Spoilers What Movie Are You Watching?

[Apple fanboy]

I haven't seen it in maybe 2 years but it's pretty damn good. Especially because the entire film was based on true events. I realized last week I've never seen Syriana or Munich. I thought I had. Bond and some quality films aside, I don't think we'll ever witness a good military thriller or spy drama the rest of our lives. Cheap thrills are what gets people motivate now. Films like Pixels or the Emoji Movie proved how bad the market was and is.

They don’t make movies like they used to that’s for sure. Especially war movies.

 

[D.T.]

I haven't seen it in maybe 2 years but it's pretty damn good. Especially because the entire film was based on true events.

I thought I had. Bond and some quality films aside, I don't think we'll ever witness a good military thriller or spy drama the rest of our lives.

Loosely based Delta Force was made in '86 and since then (or from the same year) we've had, just to name a few: Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan, The Hurt Locker, Schindler's List, Dunkirk, Zero Dark Thirty

Some _brilliant_ war/military films.

 

[0388631]

Loosely based Delta Force was made in '86 and since then (or from the same year) we've had, just to name a few: Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan, The Hurt Locker, Schindler's List, Dunkirk, Zero Dark Thirty

Some _brilliant_ war/military films.

THL and ZDT are debateable. I haven't seen Dunkirk yet despite owning it on BluRay. SPR is amazing. I watch it several times a year. I'd seen it maybe a few dozen times and never noticed Bryan Cranston in the beginning of the film, or that he was disabled in the movie.

 

[hawkeye_a]

Interview With the Vampire(1994)

Cajun-pretty-boy-vampires. The story was fine, but the hammy-acting was difficult to look past. I remember liking this movie a lot more when i was younger.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Loosely based Delta Force was made in '86 and since then (or from the same year) we've had, just to name a few: Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan, The Hurt Locker, Schindler's List, Dunkirk, Zero Dark Thirty

Some _brilliant_ war/military films.

Agree there are some good films there. But I’m thinking of the classics like
A bridge too far
The guns of Navaron
The great escape
Where eagles dare
And a load I can picture but can’t remember the name of!

 

[D.T.]

Agree there are some good films there. But I’m thinking of the classics like
A bridge too far
The guns of Navaron
The great escape
Where eagles dare
And a load I can picture but can’t remember the name of!

Oh, I totally agree, those are pretty fantastic, yeah, I'd have to sit on IMDB to generate a semi-complete list, but right off the top of my head:

Patton
Apocalypse Now
Sands of Iwo Jima
Das Boot
Gallipoli
Paths of Glory
The Deer Hunter
The Bridge on the River Kwai

FWIW, my reply above was specifically about films made at/after the year Delta Force was made (which FTR, is a __terrible__ movie )

 

[Apple fanboy]

Oh, I totally agree, those are pretty fantastic, yeah, I'd have to sit on IMDB to generate a semi-complete list, but right off the top of my head:

Patton
Apocalypse Now
Sands of Iwo Jima
Das Boot
Gallipoli
Paths of Glory
The Deer Hunter
The Bridge on the River Kwai

FWIW, my reply above was specifically about films made at/after the year Delta Force was made (which FTR, is a __terrible__ movie )

The Bridge on the River Kwai. How did I forget that one! Classic.

 

[ucfgrad93]

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Awesome movie, one of my all time favorites.

 

[Huntn]

Watched "Alita:Battle Angel" last night. I rather liked it. Good action movie with a good story. Great FX, too. Only thing that bothered me a bit was the cliffhanger ending. Here's hoping they make a 2nd movie. I do want to see where it goes.

If I was going to critique this movie, I’d say it’s not the kind of ending a director would want, unless they are sure a second movie would be made.
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I haven't seen it in maybe 2 years but it's pretty damn good. Especially because the entire film was based on true events. I realized last week I've never seen Syriana or Munich. I thought I had. Bond and some quality films aside, I don't think we'll ever witness a good military thriller or spy drama the rest of our lives. Cheap thrills are what gets people motivate now. Films like Pixels or the Emoji Movie proved how bad the market was and is.

Speaking of military thrillers, I really like Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising books and movie (first was a movie).

 

[RootBeerMan]

If I was going to critique this movie, I’d say it’s not the kind of ending a director would want, unless they are sure a second movie would be made.

Well, it was a Rodriguez/Cameron film, so they have the popularity behind them, but it wasn't a highly profitable movie. I made a profit, but not a lot. That's all studios really care about in the end.

 

[0388631]

If I was going to critique this movie, I’d say it’s not the kind of ending a director would want, unless they are sure a second movie would be made.
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Speaking of military thrillers, I really like Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising books and movie (first was a movie).

James, whose username I forget often but you should know who I'm referring to, recommended the Red Sparrow novels, which I bought. I also bought the film, still haven't read the novels or watched the film. I'm not sure if "sparrows" were the female variant of raven and Romeo agents of the cold war. In fact, I say that because I never looked up to see if the term "sparrows" were ever used.

