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[Huntn]

For anyone who has seen both movies, how would you compare Pacific Rim with Godzilla? Both heavy CGI movies, the same genre and similar story lines, as far as dealing with large monsters, the former contains impressive action sequences. I won't see Godzilla until it streams.

I'm watching "High Plains Drifter"...again.

Always enjoyable, if a bit derivative of Sergio Leone.

I think my favorite Clint Western is the The Outlaw Josie Wales where Clint is a mortal.

 

[CrickettGrrrl]

I rented "How to Steal a Million" 1966, and loved just about everyone & everything in it. Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, and all the other marvelous character actors. Plus Audrey's little red Autobianchi Bianchina Special Cabriolet, the yellow E-type Jag, the hidden painting studio in the cabinet (!!!), and many other things.

Not too crazy about the odd Givenchy/Jetsons "hat", it made Audrey look like the Great Gazoo from the Flintstones.

 

[millerj123]

CBGB I'm a huge Alan Rickman fan, and of some of the music out of CBGB. It was a little dark and depressing, but then the whole scene was, so I thought it worked well.

This is 40 I liked Leslie Mann in George of the Jungle, but all she had to do was play a ditzy blonde. I didn't really care for Knocked Up and I think I liked this even less. They were in really bad shape mostly due to their own decisions. I guess it's "Hey honey, we've really messed up our lives, lets try and un-mess them just a little...". Which, to their credit, they did.

Finally, although I only watched a little, I heard all of Walking with Dinosaurs The Movie. My youngest son loves it. Overall, not too bad, as it follows one dinosaur as he goes from hatchling to grown-up. It had just a little bathroom humor, which never gets old.

 

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I think my favorite Clint Western is the The Outlaw Josie Wales where Clint is a mortal.

I guess if I had to pick a favorite Eastwood Western, it would be "The Unforgiven".

 

[Scepticalscribe]

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I think my favorite Clint Western is the The Outlaw Josie Wales where Clint is a mortal.

An excellent movie, and I especially love Chief Dan George in it. To my mind, this marks the beginning of Clint Eastwood really finding his own true voice as a director. It also takes many of the tired tropes and clichés of the western genre, and beautifully upends them.

I rented "How to Steal a Million" 1966, and loved just about everyone & everything in it. Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, and all the other marvelous character actors. Plus Audrey's little red Autobianchi Bianchina Special Cabriolet, the yellow E-type Jag, the hidden painting studio in the cabinet (!!!), and many other things.

Not too crazy about the odd Givenchy/Jetsons "hat", it made Audrey look like the Great Gazoo from the Flintstones.

I have not seen this particular movie, but must admit that I am something of a fan of the '60s caper or heist movie' genre. They were classy, suave, sophisticated, deliciously amoral, and often very, very funny.

And, a bonus, a number of these had female characters that were a lot stronger than the norm [The Thomas Crown Affair]; and yes, how can one resist an E-Type Jaguar? Another from that genre was Peter Sellers in "After The Fox" which I saw as a teenager and just loved.

I guess if I had to pick a favorite Eastwood Western, it would be "The Unforgiven".

Agreed. This is an absolutely brilliant movie; Clint Eastwood at his very best, complete with a great cast (which Eastwood, with characteristic generosity allows to shine and the movie is all the better for it). Besides, it offers a story which is true to the form and genre, a multi-layered homage to his own background along with a brilliant deconstruction of the founding myths of the western. Sheer unadulterated class.

 

[Huntn]

I guess if I had to pick a favorite Eastwood Western, it would be "The Unforgiven".

Unforgiven is an excellent movie, because it shows killing as disturbing and a gunfight as a messy event, not as thrilling as the gunfight in Shane which still gives me shivers when I watch it. Shane's gunfight is not drawn out. Jack Palance, a real bad guy! Blam, Blam, Blam, and it's over. "Shane, don't leave, Mother needs you! Shaaaane!"

 

[S.B.G]

Excellent choice on Unforgiven. I just put it on right now.

Here's a short summary of a few movies I watched this last week.

The Frozen Ground
Based on actual events

An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.

I'm not a big John Cusack fan, but he did a fantastic job in this movie. I've always liked Nicholas Cage and he performed very well too.

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Trespass

As they're held for ransom, a husband and wife's predicament grows more dire amid the discovery of betrayal and deception.

By coincidence, the next day it was another Nicholas Cage movie. It was another excellent movie, less about the violence involved, and more about the mind games to stay alive, I thought. Nicole Kidman looked really good in this one too.

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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.

