Spoilers What Movie Are You Watching?

[rhett7660]

This is a film that always gets me in heated debates within my circle of friends. It's my firm opinion, that of the first two Terminator films this one is clearly the superior one. Don't get me wrong, I like T2 just fine too, but the atmosphere in this one is just better. Great film.

You and me both. I agree, this one to me is the far better film versus part two. Part two is more "polished" because he had a much larger budget to work with, but the over all feel and look to me is much more gritter. One of my favorites. While the special effects don't really hold up, the overall story to me is pretty darn cool.

I am a sucker for shark movies... Not as bad as I was expecting going in, but yeah...

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The “50 Shades...” trilogy with my wife. Not my cup of tea, too many holes in the plot and poor Johnson can’t act to save her life. 4.something/10 on IMDB might be generous.

Yeah, the wife read the books and thus "we" had to site through the movies. We haven't watched the last one yet, but it is coming. Had to do the same thing with the "Twilight" movies. Ugh, thank the all that is holy and powerful those movies are over.

But she did go see the Meg with me so I can't complain to much.

 

[hawkeye_a]

The Italian Job(1969)
First time watching this movie. Can't believe I hadn't before. I liked it. Movie from a different era...different pacing, humor, etc....so might take some getting used to. I was on the verge of tears on more than one occasion..... those poor cars.

@rhett7660 I think my favorite part of The Meg was Statham saying 'Megalodon'

 

[S.B.G]

Run Silent Run Deep (1958)

A U.S. sub commander, obsessed with sinking a certain Japanese ship, butts heads with his first officer and crew.

 

[pachyderm]

 

[ucfgrad93]

Rush Hour

 

[LizKat]

Someone keeps trying to persuade me to watch Hostiles.

I got as far as putting it on a watch list, so I can say I did that... not sure I want to watch it.

 

[pachyderm]

Someone keeps trying to persuade me to watch Hostiles.

I got as far as putting it on a watch list, so I can say I did that... not sure I want to watch it.

I really enjoyed Hostiles.

 

[Mefisto]

Just finished A Quiet Place (2018), directed by John Krasinski and starring Krasinski and Emily Blunt, among (not that many) others.

I really, really wanted to like this one more than I did. The premise is intriguing, and the lack of spoken dialogue and leaving more room for soundscapes that are normally relegated to the background were definately a plus, but beyond that, I'm having a hard time coming up with things that blew me away. Now, I will readily admit that the hype apparently got to me a little too much, and as a result of that my expectations may have been set a tad too high. Be that as it may, the film was by no means terrible, or even bad, it's just that I didn't really get that much out of it.

There were a couple of really well done sequences that had me on the edge of my seat, but when compared to some other "contemporaries" (that have routinely come up in reviews and such for this one), I can't help but think this one fell a bit short.

Still, a solid 3/5 stars. Maybe even an added .5 stars for doing something different in a genre oftentimes saturated with conventions.

 

[ThinkDifferent24]

Just saw Searching with John Cho - pains me to see how much he aged but it's a good movie with lots of twists and turns! Kudos to him for doing various acting roles and not doing comedy roles like Harold and Kumar!

 

[Mefisto]

Currently watching Heat (1995), directed by Michael Mann and starring, well, a buch of famous dudes and dudettes that most definitely were at the top of their game in the mid-90's. I've seen this film about six or seven times, but when it's on the TV I always rewatch it.

I've, for a long time, had tremendous respect for Mann as a director, and the more I think about it this may very well have been the first film of his that I saw at about 14 years old. The whole film is obviously a masterclass in riveting filmmaking, but the one scene that stands out (and get's mentioned the most whenever the film is discussed) would have to be the bank robbery and the ensuing gunfight in downtown LA. I remember thinking, after having seen action films before I saw this one, that the gunshots sounded all goofy and fake throughout the film, and it was only after having shot a gun myself that it clicked that the sounds in this film are actually pretty darn realistic. Which again goes to show why I like Michael Mann's work as much as I do; there's often a certain level of realism (and backstories for the characters etc.) that many other films just lack.

I could gush about this film for pages, but I think it's best I stop here. Great, great film.

 

[pachyderm]

wow.

loved this one. first time i've seen it uncensored.

it is now one of my favorite modern day film noir ...

 

[Huntn]

wow.

loved this one. first time i've seen it uncensored.

it is now one of my favorite modern day film noir ...

What was censored, sex, violence, or both?

 

[pachyderm]

What was censored, sex, violence, or both?

Sex & nudity.


It's America violence is always welcome.

 

[hawkeye_a]

The Man From U.N.C.L.E(2015)

Very fun, entertaining action-comedy directed by Guy Ritchie. Good performances all around and some very unique camera work.

 

[Mefisto]

wow.

loved this one. first time i've seen it uncensored.

it is now one of my favorite modern day film noir ...

One of my favorites as well! It's a good thing the film is practically infinitely rewatchable, as all of the leads are bringing their A-game, and yet Val Kilmer still manages to outshine everyone as Gay Perry.

