Ilov80s
Footballguy
It kind of depends for me. Some memories just left a really strong imprint of loving or despising. Others, I watched enough times that even though it has been awhile I still feel very confident in my feelings.
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KarmaPolice
Footballguy
How many times I've seen it matters too. I guess I don't trust my memory enough to still go on my initial thoughts if I've only seen a movie once or twice and it's been a long time. I could give you a general idea of if it's good or bad, but not specific enough to rank it or rate it for project. I will have to for some, as there is not enough time in the day to watch all but I won't be overly confident in my ranking. Raging Bull would be a perfect example of this. Seen it once, probably 15 years ago.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I was thinking about watching that tonight. I remember vaguely seeing it when it came out, thinking it was good, but haven't seen it since.
krista4
Footballguy
Now I know you're just trolling and didn't actually watch the movie.
Kidding, really. I'm more on your side of the aisle when it comes to Risky Business, but...ummmm, yeah, it's a teen movie.
snogger
Footballguy
Yea.. I remember thinking how rich he was to have a disk drive and a phone connection to hook up with WORP.. Aka Joshua.. As all I had was a commodore 64 with a cassette tape to save my programs to.
krista4
Footballguy
I've never watched Star Trek nor seen many of the movies, but I recall enjoying this.
joffer
Footballguy
yikes
The Man With No Name
Footballguy
Watch this https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x75bwhu first and it will set it up
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I realized my mistake after reading 80s' reply.
Now I know you're just trolling and didn't actually watch the movie.
Kidding, really. I'm more on your side of the aisle when it comes to Risky Business, but...ummmm, yeah, it's a teen movie.
When I read "teen" movie, I usually go younger, like 13-14, not 18/19. I was more coming from it on the side that I thought the tone and sex scenes were shot differently, so it didn't really register as the typical teen/16 Candles type movie my brain goes to when I read "teen movie".
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Plus I was probably distracted by thinking all the actors were HS students in the way that 90210 had a bunch of 20-30 year olds playing HS students.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Last night I called an audible, and we re-watched Poltergeist. It was better and worse than I remembered. Forgot about the ghost hand popping out of the TV, so that actually got me last night, but 100% the f/x don't hold up. I also forgot about a kid being eaten by a tree. Still a fun movie though.
Osaurus
Footballguy
It won Oscars, didn’t it?
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
You should watch the episode Space Seed before watching Khan, just to get the back story. You don't really need any more Trek than that to enjoy what is a really great movie regardless of ones level of fandom.
It deals with some deep issues - sincere friendships, feelings of obsolescence borne of old age, regret...
I watched it again just a couple weeks ago. It's still a top 5 personal favorite. I have seen it well over 50 times (I watched it a ton when I was a bit of a Trekker back in the 80's).
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Crash won Oscars, didn't it?
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Osaurus
Footballguy
I’m impressed you looked it up
Ilov80s
Footballguy
A few more epics:
31. The New World ('05) 172 mins: My favorite Malick. An incredible reconstruction of early Jamestown and the life of the Native Powhatan. Q'orianka Kilcher delivers a mesmerizing performance as Pocahontas. For those that watch movies for the story, this is sure to disappoint (as it did at the box office). If you also enjoy movies as sensory experiences, this is one of the best.
32. Cleopatra ('63) 248 mins: You definitely feel the run time of this one. It really would have been better off as a miniseries or broken into 3 parts. With a budget equivalent to $300 million today and every dollar got onto the screen. It's possibly the largest spectacle ever filmed. For Alexandria, they built four 52 feet tall Sphinxes. Their reconstruction of the Roman Forum was 2x the size of the actual Roman Forum. 1000 artisans, technicians and crew people worked on building the massive sets. It's a very long movie with some slow parts but the scenes like Cleopatra's arrival in Rome and the Naval Battle of Actium make it worth it. Some of the truly most epic film making I've ever seen.
