Spoilers What Movie Are You Watching?

[hawkeye_a]

I agree with this. I even see the reality of how times were changing in Hollywood circa 1969 could be a good story. I was just not pulled in by Rick Dalton’s story, but if I was to compare acting with acting, I’d say DiCaprio was more deserving of an award than Pitt . In another time frame, I really like the Carpetbaggers (1964) which was an excellent book and movie that had a similar character relationship dynamic if memory serves me.

I agree. Brad seemed to be playing "Brad", but Leo seemed like a different person. However, the synergy between them was fantastic (ie great casting). Ultimately I couldn't decide who did a better job acting, Leo or Brad.

After my first viewing, I looked up Sharon Tate and....

Spoiler

... that whole story arc, and the title made sense..... its a fairy-tale; how we wish it would have transpired. Much like Inglorious Bastards.

While watching the movie, I remember thinking....this is all just random stuff... Cliff feeding his dog, the Bruce Lee scene, Rick and the flame thrower, Cliff going to Spahn ranch....and then the ending just tied it all together.

The driving...... I thought it was all CG. It wasn't. They physically transformed Hollywood Blvd(facade of all the store fronts and cinemas), and found and used cars and trucks from that era.

Will have to check out Carpetbaggers. 👍

 

[pachyderm]

How can a movie be nominated for best picture but the director wasn’t acknowledged except in the screen adaptation category? Did the academy voters think that the actors just grabbed a script and did it themselves?

I enjoyed OUaTiH. Not the best film Tarantino has done but the one which felt most natural. He has a tendency toward extreme wordiness but here, he was under control and the movie benefited from it, I think.

I appreciated your review. You gave good reasons why you disliked it so it wasn’t a gratuitous hit piece. But I will offer a perspective about the car scenes. LA is built on the car, for better or worse. It’s the opposite of NYC, where everyone can walk or take the subway. So the car scenes means something. It was Dickensenian when Cliff kept encountering the hippy girl from the Manson family. And it did figure into the plot when he picked her up and went back to the Spahn ranch. And that encounter figured into the ending. So those car trips really did mean something.

The end reminded me of the end of “Inglorious Basterds.” Not history but a better version of it.

Funny story, I'm not a fan of all his dialogue. Usually I think it is way over the top.

 

[yaxomoxay]

The Gladiator (2000). This movie really stands the test of time. Actually, I think I enjoyed it more than I did 20 years ago. Good acting, good plot, good fight scenes.

300 (2007). This one doesn't stand the test of time. It's an entertaining movie, but with the exception of a few good scenes it's a "meh" at best. Somewhat entertaining at most.

 

[TallRed]

Funny story, I'm not a fan of all his dialogue. Usually I think it is way over the top.

I can see that. For whatever reason, my favorite of his is near the end of Kill Bill V.2 where he expounds on Superman being his real self. I thought the Hateful 8 was excruciating. I’m sure it’s still playing in some alternate universe.

 

[compwiz1202]

Interesting. I'm not opposed to a good spoof comedy, on the contrary, and it seems the same folks who made the atrocity we're currently discussing have actually made at least one that's good. Then again Leslie Nielsen was a god among men, so Spy Hard has that going for it.

<3 Leslie Nielsen. I remember going to see Spy Hard in the theater. I can't remember the part, but it cracked me up, but no one else even laughed.
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You probably need to watch Airplane and the Naked Gun movies several times to cleanse your palate

Need to watch Wrongfully Accused again. That one cracks me up.

 

[pachyderm]

I can see that. For whatever reason, my favorite of his is near the end of Kill Bill V.2 where he expounds on Superman being his real self. I thought the Hateful 8 was excruciating. I’m sure it’s still playing in some alternate universe.

Agreed

 

[Huntn]

Parasite (2019)- A poor Korean family obtains positions in the household of a wealthy Korean family, by misrepresenting themselves. Good movie, intriguing story, good acting, a very surprising development, which leads to an explosive climax, but tiring having to read throughout.

