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Post by James on May 15, 2022 14:59:59 GMT
Haven't seen anything from yours. Haven't watched anything myself this week.
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Post by jcush on May 15, 2022 18:31:12 GMT
The Bridge on the River Kwai - Due for a rewatch, but I thought it was very good, with strong performances. 8/10 Ali - 7/10 First Time Viewings: A Scanner Darkly (2006, Richard Linklater) - 7/10Me and Orson Welles (2008, Richard Linklater) - 7/10Kiss and Make-Up (1934, Harlan Thompson) - 6/10Murders in the Zoo (1933, A. Edward Sutherland) - 7/10Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995, Todd Solondz) - 7/10The Northman (2022, Robert Eggers) - 7.5/10Torch Singer (1933, Alexander Hall & George Somnes) - 7/10Django & Django (2021, Luca Rea) - 7/10Every Which Way buy Loose (1978, James Fargo) - 7/10Repeat Viewings: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001, Chris Columbus) - 8/10Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002, Chris Columbus) - 8/10Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004, Alfonso Cuarón) - 8.5/10Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005, Mike Newell) - 8.5/10Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007, David Yates) - 8/10Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, David Yates) - 8/10Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010, David Yates) - 8/10Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011, David Yates) - 8/10Movie Awards: BEST FILM: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanBEST ACTOR: Cary Grant - Kiss and Make-UpBEST ACTRESS: Claudette Colbert - Torch SingerBEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Christian McKay - Me and Orson WellesBEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Imelda Staunton - Harry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixBEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jarin Blaschke - The NorthmanBEST SCORE: John Williams - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's StoneBEST SCRIPT: Steve Kloves - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanBEST DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanAny interest in Birdy? Or anything else? Birdy is on my watchlist.
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Post by jcush on May 15, 2022 18:33:01 GMT
First Time Viewing Paranoiac (1963; Freddie Francis) - One of the Hammer films inspired by Psycho this lose adaptation of Josephine Teys's novel Brat Farrar works well as a supsense thriller, even introducing some slasher elements, and it also has one brilliant jump scare. But the last act is a bit too melodramatic with some of the cast, even Oliver Reed, whom I usually like, wildly over-acting. 6.5/10 Repeat Viewing Primal Fear (1996; Gregory Hoblit) - I used to find this overrated, and still stand by my original opinion. Norton is pretty good, but his character is almost used as a gimmick, instead of really exploring what makes him tick. 6/10 Rogue (2007; Greg McLean) - A giant croc terrorises a tourist group in the Australian outback. I liked this better the first time around. There are just too many characters here and some of them are mighty annoying. Michael Vartan also makes for a rather dull hero. 6.5/10 Primal Fear - I like it a lot. Norton is fantastic and Gere and Linney are very good too. 8/10
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Post by darksidebeadle on May 15, 2022 18:51:23 GMT
First Viewings:
McQ (1974) 5.5/10 Escape from L.A. (1996) 4/10 The Black Tent (1956) 6/10 Daughter of the Dragon (1931) 4/10 Repeat Viewings:
Beau Geste (1939) 7.5/10 Shanghai Express (1932) 7/10 Only Angels Have Wings (1939) 9.5/10 Knights of the Round Table (1953) 7/10 Your List:The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 7/10 Ali (2001) 5/10 Escape from L.A. (1996) 3/10 Shanghai Express (1932) on my watchlist Only Angels Have Wings (1939) on my watchlist
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Post by darksidebeadle on May 15, 2022 23:24:33 GMT
Any interest in Birdy? Or anything else? Birdy is on my watchlist. Will you see Strange 2 theatrically?
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Post by jcush on May 15, 2022 23:52:44 GMT
Birdy is on my watchlist. Will you see Strange 2 theatrically? Maybe.
