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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 26, 2020 14:16:35 GMT
Since yesterday was Sean Connery’s 90th birthday, I figured I would watch one of his movies in his honour. Initially I thought about “Outland”, then “The Rock”, but then decided for one that I had never seen before. My first choice was Hitchcock’s “Marnie”, but I had forgotten that I had lent my Hitchcock boxset to my sister. So I settled for The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, 1975). Not entirely sure what to make of it. It certainly has some interesting moments and ideas, but it’s a bit too silly to be taken seriously. Sean Connery and Michael Caine are great in it though.
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Post by marco266 on Aug 26, 2020 14:30:00 GMT
I settled for The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, 1975). Not entirely sure what to make of it. It certainly has some interesting moments and ideas, but it’s a bit too silly to be taken seriously. Sean Connery and Michael Caine are great in it though. It is a highly lauded Connery flick...and I don't see why. Except for two films, I have seen every Connery flick he starred in. THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING is a fun, fine flick to watch, but it is nothing great. Can't shake off the GUNGA DIN connections and because of that, MAN WHO WOULD BE KING feels weak. You should have gone with two under the radar Connery flicks - THE MOLLY MAGUIRES or THE ANDERSON TAPES - and you would have been viewing not only great Connery movies, but great movies. Directors Sidney Lumet and Martin Ritt helmed those films and therein lies the reason why they are such great films.
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Post by marco266 on Aug 26, 2020 14:32:17 GMT
I watched Birth of a Nation during a film course..... my girlfriend urged me to report the teacher for showing it.
That is astonishing.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 26, 2020 14:32:53 GMT
I settled for The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, 1975). Not entirely sure what to make of it. It certainly has some interesting moments and ideas, but it’s a bit too silly to be taken seriously. Sean Connery and Michael Caine are great in it though. You should have gone with two under the radar Connery flicks - THE MOLLY MAGUIRES or THE ANDERSON TAPES - and you would have been viewing not only great Connery movies, but great movies. Directors Sidney Lumet and Martin Ritt helmed those films and therein lies the reason why they are such great films.
I don't have those in my collection and I doubt they are on Netflix, so they were not an option.
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Post by sdm3 on Aug 26, 2020 14:33:51 GMT
Kurosawa’s Kagemusha (1980) Beautiful.
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Post by marco266 on Aug 26, 2020 14:41:13 GMT
You should have gone with two under the radar Connery flicks - THE MOLLY MAGUIRES or THE ANDERSON TAPES - and you would have been viewing not only great Connery movies, but great movies. Directors Sidney Lumet and Martin Ritt helmed those films and therein lies the reason why they are such great films.
I don't have those in my collection and I doubt they are on Netflix, so they were not an option.
Then go with other top and popular Connery '70s films: THE WIND AND THE LION THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS A BRIDGE TOO FAR (large cast of acting giants and Connery - along with Anthony Hopkins - emerges the best of them all) Hell, even go for ZARDOZ just for the experience of saying you saw ZARDOZ and couldn't believe what you watched. MARNIE was a poor choice. Connery blah in it and very weak Hitchcock.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 26, 2020 14:59:38 GMT
I don't have those in my collection and I doubt they are on Netflix, so they were not an option.
Then go with other top and popular Connery '70s films: THE WIND AND THE LION THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS A BRIDGE TOO FAR (large cast of acting giants and Connery - along with Anthony Hopkins - emerges the best of them all) Hell, even go for ZARDOZ just for the experience of saying you saw ZARDOZ and couldn't believe what you watched. MARNIE was a poor choice. Connery blah in it and very weak Hitchcock.
I watched "A Bridge Too Far" very recently - probably less than a month ago. Great war epic, and yes, I agree, Sean Connery was probably the best among all the big names in it.
"The Great Train Robbery" and "Murder on the Orient Express" I have already seen.
I bought the DVD of "Zardoz" for $8 back in January 2003 but I have never watched it.
The public library here has DVDs of "The Wind and the Lion" and "The Anderson Tapes", so I will probably check them out at some point.
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Post by marco266 on Aug 26, 2020 15:24:19 GMT
Then go with other top and popular Connery '70s films:
1. I bought the DVD of "Zardoz" for $8 back in January 2003 but I have never watched it.
2. The public library here has DVDs of "The Wind and the Lion" and "The Anderson Tapes", so I will probably check them out at some point.
1. You paid $8 for ZARDOX? That's about $7.95 too much. But, once again, it is a movie that should be watched. Astonishingly bad. I have seen it two or three times and I keep saying to myself, John Boorman director, Connery starring...maybe I am just not seeing the greatness that is in this film. But, nah, there is no greatness in it, except for greatly bad. 2. WIND AND THE LION is Connery at his best. Other than Bond, the character he plays in WIND AND THE LION - a desert chieftain - is his best role. "He has the way about him." Yup, he sure does. Plus you get one of Jerry Goldsmith's greatest scores and an ending that is pure Hollywood gold. ANDERSON TAPES is the oddest heist movie ever made. Forget the tapes stuff, and just enjoy the show. Christopher Walken in his first role, Connery making a fantastically bizarre speech about why it is good to rob someone...the movie is an odd one, but definitely memorable.
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Post by Aj_June on Aug 27, 2020 8:44:31 GMT
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 30, 2020 10:53:10 GMT
I watched “Tenet” yesterday, at the IMAX theatre. I enjoyed it, but less than I thought I would - I guess my expectations were too high. I didn’t understand everything - I guess I will look for some interpretations and explanations online, and then possibly watch it again when it comes out on blu-ray.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Aug 30, 2020 13:33:20 GMT
I watched “Tenet” yesterday, at the IMAX theatre. I enjoyed it, but less than I thought I would - I guess my expectations were too high. I didn’t understand everything - I guess I will look for some interpretations and explanations online, and then possibly watch it again when it comes out on blu-ray. How many people were allowed in the theater?
