Andy Dufresne
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Surprisingly, Happy Gilmore 2 isn't as bad as I thought it'd be.
It's actually worse.
It's actually worse.
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identikit
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Interesting mix of movies yesterday. Started some 60s research with Winter Light. Bergman knows how to set that cheerful mood for a day of film. Next was Raising Arizona and Sinners. I am going to do a slow Coen brothers dive and get to a few I haven't tried yet like Barton Fink and Hudsucker Proxy. Sinners I really liked for the first 1/2 to 2/3 of the movie but didn't like it as much when the **** hits the fan. Fun movie that would have been a blast at the theater.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
"Yep" on Sinners. It was unique and then it was a pretty standard vampire movie.
I like Barton Fink, even if it doesn't make total sense. It's very much metaphoric.
Hudsucker Proxy I didn't care much for
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I think it was about the time of the Irish jig that the movie lost me.
Eephus
Footballguy
Monthly dump of the stuff I watched in August
Fargo (1996 - J. Coen & E. Coen)
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938 - E. Lubitsch)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992 - D. Lynch)
Two For the Road (1967 - S. Donen)
Nixon (1996 - O. Stone)
Presence (2024 - S. Soderbergh)
The Sound of Music (1965 - R. Wise)
Parthenope (2024 - P. Sorrentino)
Voodoo Man (1944 - W. Beaudine)
Teenage Zombies (1959 - J. Warren)
Ronin (1998 - J. Frankenheimer)
Passage to Marseilles (1944 - M. Curtiz)
Jungle Fever (1991 - S. Lee)
Support Your Local Sheriff (1969 - B. Kennedy)
Modesty Blaise (1966 - J. Losey)
Billy Budd (1962 - P. Ustinov)
The Amateur (2025 - J. Hawes)
The Amateur (1981 - C. Jarrott)
Better Man (2024 - M. Gracey)
The Penguin Lessons (2024 - P. Cattaneo)
Mother (2007 - Bong J-h)
Dead Ringers (1988 - D. Cronenberg)
Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What You're Made Of (2015 - S. Kijak)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008 - G. del Toro)
24 movies and I think I've written up six here already (Parthenope, Presence, Better Man, The Penguin Lessons and the two Amateurs).
I went in with some apprehensions after Hudsucker was a big letdown last month but Fargo holds up really well. Great performances, tight storytelling and a great sense of place.
Bluebeard's Eight Wife was a Lubitsch/Wilder/Brackett film I'd never seen. It had some funny scenes but was kind of disappointing overall. I much prefer Gary Cooper in dramatic roles rather than light comedy like this one.
I remembered the Twin Peaks movie as being better 30 years ago. It lacked the proper balance of melodrama, oddball comedy and Lynchian weirdness of the TV show.
Two For the Road was a dated 60s romcom with Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney that intercuts scenes of the couple over a decade. The narrative gimmick didn't work IMO but it was the only interesting thing about the movie other than Hepburn's costumes.
I didn't realize Nixon was three hours long until I was already an hour in. It was a slog but had some fine performances.
The Sound of Music was one of the first movies I can remember seeing as a kid. It's a delightful film with beautiful scenery.
Voodoo Man and Teenage Zombies were the selections my nieces made for scary movie night at a family get together in a Northwoods cabin. Voodoo Man with Bela Lugosi was the better of the two; it was ridiculous and campy but Teenage Zombies was straight-up garbage.
Ronin still has the great car chases but the story and characters seemed much less consequential this time around.
Passage to Marseilles is a propagandish WWII movie with Humphrey Bogart as a French patriot. It's notable for its multiple layers of flashbacks that made more sense going in than coming out.
I hadn't watched Jungle Fever since Mrs. Eephus and I hated it in the theaters back in the day. It hasn't improved any with age and may in fact be worse.
Support Your Local Sheriff is a pretty good parody of the genre. It's silly but still fun and James Garner is perfect in it.
We watched two movies starring Terence Stamp (RIP). Billy Budd was his debut and he easily held his own with a great cast led by Peter Ustinov and Robert Ryan. It's a superior adaptation of Melville's novella set entirely at sea. Five stars, great film. Modesty Blaise is all swinging sixties style with little story to speak of. Stamp plays a working class spy but gets overshadowed by Monica Vitti as Modesty. The movie is an early example of the sexy female assassin genre that's all over the place these days.
Mother is a Bong Joon-ho film I'd never seen before. It's an interesting story full of twists that kept me engaged.
I'm usually not a big horror guy but I liked Dead Ringers (like may be a poor verb choice). Jeremy Irons performance(s) were great and Cronenberg kept the suspense up until the end.
I lost the family movie night vote and watched The Backstreet Boys documentary with the ladies. Their story was kind of interesting but it would have been better with a CGI monkey.