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Post by sjg on May 16, 2022 7:22:06 GMT
Hi Dark,
Yours: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, David Lean) 7/10
Ali (2001, Michael Mann) 7/10
Birdy (1984, Alan Parker) 6/10
Mine: 1) I, Superbiker 5: Split Second 2015 (5/10)
2) The House of Rothschild 1934 (5/10)
3) I Am Soldier 2014 (6/10)
4) The Host 2013 (5/10)
5) Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 (6/10)
6) Alice 1990 (4/10)
7) Börn náttúrunnar (Children of Nature) 1991 (5/10)
8) The Field 1990 (6/10)
9) The Grudge 2020 (4/10)
10) Don't Look Up 2021 (7/10)
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Post by darksidebeadle on May 16, 2022 7:49:27 GMT
Hi Dark, Yours: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, David Lean) 7/10 Ali (2001, Michael Mann) 7/10 Birdy (1984, Alan Parker) 6/10 Mine: 1) I, Superbiker 5: Split Second 2015 (5/10) 2) The House of Rothschild 1934 (5/10) 3) I Am Soldier 2014 (6/10) 4) The Host 2013 (5/10) 5) Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 (6/10) 6) Alice 1990 (4/10) 7) Börn náttúrunnar (Children of Nature) 1991 (5/10) 8) The Field 1990 (6/10) 9) The Grudge 2020 (4/10) 10) Don't Look Up 2021 (7/10) Hey SJG 5) Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 (5.5/10) 6) Alice 1990 (6/10) 10) Don't Look Up 2021 (7/10)
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Post by william123 on May 16, 2022 13:31:19 GMT
Welcome back to another week of the BEST & WORST edition of 'what movies did you see last week?' thread. For those who haven't been part of it before, basically your host (me) posts my weekly movies and you can comment on those and list your movie for the same time frame. I will get back to you on yours and you can talk to other users here about their films. It's a great place to talk about film. FIRST TIME MOVIE VIEWING The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, David Lean) Netflix
I am going to call this a first viewing although previously I was sure I had seen this film as a kid. After viewing it I recognised several scenes but there were huge swaths that I had zero recollection of. So I either saw it or saw parts of it before. It was less serious and dark than I was expecting and a mixed bag from scene to scene but when it was good it was very good. I think there was a lot of filler but the ending is great so you go out on a high note. 7/10 The Nickel Ride (1974, Robert Mulligan)
Jason Miller (The Exorcist) plays a criminal in Los Angeles, begins to think that his accomplices want to get rid of him. It is a gritty 70s crime film that whilst not A tier is worth a look. 6.5/10 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022, Sam Raimi) Cinema
I wanted to go see Everything Everywhere All at Once but the sessions did not work out so I ended up seeing this. It sucks. It has a handful of Raimi flourishes that take up maybe 2% at best of the film. The rest is one cgi set piece after another with very little depth. One of Raimi's worst and one of the MCU's worst. 4/10 REPEAT MOVIE VIEWINGAli (2001, Michael Mann) Netflix
Mann's epic look at Muhammad Ali has a lot going for it but I wish he would have less moody montages and more info and events from Ali's life. 7/10 Birdy (1984, Alan Parker)
Two young men (Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage) are seriously affected by the Vietnam war. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. The film has some stunning scenes and is well made, Modine is excellent but I did not care for Cage in the film. 6/10 FIRST TIME TV VIEWING Marcella (2016, Season One) Netflix
Marcella Backland left the Metropolitan Police for the sake of her family, only to have her husband leave her. She returns to her job on the murder squad, investigating a case that seems disturbingly familiar to her. Good TV The Pentaverate (2019, season one) Netflix
Mike Myers returns with a series based on a joke from So I Married an Axe Murderer. He plays a multitude of characters in this very wild and zany series. Myers plays a multitude of characters and like the jokes, some hit and some don't.. on the whole I enjoyed it though. Okay TV WEEKLY FILM AWARDS