Have you seen The Nice Guys (2016) also directed and written by Shane Black starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe? It's somewhat similar to KKBB, and a riot in many senses of the word.

 

[pachyderm]

Have you seen The Nice Guys (2016) also directed and written by Shane Black starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe? It's somewhat similar to KKBB, and a riot in many senses of the word.

Yup another one I really like.

 

[arkitect]

Watched "Darkest Hour" last night.

I wanted to like it… but in the end nothing really convinced me.
Though I guess party politics being more important than the fate of the nation is nothing new it seems.

The scene in the Tube where Churchill takes his first ride and then has a Vox Populi, Vox Dei epiphany was just… excruciating oh, god, and Georgie VI in Winston's messy bedroom?.
As people far younger than me say (or used to at least) Oh, Puhleaze!

Still, Gary Oldman always delivers, there was great art direction and I never fail to enjoy Kristin Scott Thomas.

3/5 for me.

 

[hawkeye_a]

Watched "Darkest Hour" last night.

I wanted to like it… but

I too feel the same way about this movie. I've always admired the character and Gary Oldman is possibly my favorite actor. But it just felt like something was "off" through the entire movie. When Oldman was nominated for his performance, part of me though "finally", and another part was..."for this?"(not that his performance was bad... just not his best IMHO)

I actually prefer HBO's 'The Gathering Storm' and 'Into to the Storm'.

Cheers

 

[arkitect]

I too feel the same way about this movie. I've always admired the character and Gary Oldman is possibly my favorite actor. But it just felt like something was "off" through the entire movie. When Oldman was nominated for his performance, part of me though "finally", and another part was..."for this?"(not that his performance was bad... just not his best IMHO)

I actually prefer HBO's 'The Gathering Storm' and 'Into to the Storm'.

Cheers

Thanks for the recommendations.

I have seen The Gathering Storm, and agree that it is definitely a superior film.
Great actors as well… I think what it had was the "luxury" of time… lots of exposition — it does after all deal with Churchill before WWII — whereas the Darkest Hour was, to my mind, full of "idiot lecturing", so for people like us who know the history well enough it could be a bit frustrating.

I shall definitely make a point of watching Into the Storm.

Thanks!

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Watched "Darkest Hour" last night.

I wanted to like it… but in the end nothing really convinced me.
Though I guess party politics being more important than the fate of the nation is nothing new it seems.

The scene in the Tube where Churchill takes his first ride and then has a Vox Populi, Vox Dei epiphany was just… excruciating oh, god, and Georgie VI in Winston's messy bedroom?.
As people far younger than me say (or used to at least) Oh, Puhleaze!

Still, Gary Oldman always delivers, there was great art direction and I never fail to enjoy Kristin Scott Thomas.

3/5 for me.

I too feel the same way about this movie. I've always admired the character and Gary Oldman is possibly my favorite actor. But it just felt like something was "off" through the entire movie. When Oldman was nominated for his performance, part of me though "finally", and another part was..."for this?"(not that his performance was bad... just not his best IMHO)

I actually prefer HBO's 'The Gathering Storm' and 'Into to the Storm'.

Cheers

Thanks for the recommendations.

I have seen The Gathering Storm, and agree that it is definitely a superior film.
Great actors as well… I think what it had was the "luxury" of time… lots of exposition — it does after all deal with Churchill before WWII — whereas the Darkest Hour was, to my mind, full of "idiot lecturing", so for people like us who know the history well enough it could be a bit frustrating.

I shall definitely make a point of watching Into the Storm.

Thanks!

I haven't seen this movie, and your comments do not really commend it to me.

A pity, as I, too, also like Gary Oldman a lot.

And yes, I have heard that the Tube scene is excruciating; good grief - did Churchill ever actually travel by Tube?

 

[arkitect]

Someone keeps trying to persuade me to watch Hostiles.

I got as far as putting it on a watch list, so I can say I did that... not sure I want to watch it.

Had a bit of a senior moment there and thought you were referring to Hostile.
Rottentomatoes quote "Stuck in her car, with a broken leg, in the middle of an unforgiving desert, she must survive the perils of the post-apocalypse, while a strange creature prowls around."
Wasn't sure I'd be up to watching that either!

However, Hostiles definitely seem worth a look in. It's on to my short list as well.
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I haven't seen this movie, and your comments do not really commend it to me.

A pity, as I, too, also like Gary Oldman a lot.

And yes, I have heard that the Tube scene is excruciating; good grief - did Churchill ever actually travel by Tube?

I cannot imagine he ever did.
The movie has the cliché of the PM's chauffeur finding the back seat empty as Winston pushes his way through the rainy streets of London and then descends into the underground…
Silly stuff.
Not for a moment can I imagine Churchill would be swayed from negotiations with "that house painter" all because the denizens of the underground were quoting Shakespeare at him. Nononono. One thing I do know of him was he was singularly bloody minded.
Right or wrong he forged ahead — with results that ranged from huge success to complete disaster.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Had a bit of a senior moment there and thought you were referring to Hostile.
Rottentomatoes quote "Stuck in her car, with a broken leg, in the middle of an unforgiving desert, she must survive the perils of the post-apocalypse, while a strange creature prowls around."
Wasn't sure I'd be up to watching that either!

