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FarFromHome said:
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I watched both in the theaters as a teenager and didn't really like either tbh. or Breakfast club. But I loved 16 Candles.:shrug:
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I rewatched The Breakfast Club a few months ago and still loved it. Obviously more of a dialogue piece, but just solid conversation. My dope is in Johnson's pants. Ha ha
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“Did you slip her the hot beef injection”
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Ilov80s said:
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Ilov80s said:
I’m anxious about rewatching some of the movies I loved as a kid from that era. When I watched The Great Outdoors a few years ago, I was pretty disappointed. I used to absolutely love Summer Rental. Have you seen that one?
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I watched a brat pack doc that took me down the 80s rabbit hole. I rewatched Pretty in Pink with my 19 year old daughter. It was quite bad. Better Off Dead with John Cusack was a damn classic. I rewatched last month and couldn't get halfway through it. Smh. No way the Great Outdoors could be bad if I rewatched it? Right? Ha ha
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I also rewatched Pretty in Pink the other weekend because so randomly my MIL who is dealing with dementia insisted on watching it (she fell asleep about 5 mins in) and I agree, it stunk. I remember thinking that was a pretty good movie. It wasn’t. For as problematic as it is for today’s standards, Sweet Sixteen somehow held up better.
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I think Duckie is one of the worst 80s movie characters. Some Kind of Wonderful is the better version of the same movie.
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He is at least unique and interesting- though very annoying. Andrew McCarthy and James Spader in Pretty in Pink are so bad in such a generic way too.
 
Tick said:
Old Henry (Kanopy): 2021 western, IMDB 7.3. Tim Blake Nelson and his son find a man injured by a gunshot with a bag of cash. Pa seems pretty good with a gun.

This was 98 minutes, basically one simple story. I liked it - it’s a sort of story we’ve seen before, but it was well done here.
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I've watched this a couple of times, thought it was a pretty solid western with a cool twist. Definitely worth a watch IMO.
 
Ilov80s said:
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Ilov80s said:
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Decided on a sweet double feature from '88 that fits my monthly "family" theme: Twins and Dead Ringers.

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Twins was all the rage in 1988. Check out Big Business, it has 2 pairs of twins!
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You are on. I've never seen it.
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No promises it is good. My mom liked it and so I saw it a few times as a kid. From the director of Airplane so you know it’s going to be over the top.
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...and I'm out. ;)
 
Noirvember Double Feature #10
United Artists

99 River Street feels like a punch thrown in a dive bar at 2 AM- sharp, sudden, a little sloppy. United Artists didn't have a stable of stars, a studio lot, etc. Instead they distributed independent productions. This story of a former boxer turned taxi driver is an Edward Small Production. He specialized in small budget noirs (Raw Deal, Kansas City Confidential), cranking out over 70 movies for UA, most shot in less than 2 weeks with the goal of being sold to TV. 99 River Street is one of his best. The freedom UA allowed producers led to gritty, morally gray, working class movies like this. I give this a big recommendation. It throws so many noir tropes into one movie but it's pure entertainment. I don't even need to describe the plot, it's about exactlty what you think it's about.

UA could handle movies that the big studios wouldn't touch. The Big Knife is a seering inside look at the darkness behind the bright lights of Hollywood. Jack Palance plays a Hollywood star who wants to retire but the studio boss is willing to blackmail him (and then some) to force him to sign a new deal. While 99 River Street is filmed on the streets of NYC and sprawls all over the city, this Robert Aldrich (directed and produced) movie takes place almost entirely inside Palance's LA mansion. Clifford Odets was the Mamet of his time. Sometimes that's a compliment and sometimes not. This can get a bit too over the top and be a bit stagey. But a stage production with Palance, Rod Steiger, Ida Lupino, Shelley Winters, Wendall Corey chewing on some very written dialogue is quite interesting.