BEST FILM: Ali BEST ACTOR: Matthew Modine - Birdy BEST ACTRESS: Elizabeth Olsen - Dr Strange BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jamie Foxx - Ali BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Linda Haynes - The Nickel Ride BEST EDITING: Gerry Hambling - Birdy BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emmanuel Lubezki - Ali BEST SCORE: Malcolm Arnold - The Bridge on the River Kwai BEST SCRIPT: Sandy Kroopf, Jack Behr - Birdy BEST DIRECTOR: Michael Mann - Ali 10/10 - Perfection (or as close to it as possible) 09/10 - An Excellent film 08/10 - A VERY Good film 07/10 - A Good film 06/10 - A Solid film 05/10 - An Average film 04/10 - Below Average film 03/10 - A mostly bad film 02/10 - A mostly terrible film 01/10 - Awful through and through 00/10 - Not only awful but offensive too Hi, Dark. I never watched The Bridge on the River Kwai actually. I will have to remedy that. Interested in The Nickel Ride. Yours: Ali 7/10 I thought it was O.K. Will Smith was good, but kind of miscast, IMO. I watched some parts of Birdy, or maybe even the whole thing, but I really don't remember it well. Yours: Nightmare Alley (2021) 9/10 The remake by Guillermo Del Toro, I caught up with it. It's about a drifter with a mysterious past who ends up working in a carnival show, and he becomes really successful with a number in which he uses mentalist tricks to make people believe he really has supernatural powers. Loved it. I really liked the original too, but I thought this one was really great. It's really dark and stylish, loved it visually. I really loved Bradley Cooper, he really has an old school movie star vibe. Loved Richard Jenkins too. Phase IV 8/10 It's a sci fi movie from the 70s, it's about two scientists who investigates on a phenomenon in which th ants seems to have become suddenly intelligent creatures and they either wants to start communicating with human beings or waging war on them. I really liked it, loved the atmosphere, the ending too. Also, the ants shots are really incredible, I think mostly they actually filmed actual ants, no special effects. Wargames 8/10 It's the movie with Matthew Broderick about a high school kid who, without realizing it, hacks into the computer controlling US nuclear missiles system, starts to play a simulation game with it, and that might end up starting an actual nuclear war. It's pretty good, it holds up to me. It's well made.
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Post by darksidebeadle on May 16, 2022 15:12:18 GMT
Welcome back to another week of the BEST & WORST edition of 'what movies did you see last week?' thread. For those who haven't been part of it before, basically your host (me) posts my weekly movies and you can comment on those and list your movie for the same time frame. I will get back to you on yours and you can talk to other users here about their films. It's a great place to talk about film. FIRST TIME MOVIE VIEWING The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, David Lean) Netflix
I am going to call this a first viewing although previously I was sure I had seen this film as a kid. After viewing it I recognised several scenes but there were huge swaths that I had zero recollection of. So I either saw it or saw parts of it before. It was less serious and dark than I was expecting and a mixed bag from scene to scene but when it was good it was very good. I think there was a lot of filler but the ending is great so you go out on a high note. 7/10 The Nickel Ride (1974, Robert Mulligan)
Jason Miller (The Exorcist) plays a criminal in Los Angeles, begins to think that his accomplices want to get rid of him. It is a gritty 70s crime film that whilst not A tier is worth a look. 6.5/10 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022, Sam Raimi) Cinema
I wanted to go see Everything Everywhere All at Once but the sessions did not work out so I ended up seeing this. It sucks. It has a handful of Raimi flourishes that take up maybe 2% at best of the film. The rest is one cgi set piece after another with very little depth. One of Raimi's worst and one of the MCU's worst. 4/10 REPEAT MOVIE VIEWINGAli (2001, Michael Mann) Netflix
Mann's epic look at Muhammad Ali has a lot going for it but I wish he would have less moody montages and more info and events from Ali's life. 7/10 Birdy (1984, Alan Parker)
Two young men (Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage) are seriously affected by the Vietnam war. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. The film has some stunning scenes and is well made, Modine is excellent but I did not care for Cage in the film. 6/10 FIRST TIME TV VIEWING Marcella (2016, Season One) Netflix
Marcella Backland left the Metropolitan Police for the sake of her family, only to have her husband leave her. She returns to her job on the murder squad, investigating a case that seems disturbingly familiar to her. Good TV The Pentaverate (2019, season one) Netflix
Mike Myers returns with a series based on a joke from So I Married an Axe Murderer. He plays a multitude of characters in this very wild and zany series. Myers plays a multitude of characters and like the jokes, some hit and some don't.. on the whole I enjoyed it though. Okay TV WEEKLY FILM AWARDS
