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The OxBow Incident (1943) I am surprised at how little Fonda was actually on the screen, but when he was, he nailed the righteous man as usual. This would make a great double feature with 12 Angry Men.  It's a really good but predictable Western mob trial. 

On to the next TCM film on the DVR, making room in Brando's pants. 

 
Just finished The Champ (1931). It was up for Best Picture, won Actor and Story. Damn that really did hold up well. The story is a familiar one: drunk down and out boxer raising kid, trying to the kid right but usually failing. What makes the movie is the quality of the acting and chemistry between Wallace Berry and Jackie Cooper (the former champ and his young son). I've seen some King Vidor silent films before and I was a fan. Here Vidor moves the camera like a pro and gets some really interesting impressive shots for 1931. I will definitely watch this one again. 

 
jdoggydogg said:
This is excellent:

Do the wrong thing: 90 years, 90 movies that should have been nominated for Best Picture
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Make Way For Tomorrow/Brief Encounter - both are sad, bittersweet, and absolutely great

Wild Bunch/OUATIA - Both are at or near the top movies of their genre

Only Angels Have Wings - kind of a bore

The Third Man - need to watch again. The famous score annoyed the heck out of me.

Blue Velvet - terrible

Ace In The Hole - just checked out from the library yesterday

 
Wonder Woman has been on HBO so I've caught it again in full once and in pieces a bunch of times.  There is no doubt in my mind that Gal Gadot is the most beautiful creature on this planet, and second place isn't close.  Even God is up there looking at her going, dayum I'm good.

But honestly, while I really liked this movie on first viewing, it doesn't hold up very well.  The DC everything is dark and depressing is just annoying, David Thewlis is a solid actor but just doesn't pull off being an actual all powerful God at all, the woman that played the gas doctor was very convincing but the shrill laughing scene when they gassed the German high command was out of place and stupid, and the every dang thing being in slow motion is just overdone to the point of annoyance.

Maybe I'm grumpy today.  I'll still pay to see the sequel.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
Wonder Woman has been on HBO so I've caught it again in full once and in pieces a bunch of times.  There is no doubt in my mind that Gal Gadot is the most beautiful creature on this planet, and second place isn't close.  Even God is up there looking at her going, dayum I'm good.

But honestly, while I really liked this movie on first viewing, it doesn't hold up very well.  The DC everything is dark and depressing is just annoying, David Thewlis is a solid actor but just doesn't pull off being an actual all powerful God at all, the woman that played the gas doctor was very convincing but the shrill laughing scene when they gassed the German high command was out of place and stupid, and the every dang thing being in slow motion is just overdone to the point of annoyance.

Maybe I'm grumpy today.  I'll still pay to see the sequel.
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Gal Gadot could be in a Woody Allen movie and I'd watch it.

About the ONLY way I'd watch an Allen movie, actually.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
Wonder Woman has been on HBO so I've caught it again in full once and in pieces a bunch of times.  There is no doubt in my mind that Gal Gadot is the most beautiful creature on this planet, and second place isn't close.  Even God is up there looking at her going, dayum I'm good.

But honestly, while I really liked this movie on first viewing, it doesn't hold up very well.  The DC everything is dark and depressing is just annoying, David Thewlis is a solid actor but just doesn't pull off being an actual all powerful God at all, the woman that played the gas doctor was very convincing but the shrill laughing scene when they gassed the German high command was out of place and stupid, and the every dang thing being in slow motion is just overdone to the point of annoyance.

Maybe I'm grumpy today.  I'll still pay to see the sequel.
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Nope, you are just coming to your senses.  ;)

 
jdoggydogg said:
See, I love the Noir genre. But I think the zither is terrible in that movie. Totally detracts from the suspense. 
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Crazy. The movie wants you to feel off-kilter: Dutch angle overload, untranslated dialogue and a totally unexpected score. It’s all trying to make the movie feel a bit surreal and confusing. 

 
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jdoggydogg said:
See, I love the Noir genre. But I think the zither is terrible in that movie. Totally detracts from the suspense. 
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Weird to think that Cary Grant and Noel Coward were supposed to play the roles given to Cotten and Welles. One story I read, long ago, was that supposedly the concern that Selznick had with the casting of those two - Grant and Coward - was it would come across as too homoerotic. Personally, I think "Third Man" is a kind of treatise on friendship that I've appreciated in other iterations (Martin Amis' "The Information", is a fine example) but is rarely depicted in film.

 
BroncoFreak_2K3 said:
Hostiles

Really intense throughout. Thought it was really well done. Thought this was one of Bales top performances ever. Cinematography was off the charts.