However, Hostiles definitely seem worth a look in. It's on to my short list as well.
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I cannot imagine he ever did.
The movie has the cliché of the PM's chauffeur finding the back seat empty as Winston pushes his way through the rainy streets of London and then descends into the underground…
Silly stuff.
Not for a moment can I imagine Churchill would be swayed from negotiations with "that house painter" all because the denizens of the underground where quoting Shakespeare at him. Nononono. One thing I do know of him was he was singularly bloody minded.
Right or wrong he forged ahead — with results that ranged from huge success to complete disaster.

Re "that house painter" (now, Winston, that is a real slur, from a social snob; granted, Adolf couldn't sketch, paint or draw a person, or human being, to save his life, but he wasn't bad at capturing buildings on paper, but sadly - as Gunter Grass ("just imagine the misery the world would have been spared if the Vienna School of High Art had accepted a certain application in...") pointed out - just not good enough, the old 'architect manqué' stuff that redounded to Speer's benefit), Churchill was a surprisingly talented artist himself, some of his oils and watercolours were excellent, and one for long lingering dinners washed down with wine, cognac and good conversation.

Can't imagine him ever having taken the Tube; chauffeurs and cars and personal carriages in trains were more his style.

Why do directors feel it necessary to put such (sentimental) tosh into movies? Churchill - while a romantic, hadn't an ounce of sentiment.

Re negotiations "with that house painter", Churchill, to his credit, had read Mein Kampf, and had sufficient insight to take the book at its word as a political text; whatever else (agree completely on "huge success and complete disaster") he got wrong (and it was a lot, both military - he was an utter disaster as a military leader, and political - almost everything to do with the Empire, post World War 1), he did understand at a fundamental level (something not understood by many on the Right of the Conservative Party, and in aristocratic circles, who instinctively sympathised with some of the objectives of the Nazis, people such as Halifax, and indeed, Edward VIII) what 'the house painter' was about, and how he presented an existential threat to the world as Churchill knew and understood it.

 

[arkitect]

Re "that house painter" (now, Winston, that is a real slur, from a social snob; granted, Adolf couldn't sketch, paint or draw a person, or human being, to save his life, but he wasn't bad at capturing buildings on paper, but sadly - as Gunter Grass ("just imagine the misery the world would have been spared if the Vienna School of High Art had accepted a certain application in...") pointed out - just not good enough, the old 'architect manqué' stuff that redounded to Speer's benefit), Churchill was a surprisingly talented artist himself, some of his oils and watercolours were excellent, and one for long lingering dinners washed down with wine, cognac and good conversation.

Yes, "that house painter" was a bit rich, I mean, Churchill's paintings are really not anything better.
I am with Grass on that, imagine what we may have been spared. Though I suspect there were a few others who would have stepped into the breach…
Probably because I am one of those who view 1914—1945 as the 20th Century's 30 Years' War.

Can't imagine him ever having taken the Tube; chauffeurs and cars and personal carriages in trains were more his style.

Why do directors feel it necessary to put such (sentimental) tosh into movies? Churchill - while a romantic, hadn't an ounce of sentiment.

Re negotiations "with that house painter", Churchill, to his credit, had read Mein Kampf, and had sufficient insight to take the book at its word as a political text; whatever else (agree completely on "huge success and complete disaster") he got wrong (and it was a lot, both military - he was an utter disaster as a military leader, and political - almost everything to do with the Empire, post World War 1), he did understand at a fundamental level (something not understood by many on the Right of the Conservative Party, and in aristocratic circles, who instinctively sympathised with some of the objectives of the Nazis, people such as Halifax, and indeed, Edward VIII) what 'the house painter' was about, and how he presented an existential threat to the world as Churchill knew and understood it.

All excellent points.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Yes, "that house painter" was a bit rich, I mean, Churchill's paintings are really not anything better.
I am with Grass on that, imagine what we may have been spared. Though I suspect there were a few others who would have stepped into the breach…
Probably because I am one of those who view 1914—1945 as the 20th Century's 30 Years' War.


All excellent points.

That sort of sentimental tosh, (which had no basis in fact whatsoever), reminds me of that awful last scene in "Schindler's List".

I'll wager that Churchill didn't even drive - let alone take the Tube. Attlee certainly didn't - his wife drove him ("in their small car" according to Marr) to Buckingham Palace in 1945.

A far better postscript scene - to my mind - because it did happen, and it did convey accurately the character of the man - was described by Marr, when Churchill lost the election in 1945 and was grumbling furiously about Labour and ingratitude and communism.

His wife, Clemmie, who was a formidably impressive character in her own right, told him to shut up, and pointed out that as this (democracy, which meant the right to vote for - and, of equal importance - the right to vote against governments) was what he claimed to have been fighting for, that he should simply accept the result graciously as this result showed that the values he fought for had won. After he had grumbled himself out, Churchill came to accept that she was absolutely right.

 

[kazmac]

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