Hellboy II didn't hold up for me. It's such an effects-driven movie and time hasn't been kind to some of them. It's still visually inventive as del Toro always is but the plot was more formulaic than I remembered.
Fargo (1996 - J. Coen & E. Coen)
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938 - E. Lubitsch)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992 - D. Lynch)
Two For the Road (1967 - S. Donen)
Nixon (1996 - O. Stone)
Presence (2024 - S. Soderbergh)
The Sound of Music (1965 - R. Wise)
Parthenope (2024 - P. Sorrentino)
Voodoo Man (1944 - W. Beaudine)
Teenage Zombies (1959 - J. Warren)
Ronin (1998 - J. Frankenheimer)
Passage to Marseilles (1944 - M. Curtiz)
Jungle Fever (1991 - S. Lee)
Support Your Local Sheriff (1969 - B. Kennedy)
Modesty Blaise (1966 - J. Losey)
Billy Budd (1962 - P. Ustinov)
The Amateur (2025 - J. Hawes)
The Amateur (1981 - C. Jarrott)
Better Man (2024 - M. Gracey)
The Penguin Lessons (2024 - P. Cattaneo)
Mother (2007 - Bong J-h)
Dead Ringers (1988 - D. Cronenberg)
Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What You're Made Of (2015 - S. Kijak)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008 - G. del Toro)
24 movies and I think I've written up six here already (Parthenope, Presence, Better Man, The Penguin Lessons and the two Amateurs).
I went in with some apprehensions after Hudsucker was a big letdown last month but Fargo holds up really well. Great performances, tight storytelling and a great sense of place.
Bluebeard's Eight Wife was a Lubitsch/Wilder/Brackett film I'd never seen. It had some funny scenes but was kind of disappointing overall. I much prefer Gary Cooper in dramatic roles rather than light comedy like this one.
I remembered the Twin Peaks movie as being better 30 years ago. It lacked the proper balance of melodrama, oddball comedy and Lynchian weirdness of the TV show.
Two For the Road was a dated 60s romcom with Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney that intercuts scenes of the couple over a decade. The narrative gimmick didn't work IMO but it was the only interesting thing about the movie other than Hepburn's costumes.
I didn't realize Nixon was three hours long until I was already an hour in. It was a slog but had some fine performances.
The Sound of Music was one of the first movies I can remember seeing as a kid. It's a delightful film with beautiful scenery.
Voodoo Man and Teenage Zombies were the selections my nieces made for scary movie night at a family get together in a Northwoods cabin. Voodoo Man with Bela Lugosi was the better of the two; it was ridiculous and campy but Teenage Zombies was straight-up garbage.
Ronin still has the great car chases but the story and characters seemed much less consequential this time around.
Passage to Marseilles is a propagandish WWII movie with Humphrey Bogart as a French patriot. It's notable for its multiple layers of flashbacks that made more sense going in than coming out.
I hadn't watched Jungle Fever since Mrs. Eephus and I hated it in the theaters back in the day. It hasn't improved any with age and may in fact be worse.
Support Your Local Sheriff is a pretty good parody of the genre. It's silly but still fun and James Garner is perfect in it.
We watched two movies starring Terence Stamp (RIP). Billy Budd was his debut and he easily held his own with a great cast led by Peter Ustinov and Robert Ryan. It's a superior adaptation of Melville's novella set entirely at sea. Five stars, great film. Modesty Blaise is all swinging sixties style with little story to speak of. Stamp plays a working class spy but gets overshadowed by Monica Vitti as Modesty. The movie is an early example of the sexy female assassin genre that's all over the place these days.
Mother is a Bong Joon-ho film I'd never seen before. It's an interesting story full of twists that kept me engaged.
I'm usually not a big horror guy but I liked Dead Ringers (like may be a poor verb choice). Jeremy Irons performance(s) were great and Cronenberg kept the suspense up until the end.
I lost the family movie night vote and watched The Backstreet Boys documentary with the ladies. Their story was kind of interesting but it would have been better with a CGI monkey.
Hellboy II didn't hold up for me. It's such an effects-driven movie and time hasn't been kind to some of them. It's still visually inventive as del Toro always is but the plot was more formulaic than I remembered.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
but then again, who wouldn't?
Ilov80s
Footballguy
and I agree Gary Cooper in comedy doesn't work at all. The one exception is Ball of Fire but I feel like he doesn't realize it's even a comedy which is why it works. For me, he's the most overrated golden age actor. Very stiff and bland. I don't know what Tony Soprano was thinking when he missed him so much.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Oddly enough, Winter Light might be my favorite Bergman but I don't care for First Reformed which is so clearly based on Winter Light. What did you think of Raising Arizona? Yeah Sinners was great in the theater and I get what you are saying about the last 1/3 being kind of generic but I liked that payoff. It kind of gave the audience everything.
