Eephus
Footballguy
Seconded. I search for this thread using CTRL F-"rental".
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Recently viewed movie thread - Rental, Streaming, Theater etc (11 Viewers)
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Seconded. I search for this thread using CTRL F-"rental".
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I can’t tell if you guys are being serious or not
Eephus
Footballguy
I am serious but I suppose I could eventually adapt to a different title
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Guess we could keep rental in there.
Recently Viewed Movie Thread- Rental, Theater, Stream, New, Old?
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I think the confusion it causes is funny, but also am fine if the title changes if that's what people want. I thought we all pretty much knew it was a general movie thread now.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
l still see people post in threads sometimes asking if there is a new movie thread sometimes but fair enough it might be a pointless change
BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
don't we already kinda use it for that? I use this thread to post (most of my) movie reviews) and you guys make new threads for other movies. I sort of just like having one movie review thread but I could see some value in one thread combined. I'm mostly a no.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Yeah it is how it's used, just thought it would make sense for the thread title to match what's really in going on here. I think some people don't post about movies at the theater for example because of the rented part in the thread title.
Eephus
Footballguy
I watched four movies starring Diane Keaton (RIP), one each from the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s.
Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976) seems like a project greenlighted after the massive success of The Sting. It's a gilded age period piece about two small time vaudevillians played by Elliott Gould and James Caan trying to rob a bank before a master thief played by Michael Caine beats them to it. Keaton has a thankless role as a crusading journalist who becomes their love interest. The heist scene becomes almost an afterthought because it takes place concurrently with a slapstick musical number by Caan and Gould. It has a great cast and is beautifully filmed but the movie is kind of a mess.
Shoot the Moon (1982) is a domestic drama about the end of a marriage between Keaton and Albert Finney and its impact on their family of four daughters. I thought the breakup itself was handled better than the contrived ending. Keaton is excellent as she navigates her new life and blossoms along the way. There's a wonderful authenticity to her acting; there's a scene where she sits alone in the tub smoking a joint and singing a Beatles song to herself and the enormity of her situation registers on her face. She's not an actor like DDL or Streep who seemingly gets consumed in their characters but rather her characters become a part of her if that makes any sense.
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) is Keaton's seventh and final collaboration with Woody Allen. It's a rom-com pretending it's a murder mystery. The mystery element is kind of silly but it moves the romantic plot along. Say what you will about Allen but he and Keaton always had tremendous on-screen chemistry. Their characters are like older versions of the ones the played in Annie Hall. It's definitely the best film of the four I watched.
Something's Gotta Give (2003) was a big commercial hit for writer/director Nancy Meyers. This one is another rom-com with an unlikely relationship between Keaton as a successful playwright paired with Jack Nicholson playing a caricature of himself. Meyers can write good dialogue and the scenes with just Keaton and Nicholson really sing at times. Everything else about the story was too cutesy for me but I'm an old grump. Keaton is adorable as she was in all four films ranging from her mid-twenties to her late fifties. That's hard to do for a woman in Hollywood.
Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976) seems like a project greenlighted after the massive success of The Sting. It's a gilded age period piece about two small time vaudevillians played by Elliott Gould and James Caan trying to rob a bank before a master thief played by Michael Caine beats them to it. Keaton has a thankless role as a crusading journalist who becomes their love interest. The heist scene becomes almost an afterthought because it takes place concurrently with a slapstick musical number by Caan and Gould. It has a great cast and is beautifully filmed but the movie is kind of a mess.
Shoot the Moon (1982) is a domestic drama about the end of a marriage between Keaton and Albert Finney and its impact on their family of four daughters. I thought the breakup itself was handled better than the contrived ending. Keaton is excellent as she navigates her new life and blossoms along the way. There's a wonderful authenticity to her acting; there's a scene where she sits alone in the tub smoking a joint and singing a Beatles song to herself and the enormity of her situation registers on her face. She's not an actor like DDL or Streep who seemingly gets consumed in their characters but rather her characters become a part of her if that makes any sense.
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) is Keaton's seventh and final collaboration with Woody Allen. It's a rom-com pretending it's a murder mystery. The mystery element is kind of silly but it moves the romantic plot along. Say what you will about Allen but he and Keaton always had tremendous on-screen chemistry. Their characters are like older versions of the ones the played in Annie Hall. It's definitely the best film of the four I watched.
Something's Gotta Give (2003) was a big commercial hit for writer/director Nancy Meyers. This one is another rom-com with an unlikely relationship between Keaton as a successful playwright paired with Jack Nicholson playing a caricature of himself. Meyers can write good dialogue and the scenes with just Keaton and Nicholson really sing at times. Everything else about the story was too cutesy for me but I'm an old grump. Keaton is adorable as she was in all four films ranging from her mid-twenties to her late fifties. That's hard to do for a woman in Hollywood.
BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
So...I don't really think that The Thin Red Line was that good. It's just an anti war film that's not as good as the other more popular ones, and with good reason. This movie was a slog and the last 50 minutes were especially brutal and (mostly) unnecessary, IMO.
The triva states
How much of the movie, if at all, deviated from the authors original intent?
Nick Nolte's cartoonish villain was ok and serves its purpose. There were some decent scenes and it LOOKS good but this isn't really for me.
The triva states
How much of the movie, if at all, deviated from the authors original intent?
Nick Nolte's cartoonish villain was ok and serves its purpose. There were some decent scenes and it LOOKS good but this isn't really for me.
simsarge
Footballguy
Just watched this and it was a ton of fun. Mashup of Back to the future, Halloween and Scream.
If you were an 80s teen (which I most certainly was not) you'll probably hate it, but I thought it was a hoot.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Malick has a very unique movie making style. He films a ton of stuff and the movie really comes together in the edit. I don’t think he cares much what the script was or anything like that, he’s more capturing what interests him at the moment and then figures out the movie later. He’s the anti-Hitchcock in that way. It produces widely varying results and a lot of people are allergic to his movie style.
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foxco
Footballguy
He's hit or miss for me but I'm glad he exists and I've never felt watching his films are a waste, if that makes any sense.
Tick
Footballguy
80s kid here who liked it. https://forums.footballguys.com/thr...ious-streaming-platforms.723607/post-25177588
Eephus
Footballguy
A House of Dynamite (new on Netflix) tells the story of a nuclear missile attack on the US. It's Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigelow's first film in almost a decade.
The script employs an interesting narrative technique of running through the same events three times with each pass through revealing additional characters and new details. The gimmick worked for me because it maintained the tension of the situation without having to cut simultaneously between too many storylines. The movie is very technically proficient but not an easy watch because of its very heavy subject matter.
The script employs an interesting narrative technique of running through the same events three times with each pass through revealing additional characters and new details. The gimmick worked for me because it maintained the tension of the situation without having to cut simultaneously between too many storylines. The movie is very technically proficient but not an easy watch because of its very heavy subject matter.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
That's a very polite way to say, the first part was awesome, the other two were very good but could have been better, and the ending sucked so badly that it was offensive.
IMHO
Eephus
Footballguy
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The General
Footballguy
Watched House of Dynamite . Well made, intense topic obviously, portrayed the madness of this situation well.
I get why people wouldn’t like the ending. I can’t get spoiler tags to works SO STOP READING….
I WARNED YOU IT IS NOW YOUR FAULT. Not really a good way to end this. I didn’t mind it being left open ended. If you see missiles flying well it’s all over, if you don’t it’s then there is a completely new story to tell. Would need a sequel. What this did do well is show how ridiculous this entire situation is.
I get why people wouldn’t like the ending. I can’t get spoiler tags to works SO STOP READING….
I WARNED YOU IT IS NOW YOUR FAULT. Not really a good way to end this. I didn’t mind it being left open ended. If you see missiles flying well it’s all over, if you don’t it’s then there is a completely new story to tell. Would need a sequel. What this did do well is show how ridiculous this entire situation is.
Runkle
Footballguy
Pretty much agree, how I took it was
It just shows how impossible it would be to expect it to be possible to make a decision one way or another with the information that would be available in the timeframe necessary
steelerfan1
Footballguy
I’m looking forward to Welcome to Derry tonight on hbo.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Agreed. That was all well done. I think everyone did a great job at confident ignorance in a high stress situation. And the absurdity of the whole situation was and is clear to anyone who has seen this type of act before.
But frankly, Madam Secretary did this scenario better and just as believable in terms of the sheer impossibility of the situation.
But I really hated the ending... No problem not seeing bombs fly and fall. This was a story of people not special effects. No worries. But I didn't get enough of the president and his decision to feel like I got a good, complete story. If they gave me like 15 more seconds and him starting to read out an order code I'd be much less annoyed. I don't even need to know what the package was. Every decision sucks, but I would have liked to know there was a decision.
The General
Footballguy
Haven’t seen Madame Secretary but I was thinking that the show “Paradise” did something similar much better as well.
Shows have the advantage of building up over the course of hours as opposed to minutes I guess.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Keep this stuff in the teenager thread, hoss
beer 30
Footballguy
Watched Thunderbolts: The New Avengers. It had it's moments, wasn't bad, wasn't good. I think the whole Marvel thing has run it's course and this was an attempt to resurrect it or something, I don't know. Filled a 2 hour void I had and I laughed a few times so 6/10?
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Probably went over most people’s heads. I accidentally posted that comment in the wrong thread the first time.