Now even decades later during a post Soviet time, whether you were an agent or a lowly civil service member, you were and probably still are cautioned about who you date or choose to have a fling with.

 

[Huntn]

Ironman 2 (2010)- Good. Mickey Rourke has a presence. This movie is getting into Avenger Territory.

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I don’t remember if I saw Ironman 3. Is it worthy?

 

[Huntn]

James, whose username I forget often but you should know who I'm referring to, recommended the Red Sparrow novels, which I bought. I also bought the film, still haven't read the novels or watched the film. I'm not sure if "sparrows" were the female variant of raven and Romeo agents of the cold war. In fact, I say that because I never looked up to see if the term "sparrows" were ever used.

Now even decades later during a post Soviet time, whether you were an agent or a lowly civil service member, you were and probably still are cautioned about who you date or choose to have a fling with.

That reminds me of The Americans, where you get to constantly root against the people who you regard as the bad guys, yet watch them succeed repeatedly. Now maybe it’s not like that.

 

[S.B.G]

 

[D.T.]

I haven't seen Dunkirk yet despite owning it on BluRay.

[...] the Red Sparrow novels, which I bought. I also bought the film, still haven't read the novels or watched the film.

You should take time to watch all the movies you're purchasing

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Great, silly fun, but I was particularly enthralled because of the heavy (for the time) use of computer generated effects (and that the F/X company used the mystical Cray X-MP )

A few years earlier I was equally stunned by Tron.
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Ironman 2 (2010)- Good. Mickey Rourke has a presence. This movie is getting into Avenger Territory.

I don’t remember if I saw Ironman 3. Is it worthy?​

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IM 2 is decent, the whole plot with Rourke is a bit meh, but Rockwell is incredible, RDJ is of course great in the role as always, and of course we also get the briefcase armor which was a killer comic book moment.

IM 3 is fun, better than 2, a bit controversial because of the handling of The Mandarin (I totally dug on it), it was directed by Shane Black, famous for Lethal Weapon films, but I'd highly recommend his movie, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (that also stars RDJ, plus Val Kilmer)

 

[0388631]

You should take time to watch all the movies you're purchasing

Yeah, LOL, I have a lengthy list of movies to watch. Not to mention list adds on Netflix. It's a mix of attention span waning and wanting to do other stuff when I've got spare time.

 

[D.T.]

Yeah, LOL, I have a lengthy list of movies to watch. Not to mention list adds on Netflix. It's a mix of attention span waning and wanting to do other stuff when I've got spare time.

Yeah, anymore I don't make to an actual movie, I just watch Netflix [autoplay] previews for 2 hours and call it a night

 

[0388631]

Yeah, anymore I don't make to an actual movie, I just watch Netflix [autoplay] previews for 2 hours and call it a night

Or watch trailers for movies you're thinking of watching and by the 8th ones you switch to reading the synopsis and then you call it a night because when you started it was 9 PM and now it's 5 AM and the sun's coming out.

 

[S.B.G]

Great, silly fun, but I was particularly enthralled because of the heavy (for the time) use of computer generated effects (and that the F/X company used the mystical Cray X-MP )

A few years earlier I was equally stunned by Tron.

Yeah, both movies stunned me as a kid for the effects they used in them. I haven't seen The Last Starfighter in probably 25 years.

After watching it today, I was stunned at how beautiful Catherine Mary Stewart (Maggie) was in the movie!

 

[hawkeye_a]

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I watched The Last Starfighter a couple of years ago for the first time. What shocked me the most was the fact that I hadn’t seen it growing up in the 80s!!

 

[MacDawg]

I watched The Last Starfighter a couple of years ago for the first time. What shocked me the most was the fact that I hadn’t seen it in growing up in the 80s!!

A really fun movie to watch

 

[Nishant]

IP Man

never watched any of them but heard good things

 

[S.B.G]

IP Man

never watched any of them but heard good things

Great movies! I loved them all. Enjoy.

 

[Gravydog316]

lol I have Gremlins on tv in the background @ work right now
i'm the only one here

 

[Huntn]

You should take time to watch all the movies you're purchasing




Great, silly fun, but I was particularly enthralled because of the heavy (for the time) use of computer generated effects (and that the F/X company used the mystical Cray X-MP )

A few years earlier I was equally stunned by Tron.
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IM 2 is decent, the whole plot with Rourke is a bit meh, but Rockwell is incredible, RDJ is of course great in the role as always, and of course we also get the briefcase armor which was a killer comic book moment.

IM 3 is fun, better than 2, a bit controversial because of the handling of The Mandarin (I totally dug on it), it was directed by Shane Black, famous for Lethal Weapon films, but I'd highly recommend his movie, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (that also stars RDJ, plus Val Kilmer)

Thanks, I’ll rent it!