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The boomer movie discourse sent me off to watch another early self-referential boomer movie. Return of the Secaucus 7 may have been the first of its genre to be directed by an actual boomer -- American Graffiti and The Graduate were made by filmmakers from whatever generation preceded the boomers.

It's a low budget indie about old friends on the verge of 30 getting back together for a long weekend in New Hampshire. Nothing much happens but John Sayles writes good dialog and the characters eventually hooked me in spite of some occasionally amateurish acting. Sayles would go on to make some better movies (Eight Men Out, Silver City, Matewan) but his career started with this bunch of boomers talking about themselves. It's also David Strathairn's first film credit.

 
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The boomer movie discourse sent me off to watch another early self-referential boomer movie. Return of the Secaucus 7 may have been the first of its genre to be directed by an actual boomer -- American Graffiti and The Graduate were made by filmmakers from whatever generation preceded the boomers.

It's a low budget indie about old friends on the verge of 30 getting back together for a long weekend in New Hampshire. Nothing much happens but John Sayles writes good dialog and the characters eventually hooked me in spite of some occasionally amateurish acting. Sayles would go on to make some better movies (Eight Men Out, Silver City, Matewan) but his career started with this bunch of boomers talking about themselves. It's also David Strathairn's first film credit.

I guess you are right, technically George Lucas isn’t a boomer. I had thought of him as one but technically speaking they began in 46 and Lucas was born in 44. So maybe American Graffiti doesn’t even apply- those kids would have been born in like 1940-42 based on the timeline of the movie.
 
I’m starting to make my way through DUST, a Youtube channel with short scifi and horror films. Some are as short as 3:30, others are closer to 30 minutes. Varying quality and tone because they come from various creators, but it’s been really interesting.
 
Enter the Void

Actually tried watching this Friday but the wife had me shut it off after 10 min. Picked it back up Saturday morning

Meh

Had been on my list for awhile, I think I’ve just come to the conclusion that Gaspar Noe movies don’t work for me. I find them hard to watch, not from a content standpoint, the actual film work or whatever you call it
I did like Climax but I only made it like 30 minutes into irreversible
I can respect that he’s pushing boundaries and has some interesting techniques but not sure I can bring myself to willingly watch anything else by him
 
I guess you are right, technically George Lucas isn’t a boomer. I had thought of him as one but technically speaking they began in 46 and Lucas was born in 44. So maybe American Graffiti doesn’t even apply- those kids would have been born in like 1940-42 based on the timeline of the movie.

Directors born in 1946

David Lynch
Claire Denis
John Waters
Bruce Robinson
Lasse Hallström
Sylvester Stallone
Randal Kleiser
Paul Schrader
Dennis Dugan
Oliver Stone
John Woo
Ivan Reitman
Andrew Davis
Joe Dante
Steven Spielberg

Kleiser directed Grease in 1978 which like American Graffiti is nostalgic about the adolescence of kids born in the early 40s (Rydell HS Class of '59)
 
@rockaction

Looking at the math of it and most of those boomers you especially disliked might have been more from the silent generation. In 1967, the oldest boomers would have been 21. So while they were definitely involved, the real leaders of those movements were likely a little older.
 
@rockaction

Looking at the math of it and most of those boomers you especially disliked might have been more from the silent generation. In 1967, the oldest boomers would have been 21. So while they were definitely involved, the real leaders of those movements were likely a little older.

Fair point, but allow me to disagree respectfully. Mario Savio, leader of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, which was the jumping off point for the all the campus unrest, was an older statesman of everything, but a Silent Generation guy by only two years or so. He’s a very late person in that generation. I’m thinking of ’68/‘69 and the college campuses, which is firmly Boomer. Generally Boomers are ’46-‘64
 
@rockaction

Looking at the math of it and most of those boomers you especially disliked might have been more from the silent generation. In 1967, the oldest boomers would have been 21. So while they were definitely involved, the real leaders of those movements were likely a little older.

Fair point, but allow me to disagree respectfully. Mario Savio, leader of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, which was the jumping off point for the all the campus unrest, was an older statesman of everything, but a Silent Generation guy by only two years or so. He’s a very late person in that generation. I’m thinking of ’68/‘69 and the college campuses, which is firmly Boomer. Generally Boomers are ’46-‘64

None of the Chicago Seven (or eight for that matter) were boomers.
 
None of the Chicago Seven (or eight for that matter) were boomers.

Ah, okay. I’m not thinking of the Democratic National Convention. That’s fair though. Although I was also thinking of SDS and the Weather Underground and some of them seem to be Silent Generation. I’m mainly thinking of the campuses and students in ‘68, but open to hearing about how that is more Silent Gen.
 
None of the Chicago Seven (or eight for that matter) were boomers.

Ah, okay. I’m not thinking of the Democratic National Convention. That’s fair though. Although I was also thinking of SDS and the Weather Underground and some of them seem to be Silent Generation. I’m mainly thinking of the campuses and students in ‘68, but open to hearing about how that is more Silent Gen.