8/10
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Just saw this. I also enjoyed it - but its 2 hours of slow, brutal misery broken up by moments of extreme violence. Its unrelenting in its misery. But well done.

 
Ilov80s said:
Crazy. The movie wants you to feel off-kilter: Dutch anger overload, untranslated dialogue and a totally unexpected score. It’s all trying to make the movie feel a bit surreal and confusing. 
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For me, it makes the movie feel like a Monty Python skit.

 
Logan Lucky

I went into watching this with no expectations and thoroughly enjoyed it.  Nothing to think about.  It was fun and entertaining.

Swimming with the Sharks

Getting my 90's movie list on.  I've always liked this movie.  I don't know.....I think Michelle Forbes is a horrible rental piece actress, and I've never really cared for Kevin Spacey, but Frank Whaley makes this movie and for it's  time, this movie was a keeper for me.  Depending on what else is on the list in 94 or 95, this one will probably make my list with 1 point just for kicks. 

 
Yankee23Fan said:
But honestly, while I really liked this movie on first viewing, it doesn't hold up very well.  The DC everything is dark and depressing is just annoying
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That's why almost all of the DC stuff doesn't age well.  Even The Dark Knight has limited rewatchability, and that's attributable to an out of this world performance by Ledger.  Sure, every now and then I'll take a trip down nostalgia lane to check out the original Superman or Nicholson's Joker, but the new stuff just bums me out.  (old man shakes fist at clouds)

 
gump said:
Randomly looking at Best Scores Ever rankings...why is the top 20 always pre-90?
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@gump

1.  What list are you looking at?

2.  Older movies have had longer to be mulled over, rewatched, etc... plus if it's a critic's list most of them are probably older than us, so that was their era for getting their love on for movies.

3.  What do you have against pre-90s movies? ;)

 
KarmaPolice said:
@gump

1.  What list are you looking at?

2.  Older movies have had longer to be mulled over, rewatched, etc... plus if it's a critic's list most of them are probably older than us, so that was their era for getting their love on for movies.

3.  What do you have against pre-90s movies? ;)
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Just googled and started clicking...AFI and a bunch of randoms...not the best topic i guess! Just wondering if that's meaningless, or if movie making is just different now (other than being worse ;)  ).

 
gump said:
Just googled and started clicking...AFI and a bunch of randoms...not the best topic i guess! Just wondering if that's meaningless, or if movie making is just different now (other than being worse ;)  ).
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Gotcha.  Yeah, I point to #2 for a lot of those reasons.   IMO yes, the system is slightly different now, mostly due to the high cost of going to the movie and the low cost of having a pretty damn good system at home, but not enough to have a list where 90% of the best movies made are 30+ years old.  

 
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - anyone watched this lately? How did a $10M movie become so iconic and significant? Definitely not the acting. Or effects. Just a beautiful story of a boy and his alien? Would love @wikkidpissah 's opinion.

 
gump said:
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - anyone watched this lately? How did a $10M movie become so iconic and significant? Definitely not the acting. Or effects. Just a beautiful story of a boy and his alien? Would love @wikkidpissah 's opinion.
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I think this happened for two (related) reasons, and it wasn't just with E.T., but a lot of 80s movies:

The explosion of cable TV and increasingly cheap VCRs. For the first time, we could watch and rewatch movies as many times as we wanted. 

 
gump said:
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - anyone watched this lately? How did a $10M movie become so iconic and significant? Definitely not the acting. Or effects. Just a beautiful story of a boy and his alien? Would love @wikkidpissah 's opinion.
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a love story between a boy and the monster under his bed? a natural -

 
Uruk-Hai said:
I think this happened for two (related) reasons, and it wasn't just with E.T., but a lot of 80s movies:

The explosion of cable TV and increasingly cheap VCRs. For the first time, we could watch and rewatch movies as many times as we wanted. 
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Yeah but E.T was in theaters for like a whole year

 
gump said:
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - anyone watched this lately? How did a $10M movie become so iconic and significant? Definitely not the acting. Or effects. Just a beautiful story of a boy and his alien? Would love @wikkidpissah 's opinion.
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This was one of my favorites at the time it was out, but it feels pretty dated today, though still good.

I think that they have made many movies like it since it came out, so the novelty of it isn't there anymore.

 
I just can't even with you people... :angry:

The Cloverfield Paradox - 6/10

What's not derivative is nonsensical. Skip it.

Knife in the Water - 6.5/10

Early Polanski is sort of interesting as an examination of relationships and masculinity and femininity...but is ultimately uninteresting in 2018.

 
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