Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Spoilers What Movie Are You Watching?

Plutonius said:
I just finished watching "Ford vs Ferrari" and I highly recommend it.

In particular, I thought that Christian Bale's performance was award worthy.

Click to expand...
Just watched it. 👍 Good movie, makes you hate meddlesome suits. I am amazed how they visually put drivers in these race cars. Mostly a true story:

The True Story Behind Ford v Ferrari
Got A Few Tune-Ups For The Movie
www.refinery29.com

What Is The Real Story Behind Ford v Ferrari?

Christian Bale and Matt Damon bring the untold story of Ken Miles to life on the big screen, but it takes a lot of leaps.
www.refinery29.com www.refinery29.com
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: hawkeye_a
Huntn said:
Just watched it. 👍 Good movie, makes you hate meddlesome suits. I am amazed how they visually put drivers in these race cars. Mostly a true story:

The True Story Behind Ford v Ferrari
Got A Few Tune-Ups For The Movie
www.refinery29.com

What Is The Real Story Behind Ford v Ferrari?

Christian Bale and Matt Damon bring the untold story of Ken Miles to life on the big screen, but it takes a lot of leaps.
www.refinery29.com www.refinery29.com
Click to expand...

The movie was not complementary of the people in Ford management :).

Did you recognize the actor who played the part of a young Lee Iococca ?

He was Shane in "The Walking Dead".
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: Huntn
People have been talking about "Outbreak" vs. "Contagion". I thought the former was just okay, and I'll have to check on the latter.

andromedastrain_01.jpg

But if you want a really good epidemic movie, try "The Andromeda Strain". It scared hell out of me when it was released in 1971, and it's aged pretty well. For the uninitiated, it's about a satellite that returns to Earth carrying a microorganism which wipes out a small town by clotting everyone's blood solid. A special team of scientists have to contain Andromeda, study it, and find out how to stop its effects...

...And then it begins to mutate. To say more would probably be too much.

Great script from the Michael Crichton novel, good acting, and a weird electronic score--the first, if I'm not mistaken, since "Forbidden Planet" tried it back in the 1950s. (It's much better than FP's, though.)

Oh...and avoid the A&E remake, which is padded out with lots of clichéd and far-fetched stuff that's not in the book and looks like it came out of another movie completely.
 
  • Like
  • Love
Reactions: Huntn, pachyderm, TheIntruder and 1 other person
Thomas Veil said:
People have been talking about "Outbreak" vs. "Contagion". I thought the former was just okay, and I'll have to check on the latter.

andromedastrain_01.jpg

But if you want a really good epidemic movie, try "The Andromeda Strain". It scared hell out of me when it was released in 1971, and it's aged pretty well. For the uninitiated, it's about a satellite that returns to Earth carrying a microorganism which wipes out a small town by clotting everyone's blood solid. A special team of scientists have to contain Andromeda, study it, and find out how to stop its effects...

...And then it begins to mutate. To say more would probably be too much.

Great script from the Michael Crichton novel, good acting, and a weird electronic score--the first, if I'm not mistaken, since "Forbidden Planet" tried it back in the 1950s. (It's much better than FP's, though.)

Oh...and avoid the A&E remake, which is padded out with lots of clichéd and far-fetched stuff that's not in the book and looks like it came out of another movie completely.
Click to expand...

That is a good film!
 
Thomas Veil said:
People have been talking about "Outbreak" vs. "Contagion". I thought the former was just okay, and I'll have to check on the latter.

andromedastrain_01.jpg

But if you want a really good epidemic movie, try "The Andromeda Strain". It scared hell out of me when it was released in 1971, and it's aged pretty well. For the uninitiated, it's about a satellite that returns to Earth carrying a microorganism which wipes out a small town by clotting everyone's blood solid. A special team of scientists have to contain Andromeda, study it, and find out how to stop its effects...

...And then it begins to mutate. To say more would probably be too much.

Great script from the Michael Crichton novel, good acting, and a weird electronic score--the first, if I'm not mistaken, since "Forbidden Planet" tried it back in the 1950s. (It's much better than FP's, though.)

Oh...and avoid the A&E remake, which is padded out with lots of clichéd and far-fetched stuff that's not in the book and looks like it came out of another movie completely.
Click to expand...

Ref: The Andromeda Strain, the book was riveting, the movie was great. :)

I’m trying to remember did the Satellite break open on impact or did someone open it?
 
Someone in Piedmont took it to the town doctor, who opened it.

As one character later puts it sarcastically, “Yeah, every country doctor ought to run his office like the lunar lab.”

Yeah, the book was one of those can’t-put-it-down types...all the more surprising because maybe a third of it was side-exposition about what amino acids do, different types of scientific crises, etc. It sounds like very dry stuff when you describe it, but by tying those things tightly to his story, Crichton made them interesting. You learned not just what was happening but why they were happening.

Part of what made it real was that the world could have been destroyed twice. Once it was stopped with seconds to go through an act of heroism--but the other time it was because a technical foul-up kept Directive 7-12 from being carried out. In other words, the world survived because of sheer dumb luck!

I saw the movie in a theater when I was young, and I will never forget this.

When Hall went into that central core, I was sitting up in my seat. I was that tense. There's a scene where it looks like the key might fall to the bottom of the central core, dooming everybody. I think at that point I leaned forward. And then when it was counting down from thirty seconds, well...when Hall turned the key and passed out--I remember this distinctly--I looked down and found that I was literally sitting on the edge of my seat. 😳
 
  • Love
Reactions: Huntn
Thomas Veil said:
Someone in Piedmont took it to the town doctor, who opened it.

As one character later puts it sarcastically, “Yeah, every country doctor ought to run his office like the lunar lab.”

Yeah, the book was one of those can’t-put-it-down types...all the more surprising because maybe a third of it was side-exposition about what amino acids do, different types of scientific crises, etc. It sounds like very dry stuff when you describe it, but by tying those things tightly to his story, Crichton made them interesting. You learned not just what was happening but why they were happening.

Part of what made it real was that the world could have been destroyed twice. Once it was stopped with seconds to go through an act of heroism--but the other time it was because a technical foul-up kept Directive 7-12 from being carried out. In other words, the world survived because of sheer dumb luck!

I saw the movie in a theater when I was young, and I will never forget this.

When Hall went into that central core, I was sitting up in my seat. I was that tense. There's a scene where it looks like the key might fall to the bottom of the central core, dooming everybody. I think at that point I leaned forward. And then when it was counting down from thirty seconds, well...when Hall turned the key and passed out--I remember this distinctly--I looked down and found that I was literally sitting on the edge of my seat. 😳
Click to expand...
I might have to dig this up to reread. :D
 
  • Like
Reactions: Thomas Veil
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back