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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Mar 11, 2020 20:35:40 GMT -5
A couple of years ago we were in Chicago for my brother-in-law's college graduation and we were driving around with my wife's parents, who asked us what we wanted to do in the city. I, naturally, responded with "Oh, I don't know, check out the Willis Tower and the art institute, maybe sneak into a Cubs game, go for a joy ride in a vintage Ferrari, steal a sausage magnate's reservation at a fancy restaurant, sing a little Wayne Newton at a German-American Day parade--you know, the usual Chicago stuff." Their response? Baffled silence. And they responded that way because my Gen X in-laws who came of age in the 1980s had not only never seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off, they'd never even heard of it. It was surreal. I am in the prime demographic for Hughes movies, and have only seen maybe 75% (each) of Ferris, Breakfast Club, 16 Candles and Pretty in Pink, and only in bits at a time. Pretty in Pink has one of the best movie soundtracks, but it was a better movie as Some Kind of Wonderful. Some Kind of Wonderful is underrated, & I had Mary Stuart Masterson’s haircut for yeeeaaaars I loved it so much. I love the soundtrack too.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Mar 11, 2020 20:47:41 GMT -5
I am in the prime demographic for Hughes movies, and have only seen maybe 75% (each) of Ferris, Breakfast Club, 16 Candles and Pretty in Pink, and only in bits at a time. Pretty in Pink has one of the best movie soundtracks, but it was a better movie as Some Kind of Wonderful. Some Kind of Wonderful is underrated, & I had Mary Stuart Masterson’s haircut for yeeeaaaars I loved it so much. I love the soundtrack too. I loved Some Kind of Wonderful. That kiss curled my toes.
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Mar 11, 2020 21:47:07 GMT -5
One of the many Blade Runner cuts Great movie. as always. Ford is at his Fordest, Sean Young wasn't batshit crazy yet (this is my second favorite Sean Young performance, after the wonderful, criminally underappreciated "Poor White Trash") and the supporting cast is perfection. They got a very deep bench there. However, something struck me as I watched this last night: they said that Tyrell Corp deliberately gave the replicants a four year lifespan to prevent them developing emotions and going violently nuts (didn't quite work out, but hey). This makes no sense whatsoever. Replicant's can't be cheap to create and maintain, so building a deadline into them just....wait...shit....it's planned obsolesce, isn't it? They get to sell new ones every four years. I no kidding just figured this out as I was typing this. Never mind.
The Wicker Man: 1973 Yeah, that sums up so much about the 70's. Great, completely fucked-up movie. It would be a great double feature with Midsomar, but an even better quadruple feature with Zardoz, Lair of the White Worm, and Tommy.
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Post by Nudeviking on Mar 12, 2020 18:55:16 GMT -5
Atomic Blonde (2017) - A badass chick karating the shit out of goons might be my favorite genre of movie and this certainly had that in spades. Set in Berlin at the tail end of the Cold War we got some solid Communist Kung Fu as well as a kick ass soundtrack (Till Tuesday’s “Voices Carry” is legit one of the greatest songs of all time) and ladies who love other ladies, which all together, make this one of the greatest movies I’ve ever seen in my life.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Mar 12, 2020 19:23:36 GMT -5
Knives Out (2019) - I thought it was excellent. It does a really good job of evoking old-timey murder mystery tropes without getting too twee, or making a film set in modern times feel anachronistic. Daniel Craig's private investigator character is delightfully over-the-top. It's hilarious, the mystery itself is engaging, and it was surprisingly touching in places. Fuck yeah, great movie. A
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Post by oppy all along on Mar 13, 2020 6:02:18 GMT -5
The Invisible Man (2020): Jeeeeesus. The first half of the movie where Mr. Invisible is gaslighting Cecilia is one of the most upsetting things put to film. It's almost a relief when he turns into a standard monster villain and starts mowing people down. Super intense, stellar performance from Elisabeth Moss, and respect to Leigh Whannell for doing a lot with a little.