Will Ferrell isn't everyone's favorite type of humor, but I laughed hard at the first movie (and most of his movies) and he didn't disappoint in this one either.

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Lone Survivor

Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare.

Excellent film adaptation of the book, which I read several years ago, and I assume accurate as can be to the real thing. It should be since Marcus Luttrell, the SEAL who survived was one of the writers and consultants on the film.

 

[Huntn]

Excellent choice on Unforgiven. I just put it on right now.

Here's a short summary of a few movies I watched this last week.

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The Frozen Ground
Based on actual events


I'm not a big John Cusack fan, but he did a fantastic job in this movie. I've always liked Nicholas Cage and he performed very well too.

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Trespass


By coincidence, the next day it was another Nicholas Cage movie. It was another excellent movie, less about the violence involved, and more about the mind games to stay alive, I thought. Nicole Kidman looked really good in this one too.

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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues


Will Ferrell isn't everyone's favorite type of humor, but I laughed hard at the first movie (and most of his movies) and he didn't disappoint in this one either.

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Lone Survivor


Excellent film adaptation of the book, which I read several years ago, and I assume accurate as can be to the real thing. It should be since Marcus Luttrell, the SEAL who survived was one of the writers and consultants on the film.

Interesting list. I view Nicolas Cage as hit and miss. I hated him in Ghost Rider, and The Wicker Man, but liked him in Moonstruck and National Treasure. It's possible because of his foreclosure issues, he throws his name on projects indiscrimatingly.

 

[Huntn]

The Monuments Men- A team of WW2 Allies scour Europe for art stolen by the Nazis. For a movie so awash in history, it was empty and boring. George Clooney was George Clooney.

For this kind of story I'd recommend The Train starring Burt Lancaster.

 

[kazmac]

I'm watching "High Plains Drifter"...again.

Always enjoyable, if a bit derivative of Sergio Leone.

Love HPD...my favorite western along with Jeremiah Johnson. HPD is full of Leone sure, but also, quite apart from it.

Many years on, I still prefer High Plains Drifter over the Leone westerns.

<< Stops herself from going on as to why I prefer Clint's character as vengeful ghost rather than the 'brother of the deceased' as Eastwood says. >>

 

[millerj123]

Interesting list. I view Nicolas Cage as hit and miss. I hated him in Ghost Rider, and The Wicker Man, but liked him in Moonstruck and National Treasure. It's possible because of his foreclosure issues, he throws his name on projects indiscrimatingly.

I liked him in National Treasure, but couldn't get past the "yeah, right, like any of that could possibly happen", particularly anything with computers and networks. I liked him in The Sorcerer's Apprentice because, lets face it, none of that could possibly happen.

Ghost Rider was just terrible all around.

 

[iMacBooked]

Just watched Maleficient in theaters, not bad at all, but probably overhyped.
Oh and uhm, my most favorite (horror) movie of all time: The Descent. Although the sequel was kind of a fail, I still hope there will be a Desc3nt, just for another cave experience and a new storyline on the history of the creatures.

 

[nj1266]

I watched non-stop and the Lincoln lawyer and liked them both.

 

[twietee]

Enjoy Martin. It's unique among vampire films and I wish George would make another film like it (Perhaps using a different type of monster.)

Great piece from Romero! Saw it yesterday, probably even my favourite by him, it's got much more of a psychological drama than genuine horror and I love that, makes it even more scary/interesting.

Spoiler > I read an interesting comment on the imdb-board that the substance he's using to drug his victims may even cause some kind of addiction hence giving even more reason as to why he does what he does eek. I'm not an anesthetist but that doesn't sound unbelievable far fetched to me.


Next on the list Tenebre!

 

[Scepticalscribe]

The Monuments Men- A team of WW2 Allies scour Europe for art stolen by the Nazis. For a movie so awash in history, it was empty and boring. George Clooney was George Clooney.

For this kind of story I'd recommend The Train starring Burt Lancaster.

Not surprised at your response to "The Monuments Men"; actually, given how most modern US movies are made, I would have been surprised (and pleased) had it actually been a good movie. It is the sort of movie I would watch, as the topic interests me, but it is disappointing that so many recent US movies (from the country which invented this art form), are so empty, trite, banal, predictable and lacking in credibility or depth.

However, years ago (well, decades ago), I did see "The Train". It is an excellent thriller, very well made and superbly acted by its twin leads.

Yes, Burt Lancaster starred in it, and was very good, but his opponent, the German Colonel, played by Paul Schofield, effortlessly commanded every scene he was in. For Paul Schofield, this was a rare movie role (and he was superb, giving a gripping performance.