Best Picture? Hmm, I’m undecided, but it gets points for being a different, non-typical, kind of story.
I liked it better than OUATIH 😆, and the Harriet Tubman Movie was excellent, but it covered familiar ground although it highlighted a unique individual. Too many of the other movies up for Best Picture, I’ve not yet seen. Worth watching.

I agree. Brad seemed to be playing "Brad", but Leo seemed like a different person. However, the synergy between them was fantastic (ie great casting). Ultimately I couldn't decide who did a better job acting, Leo or Brad.

After my first viewing, I looked up Sharon Tate and....

Spoiler

... that whole story arc, and the title made sense..... its a fairy-tale; how we wish it would have transpired. Much like Inglorious Bastards.

While watching the movie, I remember thinking....this is all just random stuff... Cliff feeding his dog, the Bruce Lee scene, Rick and the flame thrower, Cliff going to Spahn ranch....and then the ending just tied it all together.

The driving...... I thought it was all CG. It wasn't. They physically transformed Hollywood Blvd(facade of all the store fronts and cinemas), and found and used cars and trucks from that era.

Will have to check out Carpetbaggers. 👍

The book is better than the movie, but both are good.
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The Gladiator (2000). This movie really stands the test of time. Actually, I think I enjoyed it more than I did 20 years ago. Good acting, good plot, good fight scenes.

300 (2007). This one doesn't stand the test of time. It's an entertaining movie, but with the exception of a few good scenes it's a "meh" at best. Somewhat entertaining at most.

I predicted in the theater that Gladiator would be Best Picture.
I did not like 300 because it was one of those movies filmed in a warehouse, back when the CGI used to be more stylized.

 

[giornall]

I would totally recommend watching Parasite, I really enjoyed it.

 

[D.T.]

I thought the Hateful 8 was excruciating. I’m sure it’s still playing in some alternate universe.

It was just playing here, in fact, it was the extended Netflix version that's cut as a "series" in three parts. Per your assertion, this __is__ an alternate universe here at the World HQ

I did not like 300 because it was one of those movies filmed in a warehouse, back when the CGI used to be more stylized.

I love it because it is hyper-stylized, the colors, framing, it looks like the Frank Miller comic, the coloring is right off the page of Lynn Varney's beautiful work. Funny enough, the little G is currently studying the Battle of Thermopylae in world history (the source of the story for 300, though the latter is very loosely based, and by design, was intended to be a fable, a story told about the events that had been highly embellished with tales of monsters and magic).

Side note: I'm will remain a huge fan of Miller's work, even have a poster here on the wall, but he went of the deep end the last couple of decades.

 

[Huntn]

It was just playing here, in fact, it was the extended Netflix version that's cut as a "series" in three parts. Per your assertion, this __is__ an alternate universe here at the World HQ




I love it because it is hyper-stylized, the colors, framing, it looks like the Frank Miller comic, the coloring is right off the page of Lynn Varney's beautiful work. Funny enough, the little G is currently studying the Battle of Thermopylae in world history (the source of the story for 300, though the latter is very loosely based, and by design, was intended to be a fable, a story told about the events that had been highly embellished with tales of monsters and magic).

Side note: I'm will remain a huge fan of Miller's work, even have a poster here on the wall, but he went of the deep end the last couple of decades.

I’ve never been a fan of stylized CGI such as Sin City. Then I became a huge fan when CGI achieved photo realism. Thank goodness we all don’t have identical tastes.

 

[D.T.]

I’ve never been a fan of stylized CGI such as Sin City. Then I became a huge fan when CGI achieved photo realism. Thank goodness we all don’t have identical tastes.

Yeah, I like both, I really appreciate the design decision to make a movie have an distinct, comic aesthetic, particularly when the source material is also highly stylized. It would've been odd to, for lack of better ways to say, de-styilize Sin City and just present a traditional look and feel - the thing with Miller work, is the art isn't just pictures to represent the story, they're an integral part of the story, they're sort of visual emotional and tone cues.

As opposed to something like Marvel movies, where they're just trying to create as realistic of a universe as they can to place characters, that are meant to be "real world" versions of what we see in the comics.