Remember when Aldis Hodge was the nerd in Leverage? Dude is ripped.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Mar 13, 2020 19:07:50 GMT -5
Some Kind of Wonderful is underrated, & I had Mary Stuart Masterson’s haircut for yeeeaaaars I loved it so much. I love the soundtrack too. I loved Some Kind of Wonderful. That kiss curled my toes. Eric Stoltz was also WAY hotter than Andrew McCarthy come on now
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Mar 13, 2020 19:47:18 GMT -5
I loved Some Kind of Wonderful. That kiss curled my toes. Eric Stoltz was also WAY hotter than Andrew McCarthy come on now Oh hell yeah!
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Mar 13, 2020 21:08:32 GMT -5
I'm watching Death at the Funeral, and Alan Tudyk on drugs is killing me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2020 19:47:54 GMT -5
Paradise Hills - We got five movies from Redbox last night to keep us occupied today. Baby B watched hers last night (Maleficent 2), and I was going to watch Detective Pikachu with her, but since she and my wife woke up at 6am today and I slept in until 8:30, they watched it without me. I'd already seen Zombieland 2, and didn't care to watch the Downton Abbey movie, so I watched this with Mrs B this afternoon. Meh. Mediocre dystopian "creepy brainwashing island resort isn't what it seems to be" that had one mildly interesting twist, one okay twist, and one "what the fuck was that?!" twist. In order: The women at the resort aren't being brainwashed, but replaced...with clones? Oh, they're not clones, they're lower society lookalikes who are getting surgery to match the appearances of the subjects, and then being taught how to mimic them. Oh, and also, the Milla Jovovich in charge of the facility is a bunch of vampiric vines for some reason? Who is killed by a single stab or cut somehow? "THAT was stupid!" both my wife and I stated.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2020 21:52:03 GMT -5
The World's Greatest Sinner (1962) A passion project for character actor Timothy Carey, who stars and directs. Carey, probably best known as a favorite of Kubrick and Cassavetes, had a wild career--his IMDB bio page is definitely worth a read. Carey plays Clarence, an insurance salesman who quits his job out of boredom. He then proceeds to sell his soul to Satan, glue on an extremely fake-looking soul patch, and become a rock 'n roll preacher-politician who runs for President on a platform of granting eternal life to his supporters. Along the way, he makes out with an elderly woman he's just met, holds a press conference from a gilded throne, and repeatedly stabs a communion wafer to test whether God exists, all leading to a largely incoherent ending. The camerawork from scene to scene runs the gamut from utterly incompetent to surprisingly artful. Similarly, the story is a tonal rollercoaster, with one scene literally featuring BOING! and ZOOM! comedic sound effects and others seemingly 100% sincere. Apparently, the film was made in fits and starts over a course of three years. Yet, for such a ramshackle production, Carey had some prominent collaborators. Paul Frees contributes narration as The Devil. The score is the first published work of a then-unknown Frank Zappa. Portions of the cinematography were from Edgar Ulmer, a prolific director of noir including 1945's Detour, and Ray Dennis Steckler, a B-movie director whose films include MST3K selection The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies. So, yeah, quite the little curiosity. It's on Amazon Prime.
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Post by pairesta on Mar 15, 2020 9:15:15 GMT -5
More movies with our daughter:
Real Genius: Ebert wrote very appreciably about how the movie really captures the world of the smart kids in this movie, and it was similar to what my daughter really liked about it and tried to articulate. "They're really smart, but they seem like real people." She was fascinated by Lazlo. Problematic factor: the bikini contest. And, even back then, what the hell is Patty D'Arbanville's character even about? But other than that it's so great still.
Guys! GUYS! This is epic. When Jordan is introduced, my wife said to my daughter: "Recognize that actress? From Labyrinth? It's Phoebe Cates!" Oh, honey.