Noirvember Double Feature #11
RKO

RKO is a halfway point between an independent distributor like UA and a major studio like MGM. They did have a small stable of stars, they did have room for the occassional big budget but they also focused on smaller, leaner productions. RKO went for atmosphere, shadows, psychological tension, and narrative experimentation. The Locket is one of the most experimental narratives of the 40s. A Russian nesting doll of flashbacks. Each flashack altering your opinion of the flashback prior. All examining the key question of who exactly is crazy here? Also notable for being Robert Mitchum's final film as a supporting player. It has a Memento like quality to it but with lots of melodrama. It certainly kept my interest even if the puzzle didn't all come together perfectly.

Ida Lupino was given a small deal with RKO to produce a few movies. This was RKO acting like UA style distributor. It led to the first mainstream movie directed by a woman: The Hitchhiker. This is a low budget attempt at true crime realism. Based on the true story of Billy Cook, a hitchiker with an urge to kill and an eye that never closed. Two men on a fishing trip pick up the wrong guy and their vacation becomes a nightmare. Gritty, solid.

Noirvember Double Feature #12
MGM

MGM was not a noir-first studio. It was the home of prestige, gloss, musicals, Irving Thalberg’s legacy, and carefully protected stars. When they do make a noir, it's got stars and is slicker than anything RKO or UA did. It also usually touched on bigger societal issues- like post war trauma in Act of Violence. This is a borderline essential noir IMO. Robert Ryan is the 1940s version of The Terminator, a war vet with a limp who has one persons name and nothing will stop him from killing that man. Van Helfin is the guy he's looking for, a successful war vet who's service record might not be what it seems. Janet Leigh is his young innocent wife who gets caught in the middle. Mary Astor, the hardened pro who is looking for any angle to get an edge. Oh and it's directed by the future Oscar darling Fred Zinneman. Check this one out.

The Tall Target with **** Powell is a unique noir. It's a highly fictionalized version of The Baltimore Plot to assassinate Abe Lincoln when he was traveling via train to his innaugeration. It starts with no sound except the coughs of a train as a Star Wars scroll brings up the credits and story introduction. Very cool start. It's directed by Anthony Mann right in the period where he was transitioning from noirs to westerns and that is basically what this movie is. Powell comes off as a Phillip Marlowe-transported to the 19th century (a reverse Altman Long Goodbye). For MGM, this was an uncommon lower budget movie and there are some scenes whre it shows- particularly the big action scenes at the end. Still, it's nice to see Hollywood take a side that wasn't Pro-Confederacy and a nice reminder that for as divided as we are now, it's nothing compared to how were. Big bonus for being a movie totally set on a train, we love that.
 
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Saw the new Wicked. I don’t really know what to think about it. It was a LOT. People in the theater went from cheering to sobbing to yelling “THAT’S MY GIRL” over the 2.5 hours. Ariana Grande looks like she’s going to die. Strange experience.
 
I watched The Pianist for the first time. Wow, wasn't sure what to expect but that was pretty intense. Great performance, obviously, by Brody. So many heart wrenching moments. The reason I watched it was someone saying you should watch it before seeing The Brutalist. I thought maybe it was a sequel but watching the trailer shows that he plays an entirely different character, an architect not a pianist. Is there a reason why it was recommended to watch The Pianist first?
 
jamny said:
I watched The Pianist for the first time. Wow, wasn't sure what to expect but that was pretty intense. Great performance, obviously, by Brody. So many heart wrenching moments. The reason I watched it was someone saying you should watch it before seeing The Brutalist. I thought maybe it was a sequel but watching the trailer shows that he plays an entirely different character, an architect not a pianist. Is there a reason why it was recommended to watch The Pianist first?
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Sado-masochism
 
Northern Voice said:
Watching 2001 for the first time ever. Will report back. Is it any good?
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That is a tough question to answer. Masterpiece for sure and one of the best movies ever made but it's also unique and not a really narrative driven film so a lot of people rightfully have the opinon they didn't like watching it and don't want to ever see it again. What did you think?
 