Eephus
Footballguy
Cary Grant in High Noon would hit differently though
Eephus
Footballguy
I'm kind of afraid to go back and re-watch but I found You Don't Mess with the Zohan very funny
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Yeah Grant swapping for Cooper in Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon would make sense and improve the movie but for High Noon, give me Joel McCrea or Randolph Scott.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I really liked Winter Light, but I've also liked most of his movies I've seen besides a couple very early ones. Reading his autobiography has made going through his movies more rewarding, and there are a couple key ones in the 60s I haven't seen yet. The other slight knock on Sinners for me is that what is turns into is one of my least favorite sub genres/monsters. Get Out got a similar reaction from me as it turned into more of a home invasion type of movie at the end and here when it flips I am not as engaged. I did like the ending showing the future and the post credit scene though. In horror I gravitate more to ghosts, occult, body horror type movies when I watch the genre.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Someone just posted about there aren't comedies any more. That **** is funny as hell.
The Gator
Footballguy
Loved it. Odd, but loved it
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
New Naked Gun was OK. The heat scan scene or whatever had me rolling but the rest was just OK
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Weapons- it was fine I guess, maybe my expectations were too high based the lease it got. Kind of disjointed and I never really cared about any of the characters
Don’t get me wrong it was entertaining but nothing overly memorable or groundbreaking
Couple of good gore scenes and the end was pretty entertaining
I’d give it like a 7/10
Don’t get me wrong it was entertaining but nothing overly memorable or groundbreaking
Couple of good gore scenes and the end was pretty entertaining
I’d give it like a 7/10
beer 30
Footballguy
Every year I rewatch 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi around this time. It's a Michael Bay movie so there are cool explosions and dramatics and flashing lights and stuff but I think it encapsulates the actual story as well as any.
Yeah I was disappointed in this. I honestly thought the acting by the police officer through the subway etc was a joke.
Some of the worst acting I have ever seen.
It was just dumb.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Spike should stop remaking Asian classics. What's next, Tokyo Story? In the Mood for Love?
foxco
Footballguy
Liked it a lot.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Honestly, it was the writing on this one.
I know its a Kurosawa remake, but Spike spikified it with flat symbolic characters and writing...and even that not done at all well. It was a real mess.
Eta...looked good though. And a genuine NYC love affair movie.
Eephus
Footballguy
Full Circle, Soderbergh's version of High and Low is pretty interesting. It's more of a take than a remake with many more characters arcing in over the six hour runtime. I should go back for a re-watch because there was so much going on during my first viewing.
I've watched three of Spike's joynts this year and haven't liked any of them.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Spike Lee’s quality is all over the place. He has some really bad movies.
Eephus
Footballguy
So what are his great ones? Do the Right Thing, maybe Malcolm X. I think 25th Hour and Inside Man are a tier down. I remember liking Crooklyn a lot and there are a lot I haven't seen.
His greatest achievement has been surviving as an indie filmmaker for going on 40 years. He's done a lot of very personal projects with distinctive narrative and visual styles.
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Ilov80s
Footballguy
Definitely Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X. Those are both 5 star movies for me. I didn’t like 25th Hour at all. Crookyln is great. I really liked Da 5 Bloods, Inside Man, Clockers and Black Klansman.
El Floppo
Footballguy
I remember liking School Daze a bit.
His movies tend to look great, but the writing and characters are more about flat symbolic stereo/archetypes...kinda like a lot of Chinese film I've seen...that are there to support a bigger "idea" more than be fleshed out characters that draw us in with real relationships that we're supposed to empathize with. Always keeps me at arms distance from the movies. Add in some hackey writing and stuff goes south pdq.
I did too.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I mentioned this in the other Redford threads but why not hear as well: Netflix has The Great Waldo Pepper streaming. It's really good. A bit like Butch Cassidy miinus Paul Newman and replacing horses and robbing banks with plane stunts and illegal airshows.
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
Warzone or Warfare?
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Took awhile but I’ve finally gotten around to Canyon PassageI listened yesterday morning and added 4 or 5 to the ever growing queue. A couple are on Criterion channel that sounded interesting. I think Love Letters and I Know Where I'm Going! for sure were. Others not streaming, so I need to look into the library system - 5 Graves to Cairo and Canyon Passage stand out here.
@Bracie Smathers have you seen this?