Wargames: I felt a little protective of this one. "OK honey. This is an older movie. You have to understand computers were just really becoming a thing then. We needed a computer the size of a room to do what your phone does now. Nobody really knew about the internet." "Is THAT Ferris Bueller?" My daughter asked. Broderick is probably actually a teenager in this one. It's quite a study in contrasts. When you think about it, Bueller is probably the aberration in his career, with most of the rest of his characters being much closer in flavor to the one he plays here. When I was a kid, it took my a while to really understand the plot of the movie, but my daughter caught on right away. "That was TENSE!" She remarked at the end. Whew!
Inception: This was risky but I thought she'd like the twists and turns of the movie. "Wait. Is this a dream inside a dream inside a dream? WHOOOOAHHHHH." When it was over she looked right at me in a daze and made a little explosion noise and gesture around her head. Then I told her my theory that the whole movie is a dream and about an inception on Cobb to get him to wake up (fight me). Then she really didn't know what to think.
Return to Oz: This was my wife's choice, a favorite of her and her siblings growing up. I've never seen it. Very famously in our family, my mom took my brother and his friend to see it and they both ran out of the theater at one point. This is probably one of the last movies of Disney's "Fuck You, Children!" run from the mid 70s to the mid 80s. Jesus it really is an off-putting film. Every design, even things like the scarecrow, are all just creepy and unsettling. I know it's much more a sequel to the books than the movie, and the character design hews more closely to the source, but still I found myself really put off by the whole affair. I just can't fathom how this was greenlit to begin with even. The idea that the postscript of that wonderful closing scene in the original is Aunty Em toting Dorothy off to an insane asylum for electroshock therapy goes quite a bit past "dark". My daughter didn't like it much either. "It's an acquired taste!" My wife offered cheerfully.
Tremors: God it has to have been close to 30 years since I last saw this. And you know, it's pretty fucking great! "Uh, this isn't a horror movie is it?" My daughter groaned. She's a horror weenie like her dad. "Just watch, honey. I saw this alone in the theater and it was so fun." I think part of why I love this movie is that it was my first experience with being scared and still laughing in a movie. And man, there are some intense deaths in this. She was quickly won over by Ward and Bacon's antics and enjoyed it a lot. Afterwards we told her about the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game, which completely baffled her in concept. Then she promptly stumped us with a pick (Tom Holland). (Yes, I got it eventually, and had to call her out of her room and back downstairs to walk her through it.)
Starman: Man these are all still great movies! I'm almost positive I've shown this to my wife at least twice before but she claims no memory of it. I still love the score. Bridges gives one of my all-time favorite performances and this time I really dug Karen Allen's raw performance too. "Why is he moving so weird?" "Because he's not used to this body." "OOOOOH." They both really liked it.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Mar 15, 2020 17:46:43 GMT -5
More movies with our daughter: Real Genius: Ebert wrote very appreciably about how the movie really captures the world of the smart kids in this movie, and it was similar to what my daughter really liked about it and tried to articulate. "They're really smart, but they seem like real people." She was fascinated by Lazlo. Problematic factor: the bikini contest. And, even back then, what the hell is Patty D'Arbanville's character even about? But other than that it's so great still. Guys! GUYS! This is epic. When Jordan is introduced, my wife said to my daughter: "Recognize that actress? From Labyrinth? It's Phoebe Cates!" Oh, honey. Wargames: I felt a little protective of this one. "OK honey. This is an older movie. You have to understand computers were just really becoming a thing then. We needed a computer the size of a room to do what your phone does now. Nobody really knew about the internet." "Is THAT Ferris Bueller?" My daughter asked. Broderick is probably actually a teenager in this one. It's quite a study in contrasts. When you think about it, Bueller is probably the aberration in his career, with most of the rest of his characters being much closer in flavor to the one he plays here. When I was a kid, it took my a while to really understand the plot of the movie, but my daughter caught on right away. "That was TENSE!" She remarked at the end. Whew! Inception: This was risky but I thought she'd like the twists and turns of the movie. "Wait. Is this a dream inside a dream inside a dream? WHOOOOAHHHHH." When it was over she looked right at me in a daze and made a little explosion noise and gesture around her