jamny said:
I watched The Pianist for the first time. Wow, wasn't sure what to expect but that was pretty intense. Great performance, obviously, by Brody. So many heart wrenching moments. The reason I watched it was someone saying you should watch it before seeing The Brutalist. I thought maybe it was a sequel but watching the trailer shows that he plays an entirely different character, an architect not a pianist. Is there a reason why it was recommended to watch The Pianist first?
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I suggested it. I didn't mean in a "you won't be able to follow it" sense of watching them together. Just that the story and themes are perfectly paired. It's a different character in name but it's essentially what happened to Laszlo before he got on the boat to America: families broken, community laid waste, mass death and imprisonment and an animalistic reduction to a survival at any cost mindset. It gives a full arc of experience, having his life taken away and then a new home to try and build a new life in. Your original life torn apart violently by people who devoted their lives to removing you from the continent only to somehow survive and find yourself on the other side of the world being tolerated but unwanted. I thought they just fit together so well. I didn't plan it, I just happened to rewatch The Pianist for the first time since it came out and thinking wow that was a lot like The Brutalist. So I rewatched The Brutalist after and thought it enriched the viewing.
 
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jamny said:
an architect not a pianist. Is there a reason why it was recommended to watch The Pianist first?
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I assume since they deal with similar subject matter. Someone might have thought they were the same character. Jews did use false identities during the war, maybe someone is trying to claim that Brody's character in The Pianist was the false idenity. I've actually never seen The Pianist so I might watch it after MNF.
 
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jamny said:
an architect not a pianist. Is there a reason why it was recommended to watch The Pianist first?
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I assume since they deal with similar subject matter. Someone might have thought they were the same character. Jews did use false identities during the war, maybe someone is trying to claim that Brody's character in The Pianist was the false idenity. I've actually never seen The Pianist so I might watch it after MNF.
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The characters and events deviate enough that you wouldn't mistake them for the same person. But they are both successful artists navigating harrowing life experiences that firmly divide their life into 3 phases. Before the Holocaust, The Holocaust, Life After the Holocaust. The Pianist drops us into that world at the moment of transition from phase 1 and 2. The Burtalist starts on his journey from phase 2 to 3.
 
Ilov80s said:
jamny said:
I watched The Pianist for the first time. Wow, wasn't sure what to expect but that was pretty intense. Great performance, obviously, by Brody. So many heart wrenching moments. The reason I watched it was someone saying you should watch it before seeing The Brutalist. I thought maybe it was a sequel but watching the trailer shows that he plays an entirely different character, an architect not a pianist. Is there a reason why it was recommended to watch The Pianist first?
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I suggested it. I didn't mean in a "you won't be ablt to follow it" sense of watching them together. Just that the story and themes are perfectly paired. It's a different character in name but it's essentially what happened to Laszlo before he got on the boat to America: families broken, community laid waste, mass death and imprisonment and an animalistic reduction to a survival at any cost mindset. It gives a full arc of experience, having his life taken away and then a new home to try and build a new life in. Your original life torn apart violently by people who devoted their lives to removing you from the continent only to somehow survive and find yourself on the other side of the world being tolerated but unwanted. I thought they just fit together so well. I didn't plan it, I just happened to rewatch The Pianist for the first time since it came out and thinking wow that was a lot like The Brutalist. So I rewatched The Brutalist after and thought it enriched the viewing.
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Ah gotcha...lol
At least it got me to finally watch The Pianist, which was incredible, so thanks!
 
Noirvember Double Feature #13
70s Neo Noir

I hadn't seen Taxi Driver since I was maybe 22 or 23. I still remembered every part of it because it was a movie that we watched a lot in HS and college. But upon rewatch, it reminds how much I've changed because despite being a great movie, I don't connect to or relate with Bickle in any way at all. The best part of the movie for me is the score and the shots the cab cruising through NYC at night. I imagine this movie remains popular with a certain population, still speaks to them and that is kind of scary. I am thankful for my personal growth though.

It was a first time watch of William Friedkin's Sorceror for me. Unlike Taxi Driver, I wasn't even aware of this movie's existance untill the last couple years as it's started to gain a major reputation online among movie nerds. I have to say it lived up to the hype. What a white knuckle adventure thriller. For me, it was absolutely an improvement on Wages of Fear. If you haven't seen Sorceror, I would add it to your watchlist. One of the ultimate guy movies. Not set in NYC, this takes us to the South American jungles but it's every bit as cynical, dirty and paranoid as Taxi Driver.
 
