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Huntn said:
Would you call any of these movies, favorites? I won't judge. :) I guess I'm just not a Brad Pitt filmography fan ...and Twelve Monkeys was a Bruce Willis movie. ;) Troy was just on TV and it reminded me of it's suckish nature.
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Well, you said "hits", so I mostly figured that was in terms of box office performance (hence the list of ~$450-500M performers).

Hmm, let's see of the movies I listed, I have a few favorites:

Inglorious Basterds
Fight Club
Seven
12 Monkeys

Those are movies I've seen 10+ times, I'd watch any time. Though I've only seen them one time each, I'd also highly recommend Money Ball (mentioned above) and The Big Short.

I also love the Ocean's movies - they're not cinematic masterpieces, and they feel like a bunch of actor friends just hanging out - but I love ridiculously overly complicated caper films, especially with some tech angle. 11/13 rate about the same, 12 I like a bit less, it got a little too meta in some parts.

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Huntn said:
I loved this book and wanted to love this movie, but not quite.
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Dune is such an epic it would be like making Lord Of The Rings to cover all aspects, requiring huge effort & investment. The 1984 film is far from being complete, however given the period it was made I think a fair effort. Would very much like to have seen Davis Lynch's proposed 3 hour cut of Dune, As I believe the would be a better watch, expanding on more of Dune's subtleties

Would love someone to have a shot with todays technology, equally no guarantee of a solid film, and the demand also needs to exist, especially given the critics tore the 84 film to shreds, many I felt were needlessly harsh, rather following the pack mentality due to the many production issues the film incurred.

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Straw Dogs (1971) Superb, equally a hard watch, don't accept any alternatives ;) Strong performances encompassing difficult subjects. Disturbing, compelling and brilliantly executed, Straw Dogs presents an extremely powerful delivery from both director (Sam Peckinpah) and cast.
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n.b. Straw Dogs uncut was banned in several regions, not for gore & horror, more the brutality & realism...

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Queen6 said:
Straw Dogs (1971) Superb, equally a hard watch, don't accept any alternatives ;) Strong performances encompassing difficult subjects. Disturbing, compelling and brilliantly executed, Straw Dogs presents an extremely powerful delivery from both director (Sam Peckinpah) and cast.
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n.b. Straw Dogs uncut was banned in several regions, not for gore & horror, more the brutality & realism...

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Don't go see this movie on a date. Don't ask how I know this. :p
 
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Huntn said:
Has she ever had a hit movie? If it was not for Interview With A Vampire, I could ask the same thing for Brad Pitt. :)
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I will happily watch anything Jennifer Aniston is in. Rawr! Although, to be honest, I had no interest in Marley and Me, and never saw it. Hmmm. Maybe anything with Aniston, but not necessarily if it includes Owen Wilson.
 
Dark Places (2015)- Somewhat interesting crime drama starring Charlize Theron as a woman whose Mother and two sisters were killed in their home when she was a child and she blamed her brother in court for the murders. As an adult she is approached by a private group of unauthordox investigators who want to know who really was the killer. They don't think it was her brother who has been locked up for over a decade. Same author as Gone Girl, which I've not seen.

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Was watching the Indiana Jones trilogy tonight, however with the sudden news of Bill Paxton's passing; one of my favourite roles Hudson from James Cameron's Aliens great 80's SciFi blockbuster with an equally good cast. Presenting a very different paradigm to Ridley Scott's Alien action and adventure all round.
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Naturally my thoughts are with Bill's family during this difficult time...

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I was just thinking about Aliens yesterday. Gutted to hear about Bill. Am downloading Aliens and Near Dark from my iTunes cloud: Two films I bought early in my digital movie purchases.

Aliens remains my favorite James Cameron movie.

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Revisited the single shortest live action movie I've ever seen, the indie fu fun fest Tiger Force (1975). Chen Sing's formal criminal-now-cop infiltrates his old gang, thanks to assistance from his former best friend Ah Fung (Chan Wai Man). Ultimately, Sing gets the job done (he really was Hong Kong's Charles Bronson in every way), and CWM has a very entertaining early role as a not-quite-bad gang member whose charm and smarts are only outclassed by Sing. This is the kind of thug I wish CWM played more of in his career, a guy you can actually root for and like despite his dealings. And hot diggity, he rocked those 70s clothes hard. :p And the break up of Chen Sing's intimate relationship in a cemetery is utterly priceless. If that's not final, I don't know what is. :D
 
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kazmac said:
I was just thinking about Aliens yesterday. Gutted to hear about Bill. Am downloading Aliens and Near Dark from my iTunes cloud: Two films I bought early in my digital movie purchases.