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Post by Midi-Chlorian_Count on Aug 30, 2020 13:34:20 GMT
I watched “Tenet” yesterday, at the IMAX theatre. I enjoyed it, but less than I thought I would - I guess my expectations were too high. I didn’t understand everything - I guess I will look for some interpretations and explanations online, and then possibly watch it again when it comes out on blu-ray. Was it anything like this in there? 😂
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 30, 2020 13:56:54 GMT
I watched “Tenet” yesterday, at the IMAX theatre. I enjoyed it, but less than I thought I would - I guess my expectations were too high. I didn’t understand everything - I guess I will look for some interpretations and explanations online, and then possibly watch it again when it comes out on blu-ray. How many people were allowed in the theater? From the seating map, it looked like they were selling 50% of capacity. I don't know how many seats that would be; at least 150 I would guess. It wasn't sold out but there were people around who were a little too close for comfort - unlike the other times I've been to the movies since the theatres reopened here, when there were very few people in the audience. Anyway, everybody around us was wearing a mask, so that put me a little bit more at ease.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 30, 2020 13:59:38 GMT
I watched “Tenet” yesterday, at the IMAX theatre. I enjoyed it, but less than I thought I would - I guess my expectations were too high. I didn’t understand everything - I guess I will look for some interpretations and explanations online, and then possibly watch it again when it comes out on blu-ray. Was it anything like this in there? 😂 Not quite - everybody was wearing masks!
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Post by klawrencio79 on Aug 31, 2020 13:58:40 GMT
Class Action Park (2020)Caught this documentary on HBO last night about Action Park. Anyone who grew up in New York, New Jersey or Pennsylvania in the 70s or 80s definitely went there at some point. Basically a theme park with precariously constructed rides by randos, rather than engineers, with no safety regulations, no security, no adults in sight. Basically a place for teenagers to go and jump off cliffs into freezing water, take insane water slides that would regularly injure people, get drunk and fight each other. I went there once, I was 12 or so. My sister and her friends were ditching school and I wanted to go, I threatened to tell my parents unless she took me with her. Kinda like Sean Brody in Jaws 2, only none of us got hurt. Anyway, the first hour of the documentary is pretty great, especially if you ever went there or remember those commercials on TV. The last third or so of it gets into deaths that occurred, with the last 10 minutes or so being some preachy diatribe about how back then, kids went outside and got themselves dirty and life was better. If they got hurt at Action Park, then they got hurt. Going outside and getting dirty is great and all and yeah, kids should be doing it more than they are, but the suggestion that Action Park was a good place for kids to go is pretty disingenuous. There was ZERO safety precautions, lifeguards barely paid attention, the wave pool was more dangerous than more war zones and they let people get hammered and drive go carts 60 MPH all over the grounds. It had nary an engineer's input, was run by people who only cared about the bottom line, and the owners deliberately under-insured themselves and just fought anyone in court who was injured due to negligence of the staff (which was rampant). EDIT: The title is amazing. Also referenced in a clip from Jimmy Kimmel interviewing Johnny Knoxville is another name - Traction Park.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Aug 31, 2020 14:01:04 GMT
Bill and Ted Face the Music (2020)Of course I'm going to watch this as soon as it comes out. Not great, and some storylines are just dropped without much resolution, but at the end of the day, this is exactly what we all need - a simple comedy that doesn't take itself seriously and doesn't wallow in how shitty life is or can be. It also had this undeniable sweetness to it, it never mocks the main characters or puts them down or anything like that and it makes this movie much more enjoyable than it has any right to be.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 31, 2020 14:44:06 GMT
So I watched Spike Lee's "Da 5 Bloods" in honour of Chadwick Boseman, who has a small part in it. I wish I had re-watched "Black Panther" instead. What a crappy movie. Preachy beyond belief, but even it that weren't the case I don't think it would have been much better. Very disappointing. You owe me 155 minutes, Spike Lee!
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Post by klawrencio79 on Aug 31, 2020 14:50:01 GMT
So I watched Spike Lee's "Da 5 Bloods" in honour of Chadwick Boseman, who has a small part in it. I wish I had re-watched "Black Panther" instead. What a crappy movie. Preachy beyond belief, but even it that weren't the case I don't think it would have been much better. Very disappointing. You owe me 155 minutes, Spike Lee!
I didn't watch that one, I was never a big Spike Lee guy although I love Inside Man, in spite of Jodie Foster's awful performance and entirely superfluous character. I read a review of Da 5 Bloods that said it was particularly graphic. Be that true?
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 31, 2020 15:26:51 GMT
So I watched Spike Lee's "Da 5 Bloods" in honour of Chadwick Boseman, who has a small part in it. I wish I had re-watched "Black Panther" instead. What a crappy movie. Preachy beyond belief, but even it that weren't the case I don't think it would have been much better. Very disappointing. You owe me 155 minutes, Spike Lee!
I didn't watch that one, I was never a big Spike Lee guy although I love Inside Man, in spite of Jodie Foster's awful performance and entirely superfluous character. I read a review of Da 5 Bloods that said it was particularly graphic. Be that true? I liked many of his earlier movies. Having a look at his filmography just now, I realise that I haven't seen any of the movies he made in the past ten years before this one.
There is one scene that is very graphic but almost in a cartoonish way, so it's hard to take it seriously. Other than that, there are gunfights with blood splatter, but nothing that you haven't seen in dozens of action or war movies.
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Post by bluerisk on Aug 31, 2020 20:36:17 GMT
Last weekend:
Und a few seconds ago:
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