33. A Touch Of Zen ('71) 180 mins: Chinese director King Wu's wuxia classic was a first watch for me. It's very much an inspiration on Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon so any recommendation is relative to your appreciation of that movie. There is an especially cool and familiar bamboo forest fight. It's deeply rooted in some Buddhist ideas, a Chinese fairy tale and an East Asian view of ghosts. That made it a little more challenging for me to fully follow and understand but it's endless entertaining with no shortage of action and the director has a ton of flair.
31. The New World ('05) 172 mins: My favorite Malick. An incredible reconstruction of early Jamestown and the life of the Native Powhatan. Q'orianka Kilcher delivers a mesmerizing performance as Pocahontas. For those that watch movies for the story, this is sure to disappoint (as it did at the box office). If you also enjoy movies as sensory experiences, this is one of the best.
32. Cleopatra ('63) 248 mins: You definitely feel the run time of this one. It really would have been better off as a miniseries or broken into 3 parts. With a budget equivalent to $300 million today and every dollar got onto the screen. It's possibly the largest spectacle ever filmed. For Alexandria, they built four 52 feet tall Sphinxes. Their reconstruction of the Roman Forum was 2x the size of the actual Roman Forum. 1000 artisans, technicians and crew people worked on building the massive sets. It's a very long movie with some slow parts but the scenes like Cleopatra's arrival in Rome and the Naval Battle of Actium make it worth it. Some of the truly most epic film making I've ever seen.
33. A Touch Of Zen ('71) 180 mins: Chinese director King Wu's wuxia classic was a first watch for me. It's very much an inspiration on Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon so any recommendation is relative to your appreciation of that movie. There is an especially cool and familiar bamboo forest fight. It's deeply rooted in some Buddhist ideas, a Chinese fairy tale and an East Asian view of ghosts. That made it a little more challenging for me to fully follow and understand but it's endless entertaining with no shortage of action and the director has a ton of flair.
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nirad3
Footballguy
Y'all...... The Gray Man was a solid surprise.
Never really been much of a Ryan Gosling fan but he's an underrated action star in the making I think. Just low-key enough to exude some "cool" while still being a badass.
Billy Bob was great as his mentor and uhhh the German agent?
And Chris Evans was an absolute gem as the bad guy.
Plot was forgettable, but do you really need one in an action flick like this?
Solid 4.5/5 for me. Seems like one of those movies I will watch again in 5-6 years and still enjoy.
Never really been much of a Ryan Gosling fan but he's an underrated action star in the making I think. Just low-key enough to exude some "cool" while still being a badass.
Billy Bob was great as his mentor and uhhh the German agent?
And Chris Evans was an absolute gem as the bad guy.
Plot was forgettable, but do you really need one in an action flick like this?
Solid 4.5/5 for me. Seems like one of those movies I will watch again in 5-6 years and still enjoy.
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
Everything Everywhere All all Once was disappointing for me. I though it would be exactly what I typically enjoy in a good sci fi. It was way goofier than I like. In the end, I think it is probably best viewed as primarily a movie about the relationship between a mother and daughter. All the multiverse/sci fi elements can be seen as secondary, if not completely allegorical.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
The Rescue was phenomenal. Haven’t seen Thirteen Lives, but I’m tempering my expectations. Looking forward to Thai Cave Rescue, a 6-episode series coming out on Netflix in September. The soccer kids apparently are in it more. Our daughter lived in Thailand near there for a year, so we have a bit more interest in the story than most.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
I'm so deep into the original series it's hard for me to comprehend what it would be like seeing Wrath Of Khan cold. I think your take is good. It would help to be familiar with the characters going in, but I think it works as a stand alone film. I haven't seen it in a while, I think the story holds up as a space action flick, the special effects are of their time - first Star Wars trilogy quality. And the William Shatner you get is just about peak caricature spawning William Shatner - you'll have to accept that or you'll have some trouble with the film.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
I haven't seen Escape from NY in a while, but I mostly agree with your opinion. It was a really enjoyable movie around the time of its release, but the production quality definitely doesn't hold up. I like the premise, and I like a lot of the acting performances, but mostly it's about the one liners and especially Snake Pliskin. Part of me wants to see a redo, but part of me is thinking you can't really separate Kurt Russel from that character (and I don't think he could pull it off at this stage of his career, I've no interest in deep faking a young Russel either).
