What movies have you seen recently?

[tdawg3782]

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For what it's worth I really enjoyed it and I would say it's a great companion to Excalibur which is one of my favorite movies ever. It's certainly high on atmospheric tension through the cinematography and music, but I thought the whole movie was fantastic. The cast is superb. The narrative is certainly basic at the surface level, but there's a lot going on around the edges and beneath the surface to lead the viewer into it's depths.

Just out of curiosity did you see it in the theater or at home? I watched it at home and feel that I may have been more immersed in everything happening if I saw it on the big screen. Who knows

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Just out of curiosity did you see it in the theater or at home? I watched it at home and feel that I may have been more immersed in everything happening if I saw it on the big screen. Who knows

I watched it at our local theater. It was between this and Suicide Squad and I'm still happy with my choice after watching SS at home.

I'm not overly familiar with Arthurian Legend beyond the basic premise and anything not covered in Excalibur. Merlin is in the movie, but they don't acknowledge him apart from a cameo so it's not like you need any previous knowledge to enjoy it. I'm not even sure they call Arthur by his name now that I think about it. I'm sure there's satisfaction from recognizing different characters or pieces of the story, but it didn't affect my enjoyment of it

My only real criticism is the title cards are hard to read with the Olde English script and go by too quick. These are used as chapter titles so not that big of a deal.

[SeaTownGamer]

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I looked at Free Guy yesterday. A very cool movie.

U looked at it for how long? Did u watched it at least?


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[PVarck31]

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Has anyone watched The Little Things with Denzel Washington, Rami Malak, and Jared Leto?

I gave it a quick review of 4/5. I was just wondering what others who've seen it think.

[Blzer]

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Has anyone watched The Little Things with Denzel Washington, Rami Malak, and Jared Leto?

I gave it a quick review of 4/5. I was just wondering what others who've seen it think.

Honestly, since maybe COVID I've seen many movies but never left my impressions. It's likely just because I don't give myself the time of day. Anyway, this was one of the films.

I did like it, but I don't remember many of the details on the likes or dislikes as much as I did before. I'll say that the more you start to see Jared Leto's character, the less enticing the movie became as a whole with regard to where I wanted them to maybe take the story. I almost felt like his character belonged in a different kind of movie, despite the fact that it was well acted and such. I think by the end I also wondered if there was enough story told to justify movie made/events occurred, but I also know their intent throughout.

Smart writing, compelling acting, and competent directing were the ingredients for a super film here, but I think if you remove the actors involved (I'm speaking more on recognition than performance) that this movie becomes forgettable after watching it, no matter what recipe crafted it together.

[PVarck31]

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Honestly, since maybe COVID I've seen many movies but never left my impressions. It's likely just because I don't give myself the time of day. Anyway, this was one of the films.

I did like it, but I don't remember many of the details on the likes or dislikes as much as I did before. I'll say that the more you start to see Jared Leto's character, the less enticing the movie became as a whole with regard to where I wanted them to maybe take the story. I almost felt like his character belonged in a different kind of movie, despite the fact that it was well acted and such. I think by the end I also wondered if there was enough story told to justify movie made/events occurred, but I also know their intent throughout.

Smart writing, compelling acting, and competent directing were the ingredients for a super film here, but I think if you remove the actors involved (I'm speaking more on recognition than performance) that this movie becomes forgettable after watching it, no matter what recipe crafted it together.

Pretty much agree with all of that. The actors really made the movie. All three main actors are obviously top tier.

I also enjoyed the setting.

[Speedy]

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Any thoughts on the original X-Men from the 2000s? Curious if they hold up to today's standards or look very dated.

I watched Wolverine: Origins and the CGI was....cringe. Meanwhile, Iron Man which came out a year earlier still looks incredible.

[Blzer]

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Any thoughts on the original X-Men from the 2000s? Curious if they hold up to today's standards or look very dated.

I watched Wolverine: Origins and the CGI was....cringe. Meanwhile, Iron Man which came out a year earlier still looks incredible.

I'd say they all look dated. I think these films sometimes have it by nature because of the mutants sometimes having weird abilities. Overall though, the first X-Men film really doesn't hold up. That may just be me. I think Bryan Singer always had a cartoonish quality to his X-Men films though.

X2 probably also looks dated, but I think that movie had such strong qualities (action set pieces, characters, and story) that you look right past it all.

I'd say the best effects are in Logan, First Class, and The Wolverine.