BEST FILM: Ali BEST ACTOR: Matthew Modine - Birdy BEST ACTRESS: Elizabeth Olsen - Dr Strange BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jamie Foxx - Ali BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Linda Haynes - The Nickel Ride BEST EDITING: Gerry Hambling - Birdy BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emmanuel Lubezki - Ali BEST SCORE: Malcolm Arnold - The Bridge on the River Kwai BEST SCRIPT: Sandy Kroopf, Jack Behr - Birdy BEST DIRECTOR: Michael Mann - Ali 10/10 - Perfection (or as close to it as possible) 09/10 - An Excellent film 08/10 - A VERY Good film 07/10 - A Good film 06/10 - A Solid film 05/10 - An Average film 04/10 - Below Average film 03/10 - A mostly bad film 02/10 - A mostly terrible film 01/10 - Awful through and through 00/10 - Not only awful but offensive too Hi, Dark. I never watched The Bridge on the River Kwai actually. I will have to remedy that. Interested in The Nickel Ride. Yours: Ali 7/10 I thought it was O.K. Will Smith was good, but kind of miscast, IMO. I watched some parts of Birdy, or maybe even the whole thing, but I really don't remember it well. Yours: Nightmare Alley (2021) 9/10 The remake by Guillermo Del Toro, I caught up wiht it. It's about a drifter with a mysterious past who ends up working in a carnival show, and he becomes really successful with a number in which he uses mentalist tricks to make people believe he really has supernatural powers. Loved it. I really liked the original too, but I thought this one was really great. It's really dark and stylish, loved it visually. I really loved Bradley Cooper, he really has an old school movie star vibe. Loved Richard Jenkins too. Phase IV 8/10 It's a sci fi movie from the 70s, it's about two scientists who investigates on a phenomenon in which th ants seems to have become suddenly intelligent creatures and they either wants to start communicating with human beings or waging war on them. I really liked it, loved the atmosphere, the ending too. Also, the ants shots are really incredible, I think mostly they actually filmed actual ants, no special effects. Wargames 8/10 It's the movie with Matthew Broderick about a high school kid who, without realizing it, hacks into the computer controlling US nuclear missiles system, starts to play a simulation game with it, and that might end up starting an actual nuclear war. It's pretty good, it holds up to me. It's well made. Hey Billy Nightmare Alley (2021) I didn’t like it. I felt it lacked spark and felt artificial. Some good performances though . 5.6 Phase IV - on my watchlist Wargames - saw this in the cinema as a child and maybe once since 6/10
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Post by william123 on May 16, 2022 17:51:14 GMT
Hi, Dark. I never watched The Bridge on the River Kwai actually. I will have to remedy that. Interested in The Nickel Ride. Yours: Ali 7/10 I thought it was O.K. Will Smith was good, but kind of miscast, IMO. I watched some parts of Birdy, or maybe even the whole thing, but I really don't remember it well. Yours: Nightmare Alley (2021) 9/10 The remake by Guillermo Del Toro, I caught up with it. It's about a drifter with a mysterious past who ends up working in a carnival show, and he becomes really successful with a number in which he uses mentalist tricks to make people believe he really has supernatural powers. Loved it. I really liked the original too, but I thought this one was really great. It's really dark and stylish, loved it visually. I really loved Bradley Cooper, he really has an old school movie star vibe. Loved Richard Jenkins too. Phase IV 8/10 It's a sci fi movie from the 70s, it's about two scientists who investigates on a phenomenon in which th ants seems to have become suddenly intelligent creatures and they either wants to start communicating with human beings or waging war on them. I really liked it, loved the atmosphere, the ending too. Also, the ants shots are really incredible, I think mostly they actually filmed actual ants, no special effects. Wargames 8/10 It's the movie with Matthew Broderick about a high school kid who, without realizing it, hacks into the computer controlling US nuclear missiles system, starts to play a simulation game with it, and that might end up starting an actual nuclear war. It's pretty good, it holds up to me. It's well made. Hey Billy Nightmare Alley (2021) I didn’t like it. I felt it lacked spark and felt artificial. Some good performances though . 5.6 Phase IV - on my watchlist Wargames - saw this in the cinema as a child and maybe once since 6/10 Yeah, I liked the artificial feel/look, actually. Cool. Phase IV should be more known, it's good, IMO.
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