head. Then I told her my theory that the whole movie is a dream and about an inception on Cobb to get him to wake up (fight me). Then she really didn't know what to think. Return to Oz: This was my wife's choice, a favorite of her and her siblings growing up. I've never seen it. Very famously in our family, my mom took my brother and his friend to see it and they both ran out of the theater at one point. This is probably one of the last movies of Disney's "Fuck You, Children!" run from the mid 70s to the mid 80s. Jesus it really is an off-putting film. Every design, even things like the scarecrow, are all just creepy and unsettling. I know it's much more a sequel to the books than the movie, and the character design hews more closely to the source, but still I found myself really put off by the whole affair. I just can't fathom how this was greenlit to begin with even. The idea that the postscript of that wonderful closing scene in the original is Aunty Em toting Dorothy off to an insane asylum for electroshock therapy goes quite a bit past "dark". My daughter didn't like it much either. "It's an acquired taste!" My wife offered cheerfully. Tremors: God it has to have been close to 30 years since I last saw this. And you know, it's pretty fucking great! "Uh, this isn't a horror movie is it?" My daughter groaned. She's a horror weenie like her dad. "Just watch, honey. I saw this alone in the theater and it was so fun." I think part of why I love this movie is that it was my first experience with being scared and still laughing in a movie. And man, there are some intense deaths in this. She was quickly won over by Ward and Bacon's antics and enjoyed it a lot. Afterwards we told her about the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game, which completely baffled her in concept. Then she promptly stumped us with a pick (Tom Holland). (Yes, I got it eventually, and had to call her out of her room and back downstairs to walk her through it.) Starman: Man these are all still great movies! I'm almost positive I've shown this to my wife at least twice before but she claims no memory of it. I still love the score. Bridges gives one of my all-time favorite performances and this time I really dug Karen Allen's raw performance too. "Why is he moving so weird?" "Because he's not used to this body." "OOOOOH." They both really liked it. Tom Holland->Avengers w/ Robert Downey Jr >w/ Tommy Lee Jones in US Marshals-in JFK w/ Kevin Bacon Which route did you take? (we eventually banned the use of Chaplin & Pulp Fiction from this game because it made it too easy. ) (we also rarely actually use Kevin Bacon, instead just pick two random actors. It is HARD when playing with people under 30 who pull out, say, Disney stars I know nothing about lol) Also I love Ally Sherry in WarGames so much; she’s so cute & pretty much a perfect 17 year old girl.
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Post by pairesta on Mar 16, 2020 8:34:57 GMT -5
Tom Holland->Avengers w/ Robert Downey Jr >w/ Tommy Lee Jones in US Marshals-in JFK w/ Kevin Bacon Which route did you take? (we eventually banned the use of Chaplin & Pulp Fiction from this game because it made it too easy. ) (we also rarely actually use Kevin Bacon, instead just pick two random actors. It is HARD when playing with people under 30 who pull out, say, Disney stars I know nothing about lol) Also I love Ally Sherry in WarGames so much; she’s so cute & pretty much a perfect 17 year old girl. I did TLJ also but connected him through Chris Evans (first Captain America). I forgot to call out Sheedy in Wargames. She's just radiant in that movie. I like how they downplay the romantic possibilities between her and Broderick; it doesn't ever rise above flirting. My daughter was taken with her as well.
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Post by LazBro on Mar 16, 2020 8:54:59 GMT -5
I didn't love the movie or anything, but it really was cool of Disney to release Frozen II on Disney+ three months early.
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Mar 16, 2020 11:52:56 GMT -5
Movie intake has been low the last couple of weeks. I watched the original The Muppet Movie, maybe the first time I've ever watched that movie start to finish. It's pretty okay. Some great bits but you know, kind of slow. Also watched The Muppets, which I still think is pretty great. I got half way through Detective Pikachu but really just didn't care any more and turned it off. I have no connect to these Pokemen so the excitement of seeing them rendered in 3D was lost on me. I think Ryan Renyolds doing his thing as the voice of Pikachu really started to grate on me, too.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Mar 16, 2020 12:39:23 GMT -5
Call Me By Your Name: My wife watched this one the plane and really wanted to watch it again with me. It's very beautiful and melancholic and well-acted and made me wish I had a villa in northern Italy (pandemics notwithstanding). Not gonna lie, though--a romance between a 25-year-old and 17-year-old made me a little uncomfortable.