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Ilov80s said:
Northern Voice said:
Watching 2001 for the first time ever. Will report back. Is it any good?
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That is a tough question to answer. Masterpiece for sure and one of the best movies ever made but it's also unique and not a really narrative driven film so a lot of people rightfully have the opinon they didn't like watching it and don't want to ever see it again. What did you think?
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I'm a Kubrick fan and still feel this way about it depending on the day you ask me. :lol:
 

Ilov80s said:
Noirvember Double Feature #13
70s Neo Noir

I hadn't seen Taxi Driver since I was maybe 22 or 23. I still remembered every part of it because it was a movie that we watched a lot in HS and college. But upon rewatch, it reminds how much I've changed because despite being a great movie, I don't connect to or relate with Bickle in any way at all. The best part of the movie for me is the score and the shots the cab cruising through NYC at night. I imagine this movie remains popular with a certain population, still speaks to them and that is kind of scary. I am thankful for my personal growth though.

It was a first time watch of William Friedkin's Sorceror for me. Unlike Taxi Driver, I wasn't even aware of this movie's existance untill the last couple years as it's started to gain a major reputation online among movie nerds. I have to say it lived up to the hype. What a white knuckle adventure thriller. For me, it was absolutely an improvement on Wages of Fear. If you haven't seen Sorceror, I would add it to your watchlist. One of the ultimate guy movies. Not set in NYC, this takes us to the South American jungles but it's every bit as cynical, dirty and paranoid as Taxi Driver.
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Love love love Sorcerer
 
Watched these over the weekend

Night Always Comes - girl needs money (she’s got issues, mom has issues). hijinks ensue. Meh…it was ok, I guess it’s a good picture of how desperate people can be just scraping by

Anyone But You - Sidney Sweeney hooks up with Hangman from Top Gun, doesnt go well, then, Surprise! they meet up at a destination wedding and have to coexist . basically like an R rated hallmark movie, with acting to match. Seriously that Sweeney girl cannot act, like I’ve seen mattress actresses with better chops.
 
Watched Train Dreams last night. Might be the best movie I've seen in a long long time. Going to make my wife watch it with me. It's a lovely film, just gorgeous the way it was shot, the pace it moves perfect and the acting is superb. Just a delightful movie.
 
KarmaPolice said:
Ilov80s said:
Northern Voice said:
Watching 2001 for the first time ever. Will report back. Is it any good?
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That is a tough question to answer. Masterpiece for sure and one of the best movies ever made but it's also unique and not a really narrative driven film so a lot of people rightfully have the opinon they didn't like watching it and don't want to ever see it again. What did you think?
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I'm a Kubrick fan and still feel this way about it depending on the day you ask me. :lol:
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I too feel this way about most of his stuff but I've seen Full Metal Jacket at least twice and I remember liking Dr. Strangelove enough that I wouldn't dread having to rewatch it.
 
My youngest son (18) is into movies. Now that he's an adult, it's fun to see him explore more movies. Last time he was home from college, he watched Seven, The Joker, and Zodiac in three consecutive nights. He told me that and then said, "I need to watch something less intense tonight." :lmao: We watched Inception. I had tried to get him to watch it for years, but he had no interest. Then the next night we watched Shutter Island (I hadn't seen it either). His last night home on that break, we watched The Usual Suspects. I then helped him create a list of movies to watch.

He's on his way home now for Thanksgiving break and I'm looking forward to watching some more movies with him the next few nights.
 
FarFromHome said:
Better Off Dead with John Cusack was a damn classic. I rewatched last month and couldn't get halfway through it. Smh.
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We were talking about this one over the weekend. So many lines we still quote. Was thinking of rewatching it but that's my fear. Probably not as much fun as I remember.

Rewatched ACCEPTED the other day and that was still fun. Was thinking of Eurotrip next. And Better off Dead despite the above.

I need to hook up my DVD player and watch DOGMA. I know its heading to streaming soon, now that Kevin Smith has the rights back.
 
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