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Giant
HBOMax (1956)
I had never seen this before, I think I lead into this because of Liz Taylor in Ivanhoe. It took me 3 nights to watch this (it's long 3 hours and 21 minutes). Maybe that colored my perception, as by the end the adjective that came to mind to describe this was ponderous. Which I guess kind of fits the title, but probably wasn't what was intended. The pacing is glacial at times without adding anything appreciable in the bargain. There are a lot of themes at play, too many to give any one of them adequate treatment - racism, feminism, class struggle, transition from old west to new west, marriage, family, greed and corruption. I think the movie suffers a bit as a result. There's some character development for a handful of characters, most notably Bick (played by Rock Hudson), and I like that they don't completely leave their old selves behind.
The racism, marriage, and family themes were the ones that were most fully developed. The discrimination and bigotry of Texan caucasians against Mexicans stood out the most and was surprisingly harshly depicted given the era in which this movie was produced. I have not read the source material, the movie does not paint a pleasant picture of Texas, so I wonder what the author's internal bias was.
The acting is pretty uniformly solid, if not always inspiring. The stand out to me was a young Dennis Hopper as Jordy (son of Leslie and Bick (Jordan) Bennett), he was alive, vibrant and real in ways most of the other characters/actors weren't. It was hard to buy Liz Taylor as Dennis Hopper's mom, though the makeup department did a really good job of aging down/up much of the cast over the course of the movie - Hopper was 4 years younger than Taylor IRL. James Dean was o.k., similarly with Rock Hudson - I was expecting more from both for some reason. I didn't think it'd be possible to vie with a young Liz Taylor in the beauty/sexiness department, but Carroll Baker did (as Luz, the youngest daughter of Leslie and Bick), here again Baker was born a year EARLIER than Liz IRL, so some dissonance there. Baker wasn't just sexy eye candy though, she brought both innocence and wisdom beyond her character's years to the role.
This only won one Academy Award (for best director) of its 10 nominations. Many have viewed that as a big mistake, but on seeing this movie for the first time in 2022, I'm not sure that was as big a crime as some make it out to be. I don't know that this is a must see for anyone but movie historian types. Maybe there are things I missed, or the appreciation lagged due to watching it over 3 evenings, I'm sure someone will be along shortly to set me straight...
HBOMax (1956)
I had never seen this before, I think I lead into this because of Liz Taylor in Ivanhoe. It took me 3 nights to watch this (it's long 3 hours and 21 minutes). Maybe that colored my perception, as by the end the adjective that came to mind to describe this was ponderous. Which I guess kind of fits the title, but probably wasn't what was intended. The pacing is glacial at times without adding anything appreciable in the bargain. There are a lot of themes at play, too many to give any one of them adequate treatment - racism, feminism, class struggle, transition from old west to new west, marriage, family, greed and corruption. I think the movie suffers a bit as a result. There's some character development for a handful of characters, most notably Bick (played by Rock Hudson), and I like that they don't completely leave their old selves behind.
The racism, marriage, and family themes were the ones that were most fully developed. The discrimination and bigotry of Texan caucasians against Mexicans stood out the most and was surprisingly harshly depicted given the era in which this movie was produced. I have not read the source material, the movie does not paint a pleasant picture of Texas, so I wonder what the author's internal bias was.
The acting is pretty uniformly solid, if not always inspiring. The stand out to me was a young Dennis Hopper as Jordy (son of Leslie and Bick (Jordan) Bennett), he was alive, vibrant and real in ways most of the other characters/actors weren't. It was hard to buy Liz Taylor as Dennis Hopper's mom, though the makeup department did a really good job of aging down/up much of the cast over the course of the movie - Hopper was 4 years younger than Taylor IRL. James Dean was o.k., similarly with Rock Hudson - I was expecting more from both for some reason. I didn't think it'd be possible to vie with a young Liz Taylor in the beauty/sexiness department, but Carroll Baker did (as Luz, the youngest daughter of Leslie and Bick), here again Baker was born a year EARLIER than Liz IRL, so some dissonance there. Baker wasn't just sexy eye candy though, she brought both innocence and wisdom beyond her character's years to the role.
