just don't have the stamina anymore.
General Malaise
Footballguy
You mean you have to pee often. Getting old sucks.
This is how I watched The Irishman. Unless I'm in a theater, I just don't have the stamina anymore.
Should probably just install a TV in my bathroom.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Infinity Pool
Alexander Skarsgard and his wife go on vacation to a resort in some dystopian hellscape. They meet Mia Goth and her husband and decide to leave the resort. Hijinks ensue
Directed by Cronenbergs kid
Can definitely see his dad’s influence. I liked it but it’s pretty out there
Alexander Skarsgard and his wife go on vacation to a resort in some dystopian hellscape. They meet Mia Goth and her husband and decide to leave the resort. Hijinks ensue
Directed by Cronenbergs kid
Can definitely see his dad’s influence. I liked it but it’s pretty out there
Tick
Footballguy
Possessor by the same guy is worth watching.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
It’s on my list looks like I had it on horror list maybe I’ll check it out soon
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
I decided to watch Mulholland Drive last drive night, given David Lynch's passing. I've seen Blue Velvet at least a dozen times, but I'm not very familiar with Lynch's body of work beyond that. I've seen Mulholland Drive once before, just after it came out on video, probably on VHS. I thought it was a good movie, and it certainly made an impression on me because I remembered it after a 25 year hiatus, but yeah it's been a while. Kind of a rewatch, and kind of coming back with fresh eyes.
You can't really talk about the story without spoiling it. Even though this is an old film a lot of people probably haven't seen it and might want to, so I'll just skip over that. But this movie definitely has that dream-like "logic" that one associates with Lynch. The narrator is extremely unreliable, and the over-acting and stilted dialog are there for a reason. It all clicks into place. And it's horrifying in the way that Greek tragedy is horrifying. It's not a horror movie, but it is sort of like getting cigarette burn.
My guess is that for most people, it will take two viewings to really appreciate this one. Knowing where this movie was going made a lot of the stuff in the first half a lot more impactful, but maybe that was just me. I was a young man the first time I saw this, and I watched it more or less blind. Maybe a more attentive viewer would get it in one sitting. Regardless, glad I revisited this.
You can't really talk about the story without spoiling it. Even though this is an old film a lot of people probably haven't seen it and might want to, so I'll just skip over that. But this movie definitely has that dream-like "logic" that one associates with Lynch. The narrator is extremely unreliable, and the over-acting and stilted dialog are there for a reason. It all clicks into place. And it's horrifying in the way that Greek tragedy is horrifying. It's not a horror movie, but it is sort of like getting cigarette burn.
My guess is that for most people, it will take two viewings to really appreciate this one. Knowing where this movie was going made a lot of the stuff in the first half a lot more impactful, but maybe that was just me. I was a young man the first time I saw this, and I watched it more or less blind. Maybe a more attentive viewer would get it in one sitting. Regardless, glad I revisited this.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Good review. I first watched it when I was 18-19 with my GF. I knew it was really well reviewed, had lots of awards buzz and so I always liked to see the "good" movies. I absolutely hated it. Made no sense to me and I think 2/3 of the way through we gave up on it and just "hooked up" while it played on the background. For 15-20 years it was in my pile of super overrated movies that actually suck pile in my head. Once I gave it another shot as an adult who had more of an understanding of what Lynch does, it lept up in my opinion. Very interesting and probably the best movie at capturing what a dream is like. It's not my favorite Lynch and not quite an alltime masterpiece as some feel but I deeply appreciate it now. I do need to investigate more Lynch because I've only seen this, Eraserhead (awful), Dune (god awful) and Blue Velvet (depraved genius). So even though Lynch was far from my cup of tea, he was true artist with a unique vision. RIP to one of the greats.
krista4
Footballguy
You haven't seen The Straight Story? You need to watch this right away. OK, after you watch Perfect Days.
I love Mulholland Drive when I saw it ages ago. Should do a re-watch, too.
Eephus
Footballguy
It's probably more shocking that he was able to get as many feature films made as he did given the singularity of his vision and the state of the film industry in the 21st century. He did keep busy with a whole passel of short films (none of which I've ever seen).
rockaction
Footballguy
Nobody’s gonna like this, but after Wall Street comes Forrest Gump for the Boomers.
Boomers (other than the campus communists and gun-toting sidewalk radicals) get a bad rap. They’ve been having insults hurled at them since ’64 and the insults have never stopped. Just because there were a lot of them they were fated in history to go down as overwhelming the United States in one form or another.
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Ilov80s
Footballguy
I didn’t include it because it didn’t seem contemporaneous but after some thought it does work as them telling their own story as they reach midlife.
rockaction
Footballguy
I included it with a bit of a wince at its cynicism. I thought it was very contemporaneous and told the story of themselves as they wanted it to be told, and not as it actually was. Rose-colored glasses and whatnot. And what better way than through the eyes of an autistic guy! See our innocence!
Even though I just bemoaned their bad rap, the Boomers left so much wreckage in their wake that it’s hard to watch Forrest Gump and just nod along about how they ostracized guys that beat their girlfriends over Johnson. Ask Ira Einhorn and Martha Moxley’s family about stuff like that. Ask the Manson family. Ask the real Weathermen and the bombings of buildings that continued throughout the seventies.
I guess that was happening all over the world in Western civilizations. Some countries never really recovered (I don’t think France has, but that’s from a distance admittedly). Empires ended and they came crashing down with not just a thud but with a wrecking ball. Some blame the empires themselves; I’d say it was the generation that hastened their violent declines.
Enough about that. I’ll stick to Forrest Gump being the movies Boomers wanted to tell about themselves.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Watched Twisters last night. Kinda just an ok movie. Nothing special. Original was infinitely better.
Eephus
Footballguy
I Am a Fugitive is on TCM next Friday (1/31) at some ridiculous hour
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Original was also pretty overrated imo
Ilov80s
Footballguy
You are right. I was thinking FG was a nostalgic retelling of their story but so was American Graffiti. I was thinking like The Big Chill is about liberal boomer disillusionment as it was happening or The Graduate was hitting young boomers telling their own story as it happened but not all my movies totally hit that mark.
Whats comes after Gump as they creep into officially being old?