Aliens remains my favorite James Cameron movie.
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Very much like Aliens and Bill Paxton's performance certainly enhanced it, however for me Alien and Alien 3 (reconstructed) are my favourites, with the first film generating a very real sense of fear & dread.

Thinking on something out of this world for tonights entertainment ;)

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Queen6 said:
Very much like Aliens and Bill Paxton's performance certainly enhanced it, however for me Alien and Alien 3 (reconstructed) are my favourites, with the first film generating a very real sense of fear & dread.

Thinking on something out of this world for tonights entertainment ;)

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Paxton's bravado in Aliens is almost as much fun as Hicks' tough tenderness. Bill had some scene stealing moments in that movie. Actually, he had scene stealing moments in every Cameron movie he was in :) (and in Near Dark...the bar scene has never left my memory).

I think the first Alien remains my favorite of those films. It is excellent on every level and still rather scary. Though Ash is as unnerving as the xenomorph. :confused::eek::confused:
 
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Paxton's bravado in Aliens is almost as much fun as Hicks' tough tenderness. Bill had some scene stealing moments in that movie. Actually, he had scene stealing moments in every Cameron movie he was in :) (and in Near Dark...the bar scene has never left my memory).

I think the first Alien remains my favorite of those films. It is excellent on every level and still rather scary. Though Ash is as unnerving as the xenomorph. :confused::eek::confused:
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Very much agree regarding the interactions of Hudson & Hicks lots of fun :) Alien is far darker, claustrophobic, remains to be one of the most definitive SCiFi horror/survival films produced, the tension is palpable throughout...

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Queen6 said:
Very much agree regarding the interactions of Hudson & Hicks lots of fun :) Alien is far darker, claustrophobic, remains to be one of the most definitive SCiFi horror/survival films produced, the tension is palpable throughout...

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Have to say Hicks raising that grate and seeing the aliens crawl toward him (and they remind me of giant cockroaches in that moment) still freaks me out. :D

I 100% agree about Alien. One of the few horror movies that still scares me because that dread is so vivid.
 
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(Watching the Academy Awards) I plan on watching Hell or High Water (2016), The Jungle Book (2026) saw an advertisement for a sci-fi flick called Bright on Netflix. :) The bit about bringing in the tour bus group into the awards was cool. :)
 
Last Saturday started out great, Arrival. Think I needed more wine to completely understand it.
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Monday and Tuesday were OK.... White Lightning and Gator. Burt being Burt
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Tonight, The Fugitive (1993). Need some younger Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones
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Just watched Manchester By The Sea. Strange change in tone kept throwing me off. Guess that was what the director was shooting for. For instance:

The near-slapstick like loading of Michele Williams into the ambulance during a scene when you learn all his kids just died in a fire.
 
I saw Logan last night.

I really liked it. It's slow through quite a bit of it as it is developed more as a drama, but the action scenes do not disappoint. And being rated "R", you finally see on screen what Wolverine really was in fights.
 
Where is Officer Tuba?(1986) So this mid 80s Sammo Hung comedy, sees our hapless Tuba playing a cop in way over his head when he is teamed up with super cop Magnum Chow to take out bad guys.

Unfortunately for Tuba, Chow is brutally murdered during this raid and his final request is that Tuba gets revenge for him.

Tuba falls in love instead, and subsequently learns it is not wise to break your promises to the dead. Chow's ghost becomes a royal PITA badgering and ruining Tuba's private life, until he fulfills his promise to the fallen officer.

This was cute and for about 10 minutes I was laughing very, very hard. Sure, some of the sight gags and situations were creaky, but John (aka David) Chiang's impish Chow played so perfectly with Sammo's cowardly doofus they were fun together. Plus the cameo of Lam Ching Ying in his famous Taoist Priest attire was on point hilarious (that was a delightful wink to people who mainline HK films). This also had some very brutal fights. All in all, a fun diversion.
 
Dr. Strange (2016)- great job by Benedict Cumberbatch with a Yank accent. :) The movie, story was good with an outstanding premise of a multiverse. My critique it went overboard with CGI.

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