If you look at the birth years of the movement figures who are remembered from that time, most of them are from the late 1930s and early 40s. It's probably true that the leaders of the SDS, Panthers, SNCC, etc. were a few years older than the rank and file members.

I think that also applies to the Prague Spring, Mai 68 and various Latin America liberation movements.
 
None of the Chicago Seven (or eight for that matter) were boomers.

Ah, okay. I’m not thinking of the Democratic National Convention. That’s fair though. Although I was also thinking of SDS and the Weather Underground and some of them seem to be Silent Generation. I’m mainly thinking of the campuses and students in ‘68, but open to hearing about how that is more Silent Gen.
The college campuses of the late 60s will be mostly boomers but I think a lot of the real ideological leaders were probably a touch older and not boomers. I could be wrong though.
 
Most of The Weathermen or Weather Underground, which is what I think of and just spent a good hour and a half reading about, were also Boomers, but I think your points about the leadership of the SDS and earlier groups being a touch older are right and in keeping with what I’m reading. Anyway, I don’t want to sidetrack the thread, but thanks for your input. That cleared up a bit of history; or at least allowed me to understand it more fully.

Buffalo is downing the football. Looks over. I spent the whole damn game reading about Jacobs and Rudd, two of the WU founders and advocates of violent revolution. Heh.
 
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My goal this year was to watch pretty much every Hitchcock I hadn't seen and rewatch a bunch of others. I didn't realize this would also line up with TCM doing an early Hitch retrospective. I will save my comments for a bigger series of posts but Blackmail and Murder! were really good. Even by 1929, he had his particular brand of movie well thought out.
 
My goal this year was to watch pretty much every Hitchcock I hadn't seen and rewatch a bunch of others. I didn't realize this would also line up with TCM doing an early Hitch retrospective. I will save my comments for a bigger series of posts but Blackmail and Murder! were really good. Even by 1929, he had his particular brand of movie well thought out.
I'm interested in your options. The earliest I've gone is the original The Man Who Knew Too Much and hadn't seen the need to go before that.
 
My goal this year was to watch pretty much every Hitchcock I hadn't seen and rewatch a bunch of others. I didn't realize this would also line up with TCM doing an early Hitch retrospective. I will save my comments for a bigger series of posts but Blackmail and Murder! were really good. Even by 1929, he had his particular brand of movie well thought out.

I'm recording Young and Innocent aka The Girl Was Young (1937) on Wednesday because it's the only late-period British Hitchcock I haven't seen.
 
Ad Astra (Hulu): sci-fi thriller (I guess) from 2019, IMDB 6.5. Brad Pitt mostly, with a little Tommy Lee Jones, Liv Tyler, and Donald Sutherland. It's mostly ponderously slow, with some pretty random bursts of action that have nothing to do with the main plotline.

Honestly, this is a well made movie that just sucks. The main theme about Pitt and his father's relationship compared to Pitt's with his own family is there, but nothing around it is coherent. Mad Max attacks you while you're driving from one port to another? Sure. MONKEY FIGHT! Sigh... Do some SCUBA diving on Mars to get into a spaceship? Whatever. It looks and sounds great, which is my argument for the Dune movies, but to me this was a turd. I guess 6.5 makes sense in that technically is so well done, but the plot and heart doesn't contribute much to that.
 
My goal this year was to watch pretty much every Hitchcock I hadn't seen and rewatch a bunch of others. I didn't realize this would also line up with TCM doing an early Hitch retrospective. I will save my comments for a bigger series of posts but Blackmail and Murder! were really good. Even by 1929, he had his particular brand of movie well thought out.

I'm recording Young and Innocent aka The Girl Was Young (1937) on Wednesday because it's the only late-period British Hitchcock I haven't seen.
I’ve seen that but have almost no recollection of it. I’ll probably need to see it again.
 
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Time Bandits (Max): It's a kid's movie, and I loved it as a kid, so I guess it achieved its goal. Watching it for the first time as an adult, the things that were so rad in the 80s (a Minotaur! A sword! A tank!) don't have the power they had back then. Lots of running around bumping into each other and Three Stooges style smacking, often with some yelling and screaming. Evil was funnier than I realized, there were some amusing jokes I didn't recognize when I was young. There's a slight bit of Hellraiser about Evil. I'll never watch it again, and I can't recommend showing it to present-day kids... but I'll never forget how cool it was to me when I was 7 and showed me things no movie had shown me before.
 
My goal this year was to watch pretty much every Hitchcock I hadn't seen and rewatch a bunch of others. I didn't realize this would also line up with TCM doing an early Hitch retrospective. I will save my comments for a bigger series of posts but Blackmail and Murder! were really good. Even by 1929, he had his particular brand of movie well thought out.
I'm interested in your options. The earliest I've gone is the original The Man Who Knew Too Much and hadn't seen the need to go before that.
I have seen The Lodger- 1927. It's a story about a family who come to believe the mysterious man renting a room with them is Jack the Ripper. Visually and thematically it's very Hitchcock. Inventive, suspenseful, dark. This is probably the closest he comes to horror until Psycho. Worth seeing if you have any kind of taste for silent movies.
 