 

[Huntn]

Yeah, I like both, I really appreciate the design decision to make a movie have an distinct, comic aesthetic, particularly when the source material is also highly stylized. It would've been odd to, for lack of better ways to say, de-styilize Sin City and just present a traditional look and feel - the thing with Miller work, is the art isn't just pictures to represent the story, they're an integral part of the story, they're sort of visual emotional and tone cues.

As opposed to something like Marvel movies, where they're just trying to create as realistic of a universe as they can to place characters, that are meant to be "real world" versions of what we see in the comics.

It’s a good argument that a very stylized visual novel should be a very stylized movie.

 

[hawkeye_a]

I wanted to post this in the "CG thread", but since this is about the "practical special effects"(and not CG), here goes....

A pedestrian's view of Hollywood Blvd, transformed for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood(2019).

I really appretiate the time and effort put into realizing something like this. It couldnt have been easy or cheap, but after seeing the results, I think there was a lot of "love" that went into it.

Cheers

 

[Huntn]

I wanted to post this in the "CG thread", but since this is about the "practical special effects"(and not CG), here goes....

A pedestrian's view of Hollywood Blvd, transformed for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood(2019).

I really appretiate the time and effort put into realizing something like this. It couldnt have been easy or cheap, but after seeing the results, I think there was a lot of "love" that went into it.

Cheers

That is really cool.

 

[TimothyJohn]

War of the Worlds (2005)- One of, it not the best Tom Cruise movie. The emergence scene is stunning, stellar, followed by multiple superb cinematic scenes of humanity fleeing and being pursued. This is the first movie I remember seeing the continuous scene where the camera flies around a moving fan, pulling away for long shots, then zooming into the van. Filming locations: https://www.movie-locations.com/movies/w/War-Of-The-Worlds-2005.php

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My two critiques:

• The film is grainy, an artistic choice.
• A suspension of disbelief issue, that I think such a technically advanced civilization would have a basic understanding of germs. But of course, it’s possible they underestimated.

I thought the movie succeeded on a number of levels. The demise of a marriage not being the least. One scene that stands out: In the beginning of the movie, he's in a tense exchange with his son in the back yard playing catch with a baseball and gloves. Each tries to out macho the other with each consecutive throw, Just as it seems the Dad will burn one in to his son so fast it will sting unbearably, the son lets the ball go by, right through the window. ANYONE who EVER raised teens will identify with this. I almost felt that the "alien invasion" was merely a backdrop for the compassionate depiction of a disintegrating family, from the Dad's and children's point of view. At the end, I'm left wondering .... Once she leaves, NOTHING brings her back ....
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Haha. I know exactly what scene you’re referring when he throws the piece of bread with the peanut butter against the window. That legitimately made me laugh, because it was such a serious scene mixed with the randomness of such a sudden reflex of frustration. Actually, that’s probably something I would’ve done myself.😁

Someone complained about it being overreaction. He's witnessed people instantly disintegrated into bone meal. He's trying ANYTHING to survive. He clearly is competent in a Navy Seal sort of level, but he has to deal with a hysterical little girl, and a defiant, hormone driven teen son. The crashing jetliner scene was absolutely astounding...

 

[ucfgrad93]

The Gladiator (2000). This movie really stands the test of time. Actually, I think I enjoyed it more than I did 20 years ago. Good acting, good plot, good fight scenes.

Love this movie, one of my all time favorites.

 

[Huntn]

The Blue Max (1966)- Set during WWI, in the German Air Force a new pilot for reasons not entirely his own fault does not hit it off with his squadron mates or his CO. He becomes a favorite of the high command for propaganda purposes, as his ambition to be the best trumps personal relationships.

Spoiler: Don’t read if you have not seen this movie and plan to watch it

The part of this movie that made me feel ill is when he is about to become a disgraced hero and the General allows him to fly an aircraft described as a death trap, telling him to show them some real flying ...problem solved. 😬

If you like aviation movies, this is a real pre-cgi treat. They built a bunch of WWI airplanes from scratch and stunt pilots flew them, over the pretty Irish countryside which stands in for France.

