|
Post by Jep Gambardella on Dec 6, 2020 11:05:39 GMT
I think there are some Stephen King fans here, no? I watched “1922” based on one of his books (which I haven’t read). It’s about a struggling farmer whose wife wants to sell and move to the city - but he won’t hear of it, and takes a rather extreme measure to prevent it. There are no supernatural elements, unless you count hallucinations that the main character has.
Decent movie. Thomas Jane stars along Molly Parker, whom you may remember from Deadwood.
|
|
|
Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 6, 2020 14:26:31 GMT
I think there are some Stephen King fans here, no? I watched “1922” based on one of his books (which I haven’t read). It’s about a struggling farmer whose wife wants to sell and move to the city - but he won’t hear of it, and takes a rather extreme measure to prevent it. There are no supernatural elements, unless you count hallucinations that the main character has. Decent movie. Thomas Jane stars along Molly Parker, whom you may remember from Deadwood. I thought that was a decent enough. Thomas Jane was quite good and Molly Parker, who I don't think I recognized from anything, was also strong. I do remember thinking that it looked unfortunately modern due to the digital cinematography.
|
|
|
Post by screamingtreefrogs on Dec 7, 2020 8:45:00 GMT
se7en
One of those flicks I can watch a zillion times
Although I found Brad Pitt's wife flirting/coming onto Morgan Freeman a bit ridiculous and cringeworthy - i.e. - like that would never happen in real life
|
|
|
Post by Rey Kahuka on Dec 7, 2020 13:33:43 GMT
Identity John Cusack, Ray Liotta Fun thriller/horror - with a twist ending That movie sucks. "Hey, let's reveal that they're all different personalities in the mind of the same person and that none of this is real, and expect the audience to give a shit what happens from here on out."
|
|
|
Post by screamingtreefrogs on Dec 7, 2020 13:42:37 GMT
Identity John Cusack, Ray Liotta Fun thriller/horror - with a twist ending That movie sucks. "Hey, let's reveal that they're all different personalities in the mind of the same person and that none of this is real, and expect the audience to give a shit what happens from here on out." Bet you didn't see the end coming
Sounds like it's a bit over your head ![](https://s26.postimg.cc/480s321zt/eyes.gif)
|
|
|
Post by Jep Gambardella on Dec 7, 2020 15:24:22 GMT
I watched “M” (1931) by Fritz Lang. Widely considered a great classic but I had never seen it before, even though I’ve watched and enjoyed a few of the director’s earlier silent movies (Metropolis, Woman on the Moon, Spies). To anyone who loves cinema, even if old black and white movies in a foreign language are not your thing, do yourself a favour and watch the first nine minutes or so of this movie, for a lesson in what visual storytelling is all about. It’s available on YouTube.
|
|
|
Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 7, 2020 15:29:43 GMT
I watched “M” (1931) by Fritz Lang. Widely considered a great classic but I had never seen it before, even though I’ve watched and enjoyed a few of the director’s earlier silent movies (Metropolis, Woman on the Moon, Spies). To anyone who loves cinema, even if old black and white movies in a foreign language are not your thing, do yourself a favour and watch the first nine minutes or so of this movie, for a lesson in what visual storytelling is all about. It’s available on YouTube.
Not that his look would have lent him much of a chance to play romantic leads or anything, but this movie did sort of saddle Peter Lorre with playing a creep for 90% of the movies he'd go on to do... largely because he was so good in this one. Fritz Lang made a lot of good films, but this might be his best all around.
|
|
|
Post by Jep Gambardella on Dec 7, 2020 16:46:37 GMT
I watched “M” (1931) by Fritz Lang. Widely considered a great classic but I had never seen it before, even though I’ve watched and enjoyed a few of the director’s earlier silent movies (Metropolis, Woman on the Moon, Spies). To anyone who loves cinema, even if old black and white movies in a foreign language are not your thing, do yourself a favour and watch the first nine minutes or so of this movie, for a lesson in what visual storytelling is all about. It’s available on YouTube.
Not that his look would have lent him much of a chance to play romantic leads or anything, but this movie did sort of saddle Peter Lorre with playing a creep for 90% of the movies he'd go on to do... largely because he was so good in this one. Fritz Lang made a lot of good films, but this might be his best all around.
I know he made lots of movies after leaving Germany for the USA, but looking up his filmography I am actually not sure I've seen any of them.
|
|
|
Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 7, 2020 17:40:33 GMT
Not that his look would have lent him much of a chance to play romantic leads or anything, but this movie did sort of saddle Peter Lorre with playing a creep for 90% of the movies he'd go on to do... largely because he was so good in this one. Fritz Lang made a lot of good films, but this might be his best all around.
I know he made lots of movies after leaving Germany for the USA, but looking up his filmography I am actually not sure I've seen any of them.