Paul Schofield was one of my all time favourite actors. As with many great British actors, his first love, background and training came from the stage, and it remained his preferred venue. He didn't appear in many movies, yet did win an Oscar for playing Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's movie "A Man For All Seasons".

I had the rare and wonderful privilege of seeing him perform, live on stage, in London in the late 1980s, and spoke with him afterwards. A true gentleman and a terrific actor.

 

[Huntn]

Not surprised at your response to "The Monuments Men"; actually, given how most modern US movies are made, I would have been surprised (and pleased) had it actually been a good movie. It is the sort of movie I would watch, as the topic interests me, but it is disappointing that so many recent US movies (front he country which invented this art form), are so empty, trite, banal, predictable and lacking in credibility or depth.

However, years ago (well, decades ago), I did see "The Train". It is an excellent thriller, very well made and superbly acted by its twin leads.

Yes, Burt Lancaster starred in it, and was very good, but his opponent, the German Colonel, played by Paul Schofield, effortlessly commanded every scene he was in. For Paul Schofield, this was a rare movie role (and he was superb, giving a gripping performance.

Paul Schofield was one of my all time favourite actors. As with many great British actors, his first love, background and training came from the stage, and it remained his preferred venue. He didn't appear in many movies, yet did win an Oscar for playing Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's movie "A Man For All Seasons".

I had the rare and wonderful privilege of seeing him perform, live on stage, in London in the late 1980s, and spoke with him afterwards. A true gentleman and a terrific actor.

I'd have been star struck I suspect. I'm still haunted by my encounter with William Hurt where I was barely able to participate a conversation with him. However I have run into other celebrities that I have fared better, so I'm hit and miss.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I'd have been star struck I suspect. I'm still haunted by my encounter with William Hurt where I was barely able to participate a conversation with him. However I have run into other celebrities that I have fared better, so I'm hit and miss.

Have to admit that I was a more than a little star-struck when I met him, and he, characteristically, entirely lacking ego, was gracious, and utterly charming.

As an actor he was utterly mesmeric; as a human being, he was a complete gentleman - I liked him as a man and greatly admired him as an actor.

 

[kazmac]

Great piece from Romero! Saw it yesterday, probably even my favourite by him, it's got much more of a psychological drama than genuine horror and I love that, makes it even more scary/interesting.

Spoiler > I read an interesting comment on the imdb-board that the substance he's using to drug his victims may even cause some kind of addiction hence giving even more reason as to why he does what he does eek. I'm not an anesthetist but that doesn't sound unbelievable far fetched to me.


Next on the list Tenebre!

That's a very interesting theory about what Martin is addicted to. Glad you liked it. It's my favorite Romero and probably my favorite vampire film too.

Enjoy Tenebre. That is my favorite Argento for many, many reasons (mostly the storyline though and the stark use of white and daylight as opposed to dark.)

 

[Huntn]

Watched Oblivion (2013)- the second time I watched this I was reminded of what a neat premise this scifi story presents. It's not perfect, Tom Cruise is ok, but I liked it better the second time through. As soon as the mandatory memory wipe was mentioned and Olga Kurylenko appeared, my interest grew.

 

[S.B.G]

Watched Oblivion (2013)- the second time I watched this I was reminded of what a neat premise this scifi story presents. It's not perfect, Tom Cruise is ok, but I liked it better the second time through. As soon as the mandatory memory wipe was mentioned and Olga Kurylenko appeared, my interest grew.

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I am not a big Tom Cruise fan at all, but I should give this one a try. Plus he did do a good job in Jack Reacher too.

 

[nj1266]

I watched The Usual Suspects last night. Really well made movie. Kevin Spacey can play any role he wants. He is so versatile.

 

[Huntn]

The Island (2005)- "Hey you won the lottery. You're going to the island!" Love this scifi movie! Scarlett Johansson never looked better. Ewan McGregor is great. Outstanding supporting roles by Steve Buscemi, Sean Bean, and Michael Duncan Clark. Feels a little like Logan's Run.

 

[nj1266]

I watched Leon yesterday and liked it a lot. I watched an odd comedy called the Grand Budapest and it was ok. I watched Enemy and hated it.

 

[iMacBooked]

The Island (2005)- "Hey you won the lottery. You're going to the island!" Love this scifi movie! Scarlett Johansson never looked better. Swan McGregor is great. Outstanding supporting role by Steve Buscemi and Michael Duncan Clark. Feels a little like Logan's Run.

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Awesome movie, thanks! Totally enjoyed watching this one.

 

[Huntn]

Awesome movie, thanks! Totally enjoyed watching this one.

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