[DieHardYankee26]

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Thunderball (2/5), You Only Live Twice (3/5), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (4/5)

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I went to wikipedia before I watched this and saw that it said it was the first Bond movie to go over 2 hours. After watching it, I was just asking why. I'm just going to copy the "notes" I took during the movie: Bond takes out guy dressed as woman by sliding wooden chair across floor, escapes via jetpack 50 feet away and hoses down guys chasing him, hose leads into title screen, great song shout out Tom Jones, Blofeld using the murder seat next to No. 2 who has no reaction, nurse ties Bond into back stretching machine which act as handcuffs, evil dude comes in and turns the machine up to 1000...terrible, Bond forces himself on the nurse and then coerces her into sex lol, gas attack dear lord, chick handing Angelo his stuff too much like Q, great music during underwater segment but too long, Connery driving in a straight line going nuts with the steering wheel once again, SPECTRE stole a bunch of nukes to hold for ransom and told the government to have Big Ben strike 6 times at 6 PM which is a dope signal, makes fun of trope of Bond sleeping with women and turning them onto his side, has Bond use Fiona Volpe as a human shield for a bullet and then dance for a few seconds with her dead body, too much time spent underwater, drags on forever, Underwater harpoon war could've been cool but took too long, at the end they jumped off the boat with another guy who couldn't swim Bond gave him a life raft and said never too late to learn then dipped with Fiona leaving dude to drown in the middle of the ocean, THE END.


YOLT: Lot of foolery in this movie that doesn't hold up at all but it's entertaining if nothing else. Notes: Opening with ship swallowing other ship and cutting astronaut cord was cool, "Why do Chinese girls taste different" ruh roh, flips bed into wall which is lit up with fully automatic weapons (?), song is ok shout out Nancy Sinatra, the people making these movies don't seem to understand the mechanics of choking someone out it's like Bond puts his hands around their neck and they fall asleep, "Japanese proverb say", rooftop escape and fight dope but Aki should've just been a martial artist (maybe too racist but in this movie?!? LOL), RIP No. 11, ninjas, "First you must become Japanese" YIKES, RIP Aki from some weird poison, Bond meets Blofeld "I thought you were killed in Japan" "This is my second life" "You only live twice, Mr Bond", most disappointing ninja sequence ever put on screen, wrestling sequence where dude tried to clothesline Bond who ducks and back body drops him into a pool with sharks "Bon appetit".



OHMSS: Maybe a top 5 Bond movie for me, definitely top 10, could've been top 3 if they had picked a better actor than Lazenby. He has the look, and his physicality in the role is great, he just lacks the Connery charm/charisma, which would be fine if they had done like Daniel Craig and not made another Connery movie just without him. It's almost like they tried to make Casino Royale way back then, and it sucks because Lazenby didn't want to do anymore movies so we don't get a resolution to Tracey getting killed which would've been epic...or maybe it would've been QoS, who's to say. Notes: Lazenby throws his entire body into every punch, super wild, hit a dude with an F5 after they jumped on his back, "This never happened to the other fellow" wink wink, Lazenby continues the tradition of slapping the hell out of chicks, Draco trying to sell his daughter to Bond, Moneypenny still great, Bond getting laid back to back off of the same pickup lines is inspired work, editing in fight scenes is weird, guys get flipped and they're immediately back on their feet, like 1.5 speed on youtube, Blofeld much better than in YOLT, ski set piece actually not bad except for cuts to actor faces in front of green screen, Bond tossing guys over the mountain, bro skiing fell into the wood chipper "he had a lot of guts" Lazenby no Connery with the one-liners, Bond with the headfirst slide on ice gunning down Blofeld's men, snow rescue is the one Inception reminded me of, good guy didn't want Tracy running back to help Bond so he punched her out, guy runs into tree branch "He's branched off"...relax, Moneypenny sad at Bond's wedding and catching the hat, RIP Olenna Tyrell, great ending with the driveby.



I'm retroactively boosting Dr. No to a 3/5, the rankings so far:
Goldfinger
On Her Majesty
From Russia
Dr. No, YOLT
Thunderball

Apocalypse Now (5/5), Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse (5/5)