The Great Muppet Caper: Uneven, and occasionally it feels like they're trying to pad out a 75 minute movie into a 97 minute movie--a lot of the musical set pieces really drag--but it's still one of my favorite muppet movies. The running gag about Kermit and Fozzie being indistinguishable is one of the greatest muppets-style stupid-funny jokes of all time.
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Mar 17, 2020 1:37:40 GMT -5
Tom Holland was in Avengers with Josh Brolin who was in Hollow Man with Kevin Bacon. BOOM.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Mar 17, 2020 11:46:20 GMT -5
We subscribed to the Criterion Channel (finally) to get a little culture in our quarantine. So far we've watched Ikiru, A Raisin In The Sun and The Lady From Shanghai.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Mar 17, 2020 11:55:38 GMT -5
We subscribed to the Criterion Channel (finally) to get a little culture in our quarantine. So far we've watched Ikiru, A Raisin In The Sun and The Lady From Shanghai. What did you think of The Lady from Shanghai. Not Welles' best, imo, but I thought it was a fun noir, and the mirror scene was awesome.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Mar 17, 2020 12:01:19 GMT -5
We subscribed to the Criterion Channel (finally) to get a little culture in our quarantine. So far we've watched Ikiru, A Raisin In The Sun and The Lady From Shanghai. What did you think of The Lady from Shanghai. Not Welles' best, imo, but I thought it was a fun noir, and the mirror scene was awesome. Oh, man, what a Frankenstein's monster of a movie. Unlike Magnificent Ambersons I'm not sure I would want to see the version that was 50 minutes longer, because the first half of it is already pretty draggy in spots, but it's just painfully obvious where new expository insert shots and narration have been wedged in, and the last twenty minutes are the cinematic equivalent of "and then everyone died, the end." But it's still a lot of fun, especially the courtroom scene, which feels like the only part that still represents the original tone of the movie.
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Post by Nudeviking on Mar 20, 2020 18:26:38 GMT -5
Darc (2018) - The little poster/video cover/header image thing Netflix had coupled with the fact that it was in the "Because You Watched Furie" category led me to believe this was going to be another bad-ass Asian lady karates the fuck out of kidnappers/assassins/drug dealers movie out of South-East Asia. It was not. Instead it was a bearded white guy playing the part of the bad-ass Asian lady karating the fuck out of everyone to avenge someone.
After a brief intro thing where we see the titular Darc as a child witness his mother getting murdered in a brothel by Yakuza guys we flash forward to the present where an adult Darc is getting let out of prison early due a cop (later mentioned in passing to be part of Interpol) with a fake leg putting in a good word for him. This Interpol cop wants Darc's help getting his daughter back from the Yakuza. Why Darc is in prison or how he knows this random Interpol guy with a fake leg is never really explained.
Darc's originally reluctant to help the cop but eventually agrees to infiltrate the Yakuza in America and save the guy's daughter. He does so by engaging in the hardest hard R action flick shit I've seen in a movie in a long time. He karates the fuck out of guys. Uzis the fuck out of guys. Sword chops the fuck out of guys. Every ten minutes some lady is getting her tits out. None of it is good cinema or logical but if you want to see a white guy take out an entire office building of Yakuza guys and then commit seppuku to lure the final boss into a murder trap then this is the movie for you!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2020 22:50:43 GMT -5
Brave - I forgot how much I loved this when it came out! A bunch of clans where the women are in charge, the princess is a strong-willed and talented woman who does NOT want to get married, and some incredibly beautiful scenery and animation. And all of the characters are great, especially the triplets. Baby B hadn't seen it yet, and she loved it too.