This only won one Academy Award (for best director) of its 10 nominations. Many have viewed that as a big mistake, but on seeing this movie for the first time in 2022, I'm not sure that was as big a crime as some make it out to be. I don't know that this is a must see for anyone but movie historian types. Maybe there are things I missed, or the appreciation lagged due to watching it over 3 evenings, I'm sure someone will be along shortly to set me straight...
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Gr00vus
Footballguy
I'd love to see your thoughts on those things.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I don’t think you are off on any analysis. It’s pretty spot on except for:
1. I very much enjoy the movie. I wouldn’t call it a classic but it’s really a quality movie imo. I don’t get bored watching it. I appreciate the way George Stevens takes his time.
2. James Dean steals the movie for me. He’s electric in it.
I also would highlight the best scene of the movie is the return home from the war. Particularly when Sal Mineo is expected home and the train passes by revealing his casket. That’s really the turning point of the film in my opinion. Gut wrenching stuff. Knowing he’s a second class citizen but he saw himself as an American and sacrificed his life for the country.
The book was very controversial in Texas and the production of the movie was met with a ton of resistance. However the movie was immensely popular in Texas (and across the country). It’s really quite ahead of it’s time with how it deals with racism and feminism.
It’s pretty cool to read about the impact that the movie had on Marfa, Texas. Stevens ran a totally open set for anyone in the city. The extras are all townspeople. James Dean hung out at the local bars and gave Cokes out to the local kids. They really embraced the town and the town loved them back. This was at a time the local school was working to kill the Spanish language. The local school went as far as to hold a funeral for Spanish where all the little kids brought Spanish dictionaries, etc to bury. Interestingly enough, to this day the cemetery in town are still segregated by a barbed wire fence.
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Gr00vus
Footballguy
I didn't mean to imply I thought the movie was bad. I think I had built it up into some sort of masterpiece in my head based on what I'd heard about it, and it turned out to be not quite a classic. I think there's a great movie in there somewhere, but the end result was a bit too sprawling and drawn out to be great. I enjoy lingering shots and languid cinematography when it's done well, and there is some of that in this. But other times it felt like scenes dragged too long for no real reason, the gaps between dialog deliveries seemed unnatural at points.
I found James Dean's performance uneven. There were times he seemed to be unable to convey any particular emotion where the scene seemed to be calling out for one, his scrunched up squint was often inscrutable to me. At other points he was indeed electric. His oil discovery scene was great for instance.
I agree, that scene with Angel being brought home really hit hard. The juxtaposition of that with the scenes depicting the state of his village, the beauty parlor scene, the diner scene, and others are what made me feel the racism/bigotry theme was one of the most effectively developed themes in the film. Again the problem being there was a lot of movie between all those scenes, so some of that impact was reduced a bit.
I found James Dean's performance uneven. There were times he seemed to be unable to convey any particular emotion where the scene seemed to be calling out for one, his scrunched up squint was often inscrutable to me. At other points he was indeed electric. His oil discovery scene was great for instance.
I agree, that scene with Angel being brought home really hit hard. The juxtaposition of that with the scenes depicting the state of his village, the beauty parlor scene, the diner scene, and others are what made me feel the racism/bigotry theme was one of the most effectively developed themes in the film. Again the problem being there was a lot of movie between all those scenes, so some of that impact was reduced a bit.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Yes, a very good prequel to the Predator movies.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Yeah, I watched that the other night and it was a heck of an action flick. Great job balancing CGI with practical. I love they actually built the predator suit.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
House of Gucci
What the #### did I just watch?
What the #### did I just watch?
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
And now, here's my impression of Jared Leto (and most of the actors in the movie):
"I'm-a gonna tell-a you-a story-a about-a my-a mother."
This movie would have been far better if they had cast actual Italians in these roles.
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
"Little people" as in midgets?
Ilov80s
Footballguy
But then it wouldn’t have been so funny.