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RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES, oh my god. That scene was unreal, the helicopters are going over the water, the music is blaring, you're hype as hell, then silence and you're in a Vietnamese village, kids coming outside, the music starts building and it's just like "oh nooooo". They just completely flip the mood in 10 seconds, the song goes from inspiring to horrifying. Willard (my guy Jed Bartlett) looking at Tom Hagan after the "napalm smells like victory" speech was priceless. Side note, before I saw the Godfather I didn't really know Robert Duvall but what a run this guy had. Young Furious Styles/Morpheus/Perry White Larry Fishburne losing his mind when the woman goes for the dog and just wiping out everything in that boat, then Willard finishes her off and just says "I told you not to stop". I gotta say, I might go on a Martin Sheen binge, he was just Jed Bartlett, the Illusive Man, and the guy who left Jane Fonda in Grace & Frankie before this but he was amazing in this. The first 2 hours of this movie is just a non-stop ride where the stakes keep elevating, there are times when they're quietly going down the river and you're just on edge about what's going to happen. I say the first 2 hours even though it's a 2 and a half hour movie...and with that I will go into the documentary on the making of this movie.
To me, this movie completely falls apart in the last 30 minutes. The first 2 hours are so elite that it doesn't matter, but this could've really been an all-timer if they could've stuck the landing...but they did not. So in the making of doc, you see that they filmed this in the Philippines in the middle of a civil war. They were rehearsing scenes with helicopter pilots from the local military, who would be replaced the next day by another pilot because the first one was called into service to fight against the rebels. They called 5 pilots away in the middle of a shoot and they just dipped off with the helicopters, literally turning and going. They got hit with a typhoon, Coppola wanted to incorporate local weather so he decided to shoot in the pouring rain only to realize he had to stop when he saw people on roofs of hotels and that "centers of civilization and rivers were being overrun". Coppola said if he could finish the first basically 2 hours of the movie, take a break for 4 weeks to write the ending, and then come back and film it, that would be perfect. The typhoon shut down filming for 2 months and he came back with nothing, now calling the entire script into question lol. The opening where Willard is drunk and punches the mirror was improvised, it was Martin Sheen's 36th birthday and he was so wasted he could barely stand up but he told them to keep rolling. Coppola's wife thought he was going to run at the camera and fight her husband lol. All of this to say, this man had no ending.

Marlon Brando shows up late and fat. He's so fat that he, supposed to be portraying a top tier Marine, can't fit the look Coppola is going for. Coppola goes "well maybe we'll show him as a guy who's indulged and has multiple wives and is eating everything in sight" but Brando was too embarrassed. So here you have this guy who is too fat to show on camera, and they decide to shoot him in the dark barely showing him. Coppola sits down to brainstorm an ending with Brando and finds out he didn't bother to read Hearts of Darkness. He was getting paid 3 mil, a mil a week, and couldn't bother to show up in shape or read a <200 page book lol. With those 3 weeks, instead of wasting time writing an ending because who would waste time doing that, Coppola said we will sit in this dark cave and Brando will talk nonsense to the camera. At the end of 3 weeks, we will just cut the best stuff we have into a semi-coherent rant. The irony is that in the book, the meeting with Kurtz is ultimately disappointing and you realize he's just a loon so I guess they nailed that by accident. At one point in the actual movie, Brando is talking and Willard is just staring at his hand. This guy ruined this movie. At one point, Coppola is like I can just go get "Redford, or Nicholson, or Pacino" and I'm like dear god why didn't you, but they gave Brando a mil advance. For the record, I didn't watch any of his stuff from the 50's. All I know about this guy, is they had to hold up cue cards for him in The Godfather and Superman The Movie because he couldn't be bothered to learn his lines, and now this. What a scrub, Robert De Niro is my Vito Corleone. Anyway, the doc is almost better than the movie. Crazy Coppola put out 2 Godfathers and this all in the 70s, crazy decade run. Still haven't seen The Conversation.

[LambertandHam]

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OHMSS is an overlooked Bond movie imho, one of my favorites. Diana Rigg is great, Telly Savalas too.



Especially with the latter half of Moore's movies, I've learned to embrace the campiness. Speaking of Moore's films, I have a soft spot for "For Your Eyes Only".

[DieHardYankee26]

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Apparently there’s a doc on Hulu about Lazenby called Becoming Bond so I might have to watch that. I don’t know what the franchise meant back then but it’s so hard to imagine they’d even give a guy a screen test before he agreed to a minimum of a trilogy of movies. Then they surround him with so much talent, a story to be directly continued, then he just nopes out? I have so many questions.

[Speedy]

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I'd say they all look dated. I think these films sometimes have it by nature because of the mutants sometimes having weird abilities. Overall though, the first X-Men film really doesn't hold up. That may just be me. I think Bryan Singer always had a cartoonish quality to his X-Men films though.

X2 probably also looks dated, but I think that movie had such strong qualities (action set pieces, characters, and story) that you look right past it all.

I'd say the best effects are in Logan, First Class, and The Wolverine.

Very helpful...thanks Blzer. [emoji4]

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Very helpful...thanks Blzer. [emoji4]

I remember thinking Origins CGI was terrible when I saw the movie at the theater.

[Blzer]

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I remember thinking Origins CGI was terrible when I saw the movie at the theater.

What are you talking about? They looked fantastic.

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On second thought...

[DieHardYankee26]

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As someone who never cared for First Class, it still hurts that we got that and not X Men Origins Magneto but it probably would’ve been trash so maybe they saved me from myself. Fassbender was the best part of those movies anyway, I would’ve sacrificed the entire series for him to get his own movie.