Then I also showed her Luxo Jr. because she always laughs at the lamp in the Pixar logo, and then showed her PRESTO! which is their funniest short and she watched it twice in a row.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Mar 21, 2020 12:26:54 GMT -5
Brave - I forgot how much I loved this when it came out! A bunch of clans where the women are in charge, the princess is a strong-willed and talented woman who does NOT want to get married, and some incredibly beautiful scenery and animation. And all of the characters are great, especially the triplets. Baby B hadn't seen it yet, and she loved it too. Then I also showed her Luxo Jr. because she always laughs at the lamp in the Pixar logo, and then showed her PRESTO! which is their funniest short and she watched it twice in a row. I love the lamp too! I don't think I've seen PRESTO! I'll have to check it out.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2020 16:34:52 GMT -5
Parasite (2019)
Good ol' Bong. Reliably interesting and craftsmanlike as a goddamn Volvo.
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Post by ganews on Mar 22, 2020 20:12:29 GMT -5
Telework Week 1 Movies
Lars and the Real Girl - What a sweet little movie. Was it wrong for Ryan Gosling to peel off David Arquette's face, Hannibal Lecter-style, and wear it for the duration of the film while simultaneously delivering a better performance than the real David Arquette ever could? I bet Courtney Cox likes this movie a lot.
Black Panther - Still bad-ass in so many ways.
Logan Lucky - I didn't even know this was a Channing Tatum movie until I started it, what with Daniel Craig and Adam Driver sticking out of the poster. Pretty entertaining if not peak Soderbergh (though thee certainly were enough self-references). The Rube Goldberg heist was a bit too contingent on luck (hence the title) and Batman Gambits compared to Ocean's 11, but yeah, fun.
Gangs of New York - I love Daniel Day-Lewis and this is one of my favorite Scorsese movies. Cameron Diaz is better than she gets credit for.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Mar 22, 2020 20:50:02 GMT -5
Telework Week 1 Movies
Lars and the Real Girl - What a sweet little movie. Was it wrong for Ryan Gosling to peel off David Arquette's face, Hannibal Lecter-style, and wear it for the duration of the film while simultaneously delivering a better performance than the real David Arquette ever could? I bet Courtney Cox likes this movie a lot.
I think Ryan Gosling is FANTASTIC in this film. I was afraid the movie was going to be dumb. I feel like Gosling's 100% committed performance is what sells the premise. It may still be my favorite performance of his.
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Mar 23, 2020 10:01:51 GMT -5
Labyrinth A nostalgic favorite. A little worried the Goblin King might come steal my daughter now, but frankly Sarah deserved it anyway. There were so many blankets in the crib with the baby. That's child abuse.
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Post by sarapen on Mar 23, 2020 17:58:37 GMT -5
Chasing the Dragon (2017) starring Donnie Yen and Andy Lau.
It was Sunday afternoon and I was stuck at home with a bag of chips and some beer and I thought, "Boy, this is the perfect time for a kung fu movie. And what luck, Netflix has a fairly recent Donnie Yen movie!"
Ugh, I should have watched Five Element Ninjas instead. There was barely any kung fu and it was mostly a crime thriller - a really hacky and melodramatic one. It's not even terrible enough to laugh at, it's just mediocre. I guess Donnie Yen's getting old and can't do as much martial arts, but does Andy Lau really need the money or something?
Anyway, I don't recommend this movie, not even as something crappy to laugh at while you're stoned. Stay away.
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Post by Nudeviking on Mar 24, 2020 19:59:13 GMT -5
Skin Trade (2014) - Dolph Lundgren and Tony Jaa karate and machine gun the fuck out of everyone to bust up a human trafficking ring in this movie that somehow came out in 2014. Michael Jai White and Peter “Robocop 1 & Robocop 2” Weller show up as cops and Ron Perlman plays a Serbian war criminal cum gangster involved in the titular “skin trade.” If you long for the days when action movies involved dudes with bazookas getting into karate fights, crooked cops, and random boobage than this is the movie for you. If you want a plot that makes sense you should probably look elsewhere.
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