The Making of the Blue Max

Making 'The Blue Max'

Filmed 50 years ago, long before the advent of CGI, "The Blue Max" required two air forces built from scratch.

www.historynet.com

 

[pachyderm]

I thought the movie succeeded on a number of levels. The demise of a marriage not being the least. One scene that stands out: In the beginning of the movie, he's in a tense exchange with his son in the back yard playing catch with a baseball and gloves. Each tries to out macho the other with each consecutive throw, Just as it seems the Dad will burn one in to his son so fast it will sting unbearably, the son lets the ball go by, right through the window. ANYONE who EVER raised teens will identify with this. I almost felt that the "alien invasion" was merely a backdrop for the compassionate depiction of a disintegrating family, from the Dad's and children's point of view. At the end, I'm left wondering .... Once she leaves, NOTHING brings her back ....
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Someone complained about it being overreaction. He's witnessed people instantly disintegrated into bone meal. He's trying ANYTHING to survive. He clearly is competent in a Navy Seal sort of level, but he has to deal with a hysterical little girl, and a defiant, hormone driven teen son. The crashing jetliner scene was absolutely astounding...

I've not seen this one in its entirety. I may check it out today.

 

[hawkeye_a]

The Gladiator (2000). This movie really stands the test of time. Actually, I think I enjoyed it more than I did 20 years ago. Good acting, good plot, good fight scenes.

300 (2007). This one doesn't stand the test of time. It's an entertaining movie, but with the exception of a few good scenes it's a "meh" at best. Somewhat entertaining at most.

It's difficult for me to pick between those two. I like them both. Gladiator was the more "realistically rendered" movie, while 300 was the hyper-stylized. And yet, If i'm not mistaken, the story of 300 was based in reality, while Gladiator wasn't.

Incidentally, i tried watching The 300 Spartans(1962), after watching 300(2007) but I found it difficult to get through, despite my affinity for epics from that era. I might try watching it again.

 

[D.T.]

Scored Knives Out for the [long] weekend, supposed to be fantastic, plus we're huge fans of "whodunnits", the cast, love Rian Johnson, great audience-to-critic ratio on RT (97 @ 424 v. 92 @ ~33K).

 

[RootBeerMan]

The Blue Max (1966)- Set during WWI, in the German Air Force a new pilot for reasons not entirely his own fault does not hit it off with his squadron mates or his CO. He becomes a favorite of the high command for propaganda purposes, as his ambition to be the best trumps personal relationships.

Spoiler: Don’t read if you have not seen this movie and plan to watch it

The part of this movie that made me feel ill is when he is about to become a disgraced hero and the General allows him to fly an aircraft described as a death trap, telling him to show them some real flying ...problem solved. 😬

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If you like aviation movies, this is a real pre-cgi treat. They built a bunch of WWI airplanes from scratch and stunt pilots flew them, over the pretty Irish countryside which stands in for France.

The Making of the Blue Max

Making 'The Blue Max'

Filmed 50 years ago, long before the advent of CGI, "The Blue Max" required two air forces built from scratch.

www.historynet.com

I have probably seen that movie, but I don't recall it. On a side note, I loved the C-64 game of the same name! It was one of my favourites!

 

[D.T.]

On a side note, I loved the C-64 game of the same name! It was one of my favourites!

Hahaha, yes! I had Zaxxon for the C64 too (I mention it since they're both isometric scrollers/shooters )

 

[Lasrjock]

Scored Knives Out for the [long] weekend, supposed to be fantastic, plus we're huge fans of "whodunnits", the cast, love Rian Johnson, great audience-to-critic ratio on RT (97 @ 424 v. 92 @ ~33K).

My wife and I saw Knives Out and we both loved it.

P.S.: Mrs Peacock did it with the candlestick in the dining room.

 

[TallRed]

My wife and I saw Knives Out and we both loved it.

P.S.: Mrs Peacock did it with the candlestick in the dining room.

No spoilers, but Knives Out contains one of the funniest car chases—ever!

 

[Lasrjock]

No spoilers, but Knives Out contains one of the funniest car chases—ever!

It doesn't really compare with the car chase in "Blues Brothers", but it is funny.