I can't say I've seen that many of them, but I've seen a handful, and he was very consistently good. One of my favorite film noirs (is that how you pluralize that?) which I always thought was sort of overlooked is The Big Heat. Glenn Ford didn't get a chance to do a lot of true leading roles but he's a perfect hard-boiled-man-with-nothing-to-lose, and a young and dapper Lee Marvin gives a great turn as a despicable bad guy. The story line seems like the prototype of a lot of 70s and 80s action movies (lone cop on the fight for justice... and revenge!) But it must have been a little more unique and interesting when it was new. It has a really nice look without overdoing that film noir stylization that so many of them relied on, and that sort of aped the style from the sorts of German expressionism that Fritz Lang himself was a part of to begin with. It's a good, entertaining watch and it's very accessible. I love the Mabuse movies and M and Metropolis and all of their audacity, but you could show this to a modern audience and it really wouldn't seem out of place to anyone. If nothing else it's a pretty good place to start for the Hollywood Fritz Lang movies.
|
|
|
Post by screamingtreefrogs on Dec 8, 2020 8:48:35 GMT
Stir of Echoes
Great underrated Ghost Movie starring The Baconator
Doesn't get the recognition it deserves because it came out the same year as the legendary 'The Sixth Sense'
|
|
|
Post by Carl LaFong on Dec 8, 2020 9:25:54 GMT
Icelandic crime noir TV mini series, the Valhalla murders.
Nothing out of the mainstream but very watchable all the same. Some excellent performances.
Available on BBC iplayer.
|
|
|
Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 8, 2020 12:56:16 GMT
Catching the second half of Blood Simple on HBO before I go to work.
This has to be one of the best debut films for any great writer/director. The Coens have made a lot of excellent stuff, but they fucking nailed this one right out of the gate.
It all sort of makes sense now, but if you were following them at the time the idea that they'd follow this up with Raising Arizona must have been mind bogglingly odd.
|
|
|
Post by Jep Gambardella on Dec 8, 2020 14:49:41 GMT
Icelandic crime noir TV mini series, the Valhalla murders. Nothing out of the mainstream but very watchable all the same. Some excellent performances. Available on BBC iplayer. I watched that a few months ago. It must have been on Netflix here at the time. Yeah, it was pretty good.
|
|
|
Post by Carl LaFong on Dec 8, 2020 14:52:26 GMT
Icelandic crime noir TV mini series, the Valhalla murders. Nothing out of the mainstream but very watchable all the same. Some excellent performances. Available on BBC iplayer. I watched that a few months ago. It must have been on Netflix here at the time. Yeah, it was pretty good. Cool. They seem to have a lot of non-English language TV shows nowadays.
|
|
|
Post by Jep Gambardella on Dec 8, 2020 17:28:08 GMT
I watched that a few months ago. It must have been on Netflix here at the time. Yeah, it was pretty good. Cool. They seem to have a lot of non-English language TV shows nowadays. They do! It’s my favourite thing about Netflix. Off the top of my head I’ve watched shows from France, Spain, Germany, Norway, Finland, Brazil, South Korea, Japan. The next show I watch will either be “Barbarians” from Germany or “The Woods” from Poland.
|
|
|
Post by Carl LaFong on Dec 8, 2020 17:33:39 GMT
Cool. They seem to have a lot of non-English language TV shows nowadays. They do! It’s my favourite thing about Netflix. Off the top of my head I’ve watched shows from France, Spain, Germany, Norway, Finland, Brazil, South Korea, Japan. The next show I watch will either be “Barbarians” from Germany or “The Woods” from Poland. I don’t subscribe myself. I’d spend all day watching TV if I did! Though I did get another free month of Amazon Prime today.
|
|
|
Post by klawrencio79 on Dec 8, 2020 22:12:18 GMT
Cool. They seem to have a lot of non-English language TV shows nowadays. They do! It’s my favourite thing about Netflix. Off the top of my head I’ve watched shows from France, Spain, Germany, Norway, Finland, Brazil, South Korea, Japan. The next show I watch will either be “Barbarians” from Germany or “The Woods” from Poland. I'm 100% with you, I LOVE foreign films and TV shows and Netflix has them in spades. It's one area where I think Netflix truly outshines the other streaming services and, naturally, it's one of the most under-appreciated aspects here in the US. Sure, some of us on this thread appreciate it, but we're outliers.
|
|
|
Post by Carl LaFong on Dec 8, 2020 22:24:56 GMT
Watched Colo(u)r out of Space.
Atmospheric Nic Cage horror film based on an HP Lovecraft short story.
Didn’t really understand the ending.
|
|
|
Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 8, 2020 22:35:15 GMT
Watched Colo(u)r out of Space. Atmospheric Nic Cage horror film based on an HP Lovecraft short story. Didn’t really understand the ending. It's wild, right? I'm not really into Nicolas Cage, but the writer/director Richard Stanley is a fascinating character, and it's super impressive that this was his first movie in almost 30 years. It doesn't all work, but I felt like it earned the right to go off the rails into cosmic bewilderment at the end. He's planning on doing two more Lovecraft adaptations to make this like a loose Lovecraft trilogy.
|
|
|
Post by Carl LaFong on Dec 8, 2020 22:36:33 GMT
Watched Colo(u)r out of Space. Atmospheric Nic Cage horror film based on an HP Lovecraft short story. Didn’t really understand the ending. It's wild, right? I'm not really into Nicolas Cage, but the writer/director Richard Stanley is a fascinating character, and it's super impressive that this was his first movie in almost 30 years. It doesn't all work, but I felt like it earned the right to go off the rails into cosmic bewilderment at the end. He's planning on doing two more Lovecraft adaptations to make this like a loose Lovecraft trilogy. Cool. I’ll look out for his next film then.
|
|