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Superman was fun. Nathan Fillion was the best part though.
identikit
Footballguy
Barely made it 20 minutes in
So unserious...yeah I like my superhero stuff to be somewhat realistic. I know that's unrealistic
I guess I'm old
El Floppo
Footballguy
Felt like somebody told chatgpt to write a movie with prompts written by a 13yo
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Superman not being realistic enough is a bizarre complaint. Maybe you just aren't into Superman anymore? Nothing wrong with that, it was a character designed for kids (not saying adults can't like it, don't come at me).
Bracie Smathers
Footballguy
Must have, Dana Andrews and Brian Donlevy along with Susan Heyward ring a bell but can't recall the storyline. The rest of the cast is stacked. Ward Bond, Hogie Carmicheal, Llyod Bridges, and Andy Devine.
Always reminds me of the funny story.
Andy Devine said that after Ward Bond died and he was leaving the ceremony that the ever-irascible director John Ford looked at him and scowled.
"Now you're the biggest Azzhole I know."
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Great anecdote lol. It's a Jacques Tourneur movie, beautiful technicolor and some great on location shooting. It has everything from a Western of the time: shoot outs, bar fights, reluctant hero, Native American attacks, etc. It's pretty impressive all the ground it covers in 92 minutes, you really get a feel for life in Portland and the surrounding area when it's all very muuch the frontier. It feels very lived in and is a bit of a melodrama within the western genre. Hoagy has several songs too. The general story is pretty simple. Andrews likes 2 women and he has a best friend who is getting himself into some trouble. All while living under the threat of Native attack.
Bracie Smathers
Footballguy
Used to live across the river from Portland.
Yeah, I've seen it, but it has been a long time. Definitely remember Hogie at the piano.
El Floppo
Footballguy
I know you're responding to identikit, but for me it just felt goofily and badly written with tone trying too hard to be too SM cutesy/yuckster. It all added up to me genuinely not giving a crap about any of it.
identikit
Footballguy
Superman seemed like a whiny ***** to me in this one
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Ilov80s
Footballguy
I’ve never care for Superman. Even as a kid when I sort of liked some superhero stuff.
Tick
Footballguy
Stolen Time (2025) - Fawesome. First off, some service seems to have renamed themselves as Fawesome. This is… prepare yourself… an Austrian/Czech western time travel movie. It has an 8.4 on IMDB, which is an incredible rating… but only 550 people have rated it. I’ve been bitten by this before, and it bit me again here. This felt like it might have been a coherent 3 hour movie cut down to an 85 minute mess. Just no explanation for anything, some weird fairy witch/alien (?) who show up, somehow showing us that a guy shooting his brother’s killer in a duel somehow didn’t fall prey to taking vengeance, therefore breaking some paradox that we’ve never seen. This suuuuucks. Only watch it if you promise to rate it accurately at IMDB.
beer 30
Footballguy
The World Will Tremble (2025) - saw this on Prime and gotta say, very solid film. Depicts one of the first and few Jewish prisoners to escape and early Nazi death camp to try to get word out to the world in 1942 about what was happening. Great story, good acting, just the right amount of time to tell the story. Good watch
Blackhat (2015) - Meh. Guess I was expecting a little more with Chris Hemsworth as the lead. Was okay, enough action to keep you going but plenty of suspension of disbelief as well.
Blackhat (2015) - Meh. Guess I was expecting a little more with Chris Hemsworth as the lead. Was okay, enough action to keep you going but plenty of suspension of disbelief as well.
BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
Masters of the Universe (1987)-I knew it wasn't going to be very good and it wasn't but I also didn't think it was horrible. 
Gotta love that 80's product placement. I've seen a few episodes (of the cartoon) and I had thought it was more of a sword and sandal Medieval type fantasy thing-I don't really remember them having laser guns so I was confused but I don't know about the lore. I remember my cousin being big into He-Man and he had the playsets and toys and all.
Did you guys know that they are doing a remake?
They are doing a remake of this too. I guess the summer of 2026 will be rise of the dead IPs.
Gotta love that 80's product placement. I've seen a few episodes (of the cartoon) and I had thought it was more of a sword and sandal Medieval type fantasy thing-I don't really remember them having laser guns so I was confused but I don't know about the lore. I remember my cousin being big into He-Man and he had the playsets and toys and all.Did you guys know that they are doing a remake?
Which I think is sweet and makes me think of another movie. Raul Julia in Street Fighter
They are doing a remake of this too. I guess the summer of 2026 will be rise of the dead IPs.
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Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
I was a huge he-man fan as a kid that movie sucked so bad, especially the stupid Gwildor character they made up for the movieMasters of the Universe (1987)-I knew it wasn't going to be very good and it wasn't but I also didn't think it was horrible.
Did you guys know that they are doing a remake?
Which I think is sweet and makes me think of another movie. Raul Julia in Street Fighter
They are doing a remake of this too. I guess the summer of 2006 will be rise of the dead IPs.