Watched Twisters last night. Kinda just an ok movie. Nothing special. Original was infinitely better.
Coincidentally my wife and I watched this Saturday as well.

Didn't mind it. I was mostly bothered by the girl being 25 and the dude being 40+. Seemed like poor casting.
 
Oh.. right, almost forgot we watched Speak No Evil last night.

Having seen trailers ruined whatever little there was to get from this. Incredibly predictable creep/tension delivery with incredibly predictable character silly actions/reactions driving the plot. Was looking forward to seeing the Halt and Catch Fire reunion of Mackenzie Davis and Scoot McNairy, but their characters were so poor and poorly written I felt like I watching them do Scooby Doo impersonations the whole time.
 
Watched Twisters last night. Kinda just an ok movie. Nothing special. Original was infinitely better.
Coincidentally my wife and I watched this Saturday as well.

Didn't mind it. I was mostly bothered by the girl being 25 and the dude being 40+. Seemed like poor casting.
in real life atleast the actors are 26 and 36
That's my point. Seemed a bit off to me.
A ten years difference doesn’t seem weird to me.
 
Gladiator 2 is streaming on Paramount Plus now. Unfortunately, I am 2/3 of the way through and pointless best describes this. Far too similar to the original and the performances by the 2 Emperors is laughable.
 
Time Bandits (Max): It's a kid's movie, and I loved it as a kid, so I guess it achieved its goal. Watching it for the first time as an adult, the things that were so rad in the 80s (a Minotaur! A sword! A tank!) don't have the power they had back then. Lots of running around bumping into each other and Three Stooges style smacking, often with some yelling and screaming. Evil was funnier than I realized, there were some amusing jokes I didn't recognize when I was young. There's a slight bit of Hellraiser about Evil. I'll never watch it again, and I can't recommend showing it to present-day kids... but I'll never forget how cool it was to me when I was 7 and showed me things no movie had shown me before.
Was not very good. I think we all liked things as a kid that may not hold up as well when we are adults.
 
I thought I had seen The Road but I never did. Damn, that movie is bleak af. Great performances and incredible visuals.
Does the book ever get into how the world collapsed?
 
I thought I had seen The Road but I never did. Damn, that movie is bleak af. Great performances and incredible visuals.
Does the book ever get into how the world collapsed?
I don't think they ever identify the specific cause but it's been a while since I read the book.
 
I thought I had seen The Road but I never did. Damn, that movie is bleak af. Great performances and incredible visuals.
Does the book ever get into how the world collapsed?

Yeah, probably the darkest apocalyptic movie out there. I loved it, but no real desire to watch it again.
 
I thought I had seen The Road but I never did. Damn, that movie is bleak af. Great performances and incredible visuals.
Does the book ever get into how the world collapsed?

Yeah, probably the darkest apocalyptic movie out there. I loved it, but no real desire to watch it again.
Like peewee with the snakes, I keep side eyeing it, and keep avoiding it for the underlying theme- even though I know id like it.
 
I thought I had seen The Road but I never did. Damn, that movie is bleak af. Great performances and incredible visuals.
Does the book ever get into how the world collapsed?

Yeah, probably the darkest apocalyptic movie out there. I loved it, but no real desire to watch it again.
Like peewee with the snakes, I keep side eyeing it, and keep avoiding it for the underlying theme- even though I know id like it.
It's really good and worth checking out but yeah, I doubt I'd watch it again.
I would like to see a "making of" though. Just to see how they captured the stark grayness of it all.
 
I thought I had seen The Road but I never did. Damn, that movie is bleak af. Great performances and incredible visuals.
Does the book ever get into how the world collapsed?

Yeah, probably the darkest apocalyptic movie out there. I loved it, but no real desire to watch it again.
Like peewee with the snakes, I keep side eyeing it, and keep avoiding it for the underlying theme- even though I know id like it.
It's really good and worth checking out but yeah, I doubt I'd watch it again.
I would like to see a "making of" though. Just to see how they captured the stark grayness of it all.
I've only seen the movie once, but weirdly I have read the book multiple times. It's one of my favorites.
 
Watched The Passenger last night. Kid at a fast food joint is being bullied by his coworkers, another coworker steps in
Hijinks ensue
Lot of tense moments, I think this is almost completely linear too (like the 2 main characters are on screen the whole time)
 
Sorry, Wrong Number

Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster

I liked it. It has a lot of elements that I enjoy in a Cohen Brothers movie - in particular a scheme to get ahead goes terribly wrong. A bit melodramatic in parts, but that's the style of the time.

I'm pretty confident in saying that Burt Lancaster deserves remembering much more than he is in comparison to others of the time (Gable and Bogart for example). I'm not sure I've seen anything he's in that I didn't enjoy.
 

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