Mile High
Footballguy
Best action movie I've seen in awhile. It really is a heck of an action flick. Once the action starts its non stop to the end. To bad it wasn't able to be seen in a packed movie theater
CGRdrJoe
Footballguy
midgets and dwarves
I rewatched this a few months ago. Excellent movie. Both Farrell and Gleeson were great.
Mr. Mojo
Footballguy
Ponderous describes the second half perfectly. I liked the first half but it just goes off the rails later. The fact that it still gets a 4 star rating is just silly.
CGRdrJoe
Footballguy
i’m looking forward to rewatching, such amazing dialog and some of the lines went over my head (thick accents at times) but so damn witty and funny
The Man With No Name
Footballguy
It will be in theaters September 4th and 5th https://www.fathomevents.com/events/Star-Trek-II-The-Wrath-of-Khan-40th-Anniversary-presented-by-TCM
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Almost done with my epic summer film fest
35. Veer-Zaara ('04) 192 mins: After finding RRR quite interesting, I realized that it was the first Indian film I had seen so I wanted to choose another for the list. I found good reviews for this and most importantly, it was streaming on Prime. Glad I found it, such a delightful find. The music is very good and the leads are super charismatic. It absolutely delivers a sweet, hopeful and epic love story. Think of it like a more pure, innocent The English Patient (minus the desert) and : a man imprisoned for 22 years has been silent his entire time. When a young lawyer comes to help him, he tells her the story of his life as a part of the Indian Air Force, the beautiful woman he rescued and how it set him down the path of his current imprisonment.
36. The Green Knight ('21) 130 mins: Very much a weird A24 King Athur era movie. It looks great, they absolutely know how to stage and shoot a period piece. Good movie, didn't love it but I appreciate the all out eeriness of it. I much prefer this to The Northman and am interested to see where the director David Lowery goes from here.
35. Veer-Zaara ('04) 192 mins: After finding RRR quite interesting, I realized that it was the first Indian film I had seen so I wanted to choose another for the list. I found good reviews for this and most importantly, it was streaming on Prime. Glad I found it, such a delightful find. The music is very good and the leads are super charismatic. It absolutely delivers a sweet, hopeful and epic love story. Think of it like a more pure, innocent The English Patient (minus the desert) and : a man imprisoned for 22 years has been silent his entire time. When a young lawyer comes to help him, he tells her the story of his life as a part of the Indian Air Force, the beautiful woman he rescued and how it set him down the path of his current imprisonment.
36. The Green Knight ('21) 130 mins: Very much a weird A24 King Athur era movie. It looks great, they absolutely know how to stage and shoot a period piece. Good movie, didn't love it but I appreciate the all out eeriness of it. I much prefer this to The Northman and am interested to see where the director David Lowery goes from here.
On The Rocks
Footballguy
The Nightingale (Hulu)
I watched it because I was told it was a good revenge movie. Ok, sure it's a good revenge movie but getting through the scenes that led to the said revenge are tough to watch.
I watched it because I was told it was a good revenge movie. Ok, sure it's a good revenge movie but getting through the scenes that led to the said revenge are tough to watch.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Nice. I think my copy of Casablanca is a DVD from 2003. Well-overdue for an upgrade to my collection.
wazoo11
Footballguy
Bioshock being developed into a movie
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Francis Lawrence to go from Hunger Games to video games, will direct Netflix’s BioShock movie
Francis Lawrence to go from Hunger Games to video games, will direct Netflix’s BioShock movie
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Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
The Captain (Der Hauptmann) - recommended
In the final two months of WWII a German deserter private happens on the uniform of a captain and assumes the role of such. This ironically leads to him ordering the execution of deserters in a prison camp.
The film looks at ideas like the absurdity of "legality" of the killing and chain of command. But really it shows how far a con man with some nerves can go.
Apparently there's a 4 hour cut out there somewhere. But this 2 hour cut was definitely enough.
In the final two months of WWII a German deserter private happens on the uniform of a captain and assumes the role of such. This ironically leads to him ordering the execution of deserters in a prison camp.
The film looks at ideas like the absurdity of "legality" of the killing and chain of command. But really it shows how far a con man with some nerves can go.
Apparently there's a 4 hour cut out there somewhere. But this 2 hour cut was definitely enough.
